Just now, Sconnie Blue said:

Need to rid the team of Bozo’s. 

We'd have about 5 players left!

5 minutes ago, Argo said:

Can never prove it but my theory is Roman wanted to make the change with Rafa that summer but didn't want to ruin the fans summer in the sun, so to speak.

I think you absolutely should sack a manager despite winning a trophy if you feel he's not the right man to take you forward, as nice as it would be on the day there's many bang average managers that have won domestic cups.

I think Di Matteo winning the CL and FA Cup sealed it to give him a chance, but you can tell the club was reluctant. It took them a while to give him the contract and they sacked him very quickly after results weren't going well. 

Nothing the club did there was wrong IMO, hindsight is a bitch, they acted fast and were rightfully hesitant. At the time we had a huge media campaign against us about not giving managers a chance etc. So that certainly wouldn't have helped things if we let Robbie go after winning two trophies like that. 

I still think the biggest problem we have is lack of experience. At times where you need to pick your battles we constantly make wrong decisions. Say Cucurella gets the ball back at his position, all attacking players are in wrong positions to counter but he decides to put a strong pass towards our attackers which goes a bit wrong and Leicester has the ball in a good position to counter. 

Cucurella needs to put the ball to defence and recycle to take the air out of Leicester. In a game you have 50 times to make this decision and we just make the wrong decision too many times. 

We basically need a system that everyone follows which we have. The other part is experience which we don't have. 

4 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

What a strange argument. We won the game in extra time against 10 men with the subs, why are you upset with the manager? 
 

Erm, maybe because the subs should’ve came on well before that? Particularly BEFORE Leicester’s equalizer?

 

Mr. Reactive Pochettino. 

If you don't think Sterling should have been the first player hooked fair enough, I think you may be in a minority. I've never been the greatest fan of Mudryk but to pull him first wasn't in my view the correct decision...I'm not sure what Mudryk must be thinking. Poch got lucky today.

Thought Gusto was excellent today. Caicedo and Cucurella had good games and apart from the orbit launch from Jackson, I thought he was really good. Good performances from Palmer and Mudryk as well. Thought Gallagher was below average but that was understandable. 

Disasi didn't have a bad game until the brain fart, but I don't know why he played, as I think Silva would have been better, especially as they were without Vardy. Silva's know how would have seen us much more comfortable. 

Keep saying it about Sanchez. Nothing to do with his shot stopping, or even his feet. He just doesn't have the football IQ to think quick enough. He undermines the whole defence imo and generates an unnecessary nervousness 

Can't believe Poch hooked Mudryk before Sterling, absolute insanity.

2 minutes ago, charierre said:

If you don't think Sterling should have been the first player hooked fair enough, I think you may be in a minority. I've never been the greatest fan of Mudryk but to pull him first wasn't in my view the correct decision...I'm not sure what Mudryk must be thinking. Poch got lucky today.

I agree with you mate. Was responding to evissy questioning why people are mad because Poch did take off Sterling eventually and the subs won the match. When these same subs should’ve happened well before Keicester’s equalizer. 
 

He’s a reactive pisstake manager. 

2 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Can't believe Poch hooked Mudryk before Sterling, absolute insanity.

Nor can I, dreadful.

Good goals from the subs.

Nice to see Chilwell back too.

Lineker on BBC1 could not pronounce Chuku's name and Jimmy H says why not call him Carney!

 

3 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Thought Gusto was excellent today. Caicedo and Cucurella had good games and apart from the orbit launch from Jackson, I thought he was really good. Good performances from Palmer and Mudryk as well. Thought Gallagher was below average but that was understandable. 

Disasi didn't have a bad game until the brain fart, but I don't know why he played, as I think Silva would have been better, especially as they were without Vardy. Silva's know how would have seen us much more comfortable. 

Keep saying it about Sanchez. Nothing to do with his shot stopping, or even his feet. He just doesn't have the football IQ to think quick enough. He undermines the whole defence imo and generates an unnecessary nervousness 

Yah, and whats he doing so far up the pitch... ok it was Disasis fault but... you wonder would Petrovic have been that far forward?

