Chelsea Banter Archive September 17 2017

17 Sep 2017 21:26:41
I said at the start of the season it is a 3 horse race for the title and I stick by that. The Manchester clubs and Chelsea. Mark my words not one of the other so called title contenders will get close. Poor performance Today but a clean sheet! It happens and Don Conte is no mug, he will sort it. Young Christensen now gets the next 3 games which will show us how good he is. Hazard and Bako nearing full fitness and we have already played 2 or 3 tough fixtures compared to others. Jackson called it right earlier, the ref was terrible. Nothing going our way. It will change. After Burnley, to be just 3 points off the pace in 3rd place having played Arsenal, Spurs, Everton and Leicester. I would of taken that. Long way to go but we will be in the hunt for the title.
Glass half full.

18 Sep 2017 00:02:32
i bet u he won't start christainson he'll start rudiger.

18 Sep 2017 01:15:20
I agree I think Rudiger will start.

18 Sep 2017 04:51:50
Should be Azpi, Christensen and Rudiger vs Stoke but it will be Azpi, Rudiger and Cahill.

18 Sep 2017 06:54:06
Agree Loco i also think he will start Cahill. Dnt like how he playes and i get nervous everytime the ball goes to him or if he needs to defend. Suppose he is our cappy now and will not sit on the bench a lot unless he screws up bigtime. Conte like to pick the same players anf Cahill is one of them. He has served the team well in the past but we have better quality on the bench that suits our stile better now after the JM era.

17 Sep 2017 16:25:51
Bakyoko was phenomenal, hazard look sharpe. I said in window we needed s forward, Willian and Pedro need competition.

17 Sep 2017 17:11:18
Pedro would be a great squad player as he's more potent in front of goal Willian doesn't have enough end product for me and we should of pushed along with City to sign Sanchez.

17 Sep 2017 17:36:21
I was bleating about Keita Balde all through the transfer window cos we were showed no interest in Sanchez.

17 Sep 2017 20:03:20
I think Chelsea needs a midfielder in the mould of Oscar that can play partner Morata or play behind Morata. I think it will make things a bit easier for our attack.

17 Sep 2017 20:49:46
Yeah let's sign another inconsistent player like Oscar who has one awesome game in 8 👏 👏👏👏.

17 Sep 2017 21:18:26
Hahaha Chelsea fans!

17 Sep 2017 21:18:59
A player who is versatile and can play the CF with a striker. like draxler who was available and would of been very good squad player,

17 Sep 2017 21:58:25
Yea exactly Matt Martin! u just took the player I meant (in my initial post) out of my mouth. Thanks.

17 Sep 2017 22:50:42
Hahaha Chelsea fans Obina? I'd like to know how much of a proper Chelsea fan you. I just give my opinion like everyone is entitled to on this albeit some should say less than others. Oscar was world class on his day but then days weren't often enough. Inconsistency doesn't win you titles.

18 Sep 2017 19:54:22
Oscar was never world class, had some very good games, even brilliant but world class. never, he always had potential and he got to an age where potential should be talent, you can only be regarded as world class with consistency, but we need a player in oscar mound where he can have that bit of cesc with passing, the stamina and energy and good pace and ability to take players on, a player like kovioc ( spelling ) of Madrids like that,

18 Sep 2017 22:04:33
Selling Mata and keeping Oscar was one of the worst decisions our club made.

19 Sep 2017 14:54:42
Matt Martin, u are speaking my thought.

17 Sep 2017 15:30:59
Olliver was Arsenal's MOTM today. Pathetically biased display by a supposedly neutral factor in the match. Their CBs were allowed to do anything they liked to Morata. Morata fouls a guy once and complains a bit and gets booked. Kolasinac complains and doesn't get booked because it'd have meant him having to go off.

Luiz' red was deserved as it was reckless and dangerous, but I do understand the frustration that probably led him to doing it as Arsenal got away with damn near everything yet we kept getting called for the tiniest of fouls.

After the sending off Hazard was looking like actually storming breaking away on the counter and there weren't many Arse defenders back. Olliver quickly blew his whistle for an imaginary foul.

And the best part is that Olliver and his team will not come under any scrutiny and won't have to do any explaining as the red was the correct call and he handed out a couple of yellow to Arsenal players at the end when it didn't really matter anymore. It'll seem like he was fair and consistent, which is a load of BS.

Conte got it wrong with the starting XI as both Rudiger and Bakayoko should've started. But Olliver really gave us little chance to score today by letting them foul Morata over and over.

PS: Fab was just bad, as was Willian.

17 Sep 2017 15:51:23
Couldn't agree more, one of the worst jobs I've seen in a very, very long time. And I usually think he's one of the better refs - no more! Fab didn't have a good day no, but he came close a couple of times after short corners, and please don't forget THAT pass to Pedro, which should've been an early 1-0.

17 Sep 2017 15:51:54
Thank you Jackson, Conte starting eleven was wrong.

17 Sep 2017 21:52:03
Oh come on just because we didn't win don't blame the referees. We weren't that good and Morata threw himself to the floor at the littlest of contact.

17 Sep 2017 14:23:53
Like I said earlier if we play to our ability we should beat Arsenal, but just like the previous two times we've played them we're not playing to our ability and look sloppy to say the least.

We just seem to be passing it from side to side around the back and then booting it forward and losing the ball constantly. We're giving Arsenal far too much confidence in this game so far.

Hopefully we see a better performance after half time because after the first 15 minutes or so we were dreadful in this first half.

17 Sep 2017 14:14:37
Morata struggling to hold ball up and when he does Willian or Pedro lose it. Frustrating to say the least, and Cahill looks shaky. Lost all momentum from first 15 -20 min.

17 Sep 2017 14:20:30
Losing midfield too, Ramsey and xhaka good movement to be fair and pressing Kante and cesc, morata struggled and going down easily.

17 Sep 2017 12:35:58
Cahill, Fabregas start would have liked to have seen Christensen and Bako instead of them. Hazard on bench Pedro on instead.

17 Sep 2017 06:10:48
We need to win this match to keep pace with the Manchester clubs. Arsenal might fancy their chance having won us the last time. My prediction is 3_1 Chelsea win. Good luck to Chelsea.

17 Sep 2017 10:47:20
If we play to our ability we should comfortably beat Arsenal today. The last few times we've played Arsenal we haven't really played to our ability though, and picked up silly red cards ultimately giving them the wins.

If we play to our ability with no silly red cards etc we should win all day long. A 3-1 scoreline like bluelion75 said I'd have to agree with. c'mon CHELSEA!