The Cat

Lard is one of the weirdest posters on here. Lose a game and the whole club is in turmoil, sack everyone, nuke the stadium. Then someone plays well and they are better than anyone who has ever put on a pair of boots.

Definitely agree with that. Tuchel seems like an over excitable kid who just fell out the megastore wearing club issue full tracksuit and beanie hat.

There wouldn't be the need to save penalties if our players weren't stupidly giving them away in the first place.

The abuse comes from the stands. If you're ever at a match he gets way more unnecessary comments from the crowd than other player. Maybe the forum and social media feed this? People read it, confirming the bias they already have and then turn up at a game and dish out crap to him. I highly doubt he reads it either, he probably has much better things to be doing with his time and wealth than reading the comments on here, a least I'd hope this is the case!

It's not just Fulham who have to overtake us though. It's also Brighton, Burnley, Palace and Newcastle. We'll finish above at least 2 of them.

But it wasn't just one decent through ball was it? If that was the case and he spent the rest of the game being "woeful, woeful, woeful" then Ralph would have taken him off and put Adams on. What about his positioning? His pressing? Cutting off channels for their defenders? The runs he makes? The freeing up of space for others? His covering, his movement? All these are inherently important to how we should view someone's performance. From your posts it seems you have no idea about what Ralph requires from players. Tuchel hooked Hudson Odoi yesterday because his work off the ball was below the standards he required. He did ok in possession, a couple of nice runs but in the managers opinion he wasn't committing to the team in the rest of his play. I'm no massive Redmond fan boy but what I don't like is players getting unnecessary abuse. Don't forget he also put in the cross that Vestergaard hit the bar from. Remove preconceptions, take your blinkers off and watch the overall game.

That's the second time Chelsea have subbed a sub against us without an injury being the cause. Mourinho did it when we beat them 3-1 away, think it was Matic on that day. It very rarely happens so is quite bizarre that it's happened twice in matches between the same teams.

Fulham winning, they might gain 2 points on us today. PANIC.

Get it in the mixer FFS.

Can't see anything about him going on to be being better than Van Dijk? He looks good, he's had 2 games and done very well in a new team in a different league at a very young age.

Redmond got a very good assist and didn't give away the penalty that ultimately cost us the win. He therefore had a much more positive effect on the team today than his strike partner. How is it that people still don't understand that football isn't just about what you do with the ball, even more so at the top level. If Redmond wasn't carrying out Ralph's instructions he wouldn't be in the team.

Who said that? Some over excitable 14 year olds on twitter?

The moment he wriggled past 3 players in the middle of the pitch in the second half was brilliant. Hopefully he's not to bruised up after the kicking he got from almost the whole Chelsea team.

I think his own players wound him up by playing poorly. Joe Cole hasn't got a clue. What's he going on about with Hudson-Odoi? It's ok for him to stand around not doing what he's told because at one point he might do something quite good?

No, he definitely won't. Thanks for the input batman.

Huh? I thought Romeu did alright.

Worth another bump. Don't worry lads I'm going to be doing this every time he plays well, which will be most weeks because he's obviously very good. Anyone still think he is a myth? The next Ali Dia? A waste of money? Or maybe, just maybe, the club did what they had to do to build him up to the level where he puts in a MOTM performance against Chelsea in his second game.

They had loads of possession but barely any shots on target. They were poor in the final third, partly because we defended well.

Very good point. Really could have won if it wasn't for Ings brainfart. Defended very well, Salisu impressive. Midfield worked hard. Started badly with the ball in possession but used it better as the game went on.

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Put Djenepo on the banner just for that bit of play. Absolutely amazing!

Tuchel obviously doesn't realise that Giroud always score against us and hasn't brought him on.

Ohhhh, so close

Totally unnecessary challenge, just stand up. Giving a goal away so cheaply is just awful.

Fuck sake Ings you utter prick