1 minute ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I agree with you mate. Was responding to evissy questioning why people are mad because Poch did take off Sterling eventually and the subs won the match. When these same subs should’ve happened well before Keicester’s equalizer. 
 

He’s a reactive pisstake manager. 

I would have taken Sterling off earlier as well. I don't know why he didn't do it. Him and his team make the decisions based on something however in the end the subs were spot on. Chukwuemeka was on the ball right after he came on and he scored. Madueke's was icing on the cake. 

If fans loved the coach they would give him praise for bringing them on, now that they don't every decision is bad or the outcome is not because of him. Fair enough but it is a bit tiring to read here day in day out.

17 minutes ago, charierre said:

I've never seen a group of professional footballers, go from looking extremely confident in their ability to a shambolic mess resembling a pub team in such a short space of time during a match. At times our passing is so sloppy, too many overhit and absolutely no cohesion in our play.

It's always a few that keep bringing the performance down when everybody else is having a good game. It happens every game, and Pochettino never seems to be able to get them all to click. I don't know what Pochettino says to them at half time, but I cannot understand why they are so switched off. Do we not understand that the opposition are going to throw everything at us in the 2nd half? They can't do, because they never seem mentally prepared for it. It's like they have some sort of unearned arrogance about them, and that is why Disasi scored that ridiculous own goal. He wasn't prepared for the Leicester player to put pressure on him, got a nudge when attempting the pass and got it horribly wrong. 

35 minutes ago, evissy said:

So Pochettino puts on Chukwuemeka and Madueke. Both score and win us the game but that was a big mistake by Pochettino? Is this what you are saying?

Chukwuemeka should have come on for Sterling much earlier before it got to that point. 
 

Poch has severely underused Madueke this season. 
 

genuinely shocked there’s people still defending Poch after allowing Sterling to stay on the pitch so long today. We won in spite of him, game should never have been allowed to stay that close that late. Your expectations for a club like Chelsea must be unbelievably low if you’re happy with the game management currently. 

3 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

It's always a few that keep bringing the performance down when everybody else is having a good game. It happens every game, and Pochettino never seems to be able to get them all to click. I don't know what Pochettino says to them at half time, but I cannot understand why they are so switched off. Do we not understand that the opposition are going to throw everything at us in the 2nd half? They can't do, because they never seem mentally prepared for it. It's like they have some sort of unearned arrogance about them, and that is why Disasi scored that ridiculous own goal. He wasn't prepared for the Leicester player to put pressure on him, got a nudge when attempting the pass and got it horribly wrong. 

Inexperience in nutshell. And youth. When you are young your emotions go up and down so fast. Unearned arrogance is a good term. Great players first of all are never arrogant. 

And when we have had awful first periods of second halves it becomes a habit. We have also had excellent ends of second halves which also seems to be a habit for us. Gladly that has made us nick us some games lately. 

It would be so bencecifial for us to have an experienced midfielder in the team. 

3 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Chukwuemeka should have come on for Sterling much earlier before it got to that point. 
 

Poch has severely underused Madueke this season. 
 

genuinely shocked there’s people still defending Poch after allowing Sterling to stay on the pitch so long today. We won in spite of him, game should never have been allowed to stay that close that late. Your expectations for a club like Chelsea must be unbelievably low if you’re happy with the game management currently. 

I am not happy or sad about game management. For me that is one part of a game. I think Pochettino had done that 7/10 all season. If we had more experience I would put much more emphasis on it. 

I would question Sterlings in game decision making much more than him being taken of a bit earlier. Sterling made an assist and won a penalty. And he is experienced. Those things could be the things that kept him in the game. He also made a great run for his break.

9 minutes ago, evissy said:

Inexperience in nutshell. And youth. When you are young your emotions go up and down so fast. Unearned arrogance is a good term. Great players first of all are never arrogant. 

