Conte’s subs are genuinely worse than Rafas, stop taking hazard off for f**k sake. 

Disappointing loss and I honestly put most of the blame on Conte. His substitutions were too little and too late.

Title challenges are built on not playing well and winning anyway.
Fed up of the whole "but we were the better team" malarkey, being the better team and not winning is Spurs mentality.

I don't think a jammy loss or draw was unexpected but the nature of it is what makes it unacceptable. Even more annoying how decent we were against Barcelona than we get this sh*tshow after a decent first half, there's no f**king consistency in our shenanigans.

1 minute ago, Strider6003 said:

@Malcolm9

Seriously who is really going to pay good money for Morata?

Giroud was our striker in form and after the rest against Barca should have started.

Hopefully some Chinese club :D

Honestly the guy just needs to man up, we need aggression up top, not some mopey little tart. Giroud showed tenacity when he came on but it was to late to really change the outcome.

Players dont care about top 4. The slow pace and lack of desire cannot be excused. We were't outplayed. They just dont care about the league and top 4. 

2 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

Title challenges are built on not playing well and winning anyway.
Fed up of the whole "but we were the better team" malarkey, being the better team and not winning is Spurs mentality.

We werent the better team. We started the game hot and just did the opposite second half. We were like Mcgregor in the Mayweather fight. Shame at how we ran out of gas

Just want to see City destroy Arsenal but knowing our luck and theirs, those jammy gunner bastards will probably turn up. 

so is everyone ok with this call?

 

I don't know why bs like this happens to CFC

Edited February 25, 20188 yr by robdog

Well all i can say is thank **** we don't have to watch a Jose XI again this season. 

Just now, zes said:

Players dont care about top 4. The slow pace and lack of desire cannot be excused. We were't outplayed. They just dont care about the league and top 4. 

I don't think it's that, Jose's style made us play slowly, they were scared of the lightning counter

Missing out on top 4 is gonna be catastrophic, no world class signing,and probably hazard and courtouis gone, thanks conte

15 minutes ago, EdinburghBlue said:

Hazard was very poor, if that was any other player people would be screaming for him to be hooked.

Hazard isn't other players though.

1 minute ago, Jamjar1986 said:

Missing out on top 4 is gonna be catastrophic, no world class signing,and probably hazard and courtouis gone, thanks conte

If Hazard can stick with us through 10th place, I'm sure he'll stay.

2 minutes ago, coco said:

Well all i can say is thank **** we don't have to watch a Jose XI again this season. 

There is still the fa cup unfortunately, and to some degree the champions league,

 

10 minutes ago, enigma said:

people crying over one loss away at utd and being the better side, but forget our rivals have to play each other. this loss isn't going to define our season yet. come back to me in 5 games time, my opinion might change haha

I don't think people would be so upset and complain if we actually looked like we wanted to win that game, at no point in the 2nd half did we really take it to United, we just crumbled in to a heap of turd. We've been spanked by average sides this season, so I can't see the table looking a lot different in 5 games time, europa league is the likely destination. 

1 minute ago, Ernie_blue said:

Hazard isn't other players though.

Exactly! Taking your best player off who can influence the game at any moment will not help anything when you’re replacing that player with Pedro. 

Hazard gets subbed off far too much for my liking. 

I mentioned Zappa before the game, has defiantly been the player more in form going forward as a wingback, backed up by the game. Young at LB should have been taken advantage off, wasn't Lindeolf on that side too.

Just now, The Don Antonio said:

There is still the fa cup unfortunately, and to some degree the champions league,

 

So a maximum of 3 extra Jose specials coming up, oh goodie!

9 minutes ago, Slojo said:

Conte’s subs are genuinely worse than Rafas, stop taking hazard off for f**k sake. 

have to disagree here, he was largely ineffective in this match, slowed a lot of our advances and hesitated to shoot.

I actually can't stand Mourinho anymore either.

7 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I'm losing the will to get excited for any football match these days. It's happening in almost every game. I don't give a sh*t what anybody says, we don't get the decision's that any of the other 5 teams around us get, and that is a fact. If anybody is denying that then they clearly aren't paying attention to our matches and our rivals. Even the minor decision's like going in strong and winning the ball fairly, it's always a foul when we do it, it's always a good tackle when it's against us though. I seen Watford putting in tackles like Morata's against us a few weeks back and it was a fair tackle apparently.

 

I need a break from football, the end of the season can't come soon enough. It's just draining and i haven't enjoyed it all season.

I share a different opinion in that aspect. While their tackles were harder than ours - it was not all tackles were foul can be adjudged easily. Also dont forget they are the home team so referees tend to go easier. Also, they are stronger, taller than us and strength will always win out in the end in tackles. Moratta also has a habit of going down too easily and now he has that label. If he wants that label to go away then he needs to be on his feet more +  Conte needs to stop putting him in hold up roles. In all reality, United have a better squad than us. I am gutted we lost but the loss falls mostly on us than on the referees.

Pretty much what I expected. Top 4 is going to be very difficult now.

We didn't deserve to lose that one, a draw at the very least, am more pissed off than the Bournemouth game!

 

Just now, magichat said:

have to disagree here, he was largely ineffective in this match, slowed a lot of our advances and hesitated to shoot.

And I’ve seen plenty of times where Hazard is quiet but still creates something out of nothing. 

He makes things happen. Subbing him off for Pedro is not a keen gamble, who here thought that was a good idea when it happened? I bet it’s not a 50/50