Closed Chelsea 0-0 West Ham

[edetarod 2,155]

city put 9 past these in 2 games, says it all really

i hope Mourinho shows this game to the players before the city match, once their blood is boiling, send them out on the field

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Well yea hats off to them but you just cant not get mad .

frustrating and annoying.

Of course! I was punching the couch when Frank missed that last one, but we can't criticise them without being hypocrites.

[gabrimur 69]

Now it was time to overtake Arsenal, 39 shots and does not enter anything, and West Ham enclosed back ... shit

[bababoom 4,478]

Frustrating game, attack vs defence, very hard to break down a team with eleven men behind the ball, add the fact we haven't got a striker... predictable outcome.

Now we know how Barca and Bayern fans feel, we did that in the CL. No doubt we defended great but so did West Ham, so all the people saying they played 'Anti-football' just remember we won the CL playing the same way.

We play City on Monday and even though i want us to go for the win, i have a feeling Jose will settle for a draw, Wouldn't be the worst result tbh.

All in all very frustrating night.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Funny, that is exactly how I felt after that Barca game...

Pretty pathetic to be mad at Westham. In fact, if anything, I praise their heroic defending especially the two CBs.

It's ridiculous to criticize West Ham for playing that way. It worked (even if they got lucky). I find it annoying when expensive clubs play defensively, but we've outspent West Ham like 20-1 in transfers in the last decade. Are they supposed to try to out-gun us? It's up to us to break them down and we did but we just couldn't finish well enough.

[Laoch20 22]

The Chels are 3 points from the top of the table heading into February with a very promising young squad, last 2 seasons we've been out of the title race by November. Arsenal have their annual meltdown in February, City have to play us twice and Barcelona twice in the space of 4 or 5 weeks. Oh and Jose is still unbeaten at the Bridge, we really don't have much to complain about besides the creative saps on social media with their Mata puns.

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[Hutcho 8,443]

It wasn't the last game of the season. When we pass arsenal is irrelevant providing we do so at some point in the next however many games. And if we put that much effort in, stay solid at the back we will indeed.

[Wolfe_21 21]

Ridiculous team that West Ham is, these teams belong to fucking Championship. This game was more like a game of the Portuguese league. As for Chelsea, we don't know how to play against teams that have this type of strategy. Soon after 60 min were anxious and begin to decide and perform poorly. I hope that be a lesson. Next game will be a real football game. C'mon Chelsea!!

[zolayes 14,489]

That's totally unnecessary Ron.

Whats your problem with this .?????

[Jase 43,479]

"This is not Premier League, this is not the best league in the world. This is football from the 19th century," Mourinho told reporters."It's very difficult to play a football match when only one team wants to play. A football match is about two teams playing."I told Big Sam, they need points. To come here the way they did, is that acceptable? Maybe it is, they need points."

Mourinho insisted there was little more his side could do to break down West Ham, who came away from Stamford Bridge with a point for only the second time since September 2002.He joked: "The only thing I could bring more was Black & Decker - a Black & Decker to destroy the [West Ham] wall."

I'm sorry but that is just so typical of Mourinho to be a hypocrite and say that. Allardyce even took the piss out of his comments after that.

[AndersonBLUE 819]

Team was very negative to begin with, no idea why Mikel was played. Once changed were made did we start seriously look like scoring. I have confidence that we can beat city, and Arsenal.

[WFHobson 14]

On to the next game. The title race is by NO means over. We just lack that out-and-out striker roll. Looking forward to who Mourinho will choose to bring to the bridge in the summer.

[quickpassnmove 924]

the attacking line needs to be playing the ball backwards more readily in any given match.

was a tough match, but West Ham knew what Chelsea would do around the box. too much dribbling, not enough penetration and quick passing.

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

I'm sorry but that is just so typical of Mourinho to be a hypocrite and say that. Allardyce even took the piss out of his comments after that.

The most ironic thing is that he will probably be resorting to those tactics against City.

[zolayes 14,489]

being realistic I just can't see Citeh NOT winning the Pl .. It is obvious they have THREE top strikers and we have Three Duds ,

the positive is that we have great potential and a a manager who knows what we need

This year is the Light Blues .. but next year can be ours ... FUCK THE REDS

[AndersonBLUE 819]

If Arsenal draw and we win we all will be level. How scary is that?

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

Gonna repeat what i said in the matic thread. Cause this game really showed it. 3 key signings need to be made.

-Striker that can hold up the ball and link up (so that we don't have to play with crap like Torres, Ba and Etoo)

-Left back (So that we can play Azpilicueta on the right and bench Ivanovic)

-DLP (This really should be a priority, even more so then a striker, cause atm we're just not moving the ball quick enough and not having a playmaker in our midfield is the reason why.)

On the game: Ramires was useless, Ivanovic was useless, Mikel was decent but he's just so slow moving the ball. Willian should have been taking off at half time, horrible game from him, very sloppy.

Cech, Cahill, Terry : Did what (little) they had to do.

Oscar was underwhelming apart from that shot outside of the box.

Hazard was far too complacent just laying the ball off to someone else instead of going for it himself. He had a couple of nice flicks but the last 10 minutes is what i wanted too see from him all game long. Driving at players and taking shots. Being selfish.

Selfish players get shit done. He needs to realize that.

Ba was useless. Etoo really needs to do better.

Lampard came in well was unlucky not to score but really should have scored that last chance.

Matic did what he had to do.

Mourinho poor teamselection. Ramires-Mikel pivot, Ivanovic at right back, Azpi at left back.

[Toli 977]

Whats with this negativity? So we dropped 2 points, stressing out and slating players won't help. One thing you can't blame Chelsea players for is effort - they gave it their all and sometimes you need that luck which we didn't have unfortunately. There's a saying - days aren't brothers. Anyone who has played any competetive team sport themselves would understand the frustration of Chelsea players and know how hard it is to stay cool and level-headed in a situation like that. I was afraid Ivanovic would murder one of those pricks by the end of the night. Credits to Mourinho for the brave tactics, I don't even know if we played 3-5-2 or 4-2-4 in the end, was very intense game from start to finish. See the positives in negatives, right?

Mentioned it already but my word, Eden Hazard is something else. Hope Thorgan will break into our team someday aswell, imagine that.

how was Mourinho brave by playing Ivanovic as a LB and Ramires as a RB? he could have changed to a system with 3 defenders (like he did at madrid) or actually could have subbed 1 DM out and brought Ba in. He subbed Oscar (one of our most creative players) and brought Ba in. the change was completely useless, as we had 1 body more upfront, but had no service for him. matic was completeley unnecessary in this situation and we didnt need to keep 4 defenders back there too. dont even want to talk about the starting line-up, which was awful too .