GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 9:34 pm

Aguero coming on soon

Last throw of the dice from Pep he's got to try something because this game is slipping away from City, and really Chelsea should be on easy street now with the amount of clear cut chances they've spurned.

What a player Reece James is. Great game.

7 mins added on..

Backed Chelsea but on bloody penalties.

City crying out for a Chris Wood type.

CombatClaret wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 9:52 pm

City crying out for a Chris Wood type.

They were crying out for aguero. Hilarious tactics from ‘pep’

Just needs another £200m in fullbacks and he’ll crack it.

Mahrez so close to an equaliser there

Well there it is...
Time to troll my eldest lad

Brilliant, well done Chelsea and Thomas Tuchel.

Fraudiola and City bomb again.

Wonder how many Citeh and Chelsea will be involved in the post match

Word for the ref. He was brilliant throughout the game.

Just shows what can be done with a decent manager. Super Frank has a lot to learn.

So who won the "Couldn't Give A Monkey's" Cup Then?

All over and a well deserved victory for Chelsea, Tuchel's not had a bad start to his career at the Bridge has he.

As for City and Pep he yet again tried to be too clever by half and it cost him and them big time.

You have to ask are City destined to never win this trophy.

And that's 3/3 for Tuchel against City in a matter of weeks, they must be sick of the sight of him, he certainly has the Indian sign over Pep's men.

Hopefully this spells the end of Guardiolaball and the subsequent identikit teams littering world football.

Well done Chelsea, a desrved win. Pep got his starting eleven wrong and Chelsea took advantage. Also, what great game from the referee: he saw everything, he didn't get fooled by players rolling about, he was in complete control throughout witbout any histrionics. I hope our PL refs were watching that display.

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 10:00 pm

Word for the ref. He was brilliant throughout the game.

Yes must give him credit where it's due, he was first class tonight.

Havertz couldn't give a fck

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 10:00 pm

Word for the ref. He was brilliant throughout the game.

We should start importing refs as well as players!!

Although I wasn’t so sure about the handball incident. I’d like to see that again.

Jimmymaccer wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 8:05 pm

But fantastic to see fans back...................

Agree that was special.

gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 8:56 pm

Timo Werner is bloody awful

Was key in the goal. But no composure. Reminds me of Vydra.

NewClaret wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 10:18 pm

We should start importing refs as well as players!!

Although I wasn’t so sure about the handball incident. I’d like to see that again.

He was!

Vino blanco wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 10:05 pm

Well done Chelsea, a desrved win. Pep got his starting eleven wrong and Chelsea took advantage. Also, what great game from the referee: he saw everything, he didn't get fooled by players rolling about, he was in complete control throughout witbout any histrionics. I hope our PL refs were watching that display.

That jorgino one was awful

Very good manager but has messed up the big games regularly. Messi wasn’t there to bale him out today.

Kante ran the match. World class. Showed what City were missing. The other thing they are missing is Kane - they need to buy him at any price.

But back to Pep, you don’t win matches with square pegs in round holes - they had that at left back, at holding midfield, and up front. Huge errors.

worthy winners, well done chelsea. city looked a bit clueless by their normally high standards.

The football - an absolute masterclass from a player who will retire having won just about everything in the game but never troubling the Ballon D’Or voting. Step forward N’Golo Kante. What a player. Pep got it wrong, Tuchel told Kante to go out and prove it. He did. And then some. Can’t stand either team but I respect a tactic or two and a player when I see him and he is genuinely one of the best players The Premier League has ever had.

As for the Twitter vid. Chinning a lad when he’s not looking with your handbag on, throwing bits of paper at each other and acting like helmets. The complete opposite of how it went for United mates in Gdańsk last week. United fans all agreed - if they had to lose, a nicer club and bunch of fans they couldn’t wish to meet.

It’s a funny old world.

easy way to avoid this type of violence:

ban short back and sides hairdos.

anyone with a sensible haircut would never resort to such handbags.

Last 3 winners of the CL have all had German managers !

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 1:20 am

Last 3 winners of the CL have all had German managers !

Deshalb rechne ich mit Sean Dyche für Burnley

yTib wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 1:22 am

Deshalb rechne ich mit Sean Dyche für Burnley

what you said!

Well done Chelsea and their Manager, a masterclass in how to nullify a technically better team.

