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Yesterday, I asked Ibime severally what he thinks was responsible for our loss.

Ibime said mancity is obviously stronger than Chelsea and he expected us to lose the game even before it started. I had also earlier asked him why we lost the midfield battle and he said mancity always wins the midfield battle even against stronger teams.

But here is this same Ibime criticizing jorginho against mancity last season?
You can see the negative bias against jorginho.
Yesterday we saw how kovacic made 3 costly errors that led to goal scoring chances which the defenders and goalkeeper bailed us out on.

We also saw kante consistently dispossessed and making 2 errors too of which one led to the goal.

Ibime was awkwardly quiet about our failure in the middle. He didn't castigate any of these errors but watch him rush to highlight every single fault he and misstep he could find against jorginho.
See the double standards he has.

Ibime:
So it was even Jogginghoe that was at fault for City goal today. Just seeing how he let Jesus get the ball, then turned him to score.

Someone being objective enough to his biased scapegoating.

timbros:
Nobody was at fault for that goal.
Credit to Jesus for being able to squeeze out the shot, but Jorginho got him covered. A deflection off Jorginho's boot left Mendy stranded.
Kante too gave many balls away.

Here Ibime is pointing out passes jorginho made in his 75 mins against mancity but is silent on the passes kante made yesterday as the holding midfielder for 90 mins. This is despite now acknowledging that mancity is indeed a very strong unit. A team that even outpossed PSG home and away this season and Madrid last season. As a matter of fact, as you can see with the picture below, Chelsea is one of only 5 teams that have outpossed mancity since he came to England with jorginho having had the highest passes that day in 2019.

Ibime:
Our great playmaker dropping only 38 passes again today

So we can see. When it comes to jorginho, all knives are out, when it comes to kovacic, kante. A deafening silence befalls us. It can only be a hater.

Rodri who he tagged an escort is who has also played his own part in making the mancity midfield a behemoth, imagine what jorginho with his record breaking passes a match would do in a Guardiola system.

Ibime:
Even people wey carry Salah, Mane, VVD, Fabinho, Jota, Trent, Robertson, Henderson etc go Etihad don't expect to win.

You carry Ziyech, Alonslow, Sarr, Kepa etc go Etihad come dey expect me to join you in delusions.

If your ticket cut, no carry me join for your vexation abeg.

Good, I see you've started calling names.
So today alonso, sarr, ziyech and kepa {our best player today} are to blame for us losing today ba?

Ibime:
Same way I didn't expect a title challenge while you got carried away.

The bookies gave you odds of 5:1, need I explain more? That's the reality, they are better than us, but some choose to delude themselves.

Ibime you are usually more succinct when making your points. Don't be coy.

Can you please tell us clearly why you had already surrendered before the match had already began?

Why didn't you have any hope of us winning the match?

Ibime:
I didn't expect a win. Those who did should go and question their bookmaker.

Why didn't you expect a win from Chelsea?

You mean that before the match you've already surrendered??
I'm eager to hear why?

Ibime:
What's the reason he didn't play today and Vs Liverpool?

What was the reason for our loss today?

Ibime how far na?

You love to analyze and lay blames after matches.
Today, you're awfully quiet about this loss.

What happened today??
Who is responsible for today's loss?

Ibime:
There is no trap. You set yourself up for trap by blaming his absence on our lack of dominance, only to get his stats against City rubbed in your face

Anyone is likely to lose against City so I don't see any fuss. Only a deluded fan will go and bet on Chelsea to beat City. Shows his wonky understanding of football.

All you need to worry about is why TT don't trust your man.

All I'm seeing is deflections and insults. Why did we lose today?
What is responsible for our loss?

Ibime:
Show me one match he did so against Man City from 2018 to date

What happened to us today Ibime??

Why did we lose today's match?
Enter this trap na.

