Ipswich 2-0 Chelsea

[Reddish-Blue 2,361]

34 minutes ago, Superblue said:

I think what was most concerning, besides Disasi lasting as long as he did tonight, was how we created absolutely nothing after going 2 down. The goals have dried up and unfortunately we just aren't good enough defensively.

This is where the manager earns his living...

This is what we should expect when players aren't available at CB and in midfield. 

Feel like people forget that Fulham let Tosin go on a free transfer and he's our starting CB right now and playing Disasi is like giving the opposition an extra player. 

It's a shame that Lavia got injured again as he could have helped keep Caicedo/Enzo fresh in this run of games. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,361]

47 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

We miss that spark! We have players who sometimes spark but when they're off their form their off off. No one is consistant atm. That's why we're far from title challenges and need to get that back

It's not a spark, not one of our attackers tried to take on their backline.  We just kept recycling possession for 5 minutes, then give it to Palmer or Enzo and hope something would happen. 

Every time they won the ball off us, it was simple, get the ball forward as quick as possible and find Delap.  

The reason why we lost was because our players were complacent, sort of expecting Ipswich to make errors. 

44 minutes ago, Pizy said:

The most annoying thing about that game is that Ipswich did basically NOTHING as a team and won 2-0. Just Delap running around like a maniac by himself and bullying our CB’s single-handedly. They didn’t pass it around and press us like Fulham did, they didn’t smack in a hundred crosses and threaten from corners, they didn’t destroy us on the counter. They seriously just had 1 single striker running and hoping for a mistake from our defense and waiting to pounce. And we obliged.

That's the problem, not a single player wanted to take on their defense and give it a go.   It was like, "yea we're happy to recycle possession even though we are down 2-0 at 60 minutes".  

Also, don't really understand why Disasi starts when you have Josh and Malo on the bench.  

And then you hear from Maresca in previous games, "Felix and Palmer can't really play together as it affects team balance" and yet he starts both of them today.   

I can see what Leicester fans were saying about Maresca last season, they said he's a good manager but also frustrating to watch as he doesn't want to adapt the style of play to the opposition, prefers to stick to possession. 

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

On the bright side, we have endured winter slumps almost every season. Usually beginning in November then recovering early December and again underperforming through the festive days. It usually gets better with the FA Cup 3 rd round where we  normally win convincingly vs some minnows. This year we skipped the November part but hopefully still take charge again vs Morecambe in 2 weeks. Saturday at Selhurst park will probably be another eyesore affair but in the past few years we usually won there even with mediocre performances bc they just allow so many chances. Just take a few of them ffs. 

[robsblubot 3,539]

1 hour ago, Reddish-Blue said:

This is what we should expect when players aren't available at CB and in midfield. 

Feel like people forget that Fulham let Tosin go on a free transfer and he's our starting CB right now and playing Disasi is like giving the opposition an extra player. 

It's a shame that Lavia got injured again as he could have helped keep Caicedo/Enzo fresh in this run of games. 

Yes, that'd have allowed Caicedo as the RB. Ipswich used a lot of long balls which tests our defense directly... which tbh sounds like a great strategy against us. 😕 

Edited December 30, 2024 by robsblubot

[Laylabelle 9,388]

40 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

It's not a spark, not one of our attackers tried to take on their backline.  We just kept recycling possession for 5 minutes, then give it to Palmer or Enzo and hope something would happen. 

Every time they won the ball off us, it was simple, get the ball forward as quick as possible and find Delap.  

The reason why we lost was because our players were complacent, sort of expecting Ipswich to make errors. 

That's the problem, not a single player wanted to take on their defense and give it a go.   It was like, "yea we're happy to recycle possession even though we are down 2-0 at 60 minutes".  
 

Exactly. We don't have that player anymore who will do that week in week out. Liverpool have Salah who performs week in week out scoring here and there and if not him others.

