cosmicway

Lille are gone from the CL / Europa but in France they are third in the league.

I think Azpi was one of the greats but he is past it. Zouma about whom I was not convinced even before his injury three years ago, is I 'm afraid not Chelsea material. We are like a half-built house.

We 're evidently out of form and with the champions league match next week it's worrying. Everton did not impress me at all, to give them credit. It is we who allowed them to score three times. The second goal they scored was a horrific bungle up. Again we played better in the first half and almost nothing in the second half. What does Lamps think about it ? Some transfers are needed, but not Bakayoko-Drinkwater stuff again.

Grimly

The first half looked as if somehow West Ham was lucky to escape with the 0-0, but Giroud was out of tune. The second half was poor. The West Ham goalkeepr did n't even have to save anything. We had possession but we were not good enough. Total lack of penetration.

No Chelsea, no forum.

We should go through now with 2nd place more likely than not and I don't see us getting smashed that easily by anyone in the round of 16. It does look however that PSG this year are a cut above the rest.

Holy Jehosabath ! Sack him in the morning.

We don't have continuous movement in the back, that's the problem and this is why we are not seeing a problem in the matches we have possession. The City players were finding open spaces and a mistake or two will happen. They could have scored early on with De Bruyne from the same position as the one from which Mahrez scored their second. I think De Bruyne was better positioned than Mahrez when he missed, but Mahrez was more lucky.

This defense of ours cracks under pressure. We allowed them many scoring chances - even better ones than those they managed to convert. On one occasion Mahrez I think it was galloped outside our penalty area, he did n't like his shooting position, started galloping again until he found the position he wanted and fired it - no one to block his path. It was too easy for them to find unmarked men except for the last twenty five minutes and even then they scored that fractionally offside goal of theirs. You don't see this pattern against teams who are struggling against us to gain possession. Not even from Valencia when they beat us at home. But against the likes of Liverpool, City and Ajax also it becomes apparent.

We were a slow motion team after the 2-1. Could have been that we were not and City scored more - luck plays an important role. But the psychology was not good.

City should have had more. We were making appalling mistakes.

Demoralized after the own goal. Kepa brought his marijuana kit with him. Sh*tty match.

It's a question of whether the arm was stuck to the body, not involuntary. The strange one was our disallowed fifth. Remember against Man United four seasons back ? Ball goes straight for the empty net after a Terry header then is stopped by the arm of a United defender. But the United man was looking the other way and we did not even complain.

Nahh. Europa is n't worth it. It's obsolete. Last year we won it after playing one and a half real matches. In the CL we have a shot (Poketinio last year ?) and it's not all Real and Barcelona. I watched Real on Sat -tearful- and Barcelona today did n't impress (held 0-0 by the Czechs). But frankly I don't see how we can lose to Valencia - unless some weird things happen.

If Ajax is Liverpool then Valencia is Leicester.

If we cannot beat Valencia and Lille we don't deserve to be in the CL. Ajax are a great side - semifinalists last year.

No, sorry. I see Valencia came back and won now. But I 'm not worried.

I 'm not worried about Valencia. I 'm worried about les Lillois at the bridge -if the mach has significance.

Amazing, back from hell. And we made the 3-4 against 11 Ajax players, not 9.

The Dutch are nice folks. On a trip to Amsterdam they were paying for our beer in the pubs. I have n't seen that in either France or Britain - only in Greece in the mountains if you visit they treat strangers. But what did they do ?

Thriller for no reason. They wanted to play small passes inside a 25 square inch area infront of the goalmouth. 50,000 fine for each one involved, except Kepa.

The Carabao bottle is a regular feature at the bridge. I hope we don't see more of today's latter day Mourinho-like performance any time soon.

Fact is they did n't want to play football tonight.

We are playing shit.