I thought we did well actually, and I'll defend PV's game plan.

1) We were never going to dominate play. We needed to take our chances, and we missed 3 good ones: Andersen's header, Kouyate's header, and Kouyate's drive off the post.

2) Defensively, our formation and team play was fine. Only two individual errors led to the goals. Chelsea seldom threatened.

3) Up front, I suspect PV hoped Wilf would have a greater chance of earning a penalty if he played nearer the center.

4) Our lack of pressure seemed more of a tactical choice than a matter of Gallagher's absence. I think PV feared that Chelsea would burn us if we tried to apply pressure high.

5) As for man selection, I believe PV wanted to spread the wealth, share the load, reward the veterans. I can't argue.

It took a superb shot in the 66th minute for the game to turn against us and even then, we had a chance if Andersen had executed a routine header from point-blank range. For a side with exactly 0 players who would see much, if any, playing time for Chelsea, we played well enough to pull off a massive upset.

Great day out. Don’t get these games often enough. Perhaps that will change with Vieria at the helm? Thought subs were strange taking off Macca and Schlup and bringing on two forwards. We lost our midfield which resulted in 2nd Chelsea goal. Then we took of Kouyate for Luka. If anything we needed those two together rather than bringing on two forwards leaving us short in midfield. Oh well, trip to Wembley and staying in the premiership is a great season for a club like ours :-)

Chelsea are not that good, we forgot to attack, we should have played 4-3.3 with the normal back four, kouyate and MacArthur in midfield, Olise, Mateta and wilf, as normal and Eze chasing down like Gallagher, if he wasn't doing it replace him with Schlupp, not play a completly new system FFS, PV f****d up

That seems quite accurate.

Eze has ability of course, but there’s a lot more he needs to do to fulfil any potential.