Chelsea Banter Archive January 24 2018

24 Jan 2018 21:55:18
Arsene tactically miles ahead of conte and the substitutions were baffling. Hazard won't hang around and in summer his dad will be on phone to Madrid, finished the game with 5 defenders. is this him proving a point to the board.

24 Jan 2018 22:03:21
you probably didn't watch the first half? we were way on top and clearly lost the game because of no luck, but this is not suprising giving our last few games against them.

24 Jan 2018 22:14:53
Who else to bring on? Jermaine Jenas was right we lack a creative spark. Wr expect Hazard to carry this team. He looks a total different player when Willian and pedro were on the pitch. can't give Barkley too much stick, 1st proper game back in what 8 months? And still think he's wary of his hamstring too.

But the biggest thing for me was Conte, he looks so unhappy. Something has got to give, so im going to say that I can see him leaving before end of season.

24 Jan 2018 22:31:20
Arsenal changed because we were doing well, what changes did / could contr make, like to like and kept it the same finishing game with Zappa azpi Christensen rudi and alonso, wow so much spark and threat arsenal must of been petrified, they got lucky conte didn’t have answer for them or the players to bring on / start but let’s keep looking at 6ft plus target men.

24 Jan 2018 23:25:12
I have to agree with you Matt.

1st half was all about possession but we seem to have lost the cutting edge. I am of the opinion that our play general play needs to speed up a lot more. All of this side to side passing gives the opposition enough time to get back into prime positions time and time again especially when we drag them out. Everytime we create space, there is a general tendancy for the ball to be passed backwards or side by side again. Useless!

The 2nd half was a shocker. Even at the point where we were chasing the game, it felt more like arsenal would score. We were not able to get the ball back from them at all and our players were not able to press arsenal to get them to make a mistake. Not even a snif made to come back into the game. That donkey aka Batshuyai did nothing, absolutely zero. Its fair to say that the other players lookes jaded. The squad needs a revamp.

Moses and Alonso have been performing their duties in a lethargic way for a while. The latter is scoring goals but he isn't a striker and that shouldn't be his saving grace. He has not got any pace and is not able to conduct any take ons etc. Moses is slighly better with possession, atleast he can do a couple of take ons here and there. If our wing backs had chipped in then it eases the burden on the rest of the team and more space is created. As for pedro he is a shadow of what he was last year.

Tbh only way this works out is if we all pray and Morata starts scoring again. Hopefully Dzeko is signed as a stop gap. Hopefully Emerson gets stuck in, if he performs like he did last year then we have a very good player.

Credit to Baka, he has inproved but i thought he was a box to box player. He seems to be a poor version of kante. Why do we need 8 defensively minded players in our team.

25 Jan 2018 12:07:35
Hopefully.

25 Jan 2018 12:09:25
Really on top we had a good 10 minutes then never had another shot on target we’re terrible players do not won’t to play for conte he boring predictable slow style of football and moans he’s the one playing the style he has to go end of no wonder they won’t give him money.
Maybe this style in Italy pal and u get away with it not in England been found out clueless we’re losing in a semi final London derby and we have 5 denfenders on JUST GO.

24 Jan 2018 05:37:17
{Ed's Note - we have posted a new article entitled, Review Of The Day 24th January 2018