Chelsea (league Cup) semi 18/19 ratings

[Nutter-Naylor]

 

[bus-conductor]

Sissoko clearly our best midfielder but your amazing biase stops you seeing this or making your reviews objectionable or remotely accurate

Has he done something to you in your personal life?

To you he's always our best midfielder though isn't he?

At least I'm giving you an explanation of why I think he he isn't.

Clearly our best midfielder why? By all means peddle your bias explain your reasoning Bazza.

 

[Gilzean's Wig]

Not sure any besides Alderweireld could be deemed MOTM from our defence though. CHO had Rose on toast for most of the first half, almost like Rose was scared to get near him and Trippier allowed a few crosses in, one of which Kante hit the post.

Midfield were poor though. I hate the diamond formation personally but again, how can I fault it when we are winning games!?

We'll have to play alot better in the second leg. And we'll have to play alot better at the weekend where I imagine we play a pretty similar team.

Agree with most of this entire post . Worst thing for me was to see the return of the 'hot potato' scenario with our players desperate to get rid of the ball , footballing confidence trashed . Hopeful punts upfield abounding .
Result was good and our defence held tho woodwork hit twice , but Chelski looked to be on as different level technique wise and yes , we'll have to play a lot better at the W/E and in the return leg if we are to go through .

 

[fogueres]

What did Sarri do?

 

[SpiderSpurs]

What did Sarri do?

He has a different opinion about the 'offside'.

Chelsea reveal different angle on Harry Kane VAR offside call in Tottenham's Carabao Cup win

 

[bus-conductor]

Sissoko is obviously growing in confidence as I saw him telling a team mate to do something.
I've never seen him do that before. I have to agree with Baz. Winks was pedestrian and subdued.
Sissoko was the one breaking up their attacks not Winks. My man Rose just edged it for me.

So the player for us that saw more of the ball than anyone, was the one that was subdued. Of the players that started only Kane, Son and Alderweireld actually put in less tackles or intercepts than Sissoko but he was the one breaking up their attacks? Nobody on our team gave the ball away more than Rose, who also continually allowed Hudson-Odoi to put ball after ball into our box but he was MOTM?

Even by football's "all about opinions" that's pretty Abstract surrealism.

 

[Boltonspur]

Also in Italy Sarri was always crying. He had come to complain to Juventus also about the games: if they played first they said they were disadvantaged because Juventus would have played knowing the result of the direct opponent. If they played afterwards they said there was too much pressure.

Sounds like him and the chavs are a match made in heaven.
Only club maybe better suited would be Liverpool.

 

[sammyspurs]

Fine the cunt and send him to the stands for the second leg.

I dont like VAR, but fuck off. Like they're the first team to suffer......we got fucked about 5 times last year, and look at WBA

 

[Bazali]

Think it's better than Lloris' personally.

Calm. Composed. Only made 2 errors from his distribution, which considering how much of the ball he had, is rather impressive.

Gazzaniga was trying to play it short for our defenders to try and work it into midfield and then through to Kane and Son down the channels. Problem was, we couldn't get it to midfield because they were all sub-par.

Gazzaniga (and our defence) was let down by our midfielders not capable of doing their job. Everytime we DID knock it long it came back to us. Gazzaniga tried his best NOT to knock it long knowing it'd cause us more pressure.

Ok

We did sit too deep for my liking which brought them on to us but maybe that was part of the plan if we got an early goal and Poch was happy with 1-0
I thought we were good defensively

If they score early in the 2nd leg I foresee problems

Tripps had a good 2nd half against Odoi and Toby was solid throughout

Sissoko had his usual good game and some other poster noticed that he’s now becoming more assertive with his team mates which is positive

Eriksen didn’t play well and neither did Son or Dele but maybe that was the system that Poch employed

Happy with the win but would have been much happier with a two goal cushion

 

[Bazali]

To you he's always our best midfielder though isn't he?

At least I'm giving you an explanation of why I think he he isn't.

Clearly our best midfielder why? By all means peddle your bias explain your reasoning Bazza.

Explained

Blakey

 

[Bazali]

So the player for us that saw more of the ball than anyone, was the one that was subdued. Of the players that started only Kane, Son and Alderweireld actually put in less tackles or intercepts than Sissoko but he was the one breaking up their attacks? Nobody on our team gave the ball away more than Rose, who also continually allowed Hudson-Odoi to put ball after ball into our box but he was MOTM?

Even by football's "all about opinions" that's pretty Abstract surrealism.

Ahab is right