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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 12:10:13 GMT
Bournemouth 16th, Chelsea 14th, involved in a basement battle and £115m Blues signing Caicedo is uninvolved - injured? out of favour? on the run? Apparently the reason for his absence is a thigh problem after getting a knock playing for Ecuador last week. You'd think for £115m he'd come complete with a back-up generator.
Bournemouth: Neto (c), Aarons, Zabarnyi, Kelly, Kerkez, Christie, Cook, Ouattara, Billing, Tavernier, Solanke.
Subs: Radu, Brooks, Rothwell, Smith, Sinisterra, Kluivert, Traore, Semenyo, Senesi.
Chelsea: Sanchez, Gusto, Disasi, Thiago Silva, Colwill, Gallagher (c), Ugochukwu, Sterling, Fernandez, Mudryk, Jackson.
Subs: Bergstrom, Palmer, Chilwell, Petrovic, Maatsen, Washington, Gilchrist, Matos, Stutter.
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Post by sdm3 on Sept 17, 2023 12:19:07 GMT
I've never heard of most of those Chelsea subs. If they don't win today they're in big trouble - luckily for them, Bournemouth seem to be Sterling's favorite opponents.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 13:16:57 GMT
All That's Wrong With The Game (Part 786) Enzo of Chelsea tussles with Tavernier and the Brighton man wins the ball; he uses a natural arm movement to gain momentum as he sets off, but his hand catches Enzo's face slightly, Enzo half-blocking the wayward hand anyway. But down Enzo goes, clutching his face like Rivaldo's pathetic reaction at the corner post after being lightly struck by the ball on his leg. The ref pulls back play and awards Enzo the free-kick. Fair enough but why the dramatics? Get up and play, you *@%&!  Quite pathetic. |
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 13:23:25 GMT
A chance for either side. Jackson for Chelsea off the post, then Ouattara sees his point-blank shot saved by Sanchez.
It's a steady start by both sides but without goals at the 20 minute mark. Chelsea have had 70% possession but characteristically can't finish the way they'd like to. Bournemouth quite content at this point, you feel.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 13:45:51 GMT
Neto denies Chelsea's Gallagher with a super save. What was that cut-price supermarket from before? Netto, Nettoo, something like that. Didn't have shelves so much as goods stacked directly on top of each other, and if you didn't bring your own bag you walked out with your shopping in discarded cardboard boxes which every other bagless shopper was on the lookout for in the aisles. Things like Magnus ice cream, Andrews toilet paper, Meinz tinned soup, Colorgate toothpaste, Wanker butter etc, cheap rip-offs of famous brands. Well, there was nothing cheap about Neto just now, even lacking an N. He's kept the Cherries in the game as half time approaches.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 13:51:02 GMT
HALF TIME
It's goalless. It needs a goal, from any team. Paunchotino carries his increasingly sizeable bulk towards the tunnel, ready for words with his frustratingly no-end product group of players.
Bourney coach Iraola will want more from his troops but can't really complain at this point.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:12:54 GMT
Chelsea awarded a free-kick two yards outside the Bournemouth area. There's 7 men in the wall plus a sleeper. Sterling strikes. He's up against a blockade. But he curls a looping ball which bounces of the corner of the upper woodwork. What a strike. It falls to Colwill in the area who finishes it off for nothing-one.
OFFSIDE
But Colwill is offside. It won't count, 6 or 7 minutes into the second portion.
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Post by MrFurious on Sept 17, 2023 14:15:43 GMT
After Liverpool ballzed up me fourfold yesterday, did a quick treble last night for today and just checked and I'm down at the first hurdle,  Had btts at Millwall, crikey that was a shocker from them |
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:18:43 GMT
Chelsea's Jackson lines up the shot on '57 but somehow sends the ball into the crowd. Wasteful in the near-extreme.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:22:05 GMT
You have to see this is a quite dreadful exhibition, a lot of pussyfooting around and not a whisper of direct clinical finishing. I've seen Ashby-de-la Zouch U-13s Girls finish better.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:23:09 GMT
Justin Kluivert is brought on for Bourney. We might see an injection of thrust now, maybe.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:26:37 GMT
After Liverpool ballzed up me fourfold yesterday, did a quick treble last night for today and just checked and I'm down at the first hurdle, Had btts at Millwall, crikey that was a shocker from them Not even a goal a game average for Millwall before this game. One of those "They're due a couple" kind of punt, eh. |
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:35:16 GMT
Kluivert plays a one-three with two others, receives it back and dinks into the Chelsea area, going beyond three defenders as though they weren't there. He gets a low cross in to Tavernier who clumsily fluffs his lines and the ball goes past him.
15 minutes on the clock and still nothing doing.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:38:38 GMT
Kluivert, on a lively run, is brought down cynically by Desasi on the edge of the box. The resultant free-kick, after a delay due to both sets of players playing silly beggars in the wall, is struck low by Billing straight at Gallagher who deflects it behind for a corner, Bournemouth's first. The corner comes to nothing.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:40:23 GMT
SURELY!
Salanke! Man-on-man action with Sanchez. Salanke tries to penetrate with a fierce drive but it's parried by Sanchez. That was close.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:44:17 GMT
Jackson and Arrons perform the ridiculous ritual of going head to head like stags whilst waiting for the Chelsea corner to come in. How stupid do they look? Like two pissheads half-heartedly offering themselves up in the pub.
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:53:08 GMT
The 90 minutes are up. We've entered 8 minutes of stoppage time. But this game has gone nowhere, one long cul-de-sac, Chelsea spineless at the end-product stage, Bournemouth playing their part in a less than thrilling encounter despite both sides' flurry of action in the last few minutes, but it's too little too late. It's been poor and I really think it's time players took a good look at themselves after a performance like this. 4 minutes of stoppage remaining and I really can't be -
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Post by staggerstag on Sept 17, 2023 14:53:35 GMT
THREAD ABANDONED.
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Post by DrKrippen on Sept 17, 2023 15:03:31 GMT
Chelsea look like an Under 19 squad.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 31, 2023 15:55:29 GMT
Bournemouth 16th, Chelsea 14th, involved in a basement battle and £115m Blues signing Caicedo is uninvolved - injured? out of favour? on the run? Apparently the reason for his absence is a thigh problem after getting a knock playing for Ecuador last week. You'd think for £115m he'd come complete with a back-up generator. Bournemouth: Neto (c), Aarons, Zabarnyi, Kelly, Kerkez, Christie, Cook, Ouattara, Billing, Tavernier, Solanke. Subs: Radu, Brooks, Rothwell, Smith, Sinisterra, Kluivert, Traore, Semenyo, Senesi. Chelsea: Sanchez, Gusto, Disasi, Thiago Silva, Colwill, Gallagher (c), Ugochukwu, Sterling, Fernandez, Mudryk, Jackson. Subs: Bergstrom, Palmer, Chilwell, Petrovic, Maatsen, Washington, Gilchrist, Matos, Stutter. Cherries going for the comeback today!!! |
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