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The game was an even game. But we did well because we have just played 120 minutes like 2/3 days before. I expect us to lose this game so getting a 2-0 result is a very good result

Nah MOTM against City was 100% hazard and today was Pedro. Kante was brilliant in both games though. He definitely deserve a rest

Nah. We had Sheva and Torres both came with much higher pedigree than Morata. Both failed

F Sarriball. Should have scored 5 against Spurs. They are tired after all after playing Burnley.

Brilliant performance, I expect a very lethargic performance after that final but we played well. Looked knackered in the late 2nd half which is understandable. Good win. Now have a rest and bring on Fulham.

Higuain had one sitter in the 1st half and one more that he should have buried. We have just played 120 minutes 3 days ago. Even Manchester city won 1-0 against West ham with penalty.

Harry kane is a joke. Bs fair play

He had tons of injuries this season. You have to manage him properly. I will be more careful, it can ruin his career.

Nah. For me our success in the past spoiled us. The old guard was built by Abramovich money, we are like this city team. World class player everywhere. This is more of reality.

It wasn't. We didn't sit deep in our own waiting for them. Did you watch united vs Liverpool last night? We played kinda like Liverpool and mou/Conte strategy kinda like united. Did you watch how kante press Barkley drop preventing the pass to space. Then when Barkley press, kante did the same thing. We didn't just sit them off. Of course, there will be a time where we have to defend deep, we are playing city after all. I assume you are referring to his napoli team. His napoli team pressing is light years ahead of ours. Teaching some of this players who is suck at pressing will take a while. Offensively of course it is going to be a struggle. I don't think ederson made any save the whole game but we had our chances with Kante and Barkley chances. I also don't remember Kepa made any significant save. The expected goals for both team was like 1.0 vs 1.2

Nope, that was not a Conte or Mou, sit deep for the whole 90 minutes and pray we score from counter or set pieces. That was completely different. Instead of high press we use medium block press. We press them with kante and Barkley. We basically shut their passing lane. Plus not only we have counter attacking opportunity, we actually attack city. Yes we do proper build up and attack city. In 2nd half it was our game to the point that Sarri dare to bring Cho and Higuain. In Etihad we conceded 2 idiotic goals and one wonder goal in like 10 minutes. The game was done and dusted.

To the hell with the media. They are there for headlines and to sell news. They don't care about Chelsea. I am more worried about Chelsea fans. Clearly some of them including you maybe don't see the improvement in our team. All they see is F Sarriball. What they don't see is the first time in 3 years since Pep came to epl, we can go toe to toe with city.

Zappacosta & DD almost cost that much. Money would have been better spent on a starter than deadwood. But Conte wanted an rb (we tried to sign ox) and another midfielder (after matic was sold and RLC went on loan) . It all depends on what the manager want. We can't be like City. Oh we need improvement on our fb. Basically release all of them and just spend 130 m on fb alone. Early in Abramovich era this is what happened.

Alex Sandro was probably the biggest name linked on multiple occasions. Nah, you will have to pay Juventus 50m at least to poach Alex Sandro.

Pool has fabinho, Henderson, van djik and matip 4 players. City always struggle against set pieces without Fernandinho. If higs/Giroud play I think it is ok and it just means Barkley /rlc has to play

Who? I knew about Kyle Walker. But no way we can beat city. OX choose pool. We were outbid by United for Lukaku he cost like 30m more than Morata.

But we are just really2 short team without Alonso. Only 2 player with good aerial ability the rest are just tiny player.

Or Emerson is of a similar level at best. Utter joke tbh Emerson is a better defender because he has pace to keep up with city winger. Btw what happen to Alonso?

But you have to support your manager. I thought that was the words that is thrown around here. My problem is with Drinkwater and zappacosta type signing. That is just stupid. You want to use youth and loan for this type of purpose. Those two players were signed for numbers only. The rest I thought was OK. I wanted Lukaku but we got Morata. That one turned to be dreadful but it made sense. Bakayoko made sense for Conte. Do I miss anybody?

We probably will lose this game. I am pretty sure after 120 minutes of super intense game like it will drain your energy. It is hard to pick who should play. Whoever is not tired I guess.

Penalties are fun if you are a neutral, if you are a fan. It is nerve wracking

It is the reality but people don't want to accept it. We are still one of the biggest team in England,but squad wise we are 5th and we cannot compete with city and united in term spending power. The other two teams spend 3 years building their teams with the same manager. Yesterday people didn't see how much better our build up against pressing. How we didn't just sit deep the whole time but we press at times. It is massive improvement under Conte because whenever we got pressed we just capitulate. This imo is more important. Not oh, it was a tactical masterclass of that kind of bs. But noone talk about this because this is not important for them. They will say where the f is Sarriball.

Nah the hate on Sarri is still very high. Imo Chelsea fans are just too spoiled. That early Roman era spoiled everyone. We had the most expensive squad and the best squad in the league. The lack of excitement being able to go toe to toe to city really shows that. Chelsea fans still think we are at the same level as City but clearly we are not. We cannot compete in the market with city, what we can do is spend correctly and build a strong foundation for the future.

No. It is going to be a disaster. Built a strong foundation of possession based team and then you can bring manager like Lamp or Terry.

I disagree, he provides physical presence in midfield. If we have Paul pogba, there is no way we will play Barkley but we have either rlc who has not played in 2 months, Barkley or kovacic.