What a messy match. At one point I was about to post how we had ourselves to blame for not rising above the disastrous disallowed goals and the penalty (stonewall), then the red card changed everything, and Werner came through for us.

Mount, Jorgi and Ross changed the game. 

Tuchel masterclass

But really it was because of Ward-Prowse's braindead tackle 

Still firmly belive that our back 3 tactic isn't working anymore, we struggled against Southampton at home.

Man city and Liverpool play tomorrow.  Let's hope for a draw.

We made the game harder and we had to fix it by ourselves. Thankfully we succeed to find the 2nd goal and only when we conceded the penalty and Ward Prowse got sent off, then we turned up in the game.

It seems like our tactics and movements are known to every team and it's easy to read us, Tuchel should work on something fresh.

Still an important win and happy that Werner has scored and Chilwell has fixed his mistake. Let's hope City and Liverpool will lose points.

COME ON CHELS!!!

1 minute ago, Munkworth said:

He’ll just have to fight too. This is actually a great problem. 

True, but I can only see this season getting away from him. He needs to adapt to a league that the other two are already comfortable with. It will be very hard to do that with limited opportunities. It feels like a waste of time bringing him here in all honesty.

1 minute ago, Gol15 said:

Still firmly belive that our back 3 tactic isn't working anymore, we struggled against Southampton at home.

Team have wised up against us. 

Just now, Gol15 said:

Still firmly belive that our back 3 tactic isn't working anymore, we struggled against Southampton at home.

We didn't struggle.  Game should have been 5 to 1.  Bad officiating kept Southampton in it.

Chilly made an unfortunate mistake that allowed the penalty.  Dumb mistake but they did not break down the defense.

What a game. 

We should've scored at least another one in the first half. For most of the time in second half we were really poor and if it wasn't for that red card I doubt we would win this. But 3 points are in the bag and that is what matters.

Great subs from Tuchel today, all of them made instant impact to the game. 

7 minutes ago, DidierDrogbalala said:

lmao how did Chalobah not get a yellow there ?

That was literally one of the worst decisions I've ever seen. 

Just now, Scott Harris said:

True, but I can only see this season getting away from him. He needs to adapt to a league that the other two are already comfortable with. It will be very hard to do that with limited opportunities. It feels like a waste of time bringing him here in all honesty.

It's either him or letting Conor rot. I really don't want Conor not even getting game time

8 minutes ago, DidierDrogbalala said:

lmao how did Chalobah not get a yellow there ?

VAR saving it to disallow another goal from us

Just now, Valpo said:

We didn't struggle.  Game should have been 5 to 1.  Bad officiating kept Southampton in it.

Chilly made an unfortunate mistake that allowed the penalty.  Dumb mistake but they did not break down the defense.

We definitely struggled, it was 1:1 till the red card came in our favor. Non-negotiable.

Important win 

Good overall performance, with a dodgy period in the second half

The changes freshened the team up, all the players coming in contributed 

Chilwell had a good game despite his ludicrous challenge for the penalty 

RLC looks good again 

Chalobah again impressed, good anticipation for the goal

Timo got a deserved goal, his performance was good

Red card changed things VAR correct, Jorgi doing his Platoon impression

Good to see Thomas using his squad, freshness is needed for a long season

Top of League

2 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

True, but I can only see this season getting away from him. He needs to adapt to a league that the other two are already comfortable with. It will be very hard to do that with limited opportunities. It feels like a waste of time bringing him here in all honesty.

RLC & Barkley being two injury prone players may help him?

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

True, but I can only see this season getting away from him. He needs to adapt to a league that the other two are already comfortable with. It will be very hard to do that with limited opportunities. It feels like a waste of time bringing him here in all honesty.

Don't forget that Barkley can be amazing one day and a disaster the other and Ruben is often injured so is Kanté, its a long season and Saul is much better than what we have seen against Villa, i'm not counting him out yet.

Imagine the competition at RB if we managed to keep Livramento and Lamptey.

9 minutes ago, Brigadeiro said:

Give Barkley some time on the ball and he can do brilliant stuff, I often find he has the right ideas but poor execution, this one was perfect though. 

Arguably it's when he has time that he's at his worst. That's when his lack of a football brain kicks in.

1 minute ago, Gol15 said:

We definitely struggled, it was 1:1 till the red card came in our favor. Non-negotiable.

 

Also, well played Werner. Was the difference today and full deserved his goal. He looks better, his crossed snd shot contact is more intentional 

I like the Timo Lukaku setup 

So this is the third straight EPL match that my kids have watched the whole match with me.

They were so happy about the win that they begged me to play "Blue is the Color" on my phone.

7 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

Still firmly belive that our back 3 tactic isn't working anymore, we struggled against Southampton at home.

We have conceded 3 goals in the league this season, two of them penalties. I don't know where you are getting the idea from that it's not working. The struggle today came from a very dodgy VAR call and a rare mistake defensively from Chilwell. Overall, we were good, especially when you consider the fact that the first 11 featured so many squad players.

Edited October 2, 20214 yr by Scott Harris

6 hours ago, PloKoon13 said:

Mendy

Azpilicueta
Christensen
Rüdiger

Hudson-Odoi
Kovačić
Loftus-Cheek
Chilwell

Mount
Werner

Lukaku

Ahem

Werner probably should have had a couple but he was really good today. 

Lukaku was poor though, pretty much non existent. 

Just now, PloKoon13 said:

Ahem

The scorer of our first goal appears to be missing.