The Skipper

Nope, I will blame it on Jose. We have looked clueless going forward for months now. Always relying on individual brilliance.

I'm not saying any of those guys have been a problem today... Why are you getting so defensive? My point is that offensively we look clueless. There's no game plan and it's affecting our top (attacking) players severely.

Did we even create a decent chance?

When players like Hazard, Fabregas and Pedro are just looking absolutely clueless going forward... There's only one man you need to look at. Man, RLC would've helped massively today.

He was thinking "let me leave this for Branislav" and then realised he made a massive error in doing that.

If we look at his skill set this game would've been perfect for RLC. Sigh

Baba hasn't been amazing so not surprised to see him drop off the bench but don't understand why RLC isn't there tbh.

Jon Fearn is actually Eva's boss. It wasn't gender related, come on. The Benitez's wife example is poor as well, because he didn't insult her at all, he was insulting Rafa.

So you're a fan now?

Interesting. So you think the likes JT, Rio, Ashley, Lampard, Gerrard & Rooney weren't one of the best players in their positions at the time? Or all overrated in a sense?

Elaborate?

It could've if they gave up 4-4-2 and played with a holding midfielder (Carrick).

Completely different types of midfielders.

My biggest issue with Oscar is consistency and his irregular passing game. He sorts that out and continues to be a good facilitator, whilst chipping in with goals and assists here and there, and he'd be good for me.

Yeah, that's natural. Nothing to criticise. Jose was spot on today with team selection, but we still have a long way to go.

"People complaining" has not been the general consensus over the last few pages at all.

This is tiresome tbh. You sound more like a Mourinho fan than a Chelsea fan to me tbh. There is no way in hell that Jose didn't justifiably get criticised over the last few weeks. He wasn't the only person that got criticised either, the players got lots of criticism too, so it really wasn't just Jose who got flack for our performances.

Not to mention Boga, Traore and even Musonda we have under our books. All of these guys are all a better bet than Moses.

Yup, fully agreed. Baba has a lot to do to convince me he'll even displace Ivanovic, never mind become our long term LB. I just think it's a shame when other good left backs such as Alex Sandro and Kurzawa were available this summer for similar prices.

Zouma has played against smarter strikers before like Aguero and he kept them quiet.

They are not usually as quick as Walcott though.

Wow, messy thread. *sweeps & brushes*.

Moses is not in KDB's class. There are a million Moses's out there, you know, good players at mid table level. KDB is a special talent though.

West Ham is the right level for Moses. Decent player but never the standard we should be adhering to. For his own sake he should leave tbh.

I love Otamendi. He created that whole chance for De Bruyne by getting the ball forward with urgency, and voila, spaces opened up.