Closed Tottenham 0-0 Chelsea

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

Another manager dissing Chelsea for playing as a small team. Which is right thing to say really. We're playing like a small team regularly. I nearly forget that Chelsea has 5th highest budget in the world ...

I hate football now. Match was beyond terrible for me. Rigid, turgid, dull, unwatchable. Funny thing that with bit of luck on set piece or if we had more individual quality (Suarez, Neymar) we could have won it. Straight from Mourinho textbook this game. Make this as unwatchable as possible and maybe score some retard goal ala last game against Spurs at Wembley.

It's not how football should be played. Not by big team. I'm very, VERY disappointed. When this nightmare ends ?

[Chelsea4 1,521]

The result was not the best but we played good and the most important think is that we are improving.

[zolayes 14,489]

Well I think Jose was proved right Kenedy did little when he came and RLC did even less he obviously isn't ready

[Jase 43,479]

Poll added.

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

Wow we actually had 1 shot on target. Playing with no striker and no attacking full-backs that's great. We're improving.

But tbh we're hitting the wall in our 'improvement'. Can't you see that we're playing things the same way over and over again for over 2 years ? Rigid football, looking for situation to break ? Even if the situations do come off and we luckily win it isn't how we should play. Always in submission against decent opponent but yeah why should we care that this further enhance opinion about Chelsea ruining football and playing like a small team. We were reaping benefits last season from this but everyone who thinks could see that it can't last longer but yeah we try to play the same but this time we're not scoring those lucky goals.

Why are we pretending we're big club ? Hate football now. See you in a week or so.

[zolayes 14,489]

Poll added.

I didn't see the game so voted for the player with LEAST playing time

[Jokesy 53]

Disgrace! Are we Norwich? We need 3 points every week, but nah, we are happy with 1 point against a team which could be our rivals for a top 6 place, if we want to get there of course, but I don't think we will be even in top 10 if we don't start playing for the maximum points. Can't believe whats happening with our club..........

... And thats all because we have a blind manager. Nothing to be proud of or happy after this game.

You are right brother. We should all be very sad after this game. In fact, it would have been better if we lost another 5 - 3, at least that would be entertaining. How many fans will prefer a draw to a loss against a team that only lost by an own goal this season? No one!!!

I even expect the team to jump from being terrible to fantastic overnight. Who needs clean sheets after conceding 23 goals in 13 games.

Just like you are, I think I'm one of the most realistic fans around here. Or am I not?

[Jase 43,479]

Posted this in the pre-match thread and it turned out to be right again.

Here's something interesting - recent history suggests that we get a better result at Spurs when in bad form (results + performances) rather than good.

[Viper22 2,418]

Good performance, made the most in form team in the league (maybe joint with Leicester) look completely toothless. Wasn't overly happy with 1 point as it doesn't help our league position much but it's a clean sheet, a tough game out of the way, 2 games unbeaten and the performance itself was good.

Hazard was outstanding and it took an absolute worldy save from Lloris to keep him out and he should have scored earlier in the game too. Willian was good once again, Fabregas was good too (really don't know why people are criticizing, that's the best he's played in ages, but I guess jumping on the bandwagon is easy), defence was solid (even Ivan, holy shit!) and Matic is back to his old marauding self. Costa is a child. But we all knew that already, what a horrible attitude to being dropped.

Moaners are going to moan, regardless, and the whining in this thread was as predictable as it was hilarious but for me that was a decent performance and shows we're going in the right direction. There was only 1 team that were going to win that game and it wasn't the team in white. We had 2 glorious chances for Hazard I mentioned before and they were deffo the best chances of the game.

Our next 5 games are Bournemouth (H), Porto (H), Leicester (A), Sunderland (H), Watford (H). Keep your chin up people, hopefully we can get 10 points or so out of our next 4 league games, beat Porto and then everything will be looking quite rosy. We'd qualify top of our CL group and would be in about 7th in the table going in to christmas. Hopefully the players can start bringing the finishing touches to their play.

[zolayes 14,489]

Good performance, made the most in form team in the league (maybe joint with Leicester) look completely toothless. Wasn't overly happy with 1 point as it doesn't help our league position much but it's a clean sheet, a tough game out of the way, 2 games unbeaten and the performance itself was good.

Hazard was outstanding and it took an absolute worldy save from Lloris to keep him out and he should have scored earlier in the game too. Willian was good once again, Fabregas was good too (really don't know why people are criticizing, that's the best he's played in ages, but I guess jumping on the bandwagon is easy), defence was solid (even Ivan, holy shit!) and Matic is back to his old marauding self. Costa is a child. But we all knew that already, what a horrible attitude to being dropped.

