Nice to beat this lot as they have been one of our bogey teams in recent years.

Should shut a few up but it probably won’t, some won’t be happy until we see pure perfection for an entire 90 minutes.

Great game of football to watch, we responded well in the second half after Wolves playing well in the first.

Question it all you want, but the quality of our bench was devastating. Bringing on fresh quality when you could see their drop off was massive

5 minutes ago, Conte said:

xG is a fallacy for stat nerds 

I watched the game mate we demolished them between minute 38 and 65 

Palmer and madueke 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Deadly combination

It's like any statistic ... an indicator and not gospel ... xG though is usually a fairly good approximator for how the game goes, so I thought it was amusing that it was so far out today. Shows the quality of the finishing I guess !

Great to get the win.

 

going forward we look pretty deadly. However I’m still worried defensively, so let’s see if it will tighten up over time. As we won’t always get our way going forward and there will be times when we need to be defensively assured.

 

11 minutes ago, guddy69 said:

What about Caicedo, he was awful, does he start the next game? 

Thought he had a much better second half. Can't believe I am saying this but it doesn't take much for us to be quite thin on the ground there.

On a serious note. If Caicedo and Lavia are injured, we do look a bit lightweight in midfield. Is Big Les still at the club? Otherwise it’s just Enzo and Dewsbury Hall, isn’t it? 

1 minute ago, Dr. Socrates said:

On a serious note. If Caicedo and Lavia are injured, we do look a bit lightweight in midfield. Is Big Les still at the club? Otherwise it’s just Enzo and Dewsbury Hall, isn’t it? 

Yep. Veiga is the cover. Ugo now on loan at Saints

Well that was an unexpectedly good result!😀

 

Great watch…very entertaining 

We need to sort out our set piece defending

Palmer is quality

Surely we wouldn’t daft enough to let Madueke go?

We will see a lot of goals in our games this year

So many positives today. We knew how good Noni was - fair play to Maresca for trusting him. 

There are definite signs of patterns in our play, you can see what we are trying to do. This has not been evident with our last three coaches,

Really like the look of Neto and Veiga. Cole is world class.

Hopefully also the start of a bond between the players and fans. If we can get that going we could do damge this year.

Maresca has presence which is something all good coaches must have.

8 minutes ago, Dr. Socrates said:

On a serious note. If Caicedo and Lavia are injured, we do look a bit lightweight in midfield. Is Big Les still at the club? Otherwise it’s just Enzo and Dewsbury Hall, isn’t it? 

Been saying this, we do look light in defensive midfield with Santos and Lesley loaned out. Kind of a tricky situation, I’d rather not buy anyone with them two developing. A loan for someone, maybe? 

12 minutes ago, Dr. Socrates said:

On a serious note. If Caicedo and Lavia are injured, we do look a bit lightweight in midfield. Is Big Les still at the club? Otherwise it’s just Enzo and Dewsbury Hall, isn’t it? 

We could always play Reece James at CM. DM.

The idea is players don't get injured and the manager works with a smaller squad.

13 minutes ago, Dr. Socrates said:

On a serious note. If Caicedo and Lavia are injured, we do look a bit lightweight in midfield. Is Big Les still at the club? Otherwise it’s just Enzo and Dewsbury Hall, isn’t it? 

Lesley is at saints.

We have Casadei, KDH, Enzo, and Renato veiga who can play in the middle. Plus trev and James I guess

1 minute ago, TheCeleryKing said:

We could always play Reece James at CM. DM.

The idea is players don't get injured and the manager works with a smaller squad.

Snap

Bye Felicia 👋

 

Incredible result, poor first half but we exploded in the second. The second half is also one of the first times since he was bought we’ve looked balanced in midfield with Enzo in it, very encouraging.

And Noni/Palmer - what can one say? Amazing

35 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Great to have a match day thread with such an (overall) upbeat tone, seems to have been ages to be reading through one like this.

All this happiness is doing my head in! I didn't recognise it at first.

Posts from me are rare these days. This is the best I have felt after a Chelsea game for a little while now.

So I made the mistake of logging on.

