Just now, alwayshopeful said:

time RLC was gone he will never be a premier league player , all he can do is dribble once or twice then loses ball. its all he has ever done. SAME FOR PULISIC  not done enough to keep in team , get rid. 

They have good contracts they will likely never better again.

Will probably need to wait until their contracts run down.

17 hours ago, CFCCAN said:

play a back 7 then..

Take the best defender from the academy & put him in midfield and have him follow the play. That should stabilize the midfield & give the defense time to breathe. Although it won't solve bad goalkeeping or sh*tty finishing

20 hours ago, Phillip said:

I hope you are not suggesting letting Lukaku go was a mistake.

 

Buying Lukaku then still playing our painfully slow build ups was a mistake.

2 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Buying Lukaku then still playing our painfully slow build ups was a mistake.

Buying Lukaku was a mistake. 

Look how Liverpool are fairing with an absolute donkey in Darwin Nunez leading the line. 

Kepa's heroics have disguised our indifferent form.

you could see Brighton had more desire than us. That said we actually played a bit of good football but most of it was the same old stuff.

Sterling needs a rest preferably until next season.

hopefully this will be our worst result of the season, we can see how Potter developed a good footballing team at Brighton with minimal resources and losing good players on  a regular basis.

took him a while, let's give him the time to do the same with us, no reason why he cant.

23 hours ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Im as pissed as anyone but people calling for Potter's head are naive. It's just going to be the same think as firing Tuchel. The personnel of the team are what needs changing. 

True.  That's Potter's Brighton team that walloped us, look how he developed them into a good footballing side  , give him time and he can do that with us

4 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

True.  That's Potter's Brighton team that walloped us, look how he developed them into a good footballing side  , give him time and he can do that with us

But is Brighton's football sustainable? It's similar to Tuchel's, and it's proved to not be sustainable in the league. 

20 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Kepa's heroics have disguised our indifferent form.

you could see Brighton had more desire than us. That said we actually played a bit of good football but most of it was the same old stuff.

Sterling needs a rest preferably until next season.

hopefully this will be our worst result of the season, we can see how Potter developed a good footballing team at Brighton with minimal resources and losing good players on  a regular basis.

took him a while, let's give him the time to do the same with us, no reason why he cant.

That depends. Do you consider being walloped at home by Arsenal to be worse?

26 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

But is Brighton's football sustainable? It's similar to Tuchel's, and it's proved to not be sustainable in the league. 

I think their football is sustainable considering the resources and players they have to work with.

They don't expect to finish top 4 , their fans are happy to be in the PL watching good football, and so would I to be honest

1 minute ago, The Rising Sun said:

I think their football is sustainable considering the resources and players they have to work with.

They don't expect to finish top 4 , their fans are happy to be in the PL watching good football, and so would I to be honest

Right but Brighton fans will tell you 80% of the time they create loads of chances, can't convert, and drop points. 

Sound familiar? 

I just want to rid of this back 5 formation. I really do. 

20 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

That depends. Do you consider being walloped at home by Arsenal to be worse?

I'm not sure what you mean. Only pointing out that it was the team that Potter developed that walloped us..

2 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

I'm not sure what you mean. Only pointing out that it was the team that Potter developed that walloped us..

They did. I meant you said this is hopefully our worst result of the season. I would consider getting walloped at game to Arsenal next week much worse.

Just now, Sconnie Blue said:

Right but Brighton fans will tell you 80% of the time they create loads of chances, can't convert, and drop points. 

Sound familiar? 

I just want to rid of this back 5 formation. I really do. 

Yeah that's true enough mate,  but I reckon it's a lack of a decent striker that's the problem, and Brighton don't have the resources like we do to p

splash out millions every year for expensive disasters like we do !

yeah back 5 needs to go, agreed

1 minute ago, axman2526 said:

They did. I meant you said this is hopefully our worst result of the season. I would consider getting walloped at game to Arsenal next week much worse.

