Just now, Liam said:

If your man goes down that's a second yellow for Jorginho. Not too clever from him.

Yeah I agree. Thought Jorginho got lucky he didn’t go down 

Think I could score against this Chelsea side...back four has no protection, while Zouma and Christensen don't have a very good understanding so runners get in behind too easily. 

Shame as going forward we are a joy to watch. Kante and Rudiger needed on a regular basis asap

This is reminding me of 2012/13 with RDM, only with less attacking firepower on our end. 

Just now, loz said:

To be honest we are doing well to be even given that Barkley and Pulisic were watching the third test for the duration of the half.

Take your cricket talk away from here, this is a refuge for us trying to forget it all.

Again some excellent stuff, but another half where we go in level when we should be a couple ahead ... a win today will be huge for confidence in this young team.

Would like to see a huge improvement from Barkley in the second half. Been way off the pace so far, and he's better than that. Similarly Pulisic, who has at least been involved, albeit things not quite falling for him so far.

 

Maybe should go with 3-4-3 in future as we are just leaking goals 

Wonder if Lampard will make changes at Half Time as a few players were well below par that half, not just for the sake of this game but to actually send a message. 

I'm quite worried by that first half performance. We were okay going forward, I don't think we were great, but I think defensively we were awful, again. With the way we are set up defensively, we will struggle to win any game. If I am being brutally honest, we are defending worse than most teams in the league right now, and no matter how good we are going forward, we will continue to stay in the bottom half of the table if we don't sort that defense out immediately. You don't get anywhere in this league without a competent defense.

It reminds me of our high line under AVB teams would just score so easily. Our attacking play is fantastic though as guess we will need a full seaosnor two to get everything correct. Rome wasn't built in a day just enjoy the ride this season

No way we stop them scoring again ,we are so open its unreal 

Barkley back to his usual self the guy is brainless , 

7 minutes ago, evissy said:

We are sh*te. I am sorry but we are. Finishing is the MOST IMPORTANT THING and we are failing 100%.

How can we have failed our finishing 100% but scored 2 goal? 

Rudiger is going to walk into this starting XI and I think it’ll be for Zouma who just doesn’t convince me. His positioning looks awful at times. 

Midfield’s defensive shape needs some work, teams are finding way too much space outside the area. 

Ha Hahahah no way. VAR looked at that and said it was a different attacking play? They scored from winning the ball from the foul on Abraham, that is absolutely disgraceful that professional referees can’t figure that out. 

8 minutes ago, evissy said:

We are sh*te. I am sorry but we are. Finishing is the MOST IMPORTANT THING and we are failing 100%.

Well, we aren't failing 100%, we have scored twice. The problems right now are quite cleary in the defence. We are creating a lot more chances than I thought we would this season, but at the same time, we are a lot worse defensively than I thought we would be. 

Edited August 24, 20196 yr by Scott Harris

1 minute ago, gazza said:

No way we stop them scoring again ,we are so open its unreal 

Barkley back to his usual self the guy is brainless , 

If only we had someone better on the bench to bring on. 

Just now, dkw said:

How can we have failed our finishing 100% but scored 2 goal? 

Did you not know that 63% of percentages are correct 123% of the times? I’m 100% sure I’ve got that right.

Probably Barkley at fault for the first goal, he got the wrong side of the scorer.

Kepa again soft wrists for the 2nd goal was mostly to blame. Worrying how his wrists seem to be giving in on strong shots.

Take your cricket talk away from here, this is a refuge for us trying to forget it all.

We only need another 348 runs to win which, coincidentally, is probably the same number of goals we will need to score to get a draw against Norwich.

Great for him to get the goal but don't think Tammy have done enough up front besides that.

Pukki is outperforming him.

Just now, loz said:

7 minutes ago, coco said:

Take your cricket talk away from here, this is a refuge for us trying to forget it all.

We only need another 348 runs to win which, coincidentally, is probably the same number of goals we will need to score to get a draw against Norwich.

Only. 

Gong forward we look good & will score goals, however, our defence is shambolic & I feel that will cost us this season, heavily

1 minute ago, coco said:

Probably Barkley at fault for the first goal, he got the wrong side of the scorer.

Kepa again soft wrists for the 2nd goal was mostly to blame. Worrying how his wrists seem to be giving in on strong shots.

I think he went too far across as well. No way he should be getting beaten from that wide of the goal ...

3 minutes ago, EdinburghBlue said:

Did you not know that 63% of percentages are correct 123% of the times? I’m 100% sure I’ve got that right.

Are you 72.3% sure of that? 

1 minute ago, DaRick said:

Only. 

Loz didnt need to italic it, 

7 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I'm quite worried by that first half performance. We were okay going forward, I don't think we were great, but I think defensively we were awful, again. With the way we are set up defensively, we will struggle to win any game. If I am being brutally honest, we are defending worse than most teams in the league right now, and no matter how good we are going forward, we will continue to stay in the bottom half of the table if we don't sort that defense out immediately. You don't get anywhere in this league without a competent defense.

If I was Lamps I’d try just telling the full backs to stay back and sit with a flat 4 at all times, it might take a bit of our edge going forward but at least we could see if we could stop haemorrhaging goals.