Great win & Tuchel Masterclass

No mount or jorginho for second leg but we have Pulisic, Kai, Kante as back up

Next united, need to beat them on Sunday for top 4 hopefully team got the confidence after today result

I will say mu > am now

Didn't expected a win

A good win. Not sure we can still pull this off in the 2nd leg

Once we fine tune that final ball in behind to CHO or anyone else for that matter, we'll look much2 more dangerous. Jorginho managed to pick him out once or twice and a few were overhit as well, but at the end of the day, we need more players at least attempting that pass. I feel ziyech / kai can really excel at this, given the time.

Mendy of all people looked really shaky, and I tip my hat to llorente was it? Who could've gone down after the former's horrendous touch, but chose to play on. Might've been an easy penalty for them, and hand on my heart if werner/CHO did the same, I'd be pretty annoyed. Go in full speed, you don't even need to dive and just make sure you get to the ball first as mendy's as slow as a snail. 99% chance he's going to clatter into you in panic. Easy pen, early lead.

We weren't amazing, but damn that overhead kick was worthy of winning ANY match. Special thanks to the refs handling VAR for spotting that attempted back pass from atletico. Giroud anonymous for practically 70 minutes and comes up with a worldie on the 71st. Superb!

Christensen as usual will have our management scratching their heads as to whether he's the real deal or not, but you can't deny he deserves to start every game so far. Had one bad mistake where he tried to win the ball early vs suarez and completely mistimes his jump,leaving us exposed. Other than that he was his composed self and I like one instance in the second half where he chose to play the ball out wide and under immense pressure, and we broke on the counter, instantly putting atletico on the back foot. He's capable, just needs that consistency and confidence. This was the kind of showing that can help him regain his mojo.

Keep in mind the last time atletico lost at home in europe was against us, years ago under conte! Nice of us to force them to relive that nightmare. Of all the subs ziyech was the one who probably stood out, although when he lost the ball within seconds of coming on, you're thinking 'oh here we go again,' but he redeemed himself after that, with a first time pass to werner to leave him on on one vs oblak a particular highlight.

This was a massive win and sets us up perfectly vs utd, and I rate atletico's defence as better than theirs. Let's get that three points.

Spanish burnley

Olivier Giroud hasn’t ruled out extending his contract at Chelsea.

Tammy Abraham is not interested in discussing an extension to his contract while the club cast admiring glances at Erling Haaland, it would be prudent to convince Giroud to stay.

- @TheAthleticUK

This post has been edited by zoidx_chung: Feb 24 2021, 09:14 PM

Agreed on prioritizing Giroud over Tammy if we are actually really going for Haaland. We really miss a Drogba/Costa-esque bullying striker.

About the match, I only watched the first half before giving up and heading to bed. Really woke up to a surprise.

This post has been edited by RedShirt: Feb 24 2021, 09:35 PM

If get Haaland then can sell tammy for 30-40mil.....as for extending giroud contract i dont really mind if he okay for 3rd choice.

Its going be hard for chelsea to sell players in a pandemic

Players to sell - Alonso, Zouma or christenens , emerson , jorginho , barkley , lotus cheek

Summer : ST , CB , Deep lying play-maker (midfield) , Winger

I dont understand the obsession of selling important first team players every single season

Last season was kante joji if i remember correctly.

needs to understand that transfer windows wont be so kind to us anymore as well

tight schedule ahead, expect some rotation

Roman done afk d....he wants success now...club ready to spend another 200-300mil...the players I mention they maybe playing in team now but they are Deadwood... actually so many Deadwood in the team going hard to clear during this pandemic situation and marina won't lower the price also mati- mati want max price.

Roman & Board of directors enough with always trying get top 4.....time to win titles d...so sorry la if player's slow develop you are out of here.... Club will keep players that they think can win Chelsea a league title or champion league title

sad but true...

I want him back

“ Nobody is buying Haaland for £100m this summer, more like £150m and probably £200m with agent fee’s, City are reluctant due to previous problems with FFP, Roman see’s Haaland as Hazard 2.0, he likes him, here’s the money Marina, go get him “

( Matt Law - London is Blue Pod )


“ Other ST options / alternatives? Yes, but Roman is in love with Haaland “

“ If Roman wants to splash cash, he will “

Others news is that Kante isn’t happy being on the bench, Zouma will most likely leave, Chelsea want £40m+.

( Matt Law - London is Blue Pod )

Roman is in love with Haaland this is all i need come Papa Roman

Yeah one thing with man city is they wont want a bidding war.....so advantage chelsea.....man city probably find another solution "cough " messi "cough" .

Still no Silva vs mu... GG

Hopefully Christensen can turn up