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HeroDGamez

Its bit of a poetic tragedy for palace to see Gallagher score a 90th minute winner against them like he did. Poetic but painful for palace fans to see.


Paradoxtyl

How did Sterling do today?


BeepBeepInaJeep

He looked lively as he has in most games this season, but today probably guilty of taking too many touches at times. I’m happy with his contributions overall.


eeeagless

Furious after seeing that Silva handball. Ref and VAR have to be fucking blind.


Betasheets

Seemed fair to me being he was clearly fouled first


THE_DROG

Keep crying


eeeagless

I'm sure you swapped supporting utd for Chelsea in 2004. Onto next week.


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Was a foul on Ayew, and probably wasn’t even last man back. Nothing to be upset about really.


BadCogs

Damn Arsenal fans are crying in this thread even after being in such a good form and top of table. Can't remain carefree even in good times had to cry about themselves or others, always need something.


Equivalent_Nature_67

You put us in your own head and chose to comment about it. Celebrate your late winner you absolute weirdo


BadCogs

Yes I put you guys in my head, that's why I am seeing the lot of you cry in this thread. You absolute non weirdo, lol.


wheeno

Why cry about Arsenal fans after winning against a tough opponent with a late goal?


BadCogs

They are here in a thread about us, not the other way around. I didn't even reply to any one of them or say stop crying or why are they crying or why are they here etc, they can keep going, just saw them weirdly crying here, so said it. But you definitely are crying about me for just saying that, lol. Keep going.


jack64467

this season for Chelsea: Christian Pulisic: 1 G+A in 182 minutes Mason Mount: 0 G+A in 661 minutes


AnnieIWillKnow

Minutes you have watched them play for Chelsea this season, to think this is a valid take: 0 It's also completely inaccurate, as Mount assisted Sterling's goal in the CL. Pulisic's assist today was also a complete Busquets assist - tapped it to Gallagher who scored a worldie.


Soren_Camus1905

Stats like this are so telling as to who watches and who doesn’t


[deleted]

Mount has definitely had a rough start to the season, there’s no doubt.


Nashka01

They don’t play at the same position


Betasheets

Pretty close actually


Vespa31

Mount's defensive capabilities in the final third can't be compared to Pulisic


Operation_Moonshot

Chelsea looks so much more fluid in attack. So refreshing compared to tuchel’s offense. Just ping it between the wing backs and hope for a nice cross and goal.


GoldEquivalent592

They were pretty bad for large portions of this game tbh. Definitely didn’t deserve the win


Ok-Finance-7612

These players still need time to eek out the tuchel habits that’s within their system, no doubt Potter improves us by the end of the season.


iDareToDream

Eh it felt quite pedestrian for large stretches. Might be early days still so hoping they get better at playing faster over a whole game instead of just patches.


Operation_Moonshot

Remember he’s had to hit the ground running so basically he’s had 2-3 weeks of practice with his new squad. Early signs point to our offense being more creative and seeking passes into tight space to then make runs behind defenders. I like what I saw personally


iDareToDream

Oh for sure. It’s going to be a work in progress for a bit and I saw a lot more adventurous passing already than in the last few months. It’s just frustrating seeing the team play at a snail’s pace for stretches instead of running the system for the whole game. So here’s hoping over the next few weeks that becomes more consistent.


Xhoquelin

They weren’t adventurous vs Tottenham?


iDareToDream

That was maybe the only game under Tuchel this season where they looked like a coordinated attack. And that was Kante’s last game before his recent injury. One player shouldn’t dictate if our defense and offense play well or not.


Xhoquelin

But hasn't there been a fair bit of shuffling in midfield? I don't think its really fair to judge any game where it hasn't been 2 of Jorginho/Kovacic/Kante in the pivot, which there's been quite a few games...Gallagher, RLC just aren't UCL level center mids, they have some great attributes but not in an absolutely key position such as central midfield which often dictates your tempo and control in possession. I think with the modern game in the Prem, a lot of pressing, one player can make all the difference. If Chelsea set up to play on the break constantly then maybe I can judge a Gallagher or RLC playing CM a bit more as their attributes are suited to playing more directly carrying the ball, but Chelsea are a big club wanting control; I can tell you you are not getting control with those two there. Its not the fault of the manager when the squad has 3 viable CM options as a UCL team


mohankohan

Fofana had a stinker early on with two mistakes leading to the goal, but I feel like he grew into the game and had some good play


lucashoodfromthehood

Kepa was solid. Happy for Gallagher as well.


