English Premier League '16-'17 Discussion - Part 13

Traore gave the ball away twice in the build-up to that goal. For all that he does well, his game still has some alarming weaknesses. #Boro

— Scott Wilson (@Scottwilsonecho) April 17, 2017

Glory wrote:

Blue Barrett wrote:We got Jose'd and had no answer. I know the feeling all too well. We've benefited from it in the past.

Two biggest culprits today were Matic first of all, who's a bigger liablity defensively than Fabregas these days, as hard as that is to believe. Playing like a blindfolded giraffe who couldn't be arsed. He needs to *bleep* off.

And then Costa. My God, Costa. That's at least 11 straight absolutely shit performances from him now. He needs to get his bags and *bleep* off to China. I'd bite the hands off the highest Chinese bidder in the summer, seeing as they're still eager to get him and apparently more Chinese clubs will make offers. I've never seen such a low IQ striker who's supposed to be a "top striker". Christ!
80% of our attacks since January break down once the ball gets to Costa. It's probably the number one reason we haven't been blowing teams out the past few months. I'm sick and tired of him. I've had it. He needs to leave. I don't have the patience for a striker who only shows up for 40% of the season. There are so many things I could say about him, I don't even know where to start. Bottom line is he needs to be sold in the summer. I have a lot of reservations about Lukaku but I'd jump at the chance to replace Costa with him right now. I'm not even sure Mitchy can play worse right now.

Funny though that despite all of that, United scored off a goal that shouldn't have counted and a deflection. Regardless, they deserved to win today. I hope Anderletch knock them out on Thursday so they have no reason to roll over for Spurs when they play at Old Trafford.

Lol werent you the same guy who was saying Chelsea SHOULD HAVE won that FA cup match by a convincing scoreline HAD NOT for DDG and your poor finishing. Really not surprising to read this part therefore.

The 'traitor' who has finished at the top level completely and utterly PWNED the best coach in the league using his B team. At least we had an excuse that day in the form of a sending off.  You seriously want to go the route of slating the goals we scored today? You werent even in the picture lad. You had zero shots on goal. ZERO... against a defense that had Rojo and Darmian. Go figure.
Not to mention the number of chances we kept on missing (as with the case this season), So speaking your own language, HAD those chances been converted we could have won this game by minimum half a dozen goals. So,kindly take your bitter bs somewhere else and learn to admit when you are being outplayed.

Blue Barrett wrote:
Ha. Was looking back in this thread for something else and came across this. You're not the brightest bulb in the drawer, are you? Did you somehow COMPLETELY miss the line right after what you highlighted? Here, I'll repeat it for you:

"Regardless, they deserved to win today."

Is that somehow an indication that I "can't admit when we're outplayed"? What's got you so sensitive about this that you can't even read complete paragraphs anymore? Christ!

EDIT: One more thing, not one single Chelsea fan called Mourinho a "traitor" or as he said "Judas". That is all in Jose's head and in your head now too, I assume. If you're not too lazy, you have the internet in your hands. Find post match comments from the fans that were sitting right there. But I'm not surprised. He enjoys creating conflict where it doesn't exist and forcing the deepest of conflicts where only little existed. It's part of how he functions. It's one of the things that make him thick. He wouldn't be as successful as he's been in his career if he didn't always manufacture this "us against the world" narrative out of thin air to feed his players with.

As for whoever said he was "finished", how's that my business? Go reply the people that told you that because it certainly wasn't me. Don't give me your "B team" rubbish either. All the changes that were made to your team were tactical changes. For example, Jose knew he needed to isolate Rashford on our CBs and support him with Lingard. Their speed and linkup play caused a lot of problems. Absolutely no chance Zlatan would have caused such problems. Zlatan is slow as *bleep* and even Jose knows that. I don't care whoever else was playing on your team. It's not like you've had one back 4 for the entire season. You've been switching it up every other game, so please shut up.

If Jose pawned Conte on Sunday then what did Conte do to him in October, considering that was 4-0?

Enjoy your victory, you were the better team and deserved to win (have to say it again, in case you didn't read it yet again). No need to be so sensitive about it.

Firenze wrote:Lucas and Klavan being in doubt is a blessing mate