Chelsea Build Up

[Norbs]

Imagine if Torres ends up scoring the winning goal?

Been thinking about this loads

[danperkins]

Sign of feeling pressure?

definitely

[Sarb]

Worrying signs them.

[McDermotX]

Interesting analysis from Carra and Neville on how deep Sakho and Skrtel are dropping and how this is inviting pressure.

Need to get out of the 18 yard box.

It was, even if it did appear to be looking for the issue rather than understanding the pressuring of Norwich's forward line, not to mention the role of the midfield in not retaining possession and leaving Suarez etc isolated.
It's only natural for teams to revert like that when in the lead and requires positive changes and attitude to reduce its effect.
Rather than highlighting the two CBs, the lads seemed to completely ignore Stevie's positioning (bar one throwaway comment by Carra) which in retrospect, done a lot to invite said pressure and didn't allow our defensive line to regain its normal line........the inability of the rest of the midfield to get around certainly forced an overly defensive posture by Gerrard IMO, which did appear to influence our already flaky defence.

[captainfog]

Sakho can be a bit rash - probably down to the exuberance of youth, but because of that coupled with the fact Jose Pulis will be telling his players to dive all over the place I would bring Agger back into the side. His experience brings a calmness to our defence which is often missing when he's injured or benched.

[Chris]

Sign of feeling pressure?

Nah, it's just the way Skrtel likes to play (going backwards), before the usual suspect gets his knickers in a twist thats not a criticism but he prefers to go backwards (look at Hulls 3rd, backwards, backwards, backwards, it's what he's most comfortable with) whereas Sakho is the opposite he prefers to go forwards but cant do it now as it leaves a giant space and we get players run in behind. It is a concern, they are both very different, dont think either is the wrong way to do it but they arent a partnership yet.

[Gibbo]

I agree, and Sakho does not fill me with confidence when in possession. He has one clanger every game.

To be fair he had 95% pass accuracy yesterday.

He's just a bit cumbersome.

[captainfog]

His passing is good, it's his control that sometimes lets him down.

[Slinky Skills]

Just bought Dr Steven Peter's The Chimp Paradox on iBooks to deal with this ****ing run in....

It's rubbish mate, I can't get into it. Never seen so much use of the word 'Chimp' in my entire life, it does your head in.

[G]

He had two players on top of him yesterday and flanno passed the ball to him. That's the only time I can remember him flapping and it was understandable, he should never have got the ball. He could have hoofed it but it's not the Rodgers way.

[Reece]

We're doing unbelievably well for a team that has a **** keeper, liabilities at right back and centre back, another centre back who can't pass wind, a left back who has serious issues, wimpy midfielders who go missing in games etc etc.

[Vermilion]

We're doing unbelievably well for a team that has a **** keeper, liabilities at right back and centre back, another centre back who can't pass wind, a left back who has serious issues, wimpy midfielders who go missing in games etc etc.

[Fierce]

We're doing unbelievably well for a team that has a **** keeper, liabilities at right back and centre back, another centre back who can't pass wind, a left back who has serious issues, wimpy midfielders who go missing in games etc etc.

Just imagine! Imagine if we had decent players! We'd win the world cup, Wimbledon and all Six of the Nations!

[RedReet]

We're doing unbelievably well for a team that has a **** keeper, liabilities at right back and centre back, another centre back who can't pass wind, a left back who has serious issues, wimpy midfielders who go missing in games etc etc.

Shows how good our forward line is.

[Slinky Skills]

We're doing unbelievably well for a team that has a **** keeper, liabilities at right back and centre back, another centre back who can't pass wind, a left back who has serious issues, wimpy midfielders who go missing in games etc etc.