Chelsea 3 Aston Villa 0 Post Match Thread.

[ChicagoLion]

Project feels ready for a major reset

Agreed.

Mings back to organise, sack the wingers. Ramsey, Onana, Maatsen back in. Give Duran a run up front. Knock the walking football on the head, we’re in a rut with it.

Agree, this conserving energy football he got away with in Europe last year isn’t working.
This with a poor transfer window and continually picking players out of form is doing for us.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

We generally played crap but if Watkins scored that chance at 1-0 it’s a different game, he also had a chance towards the end of the first half, that was a slightly less feeble effort.

[Percy McCarthy]

Up until today we’ve looked like a good team in bad form. Today we looked like a bad team.

[Steve67]

We’re not making a top 4 spot and we’re not making a Conference spot either. I’ve never seen as much effort trying to gift the opposition goals. Dreadful. Only Digne looked up for it.

Cant blame Watkins or Konsa either.

Really?

Yes you can blame them.  Ollie is a trier but misses too many chances.  Konsa needs an organiser next to him.

[malckennedy]

Probably our worst performance of season. At least against Spurs we won the first half and against Liverpool we were ok overall and could easily have come away with a draw. This was very, very tired performance.

Weirdly though, I maintained a feeling that we could get something right up until the third goal.

[Monty]

Very very very very very bad!

Emery has to change the shape. He did against Juve and it was better. Back to this today, horrible. The system relies on players being in form and confident - and if they're not it doesn't just fall apart, but it actually makes the players less and less confident as ti exposes them to dangerous situations in which they keep making errors. He must know it has to change.

[wolfman999]

A long, long way to go but we are now closer to the bottom of the table than the top. The last couple of years have been great but, being Villa fans, we just know it never seems to last. We are just not allowed to have nice things before they are snatched away again.

[ChicagoLion]

We’re not making a top 4 spot and we’re not making a Conference spot either. I’ve never seen as much effort trying to gift the opposition goals. Dreadful. Only Digne looked up for it.

Cant blame Watkins or Konsa either.

Really?

Watkins?

[Brend'Watkins]

We’re not making a top 4 spot and we’re not making a Conference spot either. I’ve never seen as much effort trying to gift the opposition goals. Dreadful. Only Digne looked up for it.

Cant blame Watkins or Konsa either.

I can. Konsa, stop fucking about with it at the back when under pressure, Watkins, stop fucking about with it up front when there’s an easy ball for a tap in.

[Olof's Beard]

We were largely awful with the odd bright (but mostly wasted) moment. We have had two years of bliss under this manager and it makes a slump like this even more painful. We aren't used to it.

The problems are tricky to solve because so many players are out of form and that number seems to grow week on week.

Despite a manager working wonders to achieve something virtually unprecedented in his first two years, we were completely stifled in the summer and could not invest to improve our first XI. While Chelsea were signing Pedro Neto, we sold Diaby and bought in a £10 million. In fact the only players we have added to our forward line in the last 12 months both came from the Championship and cost one fifth of Chelsea's sixth choice winger.

Sadly, we could not improve from a position of strength and other sides were never going to underperform forever.

[fredm]

Did I hear the commentary say that Chelsea made 10 changes from their Europe match? Unfortunately we have too many players who know they are playing every match as we do not have the quality of players who can come in and keep the level of performance up. We need to show more enthusiasm and a definite attack in our play not keeping playing it about around the penalty area.

[john e]

Has any team got relegated and won the champions league in the same season

[pelty]

Project feels ready for a major reset

Agreed.

Mings back to organise, sack the wingers. Ramsey, Onana, Maatsen back in. Give Duran a run up front. Knock the walking football on the head, we’re in a rut with it. Buendia back if only for his energy.

Exactly right. What is the use of depth if we never use it?

[ez]

Project feels ready for a major reset

Agreed.

Mings back to organise, sack the wingers. Ramsey, Onana, Maatsen back in. Give Duran a run up front. Knock the walking football on the head, we’re in a rut with it. Buendia back if only for his energy.

The walking football, that made me chuckle.    All true.

[john e]

There’s so much wrong
Everyone picks on their default/scapegoat player of choice but it’s a whole team malaise with very few exceptions