Chelsea v Crystal Palace (PL) Sun 15th Jan 2023 14:00 GMT

[PloKoon13]

Ahh Lewis... surely you have to put your laces through that? Doing well on the whole, probably our most urgent player, seems to be everywhere.

Still, at least we are creating actual chances.

[Jezz]

We are inept at taking our chances.

[enigma]

Fulham actually seem like a competent team against Newcastle. Mental that they are in 6th place. 

[JJ8]

2 minutes ago, enigma said:

How can they not show the game on tv is shocking in 2023. Go abroad to many countries and you can watch 3pm kick offs and other games we can't get live here in ENGLAND, you know, where the game is actually played. f**king ridiculous that we have to sift around to find a stream but never find one without a bunch of pissing pop up ads every few seconds. Just let fans pay monthly to watch their team ffs, not difficult is it. 

Its not juts like that. In other countries is the same.

[CFCCAN]

Well its entertaining if nothing else

[evissy]

Two sh*te sides means an entertaining game. 

[just]

Doing everything but score. Potter must be tearing his hair out.

 

[CFCCAN]

Just now, evissy said:

Two sh*te sides means an entertaining game. 

Mid-table clash...who would have thought we'd be here 5 years ago

[Zeta]

Decent first half. Chukuemeka not in the game at all though, needs to do more. If only we could pick a player out with those crosses in the box. And if Hall could practice his shooting a bit, he's had good chances in all his appearances so far, and fluffed them all.

[enigma]

I actually look forward to the Arsenal/Spurs game. Hopefully a game full of injuries and red cards lol

[Chelsbear]

We won't score, not one is capable of it.

 

 

[Scott Harris]

Not impressed. Defensively, we still look terrible. If not for two good saves from Kepa, we are 2-0 down. On the attack, we can't finish anything and decision making is iffy. Havertz has been awful, Ziyech has been decent in patches. 

[Vialli96]

Most of our attacks break down with Havertz and Mount has ghosted the whole half. As expected. 

Positives…Badioshille, Hall, Chuck, Ziyech and Gallagher. 

 

[Deino]

Not going to lie. I was gassed when Mudryk signed even though I barely knew anything about him. 

Then I get reminded of where we are. 5 years ago we'd tear through teams like these worrying about title challenges

[Night-T]

1 minute ago, Zeta said:

Decent first half. Chukuemeka not in the game at all though, needs to do more. If only we could pick a player out with those crosses in the box. And if Hall could practice his shooting a bit, he's had good chances in all his appearances so far, and fluffed them all.

Agree, to be fair. He is playing out of position. 

Gallagher is having a good first half. 

[TimesUpPotter]

2 minutes ago, just said:

Doing everything but score. Potter must be tearing his hair out.

 

Give his teams have failed to score in more than 50% of the halfs he's coached since the start of last season he must be used to it by now.

[Nevamind]

I think the team did just fine but obviously attack is a problem. I like seeing the new guys too. Conor und Jorghino also works so far. 

... Havertz pls get some balls. Everything needs to look elegant, smart, gracefully....just use you power and force against others for once. 

[cfcforeverfan]

playing against the mighty Crystal Palace and still struggled so much

 

Potter out

[Jangz]

2 minutes ago, CFCCAN said:

Mid-table clash...who would have thought we'd be here 5 years ago7 years ago we were even worse 🤣

[Andy2461]

It’s a shame hall cannot hit the target as he’s had decent chances in the last cpl of games 

[just]

3 minutes ago, JJ8 said:

Its not juts like that. In other countries is the same.

Well I'm sitting in a great little bar in Spain watching it on a 75" TV with English commentary. The beer has cost me 3.40 euros and it's been 23 degrees today. Why aren't you all out here?

[Bebe1980]

5 minutes ago, JJ8 said:

Its not juts like that. In other countries is the same.

It's not... I can watch all the EPL games... FA Cup too...

[AlwaysRight]

I'm not sure how Havertz is starting when we have Aubameyang, Potter definitely has a dislike for him, despite him probably being the best finisher in our squad.

Frustrating watching us every week, same old rubbish. We were really spoilt for choice a few years back. 😞 

[PloKoon13]

That wasn't too bad. We are mostly in control, and look almost coherent. If we had anyone other than Ziyech who was capable of consistently good ball-striking we might be ahead. I assume we are behind on xG considering how close Palace's two big chances were, but it's a significant improvement on anything we've seen recently.

Badiashile looks composed (but did get shrugged off easily by Zaha in the first ten minutes), Hall is everywhere (not always to positive effect), and Ziyech is probably making the most difference in attack. I think Gallagher is also having a positive game. Encouraging, let's finally get ourselves a win and start building just a little momentum. Three points and we're closer in points to 4th than we are to 18th, which considering how atrocious we've been of late is something to cling onto.

If it's still 0-0 after 55 minutes, Havertz for Fofana is surely the first sub?

[smileysmiles]

finally Galagher getting to play. Sounds like an improvement thank f**k but those 2nd halfs..... So now the test starts