closed Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool

[Vesper 30,202]

4 minutes ago, Romans disciples said:

Typical Swedish cowardly imbecile , no understand .

Get back to your flat pack furniture and fuck off you pompous irrelevant apologist

fuck off, I am London born and raised you gobby worm

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

1 hour ago, Milan said:

At least we showed we some good penalty takers. 10 out of 10. Even Thiago or NG cold blooded.

It is also essential to go first in the shootout, I believe if we were first, some Pool player would crack under the pressure later on.

 

yeah i exepcted it to be over when we lost both coin tosses. the one who takes first wins in 60% of cases. Still remarkable 6 of our players scored in a sudden death situation. We will come back stronger but this is getting annoying, 2nd pen loss to pool in 2 years, 3rd straight loss in a Wembley final, 4 out of 5 losses in wembley finals. have not won a national trophy in almost 4 years (tbf we won 4 international trophies in that time which is better)

[Mário César 1,280]

in three finals this season we won two of them and more important. we loss against a second best team in the world with a very good performance. 

its sad miss some opportunitys but we have good sinals for the rest of the season

last season we lost one final and won another (50%)

this season won 2 and lost 1

lampard season lost two

sarri season won one (more important) and lost two (carling cup and community shield)

[OhForAGreavsie 6,077]

Two takeaways from today: -

• We were out sung again. No news there though I'm sorry to say.
• We must, must, must stick with TT and back him to the max. He's good enough, his squad isn't. Let's fix the one which needs fixing.

[robsblubot 3,595]

It was definitely offside by the current take on the offside rule, but that goes against the principle of the offside rule.

It is now benefitting defenses in a away which goes against the idea that the "same line is onside." It's irrelevant that the "arm" was offside. Players started their runs from the same position.

I think a very quick and easy improvement would be just consider torsos... no limbs.

Otherwise a very even game with a few clear cut chances missed and incredible goalkeeping from both teams.

I disagree with replacing Mendy tho -- he was having a monster game and his confidence was super high. It made no sense to me.

Edited February 28, 2022 by robsblubot

[Superblue 6,372]

10 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

It was definitely offside by the current take on the offside rule, but that goes against the principle of the offside rule.

It is now benefitting defenses in a away which goes against the idea that the "same line is onside." It's irrelevant that the "arm" was offside. Players started their runs from the same position.

I think a very quick and easy improvement would be just consider torsos... no limbs.

Otherwise a very even game with a few clear cut chances missed and incredible goalkeeping from both teams.

I disagree with replacing Mendy tho -- he was having a monster game and his confidence was super high. It made no sense to me.

The easiest way in my opinion to make it almost impossible to still be subjective as to where qualifying body parts start, is just to base on feet. 

This should be the easiest way for them to assess an offside call on VAR whilst also offering a small advantage to the attacking team whom I believe should be afforded a greater benefit of the doubt anyway.

[Thor 2,717]

Great game, great performance, and obviously not the result we wanted. 

I'm not fussed, since for me, we won that considering the BS method by which OFFSIDE is judged. The part of his body that can score was onside, so it is onside. 

 

Regardless, this just points to a bright future going forward. I think still at this point we are a team that can be the best in the world on a given day, but given our lack of experience, we can't carry it for an entire season. Liverpool went through the same thing when Klopp came. 

Havertz and Pulisic make us dangerous, and Mount really keeps our engine going from an attacking standpoint. As soon as these young guys can become consistent with the performance they put out today, we will be golden. We missed a tonne of chances, but I don't think it is a sign of bad finishing... we just had an off day in front of goal. It happens. We did put the ball in the net a couple times, but some close offsides as well. 

[Strike 7,492]

6 hours ago, Mário César said:

sadly we don't have the left back... cuz with chilwell we may has a decent chance to win the champions league again!

Even with Alonso, still think we are up there with City/Liverpool/Bayern for the CL. In one-off games, this team can break out of tight pressing and create chances. 

[coolhead23 1,147]

What a game!!! Not what I expected, I though Liverpool being in the form they are in would easily score against us but our defensive discipline was awesome combined with our offense it was a brilliant 0-0 game. Disappointed to lose but you dont mind this kind of loss because we couldnt have asked for more and if what we could are so minimal which is understandable. 

