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Before the game I was rating Chelsea as one of the current average English premier league teams but after watching Manchester City's second XI humiliate a star studded Chelsea team I had to change my thoughts of the team because judging by their current standard, Chelsea is playing like championship club that's struggling to play in the premier league.
Mauricio Pochettino has a lot of psychological work to do in other to restore the confidence of this Chelsea team when he finally starts his reign as the club manager. disappointing is a better word to describe the current Chelsea performance

Sorry but I can definitely not agree with the word "humiliate". Chelsea had more shots on target and having less ball possession comes at no surprise. I guess even Barcelona would have much less ball possession in a standard game in the Etihad stadium.

But still Chelsea missed the chance of some minor rehabilitation for this season. Even if it wouldn't have been meaningful in regards to their final rank in the table, it could have created some positive momentum within the team if they win a game against Manchester City.

The question is really whether Chelsea can do a 180 degree turn next season.

If a shot on target has a way of giving points, many teams would have find a short cut to top 4 but it doesn't work that way, evven in final matches we have seen team A beat team B and team B may have all the ball possessions needed to rate good teams, that is exactly what Chelsea display yesterday against Manchester City. By the way, that match was even a progression of points, even if they failed to score against Chelsea, no team, not even Arsenal can win the league, it was already a decided match to perfectly end the journey of Manchester City, the rest of their matches are nothing but entertainment.

It doesn't work that way? Thank you for enlightening me. Cheesy

But I have never said that a shot on target would or would not give a point, I only said that Chelsea didn't get "humiliated". When you use that word in sports you expect a game that was played in one half of the field only with overwhelming ball possession and countless shots on target and goals for one team. I pointed out that that was not the case in this game. Humiliation goes too far when you actually want to describe what happened between Manchester City and Chelsea. I suppose we agree on that. Wink

But it was very obvious that Manchester City had fun playing soccer even though they won the title already. They were hungry for more points and goals. The Chelsea players iare looking forward to lying on the beach and relaxing and sometimes I thought they have been thinking this for months now. Tongue