***Chelsea v City Match Thread***

[Cit.revenge]

Of course he should, he was shite. And Nastasic got himself into a fucking awful position meaning he let the ball bounce, then panicked.

Both were fucking shite.

No , both were not shite as you write, but joe was at fault for the second goal and only Joe.

Bollocks but typical of the excuses Nasti gets whene he does fuck all to save a situation. He could & should have headed the ball out for a throw in rather than let it bounce, he could have let Hart clear it & he could have headed it clear hinself.

He failed to react when tested. He could have rescued it but his arse went.

Ted don't tell me u think this was Nasti goal not Hart ?

[Moonchesteri]

Nasty had his eye on the ball and headed back. Hart has to take the blame. How could Nasty deal with the ball when Hart was so close to him? He's made one horror mistake after another this season.

Why are you treating Nastasic like he's eight years old?
I get it if a small kid would make that mistake / use that excuse but when we're talking about professional footballer I'm not buying the "he had his eye on the ball so you can't blame him". The lack of awareness is shocking

[Cocacolajojo1]

Demichelis looked miles better as the game went on & may turn out decent.

Also the mids plus Aguero were top quality today imo. The Chelsea danger came from the back 4 plus Hart.

Sort that with today's performance & we win.

Not that hard to do imo.

Pretty much yeah. I mean we can argue til Kingdom Come about who should and who shouldn't be in the back four (Garcia shouldn't) but there's a general system error at the back right now. We are not protecting our back four and it's often playing like four individuals and not like a unit. After Chelsea calmed down after their frantic period in the middle of the first half, their midfield became rigid and often lacked purpose when attacking. THey still scored. There's something seriously wrong with our defense that can't be put solely on the individual players manning it.

[Ted Hughes]

Couldn't face watching the discussion afterwards, so couple of questions -

Did Nastastic's header go towards the net or was it going wide if Torres hadn't put it in? (And if Joe hadn't taken Nastasic out, he would have been following it up in front of Torres)

If he hadn't headed it, could Hart have actually done anything other than smash into the pair of them and potentially get sent off?

Probably could have headed it or taken Torres out & kept us a point.

[CHOPPERmcfc]

Couldn't face watching the discussion afterwards, so couple of questions - Did Nastastic's header go towards the net or was it going wide if Torres hadn't put it in? (And if Joe hadn't taken Nastasic out, he would have been following it up in front of Torres) If he hadn't headed it, could Hart have actually done anything other than smash into the pair of them and potentially get sent off?

It was going wide of the post.

Joe came, then stuttered, then fully committed and seemed to call Keepers twice. Looked as though he would have clattered into the pair of them.

[branny]

Of course he should, he was shite. And Nastasic got himself into a fucking awful position meaning he let the ball bounce, then panicked.

Both were fucking shite.

If you watch it, Nasti doesn't do much wrong. For some reason, when it becomes apparent that Nasti is gonna win the ball, Hart races out of his area and e D's up under the ball. If he'd had confidence in Nasti he's got an easy catch.

[zuricity]

He shoutd at Nastasic twice to leave it whilst he was facing him. He headed it over him.

I guess you are going to persist with this nonsense aren't you? So, without having an axe to grind against any of our players, i think it is time Joe was given a rest. About six to eight weeks, until the 3rd round of the FA cup

[nottsblue]

Heading towards the goal line is what he is supposed to do. Joe got it wrong , horribly wrong.

Agree. Hart had a brain seizure & only he knows what he was doing but Nasty didnt react. He still could of cleared with foot. That abberation aside he otherwise had a poor game. Worse than the goal though was his defending at set pieces. Not jumping at a corner to leave opponent, (Terry), a free header is a droppable offence in my view. A defender who doesnt defend is a waste of time. Joleon would NOT have ducked out of header

[zuricity]

If you watch it, Nasti doesn't do much wrong. For some reason, when it becomes apparent that Nasti is gonna win the ball, Hart races out of his area and e D's up under the ball. If he'd had confidence in Nasti he's got an easy catch.

Ahh thank you !!

[Ted Hughes]

Demichelis looked miles better as the game went on & may turn out decent.

Also the mids plus Aguero were top quality today imo. The Chelsea danger came from the back 4 plus Hart.