Oh yeah, definitely mate, doesn't bear thinking about !

One good thing is Potter can’t/ shouldn’t play wingers as wing backs next week or I’d expect the worse. I’m not saying a back four will make us tighter but play with more than 3 defenders on the pitch 

10 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

Kepa's heroics have disguised our indifferent form.

you could see Brighton had more desire than us. That said we actually played a bit of good football but most of it was the same old stuff.

Sterling needs a rest preferably until next season.

hopefully this will be our worst result of the season, we can see how Potter developed a good footballing team at Brighton with minimal resources and losing good players on  a regular basis.

took him a while, let's give him the time to do the same with us, no reason why he cant.

Sterling needs to be playing where he's used to playing not as a wing back ffs

Edited October 31, 20223 yr by kennypaul
grammatically incorrect

There is a video out there that shows the players coming to applauded/say sorry to the away fans. Mount was in tears.

They don't have to be from Cobham to love Chelsea. Drogba, Cech, Lampard, Essien, Ballack etc. So this is not a "pick thr Cobham kids" point. It is a pick the players who do/will love the club and dump the rest Potter!

A team that loves the club won't humiliate us like that.

Excellent result against Salzburg so why change it?

My own theory is that two of the players who started against Brighton shouldn't have been in the team, dressing room issue or just not good enough:

VS Salsburg	VS Brighton
Arrizabalaga	Arrizabalaga	Same
14Chalobah	14Chalobah	Same
6Thiago Silva	6Thiago Silva	Same
32Cucurella	32Cucurella	Same
10Pulisic	10Pulisic	Same
23Gallagher	23Gallagher	Same
5Jorginho	12Loftus-Cheek	Different
8Kovacic	8Kovacic	Same
17Sterling	17Sterling	Same
9Aubameyang	19Mount	Different
29Havertz	29Havertz	Same
Great from start	Awful from start

 

This picture sum up our problem. It happen again and again.

 

Frankly, I am a still a bit lost for words. I left it 36 hours before posting, as I fear I would have said something that might have got me banned. I did not see this totally abject performance coming, although having gone to the United game, all the signs were there, at least in the first half. Potter clearly has not settled on either a formation, constantly changing it, or a starting XI (constantly rotating it) which I suppose goes hand in hand. Regrettably, it once again seems to come down to the Players and their complete lack of desire, pace, determination and team spirit, once more, they do not look happy, so is the GP coaching and/or backroom team not gelling with this Group? You could see that Brighton wanted it more than us, just like United last week. We don't tend to perform like that in Champions League games, is that because the players feel they might still have a chance in that Competition, whereas in the Prem, we are already so fat off the pace, they have given it up?   The Arsenal game scares the sh*t out of me, but given that we are Chelsea, we will probably turn in a blinding performance, where all of our woes of the last two weeks are immediately forgotten.........................Well I hope so anyway 😉

2 hours ago, Bob stark said:

This picture sum up our problem. It happen again and again.

 

What, that Cucarella is playing ???

2 hours ago, Bob stark said:

This picture sum up our problem. It happen again and again.

 

Explain?

50 minutes ago, Kev56 said:

Explain?

Cucu was exposed big time because our two wb/winger did not want to defend. 

 

16 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

Cucu was exposed big time because our two wb/winger did not want to defend. 

 

Which was obvious for everyone to see from minute 1, Potter must have seen what was happening, he could of changed it very quickly, like he's done in previous games, but the fact he didn't and we went in at HT 3-0 suggests Potter was being stubborn, or he wasn't watching, take your pick.

1 hour ago, coco said:

Which was obvious for everyone to see from minute 1, Potter must have seen what was happening, he could of changed it very quickly, like he's done in previous games, but the fact he didn't and we went in at HT 3-0 suggests Potter was being stubborn, or he wasn't watching, take your pick.

He is probably embarrassed now with what he got Chelsea to pay and probably hoped thar Cuca would play his way out of the poor form, but instead, he got much much worse !!