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Chelsea 5-1 Newcastle United - 13/2/16 post match discontent from pg. 36


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Shelvey has been abysmal again

As I've said previously he's horrible defensively, his lack of aware of things around him is horrific.

 

People don't seem to see this, his lack of tracking back is criminal.

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Remember that January transfer window where we were all in agreement that we desperately needed to sign a left back and center back and we didn't, so we started today with Aarons at left back and Steven Taylor at center back?

 

McClaren was happy with that transfer window.

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What does McClaren say before away games. We seem to take a totally different approach to the games. Even though it has never worked he Keeps sticking with it. He'll never even be a decent manager for us, even if he flukes keeping us up.

 

Im really not getting this. Bar the goals, we've not approached this anything like our recent away games. We've done s**** in defence & given the ball away. If anything we've been so exposed specifically because we're attacking more in this match.

 

We're trying to play the ball out slowly from the back and we're not looking to set up our attacks quickly. When Chelsea have the ball we sit off them and let their immensely talented players have space to run at us. Compare that to our home games where we aggressively press and seem to expend much more energy, it just seems like a different approach to me. Maybe I'm just frustrated with our crapness but that's how I feel about it today.

I'd argue that pressing against a team like Chelsea is near suicide for a team like ours. You saw how easily Willian turned Tiote for the 1st goal. They'd pass through our midfield for fun and put a shoddy defence under even more pressure. We're strong on the break; sitting a bit deeper, nullifying the pass in behind and countering quickly was the way to approach this imo.

 

That would be a decent approach but it's not what we did. We're pressing them now and look a lot better. I'd prefer anything to what we did first half. The effort and intent to do anything didn't seem to be there. We looked beaten from the first whistle.

It might have been what McClaren was intending. We'll never know because we conceded almost straight from the kick off. As for pressing, we have nothing to lose now and Chelsea are in cruise control. We also have an extra body in midfield and Colback, for all his flaws, has a reasonable engine.

 

This is a difficult one to judge because it's Chelsea. I just struggle to understand the difference in intent from home to away every time. Maybe against Chelsea I understand a change in approach, but he's been doing it against teams like Watford as well. We don't need to give every team so much respect away from home, change formations and ideas every time. Whatever he's doing it doesn't work, as our abysmal away record shows.

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Shelvey has been abysmal again

As I've said previously he's horrible defensively, his lack of aware of things around him is horrific.

 

People don't seem to see this, his lack of tracking back is criminal.

He's only interested when he has the ball.

 

His positioning, tracking back and spacial awareness is as bad as I've seen.

 

You effectively need 2 holders next to him to give him the freedom he would need which is obviously a big fucking problem..

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I'd almost forgotten just how much I despise Taylor like. He's an absolute fucking joke.

He's fucking shite as well. Some people went on after the West Brom game like he's a good defender with injury problems, nah he's a fucking shite defender with injury problems

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Remember that January transfer window where we were all in agreement that we desperately needed to sign a left back and center back and we didn't, so we started today with Aarons at left back and Steven Taylor at center back?

 

McClaren was happy with that transfer window.

 

He's not really gonna say much else if he wants his nice cushy job here.

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Guest neesy111

Shelvey's the only player that hasn't been absolutely shit and he's the one getting singled out? :lol:

 

His defensive contribution is pathetic, really pathetic.

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I suspect we've left it far too late now, changing the manager with 12 games left would only put a relegation on their CV. Nobody in their right mind would go for that, McLaren will be with us into the Championship  :hmm:

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