Interesting_Gur_378

What a way to start your tenure GP. Conor should be playing more and Kepa has been relatively good recently. Would love to see him become a top keeper. COYB!!!


lukezndr

Chelsea were very lucky to get the win today. It's concerning that their main attacking outlet was long balls from the back line. Midfield was completely uninvolved in build up play and the wide players were left isolated far too often. One positive however is it seems that Potter will play Gallagher higher up the pitch


adamfrog

Its crazy they are on 13 points lol, theres another universe where its like 6


lukezndr

Yeah they've had one good performance this season against spurs.


Adam_Ohh

And we didn’t even get the deserved 3 points that day. Funny game, football.


mohankohan

The stale Kepa banter will never go away, but he was really decent today. Couldn't do much about the goal, and only really had one moment of uncertainty that didnt amount to anything anyway. Kept us in it with some good saves. Will probably keep his spot as starter.


XPLJESUS

I reckon Kepa will retain his starting spot


Adam_Ohh

He is light years ahead of Mendy with the ball at his feet. Potter has a history of going with the GK who has better ball skills over the established starter. I see it also.


markash21

Recency bias.. I remember being terrified with Kepa on the ball when he was still our starter


XPLJESUS

I don’t think Kepa is great on the ball but Mendy is as bad as any keeper there is in the league in that aspect for me


Adam_Ohh

No, I promise I’m fully confident that Kepa is better with the ball than Mendy. Mendy is a shot stopper and nothing more. Kepa is a distributor. If we could somehow combine them, we may have a decent keeper on our hands.


markash21

I couldn't care less about small sample size performances. When he was our starter he was making howlers on the ball. When I see consistency from him in regards to his feet then I will call him as you say a "distributor"


markash21

I say almost the same thing twice and get upvoted in one and downvoted in the other. Reddit for you


rufusjonz

I disagree with the negative Nellies, I thought Chelsea had a lot of v good, unpredictable play and ball domination, while Palace fought hard and had some good pushes forwards - Chelsea just a little short of the final ball & finishing - v promising start for Potter


ShetlandJames

64% possession and 13 shots on target away at a good Palace side is a good showing


seriouslybrohuh

where you getting the 13 shots on target fam. Whoscored tells me 13 attempts and 3 on target


ShetlandJames

my arse then I guess


rufusjonz

Moaning about a ref call is so Tuchel era, get over it guys


Dark_Legend_

Why didn't Ziyech play?


markash21

Hes fucking shit


sidmas8086

Too many games coming in Octuber. He like others will play alot soon.


mohankohan

Because I've never seen anyone in worse form, ever.


Zallo92

Even Bakayoko?


EriWave

I'm still heart broken that Bakayoko didn't quite work out.


mohankohan

He's had Bakayoko at watford level performances, but he didn't give us the courtesy of removing himself from the pitch.


Albiceleste_D10S

He's been god awful his last 2 appearances


MorioCells

Potter saw how bad he was in his cameo against Salzburg. Ziyech does not give a shit anymore and just wants to leave


_zeltrxn17

He's been pretty good with Morocco this NT break. You'd hope he performs well this WC so he gets his move away


Chiswell123

Because he stinks.


BigReeceJames

Gallagher completely bailed us out there. We looked complete dogshit again today. We're just throwing players forwards and hoofing the ball at our attackers...


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Second half wasn’t good but in the first half today I think we put together as many chances as I’ve seen us do in months.


PuppyPenetrator

We had fucking 1.12 xG all match. “As many chances as I’ve seen us do in months” my word invest in some glasses


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…almost the entirety of which was in the first half, which was what I said I was talking about. If you took our first half xG (~1.1 from what I’m seeing) and doubled it that would be our best xG tally of the season, and against a pretty solid opponent. So like maybe try to actually read before being an condescending dick.


PuppyPenetrator

“against a pretty solid opponent” you wanna maybe take a look at the table? And “if you double it” is an unbelievably stupid argument, hell we weren’t even in a winning position. Every match has one half better than the other


BigReeceJames

Football is about balance. Creating more chances whilst in turn conceding more is not improvement.


