Newcastle United 2-0 Chelsea - 11/05/25

[joeyt]

34 minutes ago, Stifler said:

You know what though.

We haven’t spent or bought anyone we couldn’t have if Ashley kept pace with our commercial income instead of giving everything to SD, and allowed the club to spend its own money.

Nothing we have done so far is anything that he couldn’t have done.

 

Still reckon we have a weak mentality like you said last week?

[Stifler]

1 minute ago, joeyt said:

Still reckon we have a weak mentality like you said last week?

We do at times like.

We never went for it after getting the equaliser and Brighton were rocking.

[joeyt]

2 minutes ago, Stifler said:

We do at times like.

We never went for it after getting the equaliser and Brighton were rocking.

 

You're talking nonsense if you think this group of players are weak mentally

[Teslact]

56 minutes ago, TRon said:

Great result considering the players we had missing. Felt like we had the 10 men in the second half but maybe that looked different on TV. I'll have to watch the game back, we did defend well for the most part so the game plan worked and that's all that matters.

It did feel like that. They had so much space. Maybe I was freting too much to notice if we were dropping off on purpose, but that was nervy until Bruno's deflection.

 

Can't believe Tim Howard is still saying Jackson shouldn't have been sent off. He looked at Botman, then raised his arm. Robbie Mustoe once again with the sensible analysis.

[duo]

2 hours ago, midds said:

Second half was a bit dicey, not a massive fan of just sitting in tightly and destroying everything - only takes one mistake, one trip, one misplaced pass and you're fucked. I do think the early goal had a big part in how the rest of the game developed though. Tonali gave us a cushion and moved the onus squarely on to Chelsea to to the pressing and make the running. They had to push and take chances and that meant we could change the way we played, conserve a bit of energy and hit them on the break to wrap it up and that's exactly what happened.

 

Jackson's stupidity also cost them and it's telling they looked better when he was in the shower than they did with him up front. The red meant Maresca had to change it up and go for it even more. We defended well, held on and did what we needed to do although a second goal shouldn't have been left that late, we had chances to settle it

 

Overall, the result was all that mattered and we got it done today. 3 more points to get and 2 chances to wrap it up - today was the big one though and we deserved it

Nice summary

[nemtizz]

 

[Rod]

1 hour ago, Stifler said:

We do at times like.

We never went for it after getting the equaliser and Brighton were rocking.

We are third top for a reason. Brighton aren't. Simples.

[54]

3 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

 

Ah so thats why the ref gave every 50/50 Chelsea's way, got it  

[Elric]

4 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

 

 

In this stadium, the noise decides whether you're a baldy nonce or not. 

 

The answer is yes. 

[Rod]

1 minute ago, 54 said:

Ah so thats why the ref gave every 50/50 Chelsea's way, got it  

They (Chelsea) attempted to kick us off the park today. Anyone who has played football at any standard know this. We don't need any arsehole commentators to say otherwise or VAR. We have the top (cough) teams rattled. Revel in it because it's only going to get better.

I'm on my third bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon.

[nufc123]

9 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

 

How did Caicedo escape yellow after yellow? On a serious note what was so wrong from a Chelsea point of view?

[PauloGeordio]

1 minute ago, Rod said:

They (Chelsea) attempted to kick us off the park today. Anyone who has played football at any standard know this. We don't need any arsehole commentators to say otherwise or VAR. We have the top (cough) teams rattled. Revel in it because it's only going to get better.

I'm on my third bottle of New Zealand Sauvignon.

👍🏻 Enjoy your night Rod 

[RodneyCisse]

One of their players, can’t remember who must have made 4/5 fouls with at least 2 being yellows to no avail.

 

Fucking awful referee.

[Rod]

Just now, RodneyCisse said:

One of their players, can’t remember who must have made 4/5 fouls with at least 2 being yellows to no avail.

 

Fucking awful referee.

Caceido.

[RodneyCisse]

Just now, Rod said:

Caceido.

I think Chalobah too, left it one Barnes and someone else and nout.

[Myleftboot]

17 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

 

Boo fuckin Hoo.

