It looked like the same old story of ours watching this game for 80 odd minutes.

Then we equalise. (Offside ? Who cares. It stood !)

To be honest I'd have taken that then if it had been offered.

Then we win it with a very late winner.

The second great escape in 35 years we've had in Cardiff . The first being on this day in 1984 !

We are making ordinary teams look good against us.

Oh and it was funny to watch Neil Warnock go ballistic !

Just can't see Sarri lasting long term. 

Gutted for Warnock ?

Up the Chels. 

1 hour ago, Dean said:

Again, your arguments are reasonable. On plan A being terrible, based on the last few away games, I agree by and large. I just 1) don’t think that’s necessarily always been the case and 2)  think the last few away games is not enough for us to make a decision to sack him. Footballers play I don’t know how many 100s of minutes a week when you include training and everything. We get to see 90 or so - just a glimpse. And what happens in those 90 minutes can be quite random. And bad and good form in those 90 mins can come in clusters that can also be random (ie not necessarily a trend). We have no way of knowing how accurately what we see In matches  reflects what goes on in training. We don’t know really know what Plan A is. I don’t think, for example, Rudiger (who I thought was terrible today) ambling around the halfway line and then playing an awful pass straight to the other team under no pressure is part of Sarri’s plan A. There may be all sorts of routines, hundreds of drills that happen in training, but that just aren’t coming off on the pitch. We need to make an allowance for that possibility still. I distinctly remember watching Man City under Pep 2 seasons ago and contemplating whether Pep might in fact be a bit of a shxt manager who was just spoonfed the best teams to manage (I reckon I could have done ok managing THAT Barca team). I was almost certainly wrong. I think one can make the case that when you adjust for the strength of the respective squads relative to the rest, us finishing 6th (not a prediction) this season would be about equivalent to Citeh coming 3rd in Pep’s first season (basically he came 3rd with the best squad and most money in the league). To make the decision to sack Sarri, we need to be sure that’s the right thing to do. From where I sit (and I accept you won’t agree), we have insufficient evidence as things stand to make that call. 

I also felt the same way 2 seasons ago but at least pep was making changes in formation and tactics. I remember him starting with a 433 then switching to 343 then 352 and also a wierd 3142. He still stuck to his basic principles like high pressing and playing from the back but he showed tactical flexibility and knowledge Sarri on the other hand only plays one formation i.e 433 and keeps on playing Jorginho even though it is quite obvious he hasnt adapted and is not built for the physical and fast premiership. 

Sarri can thank his lucky stars. I reckon he was 10 minutes away from getting a P45. 

If we're serous about making the CL next season he might still get one.

4 hours ago, BenCFC19 said:

Loftus-Cheek HAS to start from now on. Despite the reservations that Sarri seems to have about his technical ability, he cannot deny that Ruben is our only midfielder with a goal threat. 

If you ignore all the stupid things that follow Sarri's reputation now, the fact that he still has Ruben on the bench is a good enough argument to not trust in him when the transfer ban comes and thus he should be sacked as a result.

CHO on the bench while Willian is slipping and not being capable of putting a cross or a shot on target is already a big miss...

Well that was a lovely 13 and a half hour rounds trip, nice to come back with three points when it looked like nothing with 80 minutes to go. 

Not bad going for a bunch of muppets hey @coco?

RLC had just recovered from an injury so I can understand him being on the bench.

I think Jorginho and Higuaín are the bigger questions around who should start.

33 minutes ago, BelgradeCFC said:

From the moment we scored our equaliser, he was going mental and didn't stop. Maybe if he got his head together, he could have calmed his team down.

23 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

Well that was a lovely 13 and a half hour rounds trip, nice to come back with three points when it looked like nothing with 80 minutes to go. 

Not bad going for a bunch of muppets hey @coco?

The ones who didnt chant sarri out, proper fans, much respect, the rest 

6 hours later, who will be the first to back down?

Seeing Colin doing his nut at the fourth official just now on MOTD and reminded me of Stan of Stans Previously Owned Vessels from Monkey Island (yes this is very niche but a few people here might laugh!). 

Love seeing Warnock upset.

Just watched MOTD, Rudiger was fortunate though should have won us a penalty before he made the errors.

Alonso could also have conceded a penalty for shirt pulling. 

That was awful, truly awful. Boring, turgid football. Massive luck (for a very rare change) And poor officials only reason we won rather than lost. I dont like to win like that.

We looked every bit a bottom 3 side just like them.

