coolhead23 1,147 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Just for a min when we hit the goal I thought we might just get into top 7 for sure by the end of the season. And then we did what we have done till now ... Concede ... I have no clue but why doesnt Begovic get a few games in between ... For me Courtois has not upped his game since coming back from Madrid, he was steady first 2 season but this season he is making too many mistakes. At this level, he is expected to save everything that is thrown his way not just make a couple of world class saves and then balance it with basis blunders. I believe Courtois is taken his place for granted now ... we let go Cech because we wanted him (long term plans) and as soon as he returned from injury he has been playing each and every game (guess there was only one start for Begovic). We looked jaded at times, maybe it has been too many games on the trot ... had we even these kind of performance right from start atleast would had been better off than our current position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, chrismada9 said: 1) I thought Courtois made some great saves to be honest. Regardless of his mistakes. Technically, it's not ALL his fault. The entire backline should be doing their job. Either that or there's just no presence from Terry to instruct our players. 2) I forgot Falcao was even still in the side! Also what about Pato?? What was the point in even loaning him if we're not even going to use him?? Courtois might make great saves, but if he is going to punch crosses he should be catching straight into his own box, those great saves are made irrelevant. No point doing the difficult thing if you can't do the simple things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlues 4,050 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Not that upset with the result, because our mind already set for PSG game. The risk is real when you rested some of your key players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Win tommrow and Man U are 10 ahead so top 5 definitely out of it..top 7 maybe but not if concede every single game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismada9 1,948 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 2 minutes ago, BlueLion said: Courtois might make great saves, but if he is going to punch crosses he should be catching straight into his own box, those great saves are made irrelevant. Hmm... like a certain someone whom we once had... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,571 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Convinced that even Pato, who is basically at the end of his pre-season, could have offered more than Remy in that second half. Poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfcs most wanted 657 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 We have 2 consistent players right now Willian- Always great Oscar- GREATEST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,439 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Absolutely refuse to blame Courtois for this one. If at all he helped restrict them to 1 goal Stoke were continually getting behind our back four all game. If Diouf had been sharper in front of goal, it could have been a much worse result Our defense has sucked since start of the season, and hasn't really improved since..clean sheets are rarer than rare at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,571 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 After our attacking midfielders once again did absolutely nothing today, you can only admire the likes or Mahrez and Payet. So influential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BXL70 396 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Courtois is over-rated. Oscar should leave. Beautiful goal from Traoré. Guys is doing a very good job. It is obvious the players had the game against PSG in their minds. It will be difficult. Fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Ake the Watford full back on loan from us looked useful. Against Stoke there was too much laxity in defense. PSG look to have taken time off too, 0-0 against Montpellier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 16 minutes ago, BXL70 said: Courtois is over-rated. Oscar should leave. Beautiful goal from Traoré. Guys is doing a very good job. It is obvious the players had the game against PSG in their minds. It will be difficult. Fingers crossed. Courtois is young. One of the greatest Greek keepers was Stelios Serafidis. He became a legend and also came back at the age of 40, one year after retirement, when the new keeper was injured and again excelled. He became that good at the age of thirty ! Before that we were saying "when will he go at last ?". Then under the great German-Hungarian manager Jene Chaknady a complete transformation took place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsblubot 3,595 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/959842/LiveStatistics/England-Premier-League-2015-2016-Chelsea-Stoke is this somewhat accurate? Haven't watched the game, so won't comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Give credit to Stoke too, they worked doggedly hard and played some cracking football at times. Imbula was terrific. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperVerus 6 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Stoke are a decent team, they work hard and have good direct attackers. We weren't good in the second half at all and you could see it coming. Imbula was impressive, kinda disappointed we didn't go for him, but then again if we could have the old Matic back we wouldn't need him. When i watch us i feel our players just don't take on defenders enough and today when we did we got to byline quite a few times second half and there was no support. Traore was in there but stuck in-between 2 CB's. I like Oscar and Willian but they do seem not to bust a gut to get in the box. Frank made a career out of it and scored so many goals from doing it. I know Frank is hard to replace but Oscar and Willian are more skilful players for sure but i think they can lack that killer instinct at times. We are improving and did rest a couple of players today, just always a disappointment to let late goals in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizacar 93 Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Ake had to play cb tday and did a great job against leicester. Just saying dude is miles better thhan baba and wud be useful in the squad especially if we get conte ans play 3 centre backs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea Buzz 487 Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Considering the cobbled together lineup throughout the game that showed a huge lack of chemistry, 1-1 result was fair and not atrocious like some of those early season matches. Clearly the next 8 days was focused on PSG first and Everton second. No Costa and Cesc on until late really showed us how limited we can be going forward. Add in Remy and a tentative RLC and yikes! Traore continues to show promise. Will need to continue to develop physically. Shows great speed and promise. So, even though conceding late and being hosed on the lack of a pen on Oscar was frustrating, we rested players and are getting tuned up for PSG. Need Pedro and Costa healthy. Oscar can miss the bus to the stadium. As for the rest of the PL season, I'll take 55 or more total points and this juncture. 60+ would be outstanding especially given our start. We got 20 points out of the first 19 matches (halfway). We have gotten 20 out of the next 10, which leaves 9 games. I would take 20 points out of those final 9 (27 points) for sure. I would like to see us finish top 6 but would take top 8. Again, considering our awful start, if we can get to 60 points that is great finish. Let's focus on the CL and FA Cup. 50/50 we get past PSG I suppose, so that one should be fun. Really would like the FA Cup title this year. Come on you Chelsea!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlues 4,050 Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 8 hours ago, BXL70 said: Courtois is over-rated. Lol wut, he is proven in La Liga and CL. Last season he is proven in PL. Funny to hear it is coming from Belgian, out of others. This 'blip' season, when team also really bad, doesn't make him become 'overrated' suddenly. Overrated is for the kid with so much hype around him, but never made it. Courtois has made it, at least twice, so we couldn't say he is overrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
communicate 2,703 Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Don't really care about the result. Top 4 is too far. Hopefully everyone is well rested for PSG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zakhov 253 Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 14 hours ago, Special Juan said: Give credit to Stoke too, they worked doggedly hard and played some cracking football at times. Imbula was terrific. Tony Gale was yapping on and on about him. The lad was terrific but our midfield was piss poor which made him look world class at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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