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Thankfully, that Mendy talk is all bullshit.

Mount, Havertz and Timo lead the attack.

Mendy out for 4 weeks
God please no

Azpi will start tonight, will captain the side for the 150th time.

I'm seeing some nonsense about Mendy injuring his shoulder.

popizaino:
I'm confused.

No, it is not in London.

afrodoc:
It was a yellow card offence. He crashed into the guy after the ball had left his feet. It was a late and dangerous tackle which while not really reckless was at least unsporting and deserving of a yellow card. The fact that the ball was no where near the player when he hit him actually makes the tackle worse.

VAR calls for reviews only for OBVIOUS errors made by the referee. That was not an obvious error, and in fact was no error at all.

Well whether it was an error or not, VAR wouldn't have reviewed it. I stand to be corrected, but VAR doesn't intervene in cases of second yellow cards, except if it feels it should be upgraded to a straight red. Frankly, I think that is rubbish.

But what do you make of an earlier situation involving Werner? The defender stamped on Werner after he had played a square pass. Same as Silva's case - late challenge which came after the ball had been played. Surely that should have been a penalty.

The first pic is the foul on Werner.

The second is a scenario which saw Kovacic get a second yellow and a subsequent sending off in last season's FA Cup final, despite being stamped on by Xhaka.
It was an error, but VAR isn't allowed to review such cases.

Ona too dey overflog issues sha. Senior men dey fall hand

popizaino:
You people should stop this nonsense about the manager making a mistake by starting Thiago Silva.How many of you would have thought this was going to be the possible outcome when the line up was out? Our defeat is not about who started the match or not,we were just poor,we should be defeating westbrom at home even with our third team,so stop blaming the manager for his selection. I didn't see any of you wailing about why pep guardiola should not have started Aguero after several months of been out with injury or is it because they won ?

I just weak when I saw people complaining about TT starting Silva against West Brom. WEST BROM OH! Like, this was our easiest fixture left on paper. What better opposition could we hope for to ease a player who's coming from an injury layoff back into the team? Abi make Silva no kuku play again?!

Funny thing is, if Chris had started and made those same errors, we would have been asking, "why didn't Silva start?".

We have a huge UCL quarterfinal game coming up, and most of the regulars that played majority of the games for their national teams were rested, which is perfectly logical. The team that started yesterday is more than good enough to beat West Brom, even with 10 men. It was just one of those days.

We meuve.

This play acting naim dey kill football these days sha. Small thing, pesin go do like who dem shoot or stab with knife.

Very irritating.

Sigh. Bayern don carry their league again for sure.

Meanwhile, stranger things going on in France and Italy. Lille beat PSG away from home, they're now 3 points ahead with seven matches left.

AC Milan and Juve both dropped points. Inter play later today, so they can extend their lead at the top.

Inter's case is looking increasingly likely, but can Lille hold on?

popizaino:
La ti bo si bo?
From where to where?

So you expect kovacic to drive the ball up the pitch and still at the back to cover for every error at the back. at the same time?

Welllll...to be very honest sha, I think Kova could probably have done better there, considering he was already near the box. Who knows if he could've blocked the final pass if he made it to the box.

Nonetheless, he was one of our better players, even though he didn't have a very fantastic outing.

Senior men, make we no too overflog the issue sha. These type of things happen once in a while. The team was just very sloppy, sluggish and disorganised, especially in terms of defense (note; defense applies to the defensive effort of the team as a whole, not just the defenders). Even the Silva we're talking about, this was his first red card since 2013. So it isn't as if he's reckless by nature.

We just need to regroup and restrategize for the next game. Porto will certainly be feeling confident they can inflict some damage. TT has already said no day off, so it's back to the training ground tomorrow.

Hopefully they learn from this harsh episode.

ShadowCracker:
I Thank myself for not watching that match.
Airmark and bluemann el monstro at it again , Costing us points against w.brom has been the highlight of his Chelsea career.

We don't have a world-class defender at Chelsea, we need to sign Boatank.

If you have nothing reasonable to say, please don't mention me. Abeg
Cheers sir

Tempers have been boiling over small small in this match sha

Wow...Mendy scores.

popizaino:
Pls UK people ....is Westbrom in London?

I sha know it's in the West Midlands.

This Ayoze Perez sha

Nice strike from Fernandinho, but I knew it would be ruled out.

Schmeichel should be saving that. He was clearly unsighted.

So Pulisic got injured again?

swiz123:
Silva left the pitch when we were 1 nil up. Zouma's non-suprising stupidity coupled with some escorts' work served us this L.

Chelsea should be able to hold the goal advantage over fuckingg West Brom even when one-man down.

Silva made a mistake that should have shown our character and strength, not expose the lack of it. West Brom were not that good; we were just very poor.

Case closed.

WTF

Jorginho had a stinker today...and he will likely start against Porto as well.

Just hope he picks up form.

hensben:
He is old tho. I understand Tuchel started him to rest Christensen and Rudiger for ucl.

Exactly. He's just recovering from injury, and we have Porto next week. It makes more sense for the in form Chris and Rudiger to start against Porto. Moreover West Brom were our weakest opponents left on paper this season, so Silva starting shouldn't have been a problem.


Things like that just happen. Silva fvck up, we don collect. We meuvee.

Obviously Silva sha go collect the most of the blame for the sending off...though I still have reservations about the officiating. I don't think that was a sending off, and if it was a foul and a card, same should've applied when Werner was stamped on after playing a square ball in the box. It's a shame Silva got himself sent off cos those two fouls aside, I thought he was solid and his passes helped get us up the pitch.

But na we do ourselves sha. Asides the numerical disadvantage, we just didn't do enough. We made so many errors, ranging from subtle errors to pure comedy. And we also had some decent chances which we failed to take.

Anyways, Tuchel don finally collect e own welcome to EPL package after 11 games. As Donstan said, humiliation dey reach everybody hand.

No too much shalaye. Make scummies enjoy the dance floor.

We meuvee.

Oya scummies and Egbon
The floor is wide open

E don tay sha

Such elementary defending

This man for try put Havertz nah

My heart skipped 4 beats when Werner trap that ball

I was like...not again

The ref for try end match na

Oh well
E don tay wey dem party for here

Looks like Mount will be coming on at halftime

And we have just two subs left.

airmark:
If he wasn't on a first yellow he wouldn't have left.

What about the West brom guy that caught Werner's ankle in the box earlier?

Na wetin me sef dey ask.

Silva caught the guy on a follow through. It was deemed not only a foul, but a card.

A west brom defender did the exact same thing to Werner, yet no punishment.

The matter no quantize.