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Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 12:05pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Greatihex: fab has to stay put to blockk Messi's run into the box, as Rudiger is the one marking Suarez who is actually goal side of our man, and Christensen who is supposed to be central is the one pinging foolish passes from the byline. Which means Fab can't drift positionally, as 2 of our 3 cbs are completely out of position. If Azpi doesn't dive in, Fab is in a good position to cover Chris. When Azpi removes himself from the board, Fab is forced to run into his space to try and cover him, but it's too little too late. I really can't blame Fab for anything here. Sure, he probably could have done better, but nothing he did actually put us in danger... Chris and Azpi on the other hand though... 4 Likes |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Ibime(m): 12:07pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Nihilist: My friend, don't start any talks about my judgement on midfield play. Every year has been a school year for you on that matter. Gerrard said on BT Sport last night that Fabregas should have got to that ball. If Fabregas does not want that ball, he would not face Chris square on with arms akimbo, body language giving all the vibes that he is open to receive a pass. If Fabregas does not want that ball, he would face forward, and Chris would know he is not an option and boot the ball to safety. Any footballer knows that sign from his teammate. Fabregas was open and demanding for that pass, and flunked out because it did not land exactly on his feet and he is too lethargic to move 3 yards. We will not question Chris and Azpi because we know they are reliable. We will question the constant phuck-up merchant in our midst. On any another day, Chris pass will be exactly to feet. On any other day, Azpi could get to that ball first. On any other day, Fabregas will still be a sloth and still fail to get to that ball. Spot the difference. If you are not a goat, we will not scapegoat you. The sloth must go!!!! 8 Likes |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 12:19pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Ibime: Everything you said has been directly contradicted by pundits and newspaper editors alike. your judgement is suspect. end of story |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by sebod(m): 12:22pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Nihilist is just wasting his time, once ibime dislikes a player/person, he gets blamed even for an error committed by a keeper ![]() Fab might be slow, lethargic and lazy, but was definitely not to be blamed for that goal. Azpi, with all his experience shouldn't have gone for a slide with a very skilful iniesta heading his way after Chris has made a woeful error already. 2 Likes |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 12:23pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Ibime: Like I said i'm not interested in any non-objective discussions. I'm discussing what went wrong last night, not 'what happened every other day' 1 Like |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Greatihex(m): 12:28pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Nihilist:fab will not need to block messi's run if he just uses 1 more second to run to that ball and pass to moses or boot it out. for me azpi has less of the blame cause he tried to do something. it was a 50-50. had he succeeded in clearing that ball, he would have been hailed. chris made a big mistake by playing that pass across goal. his accuracy on that pass was reduced due to kante that was in front of him. that ball wouldn't have looked dangerous if fab had not been lazy. kante would have taken that ball comfortably and it wouldn't have looked like a danger. fab was simply lazy there. he was just lazy and thought left the work to someone else without knowing that iniesta will be charging down on the ball. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 12:36pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Greatihex: See pic below. As previously highlighted, Chris in Red is out of the game. Suarez is goal side of Rudi(in blue) and one on one with our keeper Messi in tax avoiding pink is attacking our box. If Fab in yellow drifts away from that central position, and there's a turnover, there are suddenly 2 strikers in our box with nobody marking. Thats exacty why Fab did not chase the ball...he had to stay to defend that central zone But Azpi had other plans... 3 Likes
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Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Ibime(m): 12:38pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Nihilist: As a fan, I'm only interested in what will prevent such stuffs from recurring again. The only person in that mix who will repeat the same thing again is Fabregas, so he must go!! If Cahill had made that pass, I would be on his back knowing that he is liable to do that again. Fabregas time and again is a structural weakness in my team. The sloth must go!!! |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Chelseafan1: 12:42pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
dopeJemi: Gbam!!!! |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Ibime(m): 12:43pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