Always posting passing stats, something jorginho boasts many records with. Something we know he is a lord of.
Today is not about jorginho.
We had a kova-kante partnership which we know rarely works as they lack positional discipline and poor passing.
I'm asking, how did rodri the "escort" boss these two??

What happened to us today?

Ibime:
Certainly not the absence of Jogginghoe who has never won a midfield battle against City since he came to England. Those who replaced him did better.

Jorginho has bossed the passing stats eons ago.

Stop deflecting Ibime.

What was responsible for our loss today?

Once someone defaults to whataboutism, he has lost the argument.

There was no jorginho today, yet his hate would only let him see everything through the "jorginho hate" lens.

Ibime, why were we horrendous today?
What was responsible for the shambolic display from us today that jorginho was absent?

Also remember that it was rodri who you termed an "escort" that uselessed kante and kovacic.

Again, what happened to us today Ibime?

Ibime what made us lose the midfield battle today?

What was responsible for our loss today?

I just go burn my money for nothing.

Our midfield being exposed and dispossessed over and over again.
This pivot is a failure.

Guardiola cannot be praised enough.
This guy has built an extremely effective team.
I'm honestly shocked with how terrible we've been in comparison.

It's not like we don't have quality players too. We just haven't become as strong as a unit as they have become. But still see us playing like an under23 team.

Hats off to Guardiola. He is an excellent manager.

Well the league is gone. This officially spells the end of our league Let's focus on the other cups. I'm sure we'll finish in the top4.

It was coming.
Kante failed in his recovery and tackling.

This has to be the worst game of Tuchel's Chelsea career.

popizaino:
I repeat you watch Alonso and think suggesting Marcelo is out of reach for us then you are definitely stupid.

My friend stop talking rubbish.

We should replace a bad player with a worse washed up player because he was good 10 years ago
From frying pan to fire??

This is a tactical failure from tuchel. When almost all your players look bad. It means you got the setup wrong.
From kante, kovacic, ziyech, Alonso, Sarr. All having a horrible game. It means the setup is very faulty.

This one is on Tuchel.

I'm in tears watching this match.
What the actual fuck_
See how weak we are against mancity. See the rubbish we are playing? Over 70 percent possession against us.

It seems we are just waiting for the inevitable of us losing this match.

popizaino:
We can win the game but what I will never approve of is the manner at which we might win.

I'm telling you. That 1st half was insulting to us. we are not that inferior to mancity not to have a single corner or attempt at goal.

Something needs to change.

Ziyech has been shambolic so far. His decisions this game is a headscratcher.

thorrvik55:
Watch match with ur eyes, u say no, na flashscore u wan dey watch match from.
How has Kante been the worst when Ziyech is on the pitch?

Do you know that kante is the most dispossessed player this match?? Losing the ball 6 times.

The midfield is the engine of a team. Our attackers are looking poor because the midfield has surrendered possession. If we had more of the ball, our attackers would see more of the ball.
The midfield is failing so far.

Our players have been all poor but kante is the poorest of the bunch.

iamoyindamola:
He can't score against kepa

Kepa has been excellent this season. Don't try to make him seem less. He has upped his game so much.

Our worst 1st half this season.

2nd half. Bring in jorginho for kovacic, Werner for Lukaku. We need an improvement in the middle and the front. Sarr and Alonso needs a strong talking to. They are being unfortunate in this match.

nateevs:
I think you are looking at it wrongly. Don't you see how City is squeezing the midfield?

They can because the attack is blunt.

Apart from our poor pressing at the front, we have utterly failed in building anything from the back because our midfielders are easily being dispossed which is shocking from kante especially.
Just look at how kovacic made a nearly fatal error now.

Our midfield is failing us badly.

We are being outplayed totally. Our midfield is failing us badly. Losing possession so easily.

We are failing in our press. I thought we would press them higher-up the pitch but we're setting up very low blocks. Mtchew.

Why the excessive long balls?
We are being easily dispossed in the middle.
I was hoping our ball carriers would drive through the middle better. We're not playing well so far.