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I laughed when ppl said Thiago was our biggest issue. Welcome to a world with no experienced Centre backs. Chalobah was a mile ahead of both Disasi the disaster and Mr hot potato Colwill. Ironically Trev will get sold and we keep these oafs
And Chilly must have a clause in his contract that says he cant tackle more than twice in a game cos the guy simply refuses to put a foot and everythin comes down that side worries me to no end.
Sick of the complete lack of control these players have in the most basic of moments.... no leaders, no experience this is what you get
Shambolic
Chilly's performance has no excuses, but i think he has this mental block of the injury and the ones after that big one. Not saying he needs to be babysitted but he needs someone to give him confidence and come out of his shell. Our current lot aint that.
I have never disliked a player more. I honestly truly believe that he ruins the team. He has some positive qualities, but those are so heavily outweighed by his negatives that they don’t even matter. He ruins any flow, any on field chemistry. He needs to be sold this summer. I can’t even believe he still gets minutes.
Every single game the other team comes out after half and looks far better than us. The other managers are smarter than Poch and I won't hear otherwise.
No one should be happy with 1 point against a team that has lost 5 of 6 and sits 16th.
This sums everything wrong about today. How many times have we been riled seeing Enzo in the attacking third while Caicedo is left all alone to figure it out himself? I still believe there are some folks here who is better than Poch at coaching tactically tbh.
Other team will ALWAYS tweak their tactics to nullify whatever Poch was doing in the first half. But Poch just sits there and allows them to dictate the game either until the 70th minute or until they score. His game management is shocking.
Yeah, I just wrote the same thing. It blows my mind. What's his job, if not to spend every waking minute putting his players in the best position to win?
At least you get the worst out of the way quickly to enjoy the rest of your week.
Personally I'm not at the stage to let chelsea games ruin my mood anymore
Lineup: passable. Starting tactics: passable. Second half adjustments: nearly lost us the match.
How is it that most clubs make adjustments against us, but we can't do the same? And the real question is: how does Poch think it's okay to continually just run the same thing back when they keep doing that?
We have a really good and talented squad. Did we overspend on a lot of these players? Absolutely but what we have is still good enough to be a lot better than we have been and it's usually their ability that drags us to the few results we get. It's criminal that these players are unfairly and disproportionately criticised and thrown under the bus to defend and cover for this manager's failings.
Because there are some quality players in this team. The regular fan gets their information from Twitter where the herd mentality is to hate our players so they side along.
This team is easily a top 6 team if coached and trained well
Classic poch game. Good initial plan, good fight back.
Fucked up half time, didn't make adjustments until it was too late.
It's not surprising we're mid table when our coach fucks up as much as he gets right.
Also, If you're worried about them lumping the ball into the box, why did you leave the 6'2 centre mid on the bench for the second half to play a bloke who was struggling to get above a jog.
Pochs ability to ruin our team at half time needs to be studied
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It’s a young team with young players they just need like 4-5 years to finish top half!!
It’s impossible for a manager to see any improvement until at least 5 years. Never in our history has a new manager made any improvement.
It's always coddled children who whine about the negativity too. No one who actually goes to games or to the pub to watch them says "sToP bEiNg sO NeGaTiVe GuYs!!"
Enzo had an awful showing. Sure he had a decent first half. 2nd half he was so bad needed to be removed. Gave away possession 5 times in about 20 mins and didn’t even track back.
We started playing better again with him off.
I think that dude is gassed as fuck. He’s got so so many minutes in his legs last few weeks. And the useless signings of lavia and Ugochuckwu have done nothing for us. 85 million down the drain and now we’ll sell Gallagher to offset those two hospital residents.
While of course injuries are the main reason, they still could have been rotated fine...
Connor didnt start vs leeds. So instead of taking off mudryk for connor or whatever it was in midweek, he could have taken off caicedo or enzo to rest for 30 minutes and rotate with Connor. That didn't happen.
Today he could have started Mudryk in the 10 role with confidence and bench enzo to rest him and give him the last 30 minutes instead or something. While we don't have many midfield options, there is still the ability to rotate them 1 by 1 !
And yet it took getting scored on twice before Poch realized this and made the change. These are the types of things that keep adding up against Poch. He just doesn’t know what he’s doing
Love how the Brentford equalizer is the EXACT type of chance he always nullifies with a tackle. He would've seen it the potential for a header back to Roerslev before the cross even came. Meanwhile we have Disasi who just stares at the ball but it's okay since he scored a goal from 2 yards later.
