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We've been absolutely toilet the entire game, Alonso is complete gash and gives us nothing. We should have gone 433, stop playing this wing back system that clearly only works with Chillwell and James.

I mean that's sort of the important bit

Watching from the lofty heights of west upper on Thursday you could see him making runs (and he was working hard) but as par the course for a Chelsea striker he realised the ball will never come and stopped making them. 

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.

Can't really blame him, he's not a striker but I guess if he had 2 matches like this under Pep he would do better, our system just doesn't cater to whoever is there in the middle.

At least they'll be able to keep a distance of about half a mile between them.

Think he was a bit ambitious when he added the zero behind the two 

btw Lille have some good players, remember that guy who played for Swansea?

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.  
 

Very true but Christian has a closer frame Messi . Looking at a picture of both players shows that Messi's legs are a lot more muscular than Pulisc's. Messi had to bulk his legs up because he was always getting kicked and had little niggles when younger due to his direct dribbling style.
If Pulisic wants to stick with his dribbling style of play then he will need to make his lower body stronger.

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.  

What a specimen you are 😂 
That's exactly what athletes do while working up to full fitness - run slower, run less, avoid immediate full sprints, etc.
And you know that Malmo doesn't play in the EPL right? 🙂

Dude, Pulisic isn’t going to f**k you…

Look at my reply above. a commonly misdiagnosed injury.  If you don't know what it is, it's probably not as "high" on the ankle as you'd think.
From my experience coaching, its the probability of reinjuring this thing that is so problematic.  You can do almost anything with your high ankle sprain past a certain point after the swelling etc.  Casually shoot jumpers, go for a run, even hike in the mountains.  Almost anything is OK, EXCEPT playing sports with intensity.  High ankle sprains are usually caused by sudden movements: twists, cuts, turns while running.  It almost never happens to people who are not engaged in this type of activity. 
 
So after the initial pain, swelling, etc. that is the same type of feeling as a lower ankle sprain which is why it's commonly misdiagnosed, it is still susceptible to reinjury until completely healed.   A lower sprain can often be taped/braced, even early on in the healing process, but the high sprain is just extremely sensitive to reinjury until completely healed. 
 
Look CP is obviously prone to injury, and maybe he's a puzzy or faking it or something.  
 
But his last two major injuries are just historically bad injuries that are prone to reinjury more than other injuries and the best course of action is usually to rest them completely until completely healed.   The oblique injury is also a killer for athletes and in ways has similar problems than a high sprain: long recovery time, hypersensitivity to reinjury,  not usually treatable by physical therapy.  
 
I am not a medical person, but I have spent a life time dealing with kids' injuries and suffered a severe high sprain myself in my late 20s playing soccer.  Down for about 10 weeks and I was always a quick healer.  I gained about 20lbs BTW. 
 
So bottom line CP could be a puzzy, but the last two injuries if he truly had them I guess for you conspiracists out there, shouldn't surprise with the length of recovery.  They need to heal completely.

Puts me in a very vulnerable frame of mind.  Like I would do anything that damn cat tells me to do. 

It's what I read on the net one time so it must be true.
Apparently, there was Ruggers Football and Association Football.  I guess for short back then they would say assocca or something which became soccer.  I guess Brits used the term.  Ruggers Football obviously became Rugby.
Here's a blurb from Wikipedia
"Football is one of a family of football codes, which emerged from various ball games played worldwide since antiquity.
The term soccer comes from Oxford "-er" slang, which was prevalent at Oxford University in England from about 1875, and is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. The slang also gave rise to rugger for Rugby football, fiver and tenner for a five-pound and ten-pound note, and the now archaic footer for association football.[9] The word soccer (which arrived at its final form in 1895) was first recorded in 1889 in the earlier form of socca.[10]
Within the English-speaking world, association football is now usually called "football" in the United Kingdom, whereas people usually call it "soccer" in countries where other codes of football are prevalent, such as Australia,[11] Canada, South Africa and the United States. A notable exception is New Zealand, where in the first two decades of the 21st century, under the influence of international television, "football" has been gaining prevalence, despite the dominance of other codes of football, namely rugby union, and rugby league.[12]"
 

