closed Chelsea 1-2 PSG

[manpe 10,861]

Fabregas is comfortably our best midfielder in this form. He's improved his defensive game to the point where he's better than Matic at it and completely runs the show in possession. MOTM.

Costa took his goal very well, but overall was frustrating with the ball. Expected more.

Hazard tried, but couldn't pull anything off. Encouraging that he's at least trying to shoot.

Azpilicueta at fault for the second goal, uncharacteristic. Same kind of mistake got Schürrle ostracized by Mourinho, but this one was much worse.

Kenedy ananymous, Baba would have been better.

 

Overall performance of the team 7/10 - showed good signs of intent, but lacked concentration and quality in certain situations that decided the game.

[Henrique 9,133]

 

7 hours ago, geezers said:

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?!

Oh boy...

[coolhead23 1,147]

8 hours ago, Styles said:

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

 

They will get murdered with any team that will press them hard ... PSG to go out next round if there come across a good team same like last year when Barca made a mockery of them. 

[Johnnyeye 7,509]

PSG must wish they played Chelsea everytime in the Champions League right now, that's how low we've sunked, sadly :(. I expect PSG to be outplayed by a better team like Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern in the next round, or maybe they can go all the way, with all that money spent and quality players PSG have, who knows? but i couldn't care less. There were some positives, but also a lot of negatives, we missed Zouma and Terry's influence badly in a game of this calibre, but no point in crying over spoilt milk, this was bound to happen, minding this nightmarish season, and i much rather go out now, to avoid humilliation at the hands of Real Madrid, Barcelona, etc, later in the competition.The main focus now is seeing the season out and try to win as many games as possible to see where we finish in the table, squad rotation, give Traore, RLC and co more playing time, and try to go all the way in the FA Cup to see if we at least can salvage something from this season and fix the squad properly in the summer. Cheers and good luck for the rest of the season.

[7ooslow 2]

Without Verratti, Motta and Ibra.

PSG to go out next round if there come across a good team same like last year when Barca made a mockery of them.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

We lost to the better team, so no complaints from me.

[Milan 17,957]

Hats off to Diego Costa. He was not 100 % fit, yet he insisted on playing and he put in a massive, massive shift. The way he celebrated his goal said it all really. Passion in absolutely every cell of his body. In Mourinho's team, eleven Azpilicuetas would win the Champions League. Yesterday, eleven Costas would make me incredibly proud, I am sure of that.

[Special Juan 28,141]

I'm not sure where you start with that last night. Slow start and it was all over from that point for me. I know we got one back but I never felt we had control over the game and they were cruising in second gear with four gears to go. The difference in quality between us and them is monumental, and not just that but the ball retention and how clinical they are is sublime. The rebuilding need to begin by signing JT for another year and we need one of the biggest clear outs known to man, and I mean a mass clear out.

If it means spending 200M then so be it, get rid of average players because these average players will not achieve our goals in the future. I think missing out on CL football next season will be, or should be, the wake up call needed for the board to realise that something needs doing. They failed us last summer and this summer it needs sorting. We need to keep players like Willian, Zouma, Tibo, Azpilicueta and Costa and purchase massive upgrades on the likes of Mikel, Baba Rahman, Pedro, Matic and Oscar.

This club now have a massive task ahead of them, it's a very sorry state of affairs what we have become.

[Wizacar 93]

I def Hate hiddink. His stupidity got costa injured , with that stupid talk of you can rest costa but put a leash on him. He shud have been resting instead of training on friday to play a meaningless match against stoke. Same with hazard they shud both have been protected. Please get this Old coach off and call me when we have Conte. This has been a fucccking horrible Season just Fucking horrible, and honestly hazard and oscar can fuck off, they are both not worthy of cleaning Mata's boots

[Kieran. 6,317]

Just now, Wizacar said:

I def Hate hiddink. His stupidity got costa injured , with that stupid talk of you can rest costa but put a leash on him. He shud have been resting instead of training on friday to play a meaningless match against stoke. Same with hazard they shud both have been protected. Please get this Old coach off and call me when we have Conte. This has been a fucccking horrible Season just Fucking horrible, and honestly hazard and oscar can fuck off, they are both not worthy of cleaning Mata's boots

Yeah stupid Hiddink! Fucking moron! What a joke! Fuck this old fuck who knows nothing about football!

Please do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.

