closed Chelsea 0-1 Arsenal

[DH1988 1,192]

1 minute ago, Jas said:

This should serve as a warning ahead of our final after all the recent praise...

Silver lining

[OneMoSalah 8,607]

Bar the fact we haven’t scored and conceded from an error from Jorginho, all in all we have played alright, controlled the game very well and had 3/4 chances we should of scored at least one from. People severely overreacting. Yes a lot of the plays in front of them but the talks of disgrace/whatever else is a bit far fetched but unsurprising.

Why are people complaining about the line up? Thats basically 2/3s of the usual back 3, both our starting wing/fullbacks, 1/2 of our usually midfield starting and also Mount and Havertz who were part of our front 3 vs Real who played so well. Honestly.
 

Edited May 12, 2021 by OneMoSalah

[Vesper 27,266]

11 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

One of those days 

this happens too often

we beat the best team on the planet twice in a row and then play like ass

its maddening

[DDA 9,570]

10 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Bar the fact we haven’t scored and conceded from an error from Jorginho, all in all we have played alright, controlled the game very well and had 3/4 chances we should of scored at least one from. People severely overreacting. Yes a lot of the plays in front of them but the talks of disgrace/whatever else is a bit far fetched but unsurprising. 

Overreacting? 

Behave! We should have been 1-0 up before Jorghino decides to try and score a no look OG. 

After that we play slow unimaginative football against a shit Arsenal side. 

Fucking far from overreacting. 

It's not good enough.. from the missed chance to the mistakes in such a big game.

[Superblue 6,331]

8 minutes ago, Mana said:

This is pathetic from Tuchel really. You should always play your strongest XI until job done. We have an opportunity to get top 4 all but secured and we are fecking it up. Especially when we play Leicester the next PL game.

He'd get hammered on here if he didn't rotate and someone like Kante picked up a season ending injury.

[King Kante 1,286]

This is why we need an athletic CM who is able to also score/assist. 

[NikkiCFC 7,559]

Just now, Mana said:

We didn’t play our strongest XI against City, so your point is moot. 

We rested one group of players in that game. Now second group. 

[hiterto 35]

Only positive is how well Gilmour playing. Overall we are by far the better team. Even a draw will be good enough if we can get one.

[Laylabelle 9,293]

Hopefully we can get a early goal..if we lose cause of that stupid moment....

[Azul 1,615]

It was Jorginho's capitulation that gave us our first loss under Tuchel against WBA and now he's choking again. He's making me hard to like him as a player, the guy is a ticking timebomb waiting to go off. Very unreliable player that shouldn't touch that CL final.

[NikkiCFC 7,559]

1 minute ago, Superblue_1986 said:

He'd get hammered on here if he didn't rotate and someone like Kante picked up a season ending injury.

Yeah, I remember shit Sarri got for RLC injury. 

[Tomo 21,680]

1 minute ago, Mana said:

We didn’t play our strongest XI against City either, so your point is moot.

Securing top 4 is better than winning the FA Cup. Imagine we don’t get CL from THIS position in the end, but we just have a FA Cup. Not good enough.

It's not really, with the run of the last few games all of our untouchables needed atleast one game without starting (I mentioned it a few days ago) and we've gone for half vs City and half tonight.

The alternative is flog the best Xl to death and likely end up with a situation of the run in of 2015 were our players were running on empty.

[chippy 342]

2 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Complete and total control, carving them open repeatedly, barely allowing them a sniff. But simply cannot score.

We also have nobody except for Mount on rare occasions who can score from a shot outside the box. We basically have to walk it in.

Again tho, our top scorer has a feeble 6 fecking goals. Our misses chances have plagued us all season long and its to late to fix it now. 

No team can expect to get by game after game reyling on keeping clean sheets. No matter how well the team is playing and dominating, just one goal against us against even the shitiest of teams and we're in trouble.

[Superblue 6,331]

The calamitous error aside, whilst we haven't played great we've played more than well enough to be level or winning this game. More than enough chances, but again no clinical edge to our game.

The problem is now we're against a team who are set up to thrive like this - 10 men behind the ball, unwilling to be moved around.

We don't make it easy for ourselves, we never have.

[Jase 43,479]

Havertz looked so slow when he was running through on goal for THAT chance miss.

And looking at the goal again, Zouma really shouldn't be playing at all...

[Magic Lamps 11,434]

Just now, Superblue_1986 said:

The calamitous error aside, whilst we haven't played great we've played more than well enough to be level or winning this game. More than enough chances, but again no clinical edge to our game.

The problem is now we're against a team who are set up to thrive like this - 10 men behind the ball, unwilling to be moved around.

We don't make it easy for ourselves, we never have.

Enough chances for us means like 10 per goal. That is why we are huge underdogs for the CL. We can’t finish our many chances and we have started to make individual errors again

[Laylabelle 9,293]

And we should be 1-0 up before that but noooo 

[DH1988 1,192]

When Mount learns to place his shots.. Too often in great positions to then hit it straight at the keeper.