Chelsea 2023-24: Super League Winners 4 years in a row

[MoJames 8244]

https://reddit.com/r/chelseafc/s/dB4kNe5USK

Guess one more lever to pull.

[RichUT 1832]

Looks like they've made their decision on the final attacker:

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/38289527/chelsea-consider-move-sign-man-city-cole-palmer-sources

I was thinking they were looking for a player that profiled as a #9, but obviously I was dead ass wrong. 

[MoJames 8244]

1-1 at half vs Wimbledon, both goals were PKs.

[MoJames 8244]

 

[MoJames 8244]

2-1 win

 

[ztejas 43411]

I've seen better clearances.

[morehornsepower 887]

I'm still taking this as progress - last year's curse would have seen our finishers miss that open goal.

[Horny Bull 2759]

[Horny Bull 2759]

Burstow loaned to Sunderland.

[Horny Bull 2759]

Moreira loaned to Lyon. Who the hell is gonna be on our bench?

[Horny Bull 2759]

And now Humphreys loaned to Swansea.

[TexArcher 37761]

Enzo's gotta do better there.  I know it happened quickly, but he shot it right at the keeper in the middle of the goal, and still a yard over.  Any corner would've done.

[RichUT 1832]

For fucks sake boys.

[TexArcher 37761]

My face is angry.

[Horny Bull 2759]

Caicedo looks better today but he is still making too many mistakes. Gallagher is just bad.

[RichUT 1832]

Connor is a hot mess. Chillwell has been wasteful.

[ztejas 43411]

Holy fuck. 

I'm unable to watch because it's on USA. 

Doesn't look like I'm missing much. I did warn y'all in the EPL thread. Forest is good. 

[RichUT 1832]

We spent around a billion dollars on players and still don’t have one that can consistently threaten the goal.

Brilliant.

[Horny Bull 2759]

Palmer on

[RichUT 1832]

Palmer on for his debut with some very unfortunate facial hair.

[ztejas 43411]

4 minutes ago, RichUT said:

We spent around a billion dollars on players and still don’t have one that can consistently threaten the goal.

Brilliant.

Yeah but Pulisic has been terrible for Milan. 

I'm sure Ziyech will win Turkish player of the year or some shit.

[RichUT 1832]

Sanchez just threw an outlet pass straight into the back of a Forest defender. WTF?

[ztejas 43411]

Just now, RichUT said:

Sanchez just threw an outlet pass straight into the back of a Forest defender. WTF?

Oh yeah there's also that. 1B and we don't have a fucking keeper. 

I heard Boehly was shipping munitions to Russia. Let's get the rumor started. 

[Horny Bull 2759]

I already hate Palmer.

[TexArcher 37761]

Holy Fernando fucking Torres, Batman!!

[RichUT 1832]

What the actual fuck? This is our best striker?

[Horny Bull 2759]

You just have to laugh at this point. 

[Hagbard Celine 10848]

sterling totally fucked that up and now turner has a chance for an extremely difficult clean sheet at the bridge

[RichUT 1832]

sterling totally fucked that up and now turner has a chance for an extremely difficult clean sheet at the bridge

Sterling fucked it up? He cut it back and Jackson had a tap in from 6 feet out. The ball wasn’t as clean as it could be, but you absolutely have to put that on frame from that distance.

[RichUT 1832]

Mudryk just killed a guy

[Hagbard Celine 10848]

sterling had 2 options to play through before he got in the box and forest collapsed on him

very sterling

[RichUT 1832]

Sterling is the only one that seems to have any ambitions to score. He’s not perfect but he’s not the problem.

[ztejas 43411]

Fucking 3 point Bridge. 

We're officially a joke. 

[TexArcher 37761]

Sterling created an open-net tap-in.  It wasn't the prettiest build-up in history, but it worked.  He's not the one who airballed the alley-oop...

[RichUT 1832]

Disastrous

[Horny Bull 2759]

The good news is we only have all of these bad players for 8 more years!

[TexArcher 37761]

Come on you whateverthiscolorises!

[TexArcher 37761]

Yeah, this season sucks.

[RichUT 1832]

Very underwhelmed by the last half hour of that match. There were some solid moments in the first half and they opened the 2nd half reasonably well, but around the 60 minute mark they just seemed to lose interest. We spent a billion dollars and we’re a mid-table team at best.

[TexArcher 37761]

Looking more dangerous in the early minutes of the second half.  Let's fucking go, guys.

[RichUT 1832]

Sterling has to lay that off to Jackson for the tap in. It looked like it was maybe onside and he can’t be that selfish unless he’s 100% to score.

[TexArcher 37761]

Just now, RichUT said:

Sterling has to lay that off to Jackson for the tap in. It looked like it was maybe onside and he can’t be that selfish unless he’s 100% to score.

Completely agree.  Raheem had another breakaway a couple of minutes earlier where he could've pulled it back across the 6 yard box.  That one was debatable, but the second one was clearly a little selfish.

[RichUT 1832]

Well we’re down to 10. I think that’s a fairly harsh decision. Awkward challenge for sure but it was bang bang and he got the ball first.

[TexArcher 37761]

He definitely got the ball, and he didn't go over the top off the ball studs up, which is always straight red.  But it was a pretty nasty spiking on the follow through.  I feel like a lot of refs think that's a red and a lot think it's a yellow.

[RichUT 1832]

Sigh. I just don’t see a team built to succeed. Poch has to be frustrated as all hell.

[TexArcher 37761]

That's the Chelsea season in a nutshell: free header goes 5 feet wide, and he was offside anyway, while 12 guys are out injured.

[Horny Bull 2759]

Reece James back in the news

 

[morehornsepower 887]

So, games where we dominate time of possession, we can't win or even score.  But if you give us <40%, we'll eek one out...

[TexArcher 37761]

This is fun:

Leicester have scored more Premier League goals than Chelsea in 2023.

Leicester were relegated in May.

[morehornsepower 887]

Wait...are we actually allowed to score 2 goals in a single game?  

A win is a win!!!!