Chelsea v. Hull, SS1 16:00

Rayne Wooney

Mars Bar wrote: »

The novelty is wearing off really fast

At least until McShane comes on


Chelsea to win by 5 or more looks appealing

DazMarz

What a shocking free kick. Hull spurn their best opportunity.

Panthro

Wonder what time Hull are kicking off at.

DazMarz

Robbie Brady making a tit of himself and Terry just takes the ball off him. Love it.:D

Turtyturd

Mars Bar wrote: »

The novelty is wearing off really fast

Yep...hard to believe someone could make such a mess of ripping off a twitter account.

Panthro

DazMarz wrote: »

Robbie Brady making a tit of himself and Terry just takes the ball off him. Love it.:D

Terry literally just took it off him!:D

Essien

Tom Huddlestone looked a little nervous there, probably thinking "What the fcuk have I signed up for"

newballsplease

DazMarz wrote: »

Robbie Brady making a tit of himself and Terry just takes the ball off him. Love it.:D

A great british post there.

Rayne Wooney

Turtyturd wrote: »

Yep...hard to believe someone could make such a mess of ripping off a twitter account.

Lol



Oscar is such class.

DazMarz

Hull have really woken up in the last 5 minutes.

Will I Amnt

What a save.

Kylo Ren

The goal line technology would bring a tear to your eye. Beautiful.

homer simpson

First test for goal line tech. Great save.

DazMarz

Wow, great save. Goal line technology gets its first roll out on TV too.

Impressive, most impressive so far.

Kirby

Brilliant goalkeeping.

Turtyturd

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Lol



Oscar is such class.

Lol as in you made a mess of ripping it off?

Rayne Wooney

DazMarz wrote: »

Wow, great save. Goal line technology gets its first roll out on TV too.

Impressive, most impressive so far.

Was it not used yesterday?

DazMarz

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Was it not used yesterday?

Whoops... It was.

_Kaiser_

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

Was it not used yesterday?

Yea was used in the Pool game

Andersonisgod

First 25 minutes were as slick and technically excellent as you get. We dropped off in the last 20 minutes but still could have scored a couple more. Hazard, Oscar, De Bruyne and Torres looking like a very potent front four, backed up well by Ramires and Lampard. Hugely enjoyable first half.

Also it was brilliant seeing goal line technology in action, amazing to think it took this long to get such a simple yet brilliantly effective piece of technology into the game.

TheMilkyPirate

Torres hasn't been great at all, apart from the assist he's brought nothing to the game.

Hopefully Lukaku gets a good 25min in the 2nd half

Rayne Wooney

Turtyturd wrote: »

Lol as in you made a mess of ripping it off?

Lol as in lol

"Tigers" is in the OP and I posted based on that, run along now


Watched that free again, Ivanovic moves the wall on his own, tank of a man

davycc

Hudd & Livermore on to save the day

homer simpson

Game has gone very flat...

DazMarz

Yeah. Chelsea have took the foot off the pedal in a major way. Hull are just looking to make sure it doesn't turn into a pure rout. Spark is gone in a big way.

DazMarz

André Schürrle coming on...

In place of De Bruyne

mike65

Hull scored the fewest goals in the top half of the Championship last season 1-0 was their favourite score. Quite impossible to see how they are going to stay up.

Rayne Wooney

mike65 wrote: »

Hull scored the fewest goals in the top half of the Championship last season 1-0 was their favourite score. Quite impossible to see how they are going to stay up.

They signed Danny Graham

A_Sober_Paddy

What are the chances that chelsea will score a couple of more goals

davycc

& goal machine Hudd ----be grand

CSF

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

They signed Danny Graham

Yeah exactly, so where are the goals gonna come from?

CSF

A_Sober_Paddy wrote: »

What are the chances that chelsea will score a couple of more goals

They'll have to massively up the tempo again.

mike65

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

They signed Danny Graham

3 goals last season, none for Sunderland and now on loan. I'm sure he'll save them.

DazMarz

Finally, Lukaku is on!!!

Aw my god... so close from André... So so close.

Rikand

TheMilkyPirate wrote: »

Torres hasn't been great at all, apart from the assist he's brought nothing to the game.

Jaysis, I must have been watching an entirely different game of football in the first half cause I thought he was excellent

DazMarz

So close from Lamps from a free again. Unlucky.

the_monkey

Snoozefest at this stage .....

DazMarz

Marco Van Ginkel coming on in place of Oscar.

Jax Teller

Like this Van Ginkel guy . Think he'll do well at Chelsea .

homer simpson

Clean sheet, 3 points. I'll take that

Crann na Beatha

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Francie Barrett

Chelsea could have had 5 goals but stepped off the gas (rightly or wrongly).

That_Guy

Superb tactics from Jose. Bore the opposition to death.

Andersonisgod

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Chelsea could have had 5 goals but stepped off the gas (rightly or wrongly).

Rightly. Game mid week against Villa, then another game on Monday against Man Utd, why waste energy?

A_Sober_Paddy

Francie Barrett wrote: »

Chelsea could have had 5 goals but stepped off the gas (rightly or wrongly).

Have another game Wednesday and again Monday so conserving some energy for those two was probably a priority...Game Wednesday will be very interesting against a Villa side who are a bit of an unknown tbh, looked great at times last season, also terrible at times, its a big year for them and Lambert to which they've started very well with that win against Arsenal

Richard Hillman

That_Guy wrote: »

Superb tactics from Jose. Bore the opposition to death.

I wouldn't blame him. The players had lots of possession in the other half but didn't look too interested in scoring. It's the players that set the tempo.

I hope it bites them at the end of the season for wasting 45mins of our time.

That_Guy

There's prince Harry being interviewed by Shreeves.

CastingCouch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePnQtLJOFGA

Nuri Sahin

Nuri Sahin wrote: »

Hazard or KDB for MOTM is all I ask for.

KDB was 16/1 :cool:

McDave

Game of two halves. Mou right to pick a conservative line up and introduce some newbies once the game was won.

It's too early to make definitive judgements but here's sticking the neck out.

Mou will need a good physical team to win the premiership. I don't think he quite yet has the squad he needs. He needs more defensive options. He needs a Makelele-type in front of defence. He needs a proven goalscorer up front. Lukaku will need time. He needs Rooney, or Lewandowski.

We have quite a few flair players who will need to adapt significantly. I'm thinking primarily of Luiz and Oscar. I still wonder about Ramires' place in the team.

It will be fascinating to see how Mourinho deploy's Mata's enormous talent. He'll need to work alongside a midfield enforcer/ball-winner. Hazard is incredible.

The new boys introduced themselves well. Schurrle did well. De Bruyne has confidence.

Torres? I fear another season like last year. Not much in the league, possibly productive in Europe. But no chance of being the main man. I'm afraid he's just workmanlike now.

Will we win the premiership this year? If all our major rivals have trouble adapting to their new circumstances, I'm optimistic. But if Utd or City pull away, we could have difficulties this year. The upcoming Utd game will be a real test of nerve, and prospects.