Chelsea 4 Manchester City 4

[martin1905]

I take bake everything I've said.

Best we have played in years and years.

Absolutely should have beaten them, undeniably the better team.

Fucking brilliant performance from everyone, especially the manager.

UTC. 🍻🍻🍻🍻

Edited November 12, 2023 by martin1905

[Dwmh]

56 minutes ago, Original 21 said:

58 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

I'm expecting some favours from Taylor this half.

Good luck with that.

95th min pen - does that count.

Quite happy with the reffing today - most of was right, the rest was balanced rather than bias.
Only thing that annoyed me today was the two footed challenge on Broja for the penalty.  At the very least that should have been reviewed for a Red by VAR.

Cole Palmer getting booked for roughing up the penalty spot H1, and then having to take one from the same sport H2 - thats irony.

Helluva a game to be moaning about the ref to my mind.

 

44 minutes ago, Mark Kelly said:

It should be a penalty as he was pushed twice as he was in on goal. 

If this is the incident I recall the foul or fouls were outside the box.  Playing on was the right decision but the should have been a booking - plenty of opportunities for booking were missed on both sides.

2 minutes ago, Mark Kelly said:

Credit to Pochettino, finally a game where he's not set the side up in a cowardly manner. 

On days like this you can see that we're going to be a decent side eventually. 

 

Yes.  Taking off Fernandez for Mudryk at 3-2 was brave and we scored soon after.  Then taking off Caicedo for Broja was very brave,and work.  Arguably we could have gone for a win but I'll accept Big Les for Jackson as discretion.

Was this a good weeks coaching or was this what happens when players who have vastly underperformed both price and ability get to play a big team and make an effort.
Not sure myself, but my h/t comment still applies, they all upped their game and I treat that as more a tribute to Pep than to Poch.

The key question is do they play like this against Brighton, Everton and Sheff U in games 2, 4 & 5 of forthcoming fixtures.
Doing it against Newcastle and Man U just confirms that the players are making an effort.

[Dwmh]

Just now, martin1905 said:

I take bake everything I've said.

Best we have played in years and years.

Absolutely should have beaten them, undeniably the better team.

Fucking brilliant performance from everyone, especially the manager.

UTC. 🍻🍻🍻🍻

I thought you'd be upset because we didn't win 4-0

[My Blood Is Blue]

What a game. What a performance from our boys in blue. Fantastic! Not many teams are brave enough to go toe to toe with City and those that do often come undone, but we’ve just witnessed a very good performance, probably the best from this group of players. I think we deserved the 3 points.

I hope this is the true turning point and we kick on from here. 

Gallagher fantastic again.

Sterling brilliant.

Cole Palmer is absolutely wonderful to watch.

Great game. 8 goals in 2 matches, not bad for a team that can’t score!

[martin1905]

Just now, Dwmh said:

I thought you'd be upset because we didn't win 4-0.

Yo be fair I predicted we'd win, I very much thought we'd get something out of the game and that's because for all my criticism we have been very good in the big games.

We didn't win but I'd take that performance above a win with a lesser performance.

It was magical.

[Bigpokey24]

what a game , proud of the boys, only a matter of time , we will be back to who we know we are 

[Sleeping Dave]

3 minutes ago, Dwmh said:

95th min pen - does that count.
 

 

 

No because that pen was as clear as they get. 

[SideshowLuiz]

We've given stick to the team for not having the stick to come back when down, but we've done it 3 times today, really pleased. Did it against Spurs and Liverpool as well. 

So proud of them today.

[thevelourfog]

Lots of good stuff, lots of the same annoying bad stuff (their 2nd goal is absolutely pathetic defending). The one formulated feeling I have on the bus home is that it's two games in a row where we haven't just rolled over when things have gone against us, and where we've responded to physical aggression with physical aggression but without losing control. Even Sterling was in on the act.

What happens from this point on this year really depends on whether or not we can play with this mindset when we've been up against two banks for 30 minutes. It's one thing to play a bit when you're given the space to and another to force the issue.

The balls on Cole Palmer. We've really got one there.

[CarefreeMuratcan]

Imagine this team with a fully fit James-Chilwell and Nkunku. We are going to tear this league apart. 

[boratsbrother]

Great game and one in which we fully deserved at least a point.

For me, what's even  better than the result and performance is knowing that over the next few years there's still so much room for improvement with this team/squad, whereas City are already about as good as they can be.🙂

[CarefreeMuratcan]

1 minute ago, boratsbrother said:

Great game and one in which we fully deserved at least a point.

