Closed PSG 1-1 Chelsea

[Weckerz 3,781]

Dude the REF was fine!!! He's done us a good turn tonight

Verratti should have seen a straight red for the 2 footed lunge in the air on Hazard, apart from that he was alright

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Just a reminder for those moaning about negative tactics - the attacking minded team that mighty Bayern Munchen is has only had one shot on goal playing against Shakhtar on a neutral venue.

I'll take this. Rather win trophies this way than bottle things at the end a la Liverpool.

Courtois MOTM.

[Laylabelle 9,359]

Just lucky for some of their finishing and Courtois saves otherwise could've easily lost by a fair few

[Barbara 15,149]

We had this game COMPLETELY under control, until our defense once again just succumbed. I know his classy flick has played a big part on our goal, but Cahill is a liability. With him in defense we'll never look confident or comfortable. His flick in the attack was luck. Iva is also a liability (although he improved as the match went on - there was clear some manager instruction for him to be in the box instead of closing down wingers and LBs in the wings, so I can't blame him for this positioning, rather Mourinho), but he ALWAYS scores important goals. It wasn't luck, he's always in those positions.

I hope to see Zouma at the Bridge. It was sort of expected that Cahill would start this one, but Mourinho needs to let it go completely and start Zouma away and home, league and Europe, it doesn't matter. Or he buys a replacement that he trusts to do it, Cahill shouldn't ever start a Chelsea match again.

Cesc was terrible, Willian and Hazard were hiding in the pitch. Our attack was disappointing, pathetic and invisible - with Costa also having a bad match. I understand that was the approach Mourinho went with, but it was still terrible. We didn't play bad, we just didn't seem to want to do something with the match, which is disappointing because PSG wasn't any better than I expected them to be. They were beatable, we leveled things up with our tactics and our players being invisible. I trust us to win at the Bridge, but what I don't trust at all is us not conceding.

[communicate 2,703]

Terrible 2nd half. I can't stress how poor the 2nd half was.

And our best defenders in the world didn't win one ball in the air against Ibra.

They attacked through cahill/ivanovic side all through and we couldn't stop them yet again. When zouma played we forgot that weakness.

Terrible passing and pressing throughout.

Completely agree. They keep attacking g our right side and we just cannot keep up with cavani and Ibra

[The Chels 2,502]

A few thoughts:

• We are incapable of holding a 1-0 lead in the big away games so conceding was inevitable
• PSG easily nullified our outball to Ivanovic
• Costa was clearly very rusty and offered little
• Our counter attacking (or any attacking really) was non-existent
• You cannot play through the middle against big sides (I don't know why we even try) so we need to make better use of width - Luis could have been very useful
• We were more compact in the midfield than usual which was good to see but looked very vulnerable from wide positions and set-pieces
• I don't understand why our widemen defend 1v1 and the FB drops into the box. Surely it would be better to double up and prevent the cross coming in because otherwise you're bound to concede chances (their equaliser was an example of this)
• Great display from Courtois but he should never have to be that involved or make so many saves. When your GK is the MOTM it means you've fucked up defensively
• Overall very good result but a poor performance

[FabHazard 655]

with ramires sitting deep ..you cannot control the tempo ..fabregas must be the partner of matic..we are lucky enough to get a draw...our negative approach is not stopping the chances being created by the opposition...our counterattacking play is non existent and transition of the ball is very poor

[Madmax 9,219]

I just don't enjoy knockout Champions League nights anymore. We play awful at both ends of the pitch, rely almost entirely on lucky breaks/set pieces as soon as we come up against anyone half decent and go out anyway.

[Laugh1ngMan 393]

Ivanovic in no-mans land for their goal, is not participating in trying to stop the cross and is not covering the first post hence why Cahill gets drawn out there and the space he leaves for Cavani to run into.

But then again without Iva we wouldn't have scored and 1-1 is better than 0-0

[Laylabelle 9,359]

Just hope for the return we dont play like that and they remember how to finish.Still amazed we didnt loose and cant afford to next round.Need to score first and not concede as we have most games after taking the lead

[Muzchap 8,966]

Just a reminder for those moaning about negative tactics - the attacking minded team that mighty Bayern Munchen is has only had one shot on goal playing against Shakhtar on a neutral venue.

I'll take this. Rather win trophies this way than bottle things at the end a la Liverpool.

Courtois MOTM.

Yeah but the CL win nearly killed me - I still suffer from high blood pressure

For once - I'd love to have an easy night

[iseah100 5,612]

If we had been asked before the game we would all have taken 1-1. It wasn't an amazing performance, but it's good enough, especially going back to the Bridge. Tibo MOTM. Relax people.

[MichaelDance 552]

Hazard man of the match for me but Courtois was amazing in goal and Ivanovic was good with his goal as-well but yeah Hazard for me.

Let's move on and at The bridge we will thrash them

[edetarod 2,155]

we can't seem to score more than 1 goal to save our lives

[Steve 10,227]

Below average performance but went there and got a result which is the positive in this situation. Could be worse like the first leg the last time we played them. Well done Thibaut!

[Weckerz 3,781]

Cesc was terrible, Willian and Hazard were hiding in the pitch. Our attack was disappointing, pathetic and invisible - with Costa also having a bad match. I understand that was the approach Mourinho went with, but it was still terrible. We didn't play bad, we just didn't seem to want to do something with the match, which is disappointing because PSG wasn't any better than I expected them to be. They were beatable, we leveled things up with our tactics and our players being invisible. I trust us to win at the Bridge, but what I don't trust at all is us not conceding.

Mourinho's fault tbh. Cesc is no nr10, Willian and Hazard were wing backs today. Nothing pretty was ever gonna come from our tactics today I'm afraid

[obiwan92 217]

Would love to see Cesc partner Matic, Willian mid attack, and Cuad on the flank for the big games.

[dmode 113]

If we had been asked before the game we would all have taken 1-1. It wasn't an amazing performance, but it's good enough, especially going back to the Bridge. Tibo MOTM. Relax people.

Yeah, we will take the score but we were extremely lucky to get 1:1. They missed quite a few sitters