***Chelsea v City official match thread***

[Redna]

Seriously doubt Pep can handle a team that not is favorised by refs and media.
CTID

[Nigels Tackle]

Sorry pep but your tactics are fucking useless.

yep

Seeing us passing sideways with 90 mins gone is infuriating. Fuck this season up the arse.

boring as fuck
88 mins on the clock and they're still fannying around with it in our half.
it's shit

[nottsblue]

How many saves did Courtois make? Apart from being gifted a chance which we accepted there were precious other opportunities. Simply not good enough

[london blue 2]

Seriously doubt Pep can handle a team that not is favorised by refs and media.
CTID

Or all the best players in the league by a stretch.

But I'm sure he'll say how proud he is that we maintained possession all game.

[BrianF]

We had no tempo in the second half . Anyone notice when we deliver a pass it is slow and the player receiving the pass is static , no wonder we get caught out so often, When Barca do it , the ball is zipped between players. Because we are "not allowed " to play a long ball and the slow pass possession we can't break down a semi decent defence. I thought in the first half we played with more tempo and were more likely to score.

[Blue Since 76]

It's every bit as bad as under Pellegrini. In fact, that 2nd half looked like something Pearce would have delivered

[Douglas Higginbottom]

How many saves did Courtois make? Apart from being gifted a chance which we accepted there were precious other opportunities. Simply not good enough

More than Caballero for certain. Sane one on one. Aguero near the end from Nolito pass. Stones missed two great chances from a central position about 6 yards out, one a header straight at Courtois. Kompany hit the bar with a looping header.

More chances than they did and we were far from great. thought Vinnie looked the business tonight and should play plenty to full test his fitness. Costa hardly had a kick.

Somehow defensively we make those little mistakes that cost us and with not scoring enough from our own chances we loose game we shouldn't. Willie had little to do tonight but should have saved the first and turned the pen away and not back to the taker. Slight deflection on the first but was he unlucky or not quite good enough?

The future is blue and very promising

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

Seriously doubt Pep can handle a team that not is favorised by refs and media.
CTID

Or all the best players in the league by a stretch.

But I'm sure he'll say how proud he is that we maintained possession all game.

Yeah, that Real Madrid team he was up against was full of shit players.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Seriously doubt Pep can handle a team that not is favorised by refs and media.
CTID

Quite hard though isn't it and I am really only talking about the refereeing. So many scandalous decisions. Nothing so blatant to point at as costing us tonight but Dean was unbelievably bad tonight.

[zuricity]

Seriously doubt Pep can handle a team that not is favorised by refs and media.
CTID

Quite hard though isn't it and I am really only talking about the refereeing. So many scandalous decisions. Nothing so blatant to point at as costing us tonight but Dean was unbelievably bad tonight.

What game were you watching ?

There were many, many things you can pick up Dean for tonight , far too many, i would love to sit down with thst useless prick and show him how we know a) that he is corrupt or b) at best a useless tosser.

He screwed us over again tonight .

He wasted more time than Chelses !

[nottsblue]

How many saves did Courtois make? Apart from being gifted a chance which we accepted there were precious other opportunities. Simply not good enough

More than Caballero for certain. Sane one on one. Aguero near the end from Nolito pass. Stones missed two great chances from a central position about 6 yards out, one a header straight at Courtois. Kompany hit the bar with a looping header.

More chances than they did and we were far from great. thought Vinnie looked the business tonight and should play plenty to full test his fitness. Costa hardly had a kick.

Somehow defensively we make those little mistakes that cost us and with not scoring enough from our own chances we loose game we shouldn't. Willie had little to do tonight but should have saved the first and turned the pen away and not back to the taker. Slight deflection on the first but was he unlucky or not quite good enough?

The future is blue and very promising

Good save from Sane. The other two, Aguero and Stones were half chances. Though Stones should've scored in injury time. My point is we barely worked their goalie. We have all this attacking talent and it is just not clicking since the Monaco defeat

[zabbadabbado]

We all know Guardiola will be our manager regardless how this season pans out, even if we finish 5th and trophy less.

I am sure we are all behind him.

But fuck me I expected to see a little bit more from him this season as a manager. I thought someone of his pedigrees would make “the sum bigger than its parts”. I know we have weaknesses all over the Pitch. No one in their right mind expected all our problems to be addressed in one transfer window. He as yet has shown absolutely fuck all that makes one think “wow” we are so lucky to have him. In fact I think he completely fucked up our season before it even started with the Hart situation. Then instead of admitting he made a mistake with Bravo waited until the Press started taking the piss about us conceding 14 goals from 14 first strikes on goal.

Very disappointed is an understatement.

Pellegrini got stick from some of our fans. One thing for sure the way this nightmare of a season is developing Pellegrini success with us will finally start to get the recognition he deserves. He was only an intrim manager with financial constraints imposed on him by the Spafia. Yet it looks like his achievements will emulate the golden boy at least for another season. I never expected that.

