closed Spurs 2-0 Chelsea

[Tomo 21,741]

4 minutes ago, Styles said:

Thoughts on Matic, mate?

Tonight in isolation though he was actually the better out of him and Kante who had an off night especially in possession but both were bullied by Dembele and Waynama. The long run i think we need to do better, hopefully Kessie is as good as made out.

If only Cesc had athleticism........

[Despiadado.Maleante 1,046]

2 minutes ago, Footballover said:

Bad performance by every single player except Matic, Luiz and Azpi. Kante was horrifyingly bad, Hazard disappeared and Costa couldn't complate a pass all day long... All in all, pretty predictable outcome in the end. It was a cup final for them and we didn't turn up, didn't want it like we did last year at the Bridge. Really nothing special, we lost a game to a very very formidable side at the hardest place to go to. 

 

Our last loss got us on a winning spree, I hope we can benefit from this one too and understand that we can't get complacent, winning this league is impossible without getting a bit of spanking. Up the Chels!

Matic and Azpi were undeniably poor. Probably Azpi's worse game in years...

[Jase 43,479]

Should we be concerned that we're starting to concede 2 goals in a game again?

[Footballover 222]

Just now, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Matic's performance was acceptable to you?

Absolutely, he was our best player in the first half while everybody else were not up for it. Kante and Moses were the ones really unacceptable.

[Azpinator 2,325]

Let them eat cake, they will stretch their assholes for other bigger teams later on.

[BoyBlue96 990]

The only guy I want in the transfer window is Van Dijk because this defense still needs a big sort out. And a left wing back. Because we only have marcos and when he bites the dust we are poor on the position.

 

No time/space for this Kessie guy. 

[MefiX19 1,092]

Every spurs fan will probably will buy 5mx5m poster of Alli scoring header and keep it till they win the league, which means they will keep it till earth will get blown by some other planet or some shit

[fmsch24 312]

We had a bad game in the end their human beings not artificial humans sometimes they play badly, and to all the supporters who are throwing tantrums don't overreact we are still top of the league with five points, our only hope is for United to do us a favor and beat Liverpool while we beat Leicester, Spurs may gloat but their Spurs, for them and Arsenal beating Chelsea is like winning the CL, let's move on and win this League KTBFF

[chelsea_4_eva 1,167]

I'm not even mad... yes the boys were bad today, but to have 13 consecutive wins is amazing. Finally no more talk of record breaking and now we can concentrate on just winning games one game at a time. Chalk this up as an off day for us. On to the next one.

[Pizy 18,538]

So, so disappointing to concede 2 identical goals created by the same two players. They drew our CB's towards the ball and isolated our two shortest defenders. You just cannot allow a player with the passing ability of Eriksen yards of space at the edge of the box. You must close him down and deny him the cross.

We got absolutely nothing from our attacking players this match but overall it was an even game. We weren't played off the park or didn't have a number out on us. We were well in the game. Got nothing from Pedro or Willian, Hazard couldn't get going, and Diego would receive the ball in positions where he couldn't be dangerous.

Fortunately, I don't think this'll be a demoralizing defeat that will cause us to drop our heads. We didn't play poorly, they just played a bit better. Sadly, though, this result means that the title race is well and truly wide open now. 

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

So, so disappointing to concede 2 identical goals created by the same two players. They drew our CB's towards the ball and isolated our two shortest defenders. You just cannot allow a player with the passing ability of Eriksen yards of space at the edge of the box. You must close him down and deny him the cross.

We got absolutely nothing from our attacking players this match but overall it was an even game. We weren't played off the park or didn't have a number out on us. We were well in the game. Got nothing from Pedro or Willian, Hazard couldn't get going, and Diego would receive the ball in positions where he couldn't be dangerous.

Fortunately, I don't think this'll be a demoralizing defeat that will cause us to drop our heads. We didn't play poorly, they just played a bit better. Sadly, though, this result means that the title race is well and truly wide open now. 

I blame it on your optimism, Pizy!

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

So, so disappointing to concede 2 identical goals created by the same two players. They drew our CB's towards the ball and isolated our two shortest defenders. You just cannot allow a player with the passing ability of Eriksen yards of space at the edge of the box. You must close him down and deny him the cross.

We got absolutely nothing from our attacking players this match but overall it was an even game. We weren't played off the park or didn't have a number out on us. We were well in the game. Got nothing from Pedro or Willian, Hazard couldn't get going, and Diego would receive the ball in positions where he couldn't be dangerous.

Fortunately, I don't think this'll be a demoralizing defeat that will cause us to drop our heads. We didn't play poorly, they just played a bit better. Sadly, though, this result means that the title race is well and truly wide open now. 

The biggest problem in terms of our attacking play was we lost the midfield battle. When you lose the midfield battle, you struggle to build meaningful attacks. Wanyama and Dembele utterly dominated Kante and Matic. That has to be the most lopsided margin of domination I've ever seen in a big game.

Then Tottenham went 2-0, conceded possession and were happy to play on the counter-attack. We didn't do squat for 90 mins

[Styles 9,790]

14 minutes ago, Jason said:

Mikel in disguise. Slow and ponderous with and without the ball and no words can describe how annoyed I am with him being so one-footed!

He is genuinely awful. Such an overrated, average player who has no purpose. All that height and he never wins a header. Absolutely pointless.

[Laylabelle 9,434]

Not to fussed about the record..helps in a way less pressure..annoying to come close but hey still impressive. Long as this isn't a new run! They were pretty poor and can't say spurs didn't deserve it cause they turned up job done..annoyingly 

[Pizy 18,538]

3 minutes ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

The biggest problem in terms of our attacking play was we lost the midfield battle. When you lose the midfield battle, you struggle to build meaningful attacks. Wanyama and Dembele utterly dominated Kante and Matic. That has to be the most lopsided margin of domination I've ever seen in a big game.

Then Tottenham went 2-0, conceded possession and were happy to play on the counter-attack. We didn't do squat for 90 mins

Yep, and honestly, there are maybe only a couple of sides in the league that have the caliber of player needed to win the midfield against us. That's why I'm not too bothered yet. 

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

 

2 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Yep, and honestly, there are maybe only a couple of sides in the league that have the caliber of player needed to win the midfield against us. That's why I'm not too bothered yet. 

I thought Crystal Palace won the midfield battle against us just recently. 

[Jase 43,479]

8 minutes ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

The biggest problem in terms of our attacking play was we lost the midfield battle. When you lose the midfield battle, you struggle to build meaningful attacks. Wanyama and Dembele utterly dominated Kante and Matic. That has to be the most lopsided margin of domination I've ever seen in a big game.

Then Tottenham went 2-0, conceded possession and were happy to play on the counter-attack. We didn't do squat for 90 mins

Conte has to go 3-5-2 in the big games IMO. Getting passed around and outnumbered in midfield and relying only on counters aren't going to help us at all.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

I don't understand why we're going for Bakayoko either. Bakayako next to Kante is going to produce the same results in these sort of games. Every big team plays with a midfield controller except us. 

City - Gundogan

United - Carrick (Notice how they've improved with him)

Arsenal - Xhaka

Tottenham - Dembele

Dortmund - Weigl. Sometimes Tuchel even plays Weigl and Gotze as his midfield two. Madrid - Kroos, Modric. I can go on. 

We have Fabregas on the bench doing what exactly? The mentality of some of our fans need to change too. This myth that if we don't play with two defensive midfielders, (one of them currently playing like shit), we will get destroyed vs good team is a lie. 

At least if Fabregas started today, we could have hurt them more. After the first 30 mins, I already knew we weren't going to win the game.