Rubbish performance players didn't look interested at all. If this hasn't shown the board we need some reinforcements then I don't know what will. 

9 changes why?

Formation change too.

Just asking for trouble.

We had enough time before Arsenal and now we have fixture congestion when we did not need it.

It will be interesting to hear Conte's explanation.

I feel the perfect way to sum Bakayoko up is that if a fan won a contest to be a Chelsea player for the day.
But during an actual match, you're so unsure of yourself that as soon as you get the ball, you pass it away as fast as you can.

Just underlines who are key players in the squad are now and how average we look when they are not playing.

Courtois, Azpi, Christensen, Kante, Fab and of course Hazard. That's why they start as often as they do.

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

Why do we persist with such defensive players in games we are expected to dominate in ? Zappacosta, Luiz, Rudiger, Cahill, Kenedy, Drinkwater, Bakayoko.......was there really any need for so many defensive minded players today ? We basically had 3 players in attack and none of them were on their A game.

Glad someone else agrees. This one is on Conte. 

Not going to say too much as im still bemused by that.We need a replacement for Bats now,he is not good enough.Luiz done himself no favours and Bakayoko wants dropping.sh*t performance,oh well.....UP THE REAL CHELS !

1 minute ago, Strider6003 said:

9 changes why?

Formation change too.

Just asking for trouble.

We had enough time before Arsenal and now we have fixture congestion when we did not need it.

It will be interesting to hear Conte's explanation.

"Weeee errrr play a lot of games, for sure, theee errrr season is tough, my players are good, for sure, and weeee will do better at Stamford Bridge" 

There's 90 minutes I'm never getting back.

6 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

OK - you tell me one thing, just one, that Kdb did playing for Chelsea that hinted at how good he might get to be in the future. (I've asked this many, many times before and am yet to get an answer) Just one.  Don't even need a youtube of it, just a description, a newspaper comment, a post in this forum, anything, something.  Go on, let's not rewrite history, let's just review historical fact.

Ffs its not about looking into crystal ball and looking years down the line. Its whether KDB was giving a fair chance at that point in his career and he clearly wasnt, i have not read, heard anywhere even Chelsea fans say he was given a fair chance. I have only seen you write this rubbish. You are making things up, no one was expecting the current KDB to suddenly exist within a month of playing constant first term football under a manager who believed in him, a manager who accused him of crying in training and apparently from what KDB said was making things up. Now i don't know if its true or not but its fact Mourinho can dislike players quickly, fact he can fallout with players and it has been shown in many many examples at different. 

Your talking about looking into a crystal ball, every fan i know believes KDB was never given a fair chance and its pretty obvious to see. 

It was the poorest match I've ever seen. How can the subs be this poor against a Championship side.

I hope not one of the players playing today complain about lack of game time. Only Willian and Rudiger did anything resembling an average performance.

 

2 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

My highlights; the cat came in the room, yawned and walked out. 

I had a lovely Chinese. 

My highlights: I missed a cumulative 5 minutes due to toilet breaks and fetching drinks

2 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Glad someone else agrees. This one is on Conte. 

Conte has to take some of the blame but you will get jumped on for saying it. He didn't look up for it and obviously the players was even less interested.

1 minute ago, TomCFC85 said:

"Weeee errrr play a lot of games, for sure, theee errrr season is tough, my players are good, for sure, and weeee will do better at Stamford Bridge" 

Haha, papering over his cocks up, remember we went early out of the Cup last season under Conte.

 

That was disappointing, especially what I saw from Bats. I've suspected for a long time that he isn't good enough but I still always hope to see him prove me wrong.

Clearly, if Conte persists in never picking a player, it's because he knows a lot more about the player's readiness than we do

9 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

f**king hell, Bakayoko is consistently terrible. Did we even scout this guy before we bid for him, or did we just go on the hype surrounding the Monaco players ?

Double Agent business from Emenalo? ;)

2 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

"Weeee errrr play a lot of games, for sure, theee errrr season is tough, my players are good, for sure, and weeee will do better at Stamford Bridge" 

Also I want to say I was never convicted of match fixing, also I had never poked a cancer patient in the eye. Thank you

Just now, Ernie_blue said:

Conte has to take some of the blame but you will get jumped on for saying it. He didn't look up for it and obviously the players was even less interested.

Why would you get jumped for it?

The first 10 minutes of the game showed that the players on the pitch today didn't care. 

Like we didn't have enough matches to come. What crap the whole match. 

11 minutes ago, charierre said:

Most of us saw this in his performance in the ties against Juve last year and said NO. One wonders what our scouts saw.

Totally agree. He was being asked to play a different role at Monaco. Protect the back 4 and let Fabinho get forward. He is actually being asked to contribute offensively with us and he just doesn't have it (yet??).  

If we may criticise Batshuayi for his lack of movement today he received next to no service. That was more than a little down to Bakayoko and Drinkwater being hopeless in midfield. 

This is a guy on the loan train for me come the end of the year. Be very careful buying players from France on big money on the back of one season.

This is a squad that still needs major work. A glimmer of hope provided by the injection of energy from the young lads Musonda and Sterling at the end. 

 

 

Hardly any clear cut  chances created today for the strikers the creativity was lacking today cesc should have started.

6 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Glad someone else agrees. This one is on Conte. 

Once Barkley is fit, i think i wouldn't mind us going back to 4-5-1. It won't happen, but we have the players for it now, the midfield is full of options and players suited to the role. If we could sign someone like Mahrez too then i think that takes us to a different level. We are stagnating in this 3-4-3 / 3-5-1-1 formation.

Hopefully clearly that Conte will pick young players like Sterling, Ampadu, Hudson-Odoi for the replay... They Shown more motivation than some players today in 15minutes

Bakayoko and Bats are absolutely awful and this was against a very limited Norwich side. This squad needs some serious investment and clearing out of the dross.

7 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

Haha, papering over his cocks up, remember we went early out of the Cup last season under Conte.

 

The Final is Early?!!!

should have had musonda or sterling on from the start. playing kenedy was a bad decision, he's hopeless defending and going forward.