Closed Southampton 1-1 Chelsea

[Liquidator 5,176]

You don't know what you're talking about. Top clubs don't lump aimless crosses into the box. That is not how top managers set their teams to play. The fullbacks are the ones who provide the width and the crosses into the box. Your "opinion" is trash and ill-timed so you're getting called out.

Thanks. I'll bare that in mind next time I try to make my opinion on a forum. Maybe we should all agree with you and the forum will be a really fun place to be. At what point did I say the crosses should be aimless? Exactly. I didn't. My ''opinion'' clearly isn't valid because you don't deem it so. OK, thanks. Maybe I should just agree with you. I'm going to assume you think Hazard can do no wrong and is already a complete player.

[MichaelDance 552]

Yes we lost a 9 point lead but you can't win EVERY game! There are going to be defeats and draws. City had a poor start to their season but have put a run together, did anyone really think we would run away with the league?

We are lucky it's only City breathing down our necks, everyone else has been awful this season.

P-19

W-14

D-4

L-1

F-41

A-14

Very true mate, very true, I think we might be dropping a few but when City have harder teams we will get our gap back.

[JDY 1,290]

@skipper. TBH we were like Arsenal today. All foreplay no penetration. For all the posession we dominated in the 2nd half, I can't remember Forster making any decent save. That's the type of thing we mock Arsenal about in our fictures with them over the years. It shouldn't be something to celebrate. usually when teams like City drop points, the opposition goalkeeper wins man of the match. That wasn't the case today.

I thought the difference between that and Arsenal is that we had a lot of penetration down the sides of the box and it took a lot of last ditch defending & luck of the bounce to deny us. With Arsenal they just pass it around, lose it, then get countered, concede, and lose 3-0.

[Beepu 1,714]

Also, why is everyone acting like City will forever be in good form? Wow. This place is just awful sometimes.

Very true. City looking better now since they've a run of easier games this month compared to us, but they still have a lot of tough away games coming up while most of our tougher away games have passed. They will also drop points for sure.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

[Laylabelle 9,535]

No good relying on city if we can't get the points.home we seem fine away bit off.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

You have to commend Manchester City for how quickly they've made up ground on us despite their injuries. No recognized striker yet they're still scoring for fun.

[Liquidator 5,176]

''Unbeatable City''

[JDY 1,290]

Plz hold on Burnley!

[didierforever 7,349]

BURNLEY JUST EQUALISED!!!!!!

[lionsden 4,689]

It's not like we didn't attempted the shots though. Southampton just made a lot of last ditch tackles that prevented the final shot from being taken. I honestly have no complaints simply because we tried hard today and just came up against a very well drilled side. It happens.

But we knew this before kickoff and doesn't it bother you that we often seem to drop point against this "well drilled side" while teams like City usually obliterate such teams. Title winners always find ways to get past these "well drilled teams" and we are not showing the credentials atm.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

City will still win. They have bottle and Burnley are a terrible team.

[Shakez 755]

City will still win. They have bottle and Burnley are a terrible team.

Have some faith man :s

[Liquidator 5,176]

Lampard to score the winner and Term X to shut down TalkChelsea

[The Skipper 20,609]

But we knew this before kickoff and doesn't it bother you that we often seem to drop point against this "well drilled side" while teams like City usually obliterate such teams. Title winners always find ways to get past these "well drilled teams" and we are not showing the credentials atm.

What about our performance against West Ham then? Sam Allardyce is an excellent manager that really knows how to drill his side. We've done it enough times this season.

[sutro 1,026]

comoooooooon burnley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chelsea4LifeBaby 20]

Come on Burnley

[BlueLion. 21,491]

BURNLEY DON'T DO THIS TO ME

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Thanks. I'll bare that in mind next time I try to make my opinion on a forum. Maybe we should all agree with you and the forum will be a really fun place to be. At what point did I say the crosses should be aimless? Exactly. I didn't. My ''opinion'' clearly isn't valid because you don't deem it so. OK, thanks. Maybe I should just agree with you. I'm going to assume you think Hazard can do no wrong and is already a complete player.

This has nothing to do with "Hazard can do no wrong". Your problem is your arrogance, thinking your blatantly wrong opinion cannot be scrutinized on a public forum. I'll spell it out to you.

(1) Hazard was the player who put in the most telling ground crosses into the box today. I can count at least 4-5 separate occasions he did that, including one in the last few minutes of regulation time were he beat a defender from the right and crossed it into to Drogba for a tap in but he didn't react quickly enough.

(2) The players who provide the inswinging/outswinging crosses at top European clubs generally are the fullbacks. This is how we play as well with those type of crosses coming from Luis and Ivanovic. Most top wingers play ground passes and not inswingers like traditional old school ones used to do. The situation today also didn't call for it with so few players in their box. Notice how those crosses were easily dealt with.

(3) Criticizing a player that obviously doesn't deserve to be criticized on the back of his performance and thinking nobody will call you out on it, then responding sarcastically with the "complete player" red herring. Maybe you have a problem with the player in question. Who knows, but expect to get called out by myself or someone else.

That's why your opinion is a strange one that is so far away from reality and that's why it gets called out.

[didierforever 7,349]

the tone of this forum will be decided in these 3 minutes!!!