[Zen]

Where were all these performances from? Surely Rashford being "rested" can't be the catalyst for most of them starters having one of their finer all round games of the season, some their actual best performance too.

Some cohesion issues, but the xG should be pushing 5... which is, something.

 

[atkar83]

3 points behind City

I thought this was a joke. I just checked. its not. How is that possible?

 

[2 man midfield]

Just makes me more annoyed we couldn’t be arsed against the likes of Newcastle and palace. We could’ve been right in the mix at the top.

 

[Zed is not dead]

Great game, deserved and convincing win.

We still miss that killer instinct that would allow us to bury games when we have chances. 2 goals from 4.0xG is underwhelming

But I was happy to see for once a collective performance. They seemed to all work together but most importantly for one another.

Surprisingly, we’re only 3 points off City

 

[TheNewEra]

I am glad I'm not a Chelsea fan

 

[TheRedHearted]

Amrabat brilliant.

Yep. Tough, always in position, those hard hit passes to keep tempo up.

Probably the first enjoyable performance in the PL season.

This was so enjoyable to see considering how slow we have been.

 

[pocco]

Chelsea are a very bad team.

Hard to believe they've spent 230m on their midfield.

Enzo looks garbage and Caicedo not looking as energetic as he did at Brighton. Very easy to play against and their defence all over the place. Attack has no cutting edge, they better hope some players come good as it's looking like a massive waste of money.

 

[Irwin99]

Good game that. The pressing and forced errors gave Chelsea massive problems.

Maguire, McTominay, Dalot, Amrabat, all very good. Antony and Garnacho really put in some work.

 

[Hackman2210]

So Amrabat and Mct just pissed all over caciedo and Fernandez? Credit where credits due. Well played you reds!!

 

[predator]

30ish shots? Looked very dangerous. The team linked up well in attack. Defence were quite solid overall.

Shoutouts to

Garnacho - he is becoming such a big player for us. His dribbling and creativity is improving every game.

Mctominay - Everyone knows he isn't the most technically gifted player with the ball but his desire and eye for goal is impressive.

 

[George Owen]

Said it after the game with Newcastle.

When the bald man set us up to play not to lose, we play like crap and usually lose.

We have to always play to win like tonight. Even if we had draw or lost, it would have been a positive performance for me.

The hunger and desire was there for all of us to see. Only bad finishing prevented us from having more of a field day.

 

[sullydnl]

Would have taken any sort of win, the fact that it was heavily deserved all the better.

 

[Catt]

Good game

 

[krazyrobus]

Finally, some energy and effort from the whole team.

Rashford came on and immediately gave Chelsea the impetus because he is not putting the necessary pressure on the Chelsea's back line to play. He's going to just play out that contract.

Bruno put in more effort in the friggin 90s minute than Rashford.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

Full time whistle went on the Bein Sports stream, and Richard Keys immediately lays into us. That guy has got some issues.

End product was a bit off, but the workrate was massive. Garnacho and Antony were up and down their sidelines non stop. Bruno was just everywhere. The high press was great to watch.

 

[DutchSerb]

McTominay is such a funny player. Everytime when people are starting to get annoyed with him (again) he puts up a masterclass. Great win!!!

 

[Solius]

So much better albeit against a terrible side who play as open as we do. Should’ve scored about 6.

 

[Marcus]

That was fun! Finally.

 

[BootsyCollins]

Showed some good spirit this match.
A better attitude will only take us thus far, and more clear patterns and organization will have to be added, but its a good place to build from.

 

[Ayoba]

Phew!!

 

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

Whisper it but we'll be level on points with City if we win on Saturday

 

[sdb4884]

Good win , players actually put a good shift in. Should beat Bournemouth next then we will likely return to normal against Bayern & Liverpool.

 

[RomfordRed75]

Great result. Played very well and could have had 5 or 6 easily

 

[Geistman]

I know Chelsea are also in dissaray but that was probably the first game in about a year I enjoyed. First half we still had issues in midfield but we organised ourselves better in the second half. The holes in midfield seemed to dry up somewhat. Garnacho for me was man of the match. He set the tone which was very important. I'd like to see the stats it seemed to me we closed down more or maybe it seemed that way because Rashford wasn't on the pitch where all my attention is on him not closing down.

 

[Rustyspider13]

Absolutely deserved win. It's been rare this season that we've been the better team but this one is no question. Immense workrate from everyone involved. Showed there is still some pride left in the team. Do the basics right, that's all we ask.

 

[Gopher Brown]

Very good. There's some fight left in this team. Much better balance in midfield with Anthony and Garnacho defending slightly more narrowly.

Chelsea were absolutely appalling though. I thought we play like strangers with no plan, but they are on a whole different level with that.

 

[Glorio]

I think players themselves respond when there are consequences for those that don't give the required effort.
Love the fact that EtH benched Rashford and we delivered a performance.

No sure why there's such a difference for Højlund when you compare the EPL and the CL

The players don't even seem to look for him

 

[Oranges038]

An entertaining game, what more could you ask for.

A bit open at times. Created a ridiculous amount of chances. McT could have had 5 or 6. The movement and pressing of the front 3 was brilliant.

Chelsea were way too easy to press on the ball. Disasi and Sanchez were awful. Caicedo is a donkey. Enzo never really got into the game.

 

[gorky_utd]

Enjoyed that.

 

[Plant0x84]

Fantastic performance, deserved result but a shame we couldn’t pad our GD a bit - we had so many chances.

Bald is best!

 

[Andersons Dietician]

There were a lot of good performances by our current standard. The running and constant pressure by say the front 4 was excellent. Garnacho, Antony, Hojlund, Bruno did a great job.

Maguire, Shaw, Lindelof, Dalot all fairly solid.

There is still room for improvement as there were many occasions where we just seem to pick the wrong option or can’t see the obvious option to punish people. So many occasions.

 

[Jazz]

I'm so happy!
Good performance as well. Players worked hard.

 

[cj_sparky]

Great win, great performance and 2-1 massively flattered Chelsea (although they look proper shite).

Hopefully we see more of the front three, Hojlund needs a goal soon.

Lots of energy today and players dropped not missed.

 

[ThinkTank@Cafe]

Ten Hang turned Pressing to max and ticked Prevent Goalkeeper from playing. For the whole match. It worked and nobody died in the process.

1. McRabat
2. Garnacho
3. Drop anyone who’s not capable of running 12k+ a game

 

[mu4c_20le]

WE’REEE BBAA-AAACK

 

[Fts 74]

Really enjoyed that should've scored 5 but excellent work rate more of that going forward please.

 

[Ole'sgunnarwin]

I enjoyed it and the players looked like they cared. But I thought we were pretty awful, we could have conceded plenty and our front 3 don't look like there's enough goals between them.

 

[AndySmith1990]

We're only 3 points behind City. How the feck

 

[eire-red]

Delighted with the win.

Hate to say it, but I hope we're not that open though against Bayern and Pool.

 

[klsv]