And when we have had awful first periods of second halves it becomes a habit. We have also had excellent ends of second halves which also seems to be a habit for us. Gladly that has made us nick us some games lately. 

It would be so bencecifial for us to have an experienced midfielder in the team. 

It's not the inexperienced players doing it though. It's the likes of Sanchez, Disasi and Sterling. Let's not forget Pochettino either, who is also experienced now but still keeps making piss poor coaching decisions.

Edited March 17, 20242 yr by Scott Harris

2 minutes ago, evissy said:

I am not happy or sad about game management. For me that is one part of a game. I think Pochettino had done that 7/10 all season. If we had more experience I would put much more emphasis on it. 

I would question Sterlings in game decision making much more than him being taken of a bit earlier. Sterling made an assist and won a penalty. And he is experienced. Those things could be the things that kept him in the game. He also made a great run for his break.

Are you defending Sterling now too? Sterling ‘won’ a penalty (the player jumped through the back of him, it wasn’t some magical dribble) and went on to MISS it. He made a great run and went on to miss slice it 5 foot wide with all his ‘experience’. Poch watched that and still decided to keep him on the pitch. Like I said before, indefensible. You can question Sterling’s in game decision making but Poch is the one that’s letting him stay in the pitch to keep f**king up. Mourinho would have dragged him straight after that penalty 1 on 1 miss and that’s why he’s a serial winner and Poch isn’t. 

1 minute ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Are you defending Sterling now too? Sterling ‘won’ a penalty (the player jumped through the back of him, it wasn’t some magical dribble) and went on to MISS it. He made a great run and went on to miss slice it 5 foot wide with all his ‘experience’. Poch watched that and still decided to keep him on the pitch. Like I said before, indefensible. You can question Sterling’s in game decision making but Poch is the one that’s letting him stay in the pitch to keep f**king up. Mourinho would have dragged him straight after that penalty 1 on 1 miss and that’s why he’s a serial winner and Poch isn’t. 

I put something similar in another thread, but the reality is that Mourinho built and worked with a team that would never have allowed a player to take a penalty off of the penalty taker. This would have been dealt with by the players because of the standards instilled by Mourinho.  In fact it was. Lampard and Drogba, iirc

1 hour ago, PhilH930 said:

So, we all agree Sterling MoM?

If that's Mug of the Match yeah.

52 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Can't believe Poch hooked Mudryk before Sterling, absolute insanity.

And it just poured fuel on the fire re. Sterling’s form/situation. I don’t agree with booing any player but Poch hung Sterling out to dry by making that call.

21 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Are you defending Sterling now too? Sterling ‘won’ a penalty (the player jumped through the back of him, it wasn’t some magical dribble) and went on to MISS it. He made a great run and went on to miss slice it 5 foot wide with all his ‘experience’. Poch watched that and still decided to keep him on the pitch. Like I said before, indefensible. You can question Sterling’s in game decision making but Poch is the one that’s letting him stay in the pitch to keep f**king up. Mourinho would have dragged him straight after that penalty 1 on 1 miss and that’s why he’s a serial winner and Poch isn’t. 

Should have taken Disasi off too for silva. Disasi never recovered from that og. 

1 hour ago, Dr Gonzo said:

Love it when JFH is a pundit on our games, still proper Chelsea. 

Agreed.

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Hmm City or Pool, City or Pool.

Don't think we get Coventry. Purely on the basis that it seems to be the two that play on the same day and win quarter finals draw each other for the semi finals I think we get Pool.

They will save City vs Pool for Klopps goodbye horrah in the final.

Thinking that myself, unless Utd pull off a shock result (doubtful looking at the way they are playing), in which case the FA would want an all Manchester derby....can't have a billion £ flops on the pitch; after all they fluffed their lines a few weeks ago, so the chance of a shock result would not be on the cards. 

2 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Hmm why is this not a gif? 😉

good morning, isn't it?

 

 

1 hour ago, Munkunku said:

Shut up and give us the gif of Sterling’s freekick taking down the ISS. 

feeeling nervous, arent we?

 

 

 

 

 

we got this