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Stuart Robson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
503 total appearances

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ESPN FC
Carrick's First Stumble

Jal Pedro was making some great runs.

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Carrick's First Stumble

Enzo Fernandes was getting involved as well.

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Carrick's First Stumble

They were playing little balls around the corner.

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Carrick's First Stumble

Everything was going right for Chelsea and Leeds didn't look as though they had any sort of threat going forward.

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Carrick's First Stumble

And it all changed with the penalty.

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Carrick's First Stumble

and suddenly Leeds started getting balls in behind, and the two young centre-halves couldn't deal with it, and they brought on Harto at half-time, the left-back, and they didn't deal with two or three balls that were played over the top, and a couple of balls that were played up to the front players, and suddenly Chelsea started to panic.

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Carrick's First Stumble

Then, when Leeds got to 2-2, they dropped off and allowed Chelsea to play again, and Neto produced a couple of brilliant crosses that nearly went in at the far post, obviously that miss by Palmer,

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Carrick's First Stumble

Chelsea deserve to win it, there's no doubt about that, because really, Leeds only had about a 15-minute period in the game, but it's a wasteful evening for Chelsea.

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Carrick's First Stumble

Well, the answer is don't stop playing.

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Carrick's First Stumble

You carry on, play to the whistle, don't you?

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Carrick's First Stumble

I mean, what a ridiculous comment that is by Liam Rosinha.

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Carrick's First Stumble

You know, the players stopped, so it allowed Lee to go and score the goal.

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Carrick's First Stumble

Ridiculous comments.

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Carrick's First Stumble

You know, he should be advising his players, he should be having a go at his players for carrying on playing.

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Carrick's First Stumble

And they didn't stop anyway, they just didn't defend it very well, as they didn't for that 15 minutes or so.

ESPN FC
Carrick's First Stumble

But you also have to question the Chelsea mentality, because quite often, you know, they've had a fairly structured centre-half partnership,

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Carrick's First Stumble

Again, they changed the back four again.

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Carrick's First Stumble

They changed the back two centre-halves, and they didn't play anywhere near as well as some of the other partnerships that they've had.

ESPN FC
Carrick's First Stumble

So if you keep changing the team, you won't get that defensive structure right at any point.

ESPN FC
Carrick's First Stumble

That he knows that he's under a little bit of pressure, but he's an honest manager.