better 2nd half. Not clinical enough though yet again. 

Not a fan of var, it killed the atmosphere at the end then. 

 

Conte doesn’t know how to beat arsen Wenger it seems.

 

If you can't support us when we lose against Arsenal
Don't support us when we draw against them.

Just now, evissy said:

It looks like most of people in this forum expected us to walk over Arsenal here. Such a sour mood against a fierce rival.

Since when has arsenal been a fierce rival? They aren't a top four team and we are champions. Conte is just clueless on how to play arsenal.

Well we can't score for sh*t this season, can we?

We were crap, Arsenal were worse!

1 minute ago, EdinburghBlue said:

There’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back.

And my dumbass will waste another 2 on saturday against Leicester

VAR = Verifying awful refereeing? Looked a clear pen to me. 

This 3 at the back nonsense has to end soon. You need quality fullbacks to play this sort of formation. Midfield is too clogged because the outside backs aren’t offering enough. 

Have to do better. 

That was yet another terrible football match. It really wasn't much better than the game against Norwich. Too often this season we have looked like a mid table side rather than a top 4 Premier League side. I'm getting worried about this now, we just look so toothless in attack.

How does xhaka survive 90 minutes.

The League Cup rewards its semi-finalists by unnecessarily congesting their fixture list.
 

On a positive not I think playing away will be to our advantage, I expect a similiar game to the 2-2 draw in the league. 

Awful. Conte is too predictable. When I saw Fabregas on the teamsheet I was dismayed but when he was partnered by Whatajoko, I knew we wouldn't win. Poor tactics and team selection by Conte.

3 minutes ago, evissy said:

It looks like most of people in this forum expected us to walk over Arsenal here. Such a sour mood against a fierce rival.

You have really low standards of this Chelsea side if you think we can't beat an Arsenal B team at home with their manager in the stands. 

This should have been comfortable. 

A bad day for most of the 'office' yet still in the cup and just 1 goal needed to win.

No disaster but must do better!

teams have figured out how to secure a cleansheet against us, and frankly either Conte has no idea how to counter it or the players have no capability of executing our own strategy

Edited January 10, 20188 yr by magichat

I might get pelters for this but it’s my honest opinion and it doesn’t make me any less of a fan... we are f**king awful to watch, like literally eye bleedingly bad.

Totally boring game given the expectation leading up to it.  Didn't create anything of any note, but Arsenal came here for the draw and they got it thanks to a sh*te, sh*te performance.  It was drab, no pace, so casual, no intensity, no energy...a chance to take a lead going into the next leg.

I really think we should have gone 3-4-3 rather than this 3-5-2

its too defensive and we are left with only 2 attacking outlets.

not confident of the 2nd leg tbh that was a weakened arsenal team 

"Don't worry, Ross Barkley will fix all our problems" said Tom, sarcastically. 

1 minute ago, Stim said:

How does xhaka survive 90 minutes.

 

If they replace Martin Atkinson with a wet blanket, no one would spot the difference.

honestly we should just stick to counter attack and give the other team possession!!! when we're controlling the ball, we don't do much offensively speaking!!!! look at the league game against le arse : we basically relied on counters and 2 vs 2 situations, we looked much more dangerous against these types of teams than we've done tonight!! I mean, counter will be indispensable against barça so... But for tonight match, this was not that great at all. subpar at best. but still, we gotta support the club! UTC!!

Just now, Jezq8 said:

I really think we should have gone 3-4-3 rather than this 3-5-2

its too defensive and we are left with only 2 attacking outlets.

not confident of the 2nd leg tbh that was a weakened arsenal team 

And one of them is like bambi on ice when it comes to shooting and the other one is Morata

2 minutes ago, big blue said:

better 2nd half. Not clinical enough though yet again. 

Not a fan of var, it killed the atmosphere at the end then. 

 

I'm not a fan of VAR either, i seen enough of it at the Confederations Cup. It takes too long and they STILL get decisions wrong. That looked a clear penalty on Fabregas. Sky were trying to say Welbeck touched the ball, but that was not what happened at all, Fabregas clearly flicked the ball to the side and Welbeck stepped on Fabregas foot. It was a penalty.