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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Ger Regan on December 26, 2021, 04:35:59 PM
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Holy shit a Sanson and even Traore sighting. Although no SJM as the rumours suggested is a big blow.
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SJM the main casualty then.
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Meatball with Covid? Full strength apart from that. Then again, so are Chelsea...
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Big day for Sanson. High hopes for him in this
Although I think he went off injured last time against Chelsea?
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Sanson starting I'm in shock!
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Watkins out wide or 2 up front?
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Disappointing to be sans Meatball, but it's still a good looking team on paper. Still, third of the top 3 to have played under the new regime, let's hope third time lucky for a result.
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Was expecting a much worse first team line up.
Looking forward to watching Sanson.
Which means he’ll go off injured in the first half hour.
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Let’s smash these.
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Really surprised we've started Ings (guess Leeds match postponed played a part). Would've rather have Ollie sticking as CF and El Ghazi on left.
Otherwise not so bad.
Got a feeling Lukaku will come on and decide this like he did in September, we never can handle him that well.
They've also got a much stronger CM unit out than in recent weeks.
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Trez on the bench. Is today his first squad since the injury?
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Think he was on the bench at norwich?
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He was Anfield wasn’t he?
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Trez on the bench. Is today his first squad since the injury?
He was on the bench at Liverpool but based on the comments from Gerrard afterwards I think it was a gesture to recognize the work he’d put into getting back to fitness.
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Really surprised we can put that side out - was expecting a few of the kids. We now know we will win with Bert coming on to score the winner.
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Need Ings to step up today.
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Need Ings to step up today.
Agreed, just can't see much balance to that team with Ings and Watkins. Would have preferred AEG on left. Chelsea look strong in midfield.
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suprised we put that team out , shame bout SJM as id really fancy is with him in the team but Sanson might just be the man , Bertie on the bench , wow .
Villa 1 Chelski 0
Watkins
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That's a pretty strong Chelsea team, expect Lukaku to come off the bench sometime.
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Need Ings to step up today.
He's had a lot of injuries to be fair
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Need to neuter Reece James and get after Alonso...
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For those in attendance, enjoy what should be a good game
Glad your efforts are not wasted.
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Need Ings to step up today.
I actually think it's Watkins that does. Its him that needs to change his role for the team. I've no doubt thar ings will do his job if given enough chances and its up to Watkins abs buendia to supply him.
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Need Ings to step up today.
I actually think it's Watkins that does. Its him that needs to change his role for the team. I've no doubt thar ings will do his job if given enough chances and its up to Watkins abs buendia to supply him.
Ollie's been good at CF lately. I'd have rather kept him as CF and put El Ghazi on the left.
Until he proves otherwise just feels Ings unbalances us in final third. We've been playing some really fluid football in final third and hardly missed him last 3-4 weeks.
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If you didn't know, looking at those two line-ups you wouldn't think there was anything extraordinary going on in the world at large
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Win please.
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Bright start.
Chelsea rotational fouling already in operation.
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Turned on Sky, heard Andy Hinchcliffe, turned it off again.
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Looking at those stats we start bloody terrrible .
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Konsa class
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passing us to death atm.
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Great clearance Tyrone
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sanson looking good
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We’re looking dangerous
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Need Ings to step up today.
I actually think it's Watkins that does. Its him that needs to change his role for the team. I've no doubt thar ings will do his job if given enough chances and its up to Watkins abs buendia to supply him.
Ollie's been good at CF lately. I'd have rather kept him as CF and put El Ghazi on the left.
Until he proves otherwise just feels Ings unbalances us in final third. We've been playing some really fluid football in final third and hardly missed him last 3-4 weeks.
Although it was in the Smith system it looked unbalanced.
If Gerrard thinks there is a way to make it work, I'm comfortable seeing how it plays out until it looks like the result is the same.
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Watkins had a chance and he tried to find Ings with a pass that was never on where he should have gone himself. That's the problem with playing them both.
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Turned on Sky, heard Andy Hinchcliffe, turned it off again.
Townsend on the world feed.
Our crossing isn't great when we get in final third, poor Ollie couldn't put in better cross with Ings unmarked in the middle.
That's often the difference v this level of opposition. Still good start anyway, passing and moving well yet again.
