[theo_luddite]

They don't use it for corners but the penalty was well worth a review. Apart from that, we still can't score.

[Amelia Chaffinch]

Be reight

[Lord Snooty]

Seen the penalty replay. In my opinion, Schindler gets the ball first and Alonso kicks him. Free kick to Town.
Earlier, Luiz is all over Pritchard in the area. Penalty to Town? Is it eckerslike! Free kick to Chelsea.

[theo_luddite]

Aye, ''appen. Realistically, we start with the Cardiff match. Owt we get next weekend is bonus punts.

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Well yeah Snoots, the ref has already placed his bets ya know.

[Lord Snooty]

What I didn't understand today, why were we playing hoofball?

[JUSTASILLYOLDGIT]

What I didn't understand today, why were we playing hoofball?

'Cause we are a long way from being capable of passing it through Chelski unfortunately!

[jjamez]

Think at times wagner gets scared of trying to play football against the bigger sides after what happened against Tottenham last season, it hurt his ego. Now he tries to play defensive/ conservative and lets be fair yes it worked against chelsea away, manc away and manure at home, but it also resulted in same damn good thrashings.

Personally I think we should just get into them, we did at the start yesterday and they didn't like it, yes we may lose some games, but the defensive game has had the same results. I'd rather lose but have a go, than lose and be camping on the edge of our area, like Liverpool and Chelsea at home last year. Tbh manc and Chelsea away should be viewed as outliers due to the scenario we was in at the time.

Yesterday I thought we were good in patches especially in the first half. But we were also very pedestrian at times. There were times when at freekicks a diagonal ball was on, but we just roll it back to the centre half, then to the keeper and then we have no momentum or impetus, thus making us toothless and predictable. Its something we need to work on and have done for a long time, I just think that is one area wagner is either naive in regards to or down right stubborn to change his idea on it. It is one of my only major criticism of wagner

[Lord Snooty]

Well at least we're not bottom anymore.

[theo_luddite]

We had a go at them yesterday, which was pleasing to see. Last season at home we just hung onto their coat tails and hoped. Their season had pretty much finished when we got THAT POINT at their's, but having been dismantled by The Blue Mancs at Wemberlee the previous weekend, they weren't going to put out a 2nd or 3rd 11 against us yesterday. Their bench was worth more than we've coughed up in net spend over the last two seasons, let alone 2 players on the pitch worth more on their own.

The one frustration for me of Wagbo's system is we just don't look like scoring on a regular basis. We had our foot over their neck a few times yesterday but never really on it. One header hit the post, apart from that, just one shot on target. Their keepers shirt probably didn't need washing. Anything against top 6/7 clubs is a bonus for sure and we mostly got nothing by sitting back and kicking the ball into touch last season. Having seen The Blue Mancs take this Chelski team apart last weekend and beat Arsenal today in cruise control, I don't fancy our chances of nilling them this time next weekend (or a few hours sooner), but it's a funny ol' game Saint, a funny ol' game, and you never know.

Just booked me train tickets for Sunday

[WakeyTerrier]

For what its worth, here is my opinion.

I thought we were unlucky to be 2 down at half time, Chelsea started off well but then we grew into the game only to concede a miss hit shot that seemed to take forever to go in. Was it a penalty, I didn't think so at the time, I thought CS got a bit of the ball but when I've watched it back the ref got it spot on.

Second half, I assumed Pritchard had taken a knock and that's why we subbed him, turns out it was tactical and unfortunately Waggers got that bit wrong. We couldn't get hold of the ball and Chelsea were in cruise control, we were out of ideas and towing. he didn't make the next sub soon enough. Although when he did and we started to look more dangerous Chelsea went up the other end and scored a simple breakaway goal.


Positives
I saw enough in the first half to suggest we an give most teams a game
Big Phil Billing- I thought he was excellent against Kante and probably our stand out player.
After Sundays games we went up a spot in the table


Negatives
Hamer- Distribution was shocking.