This is how a final should be ... all in, high octane drama, end to end stuff, end of it the sport comes out as a winner. 

Respect!!! 👏👏👏👏👏

  

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

8 hours ago, Vesper said:

fuck off, I am London born and raised you gobby worm

Love it Vesp🤩

[Mário César 1,280]

https://www.transfermarkt.com/fc-Chelsea/elfmeterschiessen/verein/631

[Mário César 1,280]

since 06 we won just 9 of our 22 penalty shoot out

in finals (included CS) we just only won 3 in 10 lol 

[milka 3,393]

Chelsea in European/World Cup  Finals : 5 wins in a row

2012 CL ,2013 LE , 2019 LE , 2021 CL ,2022 CWC

Chelsea in FA Cup/Carabao Cup Finals : 4 lost in a row , 5 in 6 finals 

2017 FA Cup , 2019 Carabao , 2020 FA Cup  , 2021 FA Cup  ,  2022  Carabao 

 

Edited February 28, 2022 by milka

[Laylabelle 9,535]

Urghh and we've started the quad talk...capeable but hopefully won't happen. Though guess yay for them if so. Poor Kepa..usually works but maybe Mendy should've stayed on. Didnt exactly go as planned. Though he did get us there with his penalty saves!

Maybe we can get to the FA Cup final again...mean can't lose that for the 3rd time running if we do.

Wembley used to be a happy place.. now less so!

Edited February 28, 2022 by Laylabelle

[Mário César 1,280]

If we don't count C. Shield finals our stats is not so bad since 2003

Lets see:

Champions League

2 wins | 1 defeat

FA Cup

5 wins | 3 defeats

Carling Cup

3 wins | 3 defeats

Europa League

2 wins

Super Cup

1 win | 3 defeats

World Cup

1 win | 1 defeat

Only competition we are really shit is the supercup but it is a "weak" trophy

final:

14 titles

11 runner up

is not very good but is not so bad....

besides supercup is not a really important trophy

sad was the lost against arsenal and leicster cuz we was a better team

[cosmicway 1,333]

Kepa was totally unprepared to take a shot unlike Kelleher.
I thought he kicked up some grass but nothing of the sort happened - it was straight into the air.

In Lukaku's goal the vertical straight line and Lukaku's arm are skew lines.

[King Kante 1,643]

Why is more not being made of Keita's kung fun kick on Chabolah? He needed stitches after the game. That non-VAR call is up their with the handball at Everton. 

[Fulham Broadway 17,320]

9 minutes ago, King Kante said:

Why is more not being made of Keita's kung fun kick on Chabolah? He needed stitches after the game. That non-VAR call is up their with the handball at Everton. 

Prick should have definitely seen red. Awful decision, like you say an Anfield decision like the one at Everton. 

Re the penalties, the way the decisions were going if they'd missed one the ref wold have let them retake it anyway # Liverpool bias

[MoroccanBlue 5,383]

20 minutes ago, King Kante said:

Why is more not being made of Keita's kung fun kick on Chabolah? He needed stitches after the game. That non-VAR call is up their with the handball at Everton. 

 

5 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Prick should have definitely seen red. Awful decision, like you say an Anfield decision like the one at Everton. 

Re the penalties, the way the decisions were going if they'd missed one the ref wold have let them retake it anyway # Liverpool bias

Well just look what happened now. 

Quote

 

PGMOL General Manager Mike Riley has made personal phone calls to Bill Kenwright and Frank Lampard to apologise following the decision by VAR not to award Everton a penalty against Man City 👇 pic.twitter.com/PulD9MxojA

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) March 1, 2022

 

It is genuinely an uphill battle for clubs that are not named Manchester or Liverpool. The state of officiating in this country needs to be addressed but it won't ever be. 

[Fulham Broadway 17,320]

39 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

 

Well just look what happened now. 

It is genuinely an uphill battle for clubs that are not named Manchester or Liverpool. The state of officiating in this country needs to be addressed but it won't ever be. 

TV covered sport demands a two horse race. Confecting excitement up to the wire ala Hamilton v Verstappen is worth billions in revenue.

#Fixsport for profit