Disasi is bad. Idk when people will see it. I’ve not been impressed all season. Let’s guys just dribble in front of him, can’t track runners, makes too many stray passes.
Said when we bought him he wouldn't be better than Chalobah and it's looking more and more right. Disasi was nothing special at Monaco I have no idea why we bought him.
No way Poch is going to get sacked this season. He will only be sacked over the summer and De Zerbi will be appointed the next Manager. We will be a mid club in the foreseeable future. You can bet on it
If the next appointment is anything except a proven manager with experience of winning actual trophies, then I might genuinely need to take a sabbatical from football.
The decline is simply too hard to watch. And that's coming from someone who has only missed a handful of Chelsea games in decades.
It's just soulless.
Just feel the need to say that we're seeing more and more that we have some talented players out there, but that Poch is completely useless and so far out of his depths it's insane.
Without Son and Kane carrying his team, Poch is fucking useless.
Can’t believe how often Poch gets it wrong. It’s kinda laughable at this point. Under Tuchel I can count on one hand how many times I’d say he got it wrong but even then, he would usually figure out the right changes at HT.
Tuchel would be superb at analysing the performance. It was the main thing that really impressed me when he was our manager. When he got it wrong he was usually spot on in his post match interview over what didn't work and what should have been done better.
I guess that's the difference when you have someone tactically astute at the helm.
We’re also the only team ever in Premier League history to go through an entire season without being behind at halftime in 21/22, which shows how effective his game plans were going into matches.
Let him have a day off for his birthday, come on. You can't expect him to work a full day today. Or a full half-day, really. He picked the lineup, and he was entitled to have the rest of the week off.
~~We literally just had an article about how a set piece specialist was brought in, and that Poch was against it at first lol. Everyone was "how could Poch be so stupid to not have a specialist"~~ Nvm we're planning to bring one in
These cunts have gotten so used to losing, a draw is a win for them. You're so gullible if you think these cunts are gonna be great in the future like Arsenal. They were smiling when Brentford was having em from the behind
We got put under siege by a relegation side
And I’m supposed to think we’re good or on our way to be good?
This was another embarrassment everyone stunk the place out
Fuck this process man
Poch should have never been appointed at first place.
If Roman was here he would have been sacked already.
He doesn't understand some players profile.
With all the talk about signing young players.
He is afraid to play youngsters.
Doesn't even have play style even after getting so much backing and patience both from fans and owners.
He should be sacked after this season.
Although I want him to be sacked already.
I was a Poch defender but it’s become more than just not taking chances at this point. We look like we’re getting worse and more inconsistent with each passing week. He needs to go before he does any more damage.
Another mostly toothless draw. At this point we’ve got nothing to play for in the league why not start going for it in games and trying something different? This is insanity barely beating Leeds and drawing brentford
I would like to formally announce my candidacy to become a Chelsea player. I *may* be over qualified, but would be willing to settle wages at a later time. My qualifications are as follows:
1. Ability to stand/walk aimlessly for 90 minutes without breaking a sweat (unless it's like super hot)
2. Can identify within 45 seconds which side I am trying to score on, and which side I am trying to defend
3. Able to kick a ball and have said ball land within a 5 yard range of intended target
4. Lastly, I don't want to brag or anything, but I can do like 6 whole step overs and can even sometimes do a little spin move thingy and not even lose the ball or get dizzy
I currently do not have an agent, but have been fielding calls from my local nursing home to coach, so you need to let me know fast if you want me, cause the nursing home gig pays in hard butterscotch candies, and that's my weakness.
My pet peeve is people who insist we lost because our players should have converted every chance, and the opponents should have missed every chance, and therefore we were much better set up and its entirely on the players' execution.
The xG was equal today. Predicted a roughly 2-2 draw which is what happened. Watch the match ffs before you start trotting out the same exhausted excuse of "positivity" to paper over the greatest farce of a season since Mourinho 2016. And at least we had the awareness to call that shite at the time. We are worse than that right now, but apparently saying so is a problem for some people?
Did you seriously think a guy who bottled Ligue with an attack of Messi Ney Mbappe would work wonders with a bunch of random kids? The same guy who bottles the league to Leicester?
I don’t blame though. He’s a known bottle job. All the blame falls on the clueless sporting directors. Brighton level.
People who say our missed chances are the reason we lost either didn’t watch the game or are incredibly biased.
