Dinamo Zagreb 1 - 0 Chelsea

[cosmicway 1,333]

Orsic taught them how goals are scored.

[YorkshireBlue 3,299]

Few things, this is like watching paint dry, slow awful painful I don't even wanna watch this shit! Second mounts right footed right? All he's fucking doing is hitting lefty's 

[DDA 9,985]

It's the midfield guys 

That is where the huge problem is.

Azpi is absolutely done as a top flight footballer.

Mount is bang average...always has been and always will be. You can have the wool pulled over your eyes from the odd goal here and there but it isn't enough. It's just nowhere near enough. Compare him to Benardo Silva or KDB...and the result is fucking tragic.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

That was a really bad half of football.

 

Mount->Zakaria
Havertz->Ziyech

Please

[YorkshireBlue 3,299]

1 minute ago, DDA said:

It's the midfield guys 

That is where the huge problem is.

Azpi is absolutely done as a top flight footballer.

Mount is bang average...always has been and always will be. You can have the wool pulled over your eyes from the odd goal here and there but it isn't enough. It's just nowhere near enough. Compare him to Benardo Silva or KDB...and the result is fucking tragic.

It's a team problem this so static and stale, are team is basically 2 year old bread.

[Vesper 30,298]

28 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Orsic is very quick and is running on to the ball compared to Fofana having to turn and run. He's done well too on edge of the box as Fofana has come back, he's shifted slightly away from him. Difficult one for Fofana as any mistake and he's sent off in the first 15 minutes.

What was a mistake however was him not dropping off a couple of yards when Koulibaly challenged for the ball. Has to anticipate that, especially when Dinamo's striker looks about 6 foot 5.

 

I already commented weeks ago that fofana has so lost a step since his injury

he was not only my lists since the injury

I said I wanted to see a full season from him post injury

[LegenTerry 273]

Ok, I'm always for not panicking and being patient, never calling 'big crisis' or giving up, but  we are officially TERRIBLE. 

I thought we are going to win this  5-0.  Dinamo is the team who managed to get in CL with so much luck in playoffs. 

Their no.9 looks like 80M player, guy who is every sunday on front pages because of his lifestyle, with alcohol and smoking and nonchalance on the field.

Havertz makes me question are they playing the same sport. Like some predicted well, he scored and now he will disappear for next 20 games. 
Broja is on the bench after putting the most effort and creating the most chances in previous terrible Chelsea games. Overlooked because of the player who was expected to play maybe in November because of injury and experience from Barcelona. Great job Tuchel. Only thing left is to put Mount on no.9. We did not try that yet. 

[Pizy 18,994]

We have one of the most expensive and talented squads in all of Europe. A squad that any coach would salivate at having.

And yet we play as if we’re Everton who have next to no talent. What on earth are we doing in training? How does a side containing Auba, Sterling, Havertz, James & Chilwell on each flank etc look this poor? 

I’m well and truly starting to really sour on Tuchel as our coach. He’s a fantastic man off the pitch but the level he has this ridiculously talented and expensive squad playing at is completely unacceptable. 

[Vesper 30,298]

3 minutes ago, Kong said:

It's a team problem this so static and stale, are team is basically 2 year old bread.

one of the least creative Chels sides I have seen since pre Roman days

[Superblue 6,372]

I'd look at taking Azpi off at half time for Zakaria and changing to a back 4 and midfield 3. 

Plug that midfield to stop the counters. 

Need someone to sit in that number 10 position too, there's too big a gap and it's far too easy to defend against.

[DDA 9,985]

4 minutes ago, Pizy said:

We have one of the most expensive and talented squads in all of Europe. A squad that any coach would salivate at having.

And yet we play as if we’re Everton who have next to no talent. What on earth are we doing in training? How does a side containing Auba, Sterling, Havertz, James & Chilwell on each flank etc look this poor? 

I’m well and truly starting to really sour on Tuchel as our coach. He’s a fantastic man off the pitch but the level he has this ridiculously talented and expensive squad playing at is completely unacceptable. 

Agreed.

Top man off the field but this has actually got me in disbelief. I'm sitting here watching this totally baffled at how bad it is.

Edited September 6, 2022 by DDA

[didi007 69]

6 minutes ago, Sir Mikel OBE said:

That was a really bad half of football.

 

Mount->Zakaria
Havertz->Ziyech

Please

Broja for Azuba. hes clearly not ready. shame TT can see that!

[Vesper 30,298]

Crouch just said what I said, Fofana is perhaps not fully fit still, he has perhaps lost a step

I think he DOES regain it, but it may take a full year

[OneMoSalah 8,889]

Just now, DDA said:

Agreed.

Top man off the field but this has actually got me in disbelief. I'm sitting here watching this totally baffled at how bad it is.

Age old saying though, you couldn’t hang your hat on Havertz. For all the talent he supposedly has, what does he bring? 

Sterling and Aubamayang need time to gel but I feel sorry for both. Leaving City and Barca to play in this.

[Vesper 30,298]

2 minutes ago, DDA said:

I’m well and truly starting to really sour on Tuchel as our coach. He’s a fantastic man off the pitch but the level he has this ridiculously talented and expensive squad playing at is completely unacceptable. 

zero chance we would be this dire under Graham Potter, ZERO

look at what the bloke does with constant turnover, losing his best or at least pretty key players

[King Kante 1,643]

Should've been up when they scored but for some reason Auba thought he would try and be clever. Not sure why he didn't attack the ball Havertz put right in front of him. K2 is looking very suspect and Fofana looks slower than he was prior to his injury. Kova and Mount look disjointed but not really surprised by that with the lack of times they've played together. 

I personally would bring on Broja for Auba and then look to take Dave off for Zakaria and move to a back four as they're just trying to counter us. If that doesn't work after 15 mins bring on Ziyech. 

[cosmicway 1,333]

Haveyou noticed that we don't even have possession the last fifteen minutes ?

[Superblue 6,372]

3 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I already commented weeks ago that fofana has so lost a step since his injury

he was not only my lists since the injury

I said I wanted to see a full season from him post injury

I too would have preferred him to have a full season post injury but I didn't look at that situation as one where he looks alarmingly slow, especially as Orsic is very quick and has a few yards on him when the ball is knocked on. I'm more annoyed that he's not anticipated the situation and dropped off of Koulibaly. Both seemed to go for that ball, complete lack of communication.

Besides that though, I think he's looked ok. Been pretty aggressive in the tackle and looked much better than the other two alongside him. I don't have too many concerns of him as I think he'll be an excellent player here over an extended period. I'm more worried about Koulibaly who really doesn't look on it yet. Silva took a few games to get going so I'm not going to panic about it yet, he needs the chance to adapt but after that Leeds disaster he hasn't really looked the same.

[Vesper 30,298]

12 minutes ago, Kong said:

Few things, this is like watching paint dry, slow awful painful I don't even wanna watch this shit! Second mounts right footed right? All he's fucking doing is hitting lefty's 

Mount has been in a funk for several months

bizarre, no excuses

[Nero 1,877]

Ziyech for Azpi