See as Fabregas lured the young man into making the pass. Fabregas is showing for the ball here. He is facing Chris, and has opened for the pass. Even when the ball is on his way to him, he swivels his head as midfielders do when receiving a pass to check for opposition contact and position of teammates. If Fabregas does not want this ball, he would face front and "hide from the ball" using his body language like Donkeyoko always does. Fabregas lured this young man into this pass, then failed to take any responsibility because it was not exactly to feet. You can even see Chris pointing to him after the goal goes in as if to say, come on, you asked for the pass then sold me down the river cos you refused to move your body just 3 yards. It will not be well with Fabregas for the way he hung this young man out to dry ![]() ![]() 2 Likes |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 12:45pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Ibime: I can understand your sentiment about Fab being the weakest link. But that's a different conversation to what we're having here. I also feel that Gary Cahill and David Luiz are weak links in our backline, but they had nothing to do with what happened last night... 1 Like |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by pamcode(m): 12:56pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
I feel Morata should have been brought in earlier. But kudos to The manager and Player. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Ibime(m): 1:14pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
sebod: This narrative is false. Azpi had no option but to try to win that ball first time. His only mistake there is misjudging his slide. If a defender and a striker are running at each other at full speed from opposite directions, the defender must win the ball. One drop of the shoulder will take him out of the game otherwise. You cannot turn left-or-right when your leg muscles are fully engaged on braking your forward momentum. Therefore Azpi cannot "stay on his feet" after getting there at such speed. If he tries to brake his speed and stay on his feet, Iniesta already has momentum in the direction of the ball and will easily go left-or-right to take him out the game. That's why I said I would do exactly the same as Azpi. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by 007author(m): 1:17pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
pamcode: Same sentiment here. we had no aerieal threat yesterday |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by jamescross: 1:17pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Nihilist:actually this is correct ![]() why did cesar panic ![]() the spirit of confusion entered them ![]() |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by jamescross: 1:22pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
sebod:am telling you ![]() anyway even if fab, pedro, bakayoko, luiz and all the rest at fault must go, that is still far in the summer. it's not like replacements are everywhere sef ![]() it's time for you guys to move on, united has a game tonight and must be repaid double for all their noise yesterday. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by phaamsaam: 1:30pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
jamescross:You are the shameless one, so much for champions of England, trailer parkers, small club mentality, Stamford bridge was as grave yard yesterday especially in the first half, your potato dry pitch sucks, Eibar pitch had hope, small club mentality, some old habits refused to die, bourinho left a good legacy for your club... |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Ibime(m): 1:42pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Christensen knows who sold him down the river 2 Likes
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Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by owoagbara: 1:55pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Ibime: This is false and you should know it. He had the better option of staying on his feet and block iniesta from entering the box easily. I have seen defenders breaking when they noticed they could cause an infringement or lose the ball. Every quality defender does it. That was azpi's strange mistake. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 2:10pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Ibime: lol e be like say you nor know say that article dey mock fans like you... in the very pic you posted: ...And some Chelsea fans agree that Fabregas was the player at fault rather than Christensen who played the risky pass in front of his own goal ![]() ![]() ![]() The article itself is actually accusing Christensen of trying to shift the blame, and laughing at ye scapegoaters 3 Likes |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Ibime(m): 2:23pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
owoagbara: Not at the speed he was going at. If he approached more gently, he could have faced up, but then he might be accused of giving Iniesta too much room to shoot. At the speed he was going, there is NO WAY he can brake and still deal with a change in direction from Iniesta, unless you want him to rupture his ACL. These 50:50 occasions of striker and defender running at speed in opposite direction hardly occur in football. They would usually be the result of a rebound of the post or goalkeeper, and most times the defender has to fling himself into the opposing striker. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Ibime(m): 2:26pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Nihilist: Chelsea fans know whats scratching their nyash cos they watch every game 90 minutes unlike pundits!!! Imagine one eediot commentator on BT Sport yesterday saying Sergi Roberto is Barcas first choice right-back. Barca fan woulda punched him. