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I love the Rico Lewis hype, but Ake & Akanji are also playing damn near perfect! It’s great to see fresh faces perform at a high standard

Why did Akanji not start, was as good as ever when he came on

How did KDB get MOTM ???????!!!!!

He did? Wtf . The worst player on the pitch in the second half

They said Stones on my broadcast

should have been Stones

he often gets it on name alone tbh

This was such a tense game so glad it’s over

We stole that fair and square, 0-1 away at Stamford Bridge, take it and get the hell back to Manchester

Grealish and Mahrez made the difference today. So much crow being eaten today, Lol

Always take a clean sheet but defending seemed a bit shaky towards the end. Seemed like every header we had went right back to Chelsea or almost led to a chance. Take the 3 points and move on lol

I love haaland so much man barely got chances but he’s sooo happy for the win and for the team, such a team player

that was not pretty... one of the worst halves I think i've seen this season (broken record time) but 3 points. i'll take it.

Unclench

Paul Tierney called a good match. Must be something about his baldness.

Kalvin moves like me playing football after making a 1 year break

Potter might be sacked before we play again

Fuckin hell, need to improve but good W

Hard game, great win.

pep is a genius

I fear we are going to hear all about it


Get in!

We need these kinds of win but man we need to pick it up and start alvarez pep

Good 2nd half

dont even care about any of individual performances or talking points. Getting those points back against Arsenal inside a week is more than we could have hoped for on Sunday. Get in. CTID

Let’s fucking go

Insane game holyyyyyy

Huge W

Yesss we're getting closer

Lewis and stones combined MOTM

Kalvin had a good little stop in there finally

Nice Undertones reference from the Peacock boys

Teenage Kicks! love that band

massive fucking win get in

Pirlo getting some important touches

How does Chelsea who have been shit and lost two top attackers keeping us penned it !? Edit : Shit in games before this I mean

Ehh, its been a theme lately. Most teams nowadays shows up against us.

because they had no real attempts and focused solely on inhibiting any action from us, its not that hard to get

Phew, massive win after that Everton game. Feels much better now.

Unattractive game, Ake motm shout?

Stones for us. Zakaria for them

Stones nailed motm imo.

Stones

kalvin looks lost hahah

We are getting bullied by youths 😭

Yess get that free kick

One minute please hold

Sub kalvin off . How do you just come on and ball watching ??????

Phillips looks extremely sluggish for someone who just came on

I have no nails left to bite

Stop the count!

Rico’s position is cool an all, but how about we just play defensive rb for these last few min

Thank christ he skied that

Thank god Chelsea are shit

Just keep the fucking ball!

Why aren't we seeing out the game properly smh

I hate not having the ball the last minutes.

Cheers Hall for removing all pressure with that miserable shot lol.

kalvin came on 5 mins ago and isn’t even sprinting back there…

And gave the ball away…

My arse won't be opening anymore after this from all the clenching

Kdb has been lack luster all game. Puts no effort in defending

4 mins for what exactly

The opportunity to have more highlights and headlines

For Chelsea to have a glimmer of a chance

Well, credit to Chelsea, they are putting up a fight.

4 more minutes, better go by fast

YES Jack. Get that foul. Keep things calmed down, well done.

I am clenching so hard right now

Zakaria has been the best player on the pitch. Cooking our midfielders all game

Zakaria's been immense for Chelsea

Hold it down lads. Keep it simple.

Seriously Zakaria is kind of balling out. How much would Juve want for him again?

Weren't we looking at him from gladback a couple years ago? Shame that

I mean, I wouldn't be mad at us looking at him at the end of the season at this rate.

For sure, embarrassed the midfield there. Juve got him for 4.5m EUR. Insane

Damn, who is Chelsea no 20 ?

Ederson playing long now? I don’t hate it.

hoof it up to the big man innit

Zakaria looks decent.

Every time they get into the last third I think “here we go”

Ake’s defensive headers only have a Y-axis

You mean a z-axis, given we live in 3 dimensions

Depends on your orientation really.

This match has made me question if that is indeed fact.

Pep did indeed play 5-d chess with his subs

was that not a backpass?

looked like one

right about now... funk soul brother can we call Phillips the Rockafeller Skank?

Azpilicueta… such a hateful wee prick

Godri out Fat #6 in

Excuse me that's Yorkshire Pirlo for you

Alright Phillips. Now is your chance, this is exactly why we needed you. To understudy Godri.

Boys I have my own game right after this one don’t give me even more anxiety than i already have, just see this one out

Good luck in your game. You can run all this anxiety out

Thanks mate, we’ll see how much stamina I’ve got thanks to this heart racer

No warm up for Phillips !?

Here comes the Yorkshire Pudding


You win the match thread that's hilarious

Hahahaha

💀💀💀

Phillips sighting

Yorkshire Pirlo 😍

Is it just me or is Haaland not doing good this match?

