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14 Feb 2026 13:46:18
Is Guiu injured/ill?
15 Feb 2026 09:35:27
Sorry Bill, no idea what's going on with lad. The sad thing is, I like him as a player.
16 Feb 2026 09:59:46
So do I Tom and think that he has had a raw deal after being recalled from loan with Sunderland. But hope he and the club have a plan for his development/game time experience.
13 Feb 2026 20:35:41
Solid first half.
Sarr has looked very good, although untested defensively. That ball for Estevao was absolutely gorgeous and really should've been put away.
Garnacho and Delap have a chance to build confidence and perform, not easy on a snowy night away at Hull, but also not close to being achieved by either of them. Both young, both have time, both show very little when given chances.
Santos has been brilliant again and although Caicedo looks exhausted, he should really benefit from having Andrey next to him. Neto also doing a good really job of creating space and the goal was a stunner.
Hopefully Estevao can get more involved second half as he went missing for a while there and wasn't very crisp when he had the ball. Snowy day at hull for an 18 year old Brazilian was never going to be his cup of tea though haha.
13 Feb 2026 22:11:25
Agree with your first half analysis Melbourne Sarr looked very assured and Santos standing out. Neto took his goal v well. Second half we looked increasingly comfortable as Neto got to his hat trick - deservedly MoM - and Estavao chipped in off one of Delap's two assists.
LD unsurprisingly looked more confident and effective against this opposition . Good boost for him after sone pretty poor outings lately.
14 Feb 2026 08:34:35
I think the commentator mentioned that Delap had only started nine games prior to last night, that is probably due to injury but I'm personally in no rush to judge the lad.
He made a big contribution last night with three assists and his movement and first touch were good. Long may it continue.
14 Feb 2026 11:21:07
Yes three assists for LD not two. I forgot his first one!
V tricky for manager of a side fighting for an ECL qualifying spot to balance between giving game time so younger/new players can improve even if they are still not as good as first choicers (ie Pedro and Cucurella) but ensuring we get best results possible. Playing in four competitions, well now three, helps that cause as does rotation/subs caused by injury. But CFC managers in last few xseasons have had tghat much greater a problem by extent of player turnover and focus on (almost only) youth-only approach to buying.
Hato also did well last night and has improved as season has progressed.
Seems to me that confidence crucial and that this might be easier to have/retain when playing away v Hull than in an EPL game before home crowd at the Bridge.
So can only hope that Delap can take his performance in Hull into next hoe game he has game time in at the Bridge. Some game time v Burnley perhaps?
10 Feb 2026 21:32:38
2-0 then sucidal defend and unforgivably we drop 2.pointsnthough Cole Palmer should have scored the winnerbin dying moments.
Caicedo well below bestband gives away the penalty. Then Acheompong panic and Sanchez indecision gives Leeds their equaliser. Probably nothers to bla.
10 Feb 2026 22:51:05
I honestly don’t think Sanchez can be blamed for there second. The responsibility is down to Josh and it was handball.
09 Feb 2026 22:26:27
Unfortunately my health dictates I will be missing yet another game at my beloved bridge tomorrow night.
DCL is a player that always causes us problems and I sure our CH’s will know they have been in a game.
I would like to think we go into this game with confidence and we certain have some premiership momentum and they both count for a lot.
The game at there place was very strange. We started with a very passive approach and it only got better in snatches. We need to win our next two premiership games before we start what looks like a difficult run of fixtures.
Anyway, COME ON MY MIGHTY BLUES.
10 Feb 2026 09:21:03
Sorry to hear that your health divctating you can't make tonight's game Tom and trust that you will be back at the Bridge soon of course.
We certainly need to win the next two games and can only hope that we can play well in both halfs. Leeds have generally been poor away from home lying 18th in table in terms of away performance with only 7 of their 29 points gained on the road. Only Burnley and Wolves of course doing worse. So that should be encouraging for us. But we must turn up with focus and intensity and get the job done.
10 Feb 2026 09:23:56
Mind you CFC stand 2nd in Away table log and only 11th in home one havin g got about an equal number of points home and away. Might say something about nervousness of some of our plahers at the Bridge and/or insufficient fan noise of support.
