Match Thread Chelsea v Everton - Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[Blue Juice]

Silva needs to come out on the attack in the presser.

Following Austin's outburst he has to make it clear how pathetic the standard of reffing is

 

[Nyhus]

He's never been a good ref but this is just atrocious today.

Yeah, this is next level bad.

 

[peteblue]

Sounds like the ref is having a total mare

He’s wearing a blue shirt.....

 

[steele]

Imagine being rudiger there. What a disgrace the modern footballer is. If only Fellaini was still here to administer the elbows. Then he'd have a reason to go down holding his face.

Totally agree. How can he hold his hands covering his face, when he got a push from a midgit? Bernard his just above his balls..

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

Been solid, we need to stop giving the ball away, and do a bit more offensively.

 

[SantaClausisanEvertonian]

And what about Little Bernard there? Straight from the Duncan Ferguson Book of Excellence!

 

[witchdoc187]

He literally booked Bernard and rudiger by guessing. He clearly didn't see anything. Awful

 

[nsno-chris]

Brilliant defensive performance, reminds me of young mourinho. Very organised and hard working

Attack is miles off, they’ve obviously been told to press and certain points but there’s not enough there

The ref is a bell and Lucas is a god

 

[Kantareller]

We look good the first 20 mins but like many games our play gets lost after that. Still, we hold ground decenty.

Mina looks very comfortable on the ball.

 

[Parker]

Totally agree. How can he hold his hands covering his face, when he got a push from a midgit? Bernard his just above his balls..

Nice of Sky to not show Rudiger initiating it all when little Bernard is on the ground the s**thouse

 

[hktoffee]

Some players need to stop doing stupid thing and got himself sent off.

 

[tsubaki]

We need to show more going the other way. Bernard, Walcott, Sigurdsson and Richarlison have been isolated.

That said, really good away performance overall so far but we can't repeat the same trick second half - they will break us down if we do.

With any other ref you'd say that one of Kante or Jorginho would be sent off in this game given the challenges they've already but in, but of course that will never happen.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

One of our lot will be getting send off in the second half, nailed on. Seems to be the way it's panning out.

 

[dannyboy]

Some interesting 'tackles' from Chelsea there. Wish we could have offered more going forward but we were really solid.

 

[Brennan]

Restricted them to one shot on target in the first half I believe, far better than our usual performances against these teams away.

Need to link up better in midfield though, not making use of our possession. Walcott has been underwhelming.