Chelsea Banter Archive February 25 2018

25 Feb 2018 18:12:15
Top four finish is difficult now. Liverpool and Spurs have easy fixtures. Then again this is Chelsea. U never know.

25 Feb 2018 19:31:26
Could all hinge on our two home games against Spurs and Liverpool.

25 Feb 2018 20:01:39
just need to win all remaining games and we will be fine.

25 Feb 2018 23:20:58
It's the season after winning the league, so by a new founded tradition we take a break from Europe next year and win the league again.

26 Feb 2018 10:07:00
Love it Sid.

26 Feb 2018 13:36:00
With Liverpool at home to Newcastle and Spurs at home to Huddersfield while while we're away at Man City, it may well be all over for us by next weekend.

26 Feb 2018 16:10:03
Some may say a dose of realism but I would say say a
dose of pesamisem.

26 Feb 2018 18:02:04
It's reality. we are simply not good enough to fight against city.
But after this game We have to all remaining games to give us a chance.

26 Feb 2018 21:04:08
I’m happy ish if we win the league every other season!

27 Feb 2018 10:22:11
The problem TomB is that our present team cannot compete with City (nobody can) - we need 4 top signings to get anywhere near them.

27 Feb 2018 11:25:50
Very true Miss Darren Wood. We never looked at what our main rivals were doing.

27 Feb 2018 12:19:42
Every fan has a different view on what and who would a top 4 signing and it’s the same with our club.
Our club looks to have a Business Plan that is different from a lot of clubs and I’m only guessing but the club may well have taken a view that it will not compete with the likes of City, PSG or maybe even Utd.

27 Feb 2018 13:31:18
It's real for a man to invest £1 and get £100 but it stupid and criminal for a man to invest £1 and expect to get £1,000,000 when your competitors are as good as you or even better.

25 Feb 2018 16:48:19
Sorry to admit it, how we miss Diego Costa. Love or lothe him.

25 Feb 2018 17:10:51
Stop watching Morata and you won't miss him mate.

25 Feb 2018 17:12:41
Yeah we really miss the way he bullied defenders, Morata can really be a embaressing player to watch. He has a lot in his game but the way he falls to the floor at the slightest touch is truely infuriating. It doesn't help when referees give fouls to united when we breathe on Pogba but not for Morata but he needs to realise refs aren't giving him the calls and needs to man up. This is why i'd prefer to start Giroud from now on, at least he uses his physicality and challenges defenders. He may not have Morata's movement but he'll be on his feet more than on his backside at least.

25 Feb 2018 18:42:53
morata woefull today.

25 Feb 2018 19:22:33
Wasn’t Morata’s best game!

25 Feb 2018 16:07:56
We deserved at least a point but perhaps needed substitutions earlier (given efforts v Barcelona) and robbed it seems by lack of technology re. the 'offside' Morata goal. Atkinson let far more United fowls go than he should. Very disappointing result given pretty good performance. MInd you it was the dreadful ones against Watford and Bournemouth that mean we are now going to struggle to make top four.

25 Feb 2018 16:23:13
Didn’t deserve anything based on second half, no guts or fight, battered then first half and must have thought they were going to be the same second, if morata wants to know why a false 9 is used should watch his performance, he was on side and matic with about 20 fouls unpunished but letting Lukaku dance between two player And ball watching while Lingard walks in to easy header, we never penetrated then second half and would get to last 3rd and stop.

nobody runs in behind, be first time I’ve said it since but Jesus Christ we missed costa today, to many players play with there back to goal, Pedro gave ( kicked ball of pitch ) 3 times when he came on. no creativity and top 4 in all honesty is gone, spurs Liverpool have better fixtures and momentum, today was a must not lose, and again we slip up.

25 Feb 2018 16:28:24
I meant fouls not fowls, though perhaps Atkinson at Old Trafford was too chicken to give them?!

25 Feb 2018 16:31:11
I still believe we will finish in the top 4. I also think we will get a result in Barcelona and win the FA cup but then again, I always think we will win every game!

25 Feb 2018 16:38:07
I actually think we can get result v Barcelona but league form is too inconsistent, that united team, in which Sanchez was horrendous, pogba added nothing and matic just fouled, I’m so angry about not just result but how poor we are attacking, really dull, that’s where we will lose out on top 4, like untied last season, enjoy the play but without scoring it worries the back line.

25 Feb 2018 16:41:05
Referees definatelly didn't help today, Matic should have been sent off. Anyway we played poorly second half and I saw that second goal may come for UTD.

Moving to other topic how sly sportd news fails to mention that morata scored a goal which didn't count because of wrong call for offside.

25 Feb 2018 17:01:06
Sorry I meant fouls not fowls of course!

25 Feb 2018 16:01:23
Top four finish difficult. Signings have not delivered may be next season but underwhelmed by a club happy to watch the team sliding rather than change the business plan.

25 Feb 2018 16:42:43
The BP will stay as it has for the last few years and in that time we have won two league titles under the BP.
The club/ board are forever being criticised but they have given the fans success after success!

25 Feb 2018 17:02:58
Your answer is out of context. We won the title because the others were building while we were maintaining. Watch Man City, Liverpool and Spurs and then rethink your answer.

25 Feb 2018 17:23:41
My answer will remain the same. In my opinion we have had a BP for the last few years that has produced trophies. My opinion is it will not change. Whatever this season brings.
I’m not sure Spurs we’re going through a rebuilding process and you could argue that teams like Liverpool and Utd always seem to be rebuilding.
Our club now seem to have put making a profit a priority and that’s OK.
Some time soon we will start building our new stadium and my guess is the purse strings will be drawn in even tighter.

25 Feb 2018 14:54:10
Morata seems unfit and uninterested. Giroud should be on in the second half.

25 Feb 2018 15:42:49
He is proving somewhat of a disappointment at the moment. Not looking sharp at all.

25 Feb 2018 15:27:41
Morata is really strong until he thinks his done enough to win a foul then goes down, needs to talking to drogba hot when he had all the theatrics, changed his game hugely,

25 Feb 2018 15:53:46
The whole team looks jaded, tired. Maybe Barcelona game took out the intensity.

25 Feb 2018 14:16:01
Obviously 3421 works better that 3142 to us.

25 Feb 2018 14:44:37
Drinkwater makes a difference than having fab in there for theses types of games.

25 Feb 2018 15:41:58
I would like to see him getting a run in the team. He is doing everything precisely at the moment not looking relaxed.

25 Feb 2018 13:18:32
CHELSEA TEAM SHEET VS MAN-U

Courtois;


Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rudiger;

Moses Drinkwater, Kante, Alonso;

Willian, Morata, Hazard

Subs: Caballero, Cahill, Zappacosta, Emerson, Fabregas, Pedro, Giroud.

25 Feb 2018 05:09:37
{Ed's Note - Tris Burke has posted a new article entitled, Premier League Match Previews Sunday 25th February 2018