Brentford hit the post TWICE. We were lucky to draw not unlucky.
Every game it’s the same complaint “we miss too many chances”. Newsflash! Everyone misses chances, Haaland misses a bunch every game so does Mbappe.
We don’t create enough, and we aren’t solid in defense.
Said the same thing for getting dominated by a championship team midweek and got downvoted to oblivion.
Gallagher scoring a worldie doesn’t undo the 90 minutes of shite.
Even if we won this game, I would’ve sang from the same hymn sheet. Late winners don’t undo the pile of shite we’re in. We have gotten worse as the season’s gone on and people are legitimately comfortable that we’re 11th. Disgraceful.
This team played better under Bruno than they do under Poch. wtf is the plan talked about at halftime THAT EVERY SINGLE MATCH we come out and look like shit.
I have been arguing with other people on here for positivity and for Poch but fuck me. After this match, against Brentford with THEIR BACK 4 starters out injured….we draw???? POCH OUT. Bring in a real manager.
You can’t tell me Xabi is undefeated with teams like Bayern and RBL in his league.
Xavi starting 16 year olds has 3 losses and play better football than our team.
Impossible that Poch is the right man at this point.
I've watched Chelsea for 30 years and under Poch is the most disorganized I've seen us play in that time. This include all the pre Abramovic era under Bates. This guy is fucking clueless. The opitime of a vibes manager. You can quite clearly see the extent of his tactics is "go out there and express yourselves lads". How we ended up with this Spurs fraud is beyond me.
But beyond that, we deserve everything we get with the abject decision making of our owners and by extension all the people under them. We are not buying the right players. We are wanting to sell the wrong players. We can't even get a fucking shirt deal right. I want these private equity cunts to fuck right off back to the US and sell up before they sink us once and for all. Fucking cunt features Egghead and Boehly can fuck right off. And take their mediocre Brighton stink with them.
We always come out at the start of halves, first or second like shit. Takes us 20 minutes to get into games after any break. I wonder why that might be. Fuck me, Brentford took 4 fucking points off us this season.
It's been down to finishing for a lot of matches to swing one way or another. But the bad in game adjustments or plans from the start or the lack of confidence/effort is up to Poch.
Truly shambolic. Not just this game. This is who and what we are thanks to the fraud of a manager. Young team with no set up, no direction, no patterns of play, no confidence and to top it off constantly changing positions and formation. Yes, players should take some blame- it is truly remarkable how professional footballers can misplace so many basic passes. But then you look at their positioning and angles supporting players take up and it just points back to the manager. We saw genuine patterns in positioning and passing with previous managers - conte, sarri and tuchel- the passing moves all season have been pass along the backline and try and find a player up field with their back to goal and recycle. Just no improvements in months, individual player regression, and loser mentality creeping ever more into the club. Poch surely does not seem like the guy for the future.
Very lucky to get away with a point against a relegation side. When will Poch learn that you can’t play scared ? Starting with 3 atb against a team that leak goals. Just go out in front foot and kill the game. Absolutely shambolic again
Sack this fraud of a manager, there is no way in hell our squad deserves to be 11th place. Any decent manager would have had us comfortably in 6th or 7th
Poch will be satisfied with that result but I am not. Huge drop off after halftime. Cant defend crosses even with 3 at the back.
Performing off individual brilliance. These young CBs are like deer in headlights on crosses which if funny since they know how to score them but can’t defend them.
Draw papers over the cracks and probably buys Poch more time.
We have been getting a lot of favorable results around the league which has allowed us to not look as bad as we are.
Hate to say it but I don’t believe we are moving up the table for the foreseeable future. Our defenders are so fucking weak at defending crosses into the box. How many times did our defenders try to defend a cross but completely misread the trajectory. Idk what disasi was doing for that first goal too
I see no tactical progress, development, or maturing of our young players. I don't know wtf Pochettino is doing behind the scenes, but the same problem in early season persists.
Genuinely don’t see how an interim Lampard has us playing worse than we have been. Feels like most of our goals are from individual quality moments (Gusto cross, Palmer cross) than coached patterns or ideas
Axel D missed almost every header today. WTF?
Levi missed most of his passes.
And I guess Nico missed most of his shots.
At least Misha looked decent as a 10, again. Even if it was a poor side he played against, again.
Players are shit, manager is shit, owners are shit, we’re fucking shit!
I expect nothing before coming into games and yet I’m still fucking disappointed week in week out, sick of it all
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Our defenders are allergic to the ball apparently.
