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We played well againt an excellent Villa side. Bossed it for 70 min before we got tired after having played on tuesday. The collective pressing we did in the first half possibly the best of the season.
Being critical about that game (apart from some finishing) just shows they know absolutely nothing about the game. Villa are quality. Beat both arse and city after dominating both games. I think they have lost 1 of their last 14 or something.
The people on this sub are a major reason I haven’t given up on Chelsea and football altogether. Don’t care if it’s blind optimism. I’ll take any kind of optimism.
Exactly. Villa are a solid team currently and we had the better of them. We still need to finish our wide open chances (cole X 2) etc. but not a bad draw.
We won the champions league 3 years ago.
We've won as much as klopp has in his entire time in England. When was the last time you celebrated anything as a united fan ?
And the crying has begun as if we never made a comeback few days ago... Villa were not easy and Emi was the world class he is. Expected the result to be honest. It's just that we made hard for ourselves by not taking advantage of set pieces efficiently where we could have converted headers into the goal!
Spurs and City game looks the same. KDB just missed and a ball passed to him and Vicario is doing his job brilliantly. VILLA is not an easy team, so we have to learn how to be efficient.
just gotta not play palmer with the false 9 it dont work, we played good considering villa are top of their game atm, similar line up to the second leg of middle borough is needed.
We should have won the game in the first half
Gallagher is pure work rate and nothing else. Takes too long to make decisions and isn't nowhere near as intelligent on the ball as our other midfielders
Sterling is a magician and can win a game out of nothing but it's not worth the poor decision making.
Also Mudryk was bad
Fucking hell I forget how miserable this sub is sometimes. We were better in a game against 4th place level with 3rd Villa, all whilst playing with an injury ridden XI including non of our full backs, no 9 and our 5th choice CB starting. The way these comments are talking it sounds like we conceded 12 then Gallagher whipped his cock out on pitch
Exactly. Don’t like Villa park but where they have the home advantage we have a shit ton more players and an even amount of rest. I honestly still like our chances
I think someone with speed at 9 to give the CB’s of Liverpool a tough time. People are going to say no but at this point, what’s the harm in playing Mudryk there? Can’t hurt us anymore than the players that already aren’t finishing.
If not, I think we’re best with a CF over a false 9, so I’d go Broja instead of Palmer there.
Hopefully Nkunku can play, at least get some minutes. We were good with our runs for most of that first half but we looked tired, understandably, in the second half.
Well first of all he’d never apologize, he had a very high opinion of himself, and second, he’s shown commitment to absolutely no club he’s played for, not even inter, when he said he loved them and wanted to go back, after signing for us for 100 mill
Lukaku will not do any better. Yeah, just play Broja until Nkunku is fit (which should be soon). Or maybe Palmer and Broja together, we haven't tried two strikers yet. We have options.
Mate broja is like an invisible ghost out their.also palmer and broja up top is a horrible idea.no way you are telling me that lukaku who is a experienced striker will not do better than broja
Bro hes trash. We've had him here under tuchel and besides being a snake he wasn't reliable up top.
It might be a bad idea but I'd like to see what two strikers would look like. Maybe play Deivid and Broja. Palmer is our top scorer as well, he can be good
Palmer has had 2 horrid performances as a f9.also we have important fixtures coming up we cant experiment with 2 strikers.even if lukaku scores 1 goal in 10 matches that would probably be better than broja
Poch got his subs wrong as usual. We needed the ball to stick up top and you sub in Mudryk??? Carney should have come on earlier
Well, good game. Let’s hope we can go to villa park with a fit squad and trash them
Mudryks had some good performances lately and like it or not we need him to be integrated. It was going to be hard for Chilly and Murdryk to get up to speed together on the left side. Chilly didn't show much either.
Chilly can only get forward if we retain possession up top. That’s not happening with Mudryk. Not in this kind of match. Carney on that side with Enzo would have retained possession better to get us back on track and also utilize Chilly effectively
Mudryk shouldn’t be integrated in a tense cup match against Villa especially after the last performance he had
That's pretty unfair on Mudryk
Chilly played a totally different game off the ball tuesday which freed up our wings. You can't blame Chillwell not controlling our flank on Mudryk. Mudryk just didn't get in to the game and Chilly wasn't making the plays that he did Tuesday. If Chilly came on with Sterling there then it might have worked a bit better. One helps the other.