10 Feb 2026 13:09:44
I hope your health improves soon, Tom.
Just back from a few days of solo care duty, wasn't able to watch the Wolves game – seems we played well in the first, not so well in the second, and Gusto not great again? Hopefully this game won't be a banana skin – most hated team since that O'Leary side of the early 00s. Rosenior still doing well, and long may it continue (esp. with United's form of late) .
10 Feb 2026 21:40:38
How great would that Palmer winner have been if he'd kept it under the crossbar? Fantastic build-up.
For me, a more entertaining watch under Rosenior than Maresca – finding our attacking groove. (Obviously that wasn't the case against Arsenal – but let's be fair, they're the best defensive unit in the league, and perhaps Europe, at the moment. ) Players seem to have more freedom to express themselves, not so much positional rigidity and being allowed to problem-solve on the pitch. Palmer's miss quite incredible, but he was better tonight than he has been recently, and that's great to see.
Joao Pedro immense again. The turning point seemed to be taking off Estevao – another great show from him. I still don't really understand what Delap does. hoping for more. Neto's cross almost sneaking into the far corner – would have been almost a carbon copy of Bowen's against us a few games ago.
Defensively, a couple of ridiculous moments to let Leeds back in when we were cruising. Caicedo with a silly rush of blood – if there's one valid criticism of him it's that he's rash at times. I've been a big backer of Josh playing more, but he had a hard night. Should have just cleared the ball – an absolute shocker, that goal. He'll learn from that.
Hopefully onwards and upwards – Man U just had a goal chalked off at West Ham, so losing 1-0 as things stand.
10 Feb 2026 22:12:40
And. if we'd bought Sesko as Tom wanted, instead of Delap, he couldn't have scored that United equaliser. Ah well.
10 Feb 2026 22:52:38
EdW. good point but as he didn’t join the CWC champions, he is now useless.
08 Feb 2026 00:28:09
Nothing really to say about the game. Some interesting tactical twists.
I hope the Santos injury isn't too bad.
Obviously Palmer will rightly be named MOM by most fans but I thought Neto had a good game along with Pedro and Santos.
08 Feb 2026 19:07:06
We can only assume we won and played well as its like a ghost town in here lol.
So first half i thought we was amazing. You can see slightly where we are different under LR to merasca. The one touch stuff through the middle (when the time is right may I add) is great to see it quickens up the game. And the runs forward from there are good to see.
Jaoa Pedro, is holding up the ball well but also running behind. As per his second pen (don't belive that should be a pen either. I think it was outside the book but stupid none the less)
I don't think pedro neto had a great game. Lots of running around and nice touches but no end product. I think he could lose his place to estevao soon.
Second half I think we started to tire. The goal I think should of been clear by gusto but he tries a heel flick. (He is doing my head in with some of these flicks. He's not the greatest with the ball at his feet so just keep it simple. )
Going off this game. Which i probably rate a 7/10 purely because of the drop off in the second half. My team going forward would be
Sanchez
Cucu
Trevor
Fofana
Reece
Moi
Santos
Enzo
Palmer
Estevao
Pedro.
08 Feb 2026 21:57:37
Finchy, I’m beginning to see some tactics that I like and that are quite simple.
Wide players actually staying out wide and full backs undercutting is not a new tactic but it worked time and time again in this game. Also pressing overloads particularly out wide, again simple but worked well.
Early but good signs!
08 Feb 2026 23:18:53
Finchy 86, you are so right mate, this place is like a ghost town when we win and play well, the moaners and trolls just back away and hide. We all know who they are. We could name them but they name themselves really. Up the Chelsea.
09 Feb 2026 01:16:49
Greenaway not too fussed if they come and moan or not. But we played well first half but started to fade in the second. Wolves are bottom for a reason. My point is the first half we was very good. And starting to see changes under Liam.
Still don't like the big rotations. Can see why after reading that us and psg injury record are up there with the worst and we have 1 thing in common.
