Quote (chelsea11 @ 9 Mar 2016 22:33)
Barca will probably end up winning the CL this year. Only chelsea could have stopped them!
Bayern-psg-real will all lose to a straight up game vs barca, maybe juve can stop them, but that's it
Gratz psg
Chelsea... ofc.
Chelsea couldn't put actual pressure on any decent team even if their lives depended on it. A fooling around PSG squad was "enough" to force them to rely solely on defending around their own box with like 8-9 players for most of the time.
Like the sitaution right before the first goal for PSG, when they were not capable of (or not even wanting to?) putting any pressure on Di Maria, who had the ball only like 30 metres away from their goal or in the same situation putting pressure on Zlatan prior to his assist.
They were - as always - just backtracking to their box or standing around watching what Di Maria would do from a safe distance.
Just accept it:
Chelsea was never able to do anything but wait for an inadequacy in PSG's funny little passing game to try and counter-attack. If Paris had just waited around their own box and left the ball to your team (which they could have done, starting right after their first goal), you would have most likely had to watch embarassing 80+ minutes of Chelsea players looking useless on the pitch. They cannot properly build up or create chances against even semi-decent teams. They cannot defend (i.e. pressure the opposing team) properly, except for waiting deep around their own box and hoping to survive the attacks without conceding.
Whenever they're facing a decent team, all they can ever do is hope for a chance to counter. That's about it.
This post was edited by aneas on Mar 9 2016 03:52pm