Chelsea v Aston Villa Match Thread

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Lambs to the slaughter. Completely outclassed by a very good Chelsea side. Oh for a midfield that can supply the forwards.

I only wish the game was over.

[Karlos96]

Bloody fed up my Chelsea supporting wife will be finishing work soon to round things off.

[Herman]

With such a young and a developing team which is very much a work in progress, I guess we are going to have good days and bad days.

[beness]

We are up against one of the strongest midfields in the premiership. Lambert can only work with what we have.

[Astral Weeks]

Bloody fed up my Chelsea supporting wife will be finishing work soon to round things off.

You've only yourself to blame.

[JUAN PABLO]

no cutting edge   , no ideas .  to slow at passing the ball and getting caught in possession , awful defending.
Lichaj and Herd having a mare , bannon thinks he is iniesta and hes not .
Needs changing at HT to keep it at 3-0 and I f**king hate Chelsea and all their nancy boys .

[jcsutv]

Phil Dowd is so fat.

[TonyD]

I'd offer them 3.3.   They would take it they had any sense.

[Boz]

They don't look like they were in Japan a week ago and played a game mid week.

Not promising if we get hammered and have to play them at Wembley, should we beat Bradford.

[Karlos96]

Well at least we know what we can look forward to if we get past Bradford and they make the final. 

[Goldie.7]

We're the worst team in the league by far this weekend.

[Rigadon]

The inexperience is showing today.

Yep, and some lack of quality too and to be fair I can forgive both.  Teams know our left back position is vulnerable and every team we've played in the past month has headed that way so Lichaj along with Herd fall into the latter category - certainly in the positions they are currently playing.

If I were Lambert, I'd move to a back found, throw Ireland on and remind Benteke about how the offside rule works.  We need to get a lot more aggressive in our pressing and tackling too - we look like we're a bit in awe at times. 

[PaulWinch again]

Vlaar come back please.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Well at least we know what we can look forward to if we get past Bradford and they make the final. 

That's the only positive for me. Should both teams reach the final, Chelsea probably won't bother changing out of their Wembley suits and we might just do them.

[andym]

formation is not working. i wasnt a fan of it last week either, and thought we got away with it a bit due to some poor liverpool finishing (they should have really been 3 up after 20 mins) and the fact we got it right on the break.

we have 3 centrebacks marking 1 forward, leaving the midfield and fullbacks exposed with 2 on 1s. chelseas 3 attacking midfielders are killing us with their movement and we are all over the place in terms of positioning and communication. and when we get on the ball in the midfield we have no where to go because chelsea out number us there.

we are not clicking on the break at all, and all benteke has done is stray offside.