r00fie1
Well-known member
Some “insightful” comments from the Stamford Bridge faithful.....
https://www.theshedend.com/topic/36...cup-tue-9th-jan-24-2000-gmt/page/29/#comments
Pochettino will absolutely balance. I know it would be nice to see us go full on, but we have never seen him do that.
The risk is because it is Middlesbrough. If it was Liverpool, and we'd be 2-0 down, I could see him go gung-ho. Lose to a couple of counter attacking goals to a championship side doesn't really look good.
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It can't be as boring a game as the first leg. It just can't.
No excuses - not even injuries. This is a bang average Championship side.
I know they will put loads of men behind the ball and defend for their lives and try and catch us on the break and from set pieces, but surely we have trained for that and will come up with the answers.
We should batter them. 4-0. Let's go to Wembley.................
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Initially Boro will try to get a quick goal....then have 11 defending their goal…we will win 3 1…. Tommy.
Tommy Baldwin ooo…ooo R.I.P ….yes pat Nevin…worst home fans in England imo….maybe a bit of oomph tonight when we get our third
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Boro will park the buss.
We need to score here.
Might as well go out all attacking, I would go with a back 3
petrovic
disasi silva colwill
madueke Enzo caicedo chilly
palmer broja sterling
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We need to play at least one attacking full back for f**ks sake.
With Gusto and James out and Chilwell not fit to play 90 minutes, we could desperately do with an attacking full back who has experience of playing a side like Middlesbrough. I'm wracking my brains how we could have avoided this situation.
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It’s just the complete mess it all is!
If we play well and lose, it’s annoying, but we can’t complain much being the lesser of the two teams in the game.
Against Boro’ we were complete sh*te!
I can only remember Enzo and Gusto actually stringing some passes together of any worth.
Everyone looked completely off the boil! Even Palmer!
I’ve said it so many times here the last few years, but the problem is much deeper! It easy to accept being a mid-table club if we actually played like one! We played like Poch has lost the dressing room, but again, I think it’s deeper than that!
It's not as if Middlesbrough were really good, they are missing a hat full of players, we were just shockingly poor!
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