closed Brighton 1-1 Chelsea

[LAM09 7,056]

One win in our last seven league games. If we lose to Tottenham, we could possibly be outsiders for a top 4. 

From 6 points clear to this. Some collapse. 

[Nero 1,874]

Sell Lukaku. He is the reason. He ruined the team

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

To me, we dont look as together as a team as last year... the last time i saw it was when we played liverpool at home

 

Edited January 18, 2022 by chelsea_4_eva

[maxlev 54]

Pls someone should bring back Hazard and Willian for us. This set of wingers we have now are the worst under Roman Abramovich era. 

[Vesper 30,202]

as soon as Lukaku came off our play and pace picked up

[MoroccanBlue 5,383]

1 minute ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Looked like Man Utd at times, Lukaku and Ziyech having a row

The smug faces they had as they were subbed off. 

Honestly how highly do they think of themselves? I'm glad Halilhodzic didn't select Ziyech for the national side as his attitude is everything that's wrong with modern footballers. 

[maxlev 54]

3 minutes ago, Jase said:

Tuchel waited yonks to make changes and you expect the subs to make a difference with just 10 minutes? Kovacic did nothing. Werner did nothing. Havertz did nothing and looked off the pace. And oh, Tuchel also decided to put Werner out on the RW for god knows what reason. 

Would u have preferred Havertz who u wrote off the pace to play on the wing instead. That would have been far worse mate

[gdlk 286]

Havertz should have played No10. Not invisible Mount, who even lost his man at their goal. 

[Vesper 30,202]

and Brighton were missing FOUR key players

Dunk
Yves Bissouma 
Enock Mwepu   
and Lallana

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

7 minutes ago, Jase said:

Tuchel waited yonks to make changes and you expect the subs to make a difference with just 10 minutes? Kovacic did nothing. Werner did nothing. Havertz did nothing and looked off the pace. And oh, Tuchel also decided to put Werner out on the RW for god knows what reason. 

He could have started Werner wherever from minute 1, we all know he would of done fuck all. He is hopeless. As is Ziyech. 

All the attacking players we have signed in the past 3 seasons have been pretty much useless. 

I sincerely hope that if we are serious about becoming a title winning team, or closing the gap to City even more, that we sell both (maybe Pulisic as well) and just play Lukaku against FA cup minnows to he can be sold because he is also shocking. 

Edited January 18, 2022 by OneMoSalah

[milka 3,393]

Chilwell/James injuries aren't news to anyone. They happened ages ago and the fact they've not acted is a complete shambles.

Playing with Alonso and Azpilicueta  every single game has completely killed us .

And yes ... sell Lukaku asap . 

 

[Jase 43,479]

4 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

He could have started Werner wherever from minute 1, we all know he would of done fuck all. He is hopeless. As is Ziyech. 

All the attacking players we have signed in the past 3 seasons have been pretty much useless. 

That's not the point. The point is you make changes so late in the game and it's almost dumb that you expect them to make an impact with just 10 minutes. And it's probably made worse by the fact that Tuchel trotted out another system that we have rarely used and then placed square pegs in round holes. 

P.S. Would also be saying the same thing had it been other players that came on!

[lluubbeenn 174]

Too many games… covid…injuries(especially james and chilwell) but wow. Brighton completely outplayed us twice in less than a month. I can’t remember the last game, in which we had consistently good attacks and finishing. If corners weren’t a thing we would have been 6th. We should either win or be entertaining. At the moment we don’t win and are atrocious to watch…

If we don’t win a cup or two this season will be the worst since 15-16…

 

Fuuming

[laura90 556]

Chilwell injury, had we not signed Lukaku,  would be  the reason we wouldn't finish second behind City with less than 19 points gap

Lukaku introduction and coming back from the injury and starting every game is the reason we will finish out of the top four. 

You dismantle entire team when you put monkey in front of them who just stays there and waves with his hands pointing around and screaming. 

IT's easily visible  on entire team and I called it from the august. They seem frustrated and  fed up.

Those players won us Cl in their early twenties. They are not this hopeless.

Genuine question.

If our board didn't want Lukaku why the hell they spunked 200 mil on him. Why they didn't say too expensive, use Abraham. Like they did to Hakimi and Kounde. And almost every quality player linked with us from previous years.

One is certain, whoever puled that signing, did severe damage to this football club. Even if people believe they have seen the worse, they are in for the surprise.

[Pizy 18,928]

Liverpool lose their two best players to AFCON and will get them back in a BETTER position league table wise than when they went away.

[Nero 1,874]

How bad is Werner? 

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

Liverpool lose their two best players to AFCON and will get them back in a BETTER position league table wise than when they went away.

Forget about Liverpool. We will be lucky to even finish 3rd at this rate!

[Stats 7,147]

Body language was also interesting. Looked like players were fed up Lukaku. Players seemed to often avoid playing him in and when he complained at both Ziyech and Azpi, they both bit back, which you don't usually see.

[cosmicway 1,333]

At least that was n't like Burnley or Everton.
Under more normal circumstances I would consider it as a small loss (don't tell me that Porto who has the same colours as Brtn are better).
I was about to search the Amex stadium phone number to suggest to some of you to call Ziyech, when at that moment he scored the goal. But apart from that nuts from him.
Between him and Pulisitch I prefer Pulisitch.
Lukaku was isolated again and our long range shooters who found some opportunities always went for the roof (CHO=Kante=Kovasitch).
Kai is certainly not ready, that being the reason he is not starting.

About Lukaku again I don't think he is fundamentally different from Diego Costa.
The difference was that back then we had Hazard who was opening defenses with his solo runs and feeding Diego. Also Cesc.
In the end we did n't like Costa, because he was a heavy man and we did n't like heavy men. But with Lukaku we changed our minds and splashed 100 mil.

 

[Superblue 6,372]

I'm not at all surprised that Brighton have now played us off the park twice in a couple of weeks.

They play brave and they look to get on the ball and the front foot. Games against that type of opposition this season have proven that Lukaku playing in those games leaves us with a passenger that you cannot afford to have. It's not a coincidence that our performance against Liverpool was significantly better than these when you have mobility in the attacking positions to press and stop them playing, in exactly the same way as Brighton tried to do to us tonight.

Ironically Lukaku will possibly be a better fit to play against Spurs who are more likely to sit deeper and not look to wrestle control of possession away from us, but I would just rather he didn't play at this stage. 

I can accept players not playing well, or out of form so long as they show the right application. The lack of pressing and mobility in our attack when he's playing is wearing thin.