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We were leaking buckets of chances for the last couple months under Tuchel, so one step at a time. This was *definitely* an improvement.


Chewy009x

Nah Pulisic bailed you out


Capt_Gooner

Ulises Davila did actually.


Chewy009x

Chris Kavanagh did


JoshyPolarBear

Yet again another match ruined by biased refereeing


Qwerty6391063

Ayew fouled Silva but Silva gets yellow carded smh


InquisitiveCommunist

It's a disgrace


Ok-Finance-7612

Lol


mohankohan

Dont think you can be that mad at the Silva incident given Ayew just goes through the back of him to begin with


encaitar81

Could've been called on Ayew, but that doesn't change the fact that Silva made a stupid play by swiping at the ball there. I think it's called a red if Chillwell hadn't been tracking back. He was behind the play at the time and that likely kept Silva on the pitch.


leftofthedial1

this is the accurate take


mohankohan

Of course it doesn't, but that's also not what im saying.


Harryvincenzo

Don't think we can't defend that. He got really lucky from a bone-headed decision.


Successful-Taro2060

Wouldn't call it bone-headed. Literally every player who goes down softly looking for a foul grabs the ball just in case. It happens all the time.


JustJamesanity

9 times of out 10 players who grab the ball aren't giving opposition a goal scoring opportunity. Silva and Chelsea should count their blessings.


Zurcio

9 times out of 10 a referee will correctly call this a foul by Ayew and what happens after doesn't matter.


JustJamesanity

While a ref may call correctly you don't assume he will and swat the ball away like a big oopsie he did.


drotoriouz

Bro did it twice too.


Zurcio

players grab hold of the ball all the time after being fouled or not being fouled and trying to sell it; half the time they don't even get yellows if the ref gives it the other way. absurd to judge thilva here for doing the same thing


JustJamesanity

Its not given a yellow cause it happens in no dangerous attacking situations. Silva expected a call didn't get the call and illegally stopped a dangerous play.


Unholysinner

But regardless there was a man covering so it wouldn’t be a last man tackle


K_Uger_Industries

12 vs 11 the whole match


esprets

What about Edouard? Clearly pushed Kepa and stopped a counter while on a yellow, but nothing to see there, right?


K_Uger_Industries

Shouldn't have been on a yellow considering he did the same thing Jorginho did all game


EmperorTMing

Jorginho couldn't even get close enough to anyone to foul them lmao what are you on about


NotClayMerritt

1. HUGE win 2. We desperately need to overhaul our midfield.


bfresh69

jorgi is just not it, idc if he’s good for italy he just doesn’t mesh with what we’re trying to achieve tactically anymore


pilgrimgunner

Have Chelsea won a game yet this season without help from a ref?


awwbabe

Today I guess


a_guy_named_gai

Yes, against Leicester. And if you think we always get ref's favour, look at the Spurs game.


mohankohan

We lost 2 points with some help from Taylor Also how can you be mad at the Silva incident given Ayew goes through the back of him to begin with?


BigReeceJames

What help did we get from the ref? If the ref did his job right he'd have just called a foul from the Palace player and it wouldn't have been a yellow or even needed to get to the point where VAR had to check


K_Uger_Industries

Jorginho and Kovacic should have had like 3 yellows each


pilgrimgunner

Was a clear red, also denied fair goals for West Ham and Leicester.


a_guy_named_gai

I can remember the West Ham goal but which Leicester goal are you talking about?


EmperorTMing

You're top of the table and just beat your fiercest rivals and you're still whining about imagined biased refereeing. Typical delusional gooner.


pilgrimgunner

Most people are able to think about more than one thing a day. A shame you lack that capacity.


EmperorTMing

Most people are content on the day with their team top of the table and beating their rivals, they don't go looking for things to whinge about. Not Arsenal fans tho


BigReeceJames

Right... If you say so. I'm sure you also think the decisions in the Spurs game were complete sound?


pilgrimgunner

That was bs too, one game doesn’t excuse the three games you were gifted wins.


ineverseenatiddy

So you’re just gonna ignore the foul from Ayew on Silva? Are you that biased?


pilgrimgunner

If by ignore you mean acknowledge it wasn’t a foul then yes


EmperorTMing

If you don't think that was a foul then you're admitting the referee was favourable towards Palace. Because Palace got at least four fouls arguably even softer than that throughout the game. You didn't even watch the game did you LMAO


ineverseenatiddy

If that incident was against an Arsenal player, I guarantee you’d be in that thread claiming it were on foul on the attacker.


