closed Chelsea 3-3 Southampton

[Alabama 1,992]

Just now, bigbluewillie said:

Nobody expects us to challenge for the title this year, it's just media hype.

What i'm expecting is a vast improvement over last season particularly the defence, so far we look worse.

To be fair with Silva and Mendy we looked a bit assured at the back though yet to face quality opposition....We just have to do all we could to have Silva and Mendt starts almost all our league games...

[NikkiCFC 8,324]

18 minutes ago, Hutcho said:

Fantastic performance. Individual errors costing us again

lol, they had more shots on target and attempts in general

[Milan 17,958]

One good thing about having such an expensive squad - it puts an enormous pressure on the manager and if we fail to deliver, it will be easier and quicker to sack.

[Tomo 21,751]

6 minutes ago, lucio said:

The keeper he trusted to play the fa cup semi , final and crunch league game was not injured, picking a retard like kepa over caballero is a sackable offence 

Remind me what happened the last time Caballero started? And that was with Thiago Silva playing.

[Johnnyeye 7,510]

fuck international break

[killer1257 3,282]

I am sorry but I am tired of this excuse. Every single time we do not win, it is down to individual mistakes. Makes it look like we are world beaters! It can happen from time to time, but every single time? Every single time? Absolutely not, the issues are much deeper.

So, Kepa is a top class GK, you say or what? Look at Liverpool today. Adrian is a horrible GK too and they dropped points and Adrian was horrible last game too.
With garbage players, you will get garbage results.



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[Strike 7,490]

Weekend ruined though. What a shame. 

[Hutcho 8,443]

bullshit
he picked Kepa, for starters, know the lad is dire to the extreme and has cost us immeasurably for the past  16, 17 months, more or less
it is insanity to keep doing the same thing over and over and yet expect different results
Lamps also rammed in Mount and cock-blocked Puli on the RW
AND, most tellingly, he is the manager who is responsible for this shambolic defence
also his overall setup and tactics and player choice, plus lack of in game reaction is highly suspect
a shitbox SOTON pressed us to death
in the second half we just laid back for 80% of the time and invited trouble
sorry but high and mighty sneering, cocky apologetics  is rot
this and the West Brom game were shambolic results
the team is worth damn near a billion quid in player valuation
it is unacceptable
I refuse to be cowed into submission and have people act like legit criticism is some bloody joke

Check everyone's pregame teams most people played kepa. He did well for spain mendy is out so we chucked him in..
Mount played left and we had our best half of football all year though despite Pully on the right. So that means nothing.
His shambolic defence which made one error at the end of the game.

It is a joke though. The toxic fan base strikes again.

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

2 goals weren't kepa's fault

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[communicate 2,703]

Finally we kinda play the front 4 that everyone expect to play, before that Mount I thought played ok. Honestly, it was as expected.

We were very2 good offensively, werner drift left, Havertz push up as no 9, Mount fill in as no 10, Pulisic provide width on the right. All good all fun, all very2 direct. Chilwell i thought was very2 good offensively, Mount pretty much attack inside which free up the left hand side for Chilwell. 

Here come the problem defensively, because we were very direct we lose the ball a lot. It almost as if we need two kante in the team. 

 

[King Kante 1,643]

3 minutes ago, Strike said:

Actually thought Chelsea bossed the game once Ziyech came on for Mount. Typical to concede that late free kick and defend it badly

What? Ziyech gave the ball away about five times. If Mount had done that then the TalkChelsea lynch mob would have been going for their pitchforks and torches. I am not trying to beat up on Ziyech as he has been out but he was poor when he came on and couldn't pick up the pace of the game. 

As for the game overall, good 1st 40 minutes then fell apart once Soton figured out that they need to step up on our FB's and not give them too much space to run into. This is what happened against Spurs. As for the 2nd goal, as much as I have been anti-Kepa, Zouma is at least equally at fault if not more. That was a prime example of why I have always been against him being one of our starting CB's. Poor under pressure and has sub-par passing. 