[Wizacar 93]

1 minute ago, Kieran. said:

Yeah stupid Hiddink! Fucking moron! What a joke! Fuck this old fuck who knows nothing about football!

Please do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.

FUCK HIDDINK, FUCK HIDDINK, FUCK HIDDINK. He should have rested players and why the hell play counter attack at home, at least show some balls. and lastly   F***********CK  oFF

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

4 minutes ago, Wizacar said:

I def Hate hiddink. His stupidity got costa injured , with that stupid talk of you can rest costa but put a leash on him. He shud have been resting instead of training on friday to play a meaningless match against stoke. Same with hazard they shud both have been protected. Please get this Old coach off and call me when we have Conte. This has been a fucccking horrible Season just Fucking horrible, and honestly hazard and oscar can fuck off, they are both not worthy of cleaning Mata's boots

 

 

[cfcs most wanted 657]

18 hours ago, BlueLyon said:

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

PL is competitive as their bottom teams can easily beat mid table teams in other leagues. The problem is of scheduling of matches, the FA leaves the clubs in a position to choose between Champs League and the premier league. The PL teams just get no rest at all. The proposal for a winter break is really good

[Yeboii 1,844]

4 minutes ago, cfcs most wanted said:

PL is competitive as their bottom teams can easily beat mid table teams in other leagues. The problem is of scheduling of matches, the FA leaves the clubs in a position to choose between Champs League and the premier league. The PL teams just get no rest at all. The proposal for a winter break is really good

Would rather that all the other leagues stopped their winter break than the winter break comes here really.

[Starman60 1,343]

2 hours ago, Kieran. said:

Yeah stupid Hiddink! Fucking moron! What a joke! Fuck this old fuck who knows nothing about football!

Please do us all a favor and shut the fuck up.

Thanks Kieran....Haven't laughed  as much at a reply in ages By the way, I agree with you

[Cosmin 2,484]

They have a better squad than us, that's obvious. But the one player that I absolutely loved in these two legs was LUCAS. Unbelievable midfielder. So fast and dangerous, everytime he had the ball.

[kingofchelseadom 41]

PSG too good, we all knew that. No complaints from me. Chels did their best and we know that this season they are well below par. Write this on off. 

[robsblubot 3,595]

Either Hiddink's strategy was correct and PSG are not that great, or PSG is a superior side and our strategy was the wrong one.

Because there is ONLY one way to play against a better team and that was NOT what Hiddink did. You don't play against a better team with kennedy as LB and with two CMs who can't tackle to save their lives. That's just crazy.

I am talking about solidity... about stopping the opponent and disrupting their play constantly. About not conceding when you know your chance is to score a goal without conceding. It sucks playing that way, but it does increase your chances against better opponents.

I digress though - Hiddink is obviously a genius who has turned pub players into PL champions... no wait that's Leicester.

[Special Juan 28,141]

The problem being is Mikel is supposedly our best CDM right now and with all due respect he has been good but when you are up against that midfield of PSG you actually start to see the mass frailty within our ranks and see people like Mikel exposed for what they really are.

This is the point I am making about this summers transfer activity. We need to bring in top quality players and rid the club of Mikel, Oscar, Cahill, Rahman, Matic, Falcao, Remy, Pato and Pedro and bring not just top quality first team players but also fresh players that can being very good squad players. Look at that Lucas Moura on Wednesday, he was so fucking dynamic and dangerous, we can't handle those players because the players that come face to face with them for us are limited and average.

 

[cosmicway 1,333]

11 hours ago, Robguima said:

Either Hiddink's strategy was correct and PSG are not that great, or PSG is a superior side and our strategy was the wrong one.

Because there is ONLY one way to play against a better team and that was NOT what Hiddink did. You don't play against a better team with kennedy as LB and with two CMs who can't tackle to save their lives. That's just crazy.

I am talking about solidity... about stopping the opponent and disrupting their play constantly. About not conceding when you know your chance is to score a goal without conceding. It sucks playing that way, but it does increase your chances against better opponents.

I digress though - Hiddink is obviously a genius who has turned pub players into PL champions... no wait that's Leicester.

Mou was heavily criticized for playing like that last year, when PSG were left with ten.
Anyway, they scored against organized defense - or what looked like organized defense. They did not break away.
In my opinion chance playead a big part. Chance might have favoured Chelsea - like in the 3-3 against Everton in the league.
PSG were better though especially in the 2nd half of the first leg.