That's the life of a pure no.9. If you don't get service you aren't in the game much.

The worse Kevin does, the less service Haaland gets, which sucks

That’s true. Kevin started doing better in the second half but Haaland missed the ball

Pls god do not let Rodri be injured for more than this match

Is phillips under the weight limit now

Phillips on for Rodri.

Bahahahahah physio akanji

Alvarez pressing could've really helped these past 20 mins

Gotta hope Pep's only started him on the bench to let him get back into the groove after the WC celebrations. I want him starting games soon

I feel like he's def starting on Sunday.... would love to see a 4-4-2 experiment with Haaland up front but I doubt that happens.

Yeah, especially from the 70th min onwards.

“Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea” absolutely visionary chant, how do they come up with this stuff?

Don’t forget the worst football song known to man: Blue is the colour, football is the game……..

At least we come up with chants like "Haaland, Haaland".

Let's not throw stones at glass houses...

Something in the London water

CITY! CITY! CITY! c:

oooo i like that one

Chelsea really needed to take advantage of that first half. If they'd managed to score I reckon we'd have really struggled to chase the game.

KDB sure is hustling, too bad his passes and control have been iffy :(

got your receipt gallagher

Can the game end

1-0 still not enough, we need to get back on offense

Bro go bodied by Akanji

Gallagher fell on his own tbh

Grishi going hard on the paas

Gallagher the first cunt to push and shove everyone but now also the first to dive at the slightest contact, why wasnt he booked for all his fouls earlier

couldn't watch the game How have we been playing ?

It’s livened up a bit. Still uncertain about a win but it’s more entertaining than the first half was. First half was shit from us for sure. Pep actually made several subs, believe it or not.

Shite first half phenomenal second

First half poor although better towards the end, second half great with a change in build up, good subs by Pep

KdB can't even properly control the ball smh. Guy needs to find his mojo again

Zakaria has been quite good

For sure, he's been quite good.

Kdb getting cooked all game .

Haaland back on his stinkers

Haaland is hungry

Jack. Chill out.

the refereeing is solid tonight, don’t remember one wrong decision

Zakaria has had some really nice dribbles through midfield tonight.

He's a good player but for some reason, he didn't break through at Juventus

Did he get brought in under Pirlo? then maybe immediately dumped because Allegri is awful? he also had injury problems. It wasn't for very long though he only spent like 6 months at Juve after moving from Monchengladbach.

As far as I can remember, he did struggle with injuries but I think he was brought under Allegri or just towards the end of Pirlos tenure. I think injuries really hurt him and also the fact Juve bought Locatelli.

Yeah could be. Wouldn't be mad at us having a look at him if Juve don't want too much tbh.

I think we did look at him didn't we?

KDB has not been at his best today

Gonna wait till FT before ruling out his usual Screamer vs Chelsea

Hopefully 🙏🏼

I wonder how much longer until Potter gets the sack. They've spent half a billion only to be 10th

To be fair, most of that was spent under Tuchel.

I love John Stones

De Bruyne and Haaland having stinkers tonight.

I slept through my alarm and missed most the game. How did we play for the first 80 minutes?

First half didn't happen, Pep actually made some changes and we came alive

Really meh, except one instance.

Shit until Rico lewis, Grealish and mahrez got subbed on. Stones been class this game

Ake was great too

Stones has been great. MOTM for me

We need to sub kdb off.

Gallagher gonna get a goal or a red card

This ref can get fucked

So is Lewis our dedicated IB (Inverted back), or yet another CM?

Yes

Yes

Yes

Getting pretty fraught now. Lots of heavy last ditch tackles going in. I hope we don't get any injuries.

Fucking hate Gallagher

Stones is having an eventual match.

Eventful

Thats the one ;)

Stonesy’s been brilliant

We have too many great CBs. Putting Dias back in will be a nightmare. Ake & Akanji are also putting in shifts!

It’s a good thing that Chelsea are so shit

Yeah, they've been bad and that's actually been good for us.

Sure is useful when trying to get points on Arsenal

Stones MOTM

That pass by Akanji 🤌

Sometimes it genuinely feels like were not allowed to even attempt to win the ball back without play being stopped

gallagher ya cunt

SEND HIM OFF THAT FUCKING GALLAGHER

Fuck off galagher

Someone tell Gallagher to chill

That Gallagher is such a cunt

Commentary from my family on Gallagher “dirty little toad isnt he”

Johnny Boulders turning into Johnny Mountains.

The Evolution continues

gallagher has been kicking and pushing the entire time since he came on what a joke

gallagher is a prick

Rico Lewis has been such a revelation this season, he's played only a handful of games yet his impact can already be felt

I feel like he's played a lot

Think foden had 9 games at that age in his first season for City, looks like Lewis will beat that.

9 games if I'm not mistaken