Dinamo Zagreb 1 - 0 Chelsea

[cosmicway 1,333]

No movement off the ball, movement of the ball at slow pace, inaccurate passing when the pace gets fast.
How do you expect goals, by whom and how ?
The exact opposite to Real Madrid whom we eliminated easily two seasons ago.

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

We were so poor it was unbelievable..

Then what happens he brings on Ziyech who actually made us worse.

That's the last I want to see of him, I don't care where they dump him, can't believe we never got rid of him to Ajax.

And what about this little snippet..

The Croatian champions have a woeful record in this competition - winning just five of 43 games before this meeting - but they stubbornly held on after taking a first-half lead.

Just about sums us up🥵

Edited September 7, 2022 by bigbluewillie

[cosmicway 1,333]

23 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said:

We were so poor it was unbelievable..

Then what happens he brings on Ziyech who actually made us worse.

That's the last I want to see of him, I don't care where they dump him, can't believe we never got rid of him to Ajax.

And what about this little snippet..

The Croatian champions have a woeful record in this competition - winning just five of 43 games before this meeting - but they stubbornly held on after taking a first-half lead.

Just about sums us up🥵

From Ziyech Tuchel was expecting some long range shots. He did n't find space.
Early on it looked as if Dinamo was nothing, they were making defensive mistakes too. After they scored with Fofana beateen for pace everything changed. We were woeful for 77 minutes.
We were not good enough for old fashion press either - only three corners,

Edited September 7, 2022 by cosmicway

[DDA 9,985]

7 hours ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

Ziyech totally bullied Reece from that kick.

 

How does a guy such shiite pull rank against our best player?

Reeces face summed up everything that is wrong with Ziyech. He is an arrogant little fucker who's ego way surpassed his ability. You could see in that very moment there are fractions within the dressing room and I do imagine Ziyech is a becoming a problem. This is what worries me about TT, is he blind to what the problems are on the field and off them too?.

[cosmicway 1,333]

 

2 hours ago, cosmicway said:

No movement off the ball, movement of the ball at slow pace, inaccurate passing when the pace gets fast.
How do you expect goals, by whom and how ?
The exact opposite to Real Madrid whom we eliminated easily two seasons ago.

 

* You can see that sort of football from Chelsea but only if we chance upon some really inferior opponent or not so inferior a few times but on their worst day.
From midfield downwards the Chelsea team needs to be rebuilt.

[Blue Armour 4,472]

11 hours ago, DDA said:

Has to be said but Koulibaly is not looking good at all. Second to everything.

Most shocking of all the transfers to me.

Especially after all the good things we've been hearing about him prior to his move.

Looking like a dud and not the leader we were expecting. Looks like he moved to England to enjoy his retirement.

If Tuchel has sense, he would bench the guy and give Chalobah a chance. At least at his age, Chalobah can improve.

[Blue Armour 4,472]

11 hours ago, Blues Forever said:

I was against signing him at 31. We also gave him 4+1 years.

4+1????

Fuck...that was an amateurish decision. Wouldn't have happened in Roman's watch.

Can't blame Boehly because its his first year, and tbf almost everyone thought this was a smart signing.

I blame KK more than anyone. The guy seems to be phoning it in.

[Blue Armour 4,472]

9 hours ago, Costa19 said:

Pulisic and Ziyech just downing tools and play for themself. So obvious 

We should have allowed the both of them to leave and retained CHO.

Dumbass decision to keep Pulisic especially. The guy only cares about the USMNT with the WC approaching soon.

[Blue Armour 4,472]

9 hours ago, milka said:

 

Tuchel sucks atm...but don't want this fraud anywhere near.

[Blue Armour 4,472]

9 hours ago, Johnnyeye said:

something is definitely going on behind the scenes, the players can’t be this bad, its the same bs happening again, revolting against the manager.

I think Mason Mount is the biggest clue here.

Something is wrong with the kid to play with so much disinterest as he has in the past 7 games. Granted he's not the most consistent, but you could see him put in the effort in games..

