closed Rennes 1-2 Chelsea

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Happy for the sixth win in a row and the unbeaten run, we've actually not lost a game since September. On to the Spurs match now, to be fair this match against Rennes, I did not care that much about it, I'm buzzing for the one on Sunday

[Hutcho 8,443]

don't blame werner,,it's lampard fault. this prove,,even the clinical finisher which already tired everything looks amateur....

Mate... Come on. Its lampards fault he misses some sitters. He's so tired he can do beasty runs but then he hits it wide because he's tired.

I'm not worried about timo or gonna be getting on his back about missing chances. So far that hasn't cost us and he will work on it. But that is a laughable hot take.

[DANILA 290]

pretty bad performance tbh lol.. didn't have a single chance from 30' - 87'. I'll leave it given our players are tired. 

Even when we had a good chance from open play / good passing, CHO literally stopped the ball and passed backwards for a cross  - can't make this stuff up

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

 

[LAM09 6,548]

Think the players were tired. Most only returned last Thursday, then had to travel to Newcastle for the early Saturday kick off and had only two days after that to rest, recover and travel to France for this game. At least the players now have 4 days between this and Sunday.
On the plus side though, the team least didn't collapse despite looking gassed after 30 minutes. Restricted Rennes to only half chances at best. Might have lost this game last season. And it's also nice to have a goalkeeper in goal for a change! 

Yeah, it seemed to play a notable part. Good that we have some more time off ahead of the Spurs clash.

Being able to switch players and not have a significant drop off is a great that, which aids us on nights like this.

[NikkiCFC 7,582]

About players not mentioned...

Chilwell had his worst game so far for us. Azpi clearly lost his place rightly so. James is better. Kova is so undefined player, all players from the bench were good and all should start against Spurs.

And no love for CHO? 3 goals this season already and had just 3 starts in CL and PL.

[Magic Lamps 11,450]

2 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

About players not mentioned...

Chilwell had his worst game so far for us. Azpi clearly lost his place rightly so. James is better. Kova is so undefined player, all players from the bench where good and all should start against Spurs.

And no love for CHO? 3 goals this season already and had just 3 starts in CL and PL.

CHO was by far our best attacker in the first half. Put in on a plate for werner. IMO he did enough to be in contetnion for a start vs tottenham. both his goals in CL have been openers so really important goals too.

Really indifferent perofrmance overall. Could have put hte game to bed early on but made it unnecessarily hard for ourselvesby not taking our chances like usually. We reallyneed to put them away vs the spuds. Glad Reece, Ziyech, kante got some rest. A bit more rotation would not have hurt i guess.

 

[milka 3,308]

 

[blu35_army 550]

2 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

About players not mentioned...

Chilwell had his worst game so far for us. Azpi clearly lost his place rightly so. James is better. Kova is so undefined player, all players from the bench where good and all should start against Spurs.

And no love for CHO? 3 goals this season already and had just 3 starts in CL and PL.

looks like a little weakness from chillwel is he can't beat the opponent in 1 on 1 situation,,rarely even trying run to surpass the opponent. hope he can improve on those aspect. and for CHO is really improve his finishing this season, but still i didn't see his dribbling and pace which's the main strength for him before injury hit...

[cosmicway 1,252]

We need to draw against Sevilla to secure first place in the group.
I don't fancy the remainder of the opposition in the CL are anything so formidable.
Bayern of course we ought to respect and maybe Klop a little.

 

[cosmicway 1,252]

I don't understand why Timo is losing so many open goal chances.
He certainly does n't look like the sort of player who gets blinded infront of goal, like Alvaro Morata.
Maybe some Nacho Scocco finishing lessons ?
 

 

 

[ZAPHOD2319 3,873]

Timo is fine. This will only light a fire under his ass to rip the back of the net. If you are going to have a player go through a few missed shots, let it be while you are winning games.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,775]

On 24/11/2020 at 8:12 PM, Tomo said:

and we desperately need a deep CL run!

A run to the quarter-finals, with a draw at Sevilla and win against Krasnodar, would be worth €78.6m with more to come from our share of the market pool. That's a lot of money for sure and with so much matchday income lost, and more still to be lost, it would be a real shot in the arm for CFC finances.

That's before we even consider the boost such a CL season would give to our ability to attract players in the 2021 summer transfer market.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,775]

18 hours ago, cosmicway said:

I don't understand why Timo is losing so many open goal chances.
He certainly does n't look like the sort of player who gets blinded infront of goal, like Alvaro Morata.
Maybe some Nacho Scocco finishing lessons ?
 

 

 

Those crowds remind me of when we were linked with Macherano and I used to watch Argentinian football. Enjoyable days.

Number ten was practically an own goal by the keeper who absolutely set himself up for the little dink and more or less forced Scocca to do what he did. The top five on the other hand are pure football porn. If you don't love those goals, you don't love football.

Number three is my favourite. I'm wagering that Kai will score a similar goal before the season is over. Any takers?

[cosmicway 1,252]

4 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Those crowds remind me of when we were linked with Macherano and I used to watch Argentinian football. Enjoyable days.

Number ten was practically an own goal by the keeper who absolutely set himself up for the little dink and more or less forced Scocca to do what he did. The top five on the other hand are pure football porn. If you don't love those goals, you don't love football.

Number three is my favourite. I'm wagering that Kai will score a similar goal before the season is over. Any takers?

He scored from various angles.
But I mean the way he dips the ball over the goalies heads when in one to one confrontation.
That's the type of situation we 're talking about here.
Nobody had this kind of coolness 
Gert Muller of old or Greaves maybe, I don't remember now. Keegan too. But the Argentinian I 've been following for years.

[NikkiCFC 7,582]

On 11/24/2020 at 7:02 PM, OneMoSalah said:

Will still get the less rest because so many players who would start v us will travel if they are away or be involved at some point anyway as he wont change 11 players out, managers rarely ever do. Thats the point.

Looks like he did change 11 players. Lloris, Reguilon, Aurier, Toby/Rodon, Diar, Lo Celso, Sissoko, Hojbjerg, Son, Kane, Bergwijn/Lamela will start against us and none of them is involved tonight. So he cannot use that excuse.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,775]

11 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Looks like he did change 11 players. Lloris, Reguilon, Aurier, Toby/Rodon, Diar, Lo Celso, Sissoko, Hojbjerg, Son, Kane, Bergwijn/Lamela will start against us and none of them is involved tonight. So he cannot use that excuse.

To be fair during his per-match conference yesterday Jose pointedly rejected the premise of a question which was asked purely to set him up to complain. He just said that the schedule is just the way it is and you have to get on with it.