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pganut : 10/3/2015 11:17 am
After a lackluster first half which ended at 1-1 after a late tying goal by Aguero, Pellegrini sent the message to be more aggressive. City has now started the second half with 3 goals in 5 minutes of time, with Aguero completing a natural hat trick and now de Bruyne on a magnificant bicycle volley. City spent much of the first half playing tentatively and nibbling. There's been a clear shift to decisive play both offensively and defensively here in the second.
Now Aguero with a 4th goal!  
pganut : 10/3/2015 11:18 am : link
City up over the Magpies, 5-1. Beautiful strike from 19 yards out.
Unbelievable  
pganut : 10/3/2015 11:21 am : link
Aguero with goal #5. Insane.
Unreal  
B in ALB : 10/3/2015 11:24 am : link
Talk about getting off the schnide. Holy shit.
I turned the match  
Gene : 10/3/2015 11:25 am : link
on just as the second half started. Five goals in a little more than 20 minutes, wow
Aguero  
UConn4523 : 10/3/2015 11:34 am : link
has been insane.

Can't wait for Everton/Liverpool tomorrow morning.
Impressive second half performance by City  
pganut : 10/3/2015 11:52 am : link
Match ends at 6-1. Could have quite easily been 10 or 11 for City today.
Chelsea vs Southampton  
Gene : 10/3/2015 12:13 pm : link
up next on NBC. About 15 minutes before kickoff. John Terry in the starting lineup.
What a spectacular  
Gene : 10/3/2015 12:46 pm : link
goal by William to give Chelsea a 1-0. He picked the corning with a curling free kick.
well, not BPL, but in La Liga; and Mourinho  
ColHowPepper : 10/3/2015 1:19 pm : link
after Neymar's goal (penalty) drew Barcelona to within a goal (or was it tied then?), Sevilla's back line with help from aware MFs stayed very compact, Barça seemed locked in the center (instead of going wide) and could not break them down, and Sevilla comes away with a 2-1 result at home.

heh, heh, Mourinho, when asked why Terry was starting, declined to answer, even when pressed several times. "You asked me last week why he wasn't starting. So I knew this would be the first question. This week, he is starting and you ask me why. So, I'm not going to answer this." (not verbatim, but close enough)
Wow  
pganut : 10/3/2015 2:01 pm : link
Southampton now up 3-1 at Stamford Bridge in the 72nd.
what a sequence!  
ColHowPepper : 10/3/2015 2:05 pm : link
Falcão, the ball on his boot, scoots past the defender, pushes it ahead, the keeper dives, arms outstretched, and, depending on your point of view, runs into the keeper's arms and dives, or is taken down by the prostrate keeper's arms with the ball already rolled past. It was a great discussion that ensued between color guy and play action guy, for me, a soccer ref. In any event, real time, the ref gives a yellow to Falcão for simulation and GK to Southhampton.

Color guy says an attacker has no obligation to get out of the way or leap an "out of control keeper", and it was a clear penalty. It's not unreasonable on its face, but like all close calls, you have to see it in front of you and the ref had good position. For me, I agree, Falcão put his feet together like an Olympic 3 meter diver to ensure both feet were "caught" in the keeper's arm instead of staying in stride, this is what made the call "right" for me.

In any event, moments later, Cahill coughs the ball up five yards outside his 18 toward its corner, Madé, marked by marked man Terry, takes a short pass toward the center that catches Terry off balance and finishes low and hard, off the keeper and into the net, putting Southampton up 2 - 1.
What a turnaround, leaving Mourinho muttering to his assistant on the bench.
Col  
pganut : 10/3/2015 2:13 pm : link
Do you think Mourhino is in any danger of being sacked? Something is not right at Chelsea (not that
B in ALB or I mind), and the announcers have mentioned it's odd to see a championship club with so many players out of form.
Crazy to say  
Kyle in NY : 10/3/2015 2:17 pm : link
but I think Mourinho has to go to have any chance of salvaging this thing.
Talk  
Jon in NYC : 10/3/2015 2:20 pm : link
about a fickle sport, where a coach can get fired less than two months into the subsequent season after he won the title.
Full Time  
pganut : 10/3/2015 2:25 pm : link
Southampton 3 Chelsea 1. Ouch (heh, heh).
RE: Talk  
Kyle in NY : 10/3/2015 2:34 pm : link
In comment 12521740 Jon in NYC said:
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about a fickle sport, where a coach can get fired less than two months into the subsequent season after he won the title.