No disrespect intended but if I was SD I'd be watching the dvd of that game for some clues as to how we avoid our usual double pasting by City next season.

(Granted Chelsea probably have some better players than ours)..

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑

Sat May 29, 2021 9:57 pm

Well there it is...
Time to troll my eldest lad

Vintage Claret wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 2:24 am

Well done Chelsea and their Manager, a masterclass in how to nullify a technically better team.

No disrespect intended but if I was SD I'd be watching the dvd of that game for some clues as to how we avoid our usual double pasting by City next season.

(Granted Chelsea probably have some better players than ours)..

What kante does on his own our full 11 can't never mind the rest.

Pep had made it all the way to the final this year, just picking his best team and not going all “look at my masterclass crazy genius idea”.

But he couldn’t resist in the final. No striker is to be expected for him but no holding midfielder was a touch self indulgent. Chelsea were the far better side, loads of great performances - Chilwell, Kante and James were awesome - but mostly they clearly had a plan which they all understood.

NottsClaret wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 6:48 am

Pep had made it all the way to the final this year, just picking his best team and not going all “look at my masterclass crazy genius idea”.

But he couldn’t resist in the final. No striker is to be expected for him but no holding midfielder was a touch self indulgent. Chelsea were the far better side, loads of great performances - Chilwell, Kante and James were awesome - but mostly they clearly had a plan which they all understood.

The cold, hard truth for Man City's owners is that if they desperately want to win the CL then they have to get rid of Guardiola as they'll never win it with him in charge.

Since his time at Barcelona he's failed miserably at Bayern Munich and now at Man City, despite having the biggest budget.

Chelsea would have won the Premier league with him in charge all season.

bfcjg wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 9:21 am

Chelsea would have won the Premier league with him in charge all season.

Who Pep?

tim_noone wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 10:28 am

Who Pep?

If Merchel had of had a full season including a pre season at Chelsea they would have won the Premier league IMHO.
Oh and I'm not called Pep .

So Chelsea manager met Chelsea owner for the first time, on the pitch after winning last night

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 10:56 am

So Chelsea manager met Chelsea owner for the first time, on the pitch after winning last night

Did John Terry also turn up with a Chelsea shirt on ?

NottsClaret wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 6:48 am

Pep had made it all the way to the final this year, just picking his best team and not going all “look at my masterclass crazy genius idea”.

But he couldn’t resist in the final. No striker is to be expected for him but no holding midfielder was a touch self indulgent. Chelsea were the far better side, loads of great performances - Chilwell, Kante and James were awesome - but mostly they clearly had a plan which they all understood.

It was a bizarre line up from Pep. He’ll have forgotten more about the game than I know, but equally, your average fan knew as soon as that line up was released that it was the wrong team selection. To not play a natural holding midfielder was negligent at best.

I've had no interest in either European Final and some say it's just growing old and the sport has changed.

Nope.

You're not fooling me, I've been part of the sublime of the 70s and 40,000 marauding warriors watching the match and teams with a proper identity, now these foreign mercenary any-teams change each-year the line-up nobodies, again to get fans to lose long term interest and kill the game off over a 10 year period.

Imagine Sean Dyche stopping the truck instead of Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas.

He might say "I don't know who you are, we're Burnley and we play 4-4-2 with an English mentality team and that's yr lot. Come and have a go if you're hard enough."

etc.

Pstotto wrote: ↑

Sun May 30, 2021 1:22 pm

I've had no interest in either European Final and some say it's just growing old and the sport has changed.

Nope.

You're not fooling me, I've been part of the sublime of the 70s and 40,000 marauding warriors watching the match and teams with a proper identity, now these foreign mercenary any-teams change each-year the line-up nobodies, again to get fans to lose long term interest and kill the game off over a 10 year period.

Imagine Sean Dyche stopping the truck instead of Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas.

He might say "I don't know who you are, we're Burnley and we play 4-4-2 with an English mentality team and that's yr lot. Come and have a go if you're hard enough."

etc.

Thankfully it's 2021 not the backwards world you lived in the stone age.

Some glorious reading on Man City’s messageboards today.

They really are a bunch of arrogant **** houses.

"Pep is a genius, Pep is a genius, Pep is a genius".

The Stone Age lasts longer than the Plastic Wallet and not much in it Age, CFS.

In church next day:

"Bremen?"

"Cremona."

"Cremonese."

"Prem and."