petre.ispirescu

Considering the money we spent and how poor the league has been it is actually very worrying we are in such shit form and not just the points gap but the quality gap between us and Liverpool but the fact you watch Villa, Wolves and say Southampton actually play better football.
 

Fully expect Arsenal's Xmas gift come direct from us on Boxing Day

I absoutely hate this scenario, especially in derby matches. It is not only about Chelsea, but happens in every single sport - a supposedly even game (a derby match is a derby match, right?) where one of the teams is favoured by every human being and their dog and surprise, surprise what do you get? A dog shite performance from the favourites. I saw this scenario happen time and time again, I am completely fed up with it (people into sports betting know very well what I am talking about here ha ha).
Not taking anything for granted in this match, but an Arsenal win would be "so Chelsea" and would probably put me on hold in regards to English football for some time. I can barely read some news after a draw v Southampton, a loss v the current Arsenal, the joke team they have become, I don't think my stomach is ready for it.

If we don’t beat these hopeless cunts, players need a long hard look at themselves. They are one of the most out of form teams in Europe never mind the PL.
I get it wont be as simple as show up and just win but surely to fuck we must go out and get a result here. Not winning here right now would be the equivalent of losing to like a relegation candidate side and thats not even a joke they are so poor just now.

Will be a big problem once Azpi leaves/retires though, no one worth their salt will come with no scope to break in the starting Xl.

At least there is Azpilicueta to the rescue, someone we can rely on and not Zappacosta.

At least there is Azpilicueta to the rescue, someone we can rely on and not Zappacosta.

At least there is Azpilicueta to the rescue, someone we can rely on and not Zappacosta.

If this would be the 2021/22 season (next one) then I would question whether Lampard is the right one for this job or not. Next season supposedly is the one we should challenge for the title which I totally agree with this hypothesis. Now it is all about securing top four and getting another year of experience for a newly assembled, young squad. Truth is about 40% of this team is not sorted out yet as the preffered attacking trio of Pulisic Werner Ziyech have yet to play a single minute together and Havertz still finds life in a new league very, very hard to deal with it seems. Not only the three attacking guys have not played together, but two of them have barely featured at all and Werner is yet to have played the position he was brought for. Yes he is versatile, but there is a difference between the position Nagelsmann used to play him at times as an inside forward in his 343 and the current one at Chelsea as a winger. The two positions might look similar, but are not, which is why I think that when Ziyech is missing we'd be more suited to a 352 with Werner and Giroud up top and Chilly and James bombing down the flanks amd Mount Kante Havertz/Kovacic in midfield or a 343 with Werner Giroud Havertz up top, two systems that would allow Werner to be more centrally and close to the net, but I'm not in charge so it does not matter.
Don't forget about the horrible schedule though that seems to affect the big clubs in particular, club matches plus international ones this guys pretty much play every three days for months now and to be fair if you watch other leagues, too, they all seem tired. Chelsea looked like that last night, City, too, Liverpool at Fulham looked rusty. This is a strange season in which mid table/small teams will play a big part benefiting from fresh legs. You can clearly see all the big leagues are pretty much balanced mid December and Bayern and Paris are not even at the top. If managed well, this could be a season for the opportunistic ones.
Still a work in progress and the way things look Liverpool and Spurs will play for a draw tonight and bail us out for a second round in a row and keep things tight at the top.

If this would be the 2021/22 season (next one) then I would question whether Lampard is the right one for this job or not. Next season supposedly is the one we should challenge for the title which I totally agree with this hypothesis. Now it is all about securing top four and getting another year of experience for a newly assembled, young squad. Truth is about 40% of this team is not sorted out yet as the preffered attacking trio of Pulisic Werner Ziyech have yet to play a single minute together and Havertz still finds life in a new league very, very hard to deal with it seems. Not only the three attacking guys have not played together, but two of them have barely featured at all and Werner is yet to have played the position he was brought for. Yes he is versatile, but there is a difference between the position Nagelsmann used to play him at times as an inside forward in his 343 and the current one at Chelsea as a winger. The two positions might look similar, but are not, which is why I think that when Ziyech is missing we'd be more suited to a 352 with Werner and Giroud up top and Chilly and James bombing down the flanks amd Mount Kante Havertz/Kovacic in midfield or a 343 with Werner Giroud Havertz up top, two systems that would allow Werner to be more centrally and close to the net, but I'm not in charge so it does not matter.
Don't forget about the horrible schedule though that seems to affect the big clubs in particular, club matches plus international ones this guys pretty much play every three days for months now and to be fair if you watch other leagues, too, they all seem tired. Chelsea looked like that last night, City, too, Liverpool at Fulham looked rusty. This is a strange season in which mid table/small teams will play a big part benefiting from fresh legs. You can clearly see all the big leagues are pretty much balanced mid December and Bayern and Paris are not even at the top. If managed well, this could be a season for the opportunistic ones.
Still a work in progress and the way things look Liverpool and Spurs will play for a draw tonight and bail us out for a second round in a row and keep things tight at the top.

