Slojo

A clean sheet isn't even a silver lining here, on paper it definitely is, but Leicester were the better team throughout the majority of the game. They had plenty of clear-cut chances we were lucky not to concede, so we have problems just about everywhere at the moment.

I have some big questions for Conte at the moment -Why is he afraid of the Kante-Drinkwater pivot? The same central midfield that won Leicester the title 2 years ago -Why on earth is Bakayoko still starting the majority of games? It's quite clear, from biased fans to commentators/pundits that Bakayoko is not having a good season, we get that he's young and he's 40 millions worth, but is that a valid reason to put this season in jeopardy? We can still win a good number of things this season but we can't when the team is incredibly out of place and we are fine with playing mediocrity for the sake of blind faith. -What was even the point in signing Drinkwater? Him and Bakayoko were near enough the same price, yet Drinkwater is rarely playing, he wasn't even on the bench today. What's the point in the singing? Why did we sell Matic and loan out Loftus Cheek to replace them both with an untested disappointing signing like Bakayoko, and proven PL player who we never really seem to play? -Michy Batshuayi? It's quite clear he isn't rated, he's barely even a squad player, what's the point in him being here when Conte doesn't even trust him to deliver a majority of the time, why wasn't he replaced in the summer if so, we could have at least gotten a decent amount for him. -3-5-2 formation, we've pretty much just gone 300 minutes without scoring a goal, 200 minutes before that, and yet we still persist playing this bad formation. It's clearly not working, we should revert to the 3-4-3 which won us the league last season. -Summer Transfer Window, Finally, just what was the point? We know Conte has already expressed dislike for our transfers, and the board interactions with transfers in general. But what on earth is going on? You don't need to be a football manager to know that our problems were pretty simple last season, we needed more rotation options on the width, and an upgrade on Matic & Cahill. Selling Matic didn't bother me, but why did we replace him with one player who Conte barely has any interest in and one player who was very unproven.. Anyway, that ship has sailed. Alonso looks shattered every game, Zappercosta was a good backup signing, Rudiger looks weaker defensively to Cahill but he suits the system a lot more than Cahill did, but other than that what have we done? We haven't upgraded the team and we still lack depth, this should have been addressed straight away and could have been with the players we sold. Last season it was clear our strength was having to play once a week, doubling up in depth was something we needed to address ASAP. I cringe whenever we play weekend games after playing midweek now, and that's almost every week, especially Champions League games.

Another awful performance.. I don't particularly blame Bakayoko, but why on earth is Conte playing a player who clearly isn't good enough at the moment? Such a disappointing signing.

They have 10 men and Bakayoko is still giving the ball away... This is ridiculous

It's alright we'll be playing Brighton next week, and instead of the Kante-Drinkwater pivot we'll see Bakayoko playing again.

I really really really really dislike watching Bakayoko play

Harsh sending off that, but now an opportunity, we need to win this!

Morata hold the damn ball for christs sake

Christensen's pass there, when all bodies are upfield, that's what we miss in David Luiz. It's such an important aspect of the game when we want to keep on top of teams and pressure them.

He has to be the worst commentator since Andy Townsend

Conte for the love of god, we are begging you, make a change

I've never seen it this bad before, this is a record.

I'm not saying he wasn't solid throughout the first part of the season, but he was still lightyears behind the rest of the team. Look how good Kante, Alonso, Moses, Azpi, Luiz, Willian, Pedro, Hazard & Costa were last season, Matic and Cahill were definitely the weak links in the team and due to an upgrade. Also when we dropped off the second part of the season Matic dropped off more than everyone else.

I don't think it's the 3 at the back tbh, it's the 5 man midfield, last season the 3 at the front was too much for defences to handle, now we haven't got that. Conte is afraid of the Drinkwater-Kante pivot and I don't know why, we should be playing 3 at the top again, the 5 man midfield isn't working.

Yep, Matic was the weak link last season, but he's a much better player than Bakayoko, I have no idea who was behind that decision.

The issue here with Conte is that we've seen him at his worst, he's very stubborn. You just know for a fact we aren't going to see any changes at halftime and we need some big ones. Drinkwater's poor game is Bakayoko's average game and we are still playing Bakayoko almost every PL game. Morata looks better but he's going down too easily again, he can't play in a front 2 when he's got the strength of Rey Mysterio. Rudiger is struggling at the back and he's comfortable at defending, I think Cahill is more solid than Rudiger in the defensive department. However, Rudiger's distribution has been better than all the outfield players combined. As for Moses I don't buy into him being in a bad patch at all but this game he's performed poorly, I would give Zappercosta a game.

Why on earth are we persisting with Bakayoko? I've never been so frustrated in watching a player.

Rudiger is getting absolutely demolished by Mahrez

Oh my goodness Hazard... No confidence, soon as he's 1 on 1 he slows down.

Really need to change formation here, nothing in attack, the Hazard-Morata duo isn't working.

What is going on with Hazard? Looks shocking at the moment.

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This is ridiculous, the obvious problems are remaining obvious, Bakayoko not marking or closing down, Cahill making the same mistakes.

3-5-2 is not the right formation for this I don't think, Bakayoko does not perform well in that formation also.

The commentator on my stream just said "Morata has to hold the ball up better like Costa if he wants to be as good as he is" Jesus christ, they really don't have a clue do they.