Closed Galatasaray 1-1 Chelsea

[Barbara 15,149]

That's because if someone shows even a slight bit of disappointment in our performance, they get 5 replies back telling em off. Some in here are clearly very insecure about our performance.

yeah, but having people disagree with you shouldn't lead to this hostility. And I think while many have decent posts - positive and negative - some make it look like we suck further than Manchester United. IDK but it's been a while since there was such a hostile environment here among our own.

[clementinex 22]

Believe whatever you want bro. I guess it's good to have dreams to get you through your day. Happy trails cause I doubt I will see you on March 18th.

i like having dreams its sometimes better than reality..

Mate all im saying is that chelsea is not as scary as i thought it was, and no matter in what staidum we play, we can beat you, your team's today's game gave me hope, thats all

[zolayes 14,489]

That's because if someone shows even a slight bit of disappointment in our performance, they get 5 replies back telling em off. Some in here are clearly very insecure about our performance.

this thread was about 80 % moaning about the performance ,,

seems some need too many sweeties

[robdog 2,084]

i like having dreams its sometimes better than reality..

Mate all im saying is that chelsea is not as scary as i thought it was, and no matter in what staidum we play, we can beat you, your team's today's game gave me hope, thats all

After seeing that swiss defense your side had, I have belief that your side is done. So done I can put a fork in it & eat it for lunch.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

this thread was about 80 % moaning about the performance ,,

seems some need too many sweeties

Disagree 200%, this thread was 80% about 110% effort and 10% about the bad performance and 10% about the decent result and the remaining 7% about people trolling.

[zolayes 14,489]

After seeing that swiss defense your side had, I have belief that your side is done. So done I can put a fork in it & eat it for lunch.

enjoy your Thanksgiving Dinner

[zolayes 14,489]

Disagree 200%, this thread was 80% about 110% effort and 10% about the bad performance and 10% about the decent result and the remaining 7% about people trolling.

nice attempt to wriggle away from your mistake ,, effort 90% attainment 30%

[Mohammed Seif 1,451]

Disagree 200%, this thread was 80% about 110% effort and 10% about the bad performance and 10% about the decent result and the remaining 7% about people trolling.

loooool. That mathematical issue is really funny

[zolayes 14,489]

loooool. That mathematical issue is really funny

well I have taught the subject to University students for too many years

[robdog 2,084]

enjoy your Thanksgiving Dinner

I realized that I made a mistake, I wanted to say that swiss cheese defense that was full of holes. I doubt they can shut us down in 90 minutes @ Da Bridge. In fact I would put money on it. I seen a better defense from Stoke City.

[Mohammed Seif 1,451]

well I have taught the subject to University students for too many years

Respect, it is just funny how the subject became an issue in a Chelsea match. I can't even remember who started it to be honest , but coming from a family of engineers and teachers I can see how it would bother a mathematician

[zolayes 14,489]

I realized that I made a mistake, I wanted to say that swiss cheese defense that was full of holes. I doubt they can shut us down in 90 minutes @ Da Bridge. In fact I would put money on it. I seen a better defense from Stoke City.

its ok I knew what you meant ,, in any case swiss cheese is much inferior

to gorgonZOLA

[cosmicway 1,326]

Some ostpolitik 2day ...

Backpasses to Czech from as far as Galata's corner flag !

Don't tell me we played like that against Liverpool and City.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

nice attempt to wriggle away from your mistake ,, effort 90% attainment 30%

haha may well have been 30% but your post confirmed 100% attainment

[robdog 2,084]

Some ostpolitik 2day ...

Backpasses to Czech from as far as Galata's corner flag !

Don't tell me we played like that against Liverpool and City.

yep we did. Didn't you know, we are boring boring Chelsea

[BloodIsBlue 291]

In fairness to Azpil he has been superb recently and the whole of the season in fairness! Yes, if Cole is leaving the club, we will need one but Azpil is not a weak link.

