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Hopefully Tuchel goes through him and the other attackers. Theres times to be nice and put an arm around someone but the attackers were anonymous today and in a game of fine details its not acceptable to be anonymous. Even Mount faded after 25 minutes. Why can we get up for 2 CL semis against Real Madrid but not a final v Leicester? Mentality isnt right

Aye it is a ball hair offside. Lets be honest we didnt deserve it.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 so it begins Anyway. Hopefully Tuchel delivers some home truths in the dressing room. Aye Alonso was a questionable start but the front players did nothing and neither did the wingbacks. Looked beat in the second half before Leicester even scored. Finals are decided by small details. Questionable offside (looked like a ballhair was in it) and the handball for their goal although I would think it would be harsh to have given it either way but aye why did it take to around the 75th minute for us to start playing again? He will probably be harsh on himself as he was v Arsenal and West Brom but its now time to see if he goes for some of the players who were anonymous in attack. And if he does how they react.

Would say if Kepa had fucked up or done anything wrong maybe warranted questioning his selection but again instead of criticising players who played poorly, mainly all the attackers, you go after the GK who did nothing wrong all game 😂 ”Can’t command the backline?” How many chances were in that game 😂? Swear some of yous are on the wind up, genuinely cannot be that stupid to go after a GK who did nothing wrong when every attacker who started was poor and we didnt create any big chances. Why are people complaining about the GK though? We didn’t lose because of the GK. Did you pair even watch the game or because we conceded and Kepa starts its automatically his issue/fault? I swear 2 losses and the idiots have come out the woodwork.

True but the starting 11 picked was good enough to win that final as it was with the Arsenal game. Just piss poor. As you said nothing game really in terms of chances, they upped it second half though playing better and get a world class goal.

Aye they’ve deserved it second half. Big big test now on Tuesday. Fine margins, wonder goal and a shit offside call. But performance second half wasn’t there. Players must take majority of the blame, team selection either way we had enough on the pitch there. The drop off from first to second half was abysmal. Abysmal. First half wasn’t great either.

Whats Reece doing fucking hell 😂

Massive. Massive goal. Dont you fucking dare VAR. How can they say thats offside? Fuck me.

If we get an equaliser we are going to break them. Cmon boys... Holy fuck what a save. That was the chance

Second half has been very bad. The first half wasn’t amazing but typical cup final half. Havertz and Hudson-Odoi now last roll of the dice. Still 15 minutes and we have got Hudson Odoi, Havertz, Werner, Mount, Pulisic all on so we have to be better now. Great play Kante.

Its an absolute top top hit, the speed of the ball and aye its not right in the postage stage but its about as close to the top corner as most of those sort of strikes usually are. Not as if its like a yard or two either side of the centre or the goal. Really going to have to agree to disagree, honestly wouldn’t of mattered who was in the net, nobody was saving that. Can’t believe its even a consideration but suppose its another reason now for people to hammer Tuchel for team selection after the game.

Mendy would of saved it? Really? Some of you are on one 😂 Could have put 2 GKs in the one goal and they probably weren’t saving that.

That is an unbelievable goal. Wow. James poor pass to start with. Kante doesn’t get back in and nobody closes the ball. Nobody saving that 😂

Need to step it up. Dropped off and Leicester have stepped up.

Nothing worse than someone who is thinking impartiality due to a personal relationship with said person, getting above their station over social media, when they probably have no interest in football other than the fact her man is a footballer... should stick to doing what 3/4s of these young footballers GFs do, stick to posting photos in bikinis and of the expensive shoes/clothing you clearly didn’t work for 😂 football 100% isnt their forte.

First half hasn’t been great but the folk posting train wreck/disaster/whatever else need to take a day off 😂 All finals are cagey games, there havent been any clear cut chances, quite frankly I think Leicester have been worse than us going forward bar that Tielemans pass for Vardy which Reece is in a great position to cover. Didnt expect much else really. Personally thought Leicester would be better. A goal in that first half would of been perfect for us.

Evans off. Albrighton on? They going to play a back 4? Or put a wingback in their back 3? Either way its an advantage for us. Evans is the glue in that backline.

Should have got that in the net. Playing well so far. More intensity than Arsenal game for sure.