Big next season for Guardiola coming up.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

How many saves did Courtois make? Apart from being gifted a chance which we accepted there were precious other opportunities. Simply not good enough

More than Caballero for certain. Sane one on one. Aguero near the end from Nolito pass. Stones missed two great chances from a central position about 6 yards out, one a header straight at Courtois. Kompany hit the bar with a looping header.

More chances than they did and we were far from great. thought Vinnie looked the business tonight and should play plenty to full test his fitness. Costa hardly had a kick.

Somehow defensively we make those little mistakes that cost us and with not scoring enough from our own chances we loose game we shouldn't. Willie had little to do tonight but should have saved the first and turned the pen away and not back to the taker. Slight deflection on the first but was he unlucky or not quite good enough?

The future is blue and very promising

Good save from Sane. The other two, Aguero and Stones were half chances. Though Stones should've scored in injury time. My point is we barely worked their goalie. We have all this attacking talent and it is just not clicking since the Monaco defeat

Stones will be mortified he missed his two chances, they were gilt edged. Aguero's half chance but worked the goalie. Chelsea are the best defensive team in the premiere league and maybe in Europe so surely you don't expect to rip them apart with chance after chance especially if they sit back with extra defenders. Even Hazard was getting back to defend! Or maybe you do?

We created more good chances than the best team in England this season and lost. Not good enough, correct but we will be.

[iwasthere2012]

Seriously doubt Pep can handle a team that not is favorised by refs and media.
CTID

Quite hard though isn't it and I am really only talking about the refereeing. So many scandalous decisions. Nothing so blatant to point at as costing us tonight but Dean was unbelievably bad tonight.

We're saying that every week Doug. Even people who never buy into an agenda are seeing it.

I think it has been debilitating this season.
It has definitely affected our game.

We're not talking about huge decisions.

It's the stuff that Pep would have routinely seen his previous teams play against 10 men over. Either that or see the opposition having to be ultra careful for fear of second yellows.

We don't get that luxury and quite the opposite, we are the team usually having to be careful.

It's not an excuse that covers all our deficiencies and for sure, collectively we do not have a side that knows how to defend. They all ball watch and leave responsibility to others.

Blaming any one player on a goal is usually pointless. You can usually see two or three doing something the ought not or not doing something they ought nearly every goal and almost every game.

Pep has one summmer to put things right as far as I'm concerned. Always thought we'd struggle this year. Nothing's changed there although to try and remain positive, I saw enough in the few weeks that Jesus was here to feel I've seen the future.

[Spurge]

How many saves did Courtois make? Apart from being gifted a chance which we accepted there were precious other opportunities. Simply not good enough

More than Caballero for certain. Sane one on one. Aguero near the end from Nolito pass. Stones missed two great chances from a central position about 6 yards out, one a header straight at Courtois. Kompany hit the bar with a looping header.

More chances than they did and we were far from great. thought Vinnie looked the business tonight and should play plenty to full test his fitness. Costa hardly had a kick.

Somehow defensively we make those little mistakes that cost us and with not scoring enough from our own chances we loose game we shouldn't. Willie had little to do tonight but should have saved the first and turned the pen away and not back to the taker. Slight deflection on the first but was he unlucky or not quite good enough?
The future is blue and very promising

Agree with a lot of this which is factual. The last bit I'm not so sure about. I still find myself scratching my head wondering if this is very promising. Chelsea over both games probably sums up why. We have taken 0 points but should have taken at least 4. Why 0? There is a lack of cutting edge about us. We create good positions on a regular basis and do too little with it. Forget all the defensive issues being talked about pep is right we are not ruthless enough in the last third. It's not one or two games its every game.

So pep has identified the problem, he's not been able to resolve it. He's carrying on playing his way in attempt to forcibly resolve it and he's not managed to do so. He won't bend or flex. So he has the summer to sort it. Who goes he decides, who comes he decides. Next season will tell us if pep is the man for the job or not.

I think Gabriel Jesus' injury has had a huge impact on our season.

[Dub City]

Clichy finishes the game with a trademark pass.

Surely the fact that I'm desperate for Kolarov to play every game at left back to end of seaso says it all about Clichy. Shit defender. Shit crosses. Shit passes. Shit beard - just leave him out till contract up he is shit

[nottsblue]

How many saves did Courtois make? Apart from being gifted a chance which we accepted there were precious other opportunities. Simply not good enough

More than Caballero for certain. Sane one on one. Aguero near the end from Nolito pass. Stones missed two great chances from a central position about 6 yards out, one a header straight at Courtois. Kompany hit the bar with a looping header.

More chances than they did and we were far from great. thought Vinnie looked the business tonight and should play plenty to full test his fitness. Costa hardly had a kick.