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by lordfalcao(m): 2:51pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Okay this issue of barca's equalizer have been going on now for long. My opinion on it is this after replaying the incident countless times. First Christensen intention in that situation was first to make a pass to the most free of the player in that 18 box area. Three players were around the 18 box, Rudiger standing adjacent have already been marked by Suarez, azplicueta was very far from Christensen, while Fabregas was the freest man for that pass. The pass from Christensen came and passed very quickly to Fabregas and Fab been his slow sef reacted very slowly to the pass. (But that is by the way because he had little to do in that situation). Azplicueta will go as the second culprit here, he showed a tackle of an unprofessional player. He has already went to his feet without the ball reaching Iniesta. ( who slide tackles when the opposition is not yet with the ball on his feet?) His miscalculated tackle gave Iniesta the chance to nick and pass his very quickly giving messi a larger space to shoot. Finally I will say it was lack of proper understanding between Christensen, Fabregas and Azplicueta with Chris and Azplicueta the major culprit... |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by owoagbara: 3:33pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Ibime: I didn't say he should break when his feet was off the ground and body going down. When he sensed the danger and rushed the ball, he was supposed to break and wait for iniesta to get the ball and face him, rather than gambling with that tackle. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Greatihex(m): 3:55pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Nihilist:had fab chased that ball to clear it, azpi would have still been in position and rudiger would have come back to cover. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Ibime(m): 3:59pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
owoagbara: Nah, there is no braking at that speed - nothing to do with whether his feet is on the ground or in the air. The moment he brakes is the moment Iniesta change direction and leave him standing still. If you approach face-on that speed, you are going in for the tackle, the block or the foul, nothing else. His only other option is to close down slower leaving himself time & room to react to Iniesta. Given Iniesta was already favourite for the ball, that may leave too much room for Iniesta to pass the ball unchallenged or have a free shot like this.
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Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 4:00pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Greatihex: Rudiger would have been in position to cover who? Messi or Suarez? |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Skimpletyger: 4:10pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Really? We throwing blames around? ![]() After God answered our prayers? Instead of us to be singing praises to the lord like the children of Isreal after they successfully crossed the Red Sea ![]() Oh ye men of Galilee, who hast bewitched ypu? ![]() |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 4:12pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Skimpletyger: We haven't cross the red sea yet..infact the boat isn't ready. They have away goal advantage, it's actually theirs to lose.... 1 Like |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Roland17(m): 4:16pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Ibime: Show me one player in the gif you attached that was not looking at the ball when Chris had it or turned towards the ball in a position that infers they were expecting? Truth is, Chris made an irresponsible and amateur decision to make a cross pass to that area, especially when your opponents have closed down on you and the area you are passing the ball to is the final third of your half and the center at that. Barca were pressing into Chelsea and Chelsea wanted to play from behind. Did you observe how fast Messi and Iniesta pounced immediately the pass left Chris's foot? That is because they could smell blood even before the pass went past Fab. This is the UCL where mistakes cost you the next round, you don't get second chances most times to make excuses for mistakes. Chris had Kante right there, even a pass to Rudiger would have sufficed but he chose Fab. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Skimpletyger: 4:20pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Nihilist:Faith, daddy Nihilist, Faith! ![]() When the Lord shall turn again our captivity in Camp Nou, we will sing and shout for Joy. This Barca present team was actually clueless in front of our 18 yard box save for that Chris's mistake. Them no sabi. |
Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Champions Of Europe 2021 by Nihilist: 4:34pm On Feb 21, 2018 |
Skimpletyger: Well, the issue now is that we have to score... We can't just go there to defend well, and hit them on the counter, so our work is a lot harder. Faith is not enough, and heaven only helps those who help themselves. The walls of jericho may have been blasted down by supersonic waves from the spiritual realm, but the children of isreal still needed to physically recruit an olosho from Jericho to help the war effort. 1 Like |
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