closed Chelsea 1-2 Crystal Palace

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Very very unexpected loss, but it had to happen once,,we played quite well actualy, but unfortunely it didnt go in.

It also shows that we indeed look vulnerable without 3:4:3 and while I think Cesc was very good today, maybe we wouldnt concede those two goals without him. Its all maybes tho.

We must put much better performance against City if we want to win. Its going to be quite a breaker that game. If we win, it will boost our confidence superhigh, but if we lose...6 points lost this quick and honestly I wouldnt be so sure about the title anymore. We play Soton, Everton and United, all very difficult games.

[Stats 7,053]

11 hours ago, Jason said:

Do people really expect Pedro to do well at WB? Yeah, he scored a few goals from that position in the FA Cup but he's never fully convinced and was even given the runaround by Wolves. Asking him to do it in the Premier League, even at home, is suicidal, especially against the likes of Zaha, Puncheon etc. And not to mention, it was so awkward watching him trying to beat players from wide areas. Said this from last season, he's never looked comfortable when asked to do. Surprised Conte didn't play Willian at WB instead.

 

11 hours ago, Pizy said:

Know everyone's criticizing Costa and rightly so, but some others had shockers as well. I though Pedro was poor and I think that may have been David Luiz's worst performance this season. He lunged in seemingly 5 times trying to knick in front of a pass and completely missed it. Hazard was completely untouchable in the first half but then kind of went off the boil. Cesc didn't really do much in the second half either.

City game is unbelievably massive now. Win and I'll be confident we'll see the job out. Lose and I'll personally be very, very worried looking at Spuds' remaining fixtures and with Kane still to come back soon.

Would be hugely embarrassing to lose the title from where we were.

Weird how people have different interpretations on things. I thought Pedro was by far our best player today. He messed up sometimes on his final third productivity but was pressing all games, made great runs and for most of match imo, looked like only one capable of making something happen.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,890]

9 hours ago, Socur Toxanarosa said:

Nah that's Alonso.

Nah, that's a difference of opinion.

Alonso only makes number 4 on my upgrade chart.

[zekinjo 449]

I like the way we played before Michy came in. Chelsea just doesn't work with him. Shame we lost the game we should win. Better fix some areas in the summer, urgently.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Surprised to read some of the comments about the performance. Granted the result was pretty disappointing but the actual performance was no worse than the majority of our performances this season which is pretty good.

We lost concentration for about 90 seconds in the entire 90 minutes and unfortunately we conceded 2 very unlucky goals in those 90 seconds. But offensively we were very good and created enough chances to win it despite letting in those 2 goals. 

We would have easily won had we had Moses available or had a bit more luck or gotten than penalty from Townsend or if we had a striker in a decent form. If we had a Remy or Ba (let alone a Drogba) we would have probably scored 4 or 5. 

But as some rightly pointed out, the silver lining here is that this will serve as a wake up to not get complacent and that the title race is always open until it becomes mathematically safe.

[Tomo 21,733]

19 minutes ago, CHOULO19 said:

Surprised to read some of the comments about the performance. Granted the result was pretty disappointing but the actual performance was no worse than the majority of our performances this season which is pretty good.

We lost concentration for about 90 seconds in the entire 90 minutes and unfortunately we conceded 2 very unlucky goals in those 90 seconds. But offensively we were very good and created enough chances to win it despite letting in those 2 goals. 

We would have easily won had we had Moses available or had a bit more luck or gotten than penalty from Townsend or if we had a striker in a decent form. If we had a Remy or Ba (let alone a Drogba) we would have probably scored 4 or 5. 

But as some rightly pointed out, the silver lining here is that this will serve as a wake up to not get complacent and that the title race is always open until it becomes mathematically safe.

Sometimes i wonder if we could draw 0-0, have the best performance ever aside from the finishing  (like the Everton game but all 5 attempts were saved) and people would still moan about how shit we played.

[BXL70 396]

Overall, we played a good game. Just 2 minutes loss of concentration, a bit lack of luck (obvious penalty) and yes, Costa was really really poor. 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Milan 17,853]

Games like this happen during the season. I just cannt wait to see Spurs having one those too, because I am sick of watching them winning and winning.