Somehow defensively we make those little mistakes that cost us and with not scoring enough from our own chances we loose game we shouldn't. Willie had little to do tonight but should have saved the first and turned the pen away and not back to the taker. Slight deflection on the first but was he unlucky or not quite good enough?

The future is blue and very promising

Good save from Sane. The other two, Aguero and Stones were half chances. Though Stones should've scored in injury time. My point is we barely worked their goalie. We have all this attacking talent and it is just not clicking since the Monaco defeat

Stones will be mortified he missed his two chances, they were gilt edged. Aguero's half chance but worked the goalie. Chelsea are the best defensive team in the premiere league and maybe in Europe so surely you don't expect to rip them apart with chance after chance especially if they sit back with extra defenders. Even Hazard was getting back to defend! Or maybe you do?

We created more good chances than the best team in England this season and lost. Not good enough, correct but we will be.

I don't expect us to have ripped Chelsea apart. Just to have had better attempts on goal. Made the goalie work harder than what he actually had to do. I was expecting not to get too much from the game and said so accordingly. But I always expect us to have a go, which I don't think we did. Chelsea basically did a WBA and sat back second half with two banks of five and more or less implied "come and and a go if you think you are good enough". Well, we weren't.

[zuricity]

How many saves did Courtois make? Apart from being gifted a chance which we accepted there were precious other opportunities. Simply not good enough

More than Caballero for certain. Sane one on one. Aguero near the end from Nolito pass. Stones missed two great chances from a central position about 6 yards out, one a header straight at Courtois. Kompany hit the bar with a looping header.

More chances than they did and we were far from great. thought Vinnie looked the business tonight and should play plenty to full test his fitness. Costa hardly had a kick.

Somehow defensively we make those little mistakes that cost us and with not scoring enough from our own chances we loose game we shouldn't. Willie had little to do tonight but should have saved the first and turned the pen away and not back to the taker. Slight deflection on the first but was he unlucky or not quite good enough?
The future is blue and very promising

Agree with a lot of this which is factual. The last bit I'm not so sure about. I still find myself scratching my head wondering if this is very promising. Chelsea over both games probably sums up why. We have taken 0 points but should have taken at least 4. Why 0? There is a lack of cutting edge about us. We create good positions on a regular basis and do too little with it. Forget all the defensive issues being talked about pep is right we are not ruthless enough in the last third. It's not one or two games its every game.

So pep has identified the problem, he's not been able to resolve it. He's carrying on playing his way in attempt to forcibly resolve it and he's not managed to do so. He won't bend or flex. So he has the summer to sort it. Who goes he decides, who comes he decides. Next season will tell us if pep is the man for the job or not.

I think Gabriel Jesus' injury has had a huge impact on our season.

It is seriously worrying if you are thinking that a 19 year old , always destined to arrive in January was supposed to be the fulcrum of any success this season !

[Piccsnumberoneblue]

Seriously doubt Pep can handle a team that not is favorised by refs and media.
CTID

Favorised? What on earth?

[Spurge]

How many saves did Courtois make? Apart from being gifted a chance which we accepted there were precious other opportunities. Simply not good enough

More than Caballero for certain. Sane one on one. Aguero near the end from Nolito pass. Stones missed two great chances from a central position about 6 yards out, one a header straight at Courtois. Kompany hit the bar with a looping header.

More chances than they did and we were far from great. thought Vinnie looked the business tonight and should play plenty to full test his fitness. Costa hardly had a kick.

Somehow defensively we make those little mistakes that cost us and with not scoring enough from our own chances we loose game we shouldn't. Willie had little to do tonight but should have saved the first and turned the pen away and not back to the taker. Slight deflection on the first but was he unlucky or not quite good enough?
The future is blue and very promising

Agree with a lot of this which is factual. The last bit I'm not so sure about. I still find myself scratching my head wondering if this is very promising. Chelsea over both games probably sums up why. We have taken 0 points but should have taken at least 4. Why 0? There is a lack of cutting edge about us. We create good positions on a regular basis and do too little with it. Forget all the defensive issues being talked about pep is right we are not ruthless enough in the last third. It's not one or two games its every game.

So pep has identified the problem, he's not been able to resolve it. He's carrying on playing his way in attempt to forcibly resolve it and he's not managed to do so. He won't bend or flex. So he has the summer to sort it. Who goes he decides, who comes he decides. Next season will tell us if pep is the man for the job or not.

I think Gabriel Jesus' injury has had a huge impact on our season.

It is seriously worrying if you are thinking that a 19 year old , always destined to arrive in January was supposed to be the fulcrum of any success this season !

Be careful how you interpret what I said here and furthermore don't be worried. I didn't say he was supposed to be the difference of success and failure I had no expectation of the player, whom I knew little about. However it's true to say he hit the ground running and scored goals for us, significantly, he also fitted in to the style of play very quickly age is irrelevant and it's clear to see we've missed what he brought to the team since he's been out.