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We are looking decent to be honest. Morgan Sanson is a quality player. He was all this time and he joined with an excellent reputation. Just butchered by one injury or illness after another. Hopefully he gets a chance to really shine now.
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Watkins had a chance and he tried to find Ings with a pass that was never on where he should have gone himself. That's the problem with playing them both.
was a poor cross
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pass it Ollie
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Doug messing around a little bit too much on the ball again.
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Getting into good areas.
Just need that extra bit of quality and finesse.
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what a ball by Dougie thou
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doug looks well up for it
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Watkins is such a totally brainless player. Infuriating.
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Hope flintstone is o.k at this time....."LOOK AT ALL THESE EMPTY SEATS IN TRINTY LOWER DEDUCT US POINTS NOW!!!!"
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Loving this buendia
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Dougie bang up for this.
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Watkins is such a totally brainless player. Infuriating.
frustrating
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How the hell wasn't that a foul on Ramsey?!
Can see it now, Chelsea will get their first booking on 85th minute while we have 4-5 booked.
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Atkinson totally clueless.
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fooaaallllllllffooalll
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Sccooororrrrrr
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Yessss
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larf!
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Atkinson's another referee who's apparently in awe of the Sky 6. Can't wait to give them every decision.
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YESSSSSSS
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Oggggggyyyy
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Get in!
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fooaaallllllllffooalll
well :) goal
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Well done Matt
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Watkins is such a totally brainless player. Infuriating.
frustrating
Being played out of position to be fair
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Best thing about watching Villa on TV is the shots of the crowd. Beautiful and handsome people. High genetic quality.
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Great OG.
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Watkins is such a totally brainless player. Infuriating.
frustrating
Being played out of position to be fair
Wasn't it his original position and he got moves to striker at Brentford
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Haha have that you twats!!
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cash another fuck up
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Chelsea penalty
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Buendia is blowing out of his arse
Penalty
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cash you twat
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Deleted
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Terrible challenge by Cash
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Why the fuck are you diving in there Matty? FFS
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Bugger.
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Fuck off Atkinson.
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Bollox!
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Oh balls
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My stream is ages behind, so my comments look decidedly out of place...
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1-1
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So so stupid in an area that was easy to defend. Really stupid goal to give away
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Sloppy from Cash.
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Dim by Cash.
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he hasnt learnt from doing it before
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Cash you prick, that was totally unnecessary
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Very sloppy. Come on Villa
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Cash buggered up there and he knew he did straight away.
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Dim by Cash.
I don't think he saw him coming
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Braindead, could see that coming a mile off.
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couldnt see chelski scoring neither
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Idiotic challenge from Cash, ball was about 5 yards away.
We got a bit excited after the goal, most rushed play from us in the whole game.
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What a absolutely idiotic challenge by cash. All that good work for a moment of madnsss
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The referee is giving them every 50-50.
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this is what Villa need to do . foul the fuckers when they are running through , like those twats do
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Really disappointed with that pen.
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this is what Villa need to do . foul the fuckers when they are running through , like those twats do
We're not one of the Sky Wankathon Six though, so we'll get booked if we try it.
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See Rudiger shoves his hand into Konsa's face, just a free kick.
Emi does a bit of gardening around the penalty spot, yellow card.
Chelsea will keep doing it up until first booking.
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We are letting them play way too much and they are getting into really good positions. And we have the ball we don’t move as a unit. It’s a long-ish often poor quality ball to Ollie and he’s not holding it or can’t. If this is what we will do we will concede at minimum one more.
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Ref is a clueless prick.
We’re just that little too sloppy in the final third
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Great work from Sanson there.
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Sanson got a nice burst of pace.
Unlucky there. Chelsea keeper would've been off if he'd been a second later.
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What is the point of Danny Ings?
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Ings should do something with that
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we are looking dangerous , just need one of us to finish the fucker
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Ings runs like he's 45.
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If Chelsea are happy to play that high again in the second half there's goals here for us.
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See that Alonso cross is exactly what we lack from our FBs. Full of pace along the six yard box.
Too many times Cash and Targett just hit the first man from wide when they get in promising positions.
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Lovely, lovely play.
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Duggie having a great game. Watkins offers so much more than Ings
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
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Even if we lose this, we can take a lot of pride from going toe-to-toe with them.
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
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Better side overall. Shame about the penalty. Chelsea look toothless
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We've played really well.
