Stoke Vs Chelsea

monkey9

Chelsea one down. They've been the better team so far i feel.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Unlucky though. If the one they had ruled out a couple fo weeks ago was offside, then this one was offside today.

EDIT - how come no one made a match thred for this or is there one?

monkey9

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Unlucky though. If the one they had ruled out a couple fo weeks ago was offside, then this one was offside today.

EDIT - how come no one made a match thred for this or is there one?

Haven't seen one so made this. Very surprised myself there's no match thread.

dfx-

Chelsea are on top, especially first half, but not a whole lot for Butland to do really.

sky88

chelsea have been the better team but havent created many good chances

dfx-

Pedro taken off? :eek:

sky88

is it 3 at the back for chelsea now?

Caovyn Lineah

If it was any other manager I'd feel bad for them in this kind of predicament. Mourinho though? Absolutely hilarious.

Headshot

Hazard comes inside far to often

Strumms

Chelsea playing better then they have done in several weeks. Definitely the better side so far but the seem to lack confidence and cohesion in the final third. For all their possession they haven't created too many clear chances of note.

Barr

Doubt Stoke will hold out

Quazzie

Chelsea have been the better team, but they aren't creating. Stoke look solid and good for their lead at the moment. It'll be interesting to see if Chelsea have enough on the bench to change it.

sabat

It's bizarre saying this about Chelsea in the first week of November but I think if they don't turn this around in the next 15 minutes that's top 4 gone. If we say 70 points is the general requirement then they'll need to somehow go from their current form to a 2.25 ppg average for the rest of the season, something I just don't see happening.

MythicalMadMan

Deserved a goal there

Barr

It just aint happening for Hazard

murpho999

Amazed how quiet this thead is. Where are all the Chelsea fans or even the haters?

Headshot

murpho999 wrote: »

Amazed how quiet this thead is. Where are all the Chelsea fans or even the haters?

Looking for Jose

Where in the world is Jose Mourinho

monkey9

I didn't see the League Cup game, but listening to Matt Le Tissier doing the match that night, Chelsea didn't deserve to lose the game and they did equalise in injury time. I think Walters that night scored around the same time as the goal tonight.

This seems to be going a similar way. Let's see if Chelsea can grab something.

Quazzie

What was Matic at in the corner?

Mars Bar

That's dangerous from Butland!

Barr

FFS Remy

Johner

We really shouldn't be losing this game.

Caovyn Lineah

Probably should have had a penalty

pudzey101

fairplay to remy for staying on his feet , no doubt if it was costa hed be still rolling around

Fuhrer

That should still have been a penalty

Quazzie

Caovyn Lineah wrote: »

Probably should have had a penalty

For what? There was zero contact.

monkey9

Could that not still be a penalty? Butland got nowhere near the ball and Remi had to jump over him and it definitely disadvantaged him.

sky88

matic is a shadow of the player he was last season

jive

Should have been a penalty anyway, that's the reason why players aren't honest. Refs won't give anything unless you hit the deck.

Strumms

Remy goes down there and it's a pen. I think it prob should have been anyway. Strange the way no Chelsea player appealed.

dfx-

Incredible that wasn't given. Great decision, but 99/100 refs will give that I'd say...

jive

Quazzie wrote: »

For what? There was zero contact.

Yeah because Remy leaped over him, he could have just ran into him and left his legs give way as most players would.

Johner

dfx- wrote: »

Incredible that wasn't given. Great decision, but 99/100 refs will give that I'd say...

no they wouldn't. If he went down they would.

Barr

Costa can't buy a goal at the moment

StringerBell

Continued improvement from Chelsea on display though.

Quazzie

jive wrote: »

Yeah because Remy leaped over him, he could have just ran into him and left his legs give way as most players would.

If he did. It was a penalty.

As it happened now. No penalty as there was no foul.

Quazzie

Johner wrote: »

no they wouldn't. If he went down they would.

If he went down then he was diving. Is that what you want him to do?

Strumms

Can give the penalty without contact. It's still an infringement .. Intent etc.and under the laws of the game it's a peno.

Johner

Quazzie wrote: »

If he went down then he was diving. Is that what you want him to do?

How would he have been diving? Butland would have went through him, he didnt have to jump over him.

pudzey101

remy needs to learn a thing or 2 from ashley young about going down

monkey9

Johner wrote: »

How would he have been diving? Butland would have went through him, he didnt have to jump over him.

Yeah, i still think that could have been brought back for a penalty. If that was a defender who did that rather than the keeper, it would look more blatant. I know there was no contact, but it was a wild swipe that Remi had to avoid and it disadvantaged him getting a clean strike on goal.

Quazzie

Should've been 2-0 there. Feck it.

dfx-

Strumms wrote: »

Can give the penalty without contact. It's still an infringement .. Intent etc.and under the laws of the game it's a peno.

Exactly, everything is in the favour of the referee to give that one.

Stoke have defended very well though, especially around the edge of the box, they're flying out.

jive

Quazzie wrote: »

If he did. It was a penalty.

As it happened now. No penalty as there was no foul.

And it's for that reason players aren't honest. No advantage for not play acting and intentionally taking a touch.

Quazzie

Strange to see Chelsea trying long throws into the box against Stoke. Maybe they should buy Delap.

monkey9

This Chelsea story gets more incredible by the game. It's like Klopp's last season at Dortmund.

bur

Chelsea opting to take a long throw in the last minute of the game. Love the symmetry.

Barr

Hard to know how Chelsea lost that game. Stoke defended well

Turtyturd

I am guessing Mourinho watched the game from the airport departures lounge.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

This is great. Mourinho surely the most hated manager of all time finally getting his come uppance.

Well I'm enjoying it anyway.

bad2dabone

I suppose the question on everyone's lips well be: with the relatively poor start they've had this season, can stoke get top ten finish this year?