[David Edgar]

Your striker has looked directly at Botman and then aimed an elbow directly at Botman's face. 

 

Also, I don't think the VAR monitor has an audio output?

 

You hotel selling nonce. 

[The Butcher]

 

[Pixelphish]

1 hour ago, nemtizz said:

 

 

Nothing riles me up quite like a manager spouting absolute horseshit in an attempt to either 'defend' his player, or protect his own reputation.

 

Pep nonce.

[Wallsendmag]

Howay then how may wet wipes got offended by the PA announcer playing Parklife and Chelsea Dagger straight after the final whistle then? 

[Kilcline]

3 minutes ago, Pixelphish said:

 

Nothing riles me up quite like a manager spouting absolute horseshit in an attempt to either 'defend' his player, or protect his own reputation.

 

Pep nonce.

Maresca is a disgrace. Chelsea are a team full of decent players being coached by an imbecile. If they'd kept Pochettino they'd have run the scousers close this year 

[gbandit]

25 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

 

Despicable behaviour that like, surprised he didn’t get sparked out 

[David Edgar]

I genuinely expected much more from Chelsea today, having seen them play differently recently.

 

I'm sure that it'll come out in the tactical videos that our 5 man defence nullified them or something like that, but even still, they opted to play their safe sideways passing game in large first half spells. It goes absolutely nowhere. And is has been proven week after week to go nowhere. They seemed too scared of turning over possession and wanted to control the ball. It just meant that they had zero threat for most of the first half. It made the game easy for us. I expect them to play much more directly than they did in the first half and Maresca just couldn't help himself. 

 

Second half was not fun. But we did our usual safety first, we are ahead, game management type thing. But that meant we needed 2 top quality Pope stops.

 

I still think it isn't great that Howe doesn't trust the subs. Fair enough if he thinks they aren't good enough for the situation, but we need to hope that isn't the case next year. Either Osula steps up or we sign a few players Howe will trust in such situations. 

[Ronaldo]

7 minutes ago, David Edgar said:

I genuinely expected much more from Chelsea today, having seen them play differently recently.

 

I'm sure that it'll come out in the tactical videos that our 5 man defence nullified them or something like that, but even still, they opted to play their safe sideways passing game in large first half spells. It goes absolutely nowhere. And is has been proven week after week to go nowhere. They seemed too scared of turning over possession and wanted to control the ball. It just meant that they had zero threat for most of the first half. It made the game easy for us. I expect them to play much more directly than they did in the first half and Maresca just couldn't help himself. 

 

Second half was not fun. But we did our usual safety first, we are ahead, game management type thing. But that meant we needed 2 top quality Pope stops.

 

I still think it isn't great that Howe doesn't trust the subs. Fair enough if he thinks they aren't good enough for the situation, but we need to hope that isn't the case next year. Either Osula steps up or we sign a few players Howe will trust in such situations. 

In fairness to Howe, the subs are shit. The fact Miley was the best player on the bench today speaks volumes. He’s just turned 19.

[Mattoon]

11 minutes ago, David Edgar said:

I genuinely expected much more from Chelsea today, having seen them play differently recently.

 

I'm sure that it'll come out in the tactical videos that our 5 man defence nullified them or something like that, but even still, they opted to play their safe sideways passing game in large first half spells. It goes absolutely nowhere. And is has been proven week after week to go nowhere. They seemed too scared of turning over possession and wanted to control the ball. It just meant that they had zero threat for most of the first half. It made the game easy for us. I expect them to play much more directly than they did in the first half and Maresca just couldn't help himself. 

 

Second half was not fun. But we did our usual safety first, we are ahead, game management type thing. But that meant we needed 2 top quality Pope stops.

 

I still think it isn't great that Howe doesn't trust the subs. Fair enough if he thinks they aren't good enough for the situation, but we need to hope that isn't the case next year. Either Osula steps up or we sign a few players Howe will trust in such situations. 

They were scared of our press and they couldn't hit it long because Botman and Burn just soaked everything up, Jackson didn't have a sniff which led to the sending off. The early goal rattled them and forced them to play it safe and that was that.