If this would be the 2021/22 season (next one) then I would question whether Lampard is the right one for this job or not. Next season supposedly is the one we should challenge for the title which I totally agree with this hypothesis. Now it is all about securing top four and getting another year of experience for a newly assembled, young squad. Truth is about 40% of this team is not sorted out yet as the preffered attacking trio of Pulisic Werner Ziyech have yet to play a single minute together and Havertz still finds life in a new league very, very hard to deal with it seems. Not only the three attacking guys have not played together, but two of them have barely featured at all and Werner is yet to have played the position he was brought for. Yes he is versatile, but there is a difference between the position Nagelsmann used to play him at times as an inside forward in his 343 and the current one at Chelsea as a winger. The two positions might look similar, but are not, which is why I think that when Ziyech is missing we'd be more suited to a 352 with Werner and Giroud up top and Chilly and James bombing down the flanks amd Mount Kante Havertz/Kovacic in midfield or a 343 with Werner Giroud Havertz up top, two systems that would allow Werner to be more centrally and close to the net, but I'm not in charge so it does not matter.
Don't forget about the horrible schedule though that seems to affect the big clubs in particular, club matches plus international ones this guys pretty much play every three days for months now and to be fair if you watch other leagues, too, they all seem tired. Chelsea looked like that last night, City, too, Liverpool at Fulham looked rusty. This is a strange season in which mid table/small teams will play a big part benefiting from fresh legs. You can clearly see all the big leagues are pretty much balanced mid December and Bayern and Paris are not even at the top. If managed well, this could be a season for the opportunistic ones.
Still a work in progress and the way things look Liverpool and Spurs will play for a draw tonight and bail us out for a second round in a row and keep things tight at the top.

Signs of an immature team, which it is.
The performance was horrid yesterday. Havertz shouldn't be starting at the moment, we looked a better side with Kovacic and Havertz doesn't bring anything to the team currently. It is the first time I'm watching him play regularly and I don't see what all the hype has been about.
Werner also, but he must be knackered since he's had almost no rest at all, and we have no replacement when our wingers are injured all the god damn time. It's clear as day he is a central attacker, which makes it even more baffling to me that he's being instructed to hug the touchline... Why? Not once did we see Werner drift central, try cut-in shots or runs behind. Always wide, far from the goal, receiving the ball to feet and facing 3-5 players... He is not the type to dribble past players and create chances, that was Hazard. He is there to FINISH chances. Fucks sake, I like him very much but he's being over- and misused. When one of CHO or Ziyech comes back he needs to be benched or moved central. I'm dying to see a proper pacey, technically proficient front 3 (Pulisic, Werner, Ziyech).

If this would be the 2021/22 season (next one) then I would question whether Lampard is the right one for this job or not. Next season supposedly is the one we should challenge for the title which I totally agree with this hypothesis. Now it is all about securing top four and getting another year of experience for a newly assembled, young squad. Truth is about 40% of this team is not sorted out yet as the preffered attacking trio of Pulisic Werner Ziyech have yet to play a single minute together and Havertz still finds life in a new league very, very hard to deal with it seems. Not only the three attacking guys have not played together, but two of them have barely featured at all and Werner is yet to have played the position he was brought for. Yes he is versatile, but there is a difference between the position Nagelsmann used to play him at times as an inside forward in his 343 and the current one at Chelsea as a winger. The two positions might look similar, but are not, which is why I think that when Ziyech is missing we'd be more suited to a 352 with Werner and Giroud up top and Chilly and James bombing down the flanks amd Mount Kante Havertz/Kovacic in midfield or a 343 with Werner Giroud Havertz up top, two systems that would allow Werner to be more centrally and close to the net, but I'm not in charge so it does not matter.
Don't forget about the horrible schedule though that seems to affect the big clubs in particular, club matches plus international ones this guys pretty much play every three days for months now and to be fair if you watch other leagues, too, they all seem tired. Chelsea looked like that last night, City, too, Liverpool at Fulham looked rusty. This is a strange season in which mid table/small teams will play a big part benefiting from fresh legs. You can clearly see all the big leagues are pretty much balanced mid December and Bayern and Paris are not even at the top. If managed well, this could be a season for the opportunistic ones.
Still a work in progress and the way things look Liverpool and Spurs will play for a draw tonight and bail us out for a second round in a row and keep things tight at the top.

