closed Porto 0-2 Chelsea

[Milan 17,854]

This is literally just the first half as the second leg is played at the same stadium, just in different shirts... Stupid.

[Azul 1,615]

The result is what matters most at the end of the day, things really changed when Kante and Thiago came on. Semi-finals here we come!

[Nero 1,838]

 

[Azul 1,615]

I hope everyone sees the importance of Kante and Silva now, we dominated after they came on.

[Magic Lamps 11,654]

That is why Chilwell>Alonso. The latter could not have scored that goal to save his life with his turtle pace. Chilwell just breezed past them all.

[DANILA 290]

OK: Mount, kovacic, mendy, pulisic 

Horrendous: entire back line, jorginho, werner, havertz, giroud 

Edited April 7, 2021 by DANILA

[NikkiCFC 7,953]

1 minute ago, Azul said:

I hope everyone sees the importance of Kante and Silva now, we dominated after they came on.

Must starters when real fun starts. In semis. 

[chippy 342]

I'd love to see us play more exciting football, but at this stage of the season even I will say the results are more important than the quality of play and match as a whole. You'll never win a league playing like this but you can win a Cup.

 

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, OneMoSalah said:

True with Giroud his lack of mobility doesn’t help but Abraham strikes me as someone who would suit Tuchel’s philosophy. Obviously he is far from a fantastic player but he showed some big improvement at the beginning of the season, particularly linking the play etc also. Plus every player has shown an improvement under Tuchel of sorts. 

Jesus if Chilwell can do what he did tonight in front of goal every week I’d happily see him upfront than either Timo or Kai for a period. Basically played with 9 men for the bulk of the time they were on.

If we are talking specifically about tonight's game, it was shit overall from the team going forward, if we're being honest. Easy to say Werner and Havertz were shit when the service they got was rubbish. Even Mount, despite scoring, didn't do anything of note. On top of that, nothing really changed even after Giroud and Pulisic came on. The few times we got it right attacking wise, we saw Mount score, Werner send his header just over and then Pulisic hit the post. 

[Strike 7,217]

1 minute ago, Magic Lamps said:

That is why Chilwell>Alonso. The latter could not have scored that goal to save his life with his turtle pace. Chilwell just breezed past them all.

Yep Chilwell had that one poor game vs Leeds but otherwise he's been decent under TT. Alonso has oscillated between decent and shockers

[milka 3,346]

10 minutes ago, Patrick Bamford said:

 

Thomas Tuchel is only the second Chelsea manager to win his first three #UCL knockout games

 

 

The previous manager to do this was Roberto Di Matteo in 2011-12, the last time Chelsea won the competition

 

 

 

 

🙃

 

[Milan 17,854]

4 games away from winning this thing, and one of them is against Porto and we are already 2-0 up.

[chippy 342]

6 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Thought that was one of the poorest performances of the season. Next to zero attacking threat, midfield buildup was nearly nonexistent, allowed Porto to bully us physically. And worst of all was the constant long, aimless passes from our players. We looked like we didn’t have a clue what we were doing.

And yet two fantastic goals and win 0-2.

🙃🙃🙃

Yep! It's quite incredible to still be in with a shout of a trophies and top four, with so few players playing well. But one of the great things we have shown over the years is that we can fight, grind it out and win big trophies even when we're not all that good. 

 

[OneMoSalah 8,778]

4 minutes ago, Jason said:

If we are talking specifically about tonight's game, it was shit overall from the team going forward, if we're being honest. Easy to say Werner and Havertz were shit when the service they got was rubbish. Even Mount, despite scoring, didn't do anything of note. On top of that, nothing really changed even after Giroud and Pulisic came on. The few times we got it right attacking wise, we saw Mount score, Werner send his header just over and then Pulisic hit the post. 

This is true. But as we have discussed and will probably further discuss once I reply to the post from the Werner thread the other day, it is not exactly a new thing. As I said after WBA its an accumulation for Werner every games tallying up and for me except one moment tonight I am finding it beyond belief he is in this team from the start most weeks. 

[Magic Lamps 11,654]

Just now, chippy said:

Yep! It's quite incredible to still be in with a shout of a trophies and top four, with so few players playing well. But one of the great things we have shown over the years is that we can fight, grind it out and win big trophies even when we're not all that good. 

 

We have been poor individually apart from a few players but have fought as a team brilliantly since Tuchel arrived. you more often than not do not win cups with individual brilliance but with gritty defending and the necessary slice of luck

[Muzchap 8,966]

Had to listen on the radio. Just got home.

Boom Mason and Chilly - get the fuck in.

Heard Pulisic was unlucky and hit the underside of the bar...

Sounded like a decent game - they didn't have many clear opportunities I can remember.

More of the same next round. 👍👍👍

Now just beat the Pikey Palace at the weekend and all good 👍

[Jase 43,479]

2 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

This is true. But as we have discussed and will probably further discuss once I reply to the post from the Werner thread the other day, it is not exactly a new thing. As I said after WBA its an accumulation for Werner every games tallying up and for me except one moment tonight I am finding it beyond belief he is in this team from the start most weeks. 

GOD, PLEASE NO! AM TOO TIRED/LAZY TO GO AROUND IN CIRCLES AGAIN! 

If we break it down a bit, Werner made an impact in terms of goal contribution early in Tuchel's tenure. So it was normal if he was starting back then and you have Tuchel selecting him for specific games/opponents (e.g. Liverpool at Anfield and Atletico in the second leg), which worked out well. And then you have some games where he didn't play/start. It's also not like the others have been done so great that they deserve to be in the XI every game.

Plus with us playing almost every 3-4 days, there's always gonna be rotation. Maybe Tuchel rotates a bit too much from game to game but he was always gonna rotate anyway.

[chippy 342]

6 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

We have been poor individually apart from a few players but have fought as a team brilliantly since Tuchel arrived. you more often than not do not win cups with individual brilliance but with gritty defending and the necessary slice of luck

Fair point!