Match Thread Chelsea v Everton - Saturday, 5 November, 17:30

[BigBlueConk]

Hello Jags, you can leave the pitch now.

 

[Ernie]

We will be lucky to finish top 8 with this team/manager

No wonder Southampton leto him go without to much of a fight

 

[Tubey]

It wasn't. In no way did that interfere with play at all. Stek just looking for an excuse. If a player running close to him does that then he needs to voluntarily ask to be dropped.

We'd have been fuming if it was the other way around and got flagged.

Fume all you want, it's interfering with play by making a motion towards the ball. It's the rules.

 

[Efcjake]

Ref is a tit.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

That first goal had to be offside. Pedro was definitely interfering with play merely by being so close

Just showed it again mate, Pedro is inches offside when the shot is taken, but he's not interfering with play because he isn't in front of Stek, or blocking his view of the shot coming in. If it was the other way round and it had been called offside against us, I would have been fuming.

 

[BigBlueConk]

Kev for Bry

 

[Arteta2391]

Neverton

 

[ToffeeTim]

Too late Ronald.

I thought these days of playing for nil nils were over.

 

[Tubey]

We will be lucky to finish top 8 with this team/manager

No wonder Southampton leto him go without to much of a fight

What would you have done differently to give us a chance of winning this game though? It's hard to criticise a manager who has nothing to work with after being misled in the summer by the board as to our ambition.

 

[Mozza1987]

Why scapegoat Barkley? He's out of position in a side that is, to a man, awful in this game.

The approach was wrong. If you want to blame anyone, blame Koeman for setting up this way - but ultimately you should blame the fact we don't have a squad that can compete at this level due to that aborted transfer window.

I blamed the set up. But the lad should be trying to do everything to impose himself on the game and he isn't.

 

[Joey66]

Be arsed picking on individual players.

Every single one has been utter rubbish.

The keeper should have saved those shots nothing but regular saves IMO!

 

[bag a yoko]

Playing poorly away against a better, richer team with a better manager. Not the end of the world. Lukaku will score before half time.

 

[toffee matt]

We will be lucky to finish top 8 with this team/manager

No wonder Southampton leto him go without to much of a fight

They let him go because we paid alot of money

 

[ianefc]

He hasn't; the whole club have let themselves down, from the manager not setting up to win a game all the way down.

As I said earlier, we didn't set up to win, and this is the consequence.

You have no idea about football. I posed the question earlier, can you name me one lower standard of squad going to a game such as this away where the home team are in such form and going toe to toe with them and winning, just 1 example please, I beg of you just 1

 

[KaiserEFC]

I would genuinely sack off a huge proportion of this team and replace them with belgian/Dutch children.