This is surely the least 'creating a chance' XI I have ever seen in blue. Shocking that people paid to watch this.

Oh yeah, friendly reminder that J.Pedro hadn't had a single shot in his last 5 games as a striker.

Round of applause for Maresca for seeing the squads issues.

Estevao and Guiu need to come on together.

Just now, GarnachoCheese said:

Why is Santos in the 10 and not playing a natural pivot with him and Lavia.

Of course Maresca HAS to do his usual woke nonsense with the full back at CM.

Guiu

Garnacho J.Pedro Estevao

Santos Lavia

Any competent person would have something like the above.

Anybody can see that Pedro is not a natural striker. Maresca knows this himself, which is why he wants Delap alongside him. So f**king play Guiu there. We saw the importance of just having a natural striker in that position.

Allowing Gusto to stink up the place as an inverted full back every single f**king time is inexcusable. It's never worked, he's tried it for a year at this point. I don't care how sh*t of a coach somebody has to be, he must see it.

2 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

This is surely the least 'creating a chance' XI I have ever seen in blue. Shocking that people paid to watch this.

hard to create a chance when the manager has the defenders passing it between themselves 5000 times

It's woeful at the back... giving it away and when they're not doing that they're holding it up to give Forest time to get back in position lol...

Just now, Sconnie Blue said:

Estevao and Guiu need to come on together.

Yep. Gusto and Garnacho off for the pair of them.

Gusto ... surely we can do better than that!

Estavao good enough to start for Brazil but not for Maresca - what a w**ker this guy is!

I actually hate the opposition box and am pleased to see that we are doing our best to avoid ever entering it despite having 97% possession

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

Anybody can see that Pedro is not a natural striker. Maresca knows this himself, which is why he wants Delap alongside him. So f**king play Guiu there. We saw the importance of just having a natural striker in that position.

Allowing Gusto to stink up the place as an inverted full back every single f**king time is inexcusable. It's never worked, he's tried it for a year at this point. I don't care how sh*t of a coach somebody has to be, he must see it.

This is what concerns me the most about Maresca. Its all good and well saying we need to give the manager and i'm happy to do that if its the right manager. There's been far too many red flags with Maresca for far too long and he doesn't seem capable (or is too stubborn) to learn from his own mistakes.

Our squad is good, as proven. He isn't maximising what we're capable of.

3 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Estevao and Guiu need to come on together.

That’s what I would do and maybe Caicedo

On 16/10/2025 at 08:37, Nibs said:

Lets hope the decent CFC turn up for this one - although early kick-offs never fill me with a great deal of confidence.

MUST play James at full back so he can shackle his old mate CHO. If we play Gusto, can see him switching off and leaving CHO free at the back post to tap one in.

As soon as I saw Gusto in the starting line-up just knew he's be the weakest link. How many times has he hit the ball back towards our goal and nearly cost us?

We can win this game if we hook Gusto and get Caicedo on now and then get Estaveo on early. Come On The Chels!!

There will be some utterly worthless c**t somewhere putting that first half into a PowerBI report and arguing 'this was a good thing actually'.

3 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

There will be some utterly worthless c**t somewhere putting that first half into a PowerBI report and arguing 'this was a good thing actually'.

That's no way to talk about our manager....

Edited October 18, 2025Oct 18 by nonotnowjim

Back to walking football again, too many touches resulting in pressure from the forest midfielders.

Always the pass backwards, I f**king hate watching this sh*te !!

My missus just said to me.. "do you actually like watching Chelsea ?"

She has a point lol.

Maresca seems to be treating this as a conference league match, but even the worst (and Forrest are not that) PL team are better than most of the clubs we played against in that competition.

It's surprising he didn't start Guiu when he did quite well in that competition, but I guess I'm not blessed with Maresca's galaxy brain.

we've been awful but I don't know where the commentators are saying first could be 2-0 up. They've not had many chances.

He leaves Guston on FFS!!

Gusto survives !

Guiu on - wins us our first corner of the game within 30 seconds

How is gusto still there

gusto rides again!

That only makes sense if Santos and Lavia are struggling.

JOSHHHHH

Lovely from Neto, beautiful from Josh