Chelsea vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[PaulTheVillan]

I’d make Mings captain for life just to piss off the right wingers on here.

What does that even mean?

Having a sly dig at the racists, maybe?

[PaulTheVillan]

Played ok, fitness levels looked good. Pressing was good.

Overall being poor in both boxes cost us.

[Des Little]

Play like that next Saturday and we’ll hand Everton their arses.

[sickbeggar]

Play like that next Saturday and we’ll hand Everton their arses.

Aye. Be interesting to see how we line up and whether Smith deems the formation a success performance wise, if not result wise.

[London Villan]

The positive news is we are adding £100m of talent into the line-up that will start on Saturday...

[Drummond]

I can't believe I feel as positive as I do on the back of a 3-0 defeat.

It's weird but it just didn't feel like a 3-0 defeat and we deserved more.

[Monty]

I can't believe I feel as positive as I do on the back of a 3-0 defeat.

It's weird but it just didn't feel like a 3-0 defeat and we deserved more.

Yep, I thought it was a massive improvement in terms of planning, cohesion, tactics, teamwork etc. The problem was the even massiver improvement in opposition.

[Risso]

If we were doing that, we'd be doing it in our way. The Man City way is utterly tedious, death by a thousand passes. All in front of bored senseless fans, yawning away amongst the empty seats in a soulless exhibition centre, brought occasionally to colour by the blinking lights of their digital advertising hording flags. Is it over? Have we won yet? Oh yes, he's Roll With It, we must have won. Again. Time for another quarter of a billion of left backs? Is it a Tuesday night? Let's boo the anthem of the competition. Have our owners hanged any of the LGBT community recently? Who knows, who cares, our manager wears pumps and a jumper!

I want us to win trophies. I want us to never look anything like that abomination.

That's just down to Guardiola and his tippy tappy tactics though. Liverpool have spent squillions as well, but I'd argue they're far less boring to watch, and at least their fans still feel like proper fans for the most part.

[AV82EC]

I’d go further and say even Man United are being made to look authentic by Citehs plasticity. I’m just off for a shower….

[LeeB]

If we were doing that, we'd be doing it in our way. The Man City way is utterly tedious, death by a thousand passes. All in front of bored senseless fans, yawning away amongst the empty seats in a soulless exhibition centre, brought occasionally to colour by the blinking lights of their digital advertising hording flags. Is it over? Have we won yet? Oh yes, he's Roll With It, we must have won. Again. Time for another quarter of a billion of left backs? Is it a Tuesday night? Let's boo the anthem of the competition. Have our owners hanged any of the LGBT community recently? Who knows, who cares, our manager wears pumps and a jumper!

I want us to win trophies. I want us to never look anything like that abomination.

That's just down to Guardiola and his tippy tappy tactics though. Liverpool have spent squillions as well, but I'd argue they're far less boring to watch, and at least their fans still feel like proper fans for the most part.

Yep, it's that football. Disinfected, lab-produced sterile, boring shite. I'm sorry but football for me is art, is needs flow, imagination and instinct for it to appeal.

[ChicagoLion]

Why Tuanzebe gets in ahead of Hause, I don't really understand. Is that just me?

Apparently Manure are very insistent on the terms they loan players out.
So instead of Mings taking Lukaku and Hause left side, he pushes Mings to the Left to accommodate Tuazabe at centre half and we saw how that turned out.
1-0 Chelsea.

I don’t see that. When Tuanzebe came on the other week he played as a holding midfield player. If Mings plays in a 3 for England it’s on the left so seemed the natural place for him.

I would have thought that the Senior Pro and Captain would have been detailed to handle the biggest threat.
Instead of putting the rookie loan player on the spot.

You can’t have 3 centre backs constantly having to swap over depending on when the striker pops up.

Thats why Mings should have marked Lukaku.

[Risso]

Yep, it's that football. Disinfected, lab-produced sterile, boring shite. I'm sorry but football for me is art, is needs flow, imagination and instinct for it to appeal.

They were a bit better when they had  a proper number 9 in Aguero. Now it's all "total football" (puke), tippy tappy, walking the ball into the net shit, with added falling over from you-know-who.

[Risso]

Thats why Mings should have marked Lukaku.

Totally agree. I really don't get it with Tuanzebe at all. We'd have been better with Mings in the middle and Hause left of him, if we did have to play 5-3-2.

[ChicagoLion]

Thats why Mings should have marked Lukaku.

Totally agree. I really don't get it with Tuanzebe at all. We'd have been better with Mings in the middle and Hause left of him, if we did have to play 5-3-2.

Because, as usual , people have to back the manager even when he gets it wrong.

[Monty]

Thats why Mings should have marked Lukaku.

Totally agree. I really don't get it with Tuanzebe at all. We'd have been better with Mings in the middle and Hause left of him, if we did have to play 5-3-2.

Because, as usual , people have to back the manager even when he gets it wrong.

Everyone who disagrees with me is just blinded by loyalty.