Sort that with today's performance & we win.

Not that hard to do imo.

Pretty much yeah. I mean we can argue til Kingdom Come about who should and who shouldn't be in the back four (Garcia shouldn't) but there's a general system error at the back right now. We are not protecting our back four and it's often playing like four individuals and not like a unit. After Chelsea calmed down after their frantic period in the middle of the first half, their midfield became rigid and often lacked purpose when attacking. THey still scored. There's something seriously wrong with our defense that can't be put solely on the individual players manning it.

Clichy unfortunately looks like the player who couldn't get in Arsenal's team rather than the player who could.

He was like that pre season & is now worse than Kolarov. Based on his Arsenal career, there is no strong evidence to suggest he will get it back.

So that is an unexpected problem.

Other than that, we have a title winning defence plus a decent kid & an experienced Argy international to pick from.

Surely it can't be that difficult to get them playing better than at Chelsea & Villa ?

[Beefymcfc]

One thing can be said is that Hart does not trust Nastasic. If he did he wouldn't have tried to do it all himself.

Who was it when the last one went very wrong?

[IanWright]

No hand-shake at the end? Mind you, Mourinho's a nob. I wouldn't wanna shake hands with him either.

Is that 'tutor' or 'tutor' ;-)

Can't stand the little cunt. Played to get something on the break and we sat it up on a tee for them.

I seen a really good performance today where we had better play all over the pitch and to lose in that style is absolutely gutting.

You're doing well though mate and I hope you keep it up, if only to keep a place away from the Rags.

We'll bounce back.

Cheers pal.

I just can't stand teams that sit back and play on the counter when they're the home f***in side! Sky sports don't have the balls to say it, but Chelsea have been à dog-awful side to watch since 2004. Hence, full testament to you guys for attacking them in the 2nd half and making à game of it. No other team in the Premiership would have dared to have done that (ourselves included). It makes the end result even more sickening. Chelsea will be allowed to be the pace-setters soon, with almost every one of their home games being kicked off on a Saturday at 3pm (who would even dream of televising that sleep-inducing shite?)

Also, honourable mention for Howard Webb. Who else allows Ramires to stay on the pitch after à cynical foul after à booking and allows play to continue on the edge of the box where there is clearly no advantage and two players of the attacking side have been fouled in quick succession. Pussy

[Ted Hughes]

If you watch it, Nasti doesn't do much wrong. For some reason, when it becomes apparent that Nasti is gonna win the ball, Hart races out of his area and e D's up under the ball. If he'd had confidence in Nasti he's got an easy catch.

Ahh thank you !!

He let the ball bounce rathet than heading it. John Terry (or Lescott )would just nod it out sideways for a throw.

Then he had time to notice Hart & save the day.

If he can't react to that, in that amount of time, how the fuck can he react to a top striker doing sonething unexpected in a split second ?

He was shit.

[Ted Hughes]

One thing can be said is that Hart does not trust Nastasic. If he did he wouldn't have tried to do it all himself.

Who was it when the last one went very wrong?

Hart has been shit in all of these situations bar 1.

It is not good enough.

[Beefymcfc]

No hand-shake at the end? Mind you, Mourinho's a nob. I wouldn't wanna shake hands with him either.

Is that 'tutor' or 'tutor' ;-)

Can't stand the little cunt. Played to get something on the break and we sat it up on a tee for them.

I seen a really good performance today where we had better play all over the pitch and to lose in that style is absolutely gutting.

You're doing well though mate and I hope you keep it up, if only to keep a place away from the Rags.

We'll bounce back.

Cheers pal.

I just can't stand teams that sit back and play on the counter when they're the home f***in side! Sky sports don't have the balls to say it, but Chelsea have been à dog-awful side to watch since 2004. Hence, full testament to you guys for attacking them in the 2nd half and making à game of it. No other team in the Premiership would have dared to have done that (ourselves included). It makes the end result even more sickening. Chelsea will be allowed to be the pace-setters soon, with almost every one of their home games being kicked off on a Saturday at 3pm (who would even dream of televising that sleep-inducing shite?)

