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      Welcome to The Shed End - The elite and longest-running community forum for fans of Chelsea FC. Forum announcements appear here. Any downtime or updates on The Shed End Forum will be posted here.

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      Welcome yourself to our Chelsea community here, pull up a chair, pour out a drink and tell us where you're from and when you started to follow Chelsea FC. Any of your favourite Chelsea players? What you like to do?

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      2024, a new year, a new resolution...find a new owner. There is a lesser known interested Ukrainian  billionaire called Ramon Abraham Ovich 

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    2. Coco's Chelsea FC Match Chat

      Mudryk just passed the ball to the opposition with his first touch, Badiashille just put in a defensive performance that would put  the French military to shame and Jackson has bought 14 banjos and is searching for a barn door.  It must be match day.

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      Want a ticket? Any to sell on?  This is the very place for you; Face value only though of course. Also looking for an old retro shirt or want to show off your memorabilia, it's all in here.

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    4. Chelsea FC Rumours

      You know when we are rumoured to bringing Jordan Henderson in that we are a club in turmoil.  Especially when we all accept he would improve us.

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    5. Chelsea FC Vintage

      Chelsea pre Roman - when we were nothing more than a flower show and a poor alter-ego name for your 'cousin'. All the Chelsea FC old school posts in here. Some cracking vintage Chelsea FC pictures too!

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    6. Chelsea FC Womens Team

      Emma is off to coach the US Women's Team at the end of the 23/24 season, can we do another double as a send-off or even grab the Champions League holy grail beforehand? All the talk about our Chelsea Women's Team is in here!

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    7. Chelsea FC Reserves & Youth Team

      Aargh the youth team...it has only taken us 114 years but we've finally remembered we have one. Anything related to the Chelsea youth and Reserves team in here.

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    8. The Shed End Prediction League

      Zeta's Prediction League on Chelsea's Premiership matches. Also, includes archive of The Shed End's long-running prediction league ran by Butch.

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    1. Football (Other Teams)

      Just the three teams in London better than Chelsea now. In your face Leyton Orient. Feel free to use this forum to remind people how players we punted because we thought they weren't good enough for us would now feature week in week out for us. Come back Willian, your hair moves me.

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      If football doesn't float your boat, much like the French at the Battle of Trafalgar, then this is the forum for you. That said you will be deemed a leper of modern society.

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    • SydneyChelsea
      Another Winger! - Noni Madueke

      By SydneyChelsea · Posted

      Technical point - this isn't an assumption of the xG model, merely a possible explanation of the model's results. xG was very low for those shots, and we can assume that is because most players shooting from those positions are right-footed and hence are restricted in finishing at the near post making it easier for a goalkeeper or defender to cover angles. In general, the assumptions of the xG model are that the chance of scoring a goal is dictated by the position of the shot, whether it is a header or a shot, and (in some models) the quality of the assist. Even OPTA's xG model doesn't directly account for footedness, so it doesn't adjust for the fact that Madueke is both-footed and has a better opportunity than most players to score from these positions. On the first goal, a left-footed shot gives him a much better angle (albeit aided by the defender's block) than the xG model predicts. On the second and third, the Wolves defence is reacting to his ability to cut in side, giving him way too much space to run outside and finish with his right foot. These circumstances aren't part of the xG model and aren't accounted for.    Maresca's instructions to keep the wingers wide and seek 1v1s works in theory because teams can't effectively double-team both wingers. So you stick two good dribblers and if the opposition triple-teams one side, you just simply switch the attack to the other side. Madueke is obviously the form player so it makes sense Bournemouth identified him (vs Neto/Mudryk) for extra attention. This issue was magnified by Neto also have a poor game, had he started brightly Bournemouth would have had to re-think their plans. Bournemouth (like Wharton/Palace the game before) also cleverly dealt with Palmer in the first half by stopping him from getting the ball (vs trying to tackle him on the ball). It's actually a bluff, as Palmer is so good (demonstrated later in the game) that it doesn't matter how many players appear to be pressuring him. So while the solution for Madueke is to cycle the ball for a switch of play and get the LW 1v1, he looks up, thinks Palmer is marked, and then cycles back to the DM or...Disasi (Jesus wept). Although I am critical of him this season, I think that this is exactly the problem a player like Enzo Fernandez should solve should he play deeper. A team can't effectively mark him and Palmer if they are playing in different lines. If Madueke thinks he can't find Palmer then he can choose the 'safe' option of Enzo at CM instead, who very much has the raking switch of play in his locker. This is further augmented when we play James or Gusto at RB too, because both of them can also pull off this switch. Rodri does this for City and TAA for Liverpool, and Declan Rice's inability to do it has been cited as a big reason why Arsenal struggle to break down certain teams.
    • nonotnowjim
      Reece James

      By nonotnowjim · Posted

      I would generally agree - but there comes a point when enough is enough and we have to realistically accept and play the hand we have been dealt. We all know Einsteins quote about the definition of insanity - and I fear that a time is coming when simply trying to rehabilitate and cross our fingers every year isn't a sensible way forward. The reality is that rest, surgery and management hasn't worked for 3 years - and there is probably little hope it will miraculously start being a successful mitigation strategy now. Even the surgeon who worked on Reece spoke about his biology and the way he is built and put together is massively contributing to his issues. I am all up for trying again - but i do think we need to set a deadline or target - and if he can't meet that, then look at options. 
    • Jezz
      RIP Toto Schillaci

      By Jezz · Posted

      Sad news. 59 is too young. Will always be remembered for Italia 90.
    • SydneyChelsea
      Welcome to Chelsea Ben Chilwell

      By SydneyChelsea · Posted

      Football had apparently passed by from 3-at-the-back formations, until Conte stormed to a league title in 2017. Then in the 2020s we were told football had again passed by the 3-4-3, until Tuchel revived it to dominate Europe and give Guardiola an aneurysm. More pertinently, we were told that football had passed by inverted fullbacks in the late 1990s, and overlapping fullbacks were the future - now look at us. Inverted fullbacks make for attacking and defensive tactics sheets that look like formations from the 50s and 60s. Football never truly moves on from anything. Tactics are just a way to get your best players on the pitch to do their thing. Successful managers are the ones that realise this and consequently set trends, failures are the ones that merely try to adopt them.
    • Sexyfootball
      Lofty's Wall of Sound - What are you listening to?

      By Sexyfootball · Posted

      Jesus ... was this really 33 years ago ??? Shara Nelson on top form ...   

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