Chelsea vs Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Ads]

Nothing wrong with the system or the performance first or second half.

Finishing is what let us down. Their finishing is what will also probably win them the title.

[Risso]

I think our shit defending played a rather large part as well.

[Rudy65]

Same old. We played ok but convincingly lost.

[Footy-Vill]

XG was 1.37 for both teams today.

That sums it all up.
We won the first half
They won the second.

[PaulWinch again]

XG was 1.37 for both teams today.

That sums it all up.
We won the first half
They won the second.

Well no - they won the first half and the second.

I suspect XG is a useful indicator across a season, but in individual games can be slightly spurious.

[ChicagoLion]

Chelsea were poor by their standards but were gifted 3 goals by our haphazard defence. No idea why he kept 3 centre half’s on the pitch when we were 2 nil down. Mings and Tunzabe looked like Sunday league players.
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[Footy-Vill]

Chelsea were poor by their standards but were gifted 3 goals by our haphazard defence. No idea why he kept 3 centre half’s on the pitch when we were 2 nil down. Mings and Tunzabe looked like Sunday league players.
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I saw konsa hoofing it out and dragging down players too . As well as completely scuffing his shot and struggling to direct headers in their penalty area. Mings had an excellent shot right footed too with konsa on rebound was embarrassing as he should have scored scuffed it.
Be fair they were all only OK and also not too awful generally.
Still they (the defenders)struggle with the set piece attacking the ball appropriately.
That frustrating

[Hillbilly]

Shout out for the ref and his yellow card. The thing that sticks in my craw is Ramsey got booked for holding back a Chelsea player, one of theirs did the same and… nothing. And the Mings one was soft as shite.

[Footy-Vill]

Graeme Souness is glowing in his praise of Villa in the after match summary.

Jeez, that's worrying!

Especially if you heard him gush about the "real deal" chelsea before hand . Based solely on his Liverpool not getting a result.v 10 men last time out

[SoccerHQ]

Mings is the sort where you have to accept 2-3 bad errors during the season but he'll make up for it in other areas with leadership and simply talking others through the game.

Not every CB has that ability and he missed Palace away last year and we folded very weakly from 2-1 up so not like we're missing in backline when he's not around.

While not an obvious bad error Axel looked a complete schoolboy trying to deal with the 1st goal. Didn't have his positioning right to cut the ball out, didn't get close enough to Lukaku to keep him on his left and then far too easily beaten so thought that was nearly as bad as what Mings did in a way.

[Footy-Vill]

Shout out for the ref and his yellow card. The thing that sticks in my craw is Ramsey got booked for holding back a Chelsea player, one of theirs did the same and… nothing. And the Mings one was soft as shite.

Thiago Silva that was who made their foul
Ramsey needed to let go quickly and take the foul but he made it blatant.  Ref would have whistled anyway so didn't need to drag him to ground
The difference was experience

[Footy-Vill]

Agree Mister Ed. Other thing, whisper it but I think we're (finally) passing the ball around faster. Even Marvelous in his last two appearances is moving it on a hell of a lot faster. Fingers crossed.

Well that's because there is no Grealish!

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Agree Mister Ed. Other thing, whisper it but I think we're (finally) passing the ball around faster. Even Marvelous in his last two appearances is moving it on a hell of a lot faster. Fingers crossed.

Well that's because there is no Grealish!

Not really, in fact, not at all. There's never been any pace on our passing, it's always been safety first. Today we knocked it about like 'control that ya fecker!'. Nothing to do with Joe. Joe likes to sit on it, lay a few eggs but can still create something. Today, mainly after they scored the first, played with a confidence that the handbrake had finally been released. Rise up or step aside. Plenty rose up. Most encouraging from a Smith team. Keep it coming as practice makes perfect.

[martyn ellis]

Differences at either end of the pitch were that they had defenders who blocked everything we threw at them, especially one block by Thiago Silva (the irony of allowing him to play last minute), whereas goals one and two were through our defensive errors (albeit one more glaring than the other); and in attack, they scored their fewer chances and we didn't. Simple. That's the difference between top six and midtable at the moment. But I'm encouraged that we may be starting to bridge that gap.

[ROBBO]

Mings will relive that moment for a while, he had cut that out of his game and was content to put the ball out of play for most of lasy season. We lost momentum when Ramsey went off, thought he did very well. Yes the second goal killed the game for us and the legs got a little slower, but what we showed in the first half is we can match it with the best of them, across the pitch we are a stronger side, JM was superb first half but tired toward the end, not sure about Luiz seems a little too slow and Ings was lost with no supply.