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Chelsea 2 - 0 Newcastle United - 25/08/12 - post-fart reaction from page 35


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Okay, so we struggle against a poorer Tottenham team who played 3 in the middle, and felt we had to change it at half time right?

 

Not sure how we then come in against a better team also playing 3 in the middle and start off in the same way we struggled last week.

 

Frustrating. I just feel we could easily be so much better if we just setup a bit differently. Makes it much tougher to swallow.

 

Especially with a midfield two of Anita - who is new to the league and played a whole game on thursday, and Cabaye - who looks like he's still on his holidays. Obviously need the extra legs of Jonas or even Raylor in there.

 

And the degree to which 4-3-3 improves us up front goes without saying. cisse and ba offer the team very little as a front two (in terms of retention, creativity, presence etc) and they dont link up well either.

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Guest palnese

fair play to chelsea. they've got some fantastic players in the finak third. just hope we don't implode.

 

they're fairly average at the back. we need to get ben arfa more involved higher up the pitch.

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I don't think we've been that bad, a piece of poor defending from Santon and a silly challenge from Anita 1-0, then again Torres given too much space and a fantastic finish 2-0.

 

The bigger worry is just how much respect we've given them. Letting a team with this much talent play it around is asking for trouble.

 

Spot on.

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If we keep to 4-4-2 we won't even finish top 8, it just doesn't suit these players simple as.

 

Might as well bench Ben Arfa if we are going to keep using 4-4-2, it's an utter waste of time.

 

We won't even get close to top 4 with this system.

 

Meltdown.

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we have been excellent in spells but when it comes to the final third we have been none existant too deep? lack of match sharpness? we dont seem to have anyone trying to push on lobs and long passes when they are holding a tight pack just means anything we do is just fizzing out

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Guest bimpy474

Not even playing badly, just happen to be 2-0 down.

 

We have been ok with the ball up to the half way line then we are crap with it (Barfa the exception).

 

That and not pressuring them at all.

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Torres really is such a detestable little c***.

 

Looks for a penalty every fucking second. Dowd having a bit of a nightmare. And oh thanks for 5 minutes of stoppage time in the first half. FFS.

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that's that then :( game wrapped up effectivly

chelsea looking far too good for us tbh. theyre really clicking, hazard terrifies our defence and we can't control torres. we cant afford to push up either as torres will have a field day behind our back 4. think the physio was saying cabaye has to come off, hope its not serious.

 

Cabaye off? Sigh, I hope it's not like the home Chelsea game last season where we picked up injuries that curtailed our progress a bit. :scared:

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Say what ever you want, not basing it on just this game, but Cissé and Ba aren't tidy/technical enough in general play to play together!! Great strikers YES.

 

Neither is that great at dropping into midfield and linking play, so it really makes life difficult for our midfield.

 

Also, they're not doing a good job of pressing the opposition together, which certainly isn't helping.

 

 

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Guest andrew

anita has done well in parts but he will take time to adapt as we can see, great player in there but some of his litle errors have been exposed. cisse?? very sluggish.

feel a bit sorry for hatem really as hes trying so hard to pull us up the field like

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Guest VanBarduck

it's not about 4-4-2 , or 4-3-3 , it's about the movement , the combination between players etc , there is some seriously brainless players in that team , simpson for instance ( that's not a news ) and ba and cissé played liked they were retarded  , i'm sorry but it's true ..

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Far too lackadaisical from us, much more urgency needed in everything we do, Ben Arfa's hardly been in the game. Torres is a cheating cunt, ref's giving us nothing, still we've only got ourselves to blame, Pardew needs to get them fired up for the second half.

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