closed Spurs 1-2 Chelsea

[milka 3,394]

Chelsea player vs Tottenham 

 

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Conte in tomorrow training

[KevinAshburner 1,270]

Conte going to get sacked anyway.

He might as well leave because he brought bad luck for saying he does not want a Mourinho Season.

These players who have been here longer will do the Mourinho Season player power again.

 

 

[Georgy 439]

Would be terrible to have 0 points after 2 matches. Hope we can get a draw from this.

[ccheongf 211]

Slow in build up, opponents all back in position and waiting.  No support from other players in attack , only 2 or 3 players will go against back 6 in front of goal mouth .The rest rooted on the field. Chelsea loves to kick the ball from side to side and back to the keeper giving ample time for opponents to reorganise, losing the element of surprise and error.  Does not even try to shoot when out of the penalty box.

[Tomo 21,751]

4 hours ago, Adnane said:

Winning this would be reminiscent of our 1-0 at the Etihad three years and a half ago, where everyone was writing us off because of City's unbeaten home record and their form at the time, at the end, we ended up winning and could even have scored 2 or 3 more in the 1st half.

Sadly don't see this happening this time around, I know the boys will put all their heart in it, I'm very happy with the performances of Rudiger, Morata and Christensen, they're all great additions to this squad but we're still not balanced yet, we are under huge pressure because of our recent form and shortage in personnel, and if there is one thing that the 2012-2017 generation taught me is that they don't respond well to pressure, we have mostly won our two league titles by being very consistent against the smaller sides..

Let's hope I'm mistaken, in any case, I'm waiting for mid-end September to start being optimistic again, once we got our marquee players back and had time to work on our best formation/set-up.

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I would say it would be more reminiscent of the 2-0 at Anfield a few month's later given we were even more depleted for that game than we will be next Sunday.

[Tomo 21,751]

On August 12, 2017 at 9:26 PM, CHOULO19 said:

I know that is the most likely XI, but I hadn't really considered it all together until you wrote it down...

...all I will say is that Conte should be given another season extension..and a bloody statue outside the brige if we manage to beat Spurs with that lineup!

Two thing's im clinging onto.

1. That side isn't as weak as the one that managed to win at Anfield in 2014 against the odds.

2. Im sure even our depleted side are better than Levekusen when they beat Spurs at Wembley.

Other than that im struggling, reckon we can recall the poltergeist who kept goal with Cech for the 2012 CL win?

[Thor 2,704]

After 6 games last season, we had 10 points... I think we can better that, and we have a far harder schedule this time around. 

Our backline is fine in my opinion. We are better with Christensen than Cahill. What is the deal with Moses? Will he be available? 

Wings are fine. Hopefully Pedro is back. If not, Willian and Musonda are good enough. They're pacy, and against the Spurs given our lack of depth, hitting them on the counter will be what we try and do. 

The only question is who will play in the middle of the park? I didn't like Azpi at RWB, so if Moses is available, play him there, and maybe Azpi steps into that middle role? Or Luiz, since he is better on the ball and a far better passer. Think we would be pretty solid defensively that way. 

 

Everyone needs to calm down with the panic. One game didn't go our way. We started horribly last season, and by all statistics, we had one of the most dominant title runs ever. Things don't look good at the moment with depth, but lets hope the board get cracking on that end and assess things in 5 game patches, not game by game, or minute by minute as some did in the game thread talking about how our season was over after the first half. 

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

Back to the Mourinho days with this one. Park a big bus and hit them on the break. Luiz and Kante may actually cope with Spurs' midfield so we don't get overrun there like we did last year. Big games needed from Morata and Willian.

Burnley game was weird cause in one hand we lost to fucking Burnley and on the other there were promising signs. I genuinely think we can beat them but that's only possible if we don't fall in behind early, if not at all.

[Antonio8 736]

to lose with them is not an option

[CHOULO19 24,332]

7 hours ago, Tomo said:

Two thing's im clinging onto.

1. That side isn't as weak as the one that managed to win at Anfield in 2014 against the odds.

2. Im sure even our depleted side are better than Levekusen when they beat Spurs at Wembley.

Other than that im struggling, reckon we can recall the poltergeist who kept goal with Cech for the 2012 CL win?

You can also look at it that our depleted team is still better than the Newcastle side that kept their own (with 11) against Spurs at the weekend.

But really, we're more clutching at straws at this point. There's no two ways about this, Tottenham come into this one as clear favorites. 

[King11Didier 916]

Where is Mikel John Obi exactly when you need him? ;(

Luiz in mid, sounds good, but it might be too risky playing Azpi, Christensen and Rudi against spuds, but then again who to play next to Kante? Kyle Scott maybe?  
Seeing how the team conceded two goals against burnley, I can't help but remember how Alli scored twice against us on 4th of January this year... And I'm pretty sure we will concede at least one goal like this again. Our defence, and not only, the whole team needs to step up and show who the f8ck is champion of England and beat the spuds at Wembley against all the odds, that's exactly when our team performs best. KTBFFH!!!
 

[akgw13 867]

Not the game I want to see next in our current state but a wounded animal is a dangerous animal. I expect a good fight from us. Rumour Bakayoko might be available but I hope we take caution with him. My predicted lineup:

                          Courtois

Azpi                Christensen             Rudiger

Moses        Kante          Luiz          Alonso

     Willian           Morata          Pedro.

 

Injury concerns for Pedro but I think he will make it back, No suitable CM coverage and Moses will push Azpi back to CB. Not an ideal squad to go against Tottenham but Pedro will be immense if he returns, if not i am very nervous. Morata is a must start as Michy was so incredibly poor with his touch and movement.

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

On 8/13/2017 at 7:04 AM, Fulham Broadway said:

Fuck 'em- Willian will rip them a new arsehole and Morata will bag a brace

 

 

[Adnane 1,101]

Ironically, what was our second game after the Swansea opener 2 years ago ?

Yes, a trip to to the Etihad, dismantled, 3-0. 

[!Hazard! 3,394]

This could've been Chalobah's big moment. He should have waited longer to see whether the board actually manages to sign any new midfielders.

[manpe 10,861]

15 hours ago, KevinAshburner said:

He might as well leave because he brought bad luck for saying he does not want a Mourinho Season.

Would be unwise of him. Getting sacked is far more lucrative than buying out your contract (the manager has to buy out his contract in order to leave, doesn't he?).

[xPetrCechx 13,571]

On our way to another red...

[Johnnyeye 7,509]

26 minutes ago, xPetrCechx said:

On our way to another red...

sigh... FA at it again for sure, this will not be pretty by all means, so our players will have to be on their best behaviour or we´ll be in for another tough afternoon, you just know Tottenham will try to rile our players into hard fouls, fights, etc. 

[xPetrCechx 13,571]

5 minutes ago, Johnnyeye said:

sigh... FA at it again for sure, this will not be pretty by all means, so our players will have to be on their best behaviour or we´ll be in for another tough afternoon, you just know Tottenham will try to rile our players into hard fouls, fights, etc. 

For sure...