Closed Chelsea 1-2 Crystal Palace

[Chelsea Buzz 487]

Well, there is not much to say. You saw the match. Played like rubbish for 98% of it.

Though there is a myriad of issues, i.e. the shambles that is our back line, I am probably more confounded by our lack of scoring ability. somewhere along the lines of February/March last year, scoring has become incredibly tough for us. The walk it down and around approach just does not work for us. We are not Arsenal. Heck, it does not work for them a lot either. We make too many passes looking for the perfect set up. Hazard has been slowly disappearing. Costa looks worse than Torres, only with a bad attitude. Not every tackle is a flagrant foul so no need to flop and yell. Need to put out a search committee for Cesc. Not sure where he has gone. Ivanovic gets beaten more than a rented mule.

This has been a slow but sure implosion, again starting last spring. We all saw it. But we kept pulling a rabbit out of a hat and winning late. The pre-season was terrible, which has carried over to the EPL.

Maybe the lack of rotation has finally caught up with everyone. Maybe Jose has worn everyone out with his shtick.

Do we miss Oscar that much? Schurrle?

I am not sure Pogba can make an effective difference with this bunch at the moment.

Worse thing is two weeks to sit around and dwell.

I am with the club regardless and look forward to the eventual turn around.

Up with the Chels!! :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

[Dan1990 0]

We are shocking in the final third and have been for a very long time.

Pass pass pass and then lose the ball and get countered.

Not even overly upset about today, if you were told before the game that we were going to get beat, would you have been overly surprised? I think not.

[Jase 43,479]

I disagree with that statement if you use Remy, it would have been 1 - 5 because he'll be offside for most of the game.

Ridiculous how people still go on with Remy-offside thing and lose faith in a player who contributed some massive goals last season after one bad half. Fucking hell!

[bluephoenix 1,131]

The horror continues I woke up hoping to see a win and bang 1-2. When I see results like these it makes me feel less guilty about not waking up to watch the match.

There we go 100th home match and a defeat for Mourinho. I hate to rub it on the people's face but now do you see why I said we were lucky to win PL last season?

Mourinho: "To be fair, 2-3 of them, individual performances far from good." #CFC

keep blaming the players, the health staff. Good going Mourinho, playing the blame game now. We will get better only when we stop relying on individual performances and start playing cohesively as a team.

Kenedy on for Azpi, was Azpi that bad?

I think this is the worst start to campaign in ages if I am not wrong ?

[iseah100 5,612]

Worst performance in a long time. Need some serious shaking up. Drop Ivanovic, Costa and Cesc. Buy a big player and show these guys there is no automatic starter. Drop Hazardd if you have to idc.

[iseah100 5,612]

Ridiculous how people still go on with Remy-offside thing and lose faith in a player who contributed some massive goals last season after one bad half. Fucking hell!

Should try Falcao Remy tbh. Costa has done fuck all but complain and bitch about not getting fouled

[MichaelDance 552]

Ridiculous how people still go on with Remy-offside thing and lose faith in a player who contributed some massive goals last season after one bad half. Fucking hell!

Haha I know it sounds bad but I would have him in a smaller game and see if he has learnt the off-side rule but without that do you really want to chance it being 2 - 1 down.

[MichaelDance 552]

But he scores goals.... He has been ignored by Mourinho virtually all season. This is why when people talk about Lukaku is a coward for "not fighting for his place" is all bullshit. Remy is complete proof of that. Remy said he wants to stay and fight for his place here. Surely he knew he was going to be in the same predicament or he is just happy to sit on the wages and play back up.

We need to try him in a smaller match to see if he has learnt how to stay on-side you don't want to put him in a match we want to win when we are loosing incase it backfires. and he can only score goals IF he is onside.

[sutro 1,026]

Dropping hazard/iva would be a huge statement

[Leif 6,006]

why don't we ever try nifty alternative tactics like 'get the ball into the box' ???

[chrismada9 1,948]

I'm usually the one telling people to take it easy on here, but I won't lie... Tonight freaking fired me up. lol...

I would be spewing out all sorts just like you, but I'm staying quiet about it. Still fuming, but I'll analyse something at least tonight!

[Polo7 3,496]

Dropping hazard/iva would be a huge statement

And Fabregas. Kenedy, Baba and RLC instead.

[Chelsea Buzz 487]

Cannot believe I am saying this, but as good as Fabregas and Costa were through February last year, I am not sure Lampard and Torres/Eto'o was not equal or better than Fabregas and Costa the past 15 EPL matches. Not saying I want those guys back, just illustrating how bad it has been. I am not sure I have seen a player drop as much as Costa after his first 20 games to the next 20.

We would not have won the title last year without Cesc and Diego, but man, what a drop off since the sizzling start.

Up with the Chels!! :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

[calculatingInfinity 1,472]

Kenedy was a big breath of fresh air when he came on, Loftus-Cheek I thought did not so well, of course he is not to be blamed for anything in the match, but constantly getting caught watching football and not helping the team defending won't do him any good.

The truth is only very few players looked like they really wanted it and was up for it, terrible performance and not good by Mourinho either. Not good at all. Some worse than others of course, Ivan, Matic, Willian and Fabregas being the worst. Terrible.

[Azpinator 2,325]

Losing now is better than losing in November/December, or April/May. I hope this gives the team the time to correct all the mistakes.