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We won't need to worry about top 4 if we win the Champions League guys. ¯\_(?)_/¯

Put an extra body in the midfield to press!!! We dont need to have 3 centre backs waiting to get ran at!!

So we wait until the last 5 minutes to stop playing like wusses...

Giroud on for Pedro & Zappacosta on for Moses

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We haven't been playing well at all. We can hardly string two passes together before getting dispossessed. Just because you see Hazard and Willian making chances out of nothing doesn't mean we're playing well.

I hate Conte's tactics so f*cking much! Having 2 strikers on the bench but playing Hazard at false 9 when it's been proven he's a lot more effective on the wing. Playing 3 centre backs who just sit back while having a midfield 2 who gets dominated. Why not put one centre back at a defensive mid position to help get some bodies in the midfield so that we can put pressure on Barcelona?

We are really bad. Hazard is isolated. We have no real outlet. And our midfield 2 is getting dominated. It's just a matter of time before Barcelona breaks through.

Someone tell Conte to play Hazard deeper or at least on the wing so he can run at the Barcelona defenders. Hazard at false 9 especially against a team that dominates possession, he isnt gonna be touching the ball a lot.

The team still looks unorganized on the pitch our midfield often looks empty. But hey, we have Hazard to bail us out when our tactics are crap... seriously, without him our team is ridiculously average. If West Brom was a team that pressed us on the ball, we would've had a lot tougher game.

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The 3-4-3 formation hurts my soul because the midfield will always lack something because Conte opts for a midfield 2. 1) Either it's Kante + Fabregas, where Fabregas' lack of mobility hurts us. Or.. 2) Kante + Bakayoko, where neither of them possess the creativity necessary to help the team connect the ball from defense to the attack. Taking out one of our 5 f*cking defenders and going for a 4-3-3 so that we could have a balanced midfield would be ideal, but obviously Conte won't ever do that.

When I see the defensive tactics that Conte uses every week, I can see that Hazard definitely isn't happy playing this type of football. I completely understand if he wants to leave.

Pedro has been making runs, but there isnt any inventive passing to attempt to find him. Our midfield is made up of 2 defensive players. So it's not really his fault that we lack creativity. Blame Conte.

Conte's formation makes it so that we have 5 defenders on the field just sitting back and waiting for attacks to come at them. No real bodies or pressing in the midfield... smh

Moses has no end product and it looks like Iwobi has his ticket.

Why do people like seeing us line up in a 3-4-3 formation? The formation gets exposed so hard when teams press us because we dont have any bodies in the middle and worse since we don't have any good passers in the middle now that Fabregas is out. Goddamn I f*cking hate Conte's 3 man backline so fvcking much. It's such a waste of a man! A man that could be added to the midfield to keep us from getting pushed back so much.

We barely had any attackers on the field in the first place... but, Hazard off for Bakayoko? Really!?

Every match Conte plays 5 defenders even though it's not necessary, and opts for wing play even though we have like only 2 attackers on the field, one of which is Hazard who is only 5'7". I'll be so happy when either Conte takes off one of his 3 centre backs in favour of an attacking option.... or he leaves the club.

Exactly. We're playing a false 9 too, so I really dont see why Conte is going for wing play over playing Fabregas who would be better suited to making through passes through the middle that our attackers can run at.

I pray the day will come when Conte stops using 5 defenders every match... Seriously, take off a centre back and put someone in the middle who can actually pass and connect the ball from defence to attack so that Hazard and the other attackers wont have to drop so deep to try to win the ball.

Well we won, but objectively we played poorly.

That still doesn't take away from what I said. The majority of Chelsea's play is basically the 3 centre backs passing it among themselves because there isn't really an option to play it through the midfield. Then eventually one of them will make a long ball and hope that it finds someone. If Bournemouth was a team that pressed at all, Chelsea would be in problems.

Goddamn I hate this 3-4-3 formation. Playing 3 centre backs every game with an empty midfield, and having to rely on speculative long balls to find attackers. -___-

Conte really needs to change his tactics, but he wont. The 3-4-3 does not work. Playing 5 defenders every match is such a waste. It doesnt even make us more defensively secure which is the sad part. Right now Chelsea has the majority of the possession, but really like 75% of the touches are being done by the defenders moving it around at the back. As impressive as the our front 3 looks on paper, they are starved for the ball. We have 2 center players who cant move the ball from defense to attack, they just keep passing it behind them. And when anyone tries to connect the defense to the attack, they use speculative long balls to the wings which ultimately fizzle out.