Closed Man City 2-0 Chelsea

[BlueLyon 9,359]

As long we are this shit in attack, playing on luck, opponent mistakes and hoping to score goal somehow, as long Mou plays so defensive against fucking West Broms or WHUs, we wont be a real threat for some time. Mou is master tactic, big game coach, but he is clueless how to beat low team by big difference. Im sure we have a team that could completely destroy at least one team in PL, but Mou cant do that. He doesnt have skill to beat a team 8:0 or sth like we did last year with Villa. Such win would be extremely imoportant moral boost for our attacking players. Right now we play very reserved, this 1:0 protecting the lead is such bullshit. Yes we win in the end, but we could win by 2/3/4/5 goals, not a single fucking one. Ffs Liverpool is destroying teams here and there, we just sit back protecing 1:0. What kind of fucking football is that? Mou is great in big games, but he is idiot when comes to small ones and goes for that 1:0 win when he should go for 3:0 win at least.

We are in transition now so its ok for this season but I will be damn pissed if we will win PL next year and still play 1:0 80% of the games. We spend 100 mio per year for new players and its time for Mou to start showing that. Defensive tactics agains small teams are ridiculous. Its terrible to look this team and players like Hazard who win just by 1:0 or even draw/lose vs small teams because Mou tactics while we should be running the show.

And ffs Mou rest some players!

[Fernando 6,585]

One pointless lose to city, and you act like the world ends.

Who said that?

[Polo7 3,496]

As long we are this shit in attack, playing on luck, opponent mistakes and hoping to score goal somehow, as long Mou plays so defensive against fucking West Broms or WHUs, we wont be a real threat for some time. Mou is master tactic, big game coach, but he is clueless how to beat low team by big difference. Im sure we have a team that could completely destroy at least one team in PL, but Mou cant do that. He doesnt have skill to beat a team 8:0 or sth like we did last year with Villa. Such win would be extremely imoportant moral boost for our attacking players. Right now we play very reserved, this 1:0 protecting the lead is such bullshit. Yes we win in the end, but we could win by 2/3/4/5 goals, not a single fucking one. Ffs Liverpool is destroying teams here and there, we just sit back protecing 1:0. What kind of fucking football is that? Mou is great in big games, but he is idiot when comes to small ones and goes for that 1:0 win when he should go for 3:0 win at least.

We are in transition now so its ok for this season but I will be damn pissed if we will win PL next year and still play 1:0 80% of the games. We spend 100 mio per year for new players and its time for Mou to start showing that. Defensive tactics agains small teams are ridiculous. Its terrible to look this team and players like Hazard who win just by 1:0 or even draw/lose vs small teams because Mou tactics while we should be running the show.

And ffs Mou rest some players!

Erm we didnt play defensive against WHU...

Liverpool might be scoring more than us but they still dropped points just like us. We aint playing 1-0's we just dont have an amazing striker/s like Liverpool and Man City. Think you need to relax a little, this time last year we werent even sure we would finish in the top four.

[Jase 43,479]

Two pointers to make:

1. Ever since we drew 1-1 against West Brom on Tuesday, have seen people used the excuse of 'tiredness' for the two points dropped and again, the same excuse being thrown about after the defeat today. While I agree that maybe a factor in why we suddenly experienced two poor performances and results, it is only valid till a certain extent IMO. It's too easy after performances and results like this to say it's down to fatigue. Had some people pointed out to me that today's match was our 4th game in 13 days but am not exactly buying it especially when we had a range of 2-4 days of rest in between those matches to rest and prepare. If anything, this could well be the inevitable drop in form after having played so well and achieved many positive results over the past 1 1/2 months.

That of course lead to the point of why Mourinho hasn't rotate the starting XI a little bit more. While I do agree that he should be playing the likes of Schurrle, Cole etc more, one could also argue that because the starting XI put out today has been performing well and got us to where we are and hence Mourinho probably didn't see the need to change and disrupt any consistency especially when we have been pretty much playing one game per week since the start of January. One, however, suspects Mourinho will probably rotate a tad more (hopefully) over the coming weeks tough games in the league and Champions League match coming up as well as not forgetting Matic and Salah are suspended for the latter competition.

2. Said this before and not doubting Terry's influence and leadership in this team for one moment but if we are THAT reliant on him, then I fear for us when he retires. It's a bit concerning that when you look through this team and there isn't a standout leader that takes charge in the manner that Terry does or one that does in their own way but vocal and commanding enough to make himself trustworthy and reassuring to other players and us fans watching the game. Look through the team and we can probably see some that can be a leader but not necessarily a standout one to lead us in the future. There doesn't seem to be one that is stepping up to the plate and take complete charge when Terry or even Lampard isn't even playing. At this rate, we may well have to simply pick one fella to be captain and hope he does a good job.

