the second goal was absolutely offside, and an easy one too. brooks played it off Luiz and it deflected to King who was WELL offside when brooks last touched it. super easy call. and everyone is worried about the ball played from king back to brooks, but it was before that, and obvious.
on the replay it looked perfectly timed. maybe i need another look. i went from thinking it was way off, seeing the replay and now thinking it was def on
Good lord this really is an AWFUL display, the worst since Bournemouth thrashed us at Stamford Bridge. Eddie Howe (bloody amazing manager that will never get the chance to boss a 'top' club because he is English) has purely and simply 'out-coached' Sarri, simples. I think I know how to coach a team to beat us, let us have the ball and pack the box, watch us f*ck about with the ball for 10 minutes in midfield, wait for the 'fancy' Hazard or Pedro flick to go horribly wrong pick up the ball run at pace on a counter attack and score - simple, Sarri seems completely incapable of changing his tactics - he has been (somewhat easily) found out. Its bloody awful (in fact I switched off 10 minutes ago!) Let this really sink in - Howe has taken a small town club with a small local following that in its history had NEVER played outside the bottom of the pyramid and changed the into a club that competes in the Premier League and a club that brushes multi billion pound Chelsea and there multi million pound players aside with ease! I reckon that Guardiola would struggle at a club with resources like Bournemouth's. They must be amazed and pleased in equal measure that no 'big' European club wants to prize Howe away.
read an article a while back that Howe spent some training sessions learning under Sarri about a year and a half ago or so.
'Learning' under Sarri!! That has to be a joke, there is one manager out there doing the 'schooling' and it ain't Sarri!
At some point we have to consider either massively investing in a squad, building something under Sarri, or letting Sarri go. We're out of the top 4 on goal difference by the way.
We need to do a fair bit of the former but not under the latter. Sarri could have better and more suitable parts sure but it is the system that sucks, is dull, and has been thoroughly sussed out and he has said clearly over and over it is never going to change. It is Sorry sideways vintage pong. Pl is the death of gaffers who won't change or adjust. Pep, after a year, Klopp continually, especially for this season, Jose and Conti, after a few matches recognized that and changed and adjusted and won. Boas and other refused and are never weres, I'd can him now and hope a gaffer change might bring an emotional and motivational lift to get us in to 4th. The players have a huge part of the blame as well, they should not need such a huge lift and effing play desperate, basically the same group has won 2 out of what the last 4 or 5 titles Others have improved and passed us sure but we ought not suck this bad.
last season boring too stagnant (a good bit true though and it got worse) 3rd Chelsea 24 15(w) 5(D) 4(L) 45(goals) 16(GA) 29(GD) 50PTS (3pts out of second WWon Tuesday 26 December 2017Chelsea 2-0 Brighton and Hove Albion WWon Saturday 30 December 2017Chelsea 5-0 Stoke City DDrawn Wednesday 3 January 2018Arsenal 2-2 Chelsea DDrawn Saturday 13 January 2018Chelsea 0-0 Leicester City WWon Saturday 20 January 2018Brighton and Hove Albion 0-4 Chelsea present exciting Sarri ball 5th Chelsea 24 14(W) 5(D) 5(L) 40(GOALS) 23(GA) 17(GD) 47(PTS) (9 pts out of 2nd, 7pts out of 3rd, a goal out of 4th CL and may get worse) WWon Sunday 30 December 2018Crystal Palace 0-1 Chelsea DDrawn Wednesday 2 January 2019Chelsea 0-0 Southampton WWon Saturday 12 January 2019Chelsea 2-1 Newcastle United LLost Saturday 19 January 2019Arsenal 2-0 Chelsea LLost Wednesday 30 January 2019AFC Bournemouth 4-0 Chelsea funny last season we were a team in shambles and crisis and most here were "burn the witch Conti, yet this season Sarri might be the future to spend serious$$$ to build with, but letdown by players we need to rebuild with some youth and 3-4 new tougher leader winners, up the spine from back, and then out, a better more flexible gaffer with a history of winning ,and clear out Hazard and Jorginho, Luiz, Kovicic, + a couple more, go younger at wings, which we can if we play them Courage
Nope, I was one of the few who said Conte was let down by his players. That said, if attacking football is the way forward, give Sarri his players. Worst case we will be left with good attacking players for the next manager.
Sacking Sarri achieves nothing, but there are some serious issues around the squad. Maybe it's because Eden is out the door - who knows.
Equal goal difference to Arsenal, however on alphabetical order we are 5th. Yep, we are now looking at Sarri and he may not be with us next season.
This squad would play a solid, simple 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 well. Making them try to adjust to this style is clearly a stretch. Sarri's main guy, who is supposed to be the focal point, is failing at this. He is ********ing horrible. That said, I don't know if sacking Sarri necessarily solves anything. A slightly more solid team would make a better title challenge and imo top 4 would be a given. Trying too hard to do too much with what you got leads to games like this. Remember when Bournemouth completely exposed Conte's back 3? Deja vu man
Sarri's lack of in game tactical changes is very concerning Personally, I felt like there were some red flags back when we were only winning the Europa games 1-0