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Exactly, they had a goalkeeper who must have had some nerves yet only one shot forced him to really react... (winks)
Yeah we didn't show enough guts or feistiness in the areas that mattered most which is disappointing but we've got 10 games left, have a 4 point cushion and we are still to play Woolwich, whilst Woolwich have to play Man U & Man U have to play Chelsea so even with our two tough fixtures up at Anfield & The Etihad we are still well on course with others inevitably dropping points as well. Got to focus on 8 wins in our last 10 games now. Got to keep fighting what's done is done
They didn’t want to upstage Kane.
There's nothing wrong in general with losing to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. This is a team who's had one of the best home records over the last 10 years, a team we've beaten once in 30 years.
More the manner of the defeat. Gutless, spineless, cowardly. No fight. Compare that to the Battle of the Bridge and we were miles away.
That performance today was reminiscent of the shit we served up when we used to go to the Bridge and roll over every season.
We were too cumbersome and static for large parts, mostly our off the ball movement but even if that was lacking we definitely should have stuck it up them a little more agreed
What's even worse?
Chelsea were fucking garbage tonight. Offered absolutely nothing.
They hit us with similar patterns of play that they used against City. The one thing we didn't want to do was concede first as it locked in their counter attack good and proper.
We need more patience and intelligence working as a group up top and we needed more heart in the middle. Dier and Dele would have added something I have absolutely no doubt
Needed players like dele and (I hate to say it) Dier... dele is generally a big game player and Dier appreciates when a game needs players to compete even if he is shite sometimes! , for me, tripps, Davies, eriksen just Didn’t step up, lamela and son were pretty quiet, Kane tried but can’t do it on his own and Sissoko and winks were ok but needed more in front of them
Well we had nothing in midfield. Winks was a one man midfield, so Dier and/or Dele would have been perfect.
Burnley exploited that. Chelsea did too. Woolwich will do the exact same.
A run out for big Vic perhaps?
Where the fuck did I say that?
Put us in the new gaff and spend a couple of hundred million and I still don't think it's exactly reasonable to "expect" to win the league... It ignores the general notion of competition and the week-to-week unpredictability of the league itself; not to mention the greater resources of the other key contenders.
Don't sweat that part mate... And no I don't think it's unreasonable to be concerned about bouncing back next week... Anything but.
Which is what I choose to focus upon...
The 90's/00's didn't teach me to accept mediocrity like some would like to suggest; simply to not take anything for granted. Similarly, spending the last 20-30 years watching teams mostly BUY the title reaffirmed to me that there's got to be more to the game than being champ... Otherwise why do fans of the 90+ teams in the league not in with a shout for the EPL even bother.
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No chance.
Best we could hope for is Dier in there, just for some help for Winks. I'm sure he will be back for the NLD.
Today was an absolute embarrassment.
Davies and Trippier were terrible.
Sissoko looked so inept again.
The subs didn't make sense.
Eriksen under-performed massively.
I never really thought we were in it for a serious title challenge, but, damn, we really need to get it together and grab some points from this next game to avoid a complete mid-season collapse! This next game is huge!
Davies and Trippier were terrible.
Sissoko looked so inept again.
The subs didn't make sense.
Eriksen under-performed massively.
I never really thought we were in it for a serious title challenge, but, damn, we really need to get it together and grab some points from this next game to avoid a complete mid-season collapse! This next game is huge!
I'm going on the assumption that Dier won't be ready in time. If he isn't back it really leaves us in a midfield predicament
It does.
In that case, we better be going to three at the back and having Sissoko play deeper and closer to Winks.
The old 3 at the back that got battered by a lot of fans the other day. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I think we'll be bang up for it against Woolwich, I fancy we'll go steaming into them