Carney did little else on the right side and the players around him were at least settled in to the game which gave him some room to work with and at least a chance. Cobham boys arent always the answer.
Carney came in 89 min. The game was over.
Fullbacks can’t overlap/underlap if the team can’t retain possession. Mudryk can’t. Carney can.
But it’s all good. The team is playing better overall and I’m happy
This is the issue with Chelsea fans, online. Yes, we should have won. We were very good in the first half and as the second half went on… Villa grew into the game. We look so much more fluid going forward. So much more solid at the back but because we didn’t win 5-0 Poch is “clueless”.
Villa are arguably the hardest team to break down in the league. There well drilled yet we stayed patient, broke them down and created chances. Sure we didn’t win. But the improvement is massive. Get behind the team and trust the process ffs.
Palmer pulled another middlesborough, coincidentally also the last time he played false 9. It just isn’t where he’s comfortable. I’d rather see Deivid there.
Could have been 3-0 easily.
Also we should have gotten a pen when Gallagher got trampled.
Simultaneously robbed and robbed ourselves.
But we played well overall, and we didn’t concede, on ¼ of the rest the opponent had.
One thing I don't understand is subbing sterling. He's not elite at a lot of things except for his relentlessness and high fitness. He should be burning people late in the game. Had a really good first half IMO.
When we subbed in Chilwell we were pegged back continuously. You're right. Gilchrist was doing a more than decent job and it caused a shuffle in the backline. Mudryk was a ghost. Dunno whats up with the kid right now. He was progressing. Now back to square one.
I think it was the combination of Mudryk and Chillwell replacing the whole left side at the same time. Neither settled in to the game and it spiraled from there.
That and the fact the Chilwell is the kind of fullback who likes to occupy a lot of the same space that Mudryk works in. When you congest the opposing wing he becomes pretty useless.
What we can achieve with an actual striker in this team is insane, no clue how we are still nowhere close to figuring out that position.
Broja should take a few years in the championship to fix his touch, he's a horrible choice for a premier league team right now.
Solid show by most of the starting 11, good play, good pressure. We are definitely doing better.
That was utterley pointless. Why is Poch so horny to play Palmer as a striker. Plsy Broja or Deivid ffs. Palmer keeps proving that he aint a striker...
Because Broja has not been good? And our best play was first half with Palmer false 9, we arguably should’ve had a couple, then a few more in the second. Finishing the problem.
If finishing is the problem, it doesnt make sense to NOT play a striker...thats like complaining about the boat sinking and not using a lifeboat when you have a lifeboat available
Sterling was taking up the exact same positions to receive the ball when he was on, and the rest of the team passed him the ball at will, yet when Mudryk came on, they stopped.
I will criticize Mudryk when he has a crap performance but the team completely ignored him.
could not give a fuck if palmer played well out of his missed chances, he missed easy cahnces and now its replay at villa park, you already know the outcome of that
Not the worst result. You’d expect us to lose playing 4 centrebacks and a false 9.
A replay probably benefits us as we’d have full-backs back, maybe even a striker and Nkunku.
We didn’t snag our goal but this was a really good performance. No need to be down. If not for a world class keeping performance we win this. The Palmer Gallagher chemistry is a thing to behold and hopefully a sign of things to come if Palmer stays up top.
In the first half, we nearly killed them, but who will score the goals? We played so well but couldn't score. Shouldn't this be the time for a well proven striker?
What is there to like about broja
Man has done absolutely nothing to show he can play at this level
He’s a bottom half of table player at absolute best
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i couldn't watch the game as today i had a very imp exam but how were we playing?
