Middlesbrough 1-0 Chelsea

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2 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

things have been going over his head.

all these kids on social media are super quick to start the hype and once he got his "cold" palmer hype and shit like that he instantly started misfiring already in the last game.

He is a capable player but same mental fragility like the rest of these spoilt brats.

Yes, there is that, but there is also the physical aspect. He's very frail and easily outmuscled out of plays. He's got enough skill to avert that most of the time, but this was a VERY physical game without VAR. Not surprising he struggled in such situ.

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4 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

Announcer here (don't know his game French accept maybe) claims Chelsea will struggle for years to come.

it's Frank Leboeuf, former Chels CB

1996–2001    Chelsea    144    (17)

Chelsea

FA Cup: 1996–97, 1999–2000
Football League Cup: 1997–98
FA Charity Shield: 2000
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1997–98
UEFA Super Cup: 1998

Edited January 9, 2024 by Vesper

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Just now, Vesper said:

it's Frank Leboeuf, former Chels CB

1996–2001    Chelsea    144    (17)

Ah thanks. That makes sense--he was super pissed!

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

2 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

Yes, there is that, but there is also the physical aspect. He's very frail and easily outmuscled out of plays. He's got enough skill to avert that most of the time, but this was a VERY physical game without VAR. Not surprising he struggled in such situ.

there was literally no physical contact before those 3 misses. He just choked, fluffed his lines. Clear lack of killer instinct. Nothing to do with his physical weakness which is obviously still a problem in other situations.

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6 minutes ago, Vesper said:

we have only lost twice to Fulham in the past 45 seasons

BUT one was in January 2023

We broke so many records recently of haven't lost to this team since the old ages...this wouldn't be surprising.

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Just now, Magic Lamps said:

there was literally no physical contact before those 3 misses. He just choked, fluffed his lines. Clear lack of killer instinct. Nothing to do with his physical weakness which is obviously still a problem in other situations.

Sure, but I'm not talking about misses, but the overall performance.

Physicality affects the opposition in a number of different ways: attacking players may try to apply the finish quickly to avoid contact for ex. Bullying the frail attacking players isn't really anything new.

[Fulham Broadway 17,317]

On the positive think we'll win the return leg

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Yeah it's probably in the bag, but this was really terrible. opponents may want to look at what Boro did here and repeat.

Frank remains very pissed on my screen here. 😆

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Just now, Fulham Broadway said:

On the positive think we'll win the return leg

yes, I get that gut feeling too

and we often play well v Pool so who knows in a one-off final

stranger things and all that

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ESPN RIPPING Boehly

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Einstein Poch: we missed too many chances

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8 minutes ago, Vesper said:

yes, I get that gut feeling too

and we often play well v Pool so who knows in a one-off final

stranger things and all that

Maybe they'll make a chance count! Rather then weeeee over..wide...to the goalie...

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Among Premier League sides, only Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest (32 each) have lost more games than Chelsea (31) in all competitions since the start of last season, while no side has lost more away from home than the Blues (21).

Yay....

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1 minute ago, Laylabelle said:

Among Premier League sides, only Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest (32 each) have lost more games than Chelsea (31) in all competitions since the start of last season, while no side has lost more away from home than the Blues (21).

Yay....

utter madness compared to 1996 to 2021

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TAA out for a month for Pool

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“The performance was good today” 

-Poch 

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I'm honestly done with Poch at this point. How do we concede?

A nobody gets the better of Colwill at LB, and the rest is history.

If Broja & any other defender were playing at LB, we'd be coming away with one foot in the final. 

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This cup run was the only goodwill keeping Poch clear of the sack. 

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31 minutes ago, Vytis33 said:

“The performance was good today” 

-Poch 

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1 hour ago, Magic Lamps said:

Even Palmer has been blowing hot and cold during his time. Gusto IMO has been our best signing so far with Petrovic being ok as well. The rest are obviously all pants.

Palmer unlucky with his first chance. Second one was poor but again without him we wouldn’t of had half the chances we had tonight. He is already our main man and our best attacking player this season by a mile. Too much responsibility on his shoulders when you consider the lack of goals from the other players barring Raheem who has 7 in all comps from these areas.

Sterling also being asked to be a more creative player than the role he was utilised at City is also poor management by Poch. Yes he can take people on 1 v 1 but get him the box for cutbacks/low centers. Absolutely scandalous he keeps asking him to go out wide and try beat folk 1 v 1 to create crossing opportunities. It is clearly a tactical instruction. He didn’t score over 100 goals for City and a huge % of them under Pep by staying out wide and taking on his fullback and crossing it in.

1 hour ago, robsblubot said:

Sure, but I'm not talking about misses, but the overall performance.

Physicality affects the opposition in a number of different ways: attacking players may try to apply the finish quickly to avoid contact for ex. Bullying the frail attacking players isn't really anything new.

Palmer was hardly bullied though? He isn’t a number 9 but he had the best chances and they all came from either his intuition or individual skill. Should of scored at least one, maybe 2 including his first chance which was desperately unlucky after he did the hard bit anticipating and intercepting the pass. He cannot do it all by himself though - already we are heavily far too reliant on him.