5 hours ago, axman2526 said:

When Trev plays our record is pretty darn good. Man is a leader.

And the run continues. Good game from Big Trev and Silva. 

Really would love it if someone pressured those in power how Rashfords goal stood and our pen did not.

Any other excuse than "because that is what we wanted" is a lie.

James and Perez both unlucky the woodwork denied them today. Leicester were really poor, especially offensively. They are in for a hard season if that is the best they have got.

The second Sterling goal was really encouraging for me. How many times in recent years have we seen Reece put in that kind of cross with nobody getting on the end of it? Or worse, not making those runs at all. "It's just a tap in", good, there's a lot of easy goals up for grab in this league, it's about time we started claiming some. Not impressed with Conor Bullard so far, but I am sympathetic to the job he had to try and do today (replace Kante AND cover for Jorginho), hopefully it's just a case of him trying too hard to stake his claim for a place in this team this early.

Will always happily take a win with 10 men. Did moderately okay in the Lucky Blues half-time draw too:

 

Today was a good day!

Three red cards in three games wonder what the record for consecutive ones is. 

6 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

Three red cards in three games wonder what the record for consecutive ones is. 

You’ve got me scratching my head now, did I forget about a third red card? Koulibaly, Gallagher…

1 minute ago, dansubrosa said:

You’ve got me scratching my head now, did I forget about a third red card? Koulibaly, Gallagher…

Tuchel.

Good three points after going a man down. Can’t tell about the penalty being ruled out due to VAR deeming the pass being offside as could not see it from the shed lower, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was one of those that would not be ruled out for the darlings. Other than that, a shame that Gallagher had to take the second yellow, stupid play by Cucurella but even more stupid to let a man on a yellow defending the counter attack. Other than that, I thought that he was having a good game, solid defensively. I thought that Sterling’s first goal was superb, out of nowhere and something we’ve desperately been missing. And the second goal too, someone running inside the box to finish off a cross. That’s what I am expecting from Sterling, he knows how to get to crosses. Silva was commanding the defence as the world class defender that he is. Mendy had some good saves but he still is not comando g the box as he was when he arrived. Anyway, three points with 10 players so onwards and upwards! KTBFFH!!

In the end Leicester should have at least taken a point, and that is down to both our poor tactical play and stupid foul by Conor as well as us missing 2 sitters (RLC especially has to bury his, James would have, as well as Sterling not beating a lemon like Ward when one on one).

After that though we are lucky Leicester are one of the few teams worse offensively than we are. Aside from Everton and Bournemouth I think any other side in the league either beats us or at least gets a draw.

I will take the luck and the 3 points, and the positives of Sterling, Trev and Reece looking really good, but not going to paper over the cracks. Fofana is a cracking player, but we are well short of our best levels where Arsenal and Spurs are flying. We need to click in to gear.

Guess that makes Leicester, Everton and Bournemouth my picks to go down.

Edited August 27, 20223 yr by axman2526

31 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

In the end Leicester should have at least taken a point, and that is down to both our poor tactical play and stupid foul by Conor as well as us missing 2 sitters (RLC especially has to bury his, James would have, as well as Sterling not beating a lemon like Ward when one on one).

After that though we are lucky Leicester are one of the few teams worse offensively than we are. Aside from Everton and Bournemouth I think any other side in the league either beats us or at least gets a draw.

I will take the luck and the 3 points, and the positives of Sterling, Trev and Reece looking really good, but not going to paper over the cracks. Fofana is a cracking player, but we are well short of our best levels where Arsenal and Spurs are flying. We need to click in to gear.

Guess that makes Leicester, Everton and Bournemouth my picks to go down.

Sometimes we deserve the luck, spurs after all were lucky to get a ref that allowed them to cheat a point at the Bridge. We were the better team for most part and we’ve got two ahead with 10 men. Then predictably they woke up, but I’m not sure that they did enough to beat us. We still had some chances to make it three. 

2 hours ago, Mod said:

I still find it strange how we all remember that game!

I only ever remember defeats to arsenal growing up! We had an awful record against them in the 90's. 

Luck will average out. 
 

thought it was a good team performance against poor opposition. 
‘Gallagher played much better. On the ball he didn’t try too hard just kept it simple. 
‘Havertz I personally thought looked  promising. He showed muscle up front, showed for the balll and worked hard. 
‘Tuchel made good choices and judged the game well. 
above all team showed character. 
‘I think it’s mount who may lose his spot if we sign a striker. 

