closed Chelsea 1-2 PSG

[bethos1 802]

Sometimes you got to wonder is PL so competitve because bottom leagues are so good or because top teams are so shit...

Probably a mix of both.

[Fulham Broadway 17,313]

We looked average, a mid table team, which is what we are, thanks to the board sitting on their laurels.

PSG walkIng theIr league, versus too many passengers. No Lampards, Terrys, Drogbas to galvanise. New signings for 2016-17 a must.

[Jase 43,479]

Just saw the goals and , what a pathetic excuse for a supposed top club. How easy was it for PSG to just cut through us for both goals? Full backs got caught out of position, someone exploited the space vacated, crossed and bam(!), goal. Talk about real BS defending!

[Starman60 1,343]

1 minute ago, LegenTerry said:

First still have a good chance to get into quarter final and second was best Roma player against Real.

 

But hey,we have a fantastic Oscar so nevermind.

 Agree.. But Salah missed acouple of sitters last night. And as for Oscar, this is what hjs name stands for

Only

Scores

Crackers

Against

Rubbish

[BlueLyon 9,359]

9 minutes ago, Melanicus said:

I miss the times when defence was the best part of our game.

And when you were 3:1 down and knew the players had their fighting spirit to turn it around. Literaly that was the best thing about chelsea. Everyone was always against us and then we did an epic performance. Never easy and predictable like barca or bayern. But we had that swag no other team in europe had. I never wanted superstars here or world domination. But fight for the club till last minute. That was the best feeling because even when we lost you knew our players gave all. Now we are torn between ten different styles and tactics and types of players with no character. 

Times will fix things hopefuly.

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

I don't see how people are questioning/judging the performances of Courtois, Azpi, Ivanovic, Cesc, Pedro and Willian ? I thought the first half we played very well but we tired as a collective due to our pressing and were undone by two defensive mistakes in wide areas. I'd rather we go out like this than the absolute bloodbath it would of been under Mourinho playing so negatively at home like the year before. 

[DYC. 7,542]

They're better. Comfortably better. Simple as. Not too bothered about coming up short in the end. The boys have it a good go but it wasn't enough. You can talk about Chelsea 'only lacking a bit in the final third' but that's what it's all about. That final ball and/or play and finish is the key. That's what separates decent/good teams from top/elite teams. It has nothing to do with luck. Motta was brilliant. I truly enjoyed his football today. Fascinating to see how much he's improved after his thirties. Anyway, I'm not going to let this ruin football for me. Now I'll just enjoy football as a neutral for the rest of the season.

[Styles 9,790]

11 minutes ago, DYC. said:

They're better. Comfortably better. Simple as. Not too bothered about coming up short in the end. The boys have it a good go but it wasn't enough. You can talk about Chelsea 'only lacking a bit in the final third' but that's what it's all about. That final ball and/or play and finish is the key. That's what separates decent/good teams from top/elite teams. It has nothing to do with luck. Motta was brilliant. I truly enjoyed his football today. Fascinating to see how much he's improved after his thirties. Anyway, I'm not going to let this ruin football for me. Now I'll just enjoy football as a neutral for the rest of the season.

Yep. Chelsea are not going to ruin my love for the sport.

Can't wait to see PSG play a Bayern for example and see how they do.

 

[milka 3,394]

 Hazard ZERO - sold

Oscar ZERO - sold

Mikel ZERO - sold

Azpilicueta ZERO - bench

Fabregas ZERO - bench

 

What you  doing Mourinho ! 

[Blue_Fox_ 2,086]

End of an era. Interesting to see where do we go from here.

[geezers 9]

Say what you want about Mourinho being defensive but at least when we desperately needed to get back into a game under him we would get our strikers on the pitch and try have a go at it. Tonight for the last 25 minutes, when we needed goals, our best attacking option on the bench Remy didn't even come on and the players jogged around with no urgency from neither them nor Hiddink. How pathetic is that?!

[Tomo 21,751]

On 09/03/2016 at 10:30 PM, The Mak said:

By far the worst Chelsea team of the Abramovich era. 

No leaders. Just nothing. At least the 11/12 team won the CL through leadership and determination. This team would be lucky to have Lampard or Drogba's baby toe in terms of leadership. 

 

I can't believe the fucking pile of shite of a squad Mourinho and the board has left us with. All the potential and creativity we had in 2012/13 has been sold down the river for a solitary title and a shitstorm. We could've had a squad (De Bruyne, Mata, Lukaku) that would comfortably make top 4, while probably playing nice football, and challenged for the title eventually... 

 

More and more I feel we sold our souls to the devil just for one fucking title. Ivanovic as captain on a CL night. Knocked out 2 years in a row to a team founded in the 70s. 10th in the league. No title is worth shite like this.

I hope Conte is adept at working miracles. 

I think we were a bit spoiled with the player's we had 04-12 in terms of leadership, and its also worth mentioning we went out tamely to Inter and United with those leaders.

Apart from Iniesta, do Barca really have any natural leaders? 

