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Perfect result. West Ham still not safe and Chelsea's top 4 hopes surely dead n' buried now?

Their form since the turn of the year:

P11 W3 D3 L5

F15 A17

Abysmal run whichever way you spin it. They're lucky they picked up those 3 narrow wins at the beginning of the season or they'd be below Burnley.
 
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Citizen Kane said:
Perfect result. West Ham still not safe and Chelsea's top 4 hopes surely dead n' buried now?

Their form since the turn of the year:

P11 W3 D3 L5

F15 A17

Abysmal run whichever way you spin it. They're lucky they picked up those 3 narrow wins at the beginning of the season or they'd be below Burnley.
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I liked the boo-ing.

100% Chelsea's knuckle draggers will be calling for the board to be sacked. The bloke puts in more than a £1 billion and they want to tell him how to run the thing?

What a bunch of ****ing inbred, ingrates.
 
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Citizen Kane said:
Perfect result. West Ham still not safe and Chelsea's top 4 hopes surely dead n' buried now?

Their form since the turn of the year:

P11 W3 D3 L5

F15 A17

Abysmal run whichever way you spin it. They're lucky they picked up those 3 narrow wins at the beginning of the season or they'd be below Burnley.
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Bottlers!!! <laugh>
 
The Chelsea result takes the pressure off of the Citeh result. Even if we lose that's a worst case of 7 points gap. And i was worrying that it would be 2 points.

Just 3 wins now.
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
1-1 <cheers>

I cheered West Ham on. I feel cheap and dirty and....I love it.<laugh>
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I got unbanned from the Chelsea board a few weeks back so I've lurked a little over there lately reading some matchday threads, some absolute gold.

****'s got so bad though they've not even commented during the West Ham game, probably out exchanging their Chelsea shirts for City ones <laugh>
 
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SpursDisciple said:
The Chelsea result takes the pressure off of the Citeh result. Even if we lose that's a worst case of 7 points gap. And i was worrying that it would be 2 points.

Just 3 wins now.
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If Poch and the lads studied Pool's first half and Utd's second half against City, then we can very much take the game to them and cause them umpteen problems if we bring our A-Game. Their defence is so ****ing **** it's embarrassing, they've just been fortunate in that their midfield and attack is so good that teams rarely get the chance to test their defence.
 
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Dier Hard said:
If Poch and the lads studied Pool's first half and Utd's second half against City, then we can very much take the game to them and cause them umpteen problems if we bring our A-Game. Their defence is so ****ing **** it's embarrassing, they've just been fortunate in that their midfield and attack is so good that teams rarely get the chance to test their defence.
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Their confidence must have taken a battering this week, too.
A chance to rescue a bit of it in the 2nd leg against Liverpool minus Salah, but still.
 
Dier Hard said:
If Poch and the lads studied Pool's first half and Utd's second half against City, then we can very much take the game to them and cause them umpteen problems if we bring our A-Game. Their defence is so ****ing **** it's embarrassing, they've just been fortunate in that their midfield and attack is so good that teams rarely get the chance to test their defence.
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They've wilted very easily under pressure which they did too often last season.
It makes you wonder why teams haven't had a go against them.
Their attack isn't quite so ruthless when the pressure's on.
We might have had a title race (possibly)!
I'm sure Spurs will look to attack them at every opportunity on Saturday.
 
littleDinosaurLuke said:
They've wilted very easily under pressure which they did too often last season.
It makes you wonder why teams haven't had a go against them.
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In the 1st half of the season, agreed.

For all the relegation candidates, top 4 wannabees etc,
that was one game where fronting up would not have
determined the fate of your season. The end result
in falling valiantly would be no different to the many
falling in abject fear.


"I'm sure Spurs will look to attack them at every opportunity on Saturday."

Chelsky over the past two weekends have now given
us a free ticket on that. It would have happened
anyway IMHO, if only to redeem the poor performance
we gave at their place.
 
littleDinosaurLuke said:
They've wilted very easily under pressure which they did too often last season.
It makes you wonder why teams haven't had a go against them.
Their attack isn't quite so ruthless when the pressure's on.
We might have had a title race (possibly)!
I'm sure Spurs will look to attack them at every opportunity on Saturday.
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As has been said elsewhere by myself and SpursDisciple, the combination of the chasing pack all conspiring to drop way too many points in the early part of the season (barring Man Utd, who got a load of points in their first handful of games and then began parking the bus in October) coupled with teams seemingly listening to the pundits' blather since at least mid-September about how City would win all before them without losing a single game and playing damage limitation from the opening whistle and (unsurprisingly) getting about as much joy as someone seeing Jake Paul's monthly bank statement.

I think part of the reason why too many teams have sat back against City this season is, somewhere at the back of their managers' mind, they remember that the best way to beat Wenger's Arsenal when they were at their peak was to sit back and hit them on the break as they were more than happy to faff around in front of a massed defence - but that's an Arsenal team from 10-15 years ago, not a City team lining up opposite you. It was firmly established last season that any team taking the match to City would get more joy, be it our casual 2-0 win over them when the hacks were already proclaiming them champions in mid-September, or how Barca and Monaco both dished out utter pastings in the Champions League.

Yes, some teams did get joy from sitting back and hitting them on the break last season, be it Chelsea bagging six points or Everton gubbing them 4-0, but that's why Fraudiola added a pair of pacy full backs (at great expense...) in the summer to try and circumvent - yet this fails to address the far greater issue that the team remain mentally weak when things aren't going their way and genuinely don't seem to comprehend that their opponents might want to take the game to them, best evidenced by their equally limp performances both when we were 2-0 up against them early last season or when Saltypool were 3-0 up at half time in last week's Champions League tie.

When you factor in their bizarre lack of rotation for a team competing in four trophies, the obvious question that needs to be asked is whether the back-to-back losses will make their players suddenly realise how knackered they are.
 
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