2 minutes ago, Chelsbear said:

Embarrassing. Costa and Matic make my eyes bleed

Hahaha if I didn't laugh, I'd cry but I totally agree, I just can't see what Conte see's in Matic or Costa's form at the moment, truly baffling.

Edited April 16, 20179 yr by EdinburghBlue
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Any chance the ref pulls a hammy at half time?

9 minutes ago, Kev56 said:

Get Costa off ffs. 

What a complete waste of space. He could get sent off but would we notice the difference as we're playing with 10 men as it is. Would like to see us really go for this and get Bats on along with Fabregas and RLC.

 

COME ON THE CHELS!!!

That was an awful first half performance from us, no ifs no buts. We need to step up massively in the 2nd half.

3 minutes ago, Cam said:

Awful half. Nothing good to point out.

I would say Kante is pretty decent

Costa is an absolute embarrassment 

We look so off it in incredible.

Pls subs after HT. Definatly COSTA!

Nightmare first half performance, we've played to their strengths and negated ours. Too many positional changes to be cohesive. Cesc on immediately and 352  for me , yep Pedro to LWB  is risky but we just aren't in this game at present.

Costa has to sit this half....play a false 9 by bringing on Willian  or let Batman or RLC play in Costa's place.....Matic offers nothing, so nothing to lose by bring on Cesc.

We are behind to a goal with a handball in the build up.  Ref Should have given that It's ridiculous our luck today. You couldn't make it up. We are trying but our shape isn't good with Alonso out. We need a piece of magic from Hazard or Costa. PRAY.

2 things i fear  starting  Begovic or Ivanovich  

Somebody in the Chelsea squad needs to put some laxatives in the refs half time beverage

Giving a mid table team far too much respect, thank god united cant finish could've easily down 3 goals if it's spuds/city

Seems like kante the only player on the pitch, everybody else sleepwalking 

3 minutes ago, TheChelseaBlues said:

My favorite so far has been him applauding the kick Hazard strategy in the last game about 3 times and saying no way should Herrera have been sent off. 

Lol, that's absolute nonsense. Kicking top players is not a strategy, it's cheating, this referee has let it all go and not dished out one card. It's the theatre of cheating.

Edited April 16, 20179 yr by Floyd25

49 minutes ago, TheChelsRVA said:

I thought I saw him grabbing his hamstring?  If it's just illness then that is better obviously

Under the weather they say.

the only positive thing about that half is that we cant play that poorly again 

cant do any worse in the second half surely

 

only thing worse than watching that was listening to the commentary. apparently pedro and hazard are tactically clueless and conte can only scratch his chin as he's being outwitted by master mourinho.

 

LOL @ the presenter trying to get souness to focus on herreras pass and not the handball. its like so what if its a handball its f**king chelsea, look at that pass instead!

Costa was an embarrassment, he's done nothing but look like an idiot the first half. Even if we put someone on who does nothing at least he won't pull the stuff Costa was in the first half.

We look completely ineffectual, that half could've lasted 450 minutes and I don't think we'd have even had a good chance, let alone a goal.

3 minutes ago, TheChelseaBlues said:

If anyone is watching the US broadcast, the f**kin American guy is worse than Neville. 

Handball? No, Herrera didn't know anything about it. Rojo hits Costa around the neck, Diego is in trouble if he keeps it up. 

My favorite so far has been him applauding the kick Hazard strategy in the last game about 3 times and saying no way should Herrera have been sent off. 

Martino is a self-admitted Arsenal fan.... as well as a douchebag... which is redundant, I know.    

When Sky put Lampards name up it says "Won five major trophies under Jose Mourinho"

No mention of the 11 trophies he won for us.

Man Utd 1-0 Chelsea HT:

Shots: 4-1

Possession: 55%-45%

Chances created: 2-0

Pass accuracy: 80-71%

Fouls: 8-14

 

Just now, Floyd25 said:

Lol, that's absolute nonsense. Kicking top players is not a strategy, it's cheating, this referee has let it all go and not dished out one card.

Kyle Martino is his name and I swear to god he brought up in the first 15 minutes what a great strategy it was, it just didn't work because Herrera was unjustly sent off. This is why America struggles to play good football

the two injuries before the game would have threw things out for conte. nobody can foresee injuries like that. a week before, fine, but an hour before the game is harsh. we haven't been good, but for all the w**king over mourinho's formation/tactics, utd are ahead due to a wrong handball decision which immediately changed the game for us. i thought we were the better team up until their goal too. 

Lingard and Rashford just showed themselves against us. I just hope Conte will bench Costa, give RLC, Batshuayi or Willian this chance to play, he just stops our counter attacks, he loses too many balls. He does nothing.

After Conte decided that Bats is not good enough striker for him it has been obvious that we have been playing with a very high risk. The risk was If Costa injured. He hasn't but he has turned to be pretty useless. Now we are in a very difficult situation since we didn't get any alternatives for him during the January window.