closed Arsenal 3-1 Chelsea

[Special Juan 28,141]

I'm noticing a bit of a theme here with all this friendly happy shit we are seeing. The Chelsea website show unseen footage and in training it seems like there is a lot of laughing, joking, jovial shit going on...

I'm all for a bit of fun but these fucking videos are full of it, and today they are smiling with Arsenal players at the fucking end.

this is why we are miles away from the JT days, it's like watching fucking babies

[DDA 9,941]

6 minutes ago, Atomiswave said:

Sooo, another chance to claw ourselves back and we blew it royally, I will take my anger on some poor souls in street fighter 5 now, while being stoned cuz this game ruined my humour big time. Good night

At least you can get stoned. I get drug tested 😭

[Atomiswave 6,117]

5 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

Well if anything, it shows how Arsenal are not as shit as everyone is making them out to be. Same with Ole's United. And us.

I think everyone should accept (if they haven't already), that all 3 managers and their teams are going to be inconsistent, at least for a while 

The question is, what is their ceiling and how long will they take to stamp out the negatives? Ole is on 2 years, Lampard 1.5 years, Arteta 1 year.

It goes back to the post that Tomo made a couple of weeks back. No matter how much flak he deserves for today's result, or our points tally so far, you have to admit he has made some improvements, notably defensively.

Is the rate of progress enough? It depends on what the cost is. i.e, where are we ending up on the table. To me, this season, the buck stops if we fail to break top 4. Maybe the board has a higher target, but until then we can AFFORD to give him more time. . Next season, the bar will obviously be higher.

Mate ars is indeed shit, they cant buy an open goal yet we gave them 3, they couldnt play against anyone yet dominated the shit out of us. We made them look prime man, an ars with many injuries and on horrendous form.

[Blue Armour 4,442]

2 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

worrying thing is Villa will have a lot more grit than those Arse youngbloods

IMO, Arsenal showed a lot of grit today after their first goal.

Today's match could be a trailer for Monday if our lot retain the same level of intensity.

[Vesper 30,190]

Just now, Blue Armour said:

 

Lampard has been unlucky this month with the fixture list, but it's a results business. Hopefully he can get his team motivated in time for the next 5 games.. If he drops too low in the table, the board's patience will wear thin.

 

unlucky?

we lost to 3 shit teams

and looked incredible poor doing it

my patience is about gone

I see NO improvement at all

and I see an utter lack of awareness and flexibility

[Atomiswave 6,117]

1 minute ago, DDA said:

At least you can get stoned. I get drug tested 😭

Ohh man I feel for you...I will give it an extra puff for you mate.

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Blue Armour said:

Lampard has been unlucky this month with the fixture list, but it's a results business. Hopefully he can get his team motivated in time for the next 5 games.. If he drops too low in the table, the board's patience will wear thin.

No no no no no. Hard fixtures or not, that cannot be an excuse for Lampard or any manager. If we really want to win the title, we can't be complaining about getting a hard run of games FFS! 

[Fulham Broadway 17,319]

Just now, Blue Armour said:

IMO, Arsenal showed a lot of grit today after their first goal.

Today's match could be a trailer for Monday if our lot retain the same level of intensity.

There should be wholesale changes to the line up and a sea change in attitude

[Blue Armour 4,442]

Just now, Vesper said:

unlucky?

we lost to 3 shit teams

and looked incredible poor doing it

my patience is about gone

I see NO improvement at all

and I see an utter lack of awareness and flexibility

I'm talking about right now.

Losing to Arsenal, and playing an in-form Villa team in 48 hrs, followed by M City.

Failing to win those 2 will really cause Chelsea to drop down the table.

[Laylabelle 9,535]

5 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

There should be wholesale changes to the line up and a sea change in attitude

We need to show the attitude Arsenal started and ended with. 

