.....you can't look at this game in isolation. The City game illustrates we can manage a game but there are too many examples where we fail to do this. We are not yet hard nosed enough to see games out.
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.....you can't look at this game in isolation. The City game illustrates we can manage a game but there are too many examples where we fail to do this. We are not yet hard nosed enough to see games out.
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
Given @Eggs and I have made the same points it's about knowing at 2-0 you have to keep the game very tight, total concentration and your senior players show for the ball and maintain control in the knowledge the home team is going to throw everything at you. Didn't happen today, we sat deeper and an individual error lead to the first goal. Second goal we were still far too deep. Then we lose our heads on scoring a third and for everyone in the ground it was inevitable that Chelsea would get at least a chance to equalise. The fact that the goal was offside is irrelevant - we should never have put ourselves in that position.
LAToffee
Player Valuation: £20m
These Ott team/crowd celebrations need to stop. Get back in position, hunker down, and rush our fans at the final whistle. Makes us look foolish: celebrating like we won a game and walking off the park with a draw. Twice!
I thought we played well, just wish I could show a conversation I was having with a fellow blue and a red mate. At 2 0 I said it wasn't near over. The inability to kill a league game worries me
Jags was as much as to blame I said earlier in his thread he's a [Poor language removed] house when it comes to playing against a Costa type striker, but for me the defence must be nervous having him behind them hence the cock ups. Robles ain't much special but the defenders look more composed when he plays.
Chelsea were dead and buries at 2-0 down, that mistake shattered our confidence and gave them a big boost, same old same old.
Oh absolutely mate there is plenty to work on. A heck of a lot in truth. Overall I'm very much sceptical about roberto and as it stands barring silverware or a huge league form improvement, I'd want him out in the summer. All I've been saying throughout various threads tonight is that I genuinely don't see need to criticise him today. I think the blame today lies solely at the feet of officials who made a concerted attempt to aid chelsea.
But overall yes you're absolutely correct, we have no real toughness to grind out the results once we get the lead and we've been truly dreadful in this regard throughout the season. So much potential we have too.
Same as, we only have ourselves to blame. The referee was at fault but that happens, it benefited us in the 2 games against City. We should not be conceding a 2 goal lead in any game
Accepting we haven't learned game management yet, and our goalkeeper once again let the opposition back in when we weren't in any danger, the only way for football fans to ever be certain that the game isn't corrupt is if replay technology is deployed. Match officials in cricket, rugby, tennis, athletics, american football and every sport that requires it have embraced it. Why not football ... because football is corrupt.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Squeaky clean them.
bluebrotha77
Player Valuation: £20m
Jags should know rule 101 of defending dont let the ball bounce.nothing anyone on the line can do about that.he is a full england international and knows what trouble you can put yourself under leaving a ball bounce with somebody like costa lurking.sometimes it is bobbys fault but sometimes the players should be taking a long look at themselves.
Squeaky clean in terms of in the moment decisions yes. American football even has its own 'neutral' operations room nowhere near any stadium where 3 independent officials watch every match with multiple cameras and make a call on any decision. 'm english i've really begun to enjoy the nfl because i can rely on the neutrality of officials and the use of live replay technology that is independently verified and on-pitch decisions are overruled. and as you know in amercian football there seems to be loads of referees with flags watching for infringements. they just do not get the big decisions wrong these days
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
True. It also takes 4 hours to play a 1 hour game.
Think someone has already mentioned it, but when we score we need to stop celebrating with the crowd as if we've just won a cup final.
I hear your point, but take it from an American, the NFL has gone overboard with the stoppages of play, challenges of non-impact calls to the game, and just general over-flagging things and taking too much time to make decisions. If we could bring technology into football such that it doens't interfere with the game, like goal line technology has, then i'm all for it.
I remember last year when someone (can't remmeber, possibly Costa) shoudl have clearly received a Red but it was missed by the ref. I would agree with a situation where you let play go on, and independent refs watching replays can call down to the Red and say get this guy off, clear red card. The issue is I don't know how you can possibly do replays for something like offside. The game goes on - you can't go back in time. Unless we think a one minute stoppage to review a goal isn't that intrusive to the game.
i don't know what the right answer is, but it does seem incredible that something like what happened today can't be overturned.
Stanley Parker
Player Valuation: £15m
And I thought the idea was to allow the opposition to get into offside positions!
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