Kova was a Beast.

So my dad gets to come back to the Bridge after that sh*t show on Saturday. We had a blast. 

We sat in the... wait for it.... The Shed End tonight...

Was good talking football all week with everyone, and everyone we met was incredibly friendly.

Brilliant time... 

going home tomorrow.

3 hours ago, the special one said:

Maybe too harsh but I'm not convinced he's any better than Piazon atm

Ridiculous comparison.

2 hours ago, Slojo said:

I think Pulisic faded every now and then like he did in the last game, excellent when he's on the ball though as always, I think that's the key, we need to get him on the ball more. Willian is much better off it though. 

Pulisic is a player that excel when he touches the ball more, a lot more. Put the ball in his feet, let him run against the defense, get yourself in an open space and he'll find you.

You need to keep feeding him and he'll come alive. If you don't, he goes cold.

 

 

3 hours ago, loz said:

3 hours ago, Nibs said:

Thank f**k for that. With all that possession and all those chances it really did look like one of those games where Villa would snatch a late, undeserved equaliser and every time they lofted a ball into our box, i feared the worst.
But we deserved that win. Good performance and we should have won by a lot more. Don't think any of our boys played badly although hard to pick a MOTM as there were a lot of 7/10. Would probably go for Kante but good display by all tonight and I personally thought Christensen had a very good game.

Actually Kante is a fine shout. Typical 90 minutes from him. Totally under stated and entirely reliable every time he is involved. I still prefer him to Jorginho in that role regardless of how much Jorginho has improved this season.

I can't really name a MOTM myself, this victory was the definition of a team effort.

10 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Good to see Abraham back, hopefully he can get a few goals.

Good shout

Glad of the win. Gets us back on track.

Post again later.

Off to work soon, Early start today.

Blue is the colour.

3 points. Minimum requirement met. 

 

Credit to Tom Heaton. He had a really good game capped off by a superb save form Willian's free kick.

That is where my praise for Villa ends. A 2-1 win is travesty as this was the most one sided 2-1 you are ever likely to see. Aside from Heaton Villa were terrible. I had no concern when they came forward even with our defense. They scored, by fluke, and their defense had even more holes in it than our own!

How many times did we see our attacking players with heads in their hands because "omg I cannot believe I missed that" or "omg I cannot believe i picked the wrong pass" etc etc.

Go on about our defense all you want, they give you plenty of reasons too. Our attackers though put some flipping work in to your finishing. That was abysmal to watch. Really pitiful from every one of them. Capped of by Pulisic body blocking Tammy as he is about to shot.

We should have comfortably outscored Liverpool today!

 

This type of teams, at the Bridge... it doesn't seem easy. Sheffield, Leicester, Palace, West Ham, now Villa. But we'll learn. 

10 hours ago, Munkworth said:

I’d take our sh*t Jack Grealish over the actual Jack Grealish any day, I think he’s got that inner ear infection that seems to have inflicted many a top flight football. 

Yep, wobbly little c**t isn't he, it's no surprise that he's "the most fouled" when he keeps flinging himself to the deck like that and getting away with it. 

^^^^^

Love the interviews with Lamps. Spot on - he doesn't talk in cliches like most managers and he sees it pretty much how I see it as a fan.

Would still give that defence extra training next few days though. When we have a one goal lead and teams attack us and win corners, my nerves are shot to pieces! 

37 minutes ago, dkw said:

Yep, wobbly little c**t isn't he, it's no surprise that he's "the most fouled" when he keeps flinging himself to the deck like that and getting away with it. 

Even his haircut is designed to add to the dramatic affect.

1 hour ago, dkw said:

Yep, wobbly little c**t isn't he, it's no surprise that he's "the most fouled" when he keeps flinging himself to the deck like that and getting away with it. 

Tottenham level of cheating. If he does well enough at it there he can move up to Liverpool. 

1 hour ago, coco said:

Even his haircut is designed to add to the dramatic affect.

It’s been shaped by the g-force created from the sheer force with which he flings himself to the ground. 

I thought mings was good for them. 

21 hours ago, Valerie said:

www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2019/dec/03/amazon-prime-video-tv-football-premier-league-broadcast-stream

www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/02/amazon-prime-premier-league-football-arrival-tv-hefty-price

Don't forget to cancel your trial subscription to Prime.

 

Amazon email you a few days before they charge you with a link to go and cancel if you want.  AND, they seem to  keep   on allowing free trial periods as well.  I used start one if I had a load of stuff to buy  and wanted free next-day delivery

4 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

Amazon email you a few days before they charge you with a link to go and cancel if you want.  AND, they seem to  keep   on allowing free trial periods as well.  I used start one if I had a load of stuff to buy  and wanted free next-day delivery

The football matches can't be watched by non-UK residents. It seems us bloody foreigners need to rely on a stream for the holiday matches, provided one can be found of course.

Definitely progress 

Edited December 5, 20196 yr by Valerie

Great goal from James's cross to Abraham's sublime finish. 

Looking at the highlights, it looks like the Willian show with him all over the place.

Some interesting link up movement between Willian and Pulisic that bodes well for the future.

Also liked Mount's goal, good build up and finish.

15 minutes ago, Valerie said:

The football matches can't be watched by non-UK residents. It seems us bloody foreigners need to rely on a stream for the holiday matches, provided one can be found of course.

Definitely progress 

You can. Install Browsec freeVPN, you can either get an app for mobile, or extension for chrome on pc. open it up,  connect to uk server, open up prime app, job done.

19 minutes ago, coco said:

You can. Install Browsec freeVPN, you can either get an app for mobile, or extension for chrome on pc. open it up,  connect to uk server, open up prime app, job done.

Can you come over and do all this for me? Drinks will be on me.

Took my Villa supporting mate and he was impressed with the atmosphere. This is the best it has been for many years. Absolutely brilliant to be part of it.

The second half in particular saw Chelsea dominant to an almost embarrassing extent.

Some good comments on here. Pulisic is no doubt great with the ball but needs to work harder off it. Mount had a much stronger second half. Tammy looked off to me but still scored and set up Mount’s goal – the sign of a class player.

We should have scored more.

Villa to their credit did not park the bus and did their best to make a game of it despite being out classed. I agree that Grealish goes to ground too much but we kept him out of the game. We got the tactics right in denying him space. The fact we gave him so much stick shows that we know he is a threat.

Entertaining game we should have won 4.0. Their goal was a joke, great cross but what was Keppa doing just stood there like a statue. He is at his best stopping long range efforts and at his worse around the six-yard box.

Kante made some great defensive tackles.

UTC.

5 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Can you come over and do all this for me? Drinks will be on me.

Stop playing the dumb brunette ?

1 hour ago, coco said:

Stop playing the dumb brunette ?

Playing? To get this done I have to grab a kid from the street, and apparently that's frowned upon