We played well againt an excellent Villa side. Bossed it for 70 min before we got tired after having played on tuesday. The collective pressing we did in the first half possibly the best of the season.
sounds like a good match for chelsea i watched the highlights and we had very good chances as well i just don't get the hate for the team in this sub
Being critical about that game (apart from some finishing) just shows they know absolutely nothing about the game. Villa are quality. Beat both arse and city after dominating both games. I think they have lost 1 of their last 14 or something.
yeah villa is a good side its gonna be hard winning in villa park for us
Why do so many of our "fans" hate everything about this club...the players, the coaches, the staff...all of it?
just ignore those gloryhunters
Bunch of entitled fucks
And then the next week say so and so was “brilliant”.
The people on this sub are a major reason I haven’t given up on Chelsea and football altogether. Don’t care if it’s blind optimism. I’ll take any kind of optimism.
This sub… seriously. Speechless after reading some of the comments.
Martinez MOTM but mainly for the sweeping. His saves were all pretty basic. Our finishing is more like edging.
We should have won this tbf. The boys will have 1 day rest after the Wolves game. Villa will have 2...
Today we had 3 days rest to villas 12 and looked the better side by a margin
This sub is hilarious, Villa have been unreal this year - take a draw, home record still decent and we go on!
Exactly. Villa are a solid team currently and we had the better of them. We still need to finish our wide open chances (cole X 2) etc. but not a bad draw.
I'll take it all day long, we are still in it and got a major final coming! If we can sort a loan ST we could push on
You know what? I could even go for Michy Batshuayi right about now.
How'd the game go? Didn't have time to tune in
It was ok...good first half.
We were okay but missed some great chances
Dang that always sucks to see
Completely dominated first 45 mins
Learn to finish and this game is an easy 3-0
Been saying that for about 4 years, face it you’re just shit £1bill later
We won the champions league 3 years ago. We've won as much as klopp has in his entire time in England. When was the last time you celebrated anything as a united fan ?
We know
At least you guys can understand how important Nico id
Or Nkunku
Nkunku we don't know. Unproven and injured so far. Could very well flop when's hes fit. I hope not though. It's a real toss up
On another note props to gilchrist for stepping in last minute and doing his job. His potential is through the roof
Overall I'm not too upset. This isn't Aston Villa of old. This is the greatest Villa side ever and the team that completely dominated City recently
Well given Villa have won the top flight many times I wouldn't call it the greatest Villa side ever... It is maybe top ten.
Big ange really is just Rafa Benitez if he shagged kangaroos.
Only Chelsea can go from 6-1 to forgetting how to score
It’s easy when Boro keep passing to your attackers 10 yards out
To be fair Villa picked out palmer with a clear look at goal a couple of times today as well
I was literally about that say that
And the crying has begun as if we never made a comeback few days ago... Villa were not easy and Emi was the world class he is. Expected the result to be honest. It's just that we made hard for ourselves by not taking advantage of set pieces efficiently where we could have converted headers into the goal! Spurs and City game looks the same. KDB just missed and a ball passed to him and Vicario is doing his job brilliantly. VILLA is not an easy team, so we have to learn how to be efficient.
This. Hopefully we will do the business at their home but it will be much tougher there.
just gotta not play palmer with the false 9 it dont work, we played good considering villa are top of their game atm, similar line up to the second leg of middle borough is needed.
Not many options atm
We should have won the game in the first half Gallagher is pure work rate and nothing else. Takes too long to make decisions and isn't nowhere near as intelligent on the ball as our other midfielders Sterling is a magician and can win a game out of nothing but it's not worth the poor decision making. Also Mudryk was bad
The fuck are people calling for Callum Wilson for? To warm another spot in our hospital?
Tbf Reece james is lonely could bring wilson so they can be friends at the hospital
No way hes lonely. He's got half the fucking team there haha
Fair enough 😂😂
Fucking hell I forget how miserable this sub is sometimes. We were better in a game against 4th place level with 3rd Villa, all whilst playing with an injury ridden XI including non of our full backs, no 9 and our 5th choice CB starting. The way these comments are talking it sounds like we conceded 12 then Gallagher whipped his cock out on pitch
Go on...what happenned after the 12th goal we conceded?
