Brighton are certainly a decent side, and have had more possession than us in that half. Hopefully we can score again quickly in the second half and put this to bed.

Would like to see Kovacic and Hudson-Odoi wake up a bit ... a few too many errors from those two for my liking ... 

Nice goal from big Rom, throw him another one in the box and he'll take it! Clinical!

Lost control the last 10-15 mins. CHO and Kovacic have been poor. Tuchel may have to call on Kante sooner than expected to see this one out.

How the hack we allow Brighton to boss around us at Stamford Bridge like that. Can't stick few passes together after we scored a goal.

I don't think we have ever been this unlucky with injuries. James look certain to miss both Liverpool and City who's coming up and that's another hammer blow in addition to Chilwell.

Half the players on the pitch looks very leggy and Christensen is clearly playing on with pain.

Terrible luck. Terrible.

Players look knackered

Good goal,by Lukaku.

Cant quite believe we now have James injured.

Would expect Chalobah on for Christensen at half time. That'll leave us 1 sub and just hoping we don't get yet another injury in the 2nd half

13 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Pulisic is certainly no wing back ... unfortunately ... defensively anyway. He has taken up some good positions from an attacking perspective.

Plus CP seems to be a waste on the right - wing or WB

 

Need to get back in control again second half, since we scored it's been Brighton more bold on the attack - hoping for composure second half, another goal for us would be nice to settle things down more!

We might be winning but this game is far from over.  Brighton looking the better side IMO.  Again we have been wasteful in the final 3rd and the defence apart from Rudiger is woeful with no cover in front of them.and where is Pulisic?  Needs to go off.  I think this is the weakest I've seen our midfield in years, constantly being overrun. Unless we score a 2nd - this is going to be another Burnley or worse.  

 

A bit of a disaster class in performance after that goal. Our defenders thinks its good enough to clear the ball straight into Brighton feet without beeing under any pressure. Azpilicueta looked like he had played 120min after 10min and sliding all over the place. Kovacic dribbling himself in the middle a couple of times, while Jorginho just let players jog past him and thinks it's a good idea to just fall over the ball in our own box. Lukaku wins alot of his duels, but CHO, Mount and Pulisic are giving like 20-30% in the next duel and looses the ball instantly.

Pulisic has no chance against the grown-ups of Brighton. He is so lightweight that he has to line up his boots with lead in strong wind.

Being forced to play with not match fit and semi injured players has it seemed knocked the stuffing out of those 10 players once Big Rom scored. Carry on like this and it’s going to get ugly, difficult to dig out any players out under the circumstances which are & have been bleedin awful lately. Seems the new Covid is like a cold so why can’t they test for that as well as Delta  and reduce the downtime accordingly what a load of cobblers all in all.

Started well, good goal from Rom

Then we lost control of midfield ,Bissouma has bossed us, we’re is the killer instinct?

Silly yellow for Rudi, that could bite us later

Not sure what Jorgi was doing falling in our area under no challenge….defend first!

CHo needs to be doing more… poor half 

 

I would replace Azpilicueta with Chalobah early in the second half.

Our season is hanging by a thread with these injuries. It is looking very likely we will lose games come January. We might still lose this if we can't find a way to control the ball better.

Put in Ziyech and move Mount to the left side, CHO isn't having the best game time for Mount and Ziyech to try to support Lukaku?

7 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Hudson-Odoi has been sh*t today.

I keep saying it, and I'll say it again - he is consistently inconsistent.  He really isn't that good as people make him out to be.  One or two good games then back to his old self.

CHO wants to do backheels all day

City score.

Just now, carrickblue said:

City score.

why do we even bother

1 minute ago, carrickblue said:

City score.

Foden looked offside