Chelsea 2 Blackburn Rovers 0

[Floyd25]

23 minutes ago, johnnybozo said:

We'll dominate and smash Blackburn in the Mickey Mouse tournament then straight back to choking against PL teams at the weekend

Didn’t really smash them, first goal was a bit fortunate, second a good finish, other than that struggled to take chances…Palmer and Sterling the obvious stand outs. 

Edited November 1, 2023 by Floyd25

[Ham]

4 minutes ago, Bones said:

Some of the less mentioned names so far: James, Big Les, Disasi, Enzo, Sterling and Palmer all put in a very decent performance tonight

Yeah big Les really hasn't or a foot wrong for us this season. Very steady, slick and reliable player.

Not sure what happens when Lavia returns. 

Palmer is just brilliant.  City have fecked up there. 

[paulw66]

Frustrating watch. Should have got at least 4.

 

Standard. 

 

[Floyd25]

10 minutes ago, asvaberg said:

Matos debutant for the first team, right?

He made a couple of appearances prior to this, shame we didn’t see Casteldine. 

[paulw66]

19 minutes ago, Bones said:

How many chances has Gallagher messed up tonight? I counted at least 3 very very promising transitions in the box that should have led to at least a shot

He's great when we don't have the ball. Not good enough with it in the games we dominate possession. 

[Floyd25]

1 minute ago, paulw66 said:

He's great when we don't have the ball. Not good enough with it in the games we dominate possession. 

Agreed, he’s got a habit of turning in to players when he’s trying to create space, or not picking the final pass and he really should be scoring a few for a player who has a good shot on him, other than that he’s been good this season. 

[Original 21]

Comfortable in the end and a clean sheet. That was the minimum result we should be getting. Good work out for James and Badashiele. Palmer and Sterling were lively upfront. Jackson seems to have buckled under the pressure of having to be the main man. Not his fault really. Going to be a long way back for him. 

[Chelsea_Matt]

7 minutes ago, Original 21 said:

Comfortable in the end and a clean sheet. That was the minimum result we should be getting. Good work out for James and Badashiele. Palmer and Sterling were lively upfront. Jackson seems to have buckled under the pressure of having to be the main man. Not his fault really. Going to be a long way back for him. 

Shown some glimpses this season but looks like a champo player tbh.

[Holymoly]

A win. Well that was a turn up for the books. Fingers crossed for Port Vale.

[Ham]

43 minutes ago, paulw66 said:

He's great when we don't have the ball. Not good enough with it in the games we dominate possession. 

Actually I think he's world class in our half of the pitch and average in the other half. 

[Miguelito07]

1 hour ago, Ham said:

This is definitely the Cucurella we coveted when he was at Brighton. 

 

Played well?

[Rob B]

1 hour ago, Bones said:

Yes and Enzo being such a good passer I cant understand how he is not able to shoot precisely from the edge of the box in every game

We had exactly the same conversation in our household this evening.   Awful striker of a football for someone so technically gifted. 

On the game generally, wasn’t a classic, but an hour for Benoit and Reece (who even though he obviously lacks sharpness, will so clearly add another dimension going forward) another good performance from Palmer who was my MOTM and Sterling, Cucurella and Big Les all decent. 

In terms of the not so positive, Jackson looks a completely different player to the one we saw in pre-season and the first 5 games - I’d genuinely consider loaning him if we sign a striker in Jan and Nkunku remains fit.   Sanchez looks to be a great shot stopper but truly awful with his feet.  Almost got robbed again with the ball at his feet,  and as others have mentioned Gallagher is limited in games like this.  Tottenham away from home on Monday is the game you play him…

[Original 21]

Our reward is we get to play Newcastle at home.

[Miguelito07]

Chelsea v Newcastle 😞

[blueboy1905]

Nice easy draw in the next round 🙄

[Holymoly]

1 minute ago, blueboy1905 said:

Nice easy draw in the next round 🙄

We'll be cooking by then and they're playing in Europe. Semi final against Port Vale then we win the cup playing against Everton. Simple.

[Ham]

29 minutes ago, Miguelito07 said:

Played well?

Very well in both halves of the pitch. 

1 minute ago, Holymoly said:

We'll be cooking by then and they're playing in Europe. Semi final against Port Vale then we win the cup playing against Everton. Simple.

That's better. 👍

[east lower]

To be honest I quite enjoyed watching Blackburn tonight. Don’t get me wrong, very pleased that we won but the instinctive and organised play in that game was played by them. 

Full of youngsters, who are clearly good footballers and look well drilled and coached. Their number 23 looked like a bag of bones but hardly put a foot wrong when he had the ball all game. Lacked a forward but so do we.

A few nice moments from individuals tonight but once more we played a slow, laboured game. Whatever is getting coached is rubbish or the players are rubbish or they’re  not listening. 
 

 

[Dwmh]

I'll read the other comments soon.
My reaction - rubbish.  Imagine playing a full strength Leicester team, 20 points higher than Blackburn.

Very very poor.

[Dwmh]

37 minutes ago, Miguelito07 said:

Chelsea v Newcastle 😞

Could be much worse.  We could be going out to Man u instead.

[chara]

At times..well most of the game it looked like a bunch of very talented youngsters playing another bunch of good youngsters with really no sign of ever losing the game,

Plus injured players getting a good runout.......Carabao Cup but why the sneers?....are the Arse and Manure fans getting solace from that?....whatever they may say WE ALL know it hurts!

Bit disappointed about the draw..have a gentle little Port Vale story I was bursting to tell!

 

[Dwmh]

30 minutes ago, chara said:

Bit disappointed about the draw..have a gentle little Port Vale story I was bursting to tell!

Might not have to wait too long the way things are going.

[ROTG]

7 hours ago, johnnybozo said:

Told ya. We'll dominate and smash Blackburn in the Mickey Mouse tournament then straight back to choking against PL teams at the weekend

Good job our next PL match is on a Monday. 
 

Next 

[xceleryx]

One of those "get the job done" type of performances that. 

Good to come out of it without any further injuries, but certainly room for improvement to be had. 

Newcastle up next will be a challenge. 

Overall a win's a win at this stage. 

[My Blood Is Blue]

Didn’t watch, so can’t comment on the match, but glad we’re through. The draw not been kind to us, but at least we’re in it!