[killer1257 3,282]

unlucky?
we lost to 3 shit teams
and looked incredible poor doing it
my patience is about gone
I see NO improvement at all
and I see an utter lack of awareness and flexibility

Sister, we may have played garbage today, but Arsenal were lucky as hell. That was clearly not a penalty and even German sky commentators agreed with that. Then, Xhaka scores a once in a life time goal, which he will never score again in his lifetime again...
Saka wants to cross the ball, but instead his failed cross turns into a world class Messi lob/chip goal. Jorginho misses a penalty kick. Basically, they scored two world class goals and were lucky with the penalty and we only scored one and Jorgi missed.

But I agree. No improvement.

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[Vesper 30,190]

5 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

I'm talking about right now.

Losing to Arsenal, and playing an in-form Villa team in 48 hrs, followed by M City.

Failing to win those 2 will really cause Chelsea to drop down the table.

ahh, oki, sorry for misunderstanding

[Special Juan 28,141]

I'm sorry but Arsenal were not good at all today, they were made to look good by a team that allowed them to enjoy themselves.

I'm actually sat here now thinking anyone in this league could of give them a game today in this league. And lets not forget they had just been beaten by Burnley who beat them easy.

That's where we are at

[Laylabelle 9,535]

1 minute ago, Special Juan said:

I'm sorry but Arsenal were not good at all today, they were made to look good by a team that allowed them to enjoy themselves.

I'm actually sat here now thinking anyone in this league could of give them a game today in this league. And lets not forget they had just been beaten by Burnley who beat them easy.

That's where we are at

That's what made it worse. Neville was right at halftime saying was like we had seen the team sheet and thought meh job done already. We weren't in it at all and to have a shot in what the 80th minute or whenever it was thats bad

[Blue Armour 4,442]

13 minutes ago, Atomiswave said:

Mate ars is indeed shit, they cant buy an open goal yet we gave them 3, they couldnt play against anyone yet dominated the shit out of us. We made them look prime man, an ars with many injuries and on horrendous form.

Well, if its any consolation.

Arsenal beat United at Old Trafford a few weeks ago by 3 goals., only for Arsenal to end up 15th in the following weeks and United ending up vying for 2nd place right now. (The same United that lost 6-1 this season at home, and crashed out of CL).

That's why I'm telling folks to put this game (and this shitty December month) behind them.

[Jase 43,479]

Blamed the players for the result...again!

Minus the insults, jabs etc, is this any different to what Mourinho used to do after a bad result? 

[ZaynChelsea 423]

8 minutes ago, Jason said:

Blamed the players for the result...again!

Minus the insults, jabs etc, is this any different to what Mourinho used to do after a bad result? 

Mourinho at least accomplished to play his players in their proper positions

[Milan 17,958]

'It is a dangerous game.'

The nerve of this man, if you consider all the bad results we have already witnessed  

[DDA 9,941]

He keeps saying its nothing to do with the tactics??

Is taking the piss?

[Blue Armour 4,442]

14 minutes ago, Jason said:

Blamed the players for the result...again!

Minus the insults, jabs etc, is this any different to what Mourinho used to do after a bad result? 

Tbf, throwing players under the bus isn't anything unique. Even Klopp did it after the Fulham game.

 

BUT,..the manager's standing in the team and the mental makeup of the squad will the affect the reaction. Klopp has a lot of clout within the team, and has churned out champions, so he will get more leeway. 

Also it depends on how often he pulls this card (of throwing the players under the bus). Perfectly fine for one-off games. But if the team enters a rut in form, and he uses this as his standard response, that's going to be trouble.

If the team strongly disagrees with Lampard's selections and tactics, it will eventually rub them the wrong way. Players that are frequently alienated could sow discontent.

 

To be honest, I prefer to see some kind of reaction from the manager, whether its directed at himself or the players, instead of someone being diplomatic like Arteta and letting one bad result lead to another. Just wouldn't want to see it after a long run of poor games (although with this result, we have officially entered into that kind of form).