Does this team have any f**king pride? Enough with this 'lesson learned' bullsh*t, first losing to Arse and now this disaster. Some small time Leicester benchwarmer is having a laugh at our expense, back in the day he would have been twatted for something like that.

Anyone remember how we won trophies back in the day? We used to have leaders. Big name leaders. Drogba, Terry, Lampard, Ballack, Cech. I don't see a single player in this Chelsea team that can be compared to them. Mount may become one in the future but he aint there yet. Azpi is a hard worker but he's not a captain you turn to when things get tough. Jorginho is a limited player whose qualities are not needed unless you're playing a specific system, otherwise he's useless. I expected more from Silva and Rudiger, too. Kante is a figher but he was alone today. Ziyech is a lazy w**ker. Werner could play another ten finals and we'd still be waiting for him to score.

Why did we wait till we were a goal down to start pushing for the goal? Where was all that intensity and urgency before that? We looked scared, slow, short on confidence and out of ideas.

And last but not least, if we had a proper striker upfront, we'd have won that game. Even playing as poor as we did. 

 

 

13 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

You are correct. That update came in on 5th March. The paper I quoted was dated 5th March, so it was changed the same day. 

The plot thickens...

When will the handball rule change be introduced?

The change to the handball rule is likely to be introduced in England from 1 July.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/sport/football/56291850.amp

9 minutes ago, Stas1 said:

Ok. However, the statement that offside wasn't correct is just your opinion and a wishful thinking, not a fact. We were not convincing and a fluke goal decided the encounter, simple as.  I hope Tuchel does not overthink on Tuesday and leaves Timo, Jorgi and Zyiech on the bench.

I'm convinced that Chilwell made a perfect run, the ref denied us a clear goal from it and it wouldn't be the first time that the ref got it wrong despite the offside being the official "fact" of the game. 

40 minutes ago, General said:

LBH win lose or draw VAR has ruined top flight football. Not just today but very prem game it comes in and some faceless ref with zero accountability makes these kind of decisions, it’s taken all the joy out of celebrating and when you boil it all down isn’t that the point of it, going to games and going mental when your team scores. Not anymore just a stifled pause until the aforementioned faceless ref decides.  Well they can keep it, not stopping a lifetime habit , but today and the last few VAR seasons have taken the gloss off the joy of watching ones team and other top games big time.

I agree with you wholeheartedly. With all this nonsense I would not be surprised if we soon experience VAR decision appeals in court and some snooty rah-rahs deciding football results.

47 minutes ago, The Brit said:

Well on top of seeing Leicester lift the fa cup, hopefully the chelsea players see the clip of Leicester’s Amartey throwing a Chelsea pennant to the floor in a disrespectful/mocking fashion at Wembley tonight and get fired up to make amends.

The likes of Mount, James, Dave Will care, the rest I dont know.

TT got it wrong again today. Maybe he is just not the man for the big pressure occasions. Two finals in a row he has lossed,  with a third likely on the way.

The offside call was very harsh but it is how the has been applied all season and unfortunately we got stung by it today. 

Thanks to @Malta Blue who gave me a way to watch it, sadly it was a boring game and we just did not do enough to win.

I said after the Arsenal game TT may have made a huge mistake there and has provide right, we brought a loser's mindset in to this game after it and another cup final goes begin. 

We lost to Arsenal by focusing on this game, and we still lost this game despite focusing on it.

Not good enough. We showed what the club expects when Frank was moved on, and that was not to lose finals against teams with a fraction  of our budget and talent and the  to drop out of the top 4.

Again not good enough.

3 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

I'm convinced that Chilwell made a perfect run, the ref denied us a clear goal from it and it wouldn't be the first time that the ref got it wrong despite the offside being the official "fact" of the game. 

I personally think that the hand ball that led to their goal is a more legit issue for us to raise.

Was it me or did there there seem to be more fans in the Leicester area of the ground? Be interesting to get a view from someone who was there 

5 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

The likes of Mount, James, Dave Will care, the rest I dont know.

TT got it wrong again today. Maybe he is just not the man for the big pressure occasions. Two finals in a row he has lossed,  with a third likely on the way.

The offside call was very harsh but it is how the has been applied all season and unfortunately we got stung by it today. 

Thanks to @Malta Blue who gave me a way to watch it, sadly it was a boring game and we just did not do enough to win.

I said after the Arsenal game TT may have made a huge mistake there and has provide right, we brought a loser's mindset in to this game after it and another cup final goes begin. 

We lost to Arsenal by focusing on this game, and we still lost this game despite focusing on it.

Not good enough. We showed what the club expects when Frank was moved on, and that was not to lose finals against teams with a fraction  of our budget and talent and the  to drop out of the top 4.

Again not good enough.

I think Tuchel was also thinking about tuesday’s game with some of his selections.

