14 minutes ago, EdinburghBlue said:

He’ll be 45 and starting on our right wing.

This made me chuckle 

A lucky win, thats all it is, against a better team we would had lost

Generally we played well today but lack of clinical finishing made the match much harder than it need be.

Players and motivation comes to mind we were sloppy all over but won so on to the next one

Midfield was poor, exacerbated defence issues. Kepa was outstanding. RLC better than Barkey but not convincingly so. Thought Willian was fine.

A performance worthy of 6th place at the end of the season

Thanks for the 3pts but what an absolute terrible performance by us...Kepa motm went from villain to hero..

Him and his predictable subs HAVE to go

enough is enough

Phew... That's all I can say at the moment.

Very lucky to get 3 points today but I’ll take it.

I’ll put the sloppy 2nd half to tiredness. Still worrying how easily we got torn apart by Fulham though.

It's a win, but that was a poor performance, we were lucky to get a win out of that and not a draw.

Kepa was my man of the match, he made about 4 saves, 2 really good ones.

We made hard work of that.

Got fortunate with the offside goal at the end, so often you’ll see those given, especially with the defender blocking the linesman’s view of the attacker. 

We should be smashing the granny out of a team like Fulham, no idea why we played so poorly. 

Still so much work to be done under Sarri, don’t think he’s helped himself today with how we set ourselves up, back to pushing the defensive line up too high up the pitch and allowing the opposition to essentially bypass the midfield.

1 minute ago, Andy2461 said:

Him and his predictable subs HAVE to go

enough is enough

The only predictable one was RLC for Barkley only because Kovacic was already on the pitch and Barkley was pretty awful. 

We were bottom league standard in the second half. 

well that was actually entertaining. but why were we so f*cking dirty in possession though, it's like we kept choosing for the hardest possible pass option. yes sometimes it resulted in mesmerizing pass sequence, but lot of times it led to dangerous opportunities for the opp. had Kepa not pulled a masterclass, we would have lost the game guaranteed. oh well, thankfully we won so let's not moan too much

Oh well, more massively underwhelming and sloppy dross. But hey ho, that’s what we’ve come to expect. And thanks to Kepa’s MOTM performance we held on for the points and hang onto the coat tails of Arsenal and United.

Kiev on Thursday. What joy.

32 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Willian has done none of that. I think he's got one shot away into the side netting and created zero chances for anybody.

Ok. At least Hazard got subbed off.

Another sh*te performance. Getting sick of it now. The only team so far this season to make Fulham look dangerous!

Thank f**k for that, decent win considering the performance was quite poor.

3 pts....by the skin of our teeth

We looked fatigued after the 60th minute. Don't understand why Sarri persisted playing out from the back, and with sending our CMs to press.  The number of times Kante got bypassed high up the field......smh

Most important thing is we're still in the fight for 4th. 

However, I must say, I'm very worried. I'm not sure if Sarri has learned anything from the Man City and Tottenham games. 

Willian annoys the f**k out of me, he never plays with real drive, should of been hooked on 60, but well battled today

KTBFFH

Pretty well what I expected. After 2 high profile matches where the team put in improved performances, we looked uninspired today. Thankfully we just about got away with it but against a better team we would be in trouble.

Not the best performance, but it was a local derby against a side with a new manager, it was never going to be easy. Still, a lot of work to be done defensively.

Well im happy with the win. Tough match, derby / new manager factor, never a given, first away win in the league in forever... Yes we didn’t play well and scraped the win but it was always going to be hard to sustain the form of Wednesday and last Sunday and scraping a win could be good psychologically for the team. Also gotta give some credit to the opposition-  they are crap but played really well, punched well above their weight.. come on Chels, let’s build on this and get that 4th place!

4 minutes ago, Andy2461 said:

Him and his predictable subs HAVE to go

enough is enough

Predictable subs?.... bet you wouldn't have guessed one correctly at the beginning of the match.