Chelsea (H) 24/12: Build-Up & Match Thread

[Wellen Wolf]

Cunha has been very poor so far

Yet again we have no-one as a target.... but he wont bring on Sasa who has proved he can do that.

 

[The Bear]

No touch on that for a corner.

 

[t3ch]

Sa is going to give me a heart attack

 

[Freddeno]

Fucking hell Cunha

 

[The Bear]

Dreadful half with one or two decent opportunities. Defensively all over the shop, and passing gifting them the ball back regularly.

 

[Templeton Peck]

First 20 shite
Next 15 alright
Last 10 good

 

[Freddeno]

Sa always roll the ball out fast creating trouble for us

 

[Jack Regan]

Pretty much all of Chelsea's chances have come from us overplaying or fucking up.

Reasonable enough spell from us at the end of the half to suggest we can still win this. Chelsea are often as inept as us in front of goal.

 

[YoungWolf]

Generally rubbish game of football which is why there’s been “action” from each team’s mistakes.

At least O’Neil realised how open we are centrally and plugged that. But it’s a general theme he’s got to solve. He’s asking too much of Lemina and Gomes (who is still very inconsistent as it is)

 

[Alan]

Two sides who are less than the sum of their parts at the moment.

Seems clear that GO is a very good player’s coach; the effort hasn’t been this consistently high since Nuno.

That said, our interplay has no conviction at all. We’re still just waiting for someone to make something magical happen, which is fair enough for some matches but ideally you’d want more than that.

Cunha, Hwang, and Sarabia are all being hung out to dry by the “run around and make it happen” vibes.

 

[Carrotdude]

I’m still not sure how much of this is o Neil and how much is that we have a lot of not very good players

 

[Loki]

Pretty poor performance from both teams so far. Cunha has been poor and Hwang little better, just not convinced he is a Premiership player.

 

[Dire Wolf]

I’m still not sure how much of this is o Neil and how much is that we have a lot of not very good players

Combination of both. Some of the players would make mistakes no matter who was coaching them.

 

[AndyWolves]

Two sides who are less than the sum of their parts at the moment.

Seems clear that GO is a very good player’s coach; the effort hasn’t been this consistently high since Nuno.

That said, our interplay has no conviction at all. We’re still just waiting for someone to make something magical happen, which is fair enough for some matches but ideally you’d want more than that.

Cunha, Hwang, and Sarabia are all being hung out to dry by the “run around and make it happen” vibes.

Id like us to stop starting games so slowly.

 

[sycophantia]

Shocking first 25, we looked like conceding every time Chelsea came forward but then got a foothold, last 10-15 we played well, pity we couldn't score in that period.

 

[leedswolf]

Never a foul from Hwang. Coote starts...

Indeed. Freekick against Hwang, yet no penalty for Disasi's contact with Dawson.

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Cant see us winning this, feels like another game where we're gonna shafted by VAR

 

[jd1981]

Poor quality of a game, ball retention has been pretty awful for a PL level.
Chelsea in reality are one bit of composure from winning this I don’t see us scoring. Last 15 minutes of that half will gloss over what was an appalling 30 minutes.

 

[The Bear]

Bullshit foul from Coote no3.

 

[Jinky]

Was out for the first half, just got back for the second. How come Pedro isn’t on the bench? Thought GON said he’d be good to go from this game?