Chelsea 1-1 Newcastle United (19/12/23) Chelsea win 4-2 on penalties

[Numbers]

Not sure why Hall didnt get on the pitch, surely alot to prove, but no we brought on some bloke who was average at best years ago.

 

Strange.

[nufc123]

1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Playing like this for 90 mins is just inviting this sort of thing happening.  Our away form is just incredibly poor

Baffled we didnt manage any sort of possession for the second half. Becoming a problem.

[OoOGazOoO]

In all fairness, you can't just give a team wave and wave of attack after attack and expect to keep them out, we had chuff all possession second half and the equaliser seemed somewhat inevitable, just an absolute shame it came from another error from Tripps.

[TheBrownBottle]

1 minute ago, Skeletor said:

At the end of the day I'd still take this over the Ashley years. Yes it's really disappointing compared to last season but how do you account for all these injuries? Literally every game someone is getting injured. Today it looks like Gordon has been done by a red card tackle that wasn't punished.

Yep, those injuries keep racking up.

 

It really, really does need looking into. 

[Colos Short and Curlies]

I blame the Sweeney pics in the pre match thread

[SiLvOR]

1 minute ago, joeyt said:

 

No need for the homophobia like

Genuinely didn't mean it like that, just using the common insult against them. Educated myself with some googling, apologies

[PauloGeordio]

10 minutes ago, sempuki said:

This is turning into a depressing season.

Might be for you. That felt cruel. Roll on Saturday.

We’re not there yet, but we WILL get there! 

[Jaqen]

This, Milan, PSG and Liverpool. Amazing the manner in which we've managed to lose these games, like 

[ExiledGeordie]

1 minute ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

True but we've been pretty crap away from home all season aside from 2 games and some of those games were before the injuries.

I think tonight was down to players knackered and a complete lack of options again. It is what it is, we just have to ride it out 

[mighty__mag]

1 minute ago, WideopenMag said:

No obviously not but it was a ridiculous thing to do and is now added to a list of fuck ups over recent weeks that have cost us. No point in being in denial about it and brushing it off as a daft mistake he's clearly in shocking form and needs a spell out the team.

 

Have a word with Eddie man, you seem like you're well equipped to advise 

[MrRaspberryJam]

2 minutes ago, Miggys First Goal said:

I’m blaming @MrRaspberryJam for the loss. He messed up the juju good luck equilibrium by posting Sydney Sweeney pictures. 

Technically it wasn’t me who posted ‘em. Blame Mouldy. 

[Gawalls]

2 minutes ago, Bally21 said:

Aye cruel to concede with 2 mins injury time left, howe tried to rest trippier but he came on as kraft presumably had a knock?

 

Penalties had a feeling of inevitably about them.

 

Just praying that kraft, botman and Gordon are OK.

Livs could have come over to right and we had at least two options for left, tripps wasn’t our only lb choice. He got brought on cos he was tripps and it was the wrong choice.

[Joe1984]

2 minutes ago, NSG said:

I know it’s all relative, but stick even half of these players in the matchday squad and we win that comfortably: Pope, Schar, Targett, Willock, Joelinton, Isak, Barnes, Messi, Anderson, Tonali, Gordon (fully fit).

Messi? ?

[Boey_Jarton]

5 minutes ago, Beren said:

Really, really poor from Howe (said it when we were winning also).

 

So disappointing.

 

Going into a game where you're knackered, they're not, the aim has to be to bring them down to your energy level - not increase the disparity by chasing shadows with eleven barely fit players. Absolute mad tactics.

 

 

 

 

The introduction of Ritchie makes no sense.

 

He is not even acting as a body because he can barely move. 

 

I struggle to think of a less effective player in those particular circumstances. 

 

This is not a criticism of Ritchie himself as it is not really fair on him to put him on the pitch.

 

 

[madras]

2 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

 

True but we've been pretty crap away from home all season aside from 2 games and some of those games were before the injuries.

We haven't had a bench since West Ham.

[pubteam]

So frustrated by that result. Our season is being undone by errors at crucial points. Again if the ref had bottled the red card it would have been an easy win. 

[Beren]

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

 

 it was literally won until his RB gave the ball to an attacker eight yards out.

 

I'm not talking about the result. I'm talking about protecting the team and the season. It's only December, we're down to the bare bones, there's still five plus months of football to play. We were at least equal to Chelsea on the ball, but just went in vertical lines in possession for 70 minutes.

 

Eddie Howe's "work 'em til they drop" mentality is working - they are dropping, and he isn't learning. I hope he re-evaluates his methods and approach in this respect over the summer. You can't keep playing this way when you don't have the tools, it becomes a vicious cycle of injuries and poor form.

[Shearergol]

The Gordon injury was deliberate and premeditated 

[NUFCDoog]

Least we've got a home tie in the fa cup. Oh

[BlazeT44]

Full on meltdown in 3, 2, 1... 

 

We beat City and Man Utd along the way, and were 2 minutes away from a result here.

 

We just need a deeper squad that can play at a high intensity and rotate. In time, that will come.

 

We're on the up. It's season 2 (full) of the project. We will get to where we need to be. We are still ahead of the curve.

 

 

Edited December 19, 2023 by BlazeT44

[Lush Vlad]

Was Ritchie’s first touch the penalty?  

 

I don’t care how crap Hall has been in training or him not fully understanding the system. You can bet he would have had more than 2-3 touches in 40 odd minutes on the pitch and contributed more than Ritchie. 

[WideopenMag]

Just now, mighty__mag said:

 

Have a word with Eddie man, you seem like you're well equipped to advise 

I honestly think he's got something going on off the pitch as well as fitness troubles. He doesn't look or seem right. 

[nufc123]

1 minute ago, Jaqen said:

This, Milan, PSG and Liverpool. Amazing the manner in which we've managed to lose these games, like 

Pattern is we are stopping playing any sort of football for the second half.

[The College Dropout]

We can’t manage games away from home without subs. 
 

Chelsea were so bad. They ain’t deserve the draw in the end. But we were food the entire second half. 

[RS]

FFP rules doing their thing and keeping the big boys in trophies.