2 hours ago, Jason said:

 

I remember you putting some Chelsea stats and results after the international breaks. They were not really positive. Bloody internationals...

[Polo7 3,496]

1 minute ago, milan.cech said:

Games like this happen during the season. I just cannt wait to see Spurs having one those too, because I am sick of watching them winning and winning.

And even when Spurs have a bad game, they somehow get a penalty. 

One day later and this game still hurts

[Laylabelle 9,351]

Not so much the loss that bothers me it's the way by 15 minutes we were 2-1 down and it stayed that way. Just wasn't happening. Their goalie had the game of his life and some of our players less so.

Hey ho it happens how we respond is what matters..Hopefully not the start of something..

[kmk108 1,186]

4 hours ago, Tomo said:

Sometimes i wonder if we could draw 0-0, have the best performance ever aside from the finishing  (like the Everton game but all 5 attempts were saved) and people would still moan about how shit we played.

People on hear moan when we win 5-0.

"We could have had more goals if X just didn't mess up his chance! We need to replace him this summer!"

[kmk108 1,186]

5 hours ago, zekinjo said:

I like the way we played before Michy came in. Chelsea just doesn't work with him. Shame we lost the game we should win. Better fix some areas in the summer, urgently.

It doesn't seem like the team has a whole lot of confidence either. It doesn't seem like he gets many passes. It could be lack of passing from the rest of the team or he's just not in the positions he should be to receive the ball. 

[kmk108 1,186]

9 hours ago, Stats said:

 

Weird how people have different interpretations on things. I thought Pedro was by far our best player today. He messed up sometimes on his final third productivity but was pressing all games, made great runs and for most of match imo, looked like only one capable of making something happen.

People have their biases and want to confirm them. Someone who doesn't like a player will ignore the 90 things he does right and focus on the 10 things he does wrong. And it works the other way as well.

I thought Pedro was great as well. He's become one of the most important players on this team in terms of making the system work.

[Socur Toxanarosa 145]

18 minutes ago, kmk108 said:

People have their biases and want to confirm them. Someone who doesn't like a player will ignore the 90 things he does right and focus on the 10 things he does wrong. And it works the other way as well.

I thought Pedro was great as well. He's become one of the most important players on this team in terms of making the system work.

Yes, this is happening a lot. I don't think anyone was really bad this game, maybe Costa but he has a lot of credit, it just wasn't our day.

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, milan.cech said:

Games like this happen during the season. I just cannt wait to see Spurs having one those too, because I am sick of watching them winning and winning.

I remember you putting some Chelsea stats and results after the international breaks. They were not really positive. Bloody internationals...

I didn't post that. I posted our record before and after cup games.

10 hours ago, Stats said:

 

Weird how people have different interpretations on things. I thought Pedro was by far our best player today. He messed up sometimes on his final third productivity but was pressing all games, made great runs and for most of match imo, looked like only one capable of making something happen.

I don't think I said Pedro was poor anywhere in my post. My point was he was not effective playing at wing-back compared to playing in the front three. There was no lack of effort but even you admitted that he messed up in the final third, which IMO, wouldn't have occurred much had he not been used as a wing-back.

[Jase 43,479]

39 minutes ago, kmk108 said:

People have their biases and want to confirm them. Someone who doesn't like a player will ignore the 90 things he does right and focus on the 10 things he does wrong. And it works the other way as well.

I thought Pedro was great as well. He's become one of the most important players on this team in terms of making the system work.

So because people have a different view of things, you immediately think it's confirmation bias? Very simplistic thought.

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

10 hours ago, Stats said:

 

Weird how people have different interpretations on things. I thought Pedro was by far our best player today. He messed up sometimes on his final third productivity but was pressing all games, made great runs and for most of match imo, looked like only one capable of making something happen.

Pedro by far, our best player ?  Not sure what game you watched. Pedro had a very mixed game. Did some good things did some bad things.(Gave away the ball before we conceded the first goal aswell)

Fabregas and Hazard were quite clearly our best players. Both involved in our first goal and created several other chances.