Barely seen Mount or Pulisic.
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Can see him being subbed again.
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
File alongside McGrath, P
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
They have lots of very good players.
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Good 1st half.
Come on boys
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If Traore is fit enough I’d take Ings off.
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Well done Villa
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Can see him being subbed again.
I like Ollie drifting out left so far, getting joy going up against Calobah when Chelsea play a high line so that may save him today.
Overall another excellent half against good team. We're full of confidence currently.
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
Fair point, he's brilliant.
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get Bertie on for Ings
Ings not deadly enough today , seems a few seconds behind in his head . Think Bertie could do alright against these with Watkins up front.
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Shame Archer's not on the bench. He'd have fun running in behind this high line, and he likes a goal against these.
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get Bertie on for Ings
Ings not deadly enough today , seems a few seconds behind in his head . Think Bertie could do alright against these with Watkins up front.
Lack of match fitness, think we'd see AEG before him.
Really really want to see Bailey in this set up. Guess it will be another four months before we see him out on the pitch.
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We've been excellent. Mount cross aside they've been absolutely shit. It was definitely a penalty though.
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am liking Morgan thou
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Our best first half for a while. Really encouraging. Battling well, all
Good up until the final third. Ings disappointing again. Ollies football brain seems to be lacking slightly at the mo , but can’t fault his work rate.
Silly penalty , but cash had a good half aside from that. Sanson looks decent , Ramsey looks like he’s been at this level for years. Douggie looking classy as well.
Isn’t it nice to be playing the European Champions and looking more than decent.
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
Fair point, he's brilliant.
Gordan (my hero) Cowans used to make his knowledge of the game work for him when he lost his pace. Legend.
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
File alongside McGrath, P
Steady.
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Like Midfield balance even without SJM.
Matched them which is encouraging.
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We do need to remember that ings has just come back from injury. Also, if we have everyone fit, he most likely doesn't get in. He's been brought in to compete with ollie not to play alongside IMO.
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Well I think we look pretty fucking good. Going toe-to-toe with the European champions and making them shit themselves whenever we get the ball in their half. Don't care overly much about the result as ever against this type of team, but the performances continue to be really really encouraging.
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Ollies been poor for me. Played well just ket down by a idiotic challenge by cash
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We do need to remember that ings has just come back from injury. Also, if we have everyone fit, he most likely doesn't get in. He's been brought in to compete with ollie not to play alongside IMO.
Him and Buendia good positions just lack execution
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Matty Rash again I'm afraid, why is he going to ground there..no excuse for it
That aside we have played very well. Impressed with our midfield three and back 5 very organised. Front three trying hard but lack of quality at key moments. Would much prefer Watkins down the middle. Other two not offering anything.
Wouldn't be surprised to see Lukaku come in at half time. Pulisic hasn't had a kick and CHO has been rubbish. AEG likely our first sub.
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
Andy Hinchcliffe is certainly a massive fan.
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Think we have been really good - think cash doesn’t seem to learn - does this too often when there is no real threat.
Ings - just doesn’t seem to work in this set up. emi2 ok but a should give more - Watkins and the rest of the team look very good though.
Be tempted to put on JBP or Chuck on for Ings or Emi2
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
File alongside McGrath, P
Steady.
Thiago Silva has had a spectacular career. I’m all for rose tinted glasses and considering our best ever defender the best ever, but compared to some of the best ever he pales in comparison when considering complete body of work. That’s not to diminish the career of Paul McGrath; it’s elevating it into that lofty conversation.
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I dunno about matching them. I thought we were the better side in that first half.
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We do need to remember that ings has just come back from injury. Also, if we have everyone fit, he most likely doesn't get in. He's been brought in to compete with ollie not to play alongside IMO.
He’s been brought in to do a job for the team but as yet I’m struggling to understand what it is. I suspect it was to give either Chalobah or Rudiger a hard time but it’s not clear
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
File alongside McGrath, P
Steady.
Thiago Silva has had a spectacular career. I’m all for rose tinted glasses and considering our best ever defender the best ever, but compared to some of the best ever he pales in comparison when considering complete body of work. That’s not to diminish the career of Paul McGrath; it’s elevating it into that lofty conversation.
Spot on. The game moves in slow motion for him.