This said, there are still seriously systemic problems with the team. The double pivot isn't working as teams just run past it and the defence is still an absolute shambles. As for the substitutions, I am yet again asking why Giroud wasn't put on. We needed an outlet and someone to help with defending set pieces. This was clear from 70 mins and yet again he is left to rot on the bench. Further, Ziyech should never have been put on, Soton are possibly the fittest team in the league and he is lightweight and hasn't played a competitive match since March. James should've been the first sub, followed by Giroud and then maybe Ziyech if you want to give him five minutes or just leave it at the two. Really poor game management. 

Further, the anti-Mount stuff around here needs to stop, it is getting beyond ridiculous now. 

[Azul 1,615]

2 minutes ago, Hutcho said:

6 minutes ago, 0007 said:

How can people only  blame the individual errors when we were dominated after the 30th minute? These mistakes are shambolic but we are not good enough. Southampton should not have more shots than us at the Bridge. 
The first 30 minutes were good but after that we scored with one of our rare attacks. 

They dominated second half. But the reason was due to the pressure we put on ourself after the error. Which as always gonna happen. We can't be making those errors at this level. Havertz will learn and kepa hopefully won't play for us again

You sound like an Arsenal fan when Wenger was still managing them. It's very worrying to see this. This is Chelsea football club, stuff like this is not allowed to happen especially when we spent so much money. No more excuses.

[Johnnyeye 7,510]

im done supporting Chelsea, im off to...

bed 

[The Skipper 20,609]

11 minutes ago, BXL70 said:

I can't hardly blame Kepa for once.

We have been dominated by large during second half.

Mid-field was nowhere and defense is just shambles.

We've been so starved of a decent goalkeeper that people don't even expect him to make regular save or to bail us out at all. Christ. Kepa can do better in the first goal, could've done much better for the second. And the third... As a pro goalkeeper I'm expecting you to at least make a decent save out of it. It wasn't a difficult shot at all. 

The buck falls at Lampard's feet here yet again anyway. He decided to start Kepa and his in game management is genuinely horrible. 

[Milan 17,958]

1 minute ago, killer1257 said:

 

 

So, Kepa is a top class GK, you say or what? Look at Liverpool today. Adrian is a horrible GK too and they dropped points and Adrian was horrible last game too.
With garbage players, you will get garbage results.



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Please show me, where exactly I said Kepa is top   Garbage players indeed, yet being picked over and over again. Only a complete fool would expect they would suddenly turn into wolrd beaters.

[R2D2 368]

I won't even bother throwing another rant all I will say is the Frank worshipers have become beyond pathetic and delusional at this point.

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

9 minutes ago, Jason said:

After 5 league games last season - 8 points (W2 D2 L1)

After 5 league games this season - 8 points (W2 D2 L1) *

*after spending more than 200 million...

Kinda irrelevant when they all haven't been on the pitch at the same time...

[lucio 5,418]

4 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Remind me what happened the last time Caballero started? And that was with Thiago Silva playing.

No one said caballero cant concede a goal but he's easily better than kepa,  Lampard knows this but gave kepa another chance regardless 

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

4 minutes ago, The Skipper said:

We've been so starved of a decent goalkeeper that people don't even expect him to make regular save or to bail us out at all. Christ. Kepa can do better in the first goal, could've done much better for the second. And the third... As a pro goalkeeper I'm expecting you to at least make a decent save out of it. It wasn't a difficult shit at all. 

The buck falls at Lampard's feet here yet again anyway. He decided to start Kepa and his in game management is genuinely horrible. 

So willy or kepa.... stop blaming Frank for picking kepa ffs he has 2 pick between 2 turds its a gamble either way, they are both unreliable and shite.

[The Skipper 20,609]

7 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Remind me what happened the last time Caballero started? And that was with Thiago Silva playing.

Genuinely reckon we win with Wily playing instead of Kepa today tbh.