For me, what's even  better than the result and performance is knowing that over the next few years there's still so much room for improvement with this team/squad, whereas City are already about as good as they can be.🙂

Just need to get over this low block allergy. Then the World is our oyster. Even if we don't get into the CL by then, we have the 2025 Club World tournament to look forward to. 

[Backbiter]

Sky just said 2m43s elapsed between our pen being awarded and Palmer taking it. Then there was the Sterling scything foul and yellow that led to another long delay. But Taylor blew up with us in a position to counter after adding only 2 mins to the 8 that went up on the board. Explains why Poch was raging at the end 

[My Blood Is Blue]

So pleased with that performance today, it’s been so long since I came away from a Chelsea match really proud and full of confidence for the future. It felt different today than it has for a while. I think, and whisper it quietly, we’re going to be ok.

Credit to Poch, he’s slowly turning this set of players into a proper side.

We will still have our down and frustrating days, but enough signs in this tough run of games that we’re going in the right direction. The Brentford result is incredibly annoying though.

[Sciatika]

As is the Arsenal one. So proud of the boys. My prediction was correct. I wish I'd opted for a win now.😀

Edited November 12, 2023 by Sciatika

[SideshowLuiz]

6 minutes ago, My Blood Is Blue said:

So pleased with that performance today, it’s been so long since I came away from a Chelsea match really proud and full of confidence for the future. It felt different today than it has for a while. I think, and whisper it quietly, we’re going to be ok.

Credit to Poch, he’s slowly turning this set of players into a proper side.

We will still have our down and frustrating days, but enough signs in this tough run of games that we’re going in the right direction. The Brentford result is incredibly annoying though.

It's reminiscent of the TT performances in the CL when we won; in those games, I rarely felt good about our chances going into the games, but we never looked like losing. It's definitely not there yet with this team (we have a bad habit of going behind first), but there is a resilience and bravery that's been too long absent. 

This will only do good things for our confidence, and I hope we continue to build on these performances.

Edited November 12, 2023 by SideshowLuiz

[Mark Kelly]

20 minutes ago, Backbiter said:

Sky just said 2m43s elapsed between our pen being awarded and Palmer taking it. Then there was the Sterling scything foul and yellow that led to another long delay. But Taylor blew up with us in a position to counter after adding only 2 mins to the 8 that went up on the board. Explains why Poch was raging at the end 

There is a reason though. 

Because Chelsea 

[boratsbrother]

24 minutes ago, My Blood Is Blue said:

So pleased with that performance today, it’s been so long since I came away from a Chelsea match really proud and full of confidence for the future. It felt different today than it has for a while. I think, and whisper it quietly, we’re going to be ok.

Credit to Poch, he’s slowly turning this set of players into a proper side.

We will still have our down and frustrating days, but enough signs in this tough run of games that we’re going in the right direction. The Brentford result is incredibly annoying though.

While every team has to respect the quality of City, for far too long we've been going out to play them filled with the fear of being on the end of a thrashing, but not today! Along with no fear the lads never gave up which  is another positive to take from today. Much better atmosphere too btw.

[phicho]

Everyone is talking “how exciting is to watch Chelsea games”. We are showing signs of brilliance, I guess Todd is finally in a happy place, if he manages to pull this project off, we all would need to apologize dragging his name through the mud. 

[johnnybozo]

1 hour ago, Floyd25 said:

Definitely does seem like we’ve turned the corner from an attacking point of view, brave football as well. Defensively at least two of their goals were a complete mess if we’re being honest, marking non existent at times, so that’s the area we really need to work on. 

If you think defensive drills are what this squad needs to work on you need a head wobble. Our issue for the last half a decade has been scoring goals while we Wenger it up in the final third.

[Mark Kelly]

[blueandproud]

Lucky to still be alive after this, good job I don't have a heart condition, I went through every emotion possible during this game, and I am immensely proud of the players  for their efforts, their heads never dropped after a setback.  Cole Palmer, what a player, absolutely different class., though all the players were excellent today.  The ref was a joke, if he's the best the PL has to offer,  what does that say about the standards of refereeing?  How was that dirty cheat Walker not booked?  And finally, I hope this also shuts up that stupid old fart Harry Redknapp, who belittles us again in his puerile column with his usual nonsensical piffle, his teams wouldn't have got anything from this game.

[Ham]

[Ham]

Perhaps a few on here will finally admit that they got it badly wrong in criticising TBSD in relation to recruitment.

Injuries was the killer for us. As options come back, we look better.

I hate to say I told you so about this squad but I told you so. 

 

[CarefreeMuratcan]

39 minutes ago, Mark Kelly said:

Substitutes should have included VAR