Maybe not the best performance, need to improve in that regard, but did what was necessary 2nd half to get the win - 3 points, job done, satisfied enough with that at this busy time of year. On to the next one!

I think were playing ok really, not on full power, but getting better at keeping clean sheets. If only we had won those three games against lower teams instead of losing we would still be in the hunt for top spot.

I don't care about United to be honest. They have been wobbling for a while now and will continue to drop more points playing the way they are. If we can get some consistent performances going then we should overtake them eventually.

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

I don't care about United to be honest. They have been wobbling for a while now and will continue to drop more points playing the way they are. If we can get some consistent performances going then we should overtake them eventually.

exactly. We've taken back two points from them, now only trailing one point!

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

I don't care about United to be honest. They have been wobbling for a while now and will continue to drop more points playing the way they are. If we can get some consistent performances going then we should overtake them eventually.

But to be fair we have had several chances to do so already should have been clear second by now 

it doesn't matter to me whether we're in front, equal or one point behind utd, we aren't getting close to the league so it's futile. 

bad news of the day is leeds winning at burton

Take the 2-0 against Brighton today quite happily. Don't think it was a great performance,but from reading the reports it did not have to be. However,we have found out that you can't take anything for granted this season. (Well apart from Man City!)

Overall a better 2nd half but we still need to be finishing off teams rather than trying to walk the boy into the net.

Seems like another routine win?

I suppose our form line could be worse given our lack of depth. 

1 minute ago, DaRick said:

Seems like another routine win?

I suppose our form line could be worse given our lack of depth. 

exactly. Pretty much our season so far.

2 minutes ago, Londonisblue said:

exactly. We've taken back two points from them, now only trailing one point!

The Mourniho theory goes as follows.......In the corresponding fixtures chelsea lost at home to Burnley, whilst manyoo scraped a draw, and manyoo have already beaten Brighton. So that means manyoo have gained a point.

Awful first half, same old problems of not being able to break down a defensive team. As soon as the goal went in, that meant Brighton couldn't sit quite so deep and that allowed us more space to play, and we saw a much better second half, where we could and should have scored 4 or 5 goals.

It's that first step of breaking down the defensive unit that seems to be the major struggle.

3 minutes ago, coco said:

The Mourniho theory goes as follows.......In the corresponding fixtures chelsea lost at home to Burnley, whilst manyoo scraped a draw, and manyoo have already beaten Brighton. So that means manyoo have gained a point.

Happy with the win and clean sheet.....UP THE CHELS !

Marcos Alonso you beauty

Is he saluting Roman ?

I read a few things on here about struggling with streams. This is going to be the case these days, you can't rely on free streams.

IPTV is the way to go, there's not one match I've missed this season through my provider and for the price of a months sky sub for a year it's excellent. Also got Chelsea TV which is great.

 

Maybe this Marcus's way of saying I'm the main left back in Europe now enough of the Sandro talk. Marcus all day everyday. 

6 minutes ago, Chelsbear said:

I read a few things on here about struggling with streams. This is going to be the case these days, you can't rely on free streams.

IPTV is the way to go, there's not one match I've missed this season through my provider and for the price of a months sky sub for a year it's excellent. Also got Chelsea TV which is great.

 

Still no need to pay for decent streams, i use acestreams and the acestream player when i can't get a decent stream elsewhere.

I subscribe to BT and sky so no guilt about streaming it either. If you can't afford it that's different. But so many fans criticise the club for not buying expensive players, and yet they pay naff all towards subscribing to the sports channels that pay for all these expensive players, which run to a similar amount if not more than the annual season ticket cost.

4 minutes ago, coco said:

Still no need to pay for decent streams, i use acestreams and the acestream player when i can't get a decent stream elsewhere.

I subscribe to BT and sky so no guilt about streaming it either. If you can't afford it that's different. But so many fans criticise the club for not buying expensive players, and yet they pay naff all towards subscribing to the sports channels that pay for all these expensive players, which run to a similar amount if not more than the annual season ticket cost.

I prefer full HD streams. I just can't watch football any other way these days. That's the benefit of these subs plus they don't cut off, buffer and you dont spend ages searching for working links. Its all about convince. I pay for top end broadband and that's it. Honestly saved me over £600 this year. 

Fans are being ripped off and the prices are just going to keep rising as BT and Sky all slug it out for the rights to games. Gone are those free CL games we used to get midweek. 

Half the battle is finding a good provider as their are literally thousands going about now but when you find one you question why you ever paid those absurd prices in the first place. 

Good win and united dropping points. Lovely late Christmas present. UTC.

That first half was almost as exciting as the hour+ replacement bus ride back to Wimbledon, the bus just shades it for me!

Sluggish side to side football without any killer instinct. Second half showed what we can achieve with a bit of speed and direct play. Hazard needs to stop fannying about and shoot!

Our weakness is not only struggling to beat bottom feeding teams, but when we do break through we don't have that killer instinct like City and Liverpool, who are relentless at scoring goals once the breakthrough has been made, whereas we tend to play around, back, sideways and try and walk in......scoring or even shooting from outside the box, save and except a free kick, is sadly not in our approach these days.