closed Middlesbrough 0-1 Chelsea

[Jase 43,479]

TOP OF THE TABLE!

Average performance today but not easy to win after an international break. Gladly take the 1-0 win and run. Was a potential banana skin today.

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

hey guys can you hear that.

 

I can hear it here, all the way here in Howick in East Auckland in New Zealand.

 

Jose Mourinho's tears and crying and sitting on his Hotel Bed in a Manchester Hotel and saying you Chelsea player traitors and you got me fired.

[guddy6969 201]

Re: Premier League fixtures 19th/20th/21st November

« Reply #791 on: Today at 06:03:47 PM »

 

Quote from: sms1986 on Today at 06:00:03 PM

Six, but I bet they'll let in goals in their next two.

I agree.

City and the Spuds have players who can score goals unlike useless 'boro today.

What Chelsea should be 'worried' about is that they only scored 1 scruffy goal (although, tbf, there was a wonder save and a cracker off the top bar in the mix as well)

[Captain Ahmed 528]

ciao ragazzi

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

Always happy to beat this lot can never forget them relegating us in 1988 and me getting nicked after the 1990 Zenith Data Cup (oh the glamour of those days !)

[guddy6969 201]

5 minutes ago, Captain Ahmed said:

ciao ragazzi

Thay are all looking around wondering what just

happened :@)

[Cosmin 2,484]

Top of the league, clean sheet, Diego scorred, David bossed the defence, Moses MOTM. What a beautiful day. 

[Captain Ahmed 528]

Opponents of CFC got Alzeimer every time they confront our defence

[Barbara 15,149]

19 minutes ago, milan.cech said:

Oh my god, so much new white hair. But after the international break I take any, any sort of a win.

When Costa made that faul in the stoppage time, my heart almost stopped and saw him suspended against Spurs

WEll, I'm sure Spurs players will try to rile him up the best they can. I hope he doesn't get the yellow against them because we also need him against City

 

 

It was a nice match imo. Yeah, the wasted chances were getting on my nerves - because you never know when someone is going to score a lucky goal like Giroud yesterday, but I think we controlled them well.

They had just one shot on target if I'm not mistaken, and in those six matches that was the 9th shot on goal we allowed. It's not only about clean sheets, but how we aren't threatened.

The defense is the zone I think looked the less sharp, even when the team improved, their passing, positioning in a few times wasn't compared to other days... and that's they I gave Luiz the MOTM vote. He was flawless, there wasn't a header he didn't miss, he had some nice interceptions and that through ball to Costa when Pedro hit the bar just put him above everyone else imo.

The one time he wasn't on Negrero, Cahill allowed him to shoot (although it was a weird almost deflected ball).

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Not best performance, but still enough and more than happy with the victory. 

If Pedro was luckier, we would win 3:0. 

Now onto Spurs and City, both games we have to give 100percent. 

Top of the league

[1chelsea 864]

Rock solid Luiz and tough game but three point in the bag haters can kill themselves onto the next one

[Rekin 835]

Important win. We did however see more of our weaknesses today. 
While Pedro was unlucky to not score twice today, he was invisible otherwise. Matic and Kante were somewhat solid in the middle, but offered almost nothing going forward. Hazard and Costa looked tired, and did not have a lot of good link-ups. 

Our success is extremely reliant on having all our key players available. I think we need to buy 1-2 players in January, but we still need to buy a few starting players next summer. 

I also think that while Costa is in great form, he is a finisher. He relies on others creating either space, or opportunities, for him (not to say he never creates something out of nothing). Hazard is the only player really capable of making plays happen, and if he is out of form/injured our offensive suffers. It is imperative for our future success that the right flank gets someone who can do more than run quickly and/or make short passes back and forth while running a lot. We are simply not going to get a lot of chances created by Pedro, Matic, Kante, Oscar or Willian. Their strengths lie elsewhere.  

[Captain Ahmed 528]

35 minutes ago, Eidur the Spider said:

David Luiz was absolutely phenomenal today. INCREDIBLE performance, his doubters have gone very quiet. WELL PLAYED GEEZER!

Doubters?I 'm still digging  holes to find them

 

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

5 minutes ago, Captain Ahmed said:

Doubters?I 'm still digging  holes to find them

 

Haha! Nice! He's clearly got a manager who has instilled a lot of confidence into him, Conte is working wonders with David to get him to reach his potential. Alongside what he's done for Victor Moses, incredible stuff. 

[Vytis33 1,272]

Love that poachers goal from Diego!  Boro a tough side, never felt comfortable until ref blew final whistle.  Couple of tough games on the horizon with Spuds and Citeh...come on boys!  Top of the damn table!!!

 

 

[positivefootball 195]

Luiz best defender in the EPL. Thanks Conte.

[fmsch24 312]

top of the table, let's continue with this form, I honestly thought the best case scenario would be to get a draw, because Boro are a stubborn team after their draws against City and Arsenal, but that didn't happen. Boy the media and red nose Sir Alex must feeling really foolish after dismissing chelsea and Conte as title contenders focusing on united and city, Pep vs Jose, let's prove them wrong KTBFF

[Kieran. 6,317]

Pedro was excellent IMO, unlucky to not score 2 or 3. We're in such great form it's honestly hard to believe.

[The Mak 4,459]

Played really well, even though I felt Boro would get a lucky goal at some point, I would have been happy with the performance nonetheless. A hard-fought game like this is the type of game we would have lost last season.

And I just want to say, Gaston Ramirez is the biggest poser in the league. Looks the business when running with the ball, but my word, he is absolutely atrocious. One of the worst players I've seen this season. Not sure how he didn't get booked and often kicked it closer to row Z than the goal. Costa also made a fool of him for his goal.

Him and Adama. A miracle if they get the ball on target more than once in a game. Shocking, shocking players. 

[The Mak 4,459]

1 hour ago, quickpassnmove said:

Our limitations from LWB and CM showing more. Pedro could've done better, but that's OK. 

Upcoming fixtures might put us in our place. Still feel we're over-achieving a bit at the moment. The squad is thin on quality. What can be had in January?

 

I was actually just thinking today that Kennedy would do really well a LWB for some depth. Be good if we could get him back in Jan.