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Mendy poor there. should save that. Not even right in the corner.

Lets get a third. They have to overcommit time to exploit them on the break.

What a penalty. Wont be everyones enemy now after that 😂

Probably missed it. Been on the phone. Im guessing it will be on twitter

See if we had this intensity we would of won on Saturday. So frustrating.

10 shots 2 on target. And theres the issue. Plus 2 disallowed goals for offside and handball.

🤣 Timo ‘born offside’ Werner.... and a needless foul. Goood god its not his day

Defos handball. Hows he headed it onto his arm though.

Kante going off. Werner-Pulisic breakdown for a 1-2, Werner man come to feet there.

Werner offside.... jeeesus

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Wow that now is a penalty. And an obvious VAR error. Holy fuck. Still means nothing for the 2 the other day but aye thats mental

Actually embarrassing we gave such a such a poor game in a cup final compared to our start here. With majority of same players.... good start though, lets get up the pitch and score.

Whoever takes over at Palace will have a huge job on. Look how many folk are out of contract. They wont resign absolutely everybody. Some need to go. Plus whats the budget gonna be? Steve Parish wont be giving anyone a fuck tonne to spend on 6,7 or 8 very good new players to beef up a thin squad. Be a dangerous job for someone with 18 months experience as a football manager in the top flight. Good luck if he takes it but brave as well.

Go for it. Nothing to lose. He wants to win trophies. We need a striker. Surely £80-100m plus one or two of these lot? RLC Abraham Zouma Emerson Bakayoko Barkley Batshuayi Obviously a very fifa esque dream but who knows, out of Ruben, Abraham and Zouma - they may be attractive offers for them. Mourinho wanted Zouma before last season but suppose remains to be seen who takes over at Spurs and what style they will go for because ultimately if its possession and attacking football Zouma will only get so far and well Ruben has severely struggled to the point I’d be surprised if Fulham would even want him back on a free in the championship if they could afford him 🤣

Aye thats true but I think either way we are going to be in for Harry Kane this summer now hes wanting to leave or Sergio Aguero on a free. Its going to be interesting if we managed to get one of them. Is Werner going to play off them? Is Havertz going to play off them/in their place off the bench? Then you’ve got Mount, Pulisic, Hudson-Odoi to all consider too be lots of competition and I think Mount is going to be involved either way. I do also feeling we might just stick with the 343 considering all the potential fuss of changing to a 4 and the whole thing of trying to rejig multiple players in set positions like Werner, Mount, Havertz, Azpilicueta (RCB) where they clearly suit more where they operate now. There’s no doubt in my mind it suits the squad more than a back 4. I mean if Werner goes back to playing LW it will be like playing with 10 men again.

There is no “may” about it. Nothing he could do. And Mendy “could” of made the save is the same as Mendy “could not” of made the save in the fact its a non event because he didn’t play so we will never truly know. I suppose if we concede any similar goals with Mendy we will see. The top GK bit I understand but you were spouting about Tuchel giving Leicester some sort of extra incentive to do shooting training before by announcing him starting 3 days early which is probably one of the silliest/over the top/clutching at straws excuses I’ve seen in a long time and if it were for any other player I am sure you’d think the same. Footballer who is good at shooting, unopposed for 3 or 4 metres, not getting closed down, in a cup final that is 0-0, I am sorry but it could be anyone in net, they are shooting 100% because well look what happened. Nobody will probably ever forget that goal from a Leicester standpoint for years. But even the price tag/financial aspect to club politics, it was Torres before years ago and now its Kepa. Its reaching, he played Kepa two games in a row before and we it was the same “club politics/inferring that he was coerced into it”... yes we have to sell him/loan him/whatever but why would they force Tuchel to play him in a cup final? Or at all. Maybe TT felt like after the Arsenal game he wanted to give him another game because of the goal we conceded that maybe took away the cleansheet? Or maybe he felt he played well v Arsenal? Or maybe it will be one of his last chances to play for us in a cup final? I mean who knows. Did anyone make any wild accusations for Alonso starting over Chilwell or anything as conspicuous? Which was probably much more controversial than Mendy not starting. Even more so when you see the sudden change when Chilwell came in. Re James: it wouldn’t have led to a goal if he got the pass right but don’t pretend it wasn’t risky either way. More so if you watch it back, why isn’t Azpi asking for the ball when he has acres of space too. They’ve got 3 men in our half in those central areas prior to him trying to play the ball to take the option to Jorginho out of the game and to congest that area. Even more so look at the actual movement and positioning of Perez basically blocking the pass off to Kante as James goes to play it. You could see it happening before it happened, he almost telegraphed what he was going to do but still why he didn’t notice or choose Azpi who is 5 yards away with acres of space and nobody within metres of him? And unfortunately for Reece its the only mistake he made all match, where he actually defended Vardy excellently in the role he was put in to do but it ended up being a big one. Maybe due to inexperience or not being fully aware of what was all around him but trying to force it through when Perez is well positioned to make an interception or contact on the ball to take the 3/4 players out of the game for Leicester is a bit ambitious. I mean just watch it back, it’s a sloppy ball and either way has to be marked as a mistake.

I like the 343 but if we were to change I would like to see 433 next season because this under Sarri, the patterns and build up worked well. Tuchel also strikes me as someone who would want to have that similar sort of way of getting up the pitch as we have seen at times this season with him. Just my only concern is Havertz and how he fits in the 433 because its clear going forward he will be a mainstay as a 10 or a false 9 or a hybrid 9/10 whatever they want to call him. Effectively the 433 is the 343 in possession bar it will be a Jorginho/DM in as that sort of third CB/infront of the two CBs role effectively in possession.

