Chelsea suffered from anxiety...What!?

Listen, I have had my say on Saturdays performance and you guys have expressed your opinions too whether you agree with me or not and that's fair enough, but the point I am trying to make was that everything we had worked on in pre season and looked like implementing simply disappeared in the first half.

AVB has aired his on take on things and what happened particularly in the first half and said:

“Today it was a very emotional game. The emotional part of the game was the main difference from the first half to the second half.

In the first half we suffered a little bit with anxiety because we conceded the first goal too early, and we couldn't express ourselves.

Then when you find the back of the net for the 1-1, the emotional impact on the opponent is tremendous and we felt very confident to search for the second goal, and we found it.

We had a fantastic second half and played in their half and created numerous opportunities. We were dominant like we should have been in the first half.”

Look, I commend AVB and the players for the way they approached the second half but let's not forget the save at full stretch Hilario had to make in the second half. So let's get real for a second as there is a particular sentence that AVB has said that caught my eye straight away. The part I am referring to is the "we suffered a little bit with anxiety" part.

Now why on earth, with the players we have suffer from anxiety?. For the most part these players have been there and done that when it comes to winning games in the Premier League. It really worried me that we did so easily slip back to playing how we did last season in the first half. OK, it will take time under AVB and I am 100% certain it will all come together, just the fact that we never kept belief in how we wanted to play, our game plan or anything really worries me.

I know it's the managers first game at home and the players want to do well because he has already spoken of the fact that if your form is good, you will play, but the fact that we did slip back into last season's mode is something that I don't think any of us would have even considered walking to the ground on Saturday..

I just hope this week, the players realise what's expected and the first half performance we saw on Saturday, is the last of the kind we see this season.

KTBFFH

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