Brighton vs Chelsea

[Reddish-Blue 2,406]

2 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

I'm not biggest Felix fan, as he still comes across as a luxury player., but moving him out without any attacking reinforcements in sight,

That's the biggest issue of all though.  Felix is a luxury player but he's also streets ahead of Sancho/Madueke/Neto. 

Felix was at least playing his part in the Conference league and could have offered Maresca a different option for the next 2 months.  

I mentioned it here weeks ago that Newcastle/City would get it together and opposition teams aren't stupid, they know as long as they keep Palmer quiet, our attack is useless. 

[gdlk 272]

From a title contenders few months ago to a complete shit show atm.. All that happened just from few words from our manager - we are not ready for the title! And everything colapsed.. 

I thin Maresca with his words just lost the dressing room. 

And few days ago he said again demotivation words like we are not contenders for top4 WTF? If you cant manage to get us to CL then get out of the club.. No need a coach with looser mentality and thinking.. You have to aim for wins only and finish 1st! Not some clown words.. 

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5 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

Calm down people.

We are in the position of fighting for a top 4 spot after a few seasons sitting in 13-14th position a whole lot.

We've had a season which had amazing highs, some inconsistency and we are presently going through some major lows.

It's all part of what makes a team. This season was never the season we suddenly were going to be amazing. Maresca has shown what is possible. Now it comes down to recruitment for consistency. One or 2 WC players and some south Americans are coming next season.  A proper center forward and a thiago silva defender is all we need.

Can't say manager and board were amazing 2 months ago and suddenly now both are shit. It just comes across as extremely spoilt. 

Stay together in bad periods. It always gets better. Work is needed, yes.

 But it's crazy we are near top 4. We've won 2 games since mid December that isn't top 4 material! Yet somehow at the moment anyway we've been lucky teams around us are also dropping points..

Mean after today we may slide down a few places but still be touching distance of top 4 but we shouldn't be..

It's the performance that worried me..yesterday was a new one! No shots on target..that is..

[Stats 7,071]

That was so embarrassing to watch and I could see from the start of the game that we were not going to deal with Brighton. Not one shot on target! Totally unacceptable. That bench is frankly embarrassing. That was pretty much a bench you expect to be see in the U20 World Cup. To think we had one of the best squad depths to one of the weakest is quite shocking. Everything that was questioned has now hit is bang on the face. Did not sign a striker. Did not sign a winger but loaned out Felix. I said it before but loaning out Felix without getting a replacement is one of the must stupidest decisions made. Mudryk is banned. Whoever is in charge for making these decisions should be sacked because they have left us depleted in attack.

Now Jackson, Guiu and Madueke are injured. This means in our next few games for forseeable future, we will not have one senior attacking player on the bench. Bare in mind the decisions to loan out Chukz and Felix and not buy any attacking players was done with us at the time competing for FA Cup, Premier League and UECL. We are now out of the FA Cup but did the board really think we could be competing in three trophies with that little depth and knowing that apart from Palmer and Jackson, most of our attackers are prone to injury. And ironically Jackson of all people gets injured.

It is just infuriating because we are going to see many more games like this where we are outclassed. The team is way too inexperienced and there is no experience on the bench either.

That was one of Palmer's worst ever games if not worst game for us. But yeah, really worrying. You would have thought Marecsa would have worked on something new after losing to them in the FA Cup, but we just looked worse. George actually looked decent when he came on at least.

[erinblue 20]

2 X games away to Brighton...6 goals scored....none by us.....1 shot on target in 2 games & people believe we are a top 4 side!.....we had more possession both games but that was because we foookd around our backline & put keeper in trouble.....they outfought us in chances, desire, determination, skill, final third passes, leaving us clueless, shitless every time they crossed half way.....

I would love to see the stats of how many passes backwards we had esp when in their hall...both games!........

How easy it was for our half press to be beaten & put us on back foot.......their 4 minds & striker put us under so much pressure we ended up hoofing it to their backline to start again........

How many billion for that?....& a youth team on the bench....🫡

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3 hours ago, Stats said:

That was so embarrassing to watch and I could see from the start of the game that we were not going to deal with Brighton. Not one shot on target! Totally unacceptable. That bench is frankly embarrassing. That was pretty much a bench you expect to be see in the U20 World Cup. To think we had one of the best squad depths to one of the weakest is quite shocking. Everything that was questioned has now hit is bang on the face. Did not sign a striker. Did not sign a winger but loaned out Felix. I said it before but loaning out Felix without getting a replacement is one of the must stupidest decisions made. Mudryk is banned. Whoever is in charge for making these decisions should be sacked because they have left us depleted in attack.

Now Jackson, Guiu and Madueke are injured. This means in our next few games for forseeable future, we will not have one senior attacking player on the bench. Bare in mind the decisions to loan out Chukz and Felix and not buy any attacking players was done with us at the time competing for FA Cup, Premier League and UECL. We are now out of the FA Cup but did the board really think we could be competing in three trophies with that little depth and knowing that apart from Palmer and Jackson, most of our attackers are prone to injury. And ironically Jackson of all people gets injured.

It is just infuriating because we are going to see many more games like this where we are outclassed. The team is way too inexperienced and there is no experience on the bench either.

That was one of Palmer's worst ever games if not worst game for us. But yeah, really worrying. You would have thought Marecsa would have worked on something new after losing to them in the FA Cup, but we just looked worse. George actually looked decent when he came on at least.

That's what don't get! Stepped it up after last weekend by being even worse which didn't think they could be..surely can't get worse against Villa..sure they'll find a way though 

 

[OneMoSalah 8,814]

Incredibly poor performance. Not one player can hold their head high. How can we have spent nearly £1.5 billion and be this fucking bad? Sporting directors have to go

[YorkshireBlue 3,163]

Starting to really appreciate Jackson now, without him we offer nothing going forward, still not sold on palmer as a 10 ancho gets worse every game, Neto runs and runs and runs and that’s it, endorsing I’m sorry but what does he actually do? Keeps are both dire and our 2 centre half’s are fucking clueless, anyone else feel we were now riding the poch wave until the managers tactics kicked in and we went to shit? 

[gdlk 272]

The young squad isnt an apology for Maresca! Look in Barcelona with what squad Flick plays, but they play football not some shit slow sideway ball passing.. 

[Mário César 1,050]

when there was talk of a title fight, maresca didn't know how to handle the situation. the break coincided with his statements saying that the management didn't tell him to fight for the top 4.

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38 minutes ago, Mário César said:

when there was talk of a title fight, maresca didn't know how to handle the situation. the break coincided with his statements saying that the management didn't tell him to fight for the top 4.

Why was there even a title talk? We were never going to compete long term..seemed a way to create headlines then be awwww damn Chelsea can't compete..

We're down to 6th atm..