Yeah but Ivanovic isn't a rightback. The sooner we get Azpi to right the sooner we'll see the team gain some much needed offensive balance. To me Azpilicueta is superman right now my confidence in him is at max. It's superb to have a guy like him who can play on both sides so well.

[cosmicway 1,326]

I missed the matches against Basel early in the season.

Then I believed those Swiss were some sort of miracle boys, but they proved to be utter clowns.

CFC produced a "Mel Pepe" type of display back then I suppose like they did with Galata.

Galata Saray (and Fener) are trying but have way to go. But because of the economic crisis in Greece you may see the Turks moving ahead of us. MU were disgraced by the way and they played like conference league team.

[couris 232]

Completely toothless match by a team that seemed completely out of it.

The only positive I have from this match is Azpili having a great first half and Schurrle doing well with the minutes he was given. Everything else is a big disappointment and while the 1x1 isn't a bad result when you look at the great scheme of things, there's no way we shouldn't have left with a victory by at least three goals. But we never really wanted it, or we never really worked for it. Our inability to complete the final pass and our attackers being completely uninspired was hard to endure.

Which is why I can't be too mad at Mourinho for bringing bloddyMikel - especially to substitute our best attacker... How can you trust a team like this? In all honesty, I just can't and I think he doesn't either. He realized we were a fuckery fest, and decided that 1-1 was better than losing the match. His RM scored 6 on this team last year, so it's not like Mourinho is always conservative and looking for away draws, it's just this Chelsea isn't reliable, end of it. We can play like the top dogs in one match (City for EPL) and then as a second level team in the next. This team lacks consistency and then people think when Mourinho says we aren't ready he's playing mind games. I do hope we win EPL, but if we do, it just shows what a master of a manager we have and how ball-less and inoffensive Arsenal and Liverpool have become - even if EPL is the best league in the world (as I'm heavily implying if we win the title it'll be with a half-decent team, but with a magnificent manager, which proves our point that Mourinho - or someone of his caliber - is what we've missed the most since Carlo left).

City has a new manager just like we do and although they have much better players (in the attack), they also have a busy schedule and not so much depth in some positions, so while they're the favorites, they may suffer from the huge amount of games they're playing (although I suppose they might exit Champions League in the R16).

Now back to us and UCL... in theory a 1x1 away is a very good result, but seeing how unreliable and how bipolar this team is, I'm actually not so sure we'll make through R8. If we show this quality in SB - and let's not fool ourselves, we had some very poor matches at home this season too and scrapped some wins and draws while looking bad - I'm afraid we'll lose. It's not like I bother too much by it, I love UCL, but I'm not obsessed by it... But the danger is because they actually have a decent attack that was completely uninspired today. Gala sucks monkey ball, all of us can testify that after tonight, but they have very decent attackers and if we don't show up again, we'll be trading with our luck - which I don't know if it's that bad. Two less week-games for us could actually help us with the EPL title, and while I don't like to lose and I think we should beat Gala and go into quarters, if we don't it might a blessing in disguise.

What is no blessing is how this team is still very much heartless and powerless from time to time and while that was okay for the first few months, I do wonder if we'll really be that strong comes next season if we don't improve considerably. Our main problem is strikers, and I believe Mourinho gave the directors an ultimatum and we'll get better strikers - or at least one good striker and recalling Lukaku. Matic makes wonders to our midfield (I don't even want to comment on Rami-Lamps tonight), but in matches like today's when Torres was decent and the pivot wasn't good, but didn't compromise , it feels we lack attitude and a winning spirit. I don't know what are the mechanics of changing players into winners, but I hope Mourinho does. He's done it in the past, but we'd never know if he just awoke natural winners, or if he really changed regulars players into winners thirsty blood suckers... I'm yet to figure out what kind of profile of players we have, but some of them don't scream winner attitude for me.

The problem right now is Willian-Oscar-Ramires. 0 offensive output. Stop protecting your brazilians