Also, honourable mention for Howard Webb. Who else allows Ramires to stay on the pitch after à cynical foul after à booking and allows play to continue on the edge of the box where there is clearly no advantage and two players of the attacking side have been fouled in quick succession. Pussy

I noticed that with Howard as well, can't say too much as people will think I'm looking for excuses. Dave Silva was remonstrating with him at the end yet he was just batting it off. There were a few incidents that I thought were very strange, for both sides, yet he's still the medias darling. I suppose if he gives the calls to the medias favourite teams, nothing will be said.

Anyway, onwards and upwards. We're now 2nd favourites behind Chelsea even though we're 6 points off. I wouldn't be putting any money on us, that's for sure.

[Tokyo Blue]

If you watch it, Nasti doesn't do much wrong. For some reason, when it becomes apparent that Nasti is gonna win the ball, Hart races out of his area and e D's up under the ball. If he'd had confidence in Nasti he's got an easy catch.

Ahh thank you !!

He let the ball bounce rathet than heading it. John Terry (or Lescott )would just nod it out sideways for a throw.

Then he had time to notice Hart & save the day.

If he can't react to that, in that amount of time, how the fuck can he react to a top striker doing sonething unexpected in a split second ?

He was shit.

He shouldn't have had to do those things because Hart should have been in his area to collect Nastasic's perfectly adequate header.

[tc6828]

Typical City.

Have been a fan all my life and this year I cannot recall being more excited about the forthcoming season. Sadly though, we are not learning from school boy errors and this seems to resurrect itself in later games.

Today, I was very pleased with the ovearll performance. There arn't many teams who will dominate at the bridge like we did at times and I thought we might get all 3 pooints the way we started the second half.

MoM was deffo Sergio, and I thought Demachelis did himself no harm at all coming into his first prem game.

That sucker goal at the end gutted me and whilst we all blame big Joe (and in my opinion, he was totallt to blame) Vinnie, Joleon or Micah would have put the ball in row Z, call or no call from the keeper.

All we had to do was stay safe for 3 mins, but again, we let ourselves down.

All that said and with the emotion now gone, what a performance from us and as the count says, you cannot lose the title in October.

If we sort our shit out at the back, we will prosper

[tc6828]

Typical City.

Have been a fan all my life and this year I cannot recall being more excited about the forthcoming season. Sadly though, we are not learning from school boy errors and this seems to resurrect itself in later games.

Today, I was very pleased with the ovearll performance. There arn't many teams who will dominate at the bridge like we did at times and I thought we might get all 3 pooints the way we started the second half.

MoM was deffo Sergio, and I thought Demachelis did himself no harm at all coming into his first prem game.

That sucker goal at the end gutted me and whilst we all blame big Joe (and in my opinion, he was totallt to blame) Vinnie, Joleon or Micah would have put the ball in row Z, call or no call from the keeper.

All we had to do was stay safe for 3 mins, but again, we let ourselves down.

All that said and with the emotion now gone, what a performance from us and as the count says, you cannot lose the title in October.

If we sort our shit out at the back, we will prosper

[zuricity]

He let the ball bounce rathet than heading it. John Terry (or Lescott )would just nod it out sideways for a throw.

Then he had time to notice Hart & save the day.

If he can't react to that, in that amount of time, how the fuck can he react to a top striker doing sonething unexpected in a split second ?

He was shit.

This kind of comment is usually the reason i ignore pretty much all of what you write. I made a mistake tonight, but i'll rectify it immediately

[tc6828]

Typical City.

Have been a fan all my life and this year I cannot recall being more excited about the forthcoming season. Sadly though, we are not learning from school boy errors and this seems to resurrect itself in later games.

Today, I was very pleased with the ovearll performance. There arn't many teams who will dominate at the bridge like we did at times and I thought we might get all 3 pooints the way we started the second half.

MoM was deffo Sergio, and I thought Demachelis did himself no harm at all coming into his first prem game.

That sucker goal at the end gutted me and whilst we all blame big Joe (and in my opinion, he was totallt to blame) Vinnie, Joleon or Micah would have put the ball in row Z, call or no call from the keeper.

All we had to do was stay safe for 3 mins, but again, we let ourselves down.

All that said and with the emotion now gone, what a performance from us and as the count says, you cannot lose the title in October.

If we sort our shit out at the back, we will prosper