Blue Armour 4,439 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 That was definitely one of the most painful games (along with Ray Wilkins commentary) to watch.When you look at the amount of chances created both sides could have taken the league, although perhaps the balance was upset with their 1st and 2nd goals.Martin Tyler may well be right. We are a side in transition and their might be some pain before success is achieved.But on the bright side:We still fought backWe are still third, and only 3 away from secondThis was their home ground, and we could have left with far worse results at this stage of the season. It has certainly been an eye-opener but I don't think it has dismantled our campaign entirely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bir_CFC 3,455 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I know we lost but I can't remember the last time I've been this happy with a Chelsea performance. Just wish Torres buried the 2nd chance, for his own sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 seeing it once was bad enough but replay after replay even worse!!!Strangly dont feel as annoyed as thought I would.Expected it and all to loose but didnt think be calm as kinda feel...hmmmmm....Rooney slide though lol!!! Thank fuck he didnt score that onetake the positive even out of that ....great run ,,,great pass ,,,great control to go past the keeper .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCFC 357 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Video of the miss - http://www.twitvid.com/AQCNT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. 2,742 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 yer we lost 3-1 but i think we played really well shame we couldnt build on the early goal in the 2nd half i gotta admit torres looked good today kinda like his old self apart from that miss lol keep the faith my fellow blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo 1,729 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Lol dont think you'll wana see the first halfMe either, but I want to see how we conceded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peace. 4,352 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Kalou must be our finishing coach. Ramires' and Torers' misses were very... Kalou'esq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naked Mole Rat 437 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Props to Villas-Boas for some good football at OT. We were the better side at least till the 2nd United goal, and his decision to take Lampard off at half time was superb.The players did well, too, for not giving up (one of what make us better than Arsenal), but I don't know what to say about Torres. He's certainly trying and improving, but moments like that force me to think he's trying to mess with the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodojojo 510 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Horrific first half and losing 3 points is never fun but in a way, I'm okay because we know where Chelsea stands and where the obvious problems are. Does anyone think AVB will get much pushback now if Lampard sits a lot more? And with Torres, I know I'll get some slating for this but it was good to see his game in the 2nd half. That miss was embarassing but it's out of the way now. You can see the world class movement in the box is still there. If he takes the performance to heart rather than dwell on a one in a million chance miss, he can go forward. I'm confident that he's mentally strong enough to do it. Torres against Man United in 2010-11, 0 goals in 6 games. In all other seasons, 4 in 6. Shoulda been 5, coulda been 6. Early season yet. Happy, City drew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo 1,729 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Just saw the miss...my goodness gracious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I know we lost but I can't remember the last time I've been this happy with a Chelsea performance. Just wish Torres buried the 2nd chance, for his own sake.Same!!! Keep forgetting that we didnt lose weird as that sounds...and I hope Torres starts Weds and scores because he had the confidence built up and sadly all the press and co will talk about is that missBerbatov though just as bad!And he took off Lamps...he has guts...caring about the team not about how the players might react and all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DYC. 7,542 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Kalou must be our finishing coach. Ramires' and Torers' misses were very... Kalou'esq.Unbelievable really, shocking misses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdog 2,084 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Not too upset. I wanted a draw. It was there for the takin'. Undone by two offsides goals. Very bad miss by torrid. I don't want to read any more about how slow the team is. torrid needs to fuckin' finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismada9 1,948 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I obviously thought it was a good game. I just wish we took the game to them a lot more than we did. There were also a real number of faults that Boas made before the game. First of all, Mikel should have started instead of Meireles. I don't know but something tells me Mikel is a lot more strong as a DM than Meireles is, particularly against an agressive an attack-minded side like United. Meireles was awful! He couldn't deal with the likes of Nani or Young at all! Someone big like Mikel would have kicked them around and not let them get a sight of the wings at all.So 2 offside decisions, a ricochet never should have happened, Ramires should have scored, Torres scores, Torres should have blatently scored, on a better day, we should have won 3-0And as for Torres' miss... I'm trying so hard not to think about it..Still, I still have blue blood, it wasn't 8-2, at least I can be happy about that!KTBFFHI want Lukaku to start the next game as a CF though.I don't even remember if he touched the ball when he came on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badboy 1,526 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 We played fantastically well though just a bit too though gung ho. i think many players can take positives out of this game but lets be honest that was probably the best Chelsea performance for a long time. Mata's passing and Torres's movement was just sublime, Mata needs to play in the hole ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic weeds 446 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 We play well WITHOUT LAMPARD. thanks AVB for realising this. So many positives from this game. I feel sorry for Torres, but the boy will come good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HNKS 508 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Best performance of this season for us. Although our defence again looks troubled. Also Man City didnt win so theres another positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kojo 4,676 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 (edited) Guys here's something, how come we always get our tactics wrong at first? But Ferguson gets em right... Noticed that we always concede and play bad first! But then play well later on because we resolve the situation, we always start off shot and getting beat. When will this change?, cause I'm sick of it... Edited September 18, 2011 by Sloth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDN Blue 7,903 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Kalou must be our finishing coach. Ramires' and Torers' misses were very... Kalou'esq.So that's why he wasn't on the bench! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCFC 357 Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrjvl5ibL9s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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