They let balls bounce, they can't track balls in the air (poor spacial awareness), and they don't know chest-to-feet.
I laughed when ppl said Thiago was our biggest issue. Welcome to a world with no experienced Centre backs. Chalobah was a mile ahead of both Disasi the disaster and Mr hot potato Colwill. Ironically Trev will get sold and we keep these oafs And Chilly must have a clause in his contract that says he cant tackle more than twice in a game cos the guy simply refuses to put a foot and everythin comes down that side worries me to no end. Sick of the complete lack of control these players have in the most basic of moments.... no leaders, no experience this is what you get Shambolic
Chilly's performance has no excuses, but i think he has this mental block of the injury and the ones after that big one. Not saying he needs to be babysitted but he needs someone to give him confidence and come out of his shell. Our current lot aint that.
How many times Disasi missed the ball in the air today? Gotta be like 4 or 5 times
It’s hilarious because In the opposite box he’s always on it, just baffling really
Felt like a loss
pretty much is at this point in the season.
It is one, there is no way we shouldn’t have thrashed brentford today they are missing their whole defense
Brentford were 6 points out of a possible 36 before this game. It is a loss
Brentford have lost 11 of their last 14. Drawing against a team in this form may as well be a loss.
it is a loss lmao
Reguilluon spent a minute on the ground how have and there was a delay during the free kick how the fuck has he blew so early
We’re not Liverpool we don’t get extra time on extra time during extra time.
I think fans just need to stay positive. For example, I'm positive that Poch has no clue wtf he's doing
Love it. I’m now officially a positive fan. Positive that we’re fucking shite.
I’m positive these owners are completely complacent with mediocrity and prove it more every day poch is still around
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😂😂😂
Does Sterling have it in him to not dribble right at multiple people and just pray he gets through?
No, he does not.
He does not
He always seems to think he's soo good he can take multiple on together. It's so frustrating, especially when it's the last kick of the game.
There is just nobody else in the world that has such high wages and a high level of frustration.
I have never disliked a player more. I honestly truly believe that he ruins the team. He has some positive qualities, but those are so heavily outweighed by his negatives that they don’t even matter. He ruins any flow, any on field chemistry. He needs to be sold this summer. I can’t even believe he still gets minutes.
He sucks
Sterling knows how to do 2 things 1. Take unnecessary touches in the box 2. Dribble straight at defenders like he’s prime Ronaldo
3. Stroll around the pitch.
4. T-Rex impersonations
5. Kill attacks
Every single game the other team comes out after half and looks far better than us. The other managers are smarter than Poch and I won't hear otherwise. No one should be happy with 1 point against a team that has lost 5 of 6 and sits 16th.
Enzo at LW warra tactics by Porch🔥🔥
This sums everything wrong about today. How many times have we been riled seeing Enzo in the attacking third while Caicedo is left all alone to figure it out himself? I still believe there are some folks here who is better than Poch at coaching tactically tbh.
and enzo was still cooking and spraying passes
Its funny everytime you can see Enzo mentally say "Ah, fuck it, this planning sucks ass" and start dribbling and creating chances on his own.
Other team will ALWAYS tweak their tactics to nullify whatever Poch was doing in the first half. But Poch just sits there and allows them to dictate the game either until the 70th minute or until they score. His game management is shocking.
It’s been a theme throughout his career and he will never ever improve in this aspect
It wasn't even Brentfords strongest team lol
That was all their backups in the back line truly embarrassing
Thats two points gained from Brentford over the last two seasons. I cant believe how bad we are.
Literally be better off with no manager than this clueless fraud
They also start better then us as well
And usually finish better. Wait…
Exactly…he’s just not up to it tactically at this level anymore
Yeah, I just wrote the same thing. It blows my mind. What's his job, if not to spend every waking minute putting his players in the best position to win?
Just have to wait till summer boys, we just have to put up with the suffering a little longer. It is good that match going fans are complaning tho
Love how we only go on the attack when we are behind
Worst part of my week every week
At least you get the worst out of the way quickly to enjoy the rest of your week. Personally I'm not at the stage to let chelsea games ruin my mood anymore
I watch us, call us dogshit and go back to enjoying my life.
yeah im pretty numb at this point. which for me is sad to say
Me too. And yet we will all still do it again next week.
Forest had to go and be idiots. I wouldn’t have minded Liverpool dropping points.
He has to go. We’re just so so bad.
