ZOS 580 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 How is it possible people could get this all wrong? It is very clear, to be frank. Man. City clearly out muscled us in the midfield and their own half (Fernandinho, Yaya, Kompany, Mangala, Milner, Zabaleta ... hello ) and the referee allowed their reckless tackles and tactical fouls. We hand no choice what's so ever but to drop deep. Besides, as Jose put it, they were getting emotional and with the crowd behind them they had momentum. I'm just glad no one was injured. MichaelDance, Viper22 and kellzfresh 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellzfresh 7,229 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 How is it possible people could get this all wrong? It is very clear, to be frank. Man. City clearly out muscled us in the midfield and their own half (Fernandinho, Yaya, Kompany, Mangala, Milner, Zabaleta ... hello ) and the referee allowed their reckless tackles and tactical fouls. We hand no choice what's so ever but to drop deep. Besides, as Jose put it, they were getting emotional and with the crowd behind them they had momentum. I'm just glad no one was injured.Their defenders are so fast, they easily caught up with hazard and Willian everytime, even on one on one situations with them. they also fouled us constantly like you said but that's football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara 15,149 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 We still have five points ahead of them, Pellegrino is already pilling up the excuses for not being able to retain the title. They have to play in our turf. I think all in all, this early in the season, we're doing well. darrus, Viper22, Bluelsthecolour and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper22 2,418 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 We still have five points ahead of them, Pellegrino is already pilling up the excuses for not being able to retain the title. They have to play in our turf. I think all in all, this early in the season, we're doing well.This kind of logic has no place here! People are too busy attacking Lampard and Mou for logic. didierforever, kellzfresh and Barbara 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper22 2,418 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 What were people saying about his tactics? [emoji12]Key thing about that for me is the goals scored and conceded. We've averaged nearly 2 goals a game and concede under 1/2 a goal a game. So average over 2 results is 2-0 and 2-1. In what way is that negative? As a side note, LOVE how United aren't regarded as good enough to make the list of beatings any more xD TheOneChan95, iseah100, darrus and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bir_CFC 3,455 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Key thing about that for me is the goals scored and conceded. We've averaged nearly 2 goals a game and concede under 1/2 a goal a game. So average over 2 results is 2-0 and 2-1. In what way is that negative? As a side note, LOVE how United aren't regarded as good enough to make the list of beatings any more xDThat's a bit misleading considering 6 of those were against Arsenal. DYC. and The Skipper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 We still have five points ahead of them, Pellegrino is already pilling up the excuses for not being able to retain the title. They have to play in our turf. I think all in all, this early in the season, we're doing well.so? whats your point?we were 5 points ahead of them so who cares??. we should have attacked them!!! and even if we were 2-0 up by HT against the champions at their own turf, (with a 5 point lead going into the game), we should stil have attacked them irrespective of everything. if nothing had worked, we should have got pitchforks and knives and then ATTACKED them. i mean we should just ATTACK!!! Bluelsthecolour and Barbara 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseah100 5,612 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 so? whats your point?we were 5 points ahead of them so who cares??. we should have attacked them!!! and even if we were 2-0 up by HT against the champions at their own turf, (with a 5 point lead going into the game), we should stil have attacked them irrespective of everything. if nothing had worked, we should have got pitchforks and knives and then ATTACKED them. i mean we should just ATTACK!!!So...would you have preferred we attack, or nah? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 So...would you have preferred we attack, or nah?ATTACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!next game i would love it if we ATTACK with the 300 "ahoo ahoo ahoo"!!!!!!! iseah100 and Barbara 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
termninja 5,290 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 How is it possible people could get this all wrong? It is very clear, to be frank. Man. City clearly out muscled us in the midfield and their own half (Fernandinho, Yaya, Kompany, Mangala, Milner, Zabaleta ... hello ) and the referee allowed their reckless tackles and tactical fouls. We hand no choice what's so ever but to drop deep. Besides, as Jose put it, they were getting emotional and with the crowd behind them they had momentum. I'm just glad no one was injured.I agree. It was a bloody slaughterhouse on our players! Couldn't believe some tackles ref didn't give as fouls... iseah100 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballackstothat 43 Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 Real last year on their way to the CL final had 28% possession at home against Bayern Munich, and won 1-0. They had 31% in the away draw against them, and won 4-0. So they were defensive when they needed to be. I was one that criticized the performance, but only after they went down to 10 men. Although, those saying that prior to the sending off that it was like last seasons draw against Man City are wrong too. We needed more going forward even with 11 vs 11. We only had 5 or 6 shots all game. Last year in both games we were in double digits, and I believe in one game, it was even 18 shots on goal. what fucking draw against man city last year we beat them home and away, some people on here,claim to experts and don't even know our own results.billybullshitter alert! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea? 892 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I don't think we can be successful in the CL playing this defensive. I think the strength in this team is attacking. I can see us going for 0-0 draws away and and trying to win it at home. But mourinho has won it twice with lesser sqauds so Idk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 2,717 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 what fucking draw against man city last year we beat them home and away, some people on here,claim to experts and don't even know our own results.billybullshitter alert!Draw, as in fixture, or game played... I won't bother replying to you anymore with the way you type and respond. Enjoy your time here. Chelsea? