Just now, axman2526 said:

We saw how much Joao Pedro gives us defensively, and we lost points because he was not there to bail us out.

Yeah .. a George did nothing .. Garnacho could have come on instead and kept Pedro on.. .. we completely deserved to beat this bang average stoke city team..

6 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

2 wins and 2 draws at the start of the season against mediocre opposition. Not good enough. Maresca is a bang average coach that is holding there players back. You don't start an away game with makeshift defence and stick Fofana at RB when he has barely played any football. That completely f**ked up the rhythm of our defence and we never recovered. The whole performance was a mess, and that Brentford team should not be coming away with anything from it, they were awful.

Agreed.

Yet again we make a poor team look far better than they actually are.

We can debate it till the cows come home but this will be the theme of the season. We will drop points when we shouldn’t against poor teams and scrape the odd result against top teams.

This is the manager in a nutshell.

The owners won’t act but they really need to. We need an elite manager not some puppet:

Just now, Chelsger said:

We can debate it till the cows come home but this will be the theme of the season. We will drop points when we shouldn’t against poor teams and scrape the odd result against top teams.

This is the manager in a nutshell.

The owners won’t act but they really need to. We need an elite manager not some puppet:

I don’t know about the manager .. how about the Directors who after Cole I’ll got injured asked is to compete with Tosin and Chalobah as internal solutions.. one can’t tackle the other can’t head .. we need an elite bully of a CB .. not this average lot..

Just now, Deino said:

Gone are the days where Terry, Silva, Ricardo Carvalho just heads balls like that away like nothing

I don't know how players sh*t themselves from a long throw. It's so easy to defend. One player goes for it, another player puts their body between the opposition attacker. That is how you would deal with Rory Delap's long throws for Stoke. You don't need every player ball watching and desperately trying to clear it. It was like watching Arsenal in the 2000's trying to defend that.

It's quite amusing really that we're 2nd in the PL with a Sunday league defence!

4 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

We saw how much Joao Pedro gives us defensively, and we lost points because he was not there to bail us out.

Just a shambles of management. Amateur.

Poor selection

Poor defending

Poor preparation for long throws

I like Garnacho, made the 2nd goal but doesn't know what his job is defensively - stupid to take off JP.

JM is available and waiting to set up his next big pay off 😁

ps. and no VAR to help us out this week !

Edited September 13, 2025Sep 13 by Bebe1980

8 minutes ago, charierre said:

Why are teams who take long throws allowed more time to take them?

Excellent point. Has long frustrated me - fellas drying the ball, pfaffing about. Liam's dad started it all.

The team selection was inhibited by injuries and tha Bayern game. I think when Palmer and Garnacho are fully fit we will see an improvement.

All we need to do is beat Bayern to justify this team selection.

PS. I still think it was a foul throw.

Does anyone seriously think we will win anything of note with Ma’yes’ca?

We could have gone top at Christmas against Everton but he managed to tell the players they weren’t good enough, then tonight he disrespected Brentford changing both FB’s, picked a donkey on the LW, recalled a striker and didnt even put him on the bench and picked his worst midfielder and to cap it all brought on a player we tried to sell on the last day of the window

He is a lucky manager, and should be fired

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

I don't know how players sh*t themselves from a long throw. It's so easy to defend. One player goes for it, another player puts their body between the opposition attacker. That is how you would deal with Rory Delap's long throws for Stoke. You don't need every player ball watching and desperately trying to clear it. It was like watching Arsenal in the 2000's trying to defend that.

Or you could go the other way and give the keeper a clear path to just grab the ball. There's no reason that goal should have gone in like that

I have never seen a Chelsea team sh*t the bed this hard from a throw in.

4 minutes ago, Womble said:

It's quite amusing really that we're 2nd in the PL with a Sunday league defence!

5th

We needed top Goalkeeper and top Defender (Guehi?) Instead we Garnacho and Gittens . Let Noni go who is seen much better now compared to last season. Its coach's job to improve players . Get Tiago Silva as a defence coach that may solve some problems but Maresca's crazy team selection and crazy subs at times will not solve the problem at all.

Painfully obvious to everyone before the season started keeper and centre backs weren’t good enough, and the fact we’ve let it get to a point George is our back up striker is maddening.

Imagine the noise the Scouse cnts made when that went in and hendo the bellend calling his old mates after the game, I know it’s only football but I feel like launching my fcking tele out the window

Brown nose Redknapp licking Henderson arse

Really we didn’t deserve to win that much just for disrespecting Brentford and our fans with that Carobo Cup line up.

But what a daft way to drop 2 points, yeah let’s leave the new guy at the back post to deal with the Brentford long throw.

While we have 2 games a week Maresca is gonna prioritise the Champions League match and then think of the Premier League match so we better get used to this kind of mis-management.

Edited September 13, 2025Sep 13 by 2211

3 minutes ago, charierre said:

Brown nose Redknapp licking Henderson arse

Nah!

That was definitely the first screening of Fellatio on Sky TV!

When I saw the fixture list .. knew we gonna sh*t the bed… our CBs are probably among the worst in the league .. bottom half ..our midfield the best and attack in the top 4.. amount of money wasted on the disaster brothers and the 10 year olds and we do t have a decent CB ..

Yup.

Away to sh*tehouses immediately after the international break?

Let me just field a team with 4 new players who haven’t played together and/or are w**k.

Edited September 13, 2025Sep 13 by Sconnie Blue

Looks like it was a foul throw

We make things difficult for ourselves, Maresca plays very disjointed set ups and expects to gather it up at a moments notice, to win games against mediocre opposition in 20-25 minutes. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt, its very frustrating to watch. We waste a lot of points its such a shame.

1 minute ago, Andy2461 said:

Looks like it was a foul throw

After that stupid fellow at PGMOL came out and apologised we ain’t getting anything.. Webb is cnut he is all about his media image .. watch out the entire season is going to be like this.. every frkn week there are bad decisions from refs don’t hear much from these paid pimps on tele then .. but all of them predicted us to struggle and hate to admit being wrong .. now see how this pressure works against us.

18 minutes ago, Andy North said:

All we need to do is beat Bayern to justify this team selection.

That’s not true though. These points were dropped unnecessarily. As PSG proved last season, you don’t have to do very much at all to get out of the group stage and scraping through doesn’t have any effect on the difficulty of your future fixtures.