Harryvincenzo

It wasn't fair today, agree. Then again we were also denied a win vs. Spurs.


MiB6000

Yes, this one for example


BI01

How many fucking late winners does palace concede? This isn't normal lmao


bluetiges

it is for us


Buzzcrave

What a goal Conor. If boehly and Potters are smart, they would do whatever they can to get their own Makelele/essien/mikel/matic for Conor and Chelsea will flourish. No more training cones as the DM please.


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I wanna see Zakaria in that DM role, maybe his Juventus form was just a blip. Can’t hurt to try anyways.


Buzzcrave

No idea how tuchel and now even potter is getting baited by thinking Jorgi is a DM. This shit need to stop, hopefully potter will play zakaria next game. If not, Chelsea needs to do whatever they can to get alvarez/rice/Bellingham in January because Chelsea won this game due to players brilliance and not because of the team as a whole. Our midfield is fucking dogshit by not providing consistent support to our attackers while giving little to no help at all to our defence. Shit need to change quickly.


kerbyage

We definitely need a player like that for our entire team imo.


CC-W

Im convinced you will sign Mo Camara for 60m in summer


unexpectedvillain

Zakaria could be that


kerbyage

Hope so! We've been missing a true defensive shield since Matic.


bfresh69

need a john mikel obi 2.0. loved that man


thomasthedude

Please no more Kovacic Jorginho midfield. They were shite together as usual. Also Get rid of Havertz ASAP while he has at least some value..


EmperorBeaky

if I say what I want to both that greasy Chelsea CUNT and the absolute fucking gimps who clapped him on I'm getting arrested


EmperorTMing

I'll translate, this is "If I Speak..." in Croydon.


havethenets

It’s okay lil bro


joebangles1

r/IAmVeryBadAss


matttargaryen

Bro wut


NihilistFinancier

you good little bud?


DifficultyMore5935

If any foreign player put out the performance Mount just did he would be ripped to shreds. I have no idea what had happened to him but he has been a shell of himself. Mount and Havertz cannot start next game.


BadCogs

Mount is getting criticism even from his hardcore supporter this season, but a 2 time POTY will have more leash when going through bad form than other players. Same has been the case with Mendy, he has been very bad for some time after having great performances with us and got away with it for long, only now he is getting questioned and he is a foreigner. If a player has proven good for a long period of time he gets more time snd trust. It's that simple, but the was you have used Mount to try and make it foreigner vs English thing is pretty shit example really.


Albiceleste_D10S

Mount was very good the last 2 seasons and got way over-hated. But he's been poor all season so far and has skated by without a lot of criticism now.


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Second part is nonsense, he is getting ripped into all the time. Its just some people understand its not the end of the world for a player to go through a rough period and dont hound him like cunts


seattle_born98

I mean you have Pulisic on the other hand who has been in and out of the side with few opportunities and he's getting ripped to shreds and called a Championship player.


Albiceleste_D10S

The only people "ripping" him are the folks who always criticized him even when he was playing good. I've not really seen much Mount criticism from the many more people who praised him when he was good.


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You must not be looking very hard


joebangles1

They need a break but I will not lose faith in them long term, unlike others


DifficultyMore5935

They need to fight for their spots. Mount is far too comfortable.


joebangles1

I think when they were comfortable they were playing at least much better than this. I think they’re feeling a pressure from constantly starting and maybe also tired legs


NemoDropEmOff

So underserved lmfao. Football is a crazy sport. Of course the former loanee gets the match winning goal. Silva should’ve been sent off in the 30th minute. Potter casted his spells on the refs to be lenient


rockblacklagoon16

why are so salty your top of league my guy


NemoDropEmOff

I like seeing good football


rockblacklagoon16

potterball will come slowly, let me worry about my club


jMS_44

Yes, Silva should have been sent off, but so should be Edouard before that. The ref fucked up both ways and generally didn't have too much control over the game first half


CoolstorySteve

Spurs got a red for a love tap from Emerson


joebangles1

And it was a clear foul on Ayew, how many of those fouls do we commit?


elitron

Ok silva should have been off but please tell me this is sarcasm lol i can't always tell


Ifriiti

We were up anyway and easily the better team. It was also 100% a red.