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlues 4,050 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Sorted our defence, and we can beat anyone. Our defence will getting better along the time. Chelsea? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballackstothat 43 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Draw, as in fixture, or game played... I won't bother replying to you anymore with the way you type and respond. Enjoy your time here. yeah right. try watching some matches instead of slagging the team off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker10 946 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 'Park The Bus' is such an abusive and overused term these days, till the point people can't even differentiate that and the approach of 'defend and counter'/'counter'.The way we played against City was clear cut parking the bus. You don't agree?Watch Alti vs Barca games from last season, great example of great defending and countering. It was impressive how they disrubted Barca passing. Barca couldn't string any meaningful passes in the final third, due to Alti aggressive pressing and good organization.Here is the Full Match if intrested.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLjZkUvSjaw Cosmin and DYC. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 The way we played against City was clear cut parking the bus. You don't agree?Watch Alti vs Barca games from last season, great example of great defending and countering. It was impressive how they disrubted Barca passing. Barca couldn't string any meaningful passes in the final third, due to Alti aggressive pressing and good organization.I don't think we parked the bus against City at all. We tried to defend and play on the counter, like we always do in these big away matches but the problem was, whenever we did get forward, we had players misplacing easy passes and making wrong decisions. As a result of that, City kept coming back at us and made us looked as if we were just putting 10 men behind the ball. What we did last Sunday was not much of a difference to our performance in the corresponding fixture last season. On both occasions, we usually only had like 5 players getting forward break and we had more success then because of the large amount of space available to be exploited in that City setup.A clear example of park of the bus would be what West Ham did to us last season at the Bridge; put 10 or 11 men behind the ball with no intention whatsoever of getting a goal or just to attack. Or in another case, Mourinho's Inter versus Barcelona at the Nou Camp in the 2009/10 UCL semi-final second leg. Yes, they were down to 10 men then but had no intention of going forward and were concentrating remaining tight and compact defensively, covering every single space, gap to make sure the opponent doesn't have a chance to exploit it. Barbara, stroey, kellzfresh and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellzfresh 7,229 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I don't think we parked the bus against City at all. We tried to defend and play on the counter, like we always do in these big away matches but the problem was, whenever we did get forward, we had players misplacing easy passes and making wrong decisions. As a result of that, City kept coming back at us and made us looked as if we were just putting 10 men behind the ball. What we did last Sunday was not much of a difference to our performance in the corresponding fixture last season. On both occasions, we usually only had like 5 players getting forward break and we had more success then because of the large amount of space available to be exploited in that City setup.A clear example of park of the bus would be what West Ham did to us last season at the Bridge; put 10 or 11 men behind the ball with no intention whatsoever of getting a goal or just to attack. Or in another case, Mourinho's Inter versus Barcelona at the Nou Camp in the 2009/10 UCL semi-final second leg. Yes, they were down to 10 men then but had no intention of going forward and were concentrating remaining tight and compact defensively, covering every single space, gap to make sure the opponent doesn't have a chance to exploit it.People on this forum think that when a team good in possession attack, we should defend with only 5 players so that it doesn't look like we park the bus. The main two differences between that match and last season was 1. our attackers were so poor in passing (willian) so we couldn't build. Mourinho isn't going to teach willian/ramires how to lay simple 5yard passes. 2. mike dean allowed mancity to foul us on the counter without punishing them. Silva, fernadinho, yayatoure, Kompany could have all had two yellow cards if another referee was there. Any foul that stops a clear counter should be a yellow, Willian that was fouled 7times suffered this and was sent off for 2 fouls committed against astonvilla last season Cholo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker10 946 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 I don't think we parked the bus against City at all. We tried to defend and play on the counter, like we always do in these big away matches but the problem was, whenever we did get forward, we had players misplacing easy passes and making wrong decisions. As a result of that, City kept coming back at us and made us looked as if we were just putting 10 men behind the ball. What we did last Sunday was not much of a difference to our performance in the corresponding fixture last season. On both occasions, we usually only had like 5 players getting forward break and we had more success then because of the large amount of space available to be exploited in that City setup.A clear example of park of the bus would be what West Ham did to us last season at the Bridge; put 10 or 11 men behind the ball with no intention whatsoever of getting a goal or just to attack. Or in another case, Mourinho's Inter versus Barcelona at the Nou Camp in the 2009/10 UCL semi-final second leg. Yes, they were down to 10 men then but had no intention of going forward and were concentrating remaining tight and compact defensively, covering every single space, gap to make sure the opponent doesn't have a chance to exploit it.It definitely looked like that against City to me. We had 0 shots on goal in the first half, it definitely looked like we were going for a 0-0 draw. We had 10-11 men behind the ball and showed no urgency to win back the ball. DYC., The Skipper and Cosmin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrExcalibur100 7,124 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 We parked the bus, plane, submarine whatever you want to call it. Quite frankly, the way we played was embarrassing, like Pellegrini said, it was like Stoke. They even showed more ambition than us when they won at the Etihad. I wouldn't admit it on a "public" forum, only on a Chelsea one. The quality of our play or lack thereof was a joke and it was difficult/painful to watch. If I wasn't a Chelsea fan, I'll have been laughing at the team in royal blue on Sunday. Chelsea? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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