52 minutes ago, RMH said:

Sometimes we deserve the luck, spurs after all were lucky to get a ref that allowed them to cheat a point at the Bridge. We were the better team for most part and we’ve got two ahead with 10 men. Then predictably they woke up, but I’m not sure that they did enough to beat us. We still had some chances to make it three. 

I think we were very lucky though. They did have 3 clear chances that could have won them the game in last 15 mins if all converted. 

Yes I know football doesn't work that way but just emphasising the chances were clear but somehow missed or saved. 

Our midfield AND preferred style of play is the problem. See Haaland's third goal today. If that was us 11/10 times rather than Gundogan play that ball to the middle where Haaland was in between two defenders, though had the advantage as their position and distances between themselves were all wrong, we would play it to the wing where the player would then slow the game down for the wingback to catch up, play him in with a pass and he would promptly feint once or twice and pass the ball back to central midfield where there would be a switch play pass to the right side. All the while of course what was previously 2 defenders would have become 4 defenders and 3 or 4 more of their teammates setting up a block we can't penetrate any longer. 

That's how we roll. 

3 minutes ago, abister1 said:

I think we were very lucky though. They did have 3 clear chances that could have won them the game in last 15 mins if all converted. 

Yes I know football doesn't work that way but just emphasising the chances were clear but somehow missed or saved. 

Our midfield AND preferred style of play is the problem. See Haaland's third goal today. If that was us 11/10 times rather than Gundogan play that ball to the middle where Haaland was in between two defenders, though had the advantage as their position and distances between themselves were all wrong, we would play it to the wing where the player would then slow the game down for the wingback to catch up, play him in with a pass and he would promptly feint once or twice and pass the ball back to central midfield where there would be a switch play pass to the right side. All the while of course what was previously 2 defenders would have become 4 defenders and 3 or 4 more of their teammates setting up a block we can't penetrate any longer. 

That's how we roll. 

Yes, they had the chance to beat us at the end, but we had Sterling hitting the post and Havertz (was it him) in the first minute of the game missing a clear chance. So, overall, I think we were the deserving winners, especially when we played over an hour with 10.

Regarding our style, absolutely, I can’t say that you’re wrong. Unfortunately, we haven’t got the midfielders/forwards to play those passes.

The saddest part of that red card was that Tuchel finally switched to a back 4 and we played a 4222 formation with Loftus cheek and Mount as inverted wingers but had to revert to a back 5 at half time.

Mendy

James chalobah silva cucurella

              Gala.      Jorgi

     Loftus cheek.      Mount

     Havertz.            Sterling .

I thought everyone looked good besides Mount who was invisible all half. I actually see Gordon doing a job in that position if we get him.

All in all good performance and hopefully Tuchel rotates Silva with koulibaly agains Southampton because Grand Pa was struggling at the end of that game and we can't afford to have him join kante on the sidelines

3 hours ago, Richard P said:

Regarding the last man from our corners. Jorginho and Kante have both made mistakes in that position, didn’t get booked but both miss controlled the ball that led to goals. Maybe a bit more cover in future.

Maybe we need 1 or 2 players to hang around just outside the box so they can keep an eye on opposition players that will drift into a position to start a counter attack.

5 hours ago, Gol15 said:

Jorginho vs Leicester

- 77 minutes played

- 52 passes (88.1%)

- 2 Key passes

- 2 Big chances created

- 5 long balls (3)

- 9 Ground duels (4)

- 2 Interceptions

- 1 tackle

Nicely done match by J5 if you're not jelly.

He is our assistant captain and so crucial to our game.. Every boss loves an employee who never calls off.  jorgi never let's us down. He rarely gets injured and is fundamental to our game. 

Hopefully he and kante have their contracts renewed before the winter window because we can't have another rudiger christensen situation 

10 minutes ago, The Don Antonio said:

The saddest part of that red card was that Tuchel finally switched to a back 4 and we played a 4222 formation with Loftus cheek and Mount as inverted wingers but had to revert to a back 5 at half time.

Mendy

James chalobah silva cucurella

              Gala.      Jorgi

     Loftus cheek.      Mount

     Havertz.            Sterling .

