Heart and endeavour but brains like a siv. Surely Slaven can see crossing the ball is doing nothing, zilch. Cahill / Luiz have had Carroll in their backpocket completely.
I think the squads being what they are we can rule out anything from the top 6 teams as we are way way behind them. There were some positives but I think we are far too slow and labouring in everything we do which means generally we lose the ball and teams like Chelsea are at our throats before we know it. We made very bad mistakes which cost us two goals tonight and you just can't do it against the top teams.
Beaten by the champions elect.. We didn't cave in but didn't create enough, also down to their excellent defending.. Both goals were soft , but not gutted with our performance, disappointed we got nothing, but fair result IMO .. A few injuries / knocks, just hope they are minor / precautionary ..
I think we played pretty well and the effort and pace of the game which we pretty much kept up shows we have a great attitude at present which means for me that Slav is doing his job well.
The downside is that the gulf in class between top 4-5 and the middle 8-9 is getting bigger once again. We played well and we gave it all we had but we do not have the class players that Chelsea have and that tells over 90 minutes despite effort and attitude.
Imagine if we heard tomorrow we were signing just one of Hazard, Luiz, Costa (?) Willian, Kante, or Cahill, we would be ecstatic, and yet Chelsea fielded them all this evening. I cant fault ourselves but slightly depressed we are so behind the top teams once again after bridging the gap last season.
I thought we played pretty well. The pitch doesn't suit us at all though, when we lose the ball when attacking its almost 3 vs 3. The opposition always look like they are going to score as soon as we lose it. I love Noble but he can't play the games at 'home' for me, he's not quick enough for the big spaces.
In the summer we need to spend big on some pacy players
All in all I think it was good performance, Chelsea are a very good team and had to be really disciplined, they know they were in a game today, the biggest difference to me was how quick they were on the counter, we seemed pedestrian in comparison.
Lanzini should have hit the target in the first half and I think we should have had a penalty when Fabio leaned into the ball, his arm was by his side and if the ball had struck him then I do not think it would be given but he clearly leaned towards the ball and deflected it away.
Randy pulled a worldly save to deny Costa,
To be honest it was a fair result, I saw effortnd I was on the edge of my seat most of the game and I cannot ask for more than that.
That was certainly not a poor performance against the best team in the league.
Chelsea never really needed to get out of second gear they were compact hard to break down and quick on the counter. First goal why did n't Noble cross it ! Andy and the two centre back are up and he passes to a player with two Chelsea players on him ;devil
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Rolled over and had our tummy tickled time and again.
Byram for Noble
Go 4-3-3. my Recommendation anyway
We deserve a goal I think.
Yes, we are loosing to what will be the the champions but we are not terrible.
;scarf
Lanzini
There were some positives but I think we are far too slow and labouring in everything we do which means generally we lose the ball and teams like Chelsea are at our throats before we know it.
We made very bad mistakes which cost us two goals tonight and you just can't do it against the top teams.
We didn't cave in but didn't create enough, also down to their excellent defending..
Both goals were soft , but not gutted with our performance, disappointed we got nothing, but fair result IMO ..
A few injuries / knocks, just hope they are minor / precautionary ..
The downside is that the gulf in class between top 4-5 and the middle 8-9 is getting bigger once again. We played well and we gave it all we had but we do not have the class players that Chelsea have and that tells over 90 minutes despite effort and attitude.
Imagine if we heard tomorrow we were signing just one of Hazard, Luiz, Costa (?) Willian, Kante, or Cahill, we would be ecstatic, and yet Chelsea fielded them all this evening. I cant fault ourselves but slightly depressed we are so behind the top teams once again after bridging the gap last season.
The opposition always look like they are going to score as soon as we lose it. I love Noble but he can't play the games at 'home' for me, he's not quick enough for the big spaces.
In the summer we need to spend big on some pacy players
Lanzini should have hit the target in the first half and I think we should have had a penalty when Fabio leaned into the ball, his arm was by his side and if the ball had struck him then I do not think it would be given but he clearly leaned towards the ball and deflected it away.
Randy pulled a worldly save to deny Costa,
To be honest it was a fair result, I saw effortnd I was on the edge of my seat most of the game and I cannot ask for more than that.
That was certainly not a poor performance against the best team in the league.
"Noble dithering"
Who'd've thunk it ;whistle