Blue Armour

Are those Potter's words?

Ideal scenario would've been - hold on to Tuchel at least till end of season. Allow Potter to grow with his Brighton team. And maybe consider him after he has consistently demonstrated his ability managing a team in the top 8. We got rid of Tuchel too quickly. And we've thrown Potter under the bus.

Our goals scored xG was 0.1

The sad thing is - At this point I can't tell whether its all them, or the manager.

Got furious when the camera zoomed on Haaland and the idiot commentator said Chelsea fans look away now. As if the oversize Norwegian has a stellar scoring record against us.

If Mount is bad, Gallagher is 3x worse.

Nah...that's just City's way of celebration. They do that every game they win. Serious.

Shame there's no one to give him a pass in dangerous area

Has got very few touches - but DDF has shown some decent skill to keep the ball despite pressure. Better than some of the others at least

YESS!! DDF

I wonder whose fault this is - all our midfielders are petrified of playing the through ball, and just opt for endless side passes. Its been there from the Tuchel era.

Am worried Kovacic won't hang around. There was talk about him being upset with Tuchel's departure.

On contrary, I feel this result is almost beyond doubt. I would say bring him on at half time. Bring on any subs at half-time and just play 45 mins.

Only reason I'm watching this game is because DDF is on the subs list. I want to see what he can do.

At the same time - I like how quick our VAR check was, and theirs took an eternity. Is anyone surprised with majority of the referees coming from the north.

Skriniar seems like an obvious target, but the fact that we haven't seriously been linked with him makes me think that the club has some ironclad reason not to go for him.

Finally seeing some spunk from Potter. It's probably always been there, but it's good to present it. Hope he can channel some of that into his team.

Don't see how that should be our problem. It's between Molde and the other club. Even if they come crawling back to us, Fofana is not going to get affected.

That was an interesting one though. Drogba and Joe Cole had insane pulling power over Hazard. Sometimes a highly reputed player being at the club can make all the difference. Vialli attracted players like Hasselbaink. Wish we had at least one superstar attacker in our ranks. That would have made a tremendous difference., in signing midfielders and strikers who would want to play alongside.

Yeah, - even though I'm pleased with how we performed in this match given all the chaos with injuries and behind the scenes, this City game is not a good metric for our future performances. We've seen Chelsea teams raise their game in big fixtures plenty of times in the past 3 seasons, only to fall flat in the next game. Plus, very few teams in the league actually play like City., who give us a lot of space on the counter.

If there's still a positive in all this - If those are his exact words (and not just a result of translation), he's speaking in the present tense and says that Chelsea still wants him, and has not backed away. And he hasn't said that they won't deal with us again. So the door is still open, I guess.

Probably some of them decided they'll become 'fit' only after James, Chillwell and Kante become available again. On the plus side, Potter will be forced to play our youth more often.

No doubt about that. I'm just saying the no.9 is like the icing on the cake. Shame, as it used to belong to some of our greatest players, Osgood, Hasslebaink, et al.

Looking forward to the match. Don't care about the result, but would be good to see what our youth can do. Hopefully DDF will have a part to play.