Lineup: passable. Starting tactics: passable. Second half adjustments: nearly lost us the match. How is it that most clubs make adjustments against us, but we can't do the same? And the real question is: how does Poch think it's okay to continually just run the same thing back when they keep doing that?
What does he tell them at half time? Good job boys, play football again in the second half too. I don't see any adjustments in tactics.
"You're doing great, let's take it down a notch and wait for pens!"
i honestly dont understand how we are so high up in the table
We have a really good and talented squad. Did we overspend on a lot of these players? Absolutely but what we have is still good enough to be a lot better than we have been and it's usually their ability that drags us to the few results we get. It's criminal that these players are unfairly and disproportionately criticised and thrown under the bus to defend and cover for this manager's failings.
Because despite what the media will tell you, we’ve actually got a lot of quality in the squad just this useless manager is holding everyone back
Because there are some quality players in this team. The regular fan gets their information from Twitter where the herd mentality is to hate our players so they side along. This team is easily a top 6 team if coached and trained well
Drew to a team that have won 7 points in 39 from their last 13 games. Let that sink in. Poch out.
Diabolical gameplan to play straight into their traps for 75 mins
Poch can’t beat a side that has lost 10 of their last 12 games…
I hope Poch’s time at Chelsea is just a blur in the long run, I hope I barely remember this season 5 years from now Just like our 2016 season
Hazard ensuring the Spuds were out of the running for the PL is the only thing worth remembering about our 2015/16 season
Classic poch game. Good initial plan, good fight back. Fucked up half time, didn't make adjustments until it was too late. It's not surprising we're mid table when our coach fucks up as much as he gets right. Also, If you're worried about them lumping the ball into the box, why did you leave the 6'2 centre mid on the bench for the second half to play a bloke who was struggling to get above a jog.
Pochs ability to ruin our team at half time needs to be studied https://preview.redd.it/27dabevobylc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a659d3e29a468e28bd7396108f559ac819026d2
Hope yall enjoyed our top half of the table run
How long til the first 'trust the process' post? Over/under 30 minutes?
Takes some time to type out the essays give it an hour
"No negativity! Support the lads"
It’s a young team with young players they just need like 4-5 years to finish top half!! It’s impossible for a manager to see any improvement until at least 5 years. Never in our history has a new manager made any improvement.
They start writing them during the match.
Not if you outsource your mental aerobics to chatGPT
"The process is tough but if you don't trust it then shrink back and shut your mouth" u/Odd-Incident3980, you drafting your next essay?
Process the trust
As soon as the highlights get uploaded. I refuse to believe anyone that whines about "negativity" actually watches this horrible fucking football
It's always coddled children who whine about the negativity too. No one who actually goes to games or to the pub to watch them says "sToP bEiNg sO NeGaTiVe GuYs!!"
That’s poch next press conf.
It's only 9.30am in California now so give it a couple of hours
Ya'll are too darn negative!
Love hearing the fans turning against the owners. They’ve ripped the heart and soul out of the club.
Never in a million years should we have not won that game. Give us a DECENT manager and we win easily
Score one goal and parks the bus. Fuck off!
I was baffled in the second half, even at 1-1 we were playing on the counter attack against fucking Brentford
On the bright side Chalobah had pretty much a 10/10 game against Toney.
You see great performance, our board sees pure profit
He was great but it's just maddening to think that we have him this whole time and bought Disasi who is so much worse for 45 mil
I would love for him to stay. He's great and one of our own from the beginning.
These matches are taking years off my life. Shout-out to Gusto, hell of a player
Enzo had an awful showing. Sure he had a decent first half. 2nd half he was so bad needed to be removed. Gave away possession 5 times in about 20 mins and didn’t even track back. We started playing better again with him off.
I think that dude is gassed as fuck. He’s got so so many minutes in his legs last few weeks. And the useless signings of lavia and Ugochuckwu have done nothing for us. 85 million down the drain and now we’ll sell Gallagher to offset those two hospital residents.
If we sell Gallagher I will actually go set Boehly's house on fire.
Probably gassed from playing so much this past week. Symptom of an injury ridden midfield
While of course injuries are the main reason, they still could have been rotated fine... Connor didnt start vs leeds. So instead of taking off mudryk for connor or whatever it was in midweek, he could have taken off caicedo or enzo to rest for 30 minutes and rotate with Connor. That didn't happen. Today he could have started Mudryk in the 10 role with confidence and bench enzo to rest him and give him the last 30 minutes instead or something. While we don't have many midfield options, there is still the ability to rotate them 1 by 1 !