City sorta have Haarland though he's been having a lot of off days...we used to have players you could rely on to perform week in week out and atm less so. Less attacking more oh this is happening what a shame this week

[Blue Armour 4,317]

10 minutes ago, Laylabelle said:

Exactly. We don't have that player anymore who will do that week in week out. Liverpool have Salah who performs week in week out scoring here and there and if not him others.

City sorta have Haarland though he's been having a lot of off days...we used to have players you could rely on to perform week in week out and atm less so. Less attacking more oh this is happening what a shame this week

We have Palmer., who is up there with those players in terms of stats and performance, but he has been alone in the past 3 games, with no one else stepping up to the plate.

We are overly reliant on him, in the past few games.

Liverpool have Salah in front, and Van Dijk in defense.

Our backline is terrible. We were getting by this season because our attack was good, and everyone was chipping in with goals, not just Palmer.

In today's game, if our defense could have held together even once, we could have won.

But no, you have someone like Disasi, the oldest member of that starting 11, goofing up like he did.

And Tosin and Colwill are soft CBs. We need at least one player with real steel playing in the backline.

[King Kante 1,504]

I haven't watched the match as I am away in Asia and it kicked off at 3am local time. 

However, people shouldn't be surprised by results like this. Our team is still young so doesn't have the experience to manage such games. On top of that Disaster has been starting so when that happens you know you down to 10 men pretty much straight away. That is also before we get to Tosin not being good enough either. 

Top 5 is the target this season. Hopefully, the club can get us a half decent CB in Jan and we can steady the ship. 

[bigbluewillie 1,862]

10 hours ago, Strike said:

We need to strengthen in January

But who is going to sell the top/type of players we need in January

[Reddish-Blue 2,361]

9 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

In today's game, if our defense could have held together even once, we could have won.

But no, you have someone like Disasi, the oldest member of that starting 11, goofing up like he did.

And Tosin and Colwill are soft CBs. We need at least one player with real steel playing in the backline.

It's a shame that our 2 best defenders appear to be made of glass (Fofana, James). 

Colwill's a good prospect but nowhere near ready to lead the defense, would be awesome to find a Cahill type who can slot into CB and calm them down a bit. 

I don't really get why we had Gusto and Acheampong on the bench, rather than one of them starting at RB?   Disasi reminds me of Bakayoko, just a bang average Monaco player. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,361]

5 hours ago, King Kante said:

That is also before we get to Tosin not being good enough either. 

Tosin is fine as backup.  Came on a free. 

I doubt the club went into the season thinking he would start so many games back to back, it was probably Fofana/Badi/Colwill to rotate and Tosin to fill in and play conference league. 

[King Kante 1,504]

1 hour ago, Reddish-Blue said:

Tosin is fine as backup.  Came on a free. 

I doubt the club went into the season thinking he would start so many games back to back, it was probably Fofana/Badi/Colwill to rotate and Tosin to fill in and play conference league. 

Yeah, if the other defenders aren't Disaster (awful), Fofana (perma-crocked), Colwill (young) and Badi (injury prone and very inconsistent), then maybe. With our current set however, he isn't good enough. 

[bigbluewillie 1,862]

Very good assessment of our center backs.

[Reddish-Blue 2,361]

On 31/12/2024 at 22:03, King Kante said:

Yeah, if the other defenders aren't Disaster (awful), Fofana (perma-crocked), Colwill (young) and Badi (injury prone and very inconsistent), then maybe. With our current set however, he isn't good enough. 

You forgot to add James (perma-crocked) and Chilwell (disappeared after that 1 appearance and part of permanent moving away squad). 

Put it this way, defense is the reason why we're likely to miss top 4 this season.   Liverpool/Arsenal are well ahead of us, City will get it together. 

 

[bigbluewillie 1,862]

Fucking disgusting xmas period 1 point from 3 games, I was expecting 7.

We’er back to 1 step forward to 2 steps back.

Now we’ve got a regular thorn in our side Palace as our next game.

[Special Juan 27,440]

Coming a mile off this result after the Fulham game, another absolute shite showing.

Palace next, that will be fun eh