Chelsea Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014/15

Johner

Ah Oscar, we are going to regret this.

GavRedKing

Oscar....jesus christ.

peteeeed

Put them away for **** sake

Essien

We're gona drop points here aren't we...

peteeeed

Thank god for that schurrle off

GavRedKing

Schurrle, poor and wasteful.

GavRedKing

Surely thats a red card

Johner

Horrid challenge, dirty.

Johner

No sympathy for him after that.

peteeeed

Moral of the story, don't try to do Costa

GavRedKing

The damage was done from the sporting player kneeing him in the nut after he took costa out

GavRedKing

2nd half is terrible again.

Like Schalke

GavRedKing

Costas a beast

rottie 11

Another 1 all draw watch

GavRedKing

Cesc into number 10

GavRedKing

Thats surely a booking? Jaysus.

GavRedKing

Schalke 1 - 1 Maribor

GavRedKing

Unlucky costa

GavRedKing

Hes kept them in it Patricio

GavRedKing

Thats terrible from Luis jaysus

rottie 11

Lucky

GavRedKing

We're living very dangerously

Johner

**** sake another 1 on 1 missed.

GavRedKing

How many f**king chances do we f**king want. Christ.

:mad:

rottie 11

Their keeper had some game in fairness

Johner

Get in.

peteeeed

Godamn we should have buried them

GavRedKing

A win is a win. Very bloody hard work we made of that.

:rolleyes:

GavRedKing

Patricio was motm

Johner

Draw in the other game, happy days.

rottie 11

GavRedKing wrote: »

Patricio was motm

Well deserved

hots

Their keeper had some game... Decent win, we'll deserved, focus on Sunday now!

peteeeed

Jose straight over to say well done to their keeper , he was superb

getuponthis

Poor Hazard was getting lumps kicked out of him all night!

cadaliac

I take it that Costa stayed on until the end?

peteeeed

cadaliac wrote: »

I take it that Costa stayed on until the end?

Yep and looked fairly fit

GavRedKing

Ya, theres no issue with his hamstrings I'd say he was burning fellas for pace all night.

If it wasnt for an excellent performance from the GK and terrible finishing this could have easily been 6 tonight.

GavRedKing

Beat Maribor home and away and we should be through and top of the group unless schalke do the double over sporting which will make the trip to germany interesting.

GavRedKing

Read a few reports on the game and the theme seems to be a 1-0 trashing and that our finishing has to be better we have to be ruthless and take those chances and put teams to the sword.

We're in a good position now but to many players played 90mns that might have been rested had we been 4 up at half time.

grumpymunster

Ah overall was a good win last night, sometimes you come up against a keeper who has one of those nights and this was it. Upside second clean sheet on the trot and a win.

I thought Schurrle was awful from the get go he is so erratic it is not funny. Thought Ivan should have been subbed as well not sure if that knock he took in the first half affected him but at times in the second half Luis was playing left and right back at the same time, the amount of cover he gave Ivan was phenomenal. We really have to get him into the side he is an excellent player

GavRedKing

Well if theres any doubts about Ivan at least Dave got a rest last night so we'd have an actual LB against Arsenal with Dave starting RB.

Its difficult to guess the Arsenal team as is but I'd say it'll be, barring injuries,

Syczensy
chambers Kosclieny Mertesacker Gibbs
Wilshire Flamini
Sanchez Ozil Ox
Welbeck

Maybe Sanchez or Oz will make way for Cazorla but I'd say at least 9 of that team will start, barring injjuries of course.

peteeeed

grumpymunster wrote: »

Ah overall was a good win last night, sometimes you come up against a keeper who has one of those nights and this was it. Upside second clean sheet on the trot and a win.

I thought Schurrle was awful from the get go he is so erratic it is not funny. Thought Ivan should have been subbed as well not sure if that knock he took in the first half affected him but at times in the second half Luis was playing left and right back at the same time, the amount of cover he gave Ivan was phenomenal. We really have to get him into the side he is an excellent player

schurrle had a night where nothing went right and their keeper had a night where he could do nothing wrong.

from our side hazard was good but kept getting kicked , as did costa

oscar's work rate was excellent and fabregas and matic played well in the middle

GavRedKing

I'd be dropping Schurrle for Sunday anyway, granted he scored against City, thats 2 in 3 games against them now but his finishing is so hit and miss its not even funny.

He missed a few in the WC too but still finished with 4 goals, he'll get goals but his decision making and finishing has to improve, he tried a header from the edge of the box last night when Costa was trying to take the ball down which showed how willing he was to amend his misses but he never really grasped the game.

I think Matic was peerless in CM, himself and Cesc had good games, always shifting the ball, very rarely getting caught on it, in contrast we hounded Sporting into mistakes left right and centre.

If Cesc and Matic are 100% for Sunday I'm confident, as a pairing theyre pretty good together.

peteeeed

GavRedKing wrote: »

I'd be dropping Schurrle for Sunday anyway, granted he scored against City, thats 2 in 3 games against them now but his finishing is so hit and miss its not even funny.

He missed a few in the WC too but still finished with 4 goals, he'll get goals but his decision making and finishing has to improve, he tried a header from the edge of the box last night when Costa was trying to take the ball down which showed how willing he was to amend his misses but he never really grasped the game.

.

schurrle = super sub for chelsea and germany

GavRedKing

Well if Oscar rolled his chance right to Schurrle he had a tap in early in the second half.

We had four 1on1 chances, Schurrle, Oscar, Costa and Salah, you'd throw money on at least 1 of them scoring.

GavRedKing

Some stats going into the Arsenal game this weekend.

Played 83 times at the Bridge
Chelsea W 29
Arsenal W 27
Draw 27

Goals:
Chelsea 110
Arsenal 109


Biggest home win
Chelsea 6 - 0 arsenal - 13/14

Biggest away win
Chelsea 1 - Arsenal 5 - 30/31

GavRedKing

Just looking at Joses record, when it gets to about March, in the last 4 seasons at the club his record is

Year|Played|W|D|L|GD|Pts|Finished|
04/05|30|24|5|1|48|77|1st
05/06|30|24|3|3|39|75|1st
06/07|30|21|6|3|35|69|2nd
13/14|30|20|6|4|33|66|3rd


to win the league we're going to need 04/05 or 05/06 form.

GavRedKing

Also, Joses EPL record against Wenger is

Played 11
Won 6
Drawn 5
Lost 0

Hopefully the 0 stays the same this weekend and we go unbeaten at home all season.

MaroonAndGreen

Good performance last night to be fair. Our finishing is all that let us down. It was more comfortable than I expected.

We should beat Arsenal too, as we should win every home game with this team.

Techless

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

Good performance last night to be fair. Our finishing is all that let us down. It was more comfortable than I expected.

True, but I find it very frustrating that with so many technically gifted players we have that we struggle to be able to retain possession when needed to curb opposition pressure. At times last night, we just couldn't seem to retain the ball when pressurised and gave away possession too easily.