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Pleased with that half. Another one at that level of performance and I think we'll win this.
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Good half there, but a bit of a disappointing goal to concede. Have the ball away cheaply when we could have broken and then Cash making an unnecessary challenge in our box.
We have looked dangerous though, even if that final product hasn't quite been there at times
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Ings and Watkins the only weak link. Neither look like they know what they're doing, poor control and needing too many touches before shooting.
Other than that we've been the better side.
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And now we’ll make Lukaku look like Pele
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Chelsea swapping it around second half.
Let's see how we respond.
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We do need to remember that ings has just come back from injury. Also, if we have everyone fit, he most likely doesn't get in. He's been brought in to compete with ollie not to play alongside IMO.
He’s been brought in to do a job for the team but as yet I’m struggling to understand what it is. I suspect it was to give either Chalobah or Rudiger a hard time but it’s not clear
Yeah still big questions over the summer business for me. Clearly good players but haven’t actually done anywhere near enough - particularly when you consider the transformative effect the previous summers business had for a compariable spend
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Blimey Lukaku on at half time, wasn't expecting him on that quick.
Defence will need to keep focused as they have a focal point now.
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Ings runs like he's 45.
Getting outpaced by Thiago Silva, who nearly IS 45.
Silva is world class CB in fairness. All about how to position himself at his age and he's superb at it.
File alongside McGrath, P
Steady.
Thiago Silva has had a spectacular career. I’m all for rose tinted glasses and considering our best ever defender the best ever, but compared to some of the best ever he pales in comparison when considering complete body of work. That’s not to diminish the career of Paul McGrath; it’s elevating it into that lofty conversation.
Spot on. The game moves in slow motion for him.
Silva is your common or garden elite footballer - undoubtedly brilliant, but Paul McGrath was an artist, despite (perhaps because of) his flaws.
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silva off
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Speaking of him Silva’s game seems to be over. They will have lost both CB’s in the space of a couple of minutes.
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silva off
good
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Too much space opening up on that left side.
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bloody hell cash
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Nearly an oggy to them there! Not sure how that didn’t go in!
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Fucking hell. Matty on the verge of having a nightmare game with an OG to go with his penalty giveaway
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Stop fannying about at the back!
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We are being far too generous here. They are all over us and we can’t retain possession
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Need a change here. Get on the blower Steven.
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Only a matter of time, unless we can get on the ball more
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Cash is having a fucking nightmare.
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We'll be doing well to get half the openings we did in the first period now.
What we get, we'll need to make count.
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There you go
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Chelsea really upped tempo now, have to be careful.
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Fuck off!
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Oh well.
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Sigh
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fuck
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Bollocks.
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bollocks. Was coming i'm afraid
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FUCKING HELL. Lukaku can’t score in ages gets a lovely game vs Aston Villa to cure his pain. Terrible marking
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Pathetic Mings
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What the fuck was Mings doing.
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mings get stuck in at least
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Shambolic. We've been really poor tonight
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Might as well blow the whistle ref. Look totally lost 2nd half
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Mings trying to roll lukaku is crazy.
Villa far too passive at the start of the 2nd half.
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Get Ings and Buendia off. They are offering us absolutely nothing.
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This has been an abject 2nd half
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Tuchel looks like such an irritating c**t
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I knew we would fuck this up ffs.
Poor
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No matter how long your winless run or scoring drought, the Villa fixture is always there to bring it to an end.
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Ming’s is such rubbish sometimes.
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Mings should've done better, just stood off him.
Just haven't been in it this half.
Can still get a point out of this but going to need some subs I think.
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bertie n Chucka now
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Fuck. Oh well, one day maybe we'll be able to bring on a hundred million pound striker at half time.
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Need changes - we’re not out of this, and it’s still an open game. Just a dreadful start to the 2nd half
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Lukaku got 9 in 10 v us, new Shane Long.
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Absolutely dreadful from Ming's. He owns that one
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This has been an abject 2nd half
There have been just 14 minutes played of the second half to be fair.
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I like the look of Sanson at last!
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Still struggling to see the point of Buendia
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Who was Lukaku's last Premier League goal against before this one? Oh yes, us.
Bastard typical.
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not working for Bendia - mind Ings aint much better
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Chelsea free kick in a dangerous place
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Still struggling to see the point of Buendia
He's all fart and no shit.
