Closed Everton 1-0 Chelsea

[Steve 10,227]

What a shit way to end my birthday weekend. Just not good enough and luck was not on our side today.

[Gorando 184]

waiting for the belgian fanboys to come and moan about KDB and Lukaku

[zolayes 14,489]

no complaints ...my mom ...moment of the match ...1 0 down and jose takes off LB and puts on a Striker (well he is supposed to be one ) //

seriously NO complaints ..I didnt see ANYONE not giving 100% and that is all I ever demand ... LADY LUCK is a bitch and was wearing blue today/..stupid cunt

[YouNameIt 1,511]

Yes

Mourinho has work to do but this is not a disaster. Just not our day though.

Please explain what about that game that makes it "not shit".

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Compared to last season though, I was impressed. The tempo to our game was fantastic. No one was taking more than two touches, quick fast passing. Sure you compare results to others but when you compare this Chelsea to last year's Chelsea and I prefer this playing style. Just couldn't take our countless chances.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Positives:

Umm...can't think of any

4-3-3 is the way to go for us

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Please explain what about that game that makes it "not shit".

We played well. went all attack. didn't have luck. how is it 'shit' ?

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

I hope Jose doesn't talk shit and say we were good, we were poor

[Stats 7,056]

Mikel for De Rossi and Eto'o for Falcao/Cavani today I am sure we wouldn't have lost.

No, stop the Mikel crap. He was actually good today. I was very impressed. We were wasteful. Mikel done his job, kept possession, won the ball back a few times and Falcao and Cavani's first choice was never Chelsea.

[Ollie 4,400]

Sorry but do you actually think we played shit? You lot are off your fucking heads. If we had just taken some chances, we woulda won 5-0 which we would've deserved. 65% to like 35% with 20 odd shots and we just missed so many chances. I thought we were good today and 3-0, 4-0 would've been a fair reflection. We were very unlucky, Everton did nothing.

[Sheva. 5,373]

Btw, how does Hazard get triple teamed every time and still we can't exploit spaces in other areas? everyone just stands and no great runs anywhere.

[DJames 729]

Poor finishing all around. We allowed too much chances to go unpunished. It's early in the season so no worries. Mourinho better start whipping the boys into shape though!

[TrippingStep 336]

What he said.

Well, we played 5 matches this year and in possession when we have to create space to unlock team, we look clueless.

I'm not optimistic for this year. We don't have players to outmuscle like the first Mourinho team.

I would have prefered to have kept Benitez, buy some midfielders. We had a good system in the last three months and except Man City were nearly always the better team.

We had the central defense pushing higher than what we do, more triangles, more coordinated movements to move from side to side and penetrating moves.

In this second half, we played with no plan on how to attack and were just playing on sheer will but we can't outmuscle them with the players we have.

[Toli 977]

We battered them for the majority of the game. Just couldn't finish any chances. Ah well, not too worried at this point

no we didnt. 1st half was even and 2nd half they outplayed us. tactically, martinez definetly won today and mourinhos subs didnt change anything. Everton were the better team and deserved the win.

lol @people saying we should've won 3 or 4-0 what are people smoking while watching matches?! we had 10 great mins in the 2nd half and after this we couldnt produce one good chance. everton had 2 or 3 great counter-attacks and Baines hit the woodwork.

most of our 22 shots were completely ineffective and harmless

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

Please explain what about that game that makes it "not shit".

We just didn't finish our opportunities. Eto'o and had 2 good/clear cut chances, Torres had a good one on that misfired kick... Should've been enough

[coolhead23 1,146]

We didnt take our chances but atleast we showed the intent (thats more important)... Cole sub was like but then we wanted the win ..

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

We played well. went all attack. didn't have luck. how is it 'shit' ?

we lost 1-0. there is no "we played well".

If we scored even 1-2 goals from all our 200 chances... then we played well.

shit defence...

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Very disappointing not so much in the result but about how disorganized we looked. I didn't get the Torres sub for that reason as well. Eto'o was clearly gassed and should have come off but putting Torres and Eto'o on just confused an already messy side. We should have finished better with Schurrle and Eto'o being especially responsible and probably deserved a draw overall. I think despite all those chances we really only had one good strike at goal (that was Ramires' shot that was well saved by Howard).