Chelsea’s best performances were against Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs and Man City but usually when they’ve come against a lesser team that’s going to be more defensive and less full on attack they’ve struggled such as West Ham, Brentford, Villa and Newcastle
They play exactly as well as their opponents in most games, regardless of who those opponents are. They have been known for years to have a solid defence, great balance in midfield, and somehow haven’t found the right finisher for some time.
They are Croatia.
Man said lesser teams.
Smaller teams tend to play a low block which Chelsea have time and again proven they have nothing to get past.
Bigger teams generally play more attacking, with higher lines, which is generally more favourable for the few attacking strengths Chelsea have.
Another reason that Ange deciding to just stick with a high line against them is more perplexing. The probably could have gotten a point or better had they adapted post red card, instead of”sticking to his principles” wasn’t giving them the best chance of a result in the game.
Well fuck you too!
We have trouble with teams that park the bus because we dont have a prolific striker, but that’s not really what happened today. Caicedo not starting after international duty caused the first goal but in general we just didn’t look up for today for some reason.
Dunno where you got “less full on attack” from, that’s pretty clearly not Newcastle’s game.
Calling Aston Villa and Newcastle lesser teams. God, Chelsea is garbage at a fanbase level too.
Newcastle is in UCL, how are they a lesser team? With that said, today’s performance was a different flavor than the losses against low block sides. In those games, Chelsea outplayed the opposition, but couldn’t finish and got punished on counters. Today, they were ran off the field and collectively had their worst performance in a long time. Terrible performance by almost everyone today for Chelsea
Why do United struggle against basically anybody?
Because the players aren’t good enough, we make sacrifices to get results which teams like Chelsea do not
You have players who either would shine at other teams, have recently shined for other teams or have gone on to shine for other teams, the problem isn’t the players
It’s because of the owners. Haven’t you heard? It’s nothing to do with a manager refusing to drop his favourite player despite him being in awful form for nearly a year.
Everyone taking OPs words too literally.
Chelsea have performed better against top teams compared to worse opponents.
But they’re not worse opponents if they’re beating Chelsea. You can read whatever stats you want or look at how much has been spent, what matters is the result on the pitch. If a team, no matter where they are in the table beats another team, they were better than that team because they won and winning is what the game is about.
Does that mean Fulham and Burnley are top teams.
Newcastle are currently the best team in the league on their day. At home. We collapsed after 2-1. Lots of work still to be done.
It mustn’t be their day very often then since they’re 7th?
Team chemistry= 1.5%
Mentality midgets also it’s easy to be up for it vs the top teams
Newcastle are a CL club this makes no sense
One season, the top 6 have more power and influence than Newcastle will ever have
Newcastle aren’t a lesser team… they’re a better team. They’ve got a better squad that’s been moulded to what their manager wants and has been created to suit Eddie Howes style of play.
Villa aren’t a lesser team either for exactly the same reasons.
Villa and Newcastle are better teams and you could argue that West Ham and Brentford are level with Chelsea currently or only just slightly worse.
OP throwing a slight at Newcastle.
My parents weren’t even born last time Newcastle won a trophy in 1955, their fans are delusional and too arrogant. I celebrate every time they lose