In all my years of watching football and following Chelsea I don't think I've ever seen anything as farcical as this. In fact I know I haven't.

The only reason that penalty was given was for the spectacle, because it's not a penalty, anybody that watches the sport knows that.

Maresca took too long to make his subs. Then rushed them. Now we’re left with our second team on the pitch and no striker.

Stupid Cole.

Just now, dan_cfc said:

in other news Maresca is f**king awful and we need to f**k him off asap

A small tweak. I think one that is more a problem than Gusto being rubbish.

Palmers reaction knocks him out of any quarter final

1 minute ago, CFCCAN said:

Another Frenchman ......just saying...him and Baddie make a right pair..

But there are some French players that I rate. But Gusto has always been too weak for me, Badiashile is an horrendous player and Disasi was clearly not good enough.

1 minute ago, WeatherMan said:

In all my years of watching football and following Chelsea I don't think I've ever seen anything as farcical as this. In fact I know I haven't.

That game against Barcelona..

Vs 10 men for 30 mins at least Palmer is still on silly card to get though. Nkuku not getting out his 🎈 likely so it’ll be down to 🥶to get or make a winner b4 🖊️ s

Just now, guddy69 said:

That game against Barcelona..

Good point, I make you right on that one

3 minutes ago, Snedger said:

We had the better of this game over 90 minutes to have won four or five nil. But no, a freak free kick aside, nothing, and now this mess.

1-0 is never a score you'd fancy us to hold onto..our defence is fragile and bang average at best. Had more than enough chances to secure this in the first half ...all a red is going to do is for Benfica to sit deep for 25 mins...or get one of us sent off to even things up

Don't get me wrong, it's a complete farce, but we have been pretty sh*t in the final third with our delivery and final ball.

This has Chelsea written all over it. We never do it the easy way.

One thing’s for sure I don’t want pens against their keeper. Imagine Gusto taking one. No. No thanks!

I bet this goes to penalties

When has Gusto ever shown he can play in midfield. The change to move him into midfield is baffling. Especially when we have Santos and Essugo.

Maresca is a c**t, his subs were a joke

How come they are running harder and faster than we are?

When we recovered the ball, we should have been off........

Not enough urgency

Edited June 29, 20251 yr by Qaz

We are a joke going forward...

Low block. Clueless. This goes to penalties and we'll lose because they are kids and don't have the mental strength for it.

Had numbers there and decided to slow it down, I get they are tired but how come Benfica can sprint forward to make a chance with 10 men ?

He’s obsessed with Gusto

I feel without the stupid break we’d have won this. The break has seen them come out rejuvenated and us flat as a pancake.

Beyond force majeure, I blame Maresca. He made hugely weakening substitutions and he has been massively shown up on motivating players for an extra five minutes.

Can we please just get rid of this useless Gusto.

I hate to see a sub get subbed but Gusto needs to be hooked, this is a disasterclass

2 minutes ago, CFCCAN said:

We are a joke going forward...

We really are… it’s going to be a struggle this season we’ll be lucky to make top 6