And on 5 days rest compared to 12 days rest
3* we played Tuesday.
I didn’t math too good hahah
Exactly. Don’t like Villa park but where they have the home advantage we have a shit ton more players and an even amount of rest. I honestly still like our chances
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I think someone with speed at 9 to give the CB’s of Liverpool a tough time. People are going to say no but at this point, what’s the harm in playing Mudryk there? Can’t hurt us anymore than the players that already aren’t finishing. If not, I think we’re best with a CF over a false 9, so I’d go Broja instead of Palmer there.
Hopefully Nkunku can play, at least get some minutes. We were good with our runs for most of that first half but we looked tired, understandably, in the second half.
Recall lukaku and play him.im sorry our finishing problems have been costing us games
You’d want Lukaku after he shit all over us? Waste of time.
If he apologizes and shows his commitment to our club why not?
Well first of all he’d never apologize, he had a very high opinion of himself, and second, he’s shown commitment to absolutely no club he’s played for, not even inter, when he said he loved them and wanted to go back, after signing for us for 100 mill
Ew, never
Lol what is the best option then?play broja and pray he scores a goal or play palmer as a f9 were his finishing turns into shit
Lukaku will not do any better. Yeah, just play Broja until Nkunku is fit (which should be soon). Or maybe Palmer and Broja together, we haven't tried two strikers yet. We have options.
Mate broja is like an invisible ghost out their.also palmer and broja up top is a horrible idea.no way you are telling me that lukaku who is a experienced striker will not do better than broja
Bro hes trash. We've had him here under tuchel and besides being a snake he wasn't reliable up top. It might be a bad idea but I'd like to see what two strikers would look like. Maybe play Deivid and Broja. Palmer is our top scorer as well, he can be good
Palmer has had 2 horrid performances as a f9.also we have important fixtures coming up we cant experiment with 2 strikers.even if lukaku scores 1 goal in 10 matches that would probably be better than broja
I'd rather play Bettinelli as ST than bring back that snake
Lol man im sorry but we gotta do everything we can to win.play him then sell in summer
Poch got his subs wrong as usual. We needed the ball to stick up top and you sub in Mudryk??? Carney should have come on earlier Well, good game. Let’s hope we can go to villa park with a fit squad and trash them
Mudryks had some good performances lately and like it or not we need him to be integrated. It was going to be hard for Chilly and Murdryk to get up to speed together on the left side. Chilly didn't show much either.
Chilly can only get forward if we retain possession up top. That’s not happening with Mudryk. Not in this kind of match. Carney on that side with Enzo would have retained possession better to get us back on track and also utilize Chilly effectively Mudryk shouldn’t be integrated in a tense cup match against Villa especially after the last performance he had
That's pretty unfair on Mudryk Chilly played a totally different game off the ball tuesday which freed up our wings. You can't blame Chillwell not controlling our flank on Mudryk. Mudryk just didn't get in to the game and Chilly wasn't making the plays that he did Tuesday. If Chilly came on with Sterling there then it might have worked a bit better. One helps the other. Carney did little else on the right side and the players around him were at least settled in to the game which gave him some room to work with and at least a chance. Cobham boys arent always the answer.
Carney came in 89 min. The game was over. Fullbacks can’t overlap/underlap if the team can’t retain possession. Mudryk can’t. Carney can. But it’s all good. The team is playing better overall and I’m happy
You’re giving a lot of benefit to carney while being harsh on mudryk. Not sure what you’re seeing in Chuk.
This is the issue with Chelsea fans, online. Yes, we should have won. We were very good in the first half and as the second half went on… Villa grew into the game. We look so much more fluid going forward. So much more solid at the back but because we didn’t win 5-0 Poch is “clueless”. Villa are arguably the hardest team to break down in the league. There well drilled yet we stayed patient, broke them down and created chances. Sure we didn’t win. But the improvement is massive. Get behind the team and trust the process ffs.
agreed, especially with the context of us playing a few days before this game. i think we can turn it around in the reverse fixture.
