Pizy

Man, I absolutely hate being the late kickoff game which it seems like we've been every match day since the restart. Anxiously waiting around all damn day for these big must win matches is awful.

So I guess now we have to hope Havertz isn't yet another German talent who is star struck by Bayern and waits another year before moving there. You can be sure they'll have been tapping him up like crazy. Bacisally, it's now or never. As with Werner, we may be the only big club who is in a good position to afford him. Bayern can't do it this summer, City are well stocked in midfield, United probably can't afford both he and Sancho, Barca are skint. Real Madrid at this moment are our biggest threat. And he'd be a bit part player there if he joins. Here he can be a major part of a team on the up.

I keep seeing this thread bumped hoping for something substantial. Instead it's a bunch of rando Twitter users and regular Chelsea supporters like us.

This will likely be another opponent who will sit deep and try to stifle us which means Tammy and Ross will be redundant again. They both should be in the bench here.

Yep, Kova injured so more Barkley starting for a few weeks. Hopefully Jorginho comes back in at least.

Not gonna lie, if we fail to win this one I'll probably check out for the rest of the season. I get angry to an unhealthy degree when we lose and especially against dross like we've been losing to all season. Just not worth the stress.

Also, City again showing that you can never have enough top class attacking players. No Aguero, no Silva, no Bernardo, Sané gone. And they still dismantle the best side in the league. This is why Havertz should still be a target. Yes, we need defenders, but what we have up on the business end of the pitch could use more upgrades too.

We beat this City side just days ago and then lost to West Ham... Depressing.

Has a player with 5+ years left on a contract ever been loaned before for the entirety of their contract? Maybe we can send him back to Bilbao.

I think his transfer fee and length of contract mean he's basically stuck here. I'm sure his wages are massive for a keeper as well. Where could he even go? And would the club take a mega loss just to move on quickly?

I think Declan Rice can develop into a very good DM. He's already really solid there. Buying him and converting him into a full time CB? Ehhh. I wonder what WH would even set the price at.

No chance of that happening, though. The club clearly love him and see him as one of our future poster boys.

He's good enough to be a cog in an already good attack. He's not good enough yet to be the main man who we depend on for goals. Big time Lukaku at Man United vibes from him today. Touch like a brick wall, body control like a little kid who suddenly took control of an adults body.

Just not true. He was awesome when he first came here and was one of my favorite Chelsea players. He was a beast. Not until this season has he started repeatedly making schoolboy errors.

We need to go out and get an on-pitch general of a CB. A proper captain. VVD instantly became their general who organizes the whole team. Maguire became captain of United as soon as he came in and they keep clean sheet after clean sheet. We need a commanding, beast of a CB or we will be like Wenger's Arsenal or Rodgers's Liverpool next season scoring for fun but also conceding for fun. And you can't win the title doing that.

Rudiger is such a gutting disappointment. I honestly thought he was one of the best CB's in the league before he got that big injury pre EL final. He had all the physical tools and ability on the ball to be our JT successor. He has regressed massively this season and regularly commits David Luiz esque errors and gets whipped for pace which never used to happen.

I think the best we can hope for now is 4th when I look at our run in. United will finish 3rd. It's an all out battle between ourselves, Wolves, Leicester for 4th. Maybe even Arse and Spuds who are both suddenly picking up wins. We have the worst defense out of all of them so you can't say we're favorites.

Antonio isn't even a natural CF. He isn't tall or good in the air. Yet he won seemingly every ball played long to him even with AC or Rudiger man marking him. That's completely unacceptable. VVD or Maguire dominate in those scenarios. VVD in particular would've totally shit those situations down. Our CB's BOTH get bullied by him.

In good form, opponent in dreadful form and haven't scored a goal since the restart, results go our way with a chance to go 3rd to hold off two rampant chasing side behind us. And we totally shit the bed in the most embarrassing way possible with amateur hour defending on all 3 goals. And how can we have ANY confidence at all that anything will change in games to come? None. Every team knows they have us on toast if they get corners, set pieces, or quick turnovers. We better pray that City's ban is upheld and that Wolves and Leicester slip up.

We won't finish top 4 now. Not with this calamitous defense. It's done. Wolves and United can both defend. We can't. Done. And we deserve it.

Is Jorginho injured?

This is such a typical Chelsea game this season. Playing a horrendous relegation area side in dreadful form and hand them gifts on a plate over and over. Commentator said West Ham haven't won a game when conceding first in 22 matches. Then Chelsea comes to town.

I'm speechless, honestly. We have the worst defense in the top half.

Why is our shortest defender defending the far post on corners against a midfielder that's way taller than him? Why? That's coaching. Azpi was beaten for their first goal and they did the exact same thing there and Azpimis defending it again and gets beaten.

EVERY. FUCKING. SETPIECE. Every one we look like we've never worked on it in training. How is that seriously possible at this level of the game?! Rudiger looked like his brain turned off there, too. Unreal.