Raff_Sarrista

I don't know what I could say, he stayed with us (Napoli) for three years and he was a phenomen, then he went to Mafia. Before Ronaldo, he was the best player of Serie A for everybody.

I agree, Chelsea needs an offensive fullback. About Higuain, I know he isn't young anymore, but he is world class and he's the perfect central striker for Sarri's teams. Obviously, Chelsea has to think for a younger one, but this could be a problem to fix next season. Now Chelsea needs him, not Icardi, who is a pure finisher, but he is an average player when he has to play with teamates.

Hey, guys, I want to try to give you my point of view: as a Napoli's fan, I'm able to recognize differences beetween Sarri's Napoli and Sarri's Chelsea. Problem #0 The recent past of Chelsea: Conte's teams think football in a way far far away by Sarri's teams. Marking zone with the ball as only one point of reference is completely different by marking the opponents, so changing the defensive phase, especially in negative transitions, is a very long term job and honestly it could have been worse so far. The offensive phase is also a lot different: Conte loves to play moving the ball in width rather than in depth and medium-long range passes, while Sarri loves his players touching the ball one-two times (so a very quick build-up) ,moving the ball forward and backward, so using mainly the depth of the pitch, and short passes. In Napoli, Sarri was lucky to find a team ready to think like he wanted, as he admitted. Time is the only solution for this problem. Problem #1 Sarri's 4-3-3 needs at least an important offensive fullback, for example last year we suffered a lot for the injury of Ghoulam and we lost something like 10-15 goals at the end of season. Faouzi was one of the secret of Napoli, he gave us width on the left and the quality of his passes and crosses was superb, I'm sorry but I don't see any fullback there like him, and here marketplace is the right way. Problem #2 Central midfielders don't fit the system at now: Allan is more comfortable on possession and playing beetween opposite lines than Kantè, while Hamsik was a master in first touch and helping Jorginho in build-up, they used to think football like they were a single player, so if opponents used to mark Jorginho, there wasn't any tactical problem for us (thanks to Hamsik). I think that Sarri will improve the team with training from this point of view, I don't think it's necessary to sign a new midfielder at now. Problem #3 The central striker. For Sarri it's the biggest one, as he's forced to try Hazard in this role, while everyone prefer Eden could see always forward on the pitch, but Morata and Giroud are really awful solutions and it doesn't seem they can do better. A new striker is necessary, in Napoli Sarri had three strong central strikers, like Higuain, Milik and Mertens and without them he could have been in trouble.

The table is too short to care about it in this moment. Defensively we can improve with training, I'm worried about offensive problems: Morata and Giroud aren't good enough for this system, so I think we can try something different, like 4-3-1-2 with Hazard/Willian behind a couple of strikers, like Pedro, Morata, Willian, without a central one. But I know Sarri and he won't try anything if we are far 2 points to top of the table.

Sorry guys, in Italia I’m not able to get news easily. Is there someone kind to explain me the situation about Christensen and Pedro?

What happened about Christensen? The worst thing is losing Rudiger for double match vs Liverpool.

I’m afraid we have to expect next season for a new striker.

Any news about Pedro’s previous return?

You understimatr the importance of continuity for a team. You can’t change eleven players. Anyway, RLC, Ampadu and Odoi will have their chances, but not in a completely new team.

Obviously it depends on teams out by CL groups, anyway I think that Chelsea will be one of the strongest teams in KO rounds, so we have to do our best in order to go to the final.

Sarri usually doesn’t change more than 6/7 players, especially defensive line. I would say something like this: Kepa, Azpi Rudiger Christensen Emerson, Kante Fabregas Barkley, Pedro Morata Willian I hope Fabregas will be ready to play, because Jorginho has to rest. It’s a pity for Loftus’ injury.

Albiol in first three matches with Sarri and with Rafa seemed awful defender, then he became one of the stongest in Europe. Sarri needs time to improve players, especially defenders.

Calm down, but it’s true that City seems more human now.

Coppa Italia was stolen by Mafientus in the season 2016-17 as usual.

I would tell the same if there wasn't this Manchester City.

It isn’t the perfect moment to match against a top team, I wouldn’t dislike a draw.

Fekir false 9? He has already done it. Anyway, it’s so close to the end of the session.

Caballero/Kepa, Azpi-Rudiger-Luiz-Alonso, Kante/Fabregas-Jorginho-Barkley, Pedro-Morata-Hudson. I expect this one. Kante is the only one returning later from WC could be ready to play.

What about Batshuayi? He could be the best option in that role.

Kepa is better than Courtois for Sarri’s teamplay. I think that Courtois’ decision to go away is good for the team.

Chelsea needs a technical midfielder for sure.

Some players are poor tecnhically to play in this system: Alonso, Barkley and Morata for example.

I hpe you didn't forget when I say 'Communty Shield will be a disaster". It was largely predictable: Sarri needs time.

This is usual Jorginho. I don’t like Morata as central striker in this system.

Alisson anything special as a goalkeeper? How many times did you see him? Last year he was amazing, the best goalkeeper in Serie A so far (and there were some ‘good’ goalkeepers like Buffon, Sczesny, Donnaruma and Handanovic).