This is an unhappy dressing room atm.

For Tuchel's sake...he needs a miracle and a couple of big wins (same thing I suppose) to turn this shite around. 

 

[YorkshireBlue 3,299]

5 hours ago, Henrique said:

I cant believe we thought William was a frustrating player, then we went to buy Sterling...I mean, he is one of the most selfish players around. He is always trying one extra dribble, instead of passing the ball. 

Ballack and Lampard never won a UCL together, while both Mount and Havertz won 1 creating a great goal in the final, and  I will always be grateful for that. However, everytime I see both put their usual lethargic, anemic and passionless performance, I do miss that old english-german duo.

You couldn't be more wrong... Our problem ATM is pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass nothing. We need more players like sterling running at defences trying to take ppl on, as it stands we are far to easy to defend against.

[cosmicway 1,333]

36 minutes ago, Kong said:

You couldn't be more wrong... Our problem ATM is pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass nothing. We need more players like sterling running at defences trying to take ppl on, as it stands we are far to easy to defend against.

Pass-pass-pass and no spaces open.
That means there is no movement off the ball.

 

[Special Juan 28,187]

Another counter attack goal, I mean WTF is going on. 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

Honestly the only highlight were those cream tracksuits...

[didi007 69]

4 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

Most shocking of all the transfers to me.

Especially after all the good things we've been hearing about him prior to his move.

Looking like a dud and not the leader we were expecting. Looks like he moved to England to enjoy his retirement.

If Tuchel has sense, he would bench the guy and give Chalobah a chance. At least at his age, Chalobah can improve.

Give the guy a break. It's a new league. He needs to get used to it and will improve. Silva was just as bad when he started. VVD was not good when he started playing for Liverpool 

[Vegetable 830]

I know we are rather about ruthless criticism than praise here, but never thought I will live to the day when I see Koulibaly being Chelsea player, bashed for being shitty defender, lol 

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

For me there is certainly unrest in the dressing room.

And once the manager loses that there's no coming back.

The disinterest in the players is shocking, no fight in them, no pace in them, I do think we have the makings of a pretty good squad.

I believe in giving KK, Fofana, Auba a chance to settle in.

But as for the manger, if we sack him now there's no one to bring in, I'd like to see Graham Potter but even if there is a chance it won't be until next season.

[Vegetable 830]

2 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said:

For me there is certainly unrest in the dressing room.

And once the manager loses that there's no coming back.

The disinterest in the players is shocking, no fight in them, no pace in them, I do think we have the makings of a pretty good squad.

I believe in giving KK, Fofana, Auba a chance to settle in.

But as for the manger, if we sack him now there's no one to bring in, I'd like to see Graham Potter but even if there is a chance it won't be until next season.

I'm afraid with Conte, Sarri and Lampard it was strong personalities turning against the manager. Now we have no leader and no character to support the manager. I didn't quite rate Rudiger way of being, but I feel he was last one of this sort, now we are just lukewarm corporation, thus no signs of interest of winning for the team.

[Blue Armour 4,472]

6 hours ago, didi007 said:

Give the guy a break. It's a new league. He needs to get used to it and will improve. Silva was just as bad when he started. VVD was not good when he started playing for Liverpool 

You say new league.

But the brain fart yesterday happened against a Croatian team. Does he need to adjust to that too?

[ZAPHOD2319 4,823]

6 hours ago, bigbluewillie said:

For me there is certainly unrest in the dressing room.

And once the manager loses that there's no coming back.

The disinterest in the players is shocking, no fight in them, no pace in them, I do think we have the makings of a pretty good squad.

I believe in giving KK, Fofana, Auba a chance to settle in.

But as for the manger, if we sack him now there's no one to bring in, I'd like to see Graham Potter but even if there is a chance it won't be until next season.

Graham has a release clause in his contract. If we pay it, he can leave today. It has already been communicated to Brighton that the clause will be paid if there is an agreement on contract.