8 minutes ago, turnyitb said:

Was it me or did there there seem to be more fans in the Leicester area of the ground? Be interesting to get a view from someone who was there 

Just think that's all the bbc cameras focused on.

1 hour ago, JM7 said:

Of course we should want to win every game and I wouldn’t expect anything less. However we have to acknowledge that football has changed. The FA cup is no longer the biggest prize. As sad as it is, achieving top 4 is a bigger reward (not achievement, reward) than winning the fa cup. 

Well Chelsea have changed thats for certain. Im old enough to remember when the FA Cup meant everything.  And reading some of the comments by Leicester fans it still does. Football isn't really football until you can cherish every cup game. If I ever get "not fussed" by the result of an FA Cup Final then Id just want to pack it all in. Fortunately Im not there.

39 minutes ago, abramovich said:

Does this team have any f**king pride? Enough with this 'lesson learned' bullsh*t, first losing to Arse and now this disaster. Some small time Leicester benchwarmer is having a laugh at our expense, back in the day he would have been twatted for something like that.

Anyone remember how we won trophies back in the day? We used to have leaders. Big name leaders. Drogba, Terry, Lampard, Ballack, Cech. I don't see a single player in this Chelsea team that can be compared to them. Mount may become one in the future but he aint there yet. Azpi is a hard worker but he's not a captain you turn to when things get tough. Jorginho is a limited player whose qualities are not needed unless you're playing a specific system, otherwise he's useless. I expected more from Silva and Rudiger, too. Kante is a figher but he was alone today. Ziyech is a lazy w**ker. Werner could play another ten finals and we'd still be waiting for him to score.

Why did we wait till we were a goal down to start pushing for the goal? Where was all that intensity and urgency before that? We looked scared, slow, short on confidence and out of ideas.

And last but not least, if we had a proper striker upfront, we'd have won that game. Even playing as poor as we did. 

 

 

After seeing this I hope we demolish these c**ts on Tuesday and send them to the Europa League... They can go there with the Fa cup

16 minutes ago, Parisian Blue said:

Well Chelsea have changed thats for certain. Im old enough to remember when the FA Cup meant everything.  And reading some of the comments by Leicester fans it still does. Football isn't really football until you can cherish every cup game. If I ever get "not fussed" by the result of an FA Cup Final then Id just want to pack it all in. Fortunately Im not there.

I think Leicester and Chelsea wanted the FA Cup and also the top 4 just as well, we're now looking at ways to diminish this loss and I can't really find it, it hurts specially knowing that we have now lost 2 FA Cup finals in a row.

Painful one to take. We played good football, but failed to take chances when mattered, and when you play a backup GK who has a habit of allowing long shots in, it's always a risk too big to take. We are at the phase where we are 1 good striker short of being a top team, for f* sake the top 4 should have been done and dusted by now if we scored these goals that should have been scored. We never had an easy game with the limitation in scoring, and towards the end it will catch up with you. I did not understand why we played Kepa against Arsenal, more puzzling why the final? If you want to win the damn cup, play your best 11. Sure it was a good shot, but a taller and a better GK would have got something on it, and how many of those wonder strikes Kepa have allowed in? It doesn't happen to other GKs, does it? Werner always going to miss 2-3 before he puts one on target, and it cost us again. The problem is without him like the other night, we looked a slow and lethargic team, and those stepped in didn't take chances either. When your striker is not scoring, others must step up, and nobody did. When you add all these factors together, easy to see why we lost. Leicester had one job, nullifying our threat and waiting for their moment, and they did, can't hate them for that. The Tuchel style rotation will work in his second or third season ( if he's managed to last), but right now it's a bridge too far, and to be honest we are a big confused about what's the best 11 right now.

44 minutes ago, The Brit said:

I think Tuchel was also thinking about tuesday’s game with some of his selections.

And we will lose on Tuesday cause he is thinking about Villa.

8 minutes ago, icecoolguy22 said:

Painful one to take. We played good football, but failed to take chances when mattered, and when you play a backup GK who has a habit of allowing long shots in, it's always a risk too big to take. We are at the phase where we are 1 good striker short of being a top team, for f* sake the top 4 should have been done and dusted by now if we scored these goals that should have been scored. We never had an easy game with the limitation in scoring, and towards the end it will catch up with you. I did not understand why we played Kepa against Arsenal, more puzzling why the final? If you want to win the damn cup, play your best 11. Sure it was a good shot, but a taller and a better GK would have got something on it, and how many of those wonder strikes Kepa have allowed in? It doesn't happen to other GKs, does it? Werner always going to miss 2-3 before he puts one on target, and it cost us again. The problem is without him like the other night, we looked a slow and lethargic team, and those stepped in didn't take chances either. When your striker is not scoring, others must step up, and nobody did. When you add all these factors together, easy to see why we lost. Leicester had one job, nullifying our threat and waiting for their moment, and they did, can't hate them for that. The Tuchel style rotation will work in his second or third season ( if he's managed to last), but right now it's a bridge too far, and to be honest we are a big confused about what's the best 11 right now.