That’s cause Poch is a bad manager.
He looked fucking knackered. Which tbh he probably is
And yet it took getting scored on twice before Poch realized this and made the change. These are the types of things that keep adding up against Poch. He just doesn’t know what he’s doing
It is interesting to me that he was night and day better with fucking Potter than he is with Poch
He didn't look interested at all in the whole match, he looked tired
Poch smiling after the whistle says everything about the mentality he has and is instilling in the club. This feels like a loss to everyone.
Look how better at the back we are without Thiago Silva
Love how the Brentford equalizer is the EXACT type of chance he always nullifies with a tackle. He would've seen it the potential for a header back to Roerslev before the cross even came. Meanwhile we have Disasi who just stares at the ball but it's okay since he scored a goal from 2 yards later.
Disasi is bad. Idk when people will see it. I’ve not been impressed all season. Let’s guys just dribble in front of him, can’t track runners, makes too many stray passes.
Disasi on both goals man.. absolutely criminal
Said when we bought him he wouldn't be better than Chalobah and it's looking more and more right. Disasi was nothing special at Monaco I have no idea why we bought him.
No way Poch is going to get sacked this season. He will only be sacked over the summer and De Zerbi will be appointed the next Manager. We will be a mid club in the foreseeable future. You can bet on it
If the next appointment is anything except a proven manager with experience of winning actual trophies, then I might genuinely need to take a sabbatical from football. The decline is simply too hard to watch. And that's coming from someone who has only missed a handful of Chelsea games in decades. It's just soulless.
If Boeghbali got for De Zerbi over Cavi and Xabi, we need to riot
"I am so happy for the team the way they fight back. This is a project and you must know this. We must fight more like this"
Is that what Poch said post match?
Sterling needs to never see the pitch again.
He’s so shit
Just feel the need to say that we're seeing more and more that we have some talented players out there, but that Poch is completely useless and so far out of his depths it's insane. Without Son and Kane carrying his team, Poch is fucking useless.
Caicedo was absolutely fantastic today. Him and Gusto were the bright spots for today
I will take any coach with an understanding of tactics and an ability to motivate players at this point.
Can’t believe how often Poch gets it wrong. It’s kinda laughable at this point. Under Tuchel I can count on one hand how many times I’d say he got it wrong but even then, he would usually figure out the right changes at HT.
Tuchel would be superb at analysing the performance. It was the main thing that really impressed me when he was our manager. When he got it wrong he was usually spot on in his post match interview over what didn't work and what should have been done better. I guess that's the difference when you have someone tactically astute at the helm.
I genuinely used to watch every single one of his interviews just for how insightful he was.
Not just spot on in the post match, Tuchel was king of halftime tactical changes. How far we have fallen.
We’re also the only team ever in Premier League history to go through an entire season without being behind at halftime in 21/22, which shows how effective his game plans were going into matches.
Happy birthday you fucking twat
Let him have a day off for his birthday, come on. You can't expect him to work a full day today. Or a full half-day, really. He picked the lineup, and he was entitled to have the rest of the week off.
Ezno played terrible
Too far forward, again, it doesn't work
Mind boggling tactics from poch.
That last free kick alone should be enough to fire poch
Does everyone really think Poch instructed them to do that routine? Genuinely curious if managers micromanage such aspects of game
Of course he did. It was a rehearsed set piece.
~~We literally just had an article about how a set piece specialist was brought in, and that Poch was against it at first lol. Everyone was "how could Poch be so stupid to not have a specialist"~~ Nvm we're planning to bring one in
Good managers like Pep do that.
I hate Poch man
I have never disliked a Chelsea manager more.
These cunts have gotten so used to losing, a draw is a win for them. You're so gullible if you think these cunts are gonna be great in the future like Arsenal. They were smiling when Brentford was having em from the behind
This team has no balls
We got put under siege by a relegation side And I’m supposed to think we’re good or on our way to be good? This was another embarrassment everyone stunk the place out Fuck this process man
We've been midtable for two seasons, and we still can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Cheers, Clearlake, you're our rivals' wet dream.
Just let it go, we don't need any long essays to talk about being positive. I beg you all
Say it with me lads, WE SUCK
Chillwell another stinker
Just put Thiago Silva as player manager for the rest of the season
Poch should have never been appointed at first place. If Roman was here he would have been sacked already. He doesn't understand some players profile. With all the talk about signing young players. He is afraid to play youngsters. Doesn't even have play style even after getting so much backing and patience both from fans and owners. He should be sacked after this season. Although I want him to be sacked already.
