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At least he redeems himself

Havertz10:
tuchel is clueless, not only is havertz playing on the wing, he is playing on the left

Tinkering unnecessarily. I mean we've got Sterling who's clearly comfortable there

Why is Kai playing on the wings and not Sterling. TT likes to tinker a lot

Smh

Really hope it's a 4-2-2-2 rather than 3-4-3 with Ziyech as the RWB

Nice one guys.

Thought we fought well. Particularly given the red card

Pulisic made us worse...smh

popizaino:
Olorun oba oooo

Well...TT certainly agrees

That was completely RLC fault

User09:
Havertz doing all the pressing up front. Sterling needs to move more to create spaces

See what happens when the forward players move

Havertz doing all the pressing up front. Sterling needs to move more to create spaces

Im sorry but this Cucurella is a headless chicken

More brawns than brains.

At least u should remember ure on a yellow

And it gets worse.

Very reckless from Conor

Gordon with the goal.lol

Crystal Palace on the highway

I see TT's yet to catch onto the facade that is RLC

Looking at the replays, I feel like it wouldnt have been this bad if not for the Mendy mistake. Probably a bland draw or a sneaky 1 nil win

TT plays too many players out of position. And these silly guys wanna pass it into the net

I dont even understand what I'm watching. I'm not even seeing a midfield

Missed the first-half.

How bad were we?

FBS:
This. This was what gave us the license to be more expressive against Spurs.
Need I even mention how our goals came about?

Someone will now come here and tell me Jogginghoe is outplaying Kante with some silly stats. For this same EPL or the one played on Cocos Island? Nonsense.

The problem with most of you is that you all watch the game just to confirm your already existing bias. Anybody paying attention in that game would know that J5 wasnt given a free roam. For most of the half he was tasked with marking Dejan Kulusevski out

Infact for most of the first half Kante was the man who often found himself with a yard of space and counter-attacking opportunities.

You would see and know these things if you were paying attention without bias and not coming here to regurgitate the typical populist bandwagon crap

Suddenly now agrees that lazy ninny Havertz pressed all game just to posit that J5 was posing all game

Guess what TT's response was when asked if he blamed Jorgiboy for the goal. He said and I quote " 'How can I be angry with him if the goal was offside?!" So much for costing us the game

I'll keep saying it. TT and The top footballing guys do not see these things that his haters see. There's only so many people he can fool for so long. At some point u'll have to realise the criticisms are not getting anywhere. Let FDJ come first

TT's post match interview.

Thomas, let’s start with the obvious, the handshake and the bus

I just compared it to two players who had a bit of fight on the field and nothing happens. Nobody gets injured and the players, if you have a hard tackle or fair tackle, if you don’t go and apologise, there’s no need

“It’s Premier League football and the two managers got involved today because both of us were fighting for our teams. That was it, nobody got insulted, nobody got hurt, we didn’t have a fist fight or something.

“For me, it’s not a big deal. It was part of it today and it boiled of course and it featured us. Both nothing bad. Today it was part of the ban.”

Have you had a chance to speak with Antonio since?

“Not yet. I don’t have any bad feeling and I’m sure he will not have. We fought for our teams and it happens. It’s so close here and it was such an intense match…both dugouts are very close so it got a bit heated from both of us.”

You enjoyed it really, didn’t you?

“Yes and I think he enjoyed it as well. It was nothing bad.”

Do you have more of a problem with the referee, Thomas?

“Today? Absolutely.”

Some of the fans think he’s made a few bad decisions against Chelsea…

“I don’t think just some of the fans think that. I can assure you the whole dressing room of us, every single person, thinks that. I can’t understand how the first goal is not offside and I can’t understand when a player is pulled by their hair, the other player stays on the pitch. Pull someone else’s hair, stay on the pitch and attack the last corner. This is for me without any explanation and I don’t want to accept it. Both goals should not stand and it’s a fair result because we were brilliant, deserved to win. This is my point of view.”