Does nowhere near enough.
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Mings got totally played there for that free-kick
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Chelsea made their final change pretty early, Kante off, Kovacic on.
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And it’s over thankfully
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Mings is pathetic against players who get tight.
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Chelsea free kick in a dangerous place
who for - the pie seller :)
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Mings looking like a pub player against Lukaku.
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Chelsea free kick in a dangerous place
Think it just landed somewhere near where we are Hinckley.
who for - the pie seller :)
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class from Mount
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Mings was shite last boxing day
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Mings is struggling and they know how to get him to make mistakes. We need something different in the middle and go one up front with Ollie.
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Still no changes.
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Southgate crying
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Fucking Ings and Watkins have both look worse when the other is on the pitch
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Chelsea free kick in a dangerous place
Think it just landed somewhere near where we are Hinckley.
who for - the pie seller :)
Barwell mate
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Chelsea free kick in a dangerous place
Think it just landed somewhere near where we are Hinckley.
who for - the pie seller :)
Barwell mate
Stoke Golding here!
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Fucking Ings and Watkins have both look worse when the other is on the pitch
Yep. We need to bin Ings.
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Changes before it's 3-1 please.
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This is where radio communication is hurting us a bit, if Gerrard is on the touchline we'd be making a double change right now.
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Watkins & Ings working about as hard as I would be if I had to work today
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chelsa stopping us attack no booking
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Looks like the pre Gerrard team
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What a miss from Mount, hopefully a turning point as that was the game there.
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Watkins up front is our only hope of a goal here.
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Get Bert on.
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Think we need some subs - Think emi, Ings and sanson are starting to see the game pass them by
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pulled him 3 times
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well played cash.
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We've really lost control of central area since Chelsea went 4-3-3, would put Carney on tbh.
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For me it needs to be Chuck for Buendia and Traore for Ings. Go 4-5-1
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Has Dean Smith took the half time team talk?
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Get Traore on to have a run at Alonso.
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Chelsea free kick in a dangerous place
Think it just landed somewhere near where we are Hinckley.
who for - the pie seller :)
Barwell mate
Stoke Golding here!
nicer than barwell thou Im hinckley
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Thank fuck for that.
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Finally. Good changes. Now go at them!!
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The right subs again.
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Ings and Buendia off. Keep them both on the bench at Brentford.
If you are playing a team as good as Chelsea every single player needs to be at it.
They weren't at it or anywhere near it.
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AEG on for Morgan
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Brainless shot from Sanson.
Cash again hitting the first man from a cross, we really need to sign a FB who can hit a decent cross across the six yard box.
Simply waste too many from promising areas.
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Last 15 Villa nothing to lose. Just give it a go
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Can't see us getting a goal
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Changes left late but fingers crossed.
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Think we'll get one more big chance, Chelsea dropping deeper and just happy with 3 points now.
Just had an ad for Woodhall spa pop up, you can fund the statue Dave (wink).
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Where is the urgency? We are still the team losing aren’t we?
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Where is the urgency? We are still the team losing aren’t we?
This. Press them ffs.
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watkins shit
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This has been as poor a second half as we saw under Dean Smith. Really lethargic and tepid.
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Villa Park is quieter than Ashburton Grove on a Sunday morning.
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need a CM , LB and CB looking at Mings today
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Ollie is completely gassed, some really poor passes.
Game just passing us by now. Need to get a corner or free kick near the box.
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This has been as poor a second half as we saw under Dean Smith. Really lethargic and tepid.
It really has. The inferiority complex is back.
Need to fuck that off as soon as.
Which we will under Gerrard.
He won't take performances like this.
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Still way too many opportunities spurned by Villa
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This has been as poor a second half as we saw under Dean Smith. Really lethargic and tepid.
Our worst performance under Gerrard? First half was so positive too
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Very disappointed today. Maybe Covid to blame?
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need a CM , LB and CB looking at Mings today
It was Konsa's failure to clear the ball that led to the move for Lukaku's goal so does that mean we need 2 x CH?
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I wonder if Covid has knocked the stuffing out of a couple of the lads. A few of them look like they’ve played two games today.
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Dreadful 2nd half. Cash killed the game for us the idiotp
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This has been as poor a second half as we saw under Dean Smith. Really lethargic and tepid.