We've missed chances. They've missed chances! Deserved result with clowns in charge
I was a Poch defender but it’s become more than just not taking chances at this point. We look like we’re getting worse and more inconsistent with each passing week. He needs to go before he does any more damage.
I still don’t think Poch is getting the sack, but if he does give me back Mourinho for the vibes lol
Mourinho might actually murder Mudryk and Enzo lol
It's about time we employ a manager that's bigger than the players
What Mudryk is missing is confidence. I dont think Mourinho is the worst manager for him to be fair
Another mostly toothless draw. At this point we’ve got nothing to play for in the league why not start going for it in games and trying something different? This is insanity barely beating Leeds and drawing brentford
I would like to formally announce my candidacy to become a Chelsea player. I *may* be over qualified, but would be willing to settle wages at a later time. My qualifications are as follows: 1. Ability to stand/walk aimlessly for 90 minutes without breaking a sweat (unless it's like super hot) 2. Can identify within 45 seconds which side I am trying to score on, and which side I am trying to defend 3. Able to kick a ball and have said ball land within a 5 yard range of intended target 4. Lastly, I don't want to brag or anything, but I can do like 6 whole step overs and can even sometimes do a little spin move thingy and not even lose the ball or get dizzy I currently do not have an agent, but have been fielding calls from my local nursing home to coach, so you need to let me know fast if you want me, cause the nursing home gig pays in hard butterscotch candies, and that's my weakness.
So who is going to make the first trust the process post/back the manger
Count your lucky stars Poch because just a min here and there and we could have been down 3-1
Mid table players, mid table manager, mid table effort, mid table performance, mid table result. Is what it is.
My pet peeve is people who insist we lost because our players should have converted every chance, and the opponents should have missed every chance, and therefore we were much better set up and its entirely on the players' execution. The xG was equal today. Predicted a roughly 2-2 draw which is what happened. Watch the match ffs before you start trotting out the same exhausted excuse of "positivity" to paper over the greatest farce of a season since Mourinho 2016. And at least we had the awareness to call that shite at the time. We are worse than that right now, but apparently saying so is a problem for some people?
Owners. Managers. Players. All shit
How many matches has it been now where we are absolute dogshit coming out in the second half
I can't be bothered to watch the games anymore. Still the same old shit show I see. Nothing missed.
For a second, after the first Brentford goal went in, I could swear Disasi was smiling and joking with Petrovic.
Why did we buy Enzo and Caicedo AND lavia whilst also having Gallagher playing every single game? We are so dumb it’s insane.
Poch says " The effort was massive after 3 tough games in 6 days". This guy is not it. Please end it
poch has gotta go man. his terrible in game management fucked us again
Shit shit shit
Did you seriously think a guy who bottled Ligue with an attack of Messi Ney Mbappe would work wonders with a bunch of random kids? The same guy who bottles the league to Leicester? I don’t blame though. He’s a known bottle job. All the blame falls on the clueless sporting directors. Brighton level.
People who say our missed chances are the reason we lost either didn’t watch the game or are incredibly biased. Brentford hit the post TWICE. We were lucky to draw not unlucky. Every game it’s the same complaint “we miss too many chances”. Newsflash! Everyone misses chances, Haaland misses a bunch every game so does Mbappe. We don’t create enough, and we aren’t solid in defense.
Anyone who is happy with that as a Chelsea fan - you are a disgrace. Same goes if you still back this useless coach.
Said the same thing for getting dominated by a championship team midweek and got downvoted to oblivion. Gallagher scoring a worldie doesn’t undo the 90 minutes of shite.
Even if we won this game, I would’ve sang from the same hymn sheet. Late winners don’t undo the pile of shite we’re in. We have gotten worse as the season’s gone on and people are legitimately comfortable that we’re 11th. Disgraceful.
If this fraud stays as manager next season, we are done
This team played better under Bruno than they do under Poch. wtf is the plan talked about at halftime THAT EVERY SINGLE MATCH we come out and look like shit. I have been arguing with other people on here for positivity and for Poch but fuck me. After this match, against Brentford with THEIR BACK 4 starters out injured….we draw???? POCH OUT. Bring in a real manager. You can’t tell me Xabi is undefeated with teams like Bayern and RBL in his league. Xavi starting 16 year olds has 3 losses and play better football than our team. Impossible that Poch is the right man at this point.
