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I'm going to be positive about this one. I genuinely thought it was a really good performance... showed control and passion. The only thing missing was better attacking movement and the final pass. 

Loved seeing Palmer shhhhing the Geordies... fucking brilliant. 

Thought Caicedo and Galladog were excellent. Galladog was everywhere... Caicedo did soo well to play the way he did on a yellow after a couple of minutes.

Let's hope we carry this momentum into the Wolves game now.

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1 hour ago, Chuckso said:

 

There is no keeper that comes to mind that I can remember that possesses Sanchez’s distribution skills and calmness in possession. He is an upgrade on sweeper-keeper Manuel Nuer got his reputation on. Added to his, what I see is, decent shot stopping - we stole him off Brighton. 

You have got to be trolling.

Sanchez with excellent distribution skills?

It was barely 2 weeks ago (forget which match) that he kicked two successive goal kicks out into the stands.

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1 hour ago, OneMoSalah said:

Hate to be doom and gloom but I don’t think we should be getting overly excited yet. In fact far from it.

Yes we are in the semi finals but the performance was still pretty awful in attack. We are never going to break any teams down playing like that and you cannot rely on other teams making huge errors like Trippiers for the goal every game.

Nkunku being back though maybe that'll change a bit but still think with us and how we try to play through midfield, Caicedo and Enzo… just don’t do enough as a pair for me and whilst Gallagher has improved a lot and probably our best player on the park, he has a limit and a role. The starting fullbacks tonight also limit how he play in the other half of the pitch I feel, I think you can see Disasi and Colwill aren’t completely comfortable and Gusto made a difference.

The players celebrating getting to a domestic cup semi final in that fashion, for me, is just odd… yes show of passion but I suppose it just shows where about we are as a club and that perhaps for now, getting to a semi final is going to be much more of an achievement than it was years ago for previous groups. 

I believe Palmer is the best option for leading a three-man midfield, as he's the only one who has the ability to make that crucial pass, which the other three lack. It's hard to watch Enzo in that position at times.

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

call me insane, but I still think Muddy can come good

he is one of the ten quickest AND fastest (2 different things) I have even seen

he just needs to be coached to improve his footballing cognition which, (contrary to popular opinion) can be improved

I'm of the same mindset. I have been challenged a few times about my stance, but I still believe he has the key abilities that are almost essential in football nowadays. If we were talking about the 70-80's, I'd have a completely different mindset.

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9 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

I was not impressed with Mudryk.
Spoiled two useful Chelseas attacks before the goal.
He capitalised on Trippier's error and scored his pen but that's not enough to impress me.

Feel the same way about his overall play. He's very wasteful, which is a hard thing to withstand at this level.

Maybe he will become employable eventually, but in the immediate future I'd stick with the clearly better players esp with Nkunku back.

I do feel he's a player for smaller team though, where he can make full use of his pace.

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3 hours ago, Vesper said:

His most notable Chelsea performance came against Liverpool on the final day of the 2002–03 season, assisting with the first goal and scoring the second at Stamford Bridge to give Chelsea a 2–1 victory and fourth place in the league, which allowed the club to qualify for the upcoming 2003–04 UEFA Champions League tournament.

The importance of this result cannot be overstated, as qualification for the Champions League was considered essential to Roman Abramovich's impending takeover of the club, which was at the time in some financial difficulty. For this reason, it is often referred to as the "billion pound goal."

I have to be pedantic with this one.

While ofcourse that goal gave us extra security the "billion pound goal" should be credited to Desailly as a draw was enough.

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2 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

You have got to be trolling.

Sanchez with excellent distribution skills?

It was barely 2 weeks ago (forget which match) that he kicked two successive goal kicks out into the stands.

I think when "on it" he does, infact i saw an analysis video a few weeks back about how he was a major reason we were breaking City's press so easily.

His issue is he blows far too hot and cold with it and often takes unnecessary gambles, ala Arsenal.

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4 hours ago, Strike said:

The noises around selling Connor when he's been the only semi-reliable midfielder this season is not helping at all. I think an exception needs to be made here 

Unfortunately, feel like Gallagher being sold is only a matter of time to help balance the FFP books.   Would be between him/Chalobah/Broja for getting pure profit on the books. 

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2 minutes ago, Mário César said:

Its a trophy

Its always important win something

Yup. This very cup win kicked off our trophy spell from 2015 to 2022. Completely transformed the mentality of the squad back then.
 Desperately want to win this but I think we only stand a chance if we avoid Liverpool. this lot is so poor mentally they will only ever win anything first time with a huge slice of luck. 

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1 minute ago, Magic Lamps said:

Yup. This very cup win kicked off our trophy spell from 2015 to 2022. Completely transformed the mentality of the squad back then.
 Desperately want to win this but I think we only stand a chance if we avoid Liverpool. this lot is so poor mentally they will only ever win anything first time with a huge slice of luck. 

Kicked off trophy spell in 2004/05 too 

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2 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

If we won this tourney, we would get to play in the incompetence league btw. Not sure if that is a deterrent or an incentive … 

Can treat it as a tournament to give playing time for our backups. We have a biggish squad anyway

i think winning the league cup would change how we view this season and could actually help the current group build some momentum

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Any European competition is an incentive imo. 

The way I see it, we have completely hit restart and need to start all over building into playing and competing for the league/champions league. Conference league football (with the new league table format) can give our young players much needed experience and play time for development. 

League cup + conference league football would be a good start. 

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