Chelsea (H) - 23 Sept 18 1:30pm ko - Match Thread

steve

;weep

OldCastleSwift

No Arnie, no party.

Big away win.

steve

again ;weep ;weep

buffybegood

Gutted no Arnie, and worried how many more games he'll miss ;weep

Lukerz

Antonio will cause them issues with his pace

But he’s not Arnie

steve

more games ;weep ;weep ;weep

MrsGrey

;weep

Deanscaleshammer

Desperately wishing Antonio well and hoping we see the power and pace we know can cause real problems for any defence. (He says trying to convince himself)

MrsGrey

Sideshow Bob always has one hilarious game per season. Let's hope it's today ;pray

jay_in_cpt

shame about Marko missing, also odd re Javier still out, thought he had a virus last week, must be a bad one... ;scarf

Lukerz

Antonio better turn up today

buffybegood

So, BBC being a bit odd and calling Anderson "Pereira Gomes", Spanish/Portuguese names always seem to have so many options of what exactly the person goes by (I thought for a minute we'd signed a new player ;lol )

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Hoping for a big performance from Antonio

He has the pace & strength for that role but he may lack the technicality/quality

Let's hope he has a big game

Also Yarmolenko needs to track Alonso to get anything from this

SuzanneClaret

coyi ;wahoo

MrsGrey

coyi coyi

I'm not expecting points, but am hoping for a good performance.

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Struggling to get out our half

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

What a chance

Antonio makes a hash of a 1 vs 1 after some good work by himself and Anderson

thornburyiron

Antonio is no Arnie. In fact he's no footballer.

OldCastleSwift

And another.

Missing Arnie big time

alderz

Arnie takes at least one of those. Chicarito does too

buffybegood

2 big chances (by our standards in this game) not taken by Antonio, can't help feeling we'll regret that.

buffybegood

What was Rocky doing closing down their keeper lol?

buffybegood

alderz said:

Arnie takes at least one of those. Chicarito does too

What about Perez, who was realistically the only alternative to starting Antonio up front, given the other 2 weren't available for selection?

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Yea Antonio should be bemuried those but he's been holding the ball up very well

If we had Hernandez he wouldn't be strong enough to even be in those positions

alderz

buffy

I don’t know, I haven’t seen much of Perez. Obviously I’m not suggesting either unavailable player should have played instead of Antonio

buffybegood

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

Yea Antonio should be bemuried those but he's been holding the ball up very well

If we had Hernandez he wouldn't be strong enough to even be in those positions

Think you might have started saying one thing and then changed it, and one of those versions might have been "should have buried those", but can we please have a competition after the match for possible definitions of "bemuried"? ;lol

(PS mods, really not having a dig at spelling ;biggrin )

welovethehammers

Anderson needs to track his runner. Almost gifted Chelsea a goal

PrestonHammer

Pardewsalegend would have understood exactly what he was saying. ;lol

Cuz1

Think the defence as a whole are holding up well today carragher full of praise for us on sky to be fair

alderz

buffybegood said:

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years said:

Yea Antonio should be bemuried those but he's been holding the ball up very well

If we had Hernandez he wouldn't be strong enough to even be in those positions

Think you might have started saying one thing and then changed it, and one of those versions might have been "should have buried those", but can we please have a competition after the match for possible definitions of "bemuried"? ;lol

(PS mods, really not having a dig at spelling ;biggrin )