Closed Newcastle 2-0 Chelsea

[kellzfresh 7,229]

[bushman 2,043]

What a beautiful Christmas tree I see above.

I would add bombastic Hazard on top as the shining star for Chelsea.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

well you agree to the fact that the best football still has to be brought, yet you disagree when I say something is still missing.

proof again that alot of comments here are read with only half a brain.

There's a difference between saying 'we haven't played our best football' and 'but in general, I haven't been satisfied with most of our games so far''

It doesn't take a master of linguistics to see that.

[The_Flash 1,144]

I think we have shown moments of genuis, and moments of WTF like yesterday. Hopefully we can bounce back from this shock defeat that is key. Look at both Arsenal and City we beat them, they beat other teams. We need to bounce back strong and really push on...to...victory

[The_Flash 1,144]

Your minion is great, love the fish

[remains of the day 564]

I think we have shown moments of genuis, and moments of WTF like yesterday. Hopefully we can bounce back from this shock defeat that is key. Look at both Arsenal and City we beat them, they beat other teams. We need to bounce back strong and really push on...to...victory

Absolutely. We didn't win the league last week when we beat Man City and we didn't lose it this week either. On to the next.

[Phil Driver 503]

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"Of course I am worried," he said at his press conference. "This season we have played five matches away – all difficult places to go – but we only have one victory and two defeats from those games so of course that concerns me.

"We were lacking everything – it was a really bad performance from us. We were not even thinking aggressively.

"We had the space to play the ball forward and between the lines behind Yohan Cabaye and Cheikh Tiote. We could have hurt the opponent and all we were doing is playing the ball from side to side – always horizontal, never vertical. We were slow and not sharp enough to attack spaces.

"In previous years the same performances have happened - Chelsea have been successful in cups but not in the Premier League.

"They have been finishing 15 to 20 points behind and one year they qualified for Champions League because they won it but finished outside the top four. Last year in December they were not in the title race."

Mourinho likened his side’s first-half performance to a friendly match, and says he will take some time to analyse what went wrong before looking ahead to future matches.

He continued: "The result is a consequence of one team not being there. When that is the case, they normally lose – so that is my explanation for the result.

"I think the first half was very easy to play – lots of space, no real pressure from the opposition. But we were not aggressive with the ball and often lost it straight away. We were not pressing. We were too soft, not aggressive nor intense enough. We gave them 45 minutes of a friendly.

"We deserved to lose. Maybe they did not deserve to win but we definitely deserved to lose."

The Portuguese boss admitted before the game he had been finding it tough to pick a team given the strength of squad at his disposal and was asked afterwards if he felt he made the right choices at St James' Park.

Mourinho joked: "I made eleven mistakes. I should have picked the other eleven rather than this one! That is the feeling I have when my team has played so badly.

"Of course I am exaggerating and some players had some normal or good performances but my feeling after a defeat is that I made eleven wrong choices. Before I think about how we will react I have to try to understand why we performed this way in this match."

Jose Mourinho .

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

I feel there is this ethos at the club driven by Roman to play Barca football all the time ,this is very gracious and honourable BUT there are certain games at this time of the season in England when it is all about power and grit in our conditions ,the christmas period demands a differnet approach and is maybe why we tend to struggle and lose momentum at this time of year after a good start and then we always finish well , I feel at this time of the season we Jose needs to opt for power and strength rather than tippy tappy stuff .

I am not interested in what a certain player can do for an international team in the summer I want to someone who can handle our conditions in the winter especially away from home and at West Ham we will need to match them for power and running before we can play. Our three midget but very skillful AM's can't play together they are too lightweight and Cahill needs to partner Terry ,we need our winter players out there now ,Schurlle is another who needs to play. This is not the time for tippy tappy stuff ,yesterday was the warning and we should take it .

You forgot to mention how bad Lampard and Ramires were mate, they gave the ball away a lot yesterday. Torres didn't look too hungry either, well nobody did but still. Eto'o and Willian made more an impact than anyone that started and they play maybe 25-30 minutes.

[chelseafc9010 224]

Oscar was a fucking disgrace.

[Stingray 9,441]

I should rename this place OMFG-Overreaction.net

Lol. It would open opportunities :-) But the loss of Blue would be too hurtful, mate ....;

The gifs would be crazy though !! :-)

[The Skipper 20,609]

So we are now the worst team with the worst players according to some?

People need to relax, this stuff always happens in football. Remember, the PL is a marathon, not a sprint.

[JVL 119]

Too bad we did lose this game.. specially put a stream on @ work. Hopefully my boss don't check the history of internet.

Come on you blues,

[Sidzeret 2,257]

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

Oscar was a fucking disgrace.

He's our best player this season, and is a top player, no matter how much that makes you slit your wrists...

[The_Flash 1,144]

Oscar is most certainly not a disgrace he has really been good this season some great goals, yes everyone was bad yesterday but it doesn't make them bad players, every player thread is getting dogs abuse, these are the same players being applauded after city and arsenal games.

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

He's our best player this season, and is a top player, no matter how much that makes you slit your wrists...

Dafuck ?

[darrus 422]

He's our best player this season, and is a top player.

Exactly, he's saved us a couple of games already this season. And it's not like he was the worst player out there, others (except Terry) were just as bad. This result is a collectibve team effort - or lack of it.

[chelseafc9010 224]

Dafuck ?

Seems like a lovely bloke.

[Jase 43,479]

Am actually curious to know what Mourinho said at HT to the players. Did he give a Benitez-esque team talk? In the first half, we played OK and that I think was also partly down to Newcastle being conservative and even afraid given their recent troubles. But in the second half, nothing seem to change in the players' performance and when Newcastle decidedly got their act together, neither could we handle nor respond well to the pressure thrown at us. Not playing well is one thing, which has occurred many times, but to just seemingly folded in the face of pressure reflected by the disastrous tackles/challenges and without even responding in the right manner.

[AndersonBLUE 819]

We will win the league