closed Chelsea 2-3 Burnley

[Vytis33 1,291]

Ref lol.

[YorkshireBlue 3,304]

Well that referee should be on the next ''should've gone to specsavers'' advert, Stevie fucking wonder wouldn't of give half that shit n he's blind ffs. Team showed spirit in the second half. And to the people who says conte has lost the dressing room, your talking absolute bollocks.

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, CHOULO19 said:

Also, great to see the fight from all the team,

That's no doubt an essential trait to have in the team and it's great to see it but pardon me if I'm being harsh here, I'm kinda sick of seeing us go AWOL in the first half and then play well in the second to claim some sort of moral victory. It's happened too often (dating back to games at the back end of last season). Why we didn't we start the game today like we ended it? Why did we only turn up after going 3-0 down? Had the mentality been right from the first second, we wouldn't be sitting here and complaining about the referee, red cards, performance etc.

[mccg 1,528]

25 minutes ago, Johnnyeye said:

Spurs will take note from today because of our innability to deal with Burnley´s crosses, Spurs have great crossers and headers of the ball, we will need to adress that immediately, remember last season´s loss at White Hart Lane?. Cheers

Yeah Erikkson had too much time and space last season , going to a be a conte headache or 2 for this 1

[cosmicway 1,333]

3 hours ago, Jason said:

That's no doubt an essential trait to have in the team and it's great to see it but pardon me if I'm being harsh here, I'm kinda sick of seeing us go AWOL in the first half and then play well in the second to claim some sort of moral victory. It's happened too often (dating back to games at the back end of last season). Why we didn't we start the game today like we ended it? Why did we only turn up after going 3-0 down? Had the mentality been right, we wouldn't be sitting here and complaining about the referee, red cards, performance etc.

10 against 11 is no easy task to perform.
Also it always happens that small time entities like Burnley are at their best in the early bit of the season.
It does however leave a huge question mark as to what happens next, given that our next opponent is Spurs, nominally the second best team in England.

[communicate 2,703]

31 minutes ago, Johnnyeye said:

Spurs will take note from today because of our innability to deal with Burnley´s crosses, Spurs have great crossers and headers of the ball, we will need to adress that immediately, remember last season´s loss at White Hart Lane?. Cheers

When we played with 10 men with 5 defence, alonso looks hesistant to press forward hence burnley can cross the ball with ease.  It is going to be a problem agjnst spurs but need to wait who will play as cm

[communicate 2,703]

6 minutes ago, Jason said:

That's no doubt an essential trait to have in the team and it's great to see it but pardon me if I'm being harsh here, I'm kinda sick of seeing us go AWOL in the first half and then play well in the second to claim some sort of moral victory. It's happened too often (dating back to games at the back end of last season). Why we didn't we start the game today like we ended it? Why did we only turn up after going 3-0 down? Had the mentality been right, we wouldn't be sitting here and complaining about the referee, red cards, performance etc.

We started quite well, controlled the game, but we lose our head once cahill got red carded

[Fulham Broadway 17,378]

Not the start we wanted, but my anger has subsided a bit now. 

On the positive the spirit and character when down to 9 was fantastic, just what we want going forward. 

I am more pissed off with losing Cesc and Cahill for the Yids at Wembley

[Jase 43,479]

9 minutes ago, communicate said:

We started quite well, controlled the game, but we lose our head once cahill got red carded

Quite well? Not for me. We started okay but struggled to play around Burnley's pressing and bad signs were already there once Alonso got a yellow card inside 2-3 minutes.

[communicate 2,703]

1 minute ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Not the start we wanted, but my anger has subsided a bit now. 

On the positive the spirit and character when down to 9 was fantastic, just what we want going forward. 

I am more pissed off with losing Cesc and Cahill for the Yids at Wembley

Losing cahill is not a problem, we have 2 good backub cb in rudi n chriatensen. Not sure who will play as cm, maybe luiz

[-Kaplan- 410]

Cahill will be a record one-game captain. 

[bluephoenix 1,131]

1 hour ago, xPetrCechx said:

what about the brainless 59 minutes?

we can chose to sulk in that or try to look at the bright side after that

I like to do the latter.