Is part of the frustration and emotion that you’ve lost two points that you deserved?

“Yes, but it happens. It happens during the life a football coach and a team. In football, and as players, you sometimes get caught in the last minute and we will hopefully have it in the season that we will steal some points and be decisive. This can happen. But it can’t happen when we have VAR at this kind of level. It can’t happen that goals are allowed that are simply irregular goals. This is the frustration and it’s unacceptable.

"I think we know what we did, the players know the input they put into the game mentally and physically. We were so sharp, fully on, and played a brilliant match. What a step up for us from the first game against Everton. I’m disappointed for the players that they don’t get the reward. It’s actually down to incredible decisions.”

There have been issues with this referee that fans think have gone on for quite a while…

Not only the fans. You know the players, they know what’s going on when they are on the pitch. They know it.”

Are they worried when it’s this referee?

“Yeah, of course.”

N’Golo Kante seemed to hobble off with muscle injury, is that correct and is there any indication of how serious it is?

“It seems another muscle injury, the hamstring. He said he feels it pretty strong. So no good news. "

You and the players feel there is an issue [with Anthony Taylor] and the fans feel he shouldn’t referee Chelsea games…

“Maybe it would be better. Maybe it would be better. But honestly, we also have VAR to help make the right decision. Since when can players be pulled by hair? Since when is that [not a foul]? If he does not see it, I do not blame him. I didn’t see it. But we have people at VAR who check this. Then you see it and how can this not be a free-kick and a red card? This doesn’t even had to do with the referee in this case. If he does not see something, that’s why we have people to check if there is a decisive error going on.”

The referees have been given the direction to let the games flow more and not give every foul, is this the new reality that some fouls won’t be given?

“Some fouls won’t be given? We still have rules and I’m surprised when there is a 50/50 challenge with Harry Kane in the build-up to the last goal and it’s worth whistling because none of the players expected a free-kick because it wasn’t a free-kick. But suddenly it is.

“When Reece James did a tactical foul it was a yellow card, how many tactical fouls did (Pierre-Emile) Hojbjerg do today? He hit Reece James in his neck in front of both benches and the fourth official told me they’d go back to it because it was advantage. Did he go back to it? No he did not.

“Bentancur did three, four, five, six tactical fouls [and didn’t get a yellow card]. It’s a clear foul on Kai Havertz who goes towards goal. It stands and goes and it’s the build to the 1-1. Huge, huge misinterpretation of situations. I’m happy to let the game go, but let it go in every direction please and not like this. This is, yeah, it’s what it is today and it will not go away. I don’t even know if I will get punished for my sentences now. So it’s the same.”

Put an AM on Jorginho, Typical silly talk

I didnt know the function of an AM was to man mark Jorginho. He's so shite that an opposition coach must keep sending AM's to mark him out of the game

The good news today is that was a solid display, much improved from the Everton one with Jorgiboy (albeit the mistake) being the fulcrum and immaculately controlling the tempo. Also the tactical switches from TT made me realise he's still as solid as he was 2 seasons ago

Anyway the bad news is that that's likely a muscle injury from Kante and he'll likely be away for a while(2 months plus)

Mike Dean mehn.

Continues to screw us

Mike Dean wants to screw us

That was all Kante though.

Class!!

Expert17:
After 2 mins of play?

Not possible

44 seconds. Plus there was an offside call

Hope VAR rules that out

Mike Dean...lol

Need another goal now

popizaino:
Very uncommon moments.

I want a number Popi

popizaino:
30 : 33 mins

Practical moment of what i usually call out Jorginho for. Two spurs players were on him and kante was by the side,just a little effort from him to put kante with a blind pass and we still be in attacking position but the idiot was already attempting to go back before been fouled.


43 : 18mins


Rare moments from Jorginho that even sparked outrage here from his usual fan boys. If it was a usually thing from him,his fans won't need to let us know.

Let's put a number to this rare moments. What do u define as rare?