West Brom vs Chelsea match thread 23/08/2015

Panthro

Full line-ups from The Hawthorns
West Brom: Myhill, McAuley, Dawson, Olsson, Brunt, Yacob, Fletcher, McManaman, McClean, Morrison, Rondon.
Subs: Chester, Lescott, Gardner, Anichebe, Lambert, Gnabry, Rose.

Chelsea: Courtois, Ivanovic, Terry, Zouma, Azpilicueta, Fabregas, Matic, Willian, Hazard, Pedro, Costa.
Subs: Begovic, Falcao, Mikel, Traore, Remy, Cahill, Loftus-Cheek.
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear)

Stats

West Brom defeated Chelsea 3-0 at home last season; the joint-heaviest defeat Mourinho has ever suffered in the Premier League.

No team has defeated WBA more often in the Premier League than Chelsea (13 wins, level with Arsenal).

No team has won the top-flight title after gaining exactly one point from their opening two games since Liverpool in 1981-82.


A goose walks on the pitch prior to the Barclays Premier League match between West Bromwich Albion and Chelsea at The Hawthorns

hots

Glad to see Traore and rlc on the bench too, good to see a bench with options.

That_Guy

Jon Champion and Andy Townsend "in and around" my commentary stream. Ugh.

Johner

Costa needs to bury that.

That_Guy

Willian is so sloppy in possession.

Really like the look of Rondon. Great movement.

Johner

Ridiculous from Matic.

Johner

Cracking save.

LightningBlue

Terrible penalty by Morrison. We got off the hook there.

That_Guy

What an idiotic challenge from Matic.

Panthro

teeee boooooo!

That_Guy

Awful penalty.

MythicalMadMan

Is Berahino injured or just off somewhere else?

MythicalMadMan

Ref letting a lot go so far probably not the best idea in these conditions could see some bad tackles coming in

Johner

MythicalMadMan wrote: »

Is Berahino injured or just off somewhere else?

Off to Spurs.

Johner

ffs Matic.

LightningBlue

Matic has been atrocious so far. He's so far off the pace of the game.

duploelabs

Get in tBO

That_Guy

Pedro with all the time in the world out on the left and nobody busting a bollocks to get into the box.

rottie 11

Playing awful so far

Johner

What a ****ing player.

Sugarlumps

Classy goal.

That_Guy

Chelsea are horrible to watch right now.

EDIT: Damn, cursed myself.

LightningBlue

Great start for Pedro. Finally we have a player not afraid to take a shot.

rottie 11

Yesss Pedro

Duck Soup

Pedro Pedro Pedro.

MagicIRL

It's ok, United are going to win the league without scoring goals. We don't need Pedro or his beautiful runs and silky goals.

Panthro

pedro is amazing

rob316

The united reject did well there.

duploelabs

rob316 wrote: »

The united reject did well there.

Panthro

rob316 wrote: »

The united reject did well there.

Who?

That_Guy

And in 20 minutes, Pedro has done more than Cuadrado in 7 months.

Johner

Boom.

LightningBlue

Pedro is the ****ing man. Get in.
Costa off the mark for the season as well.

rottie 11

Goal and assist for Pedro. Some debut

Panthro

we've bought a fackin diamond!

That_Guy

Well that was a nice bit of counter attacking football.

Guy:Incognito

Have they had the first drinks break yet? :-)

HalloweenJack

FML.

****ty stream dies, go to find another one and miss the second goal.

Duck Soup

Not exactly a one man army today, but not far off.

duploelabs

Oh the ManU Butthurt must be immense

That_Guy

These 'error messages' from Boards are driving me mental.

Duck Soup

HalloweenJack wrote: »

FML.

****ty stream dies, go to find another one and miss the second goal.

It was really good. You would have loved it.

Johner

Awful defending. Ivanovic shocking again.

That_Guy

What a goal. Superb build up play.

Panthro

some whack.

duploelabs

Guess who's at fault for this????? IVAN!!!

HalloweenJack

Great defending.:rolleyes:

Three of them standing in fron of Courtois when the shot comes in, why can't one of them close Morrison down?

That_Guy

duploelabs wrote: »

Guess who's at fault for this????? IVAN!!!

Thought Zouma was poor in the build up too in fairness.

Guy:Incognito

That ball out to McLean should have been given earlier with the left foot. Switching to the right killed it. The cross was still crap though :-)

Johner

Willian is ****ing awful at shooting. Great by Pedro again.

Panthro

Willian wouldn't score in a brothel.