Dave Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I've only seen reports about the Chelsea game that said we deserved to win. It could be argued that we were fortunate that as a top side they weren't at their best, but that's about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 They had one off the bar, and we cleared a couple off the line.We had one or two decent chances apart from the goals. It could have gone either way really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 If they'd scored early it would have obviously been a different game, but Terry missed and we defended the others. That's not luck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 They had one off the bar, and we cleared a couple off the line.We had one or two decent chances apart from the goals. It could have gone either way really. Sissoko could have had a couple and Remy could have scored at least 3.... Chelsea didn't deserve anything and if they did it would have been a robbery. Oh i love the pessimistic crap that follows every good win where we have to downplay every decent performance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I wonder how many teams will beat Chelsea by two goals this season? Let's just enjoy it and save the whingeing for another day. I'm sure there'll be plenty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Oh i love the pessimistic crap that follows every good win where we have to downplay every decent performance. We've been told to calm down a few times this season after victories so why change now? "it’s a big win, but we have beaten Chelsea and that’s it. Let’s not get carried away and say we are going to be in Europe and we’ll be great, or it would be a disaster if we’d lost three on the trot." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Oh i love the pessimistic crap that follows every good win where we have to downplay every decent performance. We've been told to calm down a few times this season after victories so why change now? "it’s a big win, but we have beaten Chelsea and that’s it. Let’s not get carried away and say we are going to be in Europe and we’ll be great, or it would be a disaster if we’d lost three on the trot." so you are just doing what he says ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 They had one off the bar, and we cleared a couple off the line.We had one or two decent chances apart from the goals. It could have gone either way really. According to the telly we had 10 shots on target to Chelseas 2, i can't remember it being as one sided as that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmk Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 They had one off the bar, and we cleared a couple off the line.We had one or two decent chances apart from the goals. It could have gone either way really. According to the telly we had 10 shots on target to Chelseas 2, i can't remember it being as one sided as that. Thought the first half was a bit of a write-off because we just stifled the game and Chelsea had nothing about them. The second half we were very much the team getting the shots in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRC Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I wonder how many teams will beat Chelsea by two goals this season? Let's just enjoy it and save the whingeing for another day. I'm sure there'll be plenty. I wonder how many teams we will beat by two goals this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledGeordie Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I'd agree with that regarding the way we've played since the first half at Everton, but the Sunderland game scared me in a sense of - if you can't see off a team as bad as that then you have problems. I don't understand why I have a slightly optimistic feeling about Sunday coming as it's just the type of fixture we've capitulated in far too often recently. It was worrying, no doubt, still is in fact. They were absolutely terrible and we couldn't break them down. I still think we have a lot to prove on that front, Norwich/West Brom in a couple of weeks will give us a better indication to see if we have improved in this area as it's hard to tell with two home games against City/Chelsea as neither of them were content with sitting back. Hughton will set up camp and it will be down to us to break them down, it's a big test for our creativity as a side. Agree with that. Those two home games we need to show we've learnt from the Mackem defeat (don't all laugh at once). We should absolutely put Norwich away and while West Brom is a bit tougher we should win that too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 We were the better team overall although Chelski were obviously not at their best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 We were the better team overall although Chelski were obviously not at their best. Not so - the possession stats tell you that - we were the more EFFECTIVE team in the last third of the game and we battled harder than at Sunderland. Chelsea could easily have scored 3 or 4 goals and had they scored first(Terry's header) they would probably have won...we have a poor record of winning games after going behind under Pardew. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 How can the possession stats tell you who was the better team? IMO we were definitely better overall, by a decent margin as well. All the ifs and buts about them scoring first are irrelevant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 We were the better team overall although Chelski were obviously not at their best. Not so - the possession stats tell you that - we were the more EFFECTIVE team in the last third of the game and we battled harder than at Sunderland. Chelsea could easily have scored 3 or 4 goals and had they scored first(Terry's header) they would probably have won...we have a poor record of winning games after going behind under Pardew. We deserved it on the second half. The best team won imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I wonder how many teams will beat Chelsea by two goals this season? Let's just enjoy it and save the whingeing for another day. I'm sure there'll be plenty. I wonder how many teams we will beat by two goals this season. Hence the follow up sentences. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The_Optimistic Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 They had one off the bar, and we cleared a couple off the line.We had one or two decent chances apart from the goals. It could have gone either way really. Hitting the bar is classed as off target. We cleared the line because we put a defender there. You can look at every game and say well what if, sometimes there are fine lines between winning and losing thats what makes it a great game. In general I thought we were brilliant, we made Chelsea look very ordinary in the second half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilligaf Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 As good a result as it was, I cant help thinking that if Tiote hadn't picked up a knock and that if Jonas was available, Anita wouldn't have come on and Gouffran wouldn't have started, and that second half just wouldn't have happened That will be the test for Pardew, who he puts out when everyone's available. I've still got absolutely no faith at all in the man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 I know what you mean, but surely he must have moved on from the Jonas love by now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The_Optimistic Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 the fact that we've let him go back to Argentina without putting up a fight like we did with colo says it all Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 At least if we're not going to claim we were lucky against Chelsea we'll not use unlucky as an excuse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/story-20048485-detail/story.html Interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shays Given Tim Flowers Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Odds tumble as low as 10/1 :cheesy: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sugoinufc Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/story-20048485-detail/story.html Interesting. not really... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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