Add to that Spurs just handed the league to liverpool and has been a rubbish Sunday. 

9 hours ago, mojo said:

Ill see you in the Champions League next year when Man City/Juve play Bayern Munich.

3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

That was awful, truly awful. Boring, turgid football. Massive luck (for a very rare change) And poor officials only reason we won rather than lost. I dont like to win like that.

We looked every bit a bottom 3 side just like them.

Add to that Spurs just handed the league to liverpool and has been a rubbish Sunday. 

Man City has a game in hand, the league has certainly not been given to Liverpool based on a result today

27 minutes ago, mwblue10 said:

Man City has a game in hand, the league has certainly not been given to Liverpool based on a result today

All of liverpool's remaining games are a walk in the park, especially if we keep playing this poorly.

No way city win all their remaining games. United at OT for a start.

36 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

All of liverpool's remaining games are a walk in the park, especially if we keep playing this poorly.

No way city win all their remaining games. United at OT for a start.

They've still got to go to Cardiff .... LOL

5 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Love seeing Warnock upset.

Our most fortunate win since the game against Wigan in 2011/12, probably.

I doubt this win impressed anyone. 

Just now, DaRick said:

Our most fortunate win since the game against Wigan in 2011/12, probably.

I doubt this win impressed anyone. 

Thank God that England has incompetent refs

Sarri has to use his brain and change things up properly. Higuain looks hopeless in the "defensive phase"  but I personally thought his link up play and "almost" play around the penalty area was ok.

Jorginho on the other hand is just not the right player for that position. Kante or as second choice Kovacic so much better. 

In Australia that game started at midnight and ended at 2:00 am and after the first hour you start to really beat up on yourself for staying up at the start of the work week to watch complete garbage. It looked like a pre season game in the first half. Dire passing, players strolling round the pitch. Really hopeless.

Ah well we got the 3 points. Onwards and perhaps upwards.

15 hours ago, coco said:

If you travelled four hours even more reason to support the club/tem/manager for 90 minutes, it just makes no sense to do it whilst still in the game,  unless you dont give two hoots about the result.

Whilst you are spot on, the reality of footballing life nowadays is that if the fans boo and call for the manager's head, at some point the club will sack him and reading on here that seems to be the general consensus of opinion. Boards don't read us keyboard warriors on club forums. They pay attention to fans paying the money to travel, buying merchandise etc. Maybe it is not the best way to express your feelings, maybe it gives the media the opportunity to add to their anti-club narrative (they must have been rubbing their hands together - "turn the mikes round", "what?" "turn the mikes round, turn them round to the crowd at the Chelsea end, oooh lovely"), but it is a damn sight more effective than the likes of me, being tormented for 45 minutes, moaning and groaning on the forum until I have had too much and turn the sh!te off.

Who is the worst fan, the guy who has given up his Sunday, paid the money and travelled to Wales for that dross, or me, fcked off, turned it off and didn't even bother watching the second half. Can't even watch it on MOTD2 cos all of the pundits are bellends.

15 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

The problem is, he's not even trying to adapt, he's setting us up the same way every single week, his plan A is terrible and he refuses to move away from it. There is a reason why we struggle against even the most average of teams, and that is because every coach knows exactly how to set up against us. He's not changing anything, he's playing the same players every week, he refuses to give Hudson-Odoi and Loftus-Cheek a run in the team no matter how poor Willian, Kovacic and Pedro play. Alonso keeps finding his way back into the team even though he is producing stinker after stinker.

Then there is the problem with Jorginho. Jorginho may be playing poor, but the manager is doing absolutely nothing to help him out. If he's not going to drop him, then change things up a bit, help Jorginho because Jorginho is seriously suffering right now.

He doesn't seem to have any knowledge of the game outside of Italy and comes out with bizarre comments in his interviews. People have lost faith in him and they are right to feel that way. I have seen no reason why Sarri should be trusted to take us forward, he's made no progress with us at all. This is the worst I have seen us look since Abramovich took over the club, actually, even before Abramovich we were better than this. 

I would add to this by saying that, for me, it's not even necessarily down tot he personnel, it's system, or lack of it. The football has no purpose, it is possession for possession's sake. This is not moving people out of position, lulling into a false sense of security, swarming over the opposition. This is 5-O football at its worst because there is not even a shot at the end of it. There is no pattern at all. Our players are scared to make an attempt on goal and are constantly shifting the ball to a player who I sin an equal or worse position, hence we shift, and shift, and......shift.

Aimless. Turgid