I think people were slightly overrating the idea that 5 points was this insurmountable gap for City before even factoring in that we still have a game against City to go after this.
FFP is even more of a joke than I thought
The man is a disaster
Turtle in a little Chelsea-branded baseball cap
I think people were slightly overrating the idea that 5 points was this insurmountable gap for City before even factoring in that we still have a game against City to go after this.
City to win it, do the open-top bus parade and then get docked 87 points and get relegated
Do these Refs have it in their contract that their job is to agree with the on pitch decision no matter what it is?
Both the pet ref and the commentary team have been at pains to back every decision. That would have obviously been even more ridiculous, but I'm amazed Richard Masters wasn't on the blower to Stockley Park to make the league more interesting.Originally Posted by phonics
Oh dear.
Bellingham is having a risible game and should have been sent off for two yellows, second one (not awarded) was far worse than the first which was.
He just looks so angry all the time. Needs to calm down.
Emre Can has been wheeled out and almost immediately brushing with dismissal as well.
I'd obviously completely missed Scott Parker becoming the Bruges manager. What's that all about?
Deeply, deeply fortuitous goal for Dortmund. We are much the better side.
How many teams are going to concede from their own corner before realising you cannot leave 1 person back on their own.
Adeyemi is fackin rapid though
Only you could call a player carrying it three quarters of the length of the pitch, cleanly skinning a defender and rounding the keeping "fortuitous"
Chilwell our best player by miles, can we really not give him another 20 here and play Cucurella at the weekend in the irrelevant league.
It was a fluke breakaway from a defensive set piece after we had dominated the entire half, and their main player should have seen red.Only you could call a player carrying it three quarters of the length of the pitch, cleanly skinning a defender and rounding the keeping "fortuitous"
No idea why Lewis Hall has been kicked out and behind Cucurella after upstaging him multiple times.
You get away with it because you're quite placid about it, but you're the most biased and delusional fan on here.
Pot kettle lad.
Chelsea game sounds a bit classic Potter. Always finding a way to somehow not score.
Our ball striking is so bad. Everything else, best for months. Potter is turning this around.
Think we'll turn this around at home without their corny fans influencing the referee. They are laughably wide open at the back, all the time.
Chelsea’s composure in front of goal is amazing.
Does he just not have shooting practice? It's like the entire team just can't hit it with power anymore.
Such a horribly stressful and frustrating team to watch at the moment. Getting better all the time, vastly the better side tee to green in this match, but you just have to accept we're probably not getting more than 10 goals total for the rest of the season.
Get Ivan Toney in if he’s not banned for too long.
Chelsea should batter Dortmund in the return leg but they just don’t ever score more than once. I think they’ve only done it against Bournemouth at home since the start of October
Against good teams the possible results are 0-1 or 0-0, against bad teams 1-1 or 1-0.
The Continent with the Premier League firmly on the ropes.
I haven't seen much of his Chelsea side, but at Brighton I always felt one of the biggest 'problems' was not committing enough players to attack/getting enough players into dangerous positions - sort of an innate conservatism linked to the maintaining of possession and the way the team was set-up/the type of players picked. I think you can see this with the way that 'RDZ' has come in and changed things up [although I have no idea if there is a statistical improvement in Brighton goals between the two]. There was obviously also a quality of players problem, to an extent, which I thought might be addressed at Chelsea [although from the outside this lot look a bit of a ragtag bunch] but his Brighton team always felt like it was on the cusp of an 8 game run without a goal.
Worst team in the league at home on Saturday to test the theory. If Chukwuemeka doesn’t start, we riot.
We've been like that at times but with James/Chilwell have looked a lot more progressive. These are all quality players, but they've been bought as a baseball style investment project to have a run at the league in maybe 24-25 and thereafter. No interest in winning now and frankly no intention to win now. It's something that a lot of our fans (including me) and the media are really going to have to get their heads around because it's not the way club football has traditionally worked at all.
They left our one experienced number nine out of the squad for the CL which demonstrates better than anything that they aren't bothered about basically any result for the rest of this season. The hard part is when you ask fans to buy into that, or carry on watching.
It also makes me wonder if Boehly is all in on a superleague. In fact, it makes me quite sure that he is.
The Aubameyang thing is just really weird because they literally didn’t have to unregister him as could have punted their 3rd choice keeper and added the dev squad keeper to the ‘b’ list. Which they ended up doing anyway since Mendy is still injured.
He’s shite but at least he resembles a striker. Havertz just plays scared and spent half the game running back to full back to try make up for losing the ball.
Sky Sports News' 'Shebahn Aherne' asks "is Graham Potter really the right man for the job at Chelsea?"
This feels like the first era of Chelsea being a truly big team. Back in the day they could go through a poor run of form and it wouldn't be the top story in the running order but now it does. Chelsea Twitter is starting to pay off.
Good to see in the BBC gossip column today that
Not sure I can imagine a less Potter player.Chelsea owner Todd Boehly has met with Paris St-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi in Paris to discuss a possible summer transfer move for 31-year-old Brazil forward Neymar.
I also liked the wording of this:
Vorsprung Ducht ResearchBayern Munich have carried out internal analysis that has identified 29-year-old England striker Harry Kane, whose contract at Tottenham runs out in summer 2024, as the ideal striker for the German club to sign.
2 goals from last 18 ‘big chances’. Offft. At least there’s creativity there now unlike the past 12 months.
Lots of stuff coming out of Qatar this evening saying they've all but agreed to buy United.
Blergh.
Hopefully some Iranians buy Liverpool then.
The Iranian(s) is moving for Tottenham.
I don't think anyone will be buying Liverpool any time soon.
Blergh indeed. We'll see how I feel if it actually happens but I reckon I'm probably done if that goes ahead.
Will the fans kick off like they did with the Glazers?
I imagine some will, loads won't care either way, loads will just be glad of the money coming in.
What kind of kick off time for a game in Spain is 5:45pm?
I feel like United have often got those in Spain, though I might just be thinking of one and it's the only one I remember.
Marcos Alonso at CB, lol.
He'll be alright, it'll take Weghorst 30 minutes to even get to their centre halves.
Weghorst is playing deeper for some reason with Rashford up top...
There's some serious butchering of the name Araujo going on here.
He shifted to that position against Leeds for the period where we scored both our goals.
Is that a) because he actually somehow becomes useful there b) coincidence / in spite of his continued presence or c) just because he was out of the way and better players could get to attacking?
I noticed him drop deeper but certainly didn't notice him doing anything particularly effective but maybe I wasn't paying enough attention.
Both teams full of mistakes, both teams could've scored, Barca probably marginally better on balance. Quite entertaining.
Fred the mong.
I saw my mate
The other day
He said to me
That it's haram to be gay
It's not actually pronounced A-rah-oo-ho right? It can't be?
What a finish.
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