Napoli 3-1 Chelsea

[Laylabelle 9,534]

Actually that is what is frustrating me the most. We had just as much chance as Napoli and much more possession. We dealt great with the match especially tactics-wise but the inability of our players to find the final pass or find a proper finish is very annoying because we should've got a draw at the very least.

Yeah we didnt play mega mega shite.Not great but in comparsion to other performances..Everton and all...just dodgy moments that cost us.

[SebastienBonny 49]

Back home after two tiresome days. We left yesterday morning at 6 to take the 9.30 flight from Brussels to Milan and the 1.10 flight from Milan to Naples.

Immediately took a cab to the hotel, which was located 500 meters from the stadium.

Left our stuff behind in the hotel room and went to take some pictures of the stadium. I was surprised to see that there were already hundreds of people waiting to enter the stadium, while kick-off was still 5 hours away...

We wanted to walk around the whole stadium to get to the away end, when we couldn't get through anymore. A steward was surprised we got there unharmed, when we told him we walked around the whole stadium He said we were totally crazy doing that.

I even went into the Napoli store to buy the official matchday scarf. I actually never felt threatened except just outside the hotel when we saw around 30 "casuals" staring at us.

They advised us to stay close to the away end, so we got inside the ground at 5.30, time enough to hang our flag

About the game:

I really think we could have got more out of this.

Yes, Napoli had its chances, but we had ours as well. I was surprised about our level of play at the beginning of the second half.

Napoli was nowhere at that time. A real shame we got the 3-1 that quick, because 2-2 was way more closer.

I feel we are still in this one, will be there at the Bridge and I hope we'll make it.

The atmosphere was stunning, I made a video of the players entering the pitch:

We were lucky to get home today, they cancelled our flight and rebooked us to an earlier one, without letting us know...

Luckily they were kind enough to rebook us to a flight of another company!

[Santiago. 1,500]

Considering our dominance in attack and possession, i actually have high hopes for the away leg, considering defence shows up and AVB realizes his Portuguese duo's are shit

COYB!!!!!!!! LETS DO EM 3-0!!!!!!!!!!

[Term-X 7,891]

^ A clean sheet against Napoli, no chance.

[Santiago. 1,500]

^ A clean sheet against Napoli, no chance.

Napoli excelled in wide spaces, Stamford Bridge is very narrow, Romeu must play, still have a feeling we can edge it

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

Napoli's defense is their to be scored against. We need to find some structure and get our defense to a Chelsea standard. Yesterday was such a enigmatic game. The defenses of both teams led every attack to look threatening. Their attackers are just better and it showed in the scoreline. But honestly, I do think we are still very much in this game. Surprisingly we dominated for so many periods in that game and got open by a mistake which we can't afford to make against an attacking caliber of Napolis. At home, in the bridge, we have a chance. People need to stop talking about this as a if its a post-mortem thread. We weren't murdered, really we weren't!

We did it against Valencia so we can do it against Napoli. KTBFFH!

[Kieran. 6,317]

We can totally do it.

[Blue Armour 4,436]

If we can get back our form within one month, I can really look forward to the return leg.This will be another Valencia game for us.

[manpe 10,861]

Napoli excelled in wide spaces, Stamford Bridge is very narrow, Romeu must play, still have a feeling we can edge it

Actually I remember a commentator saying that SB is 1 metre wider and 2 metres longer. Or was it the other way around?

[Santiago. 1,500]

Actually I remember a commentator saying that SB is 1 metre wider and 2 metres longer. Or was it the other way around?

There is no way on earth, The San Paulo is smaller than SB

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Souness said today he believes we can do it, but the question is whether we can defend properly and keep a clean sheet at the Bridge. Completely agree with him.

[manpe 10,861]

Just let it go people, it's over

[Santiago. 1,500]

Just let it go people, it's over

[manpe 10,861]

ROCKY! IT JUST HIT ME.... Boas should put on "eye of the tiger" for pre-match talk. That would be genius. And skip the tactical preparation jibba-jabba, just do a Rocky marathon it will fire everyone up.

[Hysteria 159]

Do it AVB

Ok we can revert the score, but playing like this...impossible.