It really has. The inferiority complex is back.
Need to fuck that off as soon as.
Which we will under Gerrard.
He won't take performances like this.
Bit harsh, 7 day isolation so not much training and so you hit the wall by hour mark in these high intensity matches.
Them putting on Lukaku and sloppy start to second cost us here.
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This has been as poor a second half as we saw under Dean Smith. Really lethargic and tepid.
It really has. The inferiority complex is back.
Need to fuck that off as soon as.
Which we will under Gerrard.
He won't take performances like this.
Bit harsh, 7 day isolation so not much training and so you hit the wall by hour mark in these high intensity matches.
Them putting on Lukaku and sloppy start to second cost us here.
Yep. That has to have played a part in it. We look so much lower energy and with that comes a dip in concentration. We are also playing one of the best teams in Europe to boot. Not easy
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Targett's crossing is terrible.
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Fuck off with your fucking towel Matty!
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targett boy against man
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Sighs.
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Targett should have took him down.
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And that will be that. Penalty again to them. Lukaku has made a massive difference
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Pathetic. Honeymoon over
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Would be nice to see Emi save this…
Oh well
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commentator is such a annoying prat
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Pathetic. Honeymoon over
Stop. That is nonsense.
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Dreadful start to second half, we just never came back out and once they scored that was it we've been really poor. They haven't been that good.
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Pathetic. Honeymoon over
Not at all. The manager isn’t there. The players have not practiced. There are massive mitigating circumstances. It’s been poor but we have to consider the real reasons as to why.
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The modern game fucking sickens me. I miss the good old days of the 90s. I hate how fucking passive we are sometimes.
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Amazed Konsa didn't get sent off for that.
Lukaku just made the difference I'm afraid. We have to work out what to do with Ings as our big money striker isn't working out.
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Pathetic. Honeymoon over
Not at all. The manager isn’t there. The players have not practiced. There are massive mitigating circumstances. It’s been poor but we have to consider the real reasons as to why.
Why was the game played? Our players didn't look fit. Why do we always take the hit? Last year in the FA Cup a prime example.
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Fuck off Chelski. Another stain on football.
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Honeymoon over? Are you on drugs? The three best teams in Europe have beaten us but we've given them all a game and in this one. Defensive fuck ups plus an absolute world class player, plus our manager is at home, have cost us dearly. I won't be losing any sleep.
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And missing McGinn
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Not very good all in all. Decent effort.
A few half openings in the first half but we took too long and was too obvious with getting shots away.
That was all a bit Dean Smith like at times but we was beaten by the better side. Lukaku made it look easy.
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Dreadful second half. All the defence was absolute Blues today and thats what cost us
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Disappointing start to the second half but we played some good stuff for significant parts of the game. Individual mistakes cost us but we weren’t disgraced.
Plus we were playing against a human King Tiger tank ….
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We lacked impetus second half , but those arseholes brought on a 90 million pound striker at halftime , so we have some way to go to compete . i am sure they were singing Lukako as one of their own ?
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We lacked impetus second half , but those arseholes brought on a 90 million pound striker at halftime , so we have some way to go to compete . i am sure they were singing Lukako as one of their own ?
As I understand it, Lukaku started out at Chelsea
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We lacked impetus second half , but those arseholes brought on a 90 million pound striker at halftime , so we have some way to go to compete . i am sure they were singing Lukako as one of their own ?
As I understand it, Lukaku started out at Chelsea
ha yes i know but they kept flogging him or loaning him out .
horrible lot
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And missing McGinn
Why was he missing exactly? I heard something to do with the Scotland squad but I looked on the BBC website and they have no fixtures coming up.
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Got a feeling Lukaku will come on and decide this like he did in September, we never can handle him that well.
Nah, that won't happen...
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We seemed to lose a lot of our zip when Buendia went off. His final ball wasn’t happening all night but he obviously brings something to the party, although I’m not sure how to describe it.
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he obviously brings something to the party, although I’m not sure how to describe it.
Watney's Party Seven but no tin-opener.
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We lacked impetus second half , but those arseholes brought on a 90 million pound striker at halftime , so we have some way to go to compete . i am sure they were singing Lukako as one of their own ?
As I understand it, Lukaku started out at Chelsea
They bought him from Anderlecht for about £20m as a teenager so hardly one of their own.