[Atwa 78]

Bad game all around tonight and kinda highlights the problems we have going into the final stretch. John out is obviously massive, but up front we still have immense troubles breaking down even mid-low table defenses. Today we didn't even bother their back.

Azpil was my MOTM; he at least showed some heart out there.

[Ollie 4,400]

It's ok losing a football match. It's ok to lose at Man City.... but what i want to know is wtf was that? We didn't do anything. It's like Jose wanted City to win just so they'd have more games to play and we can focus on the league. Really horrible strange performance considering what we did to them in the league. And i'll also say this... i really hope Jose sells Luiz, fucking liability most of the time and Ramires. Ramires is the worst player i've ever seen with a football at his feet. Sure he gives everything but he's awful in possession.

Anyway less of the ranting, i as all of us know the focus is top 4 this season and trophies next season. Don't be despondent and trust the special one. We will dominate again, just not yet.

[Blue Traveler 256]

Never witnessed such a clueless performance! Not 1 fucking single shot on target is total embarrassment. apparently the only way we can play is on counter-attacks which City hadn't a hard time to shut us down completely. other than that we have no plan to attack or open up defenses it was a pattern this season.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

4th.

Afer The super cup.

You'd rather win the UEFA Super Cup, a glorified friendly, than the FA Cup?

[Cripen 110]

I thought that we dont want to win this match. The players just pass by this match and it's looks like they wasnt anywhere near Etihad in their thoughts.

Dont care, we beat them twice in PL.

[Jase 43,479]

Never witnessed such a clueless performance! Not 1 fucking single shot on target is total embarrassment. apparently the only way we can play is on counter-attacks which City hadn't a hard time to shut us down completely. other than that we have no plan to attack or open up defenses it was a pattern this season.

That defeat away to Basel? This is probably right up there with it. Worst performance since that defeat.

[The_Flash 1,144]

WTF was that??????

I can't vote for a man of the match everyone was awful. The game was our WORST performance of the season. It ONCE again showed we have no strikers. It exposed once again just how badSamuel Eto'o is now. He might as well have not been on the park. Woeful NEVER looked like scoring.

ZERO shots on target that is hellish. It was hard to watch I can't believe we have beat them twice when we really need to win. We play terrible and lose. I really fancied the FA Cup this year.

Ah well, god I'm depressed

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

Was expecting to see Cole start the game...looks like he won't be signing an extension

As for the lineup...would of been interesting to see 1 or 2 youngsters (e.g. Kalas, Aké) get some time on the pitch

[zolayes 14,489]

Never witnessed such a clueless performance! Not 1 fucking single shot on target is total embarrassment. apparently the only way we can play is on counter-attacks which City hadn't a hard time to shut us down completely. other than that we have no plan to attack or open up defenses it was a pattern this season.

I saw us give away SIX at wolves and we were lucky it wasnt SIXTEEN ,,, we still sang tho all the way back to London

[zolayes 14,489]

WTF was that??????

I can't vote for a man of the match everyone was awful. The game was our WORST performance of the season. It ONCE again showed we have no strikers. It exposed once again just how badSamuel Eto'o is now. He might as well have not been on the park. Woeful NEVER looked like scoring.

ZERO shots on target that is hellish. It was hard to watch I can't believe we have beat them twice when we really need to win. We play terrible and lose. I really fancied the FA Cup this year.

Ah well, god I'm depressed

Cheer up ,, Its Valentines DAy ,,,time for a big huf

[thekid9 418]

Hope we never see Luiz at CB again! Horrendous , Eto'o offers nothing , same with Salah ..

what the hell has Schurrle done wrong? he scored twice the last time he started!!! don't see how he can be any worse than willian or salad boy!

When Hazard doesn't create , we don't create at all! , and we look lost without JT!

Cech - Obv had his gloves on backwards as he was flapping for everything , be good to get Courtious back!

Brana - still can't cross a ball for his life!

Cahill - can't blame him too much

Luiz - Bomb scare, instead of playing on at the offside goal , he just stood with his arms up for a minute , if he had just played he may have stopped him!

Azpi - No blame!

Mikel - Needs to have a bath in DW40 , and learn that you can pass the ball forwards!

Matic - Worst game today , just looked like Mikel in disguise

Hazard - Looked Knackered

Willian - First touch is horrendous at times , same as distribution

Ramires - Brazilian? nothing Brazilian about him! Absolute waste of space at times!

Eto'o - Was he even playing? Anonymous

Salah - Weak , nothing apart from Pace clearly

Torres - Looked a little livelier than the rest , but no one could even get the ball to him

Oscar - Looked bright , no time.