Closed Chelsea 1-1 Man City

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

No complains from me. Obviously I wasn't expecting that performance, but I understood it as soon as I saw our bench and our players on the pitch. So tired.

People can cry all they want, moan all the want, spoil themselves however they want, curse Lampard about how a traitor he's been (I literally give zero fucks about that matter atm), but if you have been following the very difficult last 2 weeks this team had to get through then shame on you, you have no right to badmouth Jose or the players this time. If you haven't then it's ok.

But there are positives as always:

Willian, Zouma, Remy, Ramires brilliant all of them. MOTM it's Willian for me.

Jose "unhyped" the match so much by denying the press conference and by our style of play that not even City had a lot of chances on target. There is literally so little to be commented by the media. The match of the season turned out boring as hell. They have zero spicy stories to tell or write about (except Lampard possibly). So fuck them all once again, let them have their miserable boring party thrown along with the old granny named Pellegrino all alone and stick it up their asses. Chelsea is not participating this time.

Agree with every words dude

[cosmicway 1,333]

My mind is on the three Spanish teams and Bayern.

[Mustafa 885]

That's "counter-attacking" football for you. Surrender the possession to the opposition intentionally and then try and win it back and break quickly as possible.

Yeah... something like that.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

120 mins hard fought against Livershit on Tuesday night, Costa suspended, Cesc and Luis injured, Schurrle and Salah not available due to transfers, under this circumstance we got a draw and keep the 5pts gap between our main title rival Shitty, yet some of you guys call this match a shameful. Get a fucking grip, so I guess you all prefer a splendid lose then.

This.

We lost our two best attacking players. We had no subs except drogba to inject attacking energy. We were clearly tired in the 2nd half like Matic said, they're not robots.

[dUMB 189]

Zouma and Willian MOTM

[Zakadinho 84]

[Pseudo 92]

If City had scored first we would have been in trouble. I'll take a point.

[Pizy 18,916]

Beginning to hate that smug, loud mouth Pellegrino more than I do Wenger.

Can't keep his mouth shut about us.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Yeah, the real blow was Fabregas and not Costa. That ruined the set-up that has been quite successful against City with Ramires - Willian - Hazard behind the striker.

Shame we couldn't get Cuadrado in time for this one.

Yeah exactly. The lack of possession by Hazard was also reflected by Cesc's absence. Such games really highlight his importance, I think he would've done really well too because Yaya was missing and in the reverse fixture Toure made Fabregas mute.

[Nero 1,874]

cesc, i miss you ; (

[samzilla 517]

Beginning to hate that smug, loud mouth Pellegrino more than I do Wenger.

Can't keep his mouth shut about us.

what did he say after the match?

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Let's not deceive ourselves. Fabregas would just have been another defender in that 2nd half. He'll have done absolutely nothing.

[xPetrCechx 13,571]

[Pizy 18,916]

what did he say after the match?

Same as he says every time they play us.

Only one team tried to win, they had 9 men in the box, blah blah blah

[Topico 165]

Who was Barclays MoTM?

[petr.breu 1,618]

City fans: "Champions of England. We know what we are"

Chelsea fans: "Champions of Europe. You'll never sing that"

[Sheva. 5,373]

Let's not deceive ourselves. Fabregas would just have been another defender in that 2nd half. He'll have done absolutely nothing.

Wrong. Fabregas can pick a pass even in the worst of games.

Instead we had Oscar (who's passing wasn't that bad tbf, but not Cesc level) and Ramires who constantly fails at decisive passes.

[Pseudo 92]

Our main problem wasn't the lack of Cesc, it was Oscar not having a creative bone in his body. He wouldn't start for any top team in Europe but for some reason he does for us.

[edetarod 2,155]

we're not scoring enough goals

1 goal against liverpool

1 goal against city

not good enough

[Barbara 15,149]

First of all, people have to decide. Either Fabregas completely disappears on big games or we deeply missed him today. You can't say a week ago that he's a big game bottler only to come here a week later and say he was what we missed.

People complaining about the tactics and the performance... well, I was waiting to put tons of you on ignore list because I'm tired of your negativeness, constant moaning and what not, so today was the fitting chance I've been waiting for.

We played 210 minutes of football in a week... players such as Oscar and Hazard were really tired. Ramires made a few mistakes that not even him usually do because he's still finding his best form. Matic is really tired and he's been sloppy compared to his standards. Terry had a complete nightmare, hand in hand with Ivanovic (despite the cross to Hazard assist the goal). Even Courtois made a mistake that cost us.

Under those circumstances and with a bench filled of youth players, I support the tactics, I understand why the players didn't play better and I'm more than happy with the draw. Without Fabregas, Ramires not totally recovered and Oscar and Hazard battered, there's no way we were going to dominate midfield, to play smooth attacking football against City.

If there are fans that should moan right now is City's... they had a week of rest, they have all their best players but one available for the match and they barely threatened us. Yes, they were the best team in the pitch, but their attack produced basically nothing. If Azpilicueta didn't make Navas look like a world class player, they would have had even less. Ivanovic tried to gift them two goals early in the first half and still they didn't score. They had the advantage, the need, the players. The only thing against them was the away factor. They even had Mark the Cunt to give them throw ins when the ball didn't even crossed the line...

Pellegrini is the one that seemed to have no tactical plan whatsoever. Based on how bad we played - and I understand given the circumstances - City (not us) should have played much better. We played home, yes, that's true, we didn't have two of our three most important players, the third, who did play, was really tired (and still found some energy to produce a few things and came up with a class assist), our captain had a nightmare, Iva was the liability he normally is and Oscar was also very tired. Had Mourinho played Cahill this could have been another completely different story because I'll tell what, Zouma completely closed the door in the defense - especially when Terry wasn't on his best days. Few are praising Mourinho for playing Zouma... but they don't waste any time saying Mourinho doesn't promote young players.

Yep, ignore list is a blessing.