Ange openly criticising how large chunks of the game seemed to be totally out of control. He's absolutely right. Oliver was about as useful as a dish sponge on the Titanic.
You'll have fun , but somewhere down the line the suicide narrative will grow and ange will be dissected by the media.
My takeaways: 1. We've got ourselves one helluva keeper 2. The squad depth is maybe a bit stronger than we gave it credit for. 3. I loved the way we played for the first 20 minutes. Beautiful attacking football. 4. I loved the fact we continued to try and play our game with 10 and then 9 for 30 minutes. 5. Our fans are incredible 6. Oliver is a ****. 7. VAR is ruining the game. 8. Chelsea are **** 9. Udogie needs to learn from two acts of stupidity. But he's a young lad playing in a febrile atmosphere. (See also 7. above) 10. Romero is a brainless twat and his apparent maturity shown this season has been shown to be a false dawn. Such a great potential but not if he's going to be a liability. 11. Losing VdV for several weeks could be the worst aspect of the night.
Saturday v wolves will be very interesting to see how we play. Whether Ange sticks to his guns or alters his tactics due to the personnel changes
No idea what Oliver did wrong tbh. Chelsea made a few fouls but did nothing to justify Udogie and Romero going full on pyscho
He is not my favourite but whilst yes, he could/should have booked Sterling for diving, but our players made his job easy there is no defending Romero or Udogie, and they (and several Chelsea players) had much worse matches than Mr Oliver.
One thing that does have to be said for Ange is that, so far this season, he's managed to give most of last season's misfits something they can go out on with their heads held high First it was Sanchez having a solid performance for 70ish minutes against Bournemouth that erased what happened the previous time he played against Bournemouth, while Dier and Hojbjerg tonight were a 180 from their status as last season's kicking posts
Dier + High line = disaster But that wasn't his fault. He did as well as he could - and considering his lack of match practice I thought it remarkable we kept them out that long playing that way!
I suppose it depends on if Davies is fit. Christ that back 4 playing a high line will give me a heart attack!!
Off the top of my head he missed - James elbowing Udogie in the face - Diving being a bookable offence for Sterling - Mudryk was casually fouling from the moment he came on He was never in control of the match, in fact he made Mark Clusterfuck's performance at Stamford Bridge in 2016 look almost like somebody once told him the word "competence" exists, yet he was reluctant to card any of them until far too late in the game Once again, we can thank Norbert for that, as we've had players kicking lumps out of us for weeks going unpunished all because of his pissing and moaning
The beauty of the next two games is that in "season compass" terms they are "free throws" . In terms of play, they will not be able to play a high line, but they should all have plenty of mins of training in their legs with the overall system.
Think it may have been a joke that i haven't posted in a while until we won. I have been quite busy recently and also got back from hk this morning so haven't been on much. Besides posting prediction league of course as i let you down last year. Wasn't going to do that again this year
