Chelsea started the half looking absolutely terrible as if no one could look worse... And we've risen to the challenge over the half to end the half looking worse.
Up until their goal I was mildly impressed with us on the whole, but, stating the obvious here, we don't have the players to manage games.
classic carragher. man goes over ball and grazes it with studs and kicks jota but it's a good challenge even after he sees the replay. oh a little late but big strong challenge.
We’re completely overloaded in midfield. Chelsea’s full backs are playing on our half. It looks like Robbo and Trent are playing more defensively than usual
it's.more the fact we dropped off diaz due to James fear and then we have no press. we talk and talk about counter press and then first game bottle it and remove player from line. Once we did that it was one was traffic.
So... Not looking good. Glad we're playing Chelsea first game of the season because they're only £600-£700 million in transfers away from being a top team. As crap as we are right now, glad we're playing them now while they're equally bad.
Diogo has taken a knock, bring Nunez on now but worried about our lack of shape in that last 15 minutes.