closed Chelsea 2-2 Liverpool

[Laylabelle 9,296]

13 hours ago, Pizy said:

While maybe the right thing to do to establish that the manager is the authority, in this case it may be a cut off your nose to spite your face situation. Perhaps if Timo and Kai were match fit you can drop him without thinking about it but they’re both just back from COVID or injury.

We need Lukaku in this period. Especially a Lukaku who looks dangerous again these last couple of games.

If we lose these next two huge PL games (which everyone probably expects we will) and Spuds continue to win all their games in hand (which isn’t outside the realm of possibilty under Conte) suddenly they’ll be ahead of us. Like Arse, that would’ve sounded impossible not long ago.

That's the thing. He said crap but we've hardly been firing..then again guess dont know what's been said behind scenes. It's a mess

Least Arsenal only have one game to get played. Spurs have 3. Its bad that only us and City have played 21 after today. Everyone else is all over the place.

[Nero 1,794]

 

Corruption incoming....

[Laylabelle 9,296]

We've dropped 11 points from winning positions so far apprently. Crappy

[milka 3,308]

Pulisic ST or RWB 🙃

[OneMoSalah 8,615]

15 hours ago, Pizy said:

While maybe the right thing to do to establish that the manager is the authority, in this case it may be a cut off your nose to spite your face situation. Perhaps if Timo and Kai were match fit you can drop him without thinking about it but they’re both just back from COVID or injury.

We need Lukaku in this period. Especially a Lukaku who looks dangerous again these last couple of games.

If we lose these next two huge PL games (which everyone probably expects we will) and Spuds continue to win all their games in hand (which isn’t outside the realm of possibilty under Conte) suddenly they’ll be ahead of us. Like Arse, that would’ve sounded impossible not long ago.

I don’t think he has to do this to prove who’s in charge as he’s already shown on a couple of occasions he is the man making the decisions and had made some big ones. 

He is doing it to purely make a point to Lukaku and anyone else who might be thick enough to do anything similar, to the same way he also harshly subbed CHO on then off v Southampton last season for ‘not being happy with his counter pressing’ and then he subbed Mount off at HT v Spurs a few months back, although IIRC he did say he could have brought many off and then talked about energy levels, second balls etc.

I think the fact he’s done this sort of things before, the squad will 100% back his decision and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the senior pros have also had a go at Rom.

[Alabama 1,992]

1 hour ago, Laylabelle said:

That's the thing. He said crap but we've hardly been firing..then again guess dont know what's been said behind scenes. It's a mess

Least Arsenal only have one game to get played. Spurs have 3. Its bad that only us and City have played 21 after today. Everyone else is all over the place.

We won the CL without Lukaku while playing very good football though I desperately want us to win or challenge for the league but there is nothing you can do the kind of luck injuries convid situation we find ourself even Pep will struggle to survive....

Fukc Lukaku we are Chelsea...if he can leave the club today or tomorrow.. bye bye we will win trophies and play very good cohesive football without him  even though we lose today

Edited January 2, 2022 by Alabama

[Vesper 27,328]

1 hour ago, cosmicway said:

Lukaku went potty.
In Italy he was playing against high school kids.

the best CB's he had to face last year, such low quality or ancient players so often

by FAR the best CB's he saw were his teammates in training plus the first 2, and the old men at Juve

Matthijs de Ligt   
Kalidou Koulibaly  

massive drop off

Merih Demiral   
Roger Ibañez   
Nikola Milenkovic    
Berat Djimsiti   
Amir Rrahmani   
Alessio Romagnoli   
Bremer 
Marash Kumbulla 
Luiz Felipe   
Lucas Martínez Quarta   
Rafael Tolói    
Simon Kjaer  
Leonardo Bonucci  
Chris Smalling
Francesco Acerbi
Mattia Caldara    
Nikola Maksimovic   
Daniele Rugani
Maya Yoshida   
Vlad Chiriches 

the ancient ones

Giorgio Chiellini    
Diego Godín    
Stefan Radu   
Gary Medel   
Martín Cáceres
Federico Fazio  

 

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,742]

Just now, Vesper said:

the best CB's he had to face last year, such low quality or ancient players so often

by FAR the best CB's he saw were his teammates in training plus the first 2, and the old men at Juve

Matthijs de Ligt   
Kalidou Koulibaly  

massive drop off

Merih Demiral   
Roger Ibañez   
Nikola Milenkovic    
Berat Djimsiti   
Amir Rrahmani   
Alessio Romagnoli   
Bremer 
Marash Kumbulla 
Luiz Felipe   
Lucas Martínez Quarta   
Rafael Tolói    
Simon Kjaer  
Leonardo Bonucci  
Chris Smalling
Francesco Acerbi
Mattia Caldara    
Nikola Maksimovic   
Daniele Rugani
Maya Yoshida   
Vlad Chiriches 

the ancient ones

Giorgio Chiellini    
Diego Godín    
Stefan Radu   
Gary Medel   
Martín Cáceres
Federico Fazio  

 

I didnt even realize Pitbull Medel even still played.Such a short man

[Vesper 27,328]

8 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

I didnt even realize Pitbull Medel even still played.Such a short man

[chelsea_4_eva 1,143]

All this talk of will Lukaku be dropped for this match or not and here I am thinking how the hell are we going to get a fraction of our money back from his sale.. £97M we spent on him... sigh...

[Laylabelle 9,296]

3 minutes ago, chelsea_4_eva said:

All this talk of will Lukaku be dropped for this match or not and here I am thinking how the hell are we going to get a fraction of our money back from his sale.. £97M we spent on him... sigh...

And he hasn't helped his own image with that interview either. Obviously club would take him on but unless it's Inter they'd know he doesn't want to be there

[Nero 1,794]

My striker

[cosmicway 1,256]

8 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

And he hasn't helped his own image with that interview either. Obviously club would take him on but unless it's Inter they'd know he doesn't want to be there

Yet the draw against Brighton was not his fault and he has done relatively well apart from the time he had to be benched.
It was a crazy interview.
Italian league is no good these days. They won  the Euro because they have many good expats. Then we beat Juve by 4 to 1 on aggregate and everybody is unhappy because we did not beat them both legs.

[Nero 1,794]

I hope more fans doing that today. Let's show Lukaku he's not bigger than Tuchel 

 

[Nero 1,794]

 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

2 minutes ago, Nero said:

 

Not really huge loss aside Alisson.

[Tomo 21,681]

21 hours ago, milka said:

The next two games against Liverpool and City,  and if we lose in both, we can safely concentrate mainly on a battle in the top  four.

Remembering the second half against Brighton, I just don't see what we could do against Liverpool. It must be some unearthly miracle to  win tomorrow .

Has last season not taught you two games aren't the same ffs.

[NikkiCFC 7,587]

10 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

 They won  the Euro because they have many good expats. 

Really? You can say this about every top national team in Europe but not Italy. And that's why most people wanted them to win. Basically just Jorginho and Emerson are Brazilians but also with Italian heritage.