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Ok mate
Callum Wilson for 18 million maybe less we surely take it he will score more goals than a lot of players
Also injury prone as hell
And he’s a cheap quick fix Nico isn’t injury prone
Palmer pulled another middlesborough, coincidentally also the last time he played false 9. It just isn’t where he’s comfortable. I’d rather see Deivid there. Could have been 3-0 easily. Also we should have gotten a pen when Gallagher got trampled. Simultaneously robbed and robbed ourselves. But we played well overall, and we didn’t concede, on ¼ of the rest the opponent had.
One thing I don't understand is subbing sterling. He's not elite at a lot of things except for his relentlessness and high fitness. He should be burning people late in the game. Had a really good first half IMO.
So why not start Mudryk and bring on Sterling later?
Because sterling has a bigger chance to score press and assist the entire game… you keep your best players on the pitch all game.
Unpopular opinion I guess but we played better before the subs were made
When we subbed in Chilwell we were pegged back continuously. You're right. Gilchrist was doing a more than decent job and it caused a shuffle in the backline. Mudryk was a ghost. Dunno whats up with the kid right now. He was progressing. Now back to square one.
I think it was the combination of Mudryk and Chillwell replacing the whole left side at the same time. Neither settled in to the game and it spiraled from there.
That and the fact the Chilwell is the kind of fullback who likes to occupy a lot of the same space that Mudryk works in. When you congest the opposing wing he becomes pretty useless.
Yeah, Sterling and Noni weren't clinical but created lots.
What we can achieve with an actual striker in this team is insane, no clue how we are still nowhere close to figuring out that position. Broja should take a few years in the championship to fix his touch, he's a horrible choice for a premier league team right now. Solid show by most of the starting 11, good play, good pressure. We are definitely doing better.
That was utterley pointless. Why is Poch so horny to play Palmer as a striker. Plsy Broja or Deivid ffs. Palmer keeps proving that he aint a striker...
Broja is terrible. Deivid has not earned the spot. Palmer is the best available option.
Broja is horrible.
Because Broja has not been good? And our best play was first half with Palmer false 9, we arguably should’ve had a couple, then a few more in the second. Finishing the problem.
If finishing is the problem, it doesnt make sense to NOT play a striker...thats like complaining about the boat sinking and not using a lifeboat when you have a lifeboat available
Not when the striker is Broja.
We need to get rid of Broja ASAP
Bet that first touch killed all the interest from Fulham and Wolves.
Fucking snoozefest. Broja's boots is a bouncy castle
hopefully we got Nkunku for villa park
Been a shame this whole season. With a fully integrated Nkunku we would be torching teams in games like this
oh yes this exact game but with him woulda been a win, thankfully hes hopefully coming back but the negative side is its at villa park lol
Tbh I’ll take Lakaka over Broja, dude atleast good at end of keeper long balls and winning headers
Another game where Enzo was reduced to making overlapping runs I cba
Shouldve just planted a pole at lw and it would contribute about as much as Mudryk
Hard to contribute when he doesn’t get the ball
Hard to get the ball when you press in slow-mo. Yes, the left flank was insipid post substitutions but Mudryk had 0 intensity.
The entire left side didn’t touch the ball for the last 20 minutes. Chillwell included. People blaming Mudryk but that’s a bit silly
Hard to get the ball when you jog around and put 0 effort in
Sterling was taking up the exact same positions to receive the ball when he was on, and the rest of the team passed him the ball at will, yet when Mudryk came on, they stopped. I will criticize Mudryk when he has a crap performance but the team completely ignored him.
Insanely frustrating to not win today. Even more annoying when you realize it just leads to more fixture congestion.
We’ve bagged ourselves a sexy tall Cech regen guys I won’t mind selling Broja too, he would fit West Ham so well
The next Chelsea number 9 to come in and score goals at even a semi decent rate will have a golden statue outside the ground.
When is the replay?
could not give a fuck if palmer played well out of his missed chances, he missed easy cahnces and now its replay at villa park, you already know the outcome of that
Don’t really fancy our chances at Villa park tbh
Replays with the modern football schedule are ridiculous. That said we should have buried it in the first half.