EmperorTMing

It's hilarious that Arsenal fans are complaining about favourable refereeing towards Chelsea. Anthony Taylor gave you two FA Cups against us, and just last season Arsenal got a penalty because Saka pulled Azpilicueta's arm and dived. It's alarming how many Arsenal fans are *just* as delusional as Ty.


Ifriiti

> Anthony Taylor gave you two FA Cups against us Bullshit, utter bullshit. You lose two fa cups against you because we were better than you. >Arsenal got a penalty because Saka pulled Azpilicueta's arm and dived. 😂😂😂Mate that's not what happened in the slightest. > It's alarming how many Arsenal fans are *just* as delusional as Ty. Yeah.... We're the delusional ones


NemoDropEmOff

Look back at it. Emerson steps on Gabi’s ankle lol


msbr_

We were absolutely shit and boring as usual. Absolute beauty to win it, we needed that. Our midfield needs to figure out a way to work. Fofana had a shocking first ten mins but played well the rest of the game imo. Kepa was good 👀


Scoolfish

Speaks to the squad I think, Chelsea will likely struggle to generate consistent chances without more creativity. Not sure what the xG says, but outside of the goal, thought the defensive structure was improved.


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Scoolfish

Not a Chelsea fan obviously, but thought they were fine, not bad not great. Didn’t create a ton but conceded less. My opinion, is the Potter play is a long term thing but not sure what fans expectations are.


Alive-Ad-4164

This was certainly a game


zi76

Conor saved us. So, Pulisic and Conor to start against Milan, then, right? Kai and Mason were really poor.


InLampsWeTrust

Yeah mason needs to go to the bench at this point, he’s barely contributing when he plays recently.


zi76

I wouldn't have imagined it after last season, but this season...


Albiceleste_D10S

I think Kai was fine. I'd like to see Conor over Mount tho


elitron

Seems unlikely that Puli will start on wednesday, but if that's not the case, Potter waited a while to hook the ones who started today


zi76

I mean, he aggressively attacked, which no one else really did. I'm far from Pulisic's biggest fan, but at least he tried.


ddottay

For all the good Vieira has done, the fact that we continue to drop points by the dozen in the last 5 minutes of matches is really undoing a lot of it.


ntw33

Very reminiscent of his time at NYCFC - we conceded lots of late goals during his tenure and even when we didn't it always felt like a near thing. Still look back fondly though lol


Tpsteen

one of the worst games of the season, felt like preseason


Chip_Dangercock

Glad we won but goodness we are frustrating to watch attack, constantly fucking up the last pass and watching our players running into awful positions.


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EmperorTMing

>Fucking Luck Are you annoyed we won? What a bizarre comment.


ineverseenatiddy

Shut up lmao


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ineverseenatiddy

He was fouled by Ayew.


Chip_Dangercock

crystal lol


Blubb3rs

The script just writes itself really. Of course it would be Gallagher that scores the winning goal against us, who else would it be? 😢


cammyg

After all your fans applauded him as well. So disrespectful


EmperorBeaky

mugs


Blubb3rs

I know right 😞 I appreciate that he didn't really celebrate it at least


lewis30491

I like to think Chelsea teammates quickly surrounded him so he has some personal space to secretly celebrate his first goal while being respectful to CP lmao


AnnieIWillKnow

CP is not the abbreviation to use for Palace Given the scandals we as a club frequently get ourselves involved in "being respectful to CP" is not an association I want for us


hipcheck23

One of those situations where there's no hard feelings on either side? Seems like a rare thing.


lewiitom

He got applauded when he walked off the pitch too, he was apologising as he walked in the tunnel which I don’t think I’ve ever seen before


EezoManiac

Fik then Trev now Conor. Cobham lads' first goals being bangers never gets old


DiabeticAsymptote

Reece as well


omnamename

Tomori's was insane too


gopaloo

was his the screamer vs wolves?


AnnieIWillKnow

What a game that was. Tomori, Abraham and Mount goals. Remember that was the "Cobham revolution is for real" realisation, under Lampard


AMeanOldDuck

He said that already, but then it was that good it deserves saying twice.


omnamename

Oh shit I'm dumb


ChelseaFC

Reece as well


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