Theregulars

Nothing - absolutely nothing - is going our way, it’s so tedious. Of course they won on penalties after that refereeing performance.

We need to see January for what it is, a chance to start again and turn the page on some of the most historically unparalleled bad luck going. Get a load of new faces in and move on.

A real pig of a season for us. No luck but always in the most agonising way.

You’d hope we put in a complaint about this performance whatever the outcome. May as well have a refbot set to default Chelsea every decision.

Referee is hall of fame one-sided here.

I can’t wait for this tedious injury nightmare to be over…

Concerned about the official, he’s not seeing obvious things. They should be at least a man down.

Another refereeing error goes against us.

Strong line up from them.

Hulk hogan ear cup @Ronaldo

He played really well at PSG….

Ah piss off man he’s been great under Eddie.

I don’t think your argument works - the lack of rotation early season has only become a problem because a severe injury crisis means he can’t now rotate. November and December were always going to be months where we needed to rotate: he hasn’t been able to. If he was able to and didn’t, you’d have a point. I think he always has stuff to learn improve, in particular on conceding on the counter and a lack of formation options, but I don’t really think what happened is caused by his views on rotation.

Not for me, Clive. He’s had his options either severely limited or obliterated for 2/3 of the CL games (Dortmund 1 onwards). Don’t forget that the 2 big assets purchased for this season (tonali and barnes) have not been available. Same squad as last year minus maxi and plus tino, essentially, plus a lot more injuries. I think he has limits and flaws but this is so obviously not on him.

I don’t understand the reluctance to change the team criticism - who could he have brought in recently? The players we signed and needed to rely on for this tournament weren’t available. Barnes didn’t play a minute; tonali played a big part of 2 matches, Isak missed a few, Botman missed all but one…

That’s devastating.

It’s on all of them sort of but it’s mainly on the literally unprecedented injury situation. We play a physically demanding way and our calendar has been as physically demanding as possible, then we lost a squad for 2 months without anything getting less physically demanding. It’s unpleasant but it’s so obviously contextually justified.

I don’t even think it’s a problem with the squad; you can’t compete with half the playing staff unavailable. All will do well to remember that.

But they don’t have to play all the games with the same 11 players, one of whom is 17

I don’t really know what he’s supposed to do, he has no option.

Trippier played him on! Hat trick

Stop this low rent frankenstein madness

I'd absolutely take De Gea, he's a better goalkeeper than Dubravka.

How is it then not a corner for Brighton? These fuckshafts haven’t even the postcode in which a clue resides.

That’s not a penalty