If this would be the 2021/22 season (next one) then I would question whether Lampard is the right one for this job or not. Next season supposedly is the one we should challenge for the title which I totally agree with this hypothesis. Now it is all about securing top four and getting another year of experience for a newly assembled, young squad. Truth is about 40% of this team is not sorted out yet as the preffered attacking trio of Pulisic Werner Ziyech have yet to play a single minute together and Havertz still finds life in a new league very, very hard to deal with it seems. Not only the three attacking guys have not played together, but two of them have barely featured at all and Werner is yet to have played the position he was brought for. Yes he is versatile, but there is a difference between the position Nagelsmann used to play him at times as an inside forward in his 343 and the current one at Chelsea as a winger. The two positions might look similar, but are not, which is why I think that when Ziyech is missing we'd be more suited to a 352 with Werner and Giroud up top and Chilly and James bombing down the flanks amd Mount Kante Havertz/Kovacic in midfield or a 343 with Werner Giroud Havertz up top, two systems that would allow Werner to be more centrally and close to the net, but I'm not in charge so it does not matter.
Don't forget about the horrible schedule though that seems to affect the big clubs in particular, club matches plus international ones this guys pretty much play every three days for months now and to be fair if you watch other leagues, too, they all seem tired. Chelsea looked like that last night, City, too, Liverpool at Fulham looked rusty. This is a strange season in which mid table/small teams will play a big part benefiting from fresh legs. You can clearly see all the big leagues are pretty much balanced mid December and Bayern and Paris are not even at the top. If managed well, this could be a season for the opportunistic ones.
Still a work in progress and the way things look Liverpool and Spurs will play for a draw tonight and bail us out for a second round in a row and keep things tight at the top.

If this would be the 2021/22 season (next one) then I would question whether Lampard is the right one for this job or not. Next season supposedly is the one we should challenge for the title which I totally agree with this hypothesis. Now it is all about securing top four and getting another year of experience for a newly assembled, young squad. Truth is about 40% of this team is not sorted out yet as the preffered attacking trio of Pulisic Werner Ziyech have yet to play a single minute together and Havertz still finds life in a new league very, very hard to deal with it seems. Not only the three attacking guys have not played together, but two of them have barely featured at all and Werner is yet to have played the position he was brought for. Yes he is versatile, but there is a difference between the position Nagelsmann used to play him at times as an inside forward in his 343 and the current one at Chelsea as a winger. The two positions might look similar, but are not, which is why I think that when Ziyech is missing we'd be more suited to a 352 with Werner and Giroud up top and Chilly and James bombing down the flanks amd Mount Kante Havertz/Kovacic in midfield or a 343 with Werner Giroud Havertz up top, two systems that would allow Werner to be more centrally and close to the net, but I'm not in charge so it does not matter.
Don't forget about the horrible schedule though that seems to affect the big clubs in particular, club matches plus international ones this guys pretty much play every three days for months now and to be fair if you watch other leagues, too, they all seem tired. Chelsea looked like that last night, City, too, Liverpool at Fulham looked rusty. This is a strange season in which mid table/small teams will play a big part benefiting from fresh legs. You can clearly see all the big leagues are pretty much balanced mid December and Bayern and Paris are not even at the top. If managed well, this could be a season for the opportunistic ones.
Still a work in progress and the way things look Liverpool and Spurs will play for a draw tonight and bail us out for a second round in a row and keep things tight at the top.

