Could be 4-1 if not for Kepa.

That is a truly brilliant save from Kepa, hats off.

Poor decision-making from Werner on the break. Had he gone down the outside (he would surely have the pace for it) he could probably have had a shot.

Get Rudi and silva in 

Chelsea are playing sh*t it must be coming upto Christmas.

2 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

@Valerie emergency ice cream will be joint me for the second half. 

I'm eating chocolate, that may explain everything 

To be fair I've seen Christensen hold the line like that plenty of times and caught his man offside, it just happened to be perfectly timed this time.

How many times does Tuchel need to be told...stop f**king about with all the changes...Saul needs to be hauled off and CHO can go with him too...need some major surgery at half term to win this...

Without kante jorginho kova 

we are dreadful in midfield 

What is Lukaku doing there? He is in a miserable shape after his injury.

I know injuries and all but I'm all set on Barkley starting outside of a cup match against a non-league side. Any other match, he isn't good or consistent enough. Same with Saul. Very frustration

 

Just cannot see why Chelsea would not pay Rudiger. Getting a replacement in via transfer fee and wages will be even more expensive. If this is what the backups look like we need to keep him.

CHO must come off, poor half and booked too much of a risk.

Kepa two good saves.

Zenith could have scored 5 just running through us.

Lukaku looks sharper and Mount needed to score from his pass.

Not sure on Azpi today seems to be running back too often.

TT has right effed this up, too experimental and not sure if we can turn it around now their backs are up.

Woeful first half. No other side in Europe seems to go from looking like world beaters to garbage so quickly.

So many bad performances in that half, the effort from a few of them is pathetic. 

Again we see how weak we are when we play our 2nd string players, especially in the middle of the park, defensively we have been a disaster pushing up too high...and the forward line hasn't exactly been stellar either.  This team looks like another fine mess Stanley 

There is almost no point watching us during the winter period, it's always such a slog to sit through. The players just seem to stop trying.

expected the worse with that line up, surprised it looked decent for 15 minutes.

No midfield, defence looks porous, and we atill wasted a massive chance to go 2 nil up. 

Lucky not to be more behind, since they have had 1 on 1s saved by kepa.

Not sure its even worth changing too much, players need a rest, and some need minutes. 

Forgot to add Werner's decision making is so poor today.

2 minutes ago, strider6004 said:

CHO must come off, poor half and booked too much of a risk.

Kepa two good saves.

Zenith could have scored 5 just running through us.

Lukaku looks sharper and Mount needed to score from his pass.

Not sure on Azpi today seems to be running back too often.

TT has right effed this up, too experimental and not sure if we can turn it around now their backs are up.

I guess he's a bit handcuffed with all the injuries but even so, this has been a sh*t show with no cohesion and everyone looking out of position chasing shadows.

7 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Perhaps I can watch some cheesy Christmas film with Z-list actors 🤔

 

My god how sh*t we look. I just don’t get how this group of players can play such a sh*t, Sunday league level football. Christensen needs to focus or f**k off, he is supposed to be leading the defensive line. Sarr is a limited player, not his fault. Saul hasn’t done much wrong tbh, but is slow and not very well positioned. CHO is losing every single dribble he tries. James is trying to cover every single whole in the midfield. Barkley being useless, Mount trying but not convincing. Lukaku and Werner doing their thing. The only one really trying and running is Azpi, the rest are just strolling and deserve a bollocking from Tuchel. Kepa has been good and has saved us from total embarrassment.

Any volunteers to drive Christensen to Barcelona at the beginning of January ?

2 minutes ago, RMH said:

My god how sh*t we look. I just don’t get how this group of players can play such a sh*t, Sunday league level football. Christensen needs to focus or f**k off, he is supposed to be leading the defensive line. Sarr is a limited player, not his fault. Saul hasn’t done much wrong tbh, but is slow and not very well positioned. CHO is losing every single dribble he tries. James is trying to cover every single whole in the midfield. Barkley being useless, Mount trying but not convincing. Lukaku and Werner doing their thing. The only one really trying and running is Azpi, the rest are just strolling and deserve a bollocking from Tuchel. Kepa has been good and has saved us from total embarrassment.

 

Who would have thought a year ago we would be losing 2 - 1 to Zenit but the least of our problems was freaking Kepa.  

Just now, Sexyfootball said:

Any volunteers to drive Christensen to Barcelona at the beginning of January ?

I’m sure Roman has contacts in St. Petersburg that can make him disappear. In fact I think they’ve already started on it…

That is appalling defending from Christensen for their 2nd. Literally just leaves his post as the last man.