Not the ideal start to the season 2 red cards opening day, a loss and the fact that our team has become more thin.

Carefree just like our board who seem to not care about getting players that are much needed for our squad. I would be happy if we are in the top 4 at the end of this season. Obviously no hopes for CL with this depleted squad. If this continues Hazard would be out next season to Real/Barca. Clearly the club is satisfied with the solo CL cup that we have.

I feel sorry for Conte after what he did last season he doesnt deserve this. He needs a club that can actually feed his desire to play good football and can spend to his liking.

 

[communicate 2,703]

6 minutes ago, Jason said:

Quite well? Not for me. We started okay but struggled to play around Burnley's pressing and bad early signs were already there once Alonso got a yellow card inside 2-3 minutes.

We always struggle to play around pressing that is why bakayoko ability to run is needed. But we looked fine, Burnley does not look like scoring n we create enough width to send dangerous cross. 

[TheWiz 109]

The Season just started, No need to panic ....

 

[Yeboii 1,844]

All debutants impressed (I'm including Christensen there even though he already played under Mourinho. He is a new player now).

Batshuayi has to do better with his chances. Morata showed him how to link up and be dangerous.

Ref was terrible. Had no control over anything, and looked like he just hated Chelsea. The yellow to Rudiger was bizzarre.

I guess Christensen or Scott will get the chance in the middle against Spurs, and Tomori will slot in the CB position. Gutted for Boga.

[Jase 43,479]

9 minutes ago, communicate said:

We always struggle to play around pressing that is why bakayoko ability to run is needed. But we looked fine, Burnley does not look like scoring n we create enough width to send dangerous cross. 

They didn't look like scoring and yet, they managed to score 3 goals. What does that tell you about the players' mentality in that first half? In fact, we didn't cover ourselves in glory for all 3 goals.

[Stats 7,160]

Fuming really. Simply because if Cahill did not do that stupid challenge, we would have definitely won that game. And even more frustrating is a few mins before that Cahill challenge, Alonso got a yellow for a bad tackle and got a yellow. You would think Cahill would learn from that but no he doesn't and messes up the game plan. I feel for Boga the most though. You can see through his social media post yesterday that he was so excited and wanting to grasp this rare opportunity and because of the sending off, he was sacrificed and will prob not start another PL game this season. Feel so bad for him as he has so much to offer this team. So bloody frustrating. Words can't describe my anger. I hope he is given another opportunity because right now he must feel his luck is so against him.

Willian, I thought had a good game and Morata looked very good when he came on and had a goal and assist and I am quite sure he has earned his spot in the starting line up against Spurs. The board have really fucked us up though. Selling Matic and selling/loaning all our CM and now we only have 1 out and out CM going into the game against Spurs which serves as a wake up call to the board. How fucking naïve. Doubt Bakayoko is going to be fit in time. Luiz will probably have to put in there and that is not ideal as I think he is crucial to be in the defence against Spurs against Kane. Right now can't see anything but a Spurs win. Our confidence is shot low, squad depth absolutely shit.

A lot of us were pessimistic going into the season but losing to Burnley at home in your first game of the season does not show good signs at all. Almost seems like a bad omen. Unthinkable and yes while they were helped with 10 men, to show as little fight as the boys did in first half was unacceptable. That was utterly embarrassing.

Next week is big. Losing 2 games in a row would be a huge setback so we need to get our act together and remember who we are playing.

[termninja 5,290]

Football has really gone to shit. Millions and millions of pounds for players, yet referes who can't make a difference between a red card and a falling accidental tackle. Makes me so sad as I can remember the times when people like Zidane, Henry, Ronaldo, Carlos, Lampard, J.Cole, Ronaldinho, Pirlo, Totti played this wonderful game.

At least Morata did great so I don't have to watch Batshuayi imitate a wall from which the ball bounces away...

[Jase 43,479]

Watching the Brighton v City game and it's depressing. City have so many options to choose from while we have to pick from whatever scraps we could muster. *sigh*

[Jase 43,479]

6 minutes ago, Jason said:

Watching the Brighton v City game and it's depressing. City have so many options to choose from while we have to pick from whatever scraps we could muster. *sigh*

City have managed to bring Sane, Sterling and Silva on today while we managed to bring...never mind.