Chelsea (a) Post Match

[souliv]

Not criticizing Smith , but Rogers for not bringing on Alberto instead

[Cormack74]

A Leeds supporting fan I know who never gives us credit for anything just posted on facebook his embarrassment at the abject performance of a fellow Yorkshireman.

We weren't great but Webb helped to ensure we wouldn't get any sort of result.

[Chazza]

I honestly think we scored too early and the game dynamic changed after that. When Chelsea are behind they are much better and as soon as they go ahead they surrender possession against the top sides (which Jose thinks we are one)

These are two massive away games back to back and we are not in bad shape at this time in the season with most of the top teams left to play at home.

I thought Johnson was poor again, Agger should not have started at LB the Smith substitute was making a point to the owners and Sterling was our best player.

We need to beat Hull now to put these results behind us and move into the new year with focus and belief.

[Ams12]

I was watching the arse newcastle game earlier & was impressed with how they held on towards the end against newcastle's 'push'. I wonder if in training LFC practice deffense vs attack scenario's where our attacking unit aim to 'overload' the attack while the defensive unit aim to defend against them. Would be good for our defenders to start being comfortable dealing with crosses & attacks.

Glad we've got these 2 games out the way now & we can focus on building up a winning run to get back on track. Jan Transfer window to look forward to now

[Leyton388]

Can't ****ing believe we didn't get anything. WTF was Skrtel doing allowing Eto'o to get in front of him for the goal?

3,games played away at rivals so far and 3 defeats. Not good.

[marksared]

1 - Arsenal #1
2 - City #2
3 - Chelsea #3
4 - Everton #4
5 - Us
6 - Man Utd
7 - Spurs #5
8 - Newcastle #6
9 - Southampton
10 - Hull #7
11 - Swansea #8

It's 8

makes for positive reading though (may not suit some)...only away to Southanpton and the Mancs left.

[G]

On a positive note,we have a first 11 to match anyone and we just gave the two best squads in the league,who cost multi millions more than ours, a bloody good game ,so much so that they needed dodgy decisions to help them win.

Can't wait to see who we sign in Jan and push on from there.

[chadrtc]

I see the press are all eating up the sour ones story about Suarez diving, conveniently keeping all talk of the 3 horrific challenges made by Chelsea players out of the news... And thus unlikely to be reviewed by the FA.

I hate that tit... Anyone who ever wanted him anywhere near our clubs needs their head checked.

[frank the tank]

Okay so we have played 8 of the top 11 teams away from home - so ****in what??? We got 6 points from those 8 games! When w play these 8 at home, do people honestly think we will get full points? Or against ****e teams like Stoke palace and Cardiff - we'll ****in do well to piss any away game in the league (except Norwich, Luis gets an automatic hattrick against those cunts)

In reality, the team is playing good stuff, the squad is too small and a lot can happen between now and may. An injury to Suarez and we can kiss goodbye to top 7, let alone top 4....

These 2 away games in 3 days was a bad joke though ( plus spurs 10 days ago) - no ****in way is that random. Our squad is so ****e that we couldn't ****in do it. I am 100% sure that had we had Chelsea first, then we'd have beaten the cunts..

As it is now, hull will be a very tough game.

[Redspin]

To be fair I can't see us getting fourth, I suspect it to be the usual suspects, despite utd having a dodgy season. City, arsenal, Chelsea, utd, in that order.

That's the spirit!

[RichC]

I think fatigue caught up with us yesterday and highlighted how shallow our squad depth is.

We certainly need to add to the squad in January. The first half of the season IMO was still a decent success and we're in and around where we need to be going into the second half of the season.

Sakho loss is a big blow.

[Reece]

I'm so angry The few bits I caught on the radio/TV this morning all centre around Mourinho and Suarez being a diver. Little or no mention of the fact that it should have actually been a bloody penalty I genuinely don't understand how Webb can be looking straight at the incident and not deem it a foul. It stinks.

We were definitely below par yesterday - no arguments there, but if it weren't for some utterly abject refereeing we could have still managed to come away with a draw. Perhaps more if they'd been down to 10 men for 88 minutes (especially bearing in mind that the guy who scored the winner would not have been on the pitch).

Sick of **** refereeing.

I won't even bother mentioning how much I hate Mourinho (clue - it's A LOT).

[magicalbarnes]

I'm so angry The few bits I caught on the radio/TV this morning all centre around Mourinho and Suarez being a diver. Little or no mention of the fact that it should have actually been a bloody penalty I genuinely don't understand how Webb can be looking straight at the incident and not deem it a foul. It stinks.

We were definitely below par yesterday - no arguments there, but if it weren't for some utterly abject refereeing we could have still managed to come away with a draw. Perhaps more if they'd been down to 10 men for 88 minutes (especially bearing in mind that the guy who scored the winner would not have been on the pitch).

Sick of **** refereeing.

I won't even bother mentioning how much I hate Mourinho (clue - it's A LOT).

Overall Chelsea deserved they're win, but they should have been down to 10 men & it was a definate penalty.

Still onwards and upwards. Lets start another run.

[poorscousertommy]

That wasn't our best performance, no. But Chelsea derserve credit for the first half at least. Some of their play was fantastic. The best performance I have seen against us in a while.

The ref situation just makes my blood boil. Etoo should have been sent off after a couple of minutes. They were saying on tv that he got away with it as it was early in the game. It doesn't matter if it is in the 1st minute or the 91st minute, studs up on someones knee is a straight red. The foul on Suarez was a stonewall pen and Oscar should have gone too. Webb is an absolute ****house. Imagine if a ref had of performed like that in a Utd game????

We should have come away with 2 points out of the lastr two games at least. Also our rivals would both be 2 points less well off. As it is we are know 5th.

We need to go on a run which we are more than capable of doing. We also need to strenghthen in January. We are desperate for more goals from midfield.

[Gingawaria]

We were never in the first half even when you consider the goal, Chelsea just blew us away. We were better in the second half and really should have had a penalty but that was really our only hope of getting anything out of the game, we got outplayed, it happens.

We just need to ensure a good response against Hull on Wednesday.