There is still a lot of quality in this team, central defense and centre midfield need work, but beyond that I think we got a good base there.

Also asonemosalah said yesterday, selling Lukaku and getting Costa for 4m more has been very much justified? 

[Fernando 6,585]

7 minutes ago, Tomo said:

I think we were a bit spoiled with the player's we had 04-12 in terms of leadership, and its also worth mentioning we went out tamely to Inter and United with those leaders.

Apart from Iniesta, do Barca really have any natural leaders? 

There is still a lot of quality in this team, central defense and centre midfield need work, but beyond that I think we got a good base there.

Also asonemosalah said yesterday, selling Lukaku and getting Costa for 4m more has been very much justified? 

If we can keep Costa around, build our midfield and defense we should be good. 

A lot also depends what happens with Hazard. We shall see what he is up to this summer. 

But keeping Costa is more vital for me then Hazard giving the leader quality he has shown. 

[Tomo 21,751]

On 09/03/2016 at 11:58 PM, Fernando said:

If we can keep Costa around, build our midfield and defense we should be good. 

A lot also depends what happens with Hazard. We shall see what he is up to this summer. 

But keeping Costa is more vital for me then Hazard giving the leader quality he has shown. 

Honestly, if Conte sorts of he CB and CM positions out ID happily see everything else stay the same including Ivan at right back for another season.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

2 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

I don't see how people are questioning/judging the performances of Courtois, Azpi, Ivanovic, Cesc, Pedro and Willian ? I thought the first half we played very well but we tired as a collective due to our pressing and were undone by two defensive mistakes in wide areas. I'd rather we go out like this than the absolute bloodbath it would of been under Mourinho playing so negatively at home like the year before. 

We would concede after 5 min if it wasnt for Iva block. Dont know what was Tibo thinking on Di Maria run. First he went out of goal, then back, in the end he was somewhere between and still almost conceded from same position like last time against Cavani. Except this time Iva put leg behind Tibo back or that ball would end in goal. He looked nervous as fuck through whole match and now for couple games. When Iva was yelling at him you could see in his face he is lost and has little confidence. And that is bad for whole team. Needs to get mentaly stronger like rest of squad.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Also comparing us with psg, our movement and positioning with and without the ball is absolute rubbish. From defense to midfield to attack. No intelligent pressing, no runs in final third, no pass options, no collective marking, no understanding between players. Little linkup between fullbacks ans wingers. How are u supposed to play counter football if you dont even know basics...now sometimes our play is wonderful, but sometimes it looks like you would throw eleven random players from retirement on field. 

Someone should do some homework. 

[WNDS 502]

PSG are possibly the most well-balanced team in this year's competition (although I don't think that they will have enough to cope with Barca's attack should they have to face-off against them), and they're simply better than we are at the moment.

Whilst we played well over the time-period between the two PSG goals (Costa, Willian, and Pedro, despite some sloppiness, were all excellent during that stretch of the game), we were undone by a nervy, sloppy opening 15 minutes, and our inability to field a dynamic double-pivot. It was the latter that was the critical issue for us in this game, as Di Maria and Lucas Moura were drifting in-field all game to take advantage of Mikel and Fabregas' lack of mobility, enabling PSG to completely outnumber and overwhelm us in the middle of the pitch. Although we DID try hard until we conceded the killer second goal, we just couldn't cope.

[cosmicway 1,333]

Could have easily gone the other way round.
Remember the 1-0, 2-2 against Barcelona and draw comparisons.

But they are a better side and most certainly better than all the teams in the premier.

We have numerous problems.
If someone back in June 2014 were to close your eyes and then open them again and you saw Fabregas and Pedro in the team, would you not say to him "what did you do ? you took me to the gooner stadium ?".
Hazard is nearly as likely to score as Courtois-Begovitch.
Defensive errors like Isthmian league.

The transfer window action says it all.
Pato is not even a "winter coat" - he is a sick old man by the looks of it.
Where is he ?
Was he lying in hospital bed when we bought him ? I 've seen that too happening once and the player in question became a great player, but it's the only explanation other than they are pulling our legs.
 

[xPetrCechx 13,571]

The defeat means it is highly likely that next season we will not be playing Champions League football for the first time since 2002/03
‘In my opinion, Chelsea are now in a transitional period from where they have to see how to go on, and to try to regain the lost terrain where Chelsea used to be. That’s true.

‘It’s difficult to get in to fourth position, there is a very big gap. Chelsea must consider its short-term future on how to handle this, but they knew that beforehand.’

[coolhead23 1,147]

So many wrong emotions going through once the match was over ... guess "Disappointing" would sums it all after a night sleep  

We are wrong at so many levels ... Really disappointing to see that in the last 4 years we went to winning Champions League, Europa, PL to going out of all competitions at this time despite the fact we have invested good amount of money. 

This isnt a roadblock, more like a free fall! A total overhaul of the squad is a must if we have the same aspiration/ambition that we had before.