Old habits die hard. Trying to walk it into the net. Other than that some pretty positive play. 

3 minutes ago, AlwaysRight said:

Why do we keep playing Havertz? He's awful. Nothing exciting about this Chelsea team, doesn't matter who the manager is.

Him and Mount started off well but fell off after the odd break by the ref.

5 minutes ago, HazardousChoice said:

Half time comes and we haven't had a shot on target at home to a team from Austria.

I must tell you I'm absolutely shocked that these attacking players haven't already scored 2 goals each without Tuchel shackling them.

I'm shocked that Potter hasn't instantly transformed us into a free flowing , high scoring team.

he's had nearly a bloody week !

1 minute ago, STATS said:

Dull performance so far. Crowd completely flat at our game and City game (probably to do with Queen) but no coincidence that both us and weirdly City have no tempo whatsoever. Fans make a big difference. Need to up the tempo real fast second half.

The Bridge has been quiet for ages now. It's rare to see it buzzing anymore. It's the football, it's not exciting to watch. 

Potter will need to get Mount up to scratch. He’s crucial, need him on good form.

Ponderous

3 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

We usually do in the Champions League though, teams more often than not are more open in the Champions League. 

You had to go and spoil it 

Bah

Pep's chalk lines have clearly done us well tonight

Decent performance so far but the same struggle of only Auba willing to shoot and their keeper not making a save.

73% possession 0 shots on target

 

Sounds familiar 😂

7 minutes ago, AlwaysRight said:

Why do we keep playing Havertz? He's awful. Nothing exciting about this Chelsea team, doesn't matter who the manager is.

He's probably gonna outlast Potter too.

First it was Lampards fault with him, then Tuchel and it will soon be Potters.

Or perhaps the whiners can wake up and realize our attackers just aren't that good instead of dying for the manager to be sacked. 

Just now, axman2526 said:

Decent performance so far but the same struggle of only Auba willing to shoot and their keeper not making a save.

This is pretty much the same as we have done all season. Can't expect much change in a week or so. 

I consider Hoddle and Joe Cole to be race traitors for pronouncing the a's in 'Graham' like the one in 'Brahms'.

Sterling at LWB. 

Dave at RCB. 

Havertz in some bizarre CAM role that leaves Aubameyang isolated. 

Mount, Jorginho, and Kovacic pitch lengths away from one another. 

 

What is this?

Normal service resumed. 

Just need to concede a sloppy goal and scramble around 2nd half to try and retrieve the result. 

Tuchel wasnt the biggest problem in the performances, so I'm not expecting Potter to instantly fix our issues, he needs time with so many new players, as did Tuchel.

On the positive, I think Sterling has been dangerous from that left sided position, and Mount has looked a lot better. 

Hopefully we nick 3 points here.

27 minutes ago, EdinburghBlue said:

I must be missing what everyone else sees with Sterling - 4 out of 5 times he makes the wrong decisions in attacking positions. He delays passing the ball when there’s an easy option on in a better position.

Hes completely allergic to passing. He had the issue at Man City and its not changed one bit. Hes just too greedy. Saying that, he has still been our best attacking player by a long distance

 

6 minutes ago, Snedger said:

I assume that Jorginho sleeps in his garden, because I’m sure he can’t even unlock his front door.

And Havertz is very very lucky to be at Chelsea because at any other club on the planet he is sat on the bench.

I wasn’t impressed by Tuchel, and it’s way to early to comment on Potter, but I can say with great confidence that any manger would have a hell of a job getting much out of this lot, irrespective of formation and selection.

No shot on target in 50 minutes when we’ve had nearly all the possession. What’s wrong with them?

One shot on target.

Well not much has changed in a week or so.  Sterling still running head on in to defenders and losing the ball or trying to take a ridiculous shot on goal. Apart from his mask I haven't seen PEA, Silva still clearing up the mess, Dave and surprisingly Kova giving away the ball every 2 minutes, Cucurella ..not really sure what the game plan is there and he's nowhere in the same league as Ben.  Jorginho dawdling on the ball and turning his back on the forward line forcing him to play backwards...Kai still floating around.  Best player by far is Reece...anyway lets see what the next 45 brings....3 points I hope or this could be a short CL campaign with the next 2 games against AC Milan.

Guys stop 

don’t you see the #realscars add with Jorginho in it where he has the word useless on him in scar tissue 

11 minutes ago, Sindre said:

And imagine if Tuchel put Sterling at wingback? Complete mayhem.

But because it's Potter it's alright? 😂

 

Is he really playing Wingback though?   Looks to me like a 4-2-3-1 where Sterling is the left part of the 3 line.  

9 minutes ago, HazardousChoice said:

Half time comes and we haven't had a shot on target at home to a team from Austria.

I must tell you I'm absolutely shocked that these attacking players haven't already scored 2 goals each without Tuchel shackling them.

Sarcasm duly noted 

The game is probably crying out for Pulisic 

Somewhat unsurprisingly it's all very similar which it will be as I don't think the issue was one of formation or tactics. For me we need the backroom staff to work on fitness, pattern and energy before we start to see real improvements 

1 minute ago, Valpo said:

 

Is he really playing Wingback though?   Looks to me like a 4-2-3-1 where Sterling is the left part of the 3 line.  

It's been a back three for about 40 minutes from 46.

STERLING !!!!!!!!!!!!

1-0

Bring on Broja, he will make the difference