Moaners are going to moan, regardless, and the whining in this thread was as predictable as it was hilarious but for me that was a decent performance and shows we're going in the right direction. There was only 1 team that were going to win that game and it wasn't the team in white. We had 2 glorious chances for Hazard I mentioned before and they were deffo the best chances of the game.

4 of our next 5 games are at home, and 3 of those 4 are in the league against Bournemouth, Sunderland and Watford. Keep your chin up people, hopefully we can get 10 points or so out of our next 4 league games, beat Porto and then everything will be looking quite rosy. We'd qualify top of our CL group and would be in about 7th in the table going in to christmas. Hopefully the players can start bringing the finishing touches to their play.

You are so good with your predictions so what about this 7th at Xmas 3rd at Easter ...1st im May when we lift the FA cup and CL trophy

let the moaners moan .. Dreamers can dream .. or FANTASISE

[Fulham Broadway 17,319]

Just got back-agree with Viper above.

Zouma and Cahill solid at the back, and Begovich has been superb all season, very hard to drop, Courtois can reaquaint himself with bench.

Fabregas was stoned or hungover or something, and Costa had better change his attitude or can do one as far as I am concerned.

Another clean sheet, and spuds fans are utter cunts

[Muzchap 8,966]

You are so good with your predictions so what about this 7th at Xmas 3rd at Easter ...1st im May when we lift the FA cup and CL trophy

let the moaners moan .. Dreamers can dream .. or FANTASISE

Lol little harsh

The reality is we were shite.

Both their full backs had yellow cards in the first half and their other CB picked up one in the second half. Instead of running at them and trying to draw a foul ( which would have happened ) we just pumped long aimless balls forward to Hazard, who to be fair should be applauded for winning quite a few headers. However, it was a tactically 'naive' situation.

We should have had them under much more pressure

I guess those praising the clean sheet have a point, it is an improvement - but for me it's not, goals win games and again today (apart from one amazing save) we rarely looked like scoring from open play - this was exactly the same as post Jan last season, compact and not conceding but ultimately shit going forward

I don't get the harshness on Cesc, he did OK today - for me MOTM was Begovic - some great saves to deny Spuds.

I think it's all been said before - but our attacking play needs work - we just cannot even do the basics properly, always looking for the 'safe' ball instead of trying to penetrate... This is down to attacking shape and movement - something we lack.

It seems we can either defend as a team and not score, or try to attack and not score, but lose. It's a head scratcher, that must originate from the training pitch.

As for Costa - don't mind him being pissed off TBH - he could easily have come on instead of Kenedy or RLC and we could have tried to win the match, but we didn't and he got pissed off. To me that's fair - a player thst wants to win vs a manager that's scared to lose (despite becoming a specialist of late)...

[Viper22 2,418]

You are so good with your predictions so what about this 7th at Xmas 3rd at Easter ...1st im May when we lift the FA cup and CL trophy

let the moaners moan .. Dreamers can dream .. or FANTASISE

Stop replying to me. I have you on ignore because you're impossible to talk to or debate with and just resort to childish insults, I would rather spend my time talking to people who don't deliberately wind people up and try to derail discussions.

[Jase 43,479]

Swansea lost at Liverpool and that means we have now moved up to 14th. Progress.

[zolayes 14,489]

Stop replying to me. I have you on ignore because you're impossible to talk to or debate with and just resort to childish insults, I would rather spend my time talking to people who don't deliberately wind people up and try to derail discussions.

so you won't see this but . I don't try derail discussions but I do try to point out unrealistic expectations in a humourous way

[kmk108 1,186]

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Absolutely no idea what people are moaning about with that 1 shot target stat as it reflects very little of the reality of the game. In terms of actual chances, we created more than Spurs in both halves.

Regarding the result, I thought we were better in the first half but they were better in the second and we seemed more concerned about the draw instead of actually going for the win, so shared points is probably the fair result in the end.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Chelsea have been ruining most of my weekends in 2015

[zolayes 14,489]

Chelsea have been ruining most of my weekends in 2015

don't worry we will be playing mid week for the next few months .. They can fuck your whole week up

[y10edn 185]

Was at the game sitting among Spurs fans:

A very windy day made it difficult for the players, attitude and commitment was very good, I can't remember any difficult situation for Zuma, none of the boys played poorly including the goalkeeper. The first half was the best have seen us play in a long time and I have not missed any Home game this season.

Spurs showed us too much respect in the 1st half though, the general whisper among Spurs fans before the game was a 2-0 victory for them and they were very happy with the result at the end of the game, the number of Yellow cards they got in the 1st 50mins is a reflection of our good play. we could have done better with Costa or Remy cos all the knock down from Hazard had no one to follow up.

Diego Costa's warm up was a disgrace, didn't kit up like someone ready to play and JM decision to bench him I hope spurs him up in the coming games.

Our away fans were at their very best.

On the whole a decent result against a good side, Dembele their most outstanding player.