Benfica return? To join Vertonghen and Otamendi? Golden oldies reunion 😂

Tbf the corner stats are difficult to gauge the accuracy from because whilst it indicates poor balls in it also indicates our weakness in attacking corners, which have been horrific for years lets be fair. Even under Sarri who was apparently someone who had devised multiple different corner kick routines that worked well at Napoli. It didn’t work out that way here. Bar Zouma, Giroud and maybe Rudiger we lack players who attack the ball well also I think. Maybe you can throw Alonso, Christensen or Silva in there at a push, particularly Christensen - he has won a lot of headers from offensive corners since returning from Mochengladbach but quite frankly is horrendous at putting them on target/in. I mean I don’t think he has scored a goal for us yet and hes had some big free headers in seasons gone by. He scored 7 goals in 2 for Mochengladbach so obviously they’ve probably came from corners/free kicks due to his position and you can see he can win them at times in either box but I tend to remember hes had a few over the seasons that hes failed to put on target that you would expect him to do so. Thats why players like Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Drogba, Alex were huge bonuses from set pieces because they’d probably each get between 3-5 goals over the course of a season from them. Obviously the delivery was better also when you consider some of the guys putting them in but I think having guys like Pulisic, Werner, Ziyech, Jorginho, Kante, we are never going to be that prolific from corners anyway because 75% of the teams in the PL are considerably bigger. I suppose this is fine if the games going well and your getting results but also frustrating because set plays can decide games as we’ve seen over the past and also last season the amount of set play goals we conceded was shambolic. Marcos Alonso and Giroud don’t play regularly and neither does Zouma really so either way, taking corners if the ball is good or not, the likelihood of scoring from them is incredibly slim because we don’t make the first or second contact enough due to the difference in size/players who are strong at attacking the ball. Although Zouma has got a fair few this season from them, which also highlights his strength in the opposition box. There has been a lot of poor deliveries that don’t clear the first man or the Gk claims but it also probably doesn’t tell the whole story.

Aye it seems any loss is a crisis. Im not surprised though, we lose the cup v Leicester there will be folk calling for Tuchel to get sacked next 😂

Na disagree. A top number 9, another midfielder and a CB and we will be right up there I would think. Our problems been conversion a lot of the time with Tuchel, was same with Frank first season for a period and same with Sarri also. We are getting chances be it big ones or half chances, obviously you can always make more but if we had beat Arsenal on Wednesday it wouldnt be an issue.... good teams be it City or Liverpool or whatever, the first requirements to win a league is keeping clean sheets. Its a good basis to start with.

Totally agree with the post. I cant believe anyone is coming out with such shite as we have regressed in attack after 1 game v Arsenal... where we have played 2/3 games where we probably have looked more dangerous than we have all season. Just baffling. But suppose people will complain. If it was as bad as people thought it would have been a concern months ago. But we’ve been getting results and keeping clean sheets... Honestly, where was this complaint before the Arsenal game? It wasn’t a complaint or an issue. Just overreacting again as most people’s reactions have been since that game.... if Werner and Havertz hadn’t missed their big chances with Tuchel it wouldn’t be an issue and only bringing it up now after a 1-0 loss is daft where realistically we didnt create an amazing amount of chances but still should of won the game. This shows exactly why sometimes football fans are fickle and react in the heat of the moment. There has been a clear improvement and the games v Real and City in particular were big signs that our attack has improved significantly. But whatever.

Regressed in attack? Wow. What.... Our attack has probably been progressively getting better the last month or so although still we have a huge number of 1 goal wins under Tuchel. Honestly we weren’t hugely churning out a lot of chances in the beginning with Tuchel, understandably with the lack of time to train the team as often with games every 3 days more or less since he came in. Plus inconsistencies from players also dont help but the way your saying we have regressed as if we were Barcelona or someone back in the day who could easily score 4 or 5 goals every game... The Real Madrid game was our best in attack in terms of big chances created with TT. It was 9 days ago. Where have you got this regressed idea from? One loss v Arsenal where we still had a few chances to win the game? There is a reason, unfortunately, that under Tuchel we have only scored 34 goals in 26 games. And it isnt due to us being ineffective or regressing in attack because realising this last month or so is when we have probably seen our best or most effective attacking play. Teams can have a bad game. I think everyone is still shitting the bed and overreacting overt the defeat on Wednesday. Things such as we aren’t getting top 4 to now our attack has regressed? Honestly...

Honestly I hope not. But even then I think if we lose the cup final then it still means we make the CL realistically as it will be used as sufficient motivation on the following game and I would think it will be hammered home by Tuchel what is to be expected. Even then I still think we will win the FA cup. Leicester are a good team but they’ve shown they don’t have the bottle this season and last season in the run in dropping points, so don’t write that off yet either. In their last 11 league games theyve only won 5, drawing 2 and losing 4 v Arsenal, City, West Ham, Newcastle IIRC. With United being the only decent team they’ve beaten in that run also. I think people are easily throwing away what we have did from when TT came in/what we can still do based on 2 poor results. Some of the reactions yesterday were hysterically over the top. Like Arsenal TV style reactions. Its still in our hands. Lets be clear, regardless of the results, the game v Leicester next week is huge. Always has been. Win there and win v Villa and it will be enough. 100%.