DumbYank

Are their any other Kante's out there? I'm glad I've gotten to see his class. He's been injured in my two years of Chels fandom. These last few matches have been pretty eye opening for me personally.

The goal in the first leg showed the same class and calmness. I think the kid is kinda mental. He does show up in the big matches though, last year and this year. Just go play CP.

I don't see why he'd change. I don't like the 3-5 personally because it's kinda boring, but damn, it's hard to deny TTs results.

I didn’t see the 2nd half but Pulisic was fantastic in the 1sr. Goal and the Timo miss and great cross OG would have put in with the head but TW too short. he tracked back onD too.

Devils advocate here. The NHL has a handful of black dudes. I would assume that there are a higher percentage of black people who support black players in th NHL than white. Tiger Woods had a demonstrable effect on the number of black fans of golf as well as black people playing golf. I teach in a predominantly white rural school district. We have a few Mexican descent kids. Any time I’ve asked them, they have unanimously said they are fans of the Mexican NT rather than USMNT. A lot of rural whites liked Larry Bird. We are tribal by nature and this is programmed in us through millions of years of evolution. Ain’t nothing wrong with liking to see people whom you look like or have cultural ties to doing well. It’s natural. I assume blacks like PK Subban at a high percentage. I assume Mexicans like Chicharito at a high percentage, I assume whites like Larry Bird at a high percentage. the NFL had a Vietnamese player named Dat Nguyen a few years ago and there were scads of Vietnamese people supporting the guy. I wouldn’t assume and get all righteous when a dude asks a certain question. I assumed my sons friends DAd from Manchester of Nigerian descent would have been a supporter of the Nigeria more than England, but he was passionately all about England and Said he wanted 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 to beat the bloody hell out of Nigeria 🇳🇬 If they played. So my assumption was wrong in that case but we had a nice laugh about it. I tried to be a Sunderland fan a few years ago and we passionately wants Jozy to work out but he just wasn’t good enough. Walter Payton, black NFL legend, is my boyhood idol and I hated Bird who was raised 50 miles from me which probably equates to 5 miles in England. Hated him because Doctor J, then Charles Barkley were my favorite players. lighten up Francis.

If this team had a real striker, I think they'd be the best in the world. I used to think Werner had the yips. Now I think he just blows. He just doesn't have world class skill. He has world class athleticism but 2nd tier clinical skill.

If this team had a real striker, I think they'd be the best in the world. I used to think Werner had the yips. Now I think he just blows. He just doesn't have world class skill. He has world class athleticism but 2nd tier clinical skill.

Try to dribble through their defenders FFS. I don't get it.

Jesus get the ball out of danger.

f**king around in the back third.

Once again, why are we afraid to move the ball forward against Brighton? Turn and f**king attack for f**ks sake.

I think he might have been overconfident v. WBA. I'd be surprised that the league games aren't important to him since we are currently our of the CL next year.

But that's just sh*t coaches say. I bet he does't think the FA Semi is the most important game between the Real matches and the next PL match, and I hope his squad selections reflect that.

I saw LP have several good chances yesterday.

I did not realize that. I would have doubted it except for the visual evidence. Once again though lots of nice sinewy material to chew on, especially if you catch one of those nice tendons in the upper forearm.

He doesn't do necks, he prefers ears. Something you can really sink your teeth into and chew for a while.

Yep. We look the better side with a few just unforced shockers sneaking in there.

Chilwell is pert near a disaster today too. He needs to come off IMO.

Why are the allowed to beat the dog pizz out of Pulisic and not get carded?

Lovely

FFS why is this f**king guy still starting? German favoritism? The dude has the yips and needs to sit.

It seems like they are terrified of losing possession, even and possibly especially against teams that don't have much attacking talent. They've been passing back into trouble since TT got here. It caught up to them Saturday. I find myself almost screaming LOOK FORWARD!!!!!! There will be guys open forward and they will make a risky back pass. IDK.

I don't either. I mean Werner and Puli seem tailor made for this type of game and this is what Kante is used to playing with France. Now of course the latter two are always hurt. So maybe we don't have that ability.

No doubt he’s injury prone and availability is the best ability but you must of missed the last part of the season if you don’t see that he can be a game changer.

You must have missed the post Covid break games last season and the FA cup final when he ripped his hammy going for his 2nd goal.