closed Wolves 0-0 Chelsea

[NikkiCFC 7,602]

1 minute ago, Jase said:

It was also gonna be a big ask to suddenly go from Top 4 scrapers to title challengers and matching the consistency of Manchester City and Liverpool in the space of one season.

🙄🙄

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, MoroccanBlue said:

most importantly ,Defence looked good today. 

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.

[cosmicway 1,261]

We 're picking up points.

[Pizy 17,861]

19 minutes ago, Tomo said:

6 points behind City = title gone 

6 points ahead of Arsenal = they're definitely going to catch us.

Make it make sense 😂

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. 

[cosmicway 1,261]

23 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

It was going to be next to impossible to create much today. Wolves had 2 banks of 3 in the centre of the park, the only space for us was out wide where we don't have effective attacking players and there's about 1% chance of Pulisic winning a ball in the middle against 3 Wolves centre backs well over 6 foot. That Pulisic chance had to go in as chances were always going to be few and far between.

We just have to accept where we are at the moment, literally decimated by injuries and Covid and from what it appears Chalobah and Ziyech both came off injured today too. The only way it may stop is if either the Villa game is called off (bearing in mind there game yesterday was postponed due to a Covid outbreak you wouldn't expect is cleared up by Boxing Day) or there's a break now over Xmas.

We could end up finding ourselves this season in a position in between everyone else where we're ahead of the pack chasing top 4 but not close enough to challenge City and Liverpool. That might not be the worst position to find ourselves in the latter part of the season if we're still in cup competitions and Europe as for once it may give us an opportunity to rest and rotate to concentrate on them instead of having to go full pelt in everything at the end of the season.

It appears next to impossible for us to create something from the central axis. Have you noticed that ?

[Laylabelle 9,305]

9 minutes 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. 

Yeahhhhh....theyve climbed from the bottom to 4th..and quietly! Sure they'll drop points but so are we..a lot. Need to get a winning run going then all be good but unfortunately..not happening.

[cosmicway 1,261]

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

[Magic Lamps 11,462]

40 minutes ago, Jase said:

Things can still change obviously but not sure why people are surprised by our faltering form in the title race. It was also gonna be a big ask to suddenly go from Top 4 scrapers to title challengers and matching the consistency of Manchester City and Liverpool in the space of one season. Yes, injuries and COVID have caused issues recently but easy to forget that this group haven't had a title challenge together as a group compared to the other two teams. City and Liverpool took a while to get going when Guardiola and Klopp first went there and even we had needed at least one season to "prepare" before winning the league in the past (2003/04 and 2013/14). A sustained title challenge of some sort or just a comfortable 3rd place finish without scraping for a Top 4 place again would already be an improvement on previous seasons. 

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

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

[Laylabelle 9,305]

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 1,261]

58 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

Not anymore 

2-2, pool with ten men.

[ZAPHOD2319 3,897]

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

[Tomo 21,684]

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 4,168]

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 11,462]

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 7,602]

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 21,684]

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 21,684]

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.