2 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

It's pronounced Leafy-frog

There's one behind bar for you 👍

HAAAAAAAASSSSS ANYONE SEEN A RIGHT BACK?!!! WE'RE TAKING ONE HEEEEELLLLLLLL OF A BEATING!!!!

1 step forward and 5 backward, awful Management.

I thought Maresca had come on leaps and bounds since the United game but blimey he has outdone himself here.

The mentality from the players and the manager has been shocking. They turn up to these bottom half teams expecting to just steamroll them.

This is why literally none of us really like Maresca.

Would get Palmer, James, Neto and Acheampong ALL on at HT for Estevao, Pedro, Badiashille and Tosin. But you could literally take anyone off.

Need a massive second half. Villa have come back from 2-0 down - even Fulham nearly turned over a 5-1 deficit.

Come on Chelsea - wake up FFS!!!

3 minutes ago, SimonH said:

Badiashille straight into the bomb squad would be preferable.

Sadly with the human ironing board very little is straight. Sideways into the bomb squad would be more apt. But he's another Maresca love child. Funny how all of the players that Maresca is most vocal about how perfect they are, are actually our worst players.

Shockingly poor performance, no guts, determination and lacking in any guile.

Estavao very lucky not to see red

Gittens, Pedro and Delap a complete no show…not helped by the walking football from the CH’s

Should be 5 subs expect to see 3

Awful mentality none of them want to be there, pointless getting up for the bigs ones if you can’t win these ones.

Terrible

Bring gusto, Palmer, garnacho

For tosin,gittens, delap

Literally nobody had a good first 45. Shocking.

Old Maresca doesn't help himself does he? Old coot!

Some of these players just aren't as good as we think they are -- at least not yet. Some of them are getting bullied and losing all 50/50s.

It's also one of those games where Sanchez does not make a mistake, but shows, to me at least, that he's not good enough.

Delap, Badiashile, Gittens, all of them are f**king terrible, how the f**k they were scouted as good enough is beyond me. Delap isn't even Premier League standard. Gittens is from a pussy league and Badiashile doesn't have a brain.

Tosin doesn't even look like a good back up anymore. Acheampong should be ahead of him and Badiashile.

Enzo looks extra dogsh*t today without Caicedo covering him.

Joao Pedro, has the odd moments of brilliance in his career, but nights like tonight are the norm with him and the reason why he will never be top level.

Santos, Estevao, Cucurella, Chalobah, Sanchez, I feel like they have been thrown into the sh*t tonight.

Appalling management from Maresca once again. He's had far too many chances to learn from this at this point.

Disgusting

CB walking the ball to the half way line then turning and passing it back

No one wants the ball

The CB are woeful as is gittens.

Trev into the centre James on

6 minutes ago, BordeauxBlue said:

I had the same thought

I remember that one last season. We were flying high, and that was the beginning of the rot. Dejavu.

Every time I think Maresca has turned a corner, he does something like this 11. If you are going to play Trev, play him at CB and use one of the 3 RB capable players at RB! Tosin can play vs Cardiff, not premier league. Pointless to draw Arsenal if the required rotations mean you lose.

6 minutes ago, Chippy said:

Unbelievable, it's as if Maresca only takes certain games seriously, why keep changing centre back, Trevor at RB when he's been settling in well...

Defensively we look clueless and weak in attack, too many changes at a time we've lost all fluidity.

We've not actually won anything defensively from set pieces. If Leeds had more about them they would be out of sight now, just on missed opportunities from set pieces.

Not gonna get at him too much, as results have been okay, but this football aginst 75% of the teams we play is so f**king boring to watch. Makes my eyes bleed. Slow passing, wingers completely isolated, no movement in behind, no risks.

4 minutes ago, Snedger said:

I suspect it’s more down to Barca making Barca look like Leeds. I think we’ve given Maresca too much credit.

Not entirely the aggression speed and intensity we played in that game and Arsenal is none existent tonight.

1 minute ago, WhiteWall said:

Sadly with the human ironing board very little is straight. Sideways into the bomb squad would be more apt. But he's another Maresca love child. Funny how all of the players that Maresca is most vocal about how perfect they are, are actually our worst players.

I stand corrected (and very still) sideways to the bomb squad it is. Guy is a shocking defender, no idea why he is liked, stands on the ball, no urgency, and quite frankly we can all see literally no brain cells. Stealing a living.

3 minutes ago, charierre said:

Shockingly poor performance, no guts, determination and lacking in any guile.

Estavao very lucky not to see red

Gittens, Pedro and Delap a complete no show…not helped by the walking football from the CH’s

Should be 5 subs expect to see 3

Never a red give your head a wobble

3 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

The mentality from the players and the manager has been shocking. They turn up to these bottom half teams expecting to just steamroll them.

Once again they talked themselves up like they were world beaters and immediately get humbled.

This is peak Maresca Ball.

• Wingers isolated and in 1v3 situations.

• No one playing it long to the striker.

• No traditional fullbacks.

• Playing with a sweeper & moving the ball slow

• Recycle, Recycle, Recycle