4 minutes ago, Dean said:

Why?

Because we lost, maybe?

Would be very surprised if we went to Old Trafford and got a win.

I think a top four finish is extremely unlikely personally.

We can keep Sarri in charge for weeks or years, but we'll still get bested when it comes to the crunch.

Not up to it, sadly.

We were outworked all over the pitch today. That said we are architects of our own failure, their first goal was started by a passage of play from our free kick when we gave it away needlessly. The second goal was a wonderstrike but Jorginho was slow to sense the danger. We had several good situations afterwards and failed to capitilise. 

Is Higuain the most unfit top flight footballer around?

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Pretty much a deathnail in our top 4 chances.

Ok but what was everyone expecting? We lost against a better team, undone by 2 great (one wonder) goals we couldn’t do much about. Performance wise, this wasn’t Bournemouth, or City away, or Arsenal away. Why do so many on here persist with the narratives from earlier in the season that no longer apply?

3 minutes ago, embattle said:

Just read Chelsea under Sarri have never won a game from a loosing position.

That’s wrong, we’ve come from behind twice against Cardiff to win but that’s it.

4 minutes ago, charierre said:

We were outworked all over the pitch today. That said we are architects of our own failure, their first goal was started by a passage of play from our free kick when we gave it away needlessly. The second goal was a wonderstrike but Jorginho was slow to sense the danger. We had several good situations afterwards and failed to capitilise. 

Is Higuain the most unfit top flight footballer around?

to be honest I think Salah's shot was more hit and hope than deliberately directed, the ball seemed to be running away from him and he just whacked it - same result in the end I suppose   

4 minutes ago, embattle said:

Just read Chelsea under Sarri have never won a game from a loosing position.

We came from behind to beat Liverpool earlier this season in the League Cup. Don't believe everything you read

We were hopeless from the off...
As soon as i saw Hazard as the false 9 i knew we were f**ked !!
Sarri is blindly stubborn, and well out of his depth in this league.
Added to that he seems to fail in all aspects of management, players, media, tactics, in fact all the things you need to succeed in the prem.
For me he's become lost, one minute bowing to the fans, then going back to 'his' plan and f**king it up, what's next ???

 

5 minutes ago, embattle said:

Just read Chelsea under Sarri have never won a game from a loosing position.

Apart from Cardiff home and away.

5 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Arsenal have two games in hand on us, Tottenham one game in hand. Tottenham seem to be over their wobbles and I don't trust Sarri to get us a win against United. 

Understood, and certainly a dent in the 4th place hope. But I don’t think it’s damaging ik a broader sense. maybe I misunderstood. Getting a result at Anfield was always a big ask though. What were you expecting? 

the question for me is whether Sarri is learning anything from his first season and can he either re-shape the team or create a strategy that gets us better results.

if the transfer ban holds, we are f*cked with the same squad, less Hazard, Higuain and Kovacic - so what's his plan???

Cue everything completely flipping their view on Sarri again because we lost. If we bounce back on Monday we'll be fine. Just beaten by a better team and we're a work in progress.

5 minutes ago, Dean said:

Ok but what was everyone expecting? We lost against a better team, undone by 2 great (one wonder) goals we couldn’t do much about. Performance wise, this wasn’t Bournemouth, or City away, or Arsenal away. Why do so many on here persist with the narratives from earlier in the season that no longer apply?

Better question is, why do you insist on finding excuses for Sarri every time he fails? 

Just now, rtwelch said:

Cue everything completely flipping their view on Sarri again because we lost. If we bounce back on Monday we'll be fine. Just beaten by a better team and we're a work in progress.

Thank you. 

It's Europa or bust in terms of Champions League next season now I think. I don't think Sarri did much wrong with the line up today, agreed with it personally. But the issue is (aside from those two Hazard chances) that we looked lifeless after their goals. Generally like for like subs and the players don't seem to have that fire under them which a top manager would inspire . Admittedly this is one of the mentally weaker groups we've seen at Chelsea recently- but Sarri should go at the end of the season, Europa or not. Although after him, not really sure who. Bad times at the minute. 

We're just not a top side any more. The board thought they could keep switching managers and getting miraculous titles, but all the while our squad has been decreasing in quality and we're now at the point where there are 4 or 5 sieds in the PL who are simply better than us. We are so far from the side that dominated England and was a real force in Europe, a decade or so ago.

There's no way we're finishing top 4 now. We still have to go to Utd and Leicester. We should concentrate on Europa league now, it's silverware at least and gives us a passage into the champions league next season. 

We need a striker so bad

Do you understand basic probability? Losing against Liverpool just doesn’t constitute failure. I’m not making excuses. It’s you that is biased and will always find a way to blame Sarri. 

3 minutes ago, Dean said:

Losing against Liverpool just doesn’t constitute failure. 

I mean, it does. 

We failed to win. 

5 minutes ago, DidierDrogbalala said:

We need a striker so bad

It's criminal mismanagement that a club that's won what we've won, with an owner as rich as Roman should field the two oldest, most broken down strikers in the whole league. 

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Edited April 14, 20197 yr by ForeverCarefree
Double post.

10 minutes ago, rtwelch said:

Cue everything completely flipping their view on Sarri again because we lost. If we bounce back on Monday we'll be fine. Just beaten by a better team and we're a work in progress.

This we got beaten by one of the best teams in Eurpoe with a manager who has been drilling his team for 4 years, we had our chances but didnt take it, we were unlucky hazard should have had a brace simple but we are getting better in the last 5 or so games, some fans just overreact so much is laughable

The only positive in the race for top 4 is that at least Spurs and Utd still have to play City. Arsenal have 2 games in hand but are f**king useless away from the Emirates. The Utd game in 2 weeks is the defining game I feel.