closed Wolves 0-0 Chelsea

[Laylabelle 9,535]

14 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

Maybe pool is about to hit a wall too. Spurs one up.

Not anymore 

Edited December 19, 2021 by Laylabelle

[Jase 43,479]

Just now, Magic Lamps said:

City finished 15pts  behind us in the first pep season and walked the league with 100 points the year after. I don’t think you need a year to compete first before winning the league

The point is having the time to build something first. Tuchel spent the second half of last season with just trying to get Top 4. This is practically is his first full season with us to build something sustainable for the future. It's not as if this team are already a winning machine and any manager coming in can just continue winning (like the squad with Cech, Terry, Lampard, Cole, Drogba etc). Guardiola took a season to fine tune City to his liking but otherwise, that squad already had title winners etc (e.g. Kompany, Aguero, Silva). 

You're asking a lot from a side who have not picked up more than 72 points in the last 4 seasons, who have struggled to finish in the Top 4 in those seasons to suddenly start hitting 90+ points and win the title. 3 of the last 4 league seasons were won by the side getting at least 98 points while the other one was 86 points. On top of that, people spent almost every week here complaining about this flaw and that flaw of our players and yet at the same time, are surprised when we can't match the consistency of Liverpool and Man City.

15 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

our title challenge wen tout the window the moment Chilwell picked up that injury. Before that I would not have dismissed it altogether

I don't care if the alternative is Alonso and while Chilwell was in form before his injury, I just don't buy to the idea that our title challenge went south because of his injury, because of one player and one who is a LWB. One LWB injury can't be the excuse for the entire team to go on a meltdown and forgetting how to defend and finish chances. Plus, there's no guarantee that it wouldn't have gone south anyway even if he had not gotten the injury. We have had so many seasons over the last decade where we started well, looked like title challengers, only to fall away from November-December. 

[cosmicway 1,333]

58 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

Not anymore 

2-2, pool with ten men.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,819]

I felt better after watching Spider-man No Way Home….a little

[Tomo 21,751]

5 hours ago, Pizy said:

Arse are winning or at least not losing nonstop these days. They also have no COVID issues and have no European football to tire their players.

All they really need to do is smack the shit teams below them like they’ve been doing whilst we drop points to all of those same teams. 

They've lost twice in recent weeks we've lost once.

They've apparently been on the verge of dethroning us since 2008.

[Blue Armour 4,446]

If there was one positive from this match.

Its that Kante & Kovacic are back and seemingly playing okay, and we therefore look like a more balanced team again as a result. Even Saul wasn't dreadful for once.

We really needed a win here to stay in a title challenge, but anyway I'm at least looking forward to the next match. If we get at least one player from Havertz/Werner back, we should be back to winning ways.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

2 hours ago, Tomo said:

They've lost twice in recent weeks we've lost once.

They've apparently been on the verge of dethroning us since 2008.

We have won  just 2 out of 7 games our form, arsenal won 4 

granted they are shit but on current form we are on a similar level

[NikkiCFC 8,327]

Just now, Magic Lamps said:

We have won  just 2 out of 7 games our form, arsenal won 4 

granted they are shit but on current form we are on a similar level

Even those two should not be wins. We did not deserved it.

[Tomo 21,751]

4 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

We have won  just 2 out of 7 games our form, arsenal won 4 

granted they are shit but on current form we are on a similar level

Exactly, current form. Current from a few weeks ago had us on track for a quadruple.

The reality is we're somewhere deep inbetween both extremes.

Edited December 20, 2021 by Tomo

[Tomo 21,751]

4 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Even those two should not be wins. We did not deserved it.

Yeah and we deserved more than what we got vs Everton, West Ham, United and Burnley.

Shit happens.

[LAM09 7,056]

15 hours ago, Laylabelle said:

Again..same old story. Except without 20 odd shots and dropped points this time..still didn't lose..they didn't score which is nice.. I guess

I'd actually like us to be outplayed/dominated for a change & manage to come out with a win. Throwing away points each week because of wastefulness is wearing thin.

Talk about lack of finishing touch all you want, but what have we been trying to address for two seasons on the trot (could go as far back as Costa's departure tbh)?

Edited December 20, 2021 by LAM09

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

17 hours ago, Jase said:

It's Wolves, who have scored only 13 goals in 18 games and these are their last 7 results - 1-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-1, 0-1, 1-0, 0-0.

That's binary code for useless🤣

[Laylabelle 9,535]

11 hours ago, LAM09 said:

I'd actually like us to be outplayed/dominated for a change & manage to come out with a win. Throwing away points each week because of wastefulness is wearing thin.

Talk about lack of finishing touch all you want, but what have we been trying to address for two seasons on the trot (could go as far back as Costa's departure tbh)?

It'll be nice..or a last minute winner that isn't a penalty!

Yep and frustrating a on going issue..more annoying as nothing can do except  watch and endure it..