Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[JA_Carter]

Sterling scored the winning penalty against the same team that racially abused him a few months ago #BlackExcellence

 

[jj23]

Kepa just turned Chelsea into a Sunday League team. Disgraceful.

 

[Drip Bayless]

Sarri's stubbornness and the player's shyt attitudes are not mutually exclusive
I hope he doesn't get fired, no one can win with this kind of squad, at least not in the long term
That shyt was disgraceful

 

[ThrobbingHood]

I’m paying $20 to see that dressing room after this bullshyt trophy showcase.

Sarri is about to turn off the lights and pop up like Sting

I’m crying.

 

[African_brehda]

Jorginho

I'll never understand not putting power behind a penalty

 

[Majestic]

Jorginho is an elite Fraud.

Anyone can see that he took that awful penalty on purpose. A supposedly penalty expert suddenly takes an awful penalty like that? Chelsea is a team full of double agents.

 

[Switch]

Sarri has to go. His obsession for Jorginho and refusal to bench Pedro. I'm not going to say you can't play a Regista in English football (see Michael Carrick), but man the guy is stubborn

He is but that entire dressing room is rotten, how is your keeper going to undermine you like that in a cup final?

Mind I’m not a Chelsea fan so whatever

 

[NSSVO]

Alesso

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Sarri has to go. His obsession for Jorginho and refusal to bench Pedro. I'm not going to say you can't play a Regista in English football (see Michael Carrick), but man the guy is stubborn

You can, you just got to know that you have to release the ball quicker and move a lot more than in Italy.

 

[calh45]

i mean even if it was someone else outside of kante, jorginho is his golden boy and would still do the same.

do you guys even know Koulibaly balled out with Sarii at Napoli right?

I do. Just on first read I did have to pause and consider it for the first few minutes while I worked it out.

I'm mostly out on Sarri for how he shifted Kante somewhere else for a guy that's worse. That's the sign of a coach that's not about looking for anything except to play only his way. Those types of coaches have short shelf lives. He did the same to Hazard for a bit too.

 

[taco jay]

chelsea is rotten to the core, only nikka that tried to get kepa off was luiz

 

[hommeaetage]

He is but that entire dressing room is rotten, how is your keeper going to undermine you like that in a cup final?

Mind I’m not a Chelsea fan so whatever

I agree that most of the squad need a overhaul. But the thing is even with a new squad I don't see Sarri winning anything (at least not in the big leagues)
He's an ideologue (like Bielsa). You can't like this in modern football

 

[Yayo Toure]

Them Chelsea boys stupid.

I was so scared Caballero would come on. A penalty specialist who knows the team already. We would've been fukked.

Thanks Kepa.

 

[African_brehda]

Anyone can see that he took that awful penalty on purpose. A supposedly penalty expert suddenly takes an awful penalty like that? Chelsea is a team full of double agents.

That's how he hits them. Gambling on the possibility that the keeper goes the wrong way

 

[hashmander]

Kepa's a disrespectful a$$hole and all, but we're really going to ignore Sarri's only begotten son Jorginho and David Luiz missing penalties?

Kepa's not the (only) reason they lost.

kepa isn't the reason they lost, you can only ask for one save. the brazilian duo is why they lost the shootout.