closed Crystal Palace 0-1 Chelsea

[communicate 2,703]

Good win. Need to kill the game butHazard looks tired in the 2nd half understandably. Without hazard, we have no chance of scoring. 

[Alabama 1,992]

Willian

Morata...Brazilian and Spanish fraud...leave this club...

[Milan 17,856]

Hopefully, we will confirm this win by winning the next one at home. Which will be another 90 minutes of hell. Especially at home.

And now… January comes. SPLASH THE CASH!!

[Johnnyeye 7,441]

Just now, eemanyooel said:

Willian

Morata...Brazilian and Spanish fraud...leave this club...

add Giroud and Alonso

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

Azpi or Kante man of the match.

It was basically a training session against a parked bus for 80 minutes. Then, for some strange reason, we let off the gas and allowed them to attack us repeatedly in the final 10 minutes. We looked totally gassed towards the end there despite them being the side who were chasing shadows all day.

 

I blame Sarri for this he doesn't rotate well, add that to him waiting till min 72 to make a forced substitutition of course they are gassed considering it's the Christmas period 

[!Hazard! 3,394]

4 minutes ago, Vybz Kartel said:

Sarri has terrible in game management. As each week passes I start to see why he failed to win a trophy at Napoli. I will take the win but we made it harder than it needed to be in those final 20 min

To be honest he didn't have much choice today. Had to play Giroud because Pedro is injured, had to sub Giroud because he got injured. No way in hell would Morata ever make it to bench nevermind the pitch today if those two players didn't get hurt

To me it seemed like the tactic fell apart as soon as Giroud was subbed. Playing with false 9 for the last 15 minutes could have prevented that but there was no option to play that today

[Pizy 18,370]

Giroud ankle injury didn't look good and Morata was woeful in his brief cameo. We absolutely have to bring in reinforcements soon.

Hazard looked dead tired by the end there so counting on him as a false 9 may not work for much longer.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

1 minute ago, milan.cech said:

Hopefully, we will confirm this win by winning the next one at home. Which will be another 90 minutes of hell. Especially at home.

And now… January comes. SPLASH THE CASH!!

We have more fixtures in January than we had in December and the squad looks super gassed already. Poor squad management from Sarri during this period no wonder the injuries are starting to pill up 

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

Morata cant even bother to make an effort, hes just jogging around. He has to be kicked out of this club , fucking woeful

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

1 minute ago, !Hazard! said:

To be honest he didn't have much choice today. Had to play Giroud because Pedro is injured, had to sub Giroud because he got injured. No way in hell would Morata ever make it to bench nevermind the pitch today if those two players didn't get hurt

True but those injuries are from his lack of rotation. Muscle injuries like hamstrings can be easily avoided if he rotates the players well. I'm not saying rotate the whole side but systematic rotation would have helped massively 

[Johnnyeye 7,441]

Huge 3 points considering Spurs and Arse droped points, but man do we look clueless in the final third, if not for Kante's brilliant goal from a great Luiz pass it would have been a boring draw or worse. We need major upgrades, William, Alonso, Giroud, Morata are not good enough, im sorry but that is the truth.

[El P. 1,354]

Sari pls stahp playin Kante on wrong psition...

What a monster Kante was. THIS is world class, he really is growing into world-class player. Azpi was immense too. Central-backs were really good. Others... not so much.

[whats happening 1,526]

can i ask why does sarri play emerson on the right wing instead of zappacosta? sometimes i seriously dont get our manager

[communicate 2,703]

2 minutes ago, Vybz Kartel said:

I blame Sarri for this he doesn't rotate well, add that to him waiting till min 72 to make a forced substitutition of course they are gassed considering it's the Christmas period 

Completely agree. Should have rotated our front 3. Oops Pedro, Cho, and rlc are injured. What is his option? 

[Johnnyeye 7,441]

Just now, whats happening said:

can i ask why does sarri play emerson on the right wing instead of zappacosta? sometimes i seriously dont get our manager

stubborn as a mule

[communicate 2,703]

1 minute ago, Vybz Kartel said:

True but those injuries are from his lack of rotation. Muscle injuries like hamstrings can be easily avoided if he rotates the players well. I'm not saying rotate the whole side but systematic rotation would have helped massively 

Cho barely played, Pedro rotate with Willian. Your argument has 0 weight

[Vesper 28,877]

Just now, Johnnyeye said:

Huge 3 points considering Spurs and Arse droped points, but man do we look clueless in the final third, if not for Kante's brilliant goal from a great Luiz pass it would have been a boring draw or worse. We need major upgrades, William, Alonso, Giroud, Morata are not good enough, im sorry but that is the truth.

And at AMF. We simply need another consistent goal scorer there. Unless RLC goes on a tear or Kovacic finally figures out how to go full on attack and shoot.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

1 minute ago, Johnnyeye said:

Huge 3 points considering Spurs and Arse droped points, but man do we look clueless in the final third, if not for Kante's brilliant goal from a great Luiz pass it would have been a boring draw or worse. We need major upgrades, William, Alonso, Giroud, Morata are not good enough, im sorry but that is the truth.

It looks like Sarri would rather lose his job than bench Alonso, even when his on a yellow card and being spun around like a figet spinner. On the bright side Kante stepped up and thanks to him we didn't draw. He was really active in the final 3rd