Could've been 5-0 by half time.
Naturally, the team that was 2-0 down at home and going for the title was bound to throw the kitchen sink at us at some stage but I thought on the whole, we looked much more superior in all departments based on this one off game.
Did we, though? As i recall, we hit them with 4 counters and they missed countless chances. Could be wrong. The way we created chance after chance in the first half today felt more dominating than the Chelsea match.
First half we completely dominated. Could easily have been 0-5
That's probably fair, I'd still say a 4-0 win has to go down as a dominant performance though. Chelsea certainly weren't all over us - in the end it was a comfortable win. For some baffling reason this side seems to be so much better against the big sides than relegation fodder. Bizarre.
Chelsea we got lucky, the first game they dominated us and we got away with it. Spurs - yes, but they were shockingly poor whereas this was against a side which had come off a very good performance against Burnley and we looked sexy, very sexy.
Of course. Ye, it's crazy how we perform so well against good teams and then can't unlock low defenses.That's probably fair, I'd still say a 4-0 win has to go down as a dominant performance though. Chelsea certainly weren't all over us - in the end it was a comfortable win. For some baffling reason this side seems to be so much better against the big sides than relegation fodder. Bizarre.
Come on. They started well for 15 minutes in that game against us and then we tore them apart the rest of the game and won 4-0 with them not having any chances after the early 2 that hit the woodwork. It's like saying Barcelona in 2009 was lucky because we missed a few chances at the start of the game.
Spurs... 2 days back..??
Not true at all. We got a goal against the run of play but even then we massively struggled until the 65th minute when we got another goal again completely against the run of play at which point Chelsea disintegrated. They had 54% possession and 18 shots to our 11. They looked much more cohesive in that particular game. We looked much better in the recent game.
Yep. We Dominated for about 25 mins and could have racked up 4 goals. Apart from that the game could have ended in a draw. Still and fantastic performance.
Yep, I'd be inclined to agree. In which case Ole's had a remarkable week.
This. An away game against back to back champions and we murdered them in the first half.
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No, not really, that's revisionism. We got gifted a goal because Zouma was an idiot but even after that Chelsea were the better team until we hit them on the break twice after the hour mark. We certainly weren't tearing them apart until then. We had four shots on target in the entire game - efficient, sure, but it was very very very far from Barcelona 2009.
For me domination is when a team can’t ‘live with you’ and for a large part of that game I felt they couldn’t live with us which considering the difference in quality of the sides, they’re at home and going for title ... you have to take into account the context, it would have been very very difficult to basically not let them have any period of sustained possession or chance creation phase. That was always going to be a given.
Absolutely no doubt about that. We were the better team and deserved our win. Their defense was tore to sheds by our front three. We threatened every time we won the ball and they were clueless about how to stop the onslaught. Also, we performed much better than expected at an away game against our more successful (recently) cross-city rival so it means much more to us fans.
They were by far the better side in the first half. Once we got 2 and 3-0 in the space of 2 minutes - they gave up.
Not Bizarre, we have a rapid counter attacking team who need space to play.That's probably fair, I'd still say a 4-0 win has to go down as a dominant performance though. Chelsea certainly weren't all over us - in the end it was a comfortable win. For some baffling reason this side seems to be so much better against the big sides than relegation fodder. Bizarre.
