Poor for the first 30 minutes, we woke up after the goal though.

3 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Have we established the whereabouts of Morata yet?

Injured giving interview to Marca 

Giroud and cesc both not capable of 90 mins especially in this heat. So wtf is the point in playing them both. 

1 minute ago, sonic90 said:

Lol Baka is having one of his best games today, thank god

Unfortunately Fabregas has taken his place in the incompetence competition.

Did I actually just see Bakayoko do that before the goal? Where did he pull that from 

Finally, I have my smile back when we play! Great first half, our defence is good enough to stop Salah and Mane, Courtois is ready for every shot. 

We all have to admit, Bakayoko has been our best player in this half, together with Kante. Something happened to him, he started to play. 

We deserve to lead here, even double our score. We must not stop, we must push and score another one or two, we looked very good.

Willian for Fabregas to counter them more and we will be high! COME ON CHELS!!!

moses, baka and giroud having a good game all together at the same time ... WTF?!!! this is unbelievable haha !!

Better after the goal. In a sense the tactic of playing sh*te for half an hour is working. We aren't a good watch though in this period.

1 minute ago, Andy2461 said:

Giroud and cesc both not capable of 90 mins especially in this heat. So wtf is the point in playing them both. 

My dog lasts longer in my car. 3 days and counting, he's stopped barking now so I can only assume he's pretty relaxed.

I guess it's the first time this season when finally a referee is playing by the rules and doing his job correctly. Let's hope he will continue in that way in the second half as well.

And roma weren't able to defend a bit vs pool? What a bunch of stupid motherfcukers hahaha !!!

Edited May 6, 20188 yr by Londonisblue

Who's this new number 14 that's suddenly appeared? Nothing like that useless Bakayoko who used to play in that position.

That's Moses's 9th goal involvement in the PL  ( including a penalty he won vs Newcastle), thats a very Good return. I feel lately he has been doing well going forward. 

Edited May 6, 20188 yr by DG19

Two of the Reds on a card too.

1 minute ago, Londonisblue said:

And roma weren't able to defend a bit vs pool? What a bunch of stupid motherfcukers hahaha !!!

Going to have this quote ready for our inevitable collapse.

Let's hope we don't sit back right from the start of second half.

Half time thoughts:

I'm happy. We started a bit too defensive (more of a back 5) and it invited pressure on us. But that said, i do kinda get it as Liverpool are all pace and no height/strength going forward so it kind of makes sense to play a bit deeper.

But I did like the way we worked into the game as the half wore on. Alonso and Moses both had very good first halves. Alonso was surprisingly good defensively and Moses looked far more dangerous than he has for most of this season. The cross for the goal was great.

Bakayoko was actually really good. Possibly his best game for us thus far. His tackling has been really good and his cross field ball for Moses before the goal was fantastic.

Fabregas was too quiet. I must admit, i wanted to look to see if he was being particularly closely marked by the liverpool midfielders and that was maybe creating space for bakayoko and kante or if he's just having a down day. I will watch closely 2nd half.

Kante was his usual solid self. Some really great stuff

Hazard skillful but nothing has come off yet. Could break out any moment.

Loving the workrate of Giroud. He's a proper trier. Chasing lost causes.

Conte's got his tactics right thus far today. I wasn't sure about Alonso over Emerson but he's been very solid defensively. The 5-3-2 has worked. While the start was a bit slow, it looks as it that was deliberate to slow Liverpool down at the start and then start to squeeze as the half went on.

2nd half we will need to out work and out muscle liverpool again. 

Edited May 6, 20188 yr by Guest

I swear to Vishnu, if we come out and do f**k all in the 2nd half again and lose, i'm going to be pissed off.

barça vs real tonight ... barça already champions, RM playing all-in in the UCL for a historical three peat and 13th UCL trophy, RM might come there with the U21 ... Or maybe they'd fancy beating barça for the first time this season haha!!

2 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

Going to have this quote ready for our inevitable collapse.

Well I doubt we'd concede 5 goals like they did ... May lose 2-1 or 3-1, but that's still better than 5-2 !!! Plus, City conceded 3 in a single half vs them twice (ucl and pl)... we aren't that bad I believe when we actuallly step up our game a tiny bit ! It's far from being great, that's for sure, but so far it's ok. Hoping we don't sh*t our pants in 2nd half though !!

Edited May 6, 20188 yr by Londonisblue

2 minutes ago, Zeta said:

I swear to Vishnu, if we come out and do f**k all in the 2nd half again and lose, i'm going to be pissed off.

I forgot that's all we have been doing this season. All of a sudden I'm anxious again

4 minutes ago, Zeta said:

I swear to Vishnu, if we come out and do f**k all in the 2nd half again and lose, i'm going to be pissed off.

Same here, can we please for once not defend deep all half, let’s try and get a second first and kill it. 

If we continue to out work and out muscle liverpool, we will win

If we let them over run us, then who knows....

We are defending deeper than first half