Vs Chelsea (H): Post Match Thread

[kingfunk]

Vs Chelsea (H): Post Match Thread

Rodgers purchased the 4 we have though. This is what annoys me.

He also tried to sell one but he refused to go forcing us late into the window and choosing the cheaper riskier Ballotelli.

[Bender]

Look at our defence in this picture.....terrible defending,what on earth do they do in training

[Leyton388]

4 chavs free in our box for a corner

Superb defending by our brain dead back 4.

[danperkins]

We got a lucky goal early on & were completed dominated for the whole game. Should have had a peno and ref should have booked my Chelsea players but they totally deserved the points.

Rodgers persisting with Lovren,Johnson,Balotelli & Gerrard in that holding role is killing us. Not playing two up & our best formation the diamond. It's all wrong & Rodgers has no take the blame. It just seems he has no clue how to set us up.

Everyone is banking on Sturridge coming back fixing all our problems...it's a lot bigger than that.

[BobTheCharmer]

Sure, we bought badly and now have a first team where most of the players aren't good enough. But, it looks like Brendan has no ideas for how to get the best out of what he's got. He's just hoping doing the same thing over and over will produce different results. He's failing the test pretty badly.

OK fair enough. But today was not the day to go hung ho. If we hadn't conceded so soon after scorer the setvup would have been fine. This team failed at Newcastle, its unrealistic to judge on a home game against an in form Chelsea. They are a nightmare to play against. We had to try and compete in midfield with them, two up front would have ****ed us. We would have been swamped. We kept them fairly quiet upfront. Balotelli was never going to get much change out of them. We will do them at their place.

Its the next set of games where I want to see how we set up. If its the same then yes questions need to be asked.

[vlahka]

It's bad enough I had to sit through that game, but when I finally get the chance to head to the toilet my dads already finished depositing the most foulest **** I've ever smelled. Even my air freshener went the opposite way.

[alonso14]

Persevering with ideas that aren't working is frustrating to watch.

mourinho is a decent manager but he's not a genius. but when he pushed his front three attackers, we just kept trying to pass it out from the back and gave them the ball back over and over again.

is that just plain back luck or something else ? jose has once again shown every team in the premier league that if you push up and press us, our goalkeeper, and back four and gerrard cant handle it.

[chadrtc]

This place at times.

It's genuinely astonishing.

[little dave hedgehog]

we look like a bunch of footballers

that's very generous

[tanner]

He also tried to sell one but he refused to go forcing us late into the window and choosing the cheaper riskier Ballotelli.

You seem to be offering that as a defence of Brendan, but all it says to me is that Brendan purchased a pretty ****e striker and tried to sell him in the summer, couldn't sell him because nobody wanted to pay the wages that we do because he's pretty ****e, so Brendan then rushed into buying another ****e Striker on £150k a week before the window closed, even though Suarez moved well before the transfer season ended. In summary, Brendan purchased a lot of ****e strikers.

[Chazza]

Look at our defence in this picture.....terrible defending,what on earth do they do in training

They had all gone to win the first header and attack the ball. The picture in isolation looks bad and we are **** at set pieces but the majority have run out but been caught out with the header back in toward Terry.

[RichC]

That picture of our defence Lovren and Skrtel the two centre backs the furthest away from a man.

The pair of them are utterly useless

[tanner]

Look at our defence in this picture.....terrible defending,what on earth do they do in training

That is shocking.

[Chazza]

That picture of our defence Lovren and Skrtel the two centre backs the furthest away from a man.

The pair of them are utterly useless

Sakho should be given a go and Toure was very unlucky to be dropped for Lovren who has been a disaster so far.

[kingfunk]

You seem to be offering that as a defence of Brendan, but all it says to me is that Brendan purchased a pretty ****e striker and tried to sell him in the summer, couldn't sell him because nobody wanted to pay the wages that we do because he's pretty ****e, so Brendan then rushed into buying another ****e Striker on £150k a week before the window closed, even though Suarez moved well before the transfer season ended. In summary, Brendan purchased a lot of ****e strikers.

How are you so sure Rodgers had the final word on Ballotelli?