Chelsea vs Liverpool Match Thread

Status
Not open for further replies.
Love Matip's communication with his teammates in this half. Near the end Ming got hold of the ball after the Chelsea corner and was doing his usual routine rushing our players to start a counter. Matip turned to him and said a few words – I guess to the effect "just hold on to the ball for a few seconds, don't you see your teammates need a breather"? – to which Ming duly obliged.
 
I'm more confident with Matip and Lovren. They're looking strong together. I just hope the midfield can adapt and control the play in the middle. Slowing it down when we need to, conceding smart fouls when we have to and keeping possession.

That was a dominant first half performance and their defence is visibly scared when any of our attackers gets the ball in space. We've been brilliant. Now we must be smart.
 
Totally agree, but Sturridge hasn't had a lot of opportunities to do anything.
Quite.

We've often had the ball so he needs to stay up top, if he got back & helped press when we won it we'd have no one up there to stretch them & no space for anyone to run into!
 
Chelsea will be better in the 2nd half. Need as good a performance after half time.
Origi to come on after 65ish min and put some pressure on Cahill/Luiz.

Fearing this will become a bit to exciting in the second half...
 
Love Matip's communication with his teammates in this half. Near the end Ming got hold of the ball after the Chelsea corner and was doing his usual routine rushing our players to start a counter. Matip turned to him and said a few words – I guess to the effect "just hold on to the ball for a few seconds, don't you see your teammates need a breather"? – to which Ming duly obliged.
Wasn't it Sturridge?
 
I love watching Sturridge whenever we have the ball, but whenever we are under pressure I miss Origi... Not sure how to reconcile those 2 mutually exclusive things.
 
Wasn't it Sturridge?

I think I saw Matip say something, maybe Sturridge did as well. Anyway, somebody needed to tell Ming to calm the fuck down, it was obvious our players were tiring at the moment and we would have likely lost the ball if we tried to counter.
 
Chelsea have a bad habit of getting goals late in the match. We will need to score again.
 
Really Impressive first half. Matip composed and two brilliant finishes.

Henderson has been superb and that's a Goal Of The Season contender

But it's only half time, and we will inevitably concede at least once
 
Grujic was just coming up on his shrooms as that goal went in from Hendo

@PLVines: HAHAHAHAHA look at Grujic's reaction
 
  • Like
Reactions: ILD
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom