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Airhead
....Let's not forget it was a draw in both matches. PSG looked to be the better side (marginally) but it's hardly a humiliating defeat....
...like last year?
MultiGrooves-
You mean we scraped past them and lost to the future finalists? They took it very badly didn't they?
Clearly the team lost the plot last night, if you play football yourself you'll recognise the way they lost track of the game, lost concentration.
Clearly they were sent out to do better, complete passes, press PSG and score goals while defending. The players couldn't complete passes they would normally, couldn't find a way to defeat the PSG defence, couldn't handle Varetti. The manager might want to deflect from that or claim he has more power but PSG were good, sharp and wanted it more.
When Chelsea beat Barca or Bayern Munich did their managers cop the blame, no they didn't. When we beat Liverpool in the League Cup did Rodgers get the blame, no. Instead you want to focus on a Chelsea player standing on someones leg and how Mourinho put him up to it by creating a "fortress mentality".
As a fan of Chelsea and Mourinho I see he overreacts to the "unfair" aspects of the game, but overall his reading of the game is good and his interviews are sane enough until he gets goaded into saying something controversial. The media don't love him they feed off his ability to provide headlines.
I would say you need to get off his back, but he gets 40,000 fans chanting his name on a regular basis so I would imagine his ego is big enough to handle it.
Airhead
It's not a comment about last nights match. More a comment about the way Chelsea's season tends to arc each year. The season doesn't just go downhill from a good start, it usually ends with better performances. It coincides with the weather, might not be the cause.
Like I said, PSG's defence are very good. Intelligent, organised and mobile. Having said that the goals from both teams were similar and relied on set pieces to make a breakthrough. Chelsea defend well, PSG defended better in open play.
Let's not forget it was a draw in both matches. PSG looked to be the better side (marginally) but it's hardly a humiliating defeat. Just an ugly game of football.