Are you really seriously thinking Mendy would have saved that? Take a chill pill.

29 minutes ago, The Don Antonio said:

After seeing this I hope we demolish these c**ts on Tuesday and send them to the Europa League... They can go there with the Fa cup

We are never beating Leicester on Tuesday after these two most recent disasters. Unfortunately we will be out of Top 4.

Edited May 15, 20215 yr by bluesfan

4 minutes ago, bluesfan said:

We are never beating Leicester on Tuesday after these two most recent disasters. Unfortunately we will be out of Top 4.

Yup. Fail to beat Leicester and Pool overtake us.

Also have to say honestly that i am ashamed at the Chelsea fans that attended the game. They got outsang by leicester fans it definitely felt like an away game for us. 

1 hour ago, The Brit said:

I think Tuchel was also thinking about tuesday’s game with some of his selections.

Just as he was thinking about today with his selection against Arsenal. And remember the only reason he picked Kepa against Arsenal was to get him ready for today.

In those two games he faced three shots on target, and let in two goals. 

Tuchel had better get his selections right for the next three games. 

And let's hope Leicester are still hungover by Tuesday.

Edited May 15, 20215 yr by Backbiter

34 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Yup. Fail to beat Leicester and Pool overtake us.

You writing off West Brom's chances tomorrow?

Edited May 15, 20215 yr by Backbiter

1 hour ago, abramovich said:

Does this team have any f**king pride? Enough with this 'lesson learned' bullsh*t, first losing to Arse and now this disaster. Some small time Leicester benchwarmer is having a laugh at our expense, back in the day he would have been twatted for something like that.

Anyone remember how we won trophies back in the day? We used to have leaders. Big name leaders. Drogba, Terry, Lampard, Ballack, Cech. I don't see a single player in this Chelsea team that can be compared to them. Mount may become one in the future but he aint there yet. Azpi is a hard worker but he's not a captain you turn to when things get tough. Jorginho is a limited player whose qualities are not needed unless you're playing a specific system, otherwise he's useless. I expected more from Silva and Rudiger, too. Kante is a figher but he was alone today. Ziyech is a lazy w**ker. Werner could play another ten finals and we'd still be waiting for him to score.

Why did we wait till we were a goal down to start pushing for the goal? Where was all that intensity and urgency before that? We looked scared, slow, short on confidence and out of ideas.

And last but not least, if we had a proper striker upfront, we'd have won that game. Even playing as poor as we did. 

 

 

You know as much as this game stings that video you posted is so disrespectful on their part. Sore winners and that is shameful. 

38 minutes ago, bluesfan said:

We are never beating Leicester on Tuesday after these two most recent disasters. Unfortunately we will be out of Top 4.

On the contrary I always felt like the team that lost today would have the advantage on tuesday. Besides tuesday is our last home game of the season and the last chance to play infront of our fans before the UCL Final. Hopefully it is the passionate chelsea fans that show up on tuesday and not the quiet ones who just come to be entertained

1 minute ago, Backbiter said:

You writing of West Brom's chances tomorrow?

And Burnleys and palaces too.

1 hour ago, Backbiter said:

The plot thickens...

When will the handball rule change be introduced?

The change to the handball rule is likely to be introduced in England from 1 July.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/sport/football/56291850.amp

MotD totally unaware of the current handball rule. The pundits all agreed it wasn't handball because it deflected off his leg, ignoring the part of the rule that says it's still handball if it leads to a goal scoring opportunity.

Very interested to hear the official view on the decision not to disallow the goal. I'm guessing they felt it was too good to disallow (and it was against us).

 

8 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Just as he was thinking about today with his selection against Arsenal. And remember the only reason he picked Keep against Arsenal was to get him ready for today.

In those two games he faced three shots on target, and let in two goals. 

Tuchel had better get his selections right for the next three games. 

And let's hope Leicester are still hungover by Tuesday.

Totally agree. We've known Kepa has been a disaster for 2.5 years. Yet he has now played 2 of the biggest games of the season, which we've both lost. When you don't score lots of goals you've got to make sure you don't concede.

I've been banging on about this for years but I'll say it again. Kepa is simply too short. Mendy is about 10cm taller with a much bigger reach. The ball flies just beyond Kepa's fingers. If Mendy is in goal today he saves that strike and we're not having this conversation. At one end Schmeichel makes some superb saves to deny us and Kepa lets in a goal from 35 yards. 

On that selection decision the final turns. It is a f**kup of epic proportions. I hope it's the last game he plays for us.