Oh absolutely. But Abramovich has sacked managers for far less than this crap on display right now
pgnut  
ColHowPepper : 10/3/2015 2:47 pm : link
there are others on the board who are way more glued into BPL teams, chatter, and ethos. But it cannot be lost on anyone who has watched Chelsea stumble out of the gate this season that the fans have become quite disaffected, lots of empty seats and, à la Meadowlands, fans streaming toward the exits minutes before full time, let alone stoppage time.

Commentators pondering your question: do certain players who are Chelsea standards no longer warrant first 11 status, change in personnel, or is it Mourinho who must go, as suggested above. I think I'm with Jon, it's very difficult to consider at this point, still very early in the season, a change of manager who just last year led you to the Championship. Yet, for the color guy to say, "It looks to me as if the team are just not playing for [Mourinho]", is damning. I don't watch enough of the team to form an opinion. Certainly, they are not imposing their will on their opponents as is usually the case.

Chelsea won possession 69% and lost 3 -1. They looked lax in midfield, slow to organize on counters, and had too many individual lapses. Is there malaise in the team room? What was the benching of team captain and long-time CB Terry all about? As I posted above, Mourinho is defensive about the subject, as Terry's status is probably the focus of discussion in pubs up and down King's Road, from Mondays right through Match Days.

Your guess is as good as mine, but I don't see how he will be forced out this early. It would be more in keeping with his character if he were to resign first, if he decides he's done or he's lost the team.
God-like status  
natefit : 10/3/2015 2:57 pm : link
doesnt last long in the BPL. Jose is not looking so special anymore...
If it was Mourinho  
Big Rick in FL : 10/3/2015 3:32 pm : link
I don't think it would even be a question. He's a dick, but he has shown to be a great coach across the world. This shit show probably isn't going to get better with him there.

Look at his last year at Madrid. He had the locker room completely divided. Some fans to this day still hate a guy who was their since he was a kid.

I think they have to move on. No way this many players got this bad so quickly. Mourinho said before the season Hazard is better then Ronaldo. Which was a joke then, but he played awesome last year. This year Hazard doesn't deserve to be spoke of in the same sentence as Cristiano's left boot.

Not to mention the Chelsea D is absolutely fucking terrible. They are pathetic. An absolute joke.
Didn't mourinho just sign a huge extension deal too?  
B in ALB : 10/3/2015 3:50 pm : link
Chelsea looks like watery shit.
Anyone happen to catch Mourinho's postgame comments?  
pganut : 10/3/2015 9:10 pm : link
Um, wow. I...just, wow. So many fun things in there to process.
Postgame Chelsea 1 Southampton 3 - ( New Window )
comments below the video  
ColHowPepper : 10/4/2015 11:05 am : link
were classic, both ways
How was Everton - Liverpool?  
SwirlingEddie : 10/4/2015 11:14 am : link
I didn't get to watch the derby today.
It was really good  
UConn4523 : 10/4/2015 11:58 am : link
slow first 30 where Liverpool had control but it heated up with 5 minutes to go in the first half with each team scoring right before halftime. Second half was fun, Everton dominated the final 30 but couldn't put one in. Jagielka was the player of the match, he dominated the back line that otherwise weak right now wih Coleman and Stones out.

The save on the Naismith header was beautiful.
Rogers sacked  
natefit : 10/4/2015 2:15 pm : link
an away draw get him fired.
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