If this would be the 2021/22 season (next one) then I would question whether Lampard is the right one for this job or not. Next season supposedly is the one we should challenge for the title which I totally agree with this hypothesis. Now it is all about securing top four and getting another year of experience for a newly assembled, young squad. Truth is about 40% of this team is not sorted out yet as the preffered attacking trio of Pulisic Werner Ziyech have yet to play a single minute together and Havertz still finds life in a new league very, very hard to deal with it seems. Not only the three attacking guys have not played together, but two of them have barely featured at all and Werner is yet to have played the position he was brought for. Yes he is versatile, but there is a difference between the position Nagelsmann used to play him at times as an inside forward in his 343 and the current one at Chelsea as a winger. The two positions might look similar, but are not, which is why I think that when Ziyech is missing we'd be more suited to a 352 with Werner and Giroud up top and Chilly and James bombing down the flanks amd Mount Kante Havertz/Kovacic in midfield or a 343 with Werner Giroud Havertz up top, two systems that would allow Werner to be more centrally and close to the net, but I'm not in charge so it does not matter.
Don't forget about the horrible schedule though that seems to affect the big clubs in particular, club matches plus international ones this guys pretty much play every three days for months now and to be fair if you watch other leagues, too, they all seem tired. Chelsea looked like that last night, City, too, Liverpool at Fulham looked rusty. This is a strange season in which mid table/small teams will play a big part benefiting from fresh legs. You can clearly see all the big leagues are pretty much balanced mid December and Bayern and Paris are not even at the top. If managed well, this could be a season for the opportunistic ones.
Still a work in progress and the way things look Liverpool and Spurs will play for a draw tonight and bail us out for a second round in a row and keep things tight at the top.

Never been a season like this, it's anyones up for grabs. Home form is out the window without usual fans there.

For me, the most disappointing aspect of the past two games is the inability to get something out of them when playing poorly. The performances have dropped significantly in the last 2 games with attacking options dwindled and those ones that are fit to play showing major signs of wear and fatigue. But we've still had a mixture of bad luck (woodwork in both games) and poor decision making and mistakes which have cost us.
We had the same problems last season which was we seemingly have to play well to get a result. Liverpool have probably had more poorer games than us this season but have been grinding some results out, and United even more so. It is definitely something that we have to address because we'll never be title contenders without that and top 4 will end up even being a struggle like last year.
I know it feels all doom and gloom this week and we could be mid table for the weekend, but also if results go a particular way we'll also be only 4 points from the top of the table. This season so far has been something like a scene from the Championship. We only had to win a 2 or 3 on the spin previously to suddenly be right up at the top and being talked about as title contenders. Hopefully we can get a spark back in the next game, and start moving back up the table.
I know West Ham have been on a decent run recently but our next 3 are hardly Liverpool, City, United. It's West Ham, Arsenal and Villa. They are very much winnable games and we also have a week free after this weekend to hopefully help give players some rest and get others fit.
Onwards and upwards...hopefully.

Willian's "I will do a few useless static moves before I attempt a pointless cross or an unsuccessful dribble and all the momentum is gone" trademark move should have me feel relieved for getting rid of him (which I totally am!!!), but still, even as an Arsenal player now, I still shake my head (introduce 'facepalm' too) watching those lame moves. He is completely useless.

What a clean strike from the Fulham player

Same old, same old, we're the perfect tonic for out of form teams, I mean it's been going like this for fucking bastard years, there is no other club in Europe to gift points to struggling ones the way Chelsea does it every season.
Got beaten by Alex fucking Iwobi. Fuck off

I play five a side footie three times a week and one of those times I do it with my friends that have played the game during their youth - I didn't, just played the game for fun, I'm not bad at it, but not great either. But when I am around them I look exactly like the current Kai Havertz, I am three steps behind them, I misplace passes, I am all over the place, I can barely dribble anyone because they know the game and they do this little tricks you learn during football practice like using your body to shove someone off and stuff like this. At least I compensate by being fit and I go into Kante mode and I tackle the shit out of them and block shots and play it safe by my standards. But they are my friends and understand all this.
It is the best how I can describe Kai Havertz at the moment, he is soooooo off the pace compared to everybody else. Maybe a bit insecure, too.

I play five a side footie three times a week and one of those times I do it with my friends that have played the game during their youth - I didn't, just played the game for fun, I'm not bad at it, but not great either. But when I am around them I look exactly like the current Kai Havertz, I am three steps behind them, I misplace passes, I am all over the place, I can barely dribble anyone because they know the game and they do this little tricks you learn during football practice like using your body to shove someone off and stuff like this. At least I compensate by being fit and I go into Kante mode and I tackle the shit out of them and block shots and play it safe by my standards. But they are my friends and understand all this.
It is the best how I can describe Kai Havertz at the moment, he is soooooo off the pace compared to everybody else. Maybe a bit insecure, too.

Same old, same old, we're the perfect tonic for out of form teams, I mean it's been going like this for fucking bastard years, there is no other club in Europe to gift points to struggling ones the way Chelsea does it every season.
Got beaten by Alex fucking Iwobi. Fuck off

Same old, same old, we're the perfect tonic for out of form teams, I mean it's been going like this for fucking bastard years, there is no other club in Europe to gift points to struggling ones the way Chelsea does it every season.
Got beaten by Alex fucking Iwobi. Fuck off