But then I believe that them stats are skewed as. Gittens, essugo was used in the example. Now neither played the amount of enzo did or at all for that matter.
09 Feb 2026 09:42:21
I usually comment after every game win or lose but I wasn't able to watch the Wolves game - or record it cos not televised as a 3 pm kickoff - and am wary of commenting just on highlights. Though from some of the comments in the past would guess that a few posters comment either with complete praise or complete condemnation even when they haven't see a game but just the result! Lol!
Anyway I am obviously delighted we got the three points and even more delighted that Cole got his hattrick. Obviously had expected a win against what may be the worst side in EPL history though we haven't always covered ourselves in glory against teams we would seem to be huge favourites to beat. And Wolves had improved defensively in some recent games against 'big' sides.
Otherwise the highlights (Match of the Day! ) package didn't reveal a great deal to me except that Marc Cucurella's part in third goal looked typical of MC's fine form in recent times and that Joao Pedro looked to have another good game in winning the two penalties. Also that we obviously dropped off considerably in second half starting with looking asleep defensively at the corner they scored from.
09 Feb 2026 10:14:51
tbf . we were playing wolves. they have 8 points after 25 games for a reason- good result, solid performance not much else to read into- hope santos is ok, he's made a difference under rosenior, leeds on tuesday should be fun- hopefully we take our revenge.
09 Feb 2026 13:26:19
Yes much hope Santos ok.
03 Feb 2026 22:05:07
Strange game from both teams/managers. I guess the onus was on us to win the game and I’m not sure we played or believed we could, if that makes sense.
Obviously we lost the game with our very pot performance at the bridge.
Some solid performances. I know I’m biased but I was pleased with the Hato performance.
Anyway, onwards and upwards. I hope.
03 Feb 2026 21:58:07
2 billion spent just to get embarrassed repeatedly…couldve done it for free.
03 Feb 2026 22:16:45
Embarrassed. I will leave it for others.
03 Feb 2026 22:28:49
Going to require another 2 billion.
03 Feb 2026 22:35:37
That would be interesting. My guess is they could spend £2bn every season and it would still be impossible to make all the fans happy.
03 Feb 2026 22:54:53
Sorry tom …im tired of my team losing to arsenal…when was the last time we beat them…just devoid of quality but go on tell me about how amazing it is
Same mistakes- same dodgy line ups-same areas of concern . what's the einstein insanity quote again.
04 Feb 2026 05:15:59
Kazblue, when we lose or perform poorly I will be critical and when we play well or win I will generally give praise. I have not praised last nights performance but I personally wasn’t “embarrassed. ”
How you feel about the team you support is up to you.
I repeat, I found it a strange game and it wouldn’t have been my team selection or tactical choice. I’m not arrogant enough to think I am right with my opinion. It could well be if we had played how I wanted we would have got stuffed. Playing hindsight football is easy.
04 Feb 2026 18:14:07
tbh its not on last nights game, that was probably about as much as we could expect- problem is 2billion spent and we're scrambling round praying for a draw against a team that had no intention to score.
leaves you scratching your head wondering where its all gone.
04 Feb 2026 21:29:55
Kazblue, it’s gone on the buying of players. Some will work and some will not. We have also sold players under this ownership with I think a value of about £1.3bn.
I have not been convinced about some of our signings and there have been some players I would have liked I wish we hadn’t sold.
My views on players will not be the same as other supporters. So the SD’s will never make every fan happy on that front.
As far as performances are concerned, the club exceeded my expectations last season. I am hoping they do the same this season, my prediction was 2-4 in the premiership and good runs in the cups.
Maybe my expectations are lower than some other fans.
03 Feb 2026 21:27:18
If Enzo could shoot like Bruno we'd be in business.
03 Feb 2026 22:45:59
Good point EdW and he certainly fashioned some good positions but accuracy not there tonight.
04 Feb 2026 14:36:20
The only actual chances we had, as far as I remember, JBS. I think it was three. Loads of time and space on two of them – you simply have to test the keeper. The fact that not one of his efforts was even on target is damning for a 100-million-pound player in that position.