I thought everyone looked good besides Mount who was invisible all half. I actually see Gordon doing a job in that position if we get him.

All in all good performance and hopefully Tuchel rotates Silva with koulibaly agains Southampton because Grand Pa was struggling at the end of that game and we can't afford to have him join kante on the sidelines

I thought we looked good up until the red, but why would Tuchel not play Loftus-Cheek alongside Jorginho and let Gallagher play with Mount further up the pitch where he’s more dangerous? Not sure I understand Tuchel there.

4 minutes ago, RMH said:

I thought we looked good up until the red, but why would Tuchel not play Loftus-Cheek alongside Jorginho and let Gallagher play with Mount further up the pitch where he’s more dangerous? Not sure I understand Tuchel there.

I guess he wanted more bite in midfield which Connor gave but I guess it was too much bite.lol. he will learn but I doubt Loftus cheek could be as tenacious as conor was in midfield.  

Mr. Fresh CFC

Rode our luck but probably deserved a win in the end. Probably lucky Maddison was injured. Credit to Sterling and the defenders for seeing us through.

I know we're about to give Leicester a zillion for Fofana but Tielemans would look alright in Chelsea blue in the post-Jorginho/Kante world next season.

 

Edited August 28, 20223 yr by Spiller86

Good performance, completely ran the game before the sent off. We should had a penalty. The alleged Havertz offside was as tight as one Rashford got away with it on Monday night, how was that not be allowed? Havertz was not the one got the penalty, it was the play after that, there were plenty of penalty checks do not involve checking offside the previous play. But as usual, VAR is taking the piss on us. One man down, it's easy to feel sorry for yourself and let the game slip, but we stepped up and played well. The change at HT solidified the defence and actually provided freedom for both wing backs to forward and attack. Sterling should had 3 but the goals were well taken. All the players worked hard, although we should not have conceded that soft goal, overall the defence did their job considering we were a man short for 2/3 of the game.

21 hours ago, big blue said:

teletext was brutal. Worse experience was when we were 2 nil up against arsenal, then every time it went back around to us, Kanu had scored another goal. Lost 3-2. 

I remember that day vividly. I played in a junior golf tournament, and it was a 15 min drive home. We had the football on (5 live or whatever it was called in those days) and in the drive home we went from winning to losing. Hated it haha 

On 28/08/2022 at 05:22, axman2526 said:

Really would love it if someone pressured those in power how Rashfords goal stood and our pen did not.

Any other excuse than "because that is what we wanted" is a lie.

23 hours ago, icecoolguy22 said:

Good performance, completely ran the game before the sent off. We should had a penalty. The alleged Havertz offside was as tight as one Rashford got away with it on Monday night, how was that not be allowed? Havertz was not the one got the penalty, it was the play after that, there were plenty of penalty checks do not involve checking offside the previous play. But as usual, VAR is taking the piss on us.

ESPN did a good piece last week explaining why Rashford's goal vs Liverpool stands, while other apparently similar situations that weekend did not. https://www.espn.com.au/football/english-premier-league/story/4728404/the-var-review-why-rashford-was-onsidebut-jesus-and-toney-offside

The same explanation in the article applies again this week. The offside in our build-up was beyond the EPL-agreed 5cm margin of error, so it must be ruled to be offside.

VAR also check for offside/fouls in the build-up to every penalty and every goal - hence Mike Dean making an arse of himself by reviewing then concluding Romero didn't foul Cucurella.

No conspiracy here this week, sorry lads

 

 

Edited August 29, 20223 yr by SydneyChelsea

On 28/08/2022 at 08:06, abister1 said:

Our midfield AND preferred style of play is the problem. See Haaland's third goal today. If that was us 11/10 times rather than Gundogan play that ball to the middle where Haaland was in between two defenders, though had the advantage as their position and distances between themselves were all wrong, we would play it to the wing where the player would then slow the game down for the wingback to catch up, play him in with a pass and he would promptly feint once or twice and pass the ball back to central midfield where there would be a switch play pass to the right side. All the while of course what was previously 2 defenders would have become 4 defenders and 3 or 4 more of their teammates setting up a block we can't penetrate any longer. 

That's how we roll. 

I had the exact same though watching that on the highlights. It really is a perfect encapsulation of everything wrong with our build up. Not to rag on Tommy T, but Lampard got slaughtered for less...