Also apologies for the double posts didnt see this. And no ides how to Quote on a already posted post. Re James’ pass the passing lane was pretty much well closed off though by Perez which is why it was stupid still and probably one of the examples of what Tuchel meant from trying to force it or our decisions not being good... plus hes got a bit more time no? And 5 yards to his right, Azpi is open, the easier and probably better pass there because then if we lose it there they aren’t coming straight at our backline with one of our midfielders out of position in behind their midfield line. Yes if it comes off we’ve played through them but still a bit daft when you see Azpi being open but in hindsight if it comes off it comes off. Azpi being open though was like Gilmour and Chilwell were for Zouma’s role in the Arsenal goal. It was highlighted for Zouma so I didn’t think it was particularly wrong to highlight it for James there. Because it was an error that accounted towards that goal. Its a little bit of inexperience maybe although you want more from the CMs or Silva to close it. Particularly Jorginho. Either way, harsh or not the first mistake is the pass thats cut out. Then the failure to close down. Then thats it although for some people, its probably Kepa’s mistake for not saving it (which I suppose I will just have to accept because the guy gets it every game 😂)...

Yes but he he fact he is bad at it doesn’t mean he should have saved the goal Jason... or anyone else would of... And true again, we dont have to agree with it but its hardly as if the decisions made to start Kepa cost us the final. Or that using a stat for 3/3 top corner goals being conceded last season or Kepa being announced to start gives any extra incentive or any extra motivation for people to practice shooting which you said... I mean let me guess if Kepa plays v Leicester next week and we aren’t good enough again, his fault?

Maybe but I think either way that sort of spaces being in front of someone is always going to encourage someone of Tieleman’s level to shoot... Kepa, no Kepa, a brick wall, a sand bag, a scarecrow, whatever is in the net. Who knows but people acting shocked that the probability of potentially starting Kepa or the likelihood of it was close to nil aren’t that daft... cmon. I think most of us expected it. Oh I dont know, that Arsenal match thread there was plenty of Kepa bashing from the usuals and going onto say if we lose its his fault, never want to see him play again etc etc by folk who were overreacting lol. A lot of why was he positioned where he was also for the goal which was even more ironic and stupid considering the whole building from the back phase that has been in football for the last 10+ years and this is where GKs tend to be when the balls at certain sides to create passing angles. But it it wasnt Kepa it would be different. Thats the whole point I am making. Kepa does alright or good or whatever it doesn’t matter if we lose for any obscure reason or whatever. As I said, players get it the whole time it goes in cycles. But the majority of the Kepa outrage is completely unjustified from yesterday. The whole would Mendy or wouldnt Mendy save the goal as well or the “politics” etc wouldn’t have been a discussion if it were any other GK.

What I cant believe more so, is the actual first part of title: Tammy Abraham isnt why Chelsea didnt win the FA cup.... when did this come about, who said that his exclusion was why we didnt 🤣

Maybe and I can see the logic for it with regards to the defence and maybe Mendy gets closer to it. Still goes in either way for me and the closing down of Tieleman’s or space for him to run into has nothing to do with the defence having confidence in the keeper, its to do with effort. I mean it could be any GK in the world in the net you don’t close that space down what do people think was gonna happen? He was gonna pass it sideways or backwards because its goalkeeper X or Y? And not goalkeeper Z? I mean occasionally some GKs will maybe save that (the very very top ones) but again its a maybe and a slim maybe at that. As Tomo did say, clutch GKs come up with clutch moments. I am not saying Mendy isn’t a top GK but okay if he gets closer that still doesn’t mean he is saving it. Increases the likelihood maybe but again I think the way he’s hit it its always getting away from Kepa cause its rising and probably the power on it doesn’t make it an easy save either. Like Ziyech v City goal for instance. And maybe Mendy doesn’t save it also... all I am going to say is take the whole extra days or more shooting practice and stats from last season when he was in a huge regression is a bit far fetched. In fact a bit would be an understatement. I mean I wish now Mendy did play so that for the same goal to go in as it did with Kepa people would see that the GK didn’t matter or obviously then if he saved it it changes the game yes. The lack of urgency to close Tielemans down and waiting for the whistle for a handball whichever way people feel about it was the issue. I did think that after playing Kepa v Arsenal he’d revert to Mendy maybe but also didn’t completely rule it out. He played Kepa in a cup game then league game before to give him more minutes, I mean probably people are looking into it too much. And re doing well in cup games, Kepa didn’t do badly against Arsenal and whilst we conceded a daft goal, its nothing on him either which again though the Kepa’s fault brigade were out in force and perhaps if it weren’t Jorginho who made the pass it would have been even more than whst it was because we all know people love Jorginho...

That was a bad one aye. Which shows the inconsistency but yesterdays werent half as bad as people making out and ultimately for both calls I would be more concerned with other things than how VAR did.

There is bad decisions obviously but the whole point of VAR is to make the tough shit ones everyone wanted no? Liverpool game isnt going to change the decisions in our one is it? Some teams have more pens aye definitely and I agreed with Franks comments about United at the beginning of the season of them looking to win penalties but the cries of corruption for yesterday’s decisions are, well, daft 😂 it it were roles reversed nobody would of piped up....