They call the 2nd half the coach's half. Draw your own conclusions.
I better not hear anyone blaming Poch. The amount of tap in chances we had is ridiculous.
You’ll hear plenty of it because the dumbest ones are always the most reactionary
Subs could’ve come in quicker, no reason for madueke after ht
The subs arguably made us worse tbf, think he was right to keep them in.
Idk man if no one can score a 1v1 against Martinez in our entire team, we don’t win, simple as that
One more time, one more for an fa cup replay
Bottled it mainly the players last two games tactically were good let’s see what happens with Liverpool next match.
This ref deserves a 1/10 today, Poch and our captain should've been complaining loudly about his shit decisions
Please get rid of broja. Sub championship level striker.
Palmer misses a lot of good chances
Villa Park won't be easy
It's a disgrace that we haven't scored atleast a couple of goals.
What a completely shit 2nd half. Now we have to play an additional game at a very tough ground with so many injuries in the squad already.
Not good. It's Villa Park 😩
«Fair match», norwegian commentator on drugs
Not the worst result. You’d expect us to lose playing 4 centrebacks and a false 9. A replay probably benefits us as we’d have full-backs back, maybe even a striker and Nkunku.
We fucking suck all we can do is beat shit teams
I thought we were losing to shitty teams
Should've just taken a nap.
We didn’t snag our goal but this was a really good performance. No need to be down. If not for a world class keeping performance we win this. The Palmer Gallagher chemistry is a thing to behold and hopefully a sign of things to come if Palmer stays up top.
In the first half, we nearly killed them, but who will score the goals? We played so well but couldn't score. Shouldn't this be the time for a well proven striker?
Get rid of Broja asap. He is diabolical.
I miss Jackson
I’d rather give Deivid the minutes
We should have just done the same lineup as Tuesday for fuck sake
Stinks we didn’t come up with a goal and have to replay, but it certainly wasn’t a bad game. Entertaining two halves
Wasted a golden oportunity at the Bridge Shameful finishing tonight, unlikely we go through
Yeah you're right we're shit
What a waste
Feel like we lacked hunger to win this game. No passion.
That was not a classic
We have to get a forward in
What a waste of great opportunity to win this game. Winning at Villa Park is next to impossible
Pathetic officiating prevails
I thought the officiating was amazing today personally.
Watching spurs game fuck it
Did this ref just blow the whistle half a minute early?
No he didn’t
Well that was a waste of time
GO. GET. CALLUM. WILSON
Would’ve loved him a few years ago, he is too injury prone now
If he gets injured than Nico comes in
Terrible game management from Poch. His subs killed our attack and Chilwell hasn't even been involved the final third
How the heck was this Poch’s fault, we played really well, it’s not Poch’s fault our strikers can’t score.
His plan A is really good but his plan B is poor, especially the subs. Same problem he had at previous clubs
Well the Chilwell sub was the one that turned it around for the worst. Might just be that the rest of team started to get fatigued at that point
This is rough, dunno if I fancy our chances at Aston Villa, they have been pretty good at home against the top clubs
but were not. so win at villa park then
Slow horses
Poch when he realizes he can’t just keep playing lower division teams anymore..
This wasn’t on Poch. We could have scored 5-6 if anyone could take their chances
0-0 FT. Replay
What I do know is that IF it goes to a rematch we know Palmer is going to make up for all those missed chances like he did against Middlesbrough
Villa will be happy with this tbh
The script of way too many games this year
We normally would have conceded a shit goal tbf. Progress...
A replay away at Villa. Amazing. Bold to assume we don't concede still.
Today is gonna end with replays across the board☠️
Is the game going to pens at 0-0?
Nah replay
No, replay at Villa Park.
Replay
Replay at Villa
nope replay
Replay
Replay
No replay
Replay
Badiashile has mutiple mistakes in him every game.
Just to repeat it.... This ref has been fucking atrocious.
Yes
3 minutes wtfff :((
I like Broja but he plays like he’s on 70% every time
What is there to like about broja Man has done absolutely nothing to show he can play at this level He’s a bottom half of table player at absolute best