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Also how was that a dive? For once sterling has been bodied out the way.

Alan Smith digging out Chelsea fans for leaving early. It's Xmas eve, trains are a mess to get back to London and they were 2-0 down in the 90th minute. Man needs to get off his high horse

A full back had more composure in front of goal than Sterling and Jackson put together

Also quite a lot of subs.

Nicholas Jackson is so poor. Runs in the box as if he's never played the game and can't trap a ball to save his life

There's so much quality in this Chelsea side, but the amount of errors either in first touch, passing or decision making is atrocious

What's the new craze with decisions going against a side suddenly makes the league "corrupt as ****"?

Woeful defending from the corner

Really looks like the wheels are falling off behind the scenes at Sunderland.

My FPL is screaming at sterling for not passing it across

Nicholas Jackson really is shite

Pretty much, a classic example of a ref having not fully seen the tackle in live play. Not a lot can be done there, if the officials have flagged it as a yellow. This for me is a huge issue with the game in general. There are so many sub rules and interpretations that refs give wildly different things

Faes is growing into that position very well, his runs forward and becoming more and more dangerous. Actually think the system suited it with him on the left compared to when JJ is there.

I will not have that the famous man manager Brendan could ever do anything to fall out with or disalusion members of the playing squad or staff!!

I've really enjoyed watching how Maresca has implemented slight tweaks to his system each week. First few months we were very rigid in the tactics we used, and the football we played. Lately we've tweaked things ever so slightly to counter the opposition, but they've been so effective. I think he's really growing into his role now.

Think that was more with Ricardo pulling to the left side, along with KDH and the two you've mentioned had a good outnumbering going against the defence. But we didn't see much of that down the left, until Yunus, Casadei came on

They managed him really well, having a covering midfielder block the option to cut in. As your say , the LB really blocked off his attacking potential. Thought their RB was pretty decent too, kept Mavididi pretty quiet

That has been surprisingly quiet, but technically isn't a VAR issue with it being 2 yellow cards. But everything else we have villa fans, (shockingly) Liverpool fans and others all screaming conspiracy.

As usual the weekend is full of VAR talk rather than anything about the quality of football

As well when someone behind you is flashing main beam to get you to move, whilst there's a van on your inside and a barrier on the right. Like I can just warp out of the way.

Unless the past few months have been building up to this? Daka was extremely bereft of any sort of confidence, it's probably taken a while for Enzo to mould Daka into a player for his system. Then opportunity arose, and he's taken it.

Expect them to turn up against us

I agree, but I also really do not miss the Prem. The stupid light shows, ridiculous kickoff times and stop start games with VAR checks for everything.

Pretty well summed up. Awful acting from the lead duo, dragged out poorly and pretty inaccurate.

Walcott speaks really well when analysing the game.