More energy, drive and conviction. We’d struggle to beat the girl guides playing like this.
Bradley needs to get back to the basics he brought to the team when he first played. It’s as though he is playing under a tremendous amount of pressure trying to fill the boots of TAA for the sake of the fans… Just play your normal game , drop the pressure, and start enjoying the role you have been given
Conor Bradley will surely come off at half-timepublished at 18:16 BST
18:16 BST
Chelsea 1-0 Liverpool
Nizaar Kinsella
BBC Sport Chelsea reporter
Liverpool defender Conor Bradley is among those having a poor half.
The young defender is also now walking a tightrope after giving away another free-kick on his side while already booked.
Manager Arne Slot will have surely noted that he is a risk of being sent off with his next foul now.
Fsg spent barely fuck all last year and we win the league, spend over £400 million this year and we look shit.
Slot will talk about fine margins blah blah…but something is fundamentally wrong
That’s our first half in a nutshell. The players look like complete strangers to each other. Defensively, all players on the pitch look like numpties who have never played football at a high level. What is worse, they don’t press efficiently, and while our collective game is awful, there are also individual deficiencies. No willingness to run back, to apply pressure, to fight through the bad periods in this half. Nothing. Zero shot on target because we never put our forwards on a promising situation. Only Kerkez managed once to get in a hopeful situation in the box, but did nothing good with his ball.
All in all a pitiful performance. They deserve the hair-dryer treatment from Slot. Big reaction needed in that second half, because what we’ve witnessed there is unacceptable.
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We just need to play a little more controlled possession football and we’ll get back in the game
Our press, when we played under Jurgen we pressed with 3 and forced them wide where we would trap them or pick off the pass when they played it inside.
Now we press with 4 and not in unison, this leaves us outnumbered in midfield and with more space in midfield they are playing through us as the front press doesn’t get the defenders head down, it is too easy
Counting on Slot to read the first half and make the necessary changes and tweaks in our game to get on top of the game and find the equalizer. Like with Palace. If so, then also handle the game after that, unlike with Palace (I trust that has been already discussed right after Palace).
Not when you see the replay, I thought the same initially
Which is saying how shite the rest of the refs in England are
Lacking work rate full stop. The goal is just shocking. Gravenberch out of position and the rest don’t bother to apply any pressure to the ball, which is a running theme.
We can’t even push them back and at least put them on the defensive. It’s only a matter of time before they score a 2nd goal if this keeps up.
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Hes had no answers so far this season
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Jamie Redknapp reckons Chelsea have been fabulous! A slight exaggeration I think.
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The second half is always better…
Isn’t it
Isn’t it?
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Kerkez should have shot in that position. I don’t understand why he tried to play across the front of goal.
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we have just been shit
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Chelsea are sooo bad. Their passing is off and they are slow to the second balls.
We are trying to play equally bad somehow. Konate has the ball for majority of our possession and he keeps passing to either VvD or Bradley. Grav is the only one who somehow makes himself available but hardly he is able to turn. Slow and out of ideas. Can’t get the call even to Dom let alone Salah or Isak. Full backs in no tandem with the wide forwards. It’s like we have put 11 strangers in the side.
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When they get the ball they are direct and look far more dangerous than we do.
A squad that played together for about 5 years looked better assembled that one that’s played together for a couple of months. I wonder what could cause that?
As they play together more they’ll get better
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Just brutally bad.
- We playing for a 1-0 result.
- We only tested the CB’s on the 43rd minute. We making them look like prime VVD/Maldini.
- Zero creativity. Wirtz has to come on, even a shit Wirtz can’t be worse than what I am seeing.
- Bradley has to come off at half time or he will get sent off. Need Frimpong for a bit more attacking, unless we playing for that 1-0 results.
- A terrible final ball by Kerkez, would have been close to a tap in.
- Mo keeping his same form.
- Hugo has to get on, so 3 changes at half time.
- They closing us down so quickly that VVD and Konate are going to have 100% passing accuracy because all they are doing is going backwards.
- 46 minute and 20 seconds, we take a short free kick and end up going back to the keeper.
- Not a good attempt at a finish by Isak.
- I wish I was bald.
More slow sideways football and we keep giving possession away, Sslot struggling here with tactical knowhow.
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