Petr Cech

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Courtois makes one save. Forum goes crazy.

Cech dependable as ever. No one cares.

There you go...Cech makes a couple of good saves and everyone goes nuts. Told you it happens.

Anyway, no-one is saying he's shit. In fact he's very good. It's just that we have another keeper who is just as good and 10 years younger.

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Is it me or is he looking a bit iffy on crosses. Seems to come and then stop - did it away to Stoke, away to West Brom and then tonight.

Start clattering the people in the way, get a fist on it or just don't come out.

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Is it me or is he looking a bit iffy on crosses. Seems to come and then stop - did it away to Stoke, away to West Brom and then tonight.

Start clattering the people in the way, get a fist on it or just don't come out.

Think Terry was the biggest factor.

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Think Terry was the biggest factor.

Both at fault IMO. Terry should be doing his job, mark Chedjou and don't give anything away while Cech should be more assertive/commanding in those situations. As TOPTB mentioned above, this was quite similar to the Crouch goal we conceded at Stoke. Utterly poor from both players.

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Terry should be dealing with it, but I think a keeper should command the six yard box. Anything in there should be his to claim. Disappointing goal defensively all round (it was a soft one to concede in the first instance...).

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Who had a better stop today Cech on Telles or Casillas on Draxler? You be the judge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQwl7cMv-64

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Definitely the Cech one. Casillas' was brilliant but there is a huge element of luck, he just threw himself at the ball.

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Terry should be dealing with it, but I think a keeper should command the six yard box. Anything in there should be his to claim. Disappointing goal defensively all round (it was a soft one to concede in the first instance...).

Terry should have stayed with his man but why is Cech getting into this habit of coming off his line, and then stopping in no mans land? He's done it a few times and it's cost us goals. Maybe the pressure of Courtois arriving has got to him, but he's no longer the imperious presence he used to be.

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Terry should have stayed with his man but why is Cech getting into this habit of coming off his line, and then stopping in no mans land? He's done it a few times and it's cost us goals. Maybe the pressure of Courtois arriving has got to him, but he's no longer the imperious presence he used to be.

I don't think it's anything to do with Courtois, personally. It isn't a habit, either, I just think you have to accept that the goals we've conceded from crosses and set pieces have been good deliveries. What he does have to do is make his mind up and then show conviction. If he starts going for the ball, even if he realises he isn't getting it he still has to go for it in an attempt to distract the opponent, as much as anything.

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Cech simply ain't the great that he was for his first few seasons at chelsea, after that head injury at Reading he has never consistently looked like the great keeper he was, he has games where he makes great saves but with his frame that is standard stuff.

decision making is his biggest weakness.

He won't be number 1 keeper next season.

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Both him and JT at fault for the goal. Cech's mistake is that he hesitates because he was unsure if Melo, on the near post would be able to get a flick on the ball. But he needs to be more assertive in that six-yard box.

He did make a really great save afterwards, though.

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His shot stopping ability has never been disputed.

JT shouldn't have been made to look like it was his fault last night cos Cech should have claimed that ball.

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JT is certainly not blameless but he was expecting Cech

to just pluck the ball from 'inside his 6 yard box' not stop half way through commiting himself?

Jose has rightly been bemoaning and criticising our poor inefficiency in front of goal yet we have been making mistakes like this frequently this season and nothing is said? That goal completely changed the complexity of the game, we went from a comfortable win to hanging on, unnecessary pressure caused by our own players. At the moment we are just about getting away with these errors but they are bound to prove costly if we don't improve.

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Def more blame to Cech there imo. If you rely on CBs to clear from 5 yards out then you're asking for own goals.