Whitey Grandad

NATO didn’t have to do anything. Just by being in existence it was seen as a threat by Putin and enough for him to start a war.

He missed an open goal opportunity yesterday.

Maybe that’s why he got it so wrong. But I suppose that’s what you meant.

Only one of those was at home For me, the performance yesterday was on a differ level of awfulness to the Leicesters game. In that one there were a couple of mitigations, an unjust red card, everything they hit seemed to fly into the goal. Chelsea were just operating on a different planet. It was as though they were playing a side from two or three divisions below themselves.

Perhaps he improved Moi by loaning him out? 🥴

Possibly, and we can never know, but any promise can only have been to the player himself and not to any third party. As you say, the plan might be to give him as much playing time as possible both to improve him as a player and to showcase his talents but I don’t think it’s ever a good idea for any player to think that his place in the team is guaranteed.

No, it wouldn’t have been a fluke. XG can only consider the shots that were actually taken. It can never take account of the shots that might have been taken. Chelsea took their foot off the throttle (and we were being well and truly throttled) and had they wanted to or had they needed to they could take turned the screw even further. Fortunately for us, out of respect or out of desire to play within themselves, they chose to play out the last half hour without over exerting themselves. XG can only consider the probabilities of what actually took place and not what could have taken place and is consequently a meaningless concept.

Once he’s our player it’s up to us to decide when and if he plays.

How can that be? Chelsea had 24 shots 14 of which were on target and in these also hit the bar and the post.

But it only shows that after the game is over. Doesn’t it?

I thought so too. Armstrong was putting himself about and when he did get the ball Chelsea had trouble trying to get it back off him. Very lively.

How bad would she have been without the vaccine? I hope she improves soon.

The whole focus of the club seems to have changed. They appear to have taken our Premier League status as a given and are pushing other unrelated commercial interests. The main information screens yesterday showed nothing about the game apart from the time and the score. The rest was nothing but adverts. There was quite a bit about women’s football too. All of it a distraction from the prime purpose of the club.

They must all have been nazis and this is part of his programme of de-nazification.

The simple answer is that xg is a meaningless figure.

With the best goalkeeper in the world yesterday we might have kept the score down to five. Or he may not have made any difference.

Is that due to Howe or the money that they have spent?

The players all gave up after JWP made an assist for their third with his reckless header.

“Never change a winning team”

Watching their goals again last night (yes, there is a bit of a masochist inside me) In all except one Tino is nowhere to be seen, not even in shot. Whatever the reasons that is not what you would expect of a full back. Or defence had no shape, no cohesion. Instead of playing as a unit where the players all know where their companions are going to be we were a bunch of individuals playing as if they had just met for the first time.

That’s where it all changed. Our cohesion fell apart. Instead of a well-oiled machine running smoothly we have ended up with a pile of broken old cogs.

If anyone is in any doubt about how much we were outplayed. Possession Home29% Away71% Shots Home4 Away24 Shots on Target Home1 Away14 Corners Home3 Away3 Fouls Home11 Away10

So it’s your fault? Phew, that’s a relief. For a few hours there I was thinking that our team was crap.

I’ve been to plenty of games where we’ve been defeated by several goals and usually it was a case of the other side having more luck or that everything they hit flew into the net. But today was worse. We were outclassed and outfought by players who were operating at a higher level than ours.

I thought we were lucky that it wasn’t more than six. As for XG, I didn’t expect us to score any goals and I was not disappointed.