DumbYank

I started supporting Chelsea because of Pulisic. I follow the matches pretty closely. I have been disappointed in CP, but saw he was soft mentally when he broke down after being benched in in a USMNT when he was literally crying on the bench. Then he went on a tear after that and was largely responsible for CFC qualifying for last years CL title after the Covid restart. If you didn't see how important he was to that effort, then you don't watch the games. He was going in for his 2nd goal in the FA final and ripped the hammy. Since then, he's been pretty anonymous. I don't think he'd have lingering hammy issues, but he lacks the explosiveness he had. He's also having trouble keeping the ball close on the first touch. However, you also must not watch games if you haven't seen that the entire attack has been lackluster and even though CFC was great before DEC, much of the success was with backs scoring. That being said, I don't know if CP will stay on this squad, but I will continue to be a fan. IF some self important British w**ker doesn't like or respect my fandom, I couldn't care less. 😁

Anonymous for sure. Don’t see the explosiveness. He isn’t keeping the 1st touch close enough either. That said the entire team was outclassed today. Didn’t see anyone out there that looked good except Kovacic but he had a couple bad turnovers too. The entire attack looked the same though, nothing from anyone, subs included. Seems like the back 3 has run it’s course. What offensive players have looked good since end of November? Not much is coming to mind.

Yep. It’s not working. It hasn’t made any difference who is in attack. Still though, RL finishes the one on one right after the half or Ziyech hits the chip off the rebound then CFC has chance against a team that looked better at EVERY position on the pitch today.

I think that was good for him. Thiago was like that is bovine fecal matter. Move the ball son.

One thing I know for sure about formation. The back 4 is much more entertaining for me to watch.

He looked perdy good in the last qualifying rounds. He’s legit. Strong on the ball and decisive.

Makes sense. That Lamptey was dangerous looking.

This is a key to what I’m seeing. But to me it seems like he is playing out of position and i for the life of me can’t understand what Tuechel is trying to do with him. Why doesn’t he play LWB yesterday instead of James? James has excelled at RWB. The back 3 without wingers doesn’t suit CPs game. That is obvious. I’m an American who started rooting for CFC because of CP. but I’m in. I watch a lot of Chelsea games. And will continue to support if and when he leaves. To me it is pretty hard to argue that CFC wins the CL without CP, because they probably don’t qualify and/or lose to Madrid. But his time here might be up if TT stays with a back 3 exclusively. right now it’s not working though. I’m not enough of a tactician to know what teams do, but with the recent struggles, it seems TT might need to mix up formations, but I’ve said many times it’s hard to argue his record.

Pulisic touched the ball very few times from at least the 35th minute on. He was pretty good and almost scored. He hasn’t been good lately, but he played well today as a target striker lol.

I vote Tuechel tries the starters next time. Let's evaluate that before we call for any drastic changes.

Why does a Werner get minutes?

I think that front 3 should cause teams to sh*t down their legs. That is a lot of pace and I really think if CP can stay healthy, he should be a great complement to RL, both playing into and running off of him. CHO looks like he's gotten some man strength over the last year.

Concacaf is ridiculous.

The team could use more goal scoring eventually probably. But CP probably needs to be a wide player and I think he gets knocked off the ball to much for wingback. That said I thought he looked good in the first match back. I think he could be dangerous playing off and into Lukaku.