cosmicway

Worse than that because we ain't playing champions league next year.

Look all this anti-Hazard is sh*t talk. He's the only one who can use the ball and create. When Moses or Alonso are in possession we pray for a simple straight pass to another blues player. I don't care if he did not find himself at the end of a scoring chance tonight. The bridge game was -unhappily- sold by Christensen. Tonight's was sold by Tibot. Even if we had held to the secure 1-0 at the bridge, given Tibot's horrible antics tonight we d' be out. If a youth appeared to the juniors team and conceded one like Barca's first, they 'd send him back to his mum and dad the same hour. For Morata (and Baka) we 've been through many times. Waste of money of the century. Sevchenko too was a flop 10 years ago, but he at least was admired all over the continent when he came to us. Morata was the substitute of the substitute.

He 's going to win the WC (they owe it to the pope) and then retire.

Caan't do nothing now, except go to the Barca players and say "ok guys we end it 3-0".

When their (Barca's) historic keeper Ramaliecz gave away some flukes like that against Benfica, he returned to the house and the wife and furniture were gone.

Extremely outraged with Conte in the match against City but sorry for him tonight.

Barcelona + Courtois - Chelsea 3-0

Ivic - Senteno come to Nou Camp !

Courtois concedes fluke of the year, in the first minute, against Barcelona ! Forget about systems.

Giroud was terribly unlucky but the last fifteen minutes were horrendous.

Despite the gloom, doom and dispondency, we could n't do a Poch in a million years.

He gave up, or the players did ? The team is below the standard of last year and City have a runaway season and that more or less explains how things stand now. We knew it, several months now, but now the Europe position is gone too (unless we manage to win this year's CL !). I don't know what a new manager could do and there may be better managers around -Simeone perhaps- but there is almost nothing one can do now for this season.

Finding flaws in Conte is easy now he is in poor shape. The man has already show his caliber but if he goes, so be it. The reason I feel unhappy is because he gets the blame when those truly responsible cannot be touched. If you are an architect and build a house and it collapses you have some heavy legal responsibilities. But if it is the foreman who gets all the blame, then what ? It's no justice and the new house will collapse too.

I disagree with the Conte critics. He has no weapons to fight. I disagreed with Mourinho's critics too back in 2015-16, but with his antics it was a bit different. In 2015-16 three key players Iva-Ramirez-Oscar suddenly lost their strengths, while at the same time the board were as stingy as ever. So that left Mourinho without many options but as I said he is temperamental and he blew his lid.

Bakayoko is useless.

And what can he do with a 2nd division squad ?

Pedro was the one in need of replacement yet he replaced Willian. I believe the man is in despair. His top transfer plays from the 87th minute to the 90th minute, his other top transfer is probably working as a car mechanic somewhere in Africa now.

Could n't bear to watch this utter abomination of a performance. City was nothing special -yesteray- but well deserved.

MANU scores the moment after Hazard's replacement. Some accurate players ergometrics at work, indeed ! Hazard must be the one and only star player of any team who gets replaced after 70 minutes. Never seen this before. MANU beat us last year too at their venue but now it looks like Europa for 1918-19 ! About Girou I don't know. He was very good in the 2016 Euro - never mind France's bad luck in the final against Portugal. That's not a millenium ago. He could of course be a spent force now. Yet all in all the team changes we made last summer and in January are a joke.

This system failed badly when Willian was not playing - after his injury. Willian is the form player now along with Eden. Moses-Zappacosta-Pedro are not of the same standard. With Morata out of form and before Girou's arrival, Antonio had to try it. But against Barca the system was "contain and hit" and you don't need a 9 for that. It was the best system for the occasion.

The critics don't know football. First Barcelona have been a regular visitor to the British isles the last 3-4 years and they were having a ball against the likes of Arsenal-MU-City. In our last but one match at the Bridge in 2012 we were outplayed conclusively. True we won 1-0 and in the return leg we held on to it thanks to the heroics from Czech-Didier-Torres, but in that 1-0 win they lost a trainload of chances and everybody described it as a weird result. In contrast Antonio devised the perfect system to neutralize Barca and evidently he could n't make it so we had possession as well ! Tibot as I said should be asked to pay for watching the match for free but we were betrayed by one single instance. I still can't get over it because we could be through to the stage of eight with mathematical certainty. Now it's not over and in the remaining 90 minutes Barcelona will have to fight real hard to beat us - if they do. I believe they have an advantage but not a big one.

Tibot will be asked to pay for the price of a ticket. At Camp Nou we pick up where we left. Conte's system described here as "lau - lau emeis oi vlachoi" -someone who knows Greek translate this please in proper English- I think might just work.

It's not going be a Barca - PSG match a long way but they have an advantage now - they can even sit back to keep a clean sheet.

Christensen made another one in the first half - the giveaway corner.

If Barcelona can score against us then so can Wigan. But the sh*t will get through now.