Jase 43,479 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 West Ham 2-1 ChelseaPOST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS2016/17 EFL Cup Round of 1626th October, Wednesday, 2016London Stadium19:45 Kick Off (UK time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kezza 1,965 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 ..Meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluephoenix 1,131 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Terry isn't suited for Conte's system. I am afraid this is his good bye season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obiwan92 217 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Too many changes combined with a brand new system fucked the player cohesion over and let West Ham smack 2 goals in in the confusion. Thankfully, this won't happen in the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegenTerry 273 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Such a shame Oscar didn't played this game. I feel he would do great things... 😭🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanishBlue 426 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Didn't see Cahills goal. Well, came to late anyways.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MefiX19 1,092 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Tin pot cup, who cares, let those wankers get their happy minutes lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan 17,958 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Of course we had to play them when they started hitting form... I hate them with passion. There goes my hope of winning the cups. Please Chelsea, make it a nice weekend at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan 17,958 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 If you call a game 'not our night', this is certainly one of those. Nothing could go in and if some managed to do so, of course it is literally in the last second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluephoenix 1,131 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 1 minute ago, milan.cech said: Of course we had to play them when they started hitting form... I hate them with passion. There goes my hope of winning the cups. Please Chelsea, make it a nice weekend at least. I echo the same sentiment. Although it was nice to see Conte experimenting with young players. It is sad that we lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Mikel OBE 4,920 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 The good: Chalobah Willian Costa Kante The bad: Oscar Azpilicueta Luiz The ugly: Terry Aina Batsuayi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStorm1003 539 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 A real shame, This really wasn't our night. Hopefully we can carry on with what we did against united. Now only the league and the fa cup to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obiwan92 217 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Hopefully Terry will realize he is done and fade back to a support role. Great servant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,056 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Didn't play well, but the match should still be going if the ref knew what a pen was. Some players won't be in the squad till Jan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 Sigh. Disappointing result. It was West Ham and wanted us to beat them and go all the way in the competition. Could and should have played the strongest team possible, especially when we aren't playing in Europe this season. On the other hand, can understand why Conte made so many changes and gave other players some game time - maybe he made one change too many! - but that led to a disjointed performance and arguably only Chalobah did well. Can't believe I'm saying this but there's a bit of gap in quality going from Alonso and Moses to Aina and Azpi as WBs. Threat almost non-existent in the wide areas. A back of 3 of Cahill-Terry-Luiz looks extremely shaky compared to Azpi-Luiz-Cahill. Hoping Conte sticks with the latter for the upcoming matches, given it's been working well for us before today. And I guess after scoring 9 goals in our last 3 games, our profligacy has returned. It was a disjointed performance but we certainly created enough chances to win the game. Just no cutting edge. Now the pressure is back on and we have to win at Southampton! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles 9,790 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Gutted to lose but not particularly fussed. One game a week is enough for this squad until January reinforcements. I didn't watch the game. How did Chalobah get on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WNDS 502 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 We'll have to wait and see what effect (if any) this result has upon our future performance levels, but I though we were alright tonight. Terry doesn't look comfortable in a back three (surprise!), and both Oscar and Batshuayi played like men who know that they're probably not getting into the manager's ideal strarting 11 any time soon, whilst Willian, Costa, and Hazard all failed to take advantage of some (very) presentable openings, but other than that.... not too bad. I liked a lot of what I saw from Chalobah when he was on the ball (although his off-the-ball work needs some serious improvement), and Aina showed flashes of promise, whilst Willian (despite some occasional sloppiness and a terrible miss) showed that the competition between him and Pedro is (hopefully) going to be quite fierce this season; these things can only benefit the squad. Azpi IS probably a viable option as an auxilliary RWB, but I hope that we don't find ourselves having to deploy him threre too often, as he just doesn't provide what Moses does in that position when we're attacking, and he was surprisingly suspect defensively on more than a few occasions. Luiz and Cahill were mostly solid throughout, whilst Kante and Begovic were probably our best players on the night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoyBlue96 990 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Prefer seeing us win at Southampton than this Mickey Mouse cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MefiX19 1,092 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 8 minutes ago, Styles said: Gutted to lose but not particularly fussed. One game a week is enough for this squad until January reinforcements. I didn't watch the game. How did Chalobah get on? Best player along with Kante Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alabama 1,992 Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Just a win at southampton will do for me.....not good losing but fuck d EFL cup... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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