Closed Newcastle 2-1 Chelsea

[LukakutoStamford 779]

Team played too slow and the chemistry on the field was poor.

This team hasn't figured how to beat teams that park the bus.

Chelsea is at its best when they get early attacks and don't allow the defense time to set up.

The team needs to refocus on 1-2 triangles and getting their timing down.

Too many players are playing way too many games in a row. This was 5 games in 13 days it's too much to ask players to play full ninety in each of those games and not be tired.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

Yes it sucks to lose but it had to happen sooner or later. Staying undefeated in this league is just impossible. Yes,Arsenal have done it before but the league is more competitive now than it used to be.

St. James Park will be a difficult task for every club out there. No shame in losing to them considering our performance wasn't poor.

[dmode 113]

That referee in the City game is paid off. Terrible decisions all favoring City

[Madmax 9,219]

world-class striker (who wanted to score goals not pick a fight with CBs).

Amazing (not) how this is only thrown about when he doesn't score. Not after Everton (Coleman), not after Liverpool (Skrtel); only after Sunderland and Newcastle.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Amazing (not) how this is only thrown about when he doesn't score. Not after Everton (Coleman), not after Liverpool (Skrtel); only after Sunderland and Newcastle.

No, I criticized him for that after Everton and Liverpool, even though neither were as bad as the ones against O'Shea and Brown and both Coleman and Skrtel were clearly and physically provoking him for a long time before he responded.

And you're having a laugh if you're suggesting that Costa gets over-criticized. He had a performance worthy of Fernando Torres today and now is saying a word about it (rightly so because this was his first real bad performance for us).

[Hutcho 8,443]

Matic is obviously better. But i was reasonably impressed by mikel today. Had some decent long ball delivery towards the end and was good in possession. He should have done better from his header but we all know scoring isn't really his thing and other than Didier (who looked like it was 2005 out there when he came on), he was one of our best players.

[Blue Armour 4,168]

Same story time and time again. Any side that can sit deep and stay well organized can completely nullify every threat we have. We play right into their hands, too. Slow and painfully predictable in the final third.

Not a knee jerk here, but I'm seriously concerned with how certain players look. Cahill in particular.

We've let other sides right back into the title race.

I think it is starting to become a pattern..when we had that period in the first half, when we were swamping them and yet, not taking our chances...it instantly reminded me about the Sunderland game.

The opposition doesn't do any *** in the first half, and they come out in the 2nd half and sucker-punch us.

But man, was the defending lacklustre today. Cahill and Ivanovic need a hard look at themselves after those two goals.

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

So Only 3 Points.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Fucking shitty day

[cosmicway 1,261]

1-0 thanks to give away penalty.

If that's a championship team then I 'm the king of Samoa.

[Madmax 9,219]

No, I criticized him for that after Everton and Liverpool, even though neither were as bad as the ones against O'Shea and Brown and both Coleman and Skrtel were clearly and physically provoking him for a long time before he responded.

And you're having a laugh if you're suggesting that Costa gets over-criticized. He had a performance worthy of Fernando Torres today and now is saying a word about it (rightly so because this was his first real bad performance for us).

Except it was O'Shea who kicked him not once but twice before he paid back in kind and the elbow was nothing if not completely incidental to the need to jump in order to head a ball. Two occasions for which anyone not named Diego Costa would not get any grief. He thrives on confrontation; he becomes half the striker he is without it. You personally may not like this facet of his game but trying to pin his bad performance on it is not criticism.

[zolayes 14,489]

1-0 thanks to give away penalty.

If that's a championship team then I 'm the king of Samoa.

time to KTF City werent impressive ,, should have been down to 10 men and seems their Saviour is injured .

[Jase 43,479]

Yeah...just 3 points clear at the top now. From 8 down to 3 in one week. Unbelievable.

Notice the four league games we dropped points in have come in Manchester and the north-east.

[zolayes 14,489]

Yeah...just 3 points clear at the top now. From 8 down to 3 in one week. Unbelievable.

Notice the four league games we dropped points in have come in Manchester and the north-east.

lucky Boro and Hartlepool are in the Premier ,,, Pray we dont Blyth Spartans in Cup 3rd round

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Except it was O'Shea who kicked him not once but twice before he paid back in kind and the elbow was nothing if not completely incidental to the need to jump in order to head a ball. Two occasions for which anyone not named Diego Costa would not get any grief. He thrives on confrontation; he becomes half the striker he is without it. You personally may not like this facet of his game but trying to pin his bad performance on it is not criticism.

So O'Shea kicking him makes it okay for him to kick him back? That was stupid.

And the elbow was most definitely and obviously intentional. No one in the world lifts and spins his arms AFTER he had jumped.

I don't like it at all. And when he had already won the header and had a chance for a dangerous attack but decides to elbow the defender anyway, then yes, I will say that he was more interested in fighting than in scoring. In fact, he was even more interesting fighting than playing an important match against Tottenham.

[Tomo 21,684]

No, I criticized him for that after Everton and Liverpool, even though neither were as bad as the ones against O'Shea and Brown and both Coleman and Skrtel were clearly and physically provoking him for a long time before he responded.

And you're having a laugh if you're suggesting that Costa gets over-criticized. He had a performance worthy of Fernando Torres today and now is saying a word about it (rightly so because this was his first real bad performance for us).

Nah, if it was Torres the usual suspects would have been like "we'll he worked hard".

In all seriousness tho, Torres is in a league of his own, Costa was average but that was it average, nothing close to the act as a defender for the opposition sketch that Torres treated us too for three and a half years.

[Billy. 2,739]

we was dire today, Newcastle may have got the breaks put they took there chances.

lets just blame mikel lol

[The Mak 4,459]

Clearly there's still a lot Costa can learn from King Didier. No matter how hard the ball was put up to him today it stuck to him like glue, whereas Costa can sometimes look not in control of those types of situations. Drogba first touch is still world class.