[Albion] 5-70 mins

[Sheebo]

We played excellently. We all knew games like this would happen and these aren’t what will decide our fate. Never a 4-0 and could have had a point with a bit of luck and half decent officials. Hazard was just on a different level wasn’t he...

Keep The Faith! Let’s stick by Chris and the boys and build on this performance. Up the Albion.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

Strange game where the score didn’t reflect the good performance some of the lads put in. Our defending was sloppy but going forward we looked promising. Hope we stick with the formation against Southampton.

 

[Doonhamer7]

If you take hazard out of Chelsea they wre nothing special. This formation really works allows proper to play a more attacking game

 

[Sheebo]

Strange game where the score didn’t reflect the good performance some of the lads put in. Our defending was sloppy but going forward we looked promising. Hope we stick with the formation against Southampton.

I agree but I’m not going to be too harsh on the defenders as it was simply Eden Hazard. Frightening how good he was - far better than anyone on the pitch and really world class. I felt sorry for Duffy etc having him run at them. No other Chelsea players seemed to cause our defence that many problems.

 

[albionfan37]

I saw enough that the boys are still fighting for each other and players are still improving I don’t think we will go down but we need a booster win soon it was really good to see propper in the box as well as schellotto

 

[DJ NOBO]

We played excellently. We all knew games like this would happen and these aren’t what will decide our fate. Never a 4-0 and could have had a point with a bit of luck and half decent officials. Hazard was just on a different level wasn’t he...

Keep The Faith! Let’s stick by Chris and the boys and build on this performance. Up the Albion.

Trouble is, it was gone after five minutes.
Keep the faith all you like, our approach to games against the big six has been way off.
Unlike our rivals (who have similar quality squads ) we look scared and beaten before kick off.

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

I agree but I’m not going to be too harsh on the defenders as it was simply Eden Hazard. Frightening how good he was - far better than anyone on the pitch and really world class. I felt sorry for Duffy etc having him run at them. No other Chelsea players seemed to cause our defence that many problems.

Agree that Hazard was class and ran riot but felt defending for first and third goals was pretty poor.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

It was a free hit and we tried something different. A worthwhile experiment. One worth continuing with.

Schelletto was a revelation and the best I've seen from Propper.

I'm hoping this was the trial of the new formation in readiness for our new striker.

 

[albionfan37]

Trouble is, it was gone after five minutes.
Keep the faith all you like, our approach to games against the big six has been way off.
Unlike our rivals (who have similar quality squads ) we look scared and beaten before kick off.

The formation beat us in those opening minutes and an unlucky deflection from Stephens for the 1st after that we could’ve gone on and scored a couple ourselves

 

[LamieRobertson]

We played excellently. We all knew games like this would happen and these aren’t what will decide our fate. Never a 4-0 and could have had a point with a bit of luck and half decent officials. Hazard was just on a different level wasn’t he...

Keep The Faith! Let’s stick by Chris and the boys and build on this performance. Up the Albion.

 

[banjo]

Yep. The 3 blokes in front of us who left after 5 minutes misssd a good game.

 

[Mellotron]

Minute 25-40 was some of the best stuff I’ve seen this season attacking wise. Locadia would’ve been licking his lips seeing those crosses coming in and fast interchanging.

This is gonna sound odd but I’m more omptimistic about our chances of survival after seeing that performance.

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

I agree but I’m not going to be too harsh on the defenders as it was simply Eden Hazard. Frightening how good he was - far better than anyone on the pitch and really world class. I felt sorry for Duffy etc having him run at them. No other Chelsea players seemed to cause our defence that many problems.

Hazard's performance today was probably the best by any player at the Amex. Coutinho was very good, but Hazard today was a different level.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Agreed, but you cannot start like that against most teams in this league, you have to be on it from whistle to whistle or you pay the price.
But you also need the officials to give the obvious clear important decisions and sometimes some luck to go your way.
It could have been 2-2 maybe 3-2 at half time and I thought that apart from Hazard Chelsea were very average today.
Never a 4-0 game, I was impressed with us for most of the game, but we have to put the chances away.
As for the ref, Darren Ferguson has a point, absolutely clueless, slow and overweight, maybe even c******.

 

[J2 DOG]

The game was already lost when we decided to start playing higher up the pitch and having a go! Hughton needs to take some responsibility for this and be more positive from the start! Although in saying that still felt Chelsea had another gear if needed! Big gulf in class and a team with pace in every position!

 

[Weststander]

Trouble is, it was gone after five minutes.
Keep the faith all you like, our approach to games against the big six has been way off.
Unlike our rivals (who have similar quality squads ) we look scared and beaten before kick off.

The others have pace, strikers and match winners. The Board gave CH a Championship squad plus Gross.

 

[seagull_special]

Hazard is a beautiful player and Willian was terrific too. Our performance was dictated by the early goals and we were pretty good. I really enjoyed Schelottos performance, March and Propper played well.Would like Stephens to be rested for a couple of games with Kayal coming in and I would like to have seen Baldock get 15 minutes. If we go out with a more aggressive attacking philosophy in the next few games, there will be points for the taking. Better 1 win and 1 loss then 2 draws. Feeling quite chipper this evening despite the tonking.

 

[Icy Gull]

Unfortunate that once again we were in awe of a top six team for 6 minutes. We really do need some luck, because we have had none this season, and with a more alert ref we could have levelled before half time or at least got a goal. Then it becomes a different game.

Were those two instances on Schelotto penalties or am I just watching through rose coloured glasses. First 6 mins apart and before the third goal I really enjoyed the game. The booking after the second penalty appeal looked very harsh to me.

Did I say we need a bit of luck?

 

[DJ NOBO]

Unfortunate that once again we were in awe of a top six team for 6 minutes. We really do need some luck, because we have had none this season, and with a more alert ref we could have levelled before half time or at least got a goal. Then it becomes a different game.

Were those two instances on Schelotto penalties or am I just watching through rose coloured glasses. First 6 mins apart and before the third goal I really enjoyed the game. The booking after the second one penalty appeal looked very harsh to me.

Did I say we need a bit of luck?

First pen was stonewall . Unfortunately ref had no view of it
Second - seen them given, but not a pen.

 

[Icy Gull]

First pen was stonewall . Unfortunately ref had no view of it
Second - seen them given, but not a pen.

A push in the back and tripping isn’t a penalty?