I got to page 16 of this (at this time 31 page) thread and I remembered very quickly why I came off this site.

My biggest takeaway is that Palmer must be the best player our club has EVER seen because he is the only player at the moment that NONE of you c**ts have an agenda against!

I'm not going to bother going through the second half of pages looking for the apologies for your blatantly sh*t posts because you are,l all too bitchy to admit you might of been wrong.

Even after Jackson got an assist AND a goal I still saw 3 different posters bitching about him.

You lot are the reason we are such a f**king laughing stock, not the owners, not any of the current players, not the managers we have had.

I can't beleive after a result and game like that I am having to say all this.

In short get behind the team, or f**k off and pretend to support a sh*tty team like spurs. You are all an embarrassment to this club! Much more so than player we have at this squad.

I used to be proud of my fellow chelsea fans. We had some of the most respected fans in the world, now we are left with a bunch of spoilt little c**ts like you lot.

8 minutes ago, Malta Blue said:

Posts from me are rare these days. This is the best I have felt after a Chelsea game for a little while now.

So I made the mistake of logging on.

I got to page 16 of this (at this time 31 page) thread and I remembered very quickly why I came off this site.

My biggest takeaway is that Palmer must be the best player our club has EVER seen because he is the only player at the moment that NONE of you c**ts have an agenda against!

I'm not going to bother going through the second half of pages looking for the apologies for your blatantly sh*t posts because you are,l all too bitchy to admit you might of been wrong.

Even after Jackson got an assist AND a goal I still saw 3 different posters bitching about him.

You lot are the reason we are such a f**king laughing stock, not the owners, not any of the current players, not the managers we have had.

I can't beleive after a result and game like that I am having to say all this.

In short get behind the team, or f**k off and pretend to support a sh*tty team like spurs. You are all an embarrassment to this club! Much more so than player we have at this squad.

I used to be proud of my fellow chelsea fans. We had some of the most respected fans in the world, now we are left with a bunch of spoilt little c**ts like you lot.

 

Wife having a nag today and come on here to take out your frustrations?

I stopped sympathising when you tried to insinuate that Wacko Jacko was decent - despite being an absolute liability as always. A reactionary header and lucky flailing flick of a foot doesn’t change that. 

Btw - have you ever worked for UK immigration? I used to and had a mate who was a Chelsea fan from Malta…. Never met another one.

Second half was superb, very exciting if we can maintain that, still very worried about us defensively could definitely do with a world class cb. Madueke and palmer superb and nice to see felix get on the score sheet. That should shut the Madueke haters up for a while.

Heartwarming comeback from Maltablue 😆

15 minutes ago, Malta Blue said:

Posts from me are rare these days. This is the best I have felt after a Chelsea game for a little while now.

So I made the mistake of logging on.

I got to page 16 of this (at this time 31 page) thread and I remembered very quickly why I came off this site.

My biggest takeaway is that Palmer must be the best player our club has EVER seen because he is the only player at the moment that NONE of you c**ts have an agenda against!

I'm not going to bother going through the second half of pages looking for the apologies for your blatantly sh*t posts because you are,l all too bitchy to admit you might of been wrong.

Even after Jackson got an assist AND a goal I still saw 3 different posters bitching about him.

You lot are the reason we are such a f**king laughing stock, not the owners, not any of the current players, not the managers we have had.

I can't beleive after a result and game like that I am having to say all this.

In short get behind the team, or f**k off and pretend to support a sh*tty team like spurs. You are all an embarrassment to this club! Much more so than player we have at this squad.

I used to be proud of my fellow chelsea fans. We had some of the most respected fans in the world, now we are left with a bunch of spoilt little c**ts like you lot.

 

That'll win 'em over.

Was worried about how palmer would fare under maresca but was proven wrong absolutely phenomenal today.

7 minutes ago, dan_cfc said:

Was worried about how palmer would fare under maresca but was proven wrong absolutely phenomenal today.

It is about positioning . He is not a winger because he lacks the pace hence why he was limited against city. Play him down the middle where he gets more touches and has more influence