What makes it worse for me is that when he was with us Kepa had a massive weakness on long-range shots (and didn't exactly look convincing in the saves he made – can't remember who he punched from rather than catching) – we should have been pummelling him.
04 Feb 2026 15:48:56
Edw. Kepa made a one handed save form Enzo. The shot was on target.
04 Feb 2026 18:07:28
Thanks for correcting me, Tom – I still hold that Enzo's shooting was not up to scratch last night (and I don't think shooting from outside the box generally is a strong point of his game – but you'd probably have a right to expect it to be, given his position and price) .
04 Feb 2026 21:34:48
I’m not sure a transfer price is relevant to shooting abilities. I actually think Caicedo hits a better shot from distance but I except they are rare.
Anyway. Players have night when things don’t quite work for them. Let’s hope that’s the last.
I do wonder if there is any truth in the RM interest? I hope not but it seems to be a constant rumour.
05 Feb 2026 07:00:47
Bruno fernandes shots this season 50.
Shots on target 14/50. With a shot accuracy of 20%
Enzo shots on target this season 46.
Shots on target 20/50. With a shot accuracy of 44%
Not sure you was talking about Bruno fernandes edw but I know which player I would prefer.
05 Feb 2026 15:46:38
Fair play on those stats, Finchy. I'd rather have Enzo overall, but I don't believe he's scored more than one goal from outside the box in open play in his entire Chelsea career (and if I remember right, the keeper was totally out of the picture on that one) .
Which is fine – he's not that type of player. But in a game where the best chances, the only real moments of space, were from long-range strikes from outside of the box, and they all fell to him, as a pithy observation I think the point holds.
03 Feb 2026 20:56:44
Waste of a first half I agree mr Merson are we the ones winning, hope it works out for us.
03 Feb 2026 22:50:28
The only people who agree with Merson are bookmakers!
04 Feb 2026 02:14:50
Great player and I would say and am sorry if am wrong but he knows the game better than me and you will ever know. Playing top level football gives him the knowledge on the game that will beat us every day.
Thats why I use this site to vent and not really talk or go in depth like I know football and pretend like I fully understand tactics and management styles.
I get I may piss people off but when we lose I just vent and it’s good for me so my apologies.
04 Feb 2026 07:35:57
Venting your passion is good for the soul.
Nib, we all get pi@@ed off when the club we support plays badly or gets beat but we can also be happy when we play well and win.
As far as pundits are concerned, they have all played the game at a reasonable level but most of them have taken the pundit route as ex players because they have been crap managers or know they would be crap managers. They don’t agree about tactics amongst each other and that in itself should tell anyone how difficult it is being a coach of a team compared to managing on a couch. Just one more thing, fans generally quote a pundit comment when it matches their own thoughts.
I would add one small contradiction to what I’ve said about pundits, I’m impressed with Rib Green so far in his pundit career but maybe that’s because at the moment I agree with the majority of what he says.
03 Feb 2026 19:17:16
Reece not even on the bench in a semi final at the emirates. Not injured and apparently just being rested.
Not going to speculate but maybe the rumours were true.
03 Feb 2026 22:31:08
I haven’t seen anything about James. I have no idea if it’s game management, maybe an injury.
31 Jan 2026 21:41:21
What a game of football and what a lesson for the gaffer on selecting the right line up from the off! surely he must now realise you can't keep changing the defence and expect to get away with it, he was lucky today but lessons must be learned and quickly. BB, Garnacho and Hato were appalling but to his credit he reacted at HT and the effect was instant, Jaoa Pedro was sublime yet again, 13 goals now this season, Cucu was his usual effervescent self and Fofana brought pace, calmness and guile to the team but for me Enzo Fernandez stood out yet again, I have possibly been his biggest fan on here since the day we signed him, the way he sees a pass, his enthusiasm, his orchestrating and his Lampard style late run into the box for his goal and our winner was exquisite and he was my MOM.
Limbs everywhere when that went in.
01 Feb 2026 08:47:26
Enzo was outstanding and has such will to win. Leads from the front in this respect. Shadesbof Lamps as a number 8 timing arrivals into the box.