Chelsea - The Verdict

AlGard

AlGard

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As usual, a blistering start. Could have been 2 up in the first 6 minutes. But we never seem to capatalise on those intense opening minutes.

Then we sat back, looked tired as Chelsea pressed and it was little surprise when they scored.
We looked very down at half time.

But we came out to a rip roaring crowd and turned it around in 3 minutes.
Some great football in the 2nd half.

Then we looked very tired again as Chelsea pressed.Backs to the wall and sadly we cracked.

It's the fight that we are showing that gives us all hope.

A fair result, and we battled like lions.
You can't ask for more can we?
 
Can't be mad at that but it's a shame because we were so close to 3 points.
I think almost everyone would have taken a point before the game
 
Your verdict Al...... not the verdict.

I think that little cnut Fraser has cost us time and time again, and we know the prick is off in the summer so why do we play him.

Little **************** admitted he didn’t play for the team..... so he shouldn’t even be in the squad.

Lacklustre attempt at stopping Chelsea’s second.

Thanks Ryan
 
The closing 35 minutes of the first half were extremely worrying. The second half performance was extremely encouraging. Under pressure in both those periods but the grit shown in the second period pressure was different gravy to the soporific response in the first.

A few other thoughts:

- C Wilson is undoubtedly missing chances he would have put away in the past. If he can turn that around things could look very different for us.

- There was a time when we could buy easy fouls in the PL but perhaps we overcharged that card. The consistency in which we now don't get any even 60/40 decisions across multiple referees seems like there is a clear direction been given to the officials to not to give us soft decisions and they are erring on the side of caution with that. In particular in reference to C Wilson and Fraser.

These kind of directions do happen as you'll likely see if you read a ref autobiography so we have to suck that up. From now until the end of the season at least we shouldn't expect to get any decisions when touched, niggled at, prodded or slyly caught. It's just how it's going to be so actually better to try and stumble through on our feet as we may get a lucky bounce. We won't get the decision.

- Stacey looks excellent and it's the right call to have him and A Smith in the side. Brave decision from EH but we look much more potent with two explosive full backs. For all his qualities, Rico doesn't quite have that turbo dash that our play can benefit from.

- A shame King went off when he did as we could have benefited from him on the break in that final period but presumably they're treating his return with kid gloves. If we lost him now it would be a disaster.

- For all his critics in the first half, our second goal came about on the back of an excellent piece of skill from L Cook at the genesis of the move. Something I'm not sure our other midfielders could have done. We need a lot more of that but at least he showed something.

Keep plugging away at it and we could just find ourselves sneaking over the line. Even though I only really bet on Euros and WCs I'm actually tempted to put a sneaky tenner on us to to turn over Liverpool 3-1. The odds are likely to be huge and there's something about some of our play that I'm really starting to like the look of again.

Oh, and if the PL are watching we wouldn't be adverse to playing Chelsea every week. They must bloody hate us.
 
stanthevan said:
About right, Al. There’ll be a bucket load of negativity from the usual suspects but that was a hard earned point against a top side.
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The problem is that we have thrown so many points away in winnable games that a point today is unlikely to be enough. Call it negative if you want but it’s realistic. Had we applied ourselves as we did in first part of the second half today for the entirety of the season then we would have been fine.
 
Waz afcb said:
The problem is that we have thrown so many points away in winnable games that a point today is unlikely to be enough. Call it negative if you want but it’s realistic. Had we applied ourselves as we did in first part of the second half today for the entirety of the season then we would have been fine.
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What the bloody hell is the point in looking back at what we should've done....pointless .......might as well look forward to the next game.
 
Proud of the 2nd half effort....still don’t understand the concept of bunkering down. Dance with the girl you brought no?
 
PPV handbags under the pier tonight Kenya cherry, dragon8, waz afcb all wearing their fav players shirts
 
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