Match Day Thread Chelsea v. Swansea City

I don't know what to make of Narsingh yet - he's just been a minor bit part player so far. I don't know if he's any better than what we already have but would like to see how he does from the start against teams that won't dominate us like today.

 

Our next 4 games will go a long way in helping to determine our fate this season.

We "must" beat Burnley & Boro at home, and need to least draws at Hull & Bournemouth.

 

4 wins.Im saying it now and shall be having a dabble on it.

 

This is the difference in the quality of both teams TBH and the quality they do have is better than every premiership team and that is why they have gone 11 points clear of everyone else......I think we did not embarrass ourselves at all today as imo we scored the better goal of the game and I hate saying this ...the Ref was a bit bias when it came to decisions that spoilt just how much we gave Chelsea a game and how fortunate the score was 3 - 1. I think we deserved a 1 - 1 draw myself...

 

All I did was state they made mistakes in reference to how we lost and not Chelsea won , and didn't go into a belittling rant like some did and have done in the past , as you should know

 

Swarbrick has reffed us 4 times this season

Swansea 1-3 Man City (couldn't wait to give a penalty when De Bruyne fell easily.....)

Swansea 1-3 Man Utd

Middlesbrough 3-0 Swansea

Chelsea 3-1 Swansea (bottled the handball then seen smiling when Chelsea celebrate their second .....)

So penalty decisions don't even themselves out

We concede 3 every time he refs.......

 

Let's hope he doesn't ref any of the next 4 games then

 

I understand that Sam Allardyce has asked Mike Riley to appoint Swarbrick to all our matches....

 

Just watched the whole game on Sky. I thought we defended well and frustrated Chelsea, who are the best team in the league, for long periods. A definite penalty and a real howler by Fabianski.. To all those Naughton haters the commentator and I agree with him constantly criticised Routledge for failing to drop back to fill the gap out wide when Naughton was having to play narrow to try and mark Hazard.and Costa.

 

Have we ever won 4 Premier League games in a row? Are we likely to start now? I don't think so.

I'd take 2 wins, a draw and a defeat to get to 31 points.

 

We can win all 4 but I think we'll get 3 wins and a draw away at Bournemouth. For me, we must take a minimum of 8 points from the next 4 games.

 

You do realise that none of the players come here, right? Nobody is going to be 'belittled' if criticised.

I actually think we did very well today, at least up to a point. You have to be at the top of your game to get anything up there and two costly errors (Carroll & Fabianski) did for us. This is FACT, even though I agree it serves little purpose in banging on about it & hanging them out to dry. Most players make mistakes at one time or another and after all Chelsea deserved the win, no argument from me.

 

It wouldn't surprise me if we got two draws at home and two away victories. I will settle for 7 points from these 4 games, (but 10 would be lovely )

 

No argument they deserved the win but I cant help feeling that if we had gone 2-1 up with that nailed on penalty we would force Chelsea to open up having to score 2 goals to win the game....Chelsea though are the best side of one touch football I have seen all season and I hope we have learned a lot from playing them.....We was not disgraced but we did gift them 2 goals through stupid errors on our part...

 

Just watched the 3rd goal on SS1, and Naughton deserves all the stick he gets. Pathetic, pathetic attempt to stop Hazard. In fact, he didn't even try to stop the pass.

 

Hopefully Clement is big on video analysis I can tell you from an inside source that Bradley didn't have a clue on that score. Come to think of it....

 

Probably tried putting the DVD into a CD player thinking it was a mixed cd

 

Nothing to do with Hazard being one of the top players in the world then

 

Absolutely not. He did nothing an ordinary winger would have done. He just walked past him. Even Routledge could have breezed past him.

 

I think we are getting a bit carried away here, we have just lost to top of the league, they have lost 3 games all season, we put in a great performance, but they are better than us and have much better players than us. Lets be realistic guys, PC has worked wonders to get us to where we are now and the performances are getting better, for people to think we would go there and get something was ridiculous, better sides will go there and get a bigger beating and play a lot worse than we did.

Despite the inevitable defeat we are definitely moving in the right direction.