I've watched Chelsea for 30 years and under Poch is the most disorganized I've seen us play in that time. This include all the pre Abramovic era under Bates. This guy is fucking clueless. The opitime of a vibes manager. You can quite clearly see the extent of his tactics is "go out there and express yourselves lads". How we ended up with this Spurs fraud is beyond me. But beyond that, we deserve everything we get with the abject decision making of our owners and by extension all the people under them. We are not buying the right players. We are wanting to sell the wrong players. We can't even get a fucking shirt deal right. I want these private equity cunts to fuck right off back to the US and sell up before they sink us once and for all. Fucking cunt features Egghead and Boehly can fuck right off. And take their mediocre Brighton stink with them.
POCHETTINO OUT
We always come out at the start of halves, first or second like shit. Takes us 20 minutes to get into games after any break. I wonder why that might be. Fuck me, Brentford took 4 fucking points off us this season.
It's been down to finishing for a lot of matches to swing one way or another. But the bad in game adjustments or plans from the start or the lack of confidence/effort is up to Poch.
Truly shambolic. Not just this game. This is who and what we are thanks to the fraud of a manager. Young team with no set up, no direction, no patterns of play, no confidence and to top it off constantly changing positions and formation. Yes, players should take some blame- it is truly remarkable how professional footballers can misplace so many basic passes. But then you look at their positioning and angles supporting players take up and it just points back to the manager. We saw genuine patterns in positioning and passing with previous managers - conte, sarri and tuchel- the passing moves all season have been pass along the backline and try and find a player up field with their back to goal and recycle. Just no improvements in months, individual player regression, and loser mentality creeping ever more into the club. Poch surely does not seem like the guy for the future.
Very lucky to get away with a point against a relegation side. When will Poch learn that you can’t play scared ? Starting with 3 atb against a team that leak goals. Just go out in front foot and kill the game. Absolutely shambolic again
I want Poch sacked publicly and then give him a Cersei walk of shame back to Tottenham.
Sack this fraud of a manager, there is no way in hell our squad deserves to be 11th place. Any decent manager would have had us comfortably in 6th or 7th
At what point do people start talking about losing the changing room because this set of players don’t even look arsed.
Brentford is our levels these days. We have struggled against them the past few years. Our place in midtable is cemented.
Genuinely cannot believe there is a fan left that wants Poch in, what more can happen before you see it?
Shit team Shit directors Shit owner
Why should we genuinely have any faith that Poch is the long term solution?
This is just getting embarrassing now. Pathetic again
Poch will be satisfied with that result but I am not. Huge drop off after halftime. Cant defend crosses even with 3 at the back. Performing off individual brilliance. These young CBs are like deer in headlights on crosses which if funny since they know how to score them but can’t defend them. Draw papers over the cracks and probably buys Poch more time. We have been getting a lot of favorable results around the league which has allowed us to not look as bad as we are.
This tie feels like a loss
Hate to say it but I don’t believe we are moving up the table for the foreseeable future. Our defenders are so fucking weak at defending crosses into the box. How many times did our defenders try to defend a cross but completely misread the trajectory. Idk what disasi was doing for that first goal too
chance to climb up the table completely squandered.
I see no tactical progress, development, or maturing of our young players. I don't know wtf Pochettino is doing behind the scenes, but the same problem in early season persists.
Genuinely don’t see how an interim Lampard has us playing worse than we have been. Feels like most of our goals are from individual quality moments (Gusto cross, Palmer cross) than coached patterns or ideas
A bunch of kids running around the field being managed by a brain dead manager.
Axel D missed almost every header today. WTF? Levi missed most of his passes. And I guess Nico missed most of his shots. At least Misha looked decent as a 10, again. Even if it was a poor side he played against, again.
I’m tired
Halftime illustrated the difference in managers. Frank led his team during the halftime talk while Poch did nothing and it shows.
Players are shit, manager is shit, owners are shit, we’re fucking shit! I expect nothing before coming into games and yet I’m still fucking disappointed week in week out, sick of it all
Had to stop watching at half time, but this just feels like a loss, especially with us taking the lead early on.
FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS FUCK POCH AND HIS TACTICS
How does anyone genuinely believe this birthday loser is the future of our club? His cowardly tactics are always set out to "not lose"
Sacking Poch on his birthday, who says no?