The rules of association football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the nickname association football was coined in England to distinguish the game from the  versions of football played at the time, in particular rugby football. The word soccer is an abbreviation of association (from assoc.) and first appeared in English private schools and universities in the 1880s (sometimes using the variant spelling "socker").[1][2][3][4] The word is sometimes credited to Charles Wreford-Brown, an Oxford University student said to have been fond of shortened forms such as brekkers for breakfast and rugger for rugby football (see Oxford -er). However, the attribution to Wreford-Brown in particular is generally considered to be spurious. Clive Toye noted "they took the third, fourth and fifth letters of Association and called it SOCcer."[5]
The term association football has never been widely used, although in Britain some clubs in rugby football strongholds adopted the suffix Association Football Club (A.F.C.) to avoid confusion with the dominant sport in their area, and FIFA, the world governing body for the sport, is a French-language acronym of "Fédération Internationale de Football Association" – the International Federation of Association Football. "Soccer football" is used less often than it once was: the United States Soccer Federation was known as the United States Soccer Football Association from 1945 until 1974, when it adopted its current name and the Canadian Soccer Association was known as the Canadian Soccer Football Association from 1958 to 1971.
Reaction against soccer[edit]
For nearly a hundred years after it was coined, soccer was an accepted and uncontroversial alternative in Britain to football, often in colloquial and juvenile contexts, but was also widely used in formal speech and in writing about the game.[6] "Soccer" was a term used by the upper class whereas the working and middle class preferred the word "football"; as the upper class lost influence in British society from the 1960s on, "football" supplanted "soccer" as the most commonly used and accepted word. There is evidence that the use of soccer is declining in Britain and is now considered there as an American English term.[6] Since the early twenty-first century, the peak association football bodies in soccer-speaking Australia and New Zealand have actively promoted the use of football to mirror international usage and, at least in the Australian case, to rebrand a sport that had been experiencing difficulties.[7] Both bodies dropped soccer from their names.[8] These efforts have met with considerable success in New Zealand.[9]
 
 
I found this on Wiki too.  Interestingly, soccer here in America is still an upper middle class game.  It's one of the main reasons why we are behind other countries.  You pretty much need money to become well trained in soccer here. Or the willingness to sacrifice. The game is largely unavailable to lower middle and lower classes here, with the exception of Mexican-American communities, many of which have plenty of Dads who can get the kids started.  Here very few Dads have any clue about this game.  It's getting better and in 10 or 20 years, most American communities will have Dad's who can get kids going with some decent knowledge.   I think it's the sport with most American youth participants.  But in the youth rec leagues for younger kids, it's mostly what I call Boosh Ball.   Just kick it and try to run past people.  Little to no competent coaching for free. 
 My youngest son is a decent player and his club fees and trips amount to several thousand annually for him as a U13.  It can be much more expensive than this.   It's a lot for us and a sacrifice. 

Look at my reply above. a commonly misdiagnosed injury.  If you don't know what it is, it's probably not as "high" on the ankle as you'd think.
From my experience coaching, its the probability of reinjuring this thing that is so problematic.  You can do almost anything with your high ankle sprain past a certain point after the swelling etc.  Casually shoot jumpers, go for a run, even hike in the mountains.  Almost anything is OK, EXCEPT playing sports with intensity.  High ankle sprains are usually caused by sudden movements: twists, cuts, turns while running.  It almost never happens to people who are not engaged in this type of activity. 
 
So after the initial pain, swelling, etc. that is the same type of feeling as a lower ankle sprain which is why it's commonly misdiagnosed, it is still susceptible to reinjury until completely healed.   A lower sprain can often be taped/braced, even early on in the healing process, but the high sprain is just extremely sensitive to reinjury until completely healed. 
 
Look CP is obviously prone to injury, and maybe he's a puzzy or faking it or something.  
 
But his last two major injuries are just historically bad injuries that are prone to reinjury more than other injuries and the best course of action is usually to rest them completely until completely healed.   The oblique injury is also a killer for athletes and in ways has similar problems than a high sprain: long recovery time, hypersensitivity to reinjury,  not usually treatable by physical therapy.  
 
I am not a medical person, but I have spent a life time dealing with kids' injuries and suffered a severe high sprain myself in my late 20s playing soccer.  Down for about 10 weeks and I was always a quick healer.  I gained about 20lbs BTW. 
 
So bottom line CP could be a puzzy, but the last two injuries if he truly had them I guess for you conspiracists out there, shouldn't surprise with the length of recovery.  They need to heal completely.

Yeah but you guys say association and football funny.

Yeah but you guys say association and football funny.

Good post …till you used the S word. 

Look at my reply above. a commonly misdiagnosed injury.  If you don't know what it is, it's probably not as "high" on the ankle as you'd think.
From my experience coaching, its the probability of reinjuring this thing that is so problematic.  You can do almost anything with your high ankle sprain past a certain point after the swelling etc.  Casually shoot jumpers, go for a run, even hike in the mountains.  Almost anything is OK, EXCEPT playing sports with intensity.  High ankle sprains are usually caused by sudden movements: twists, cuts, turns while running.  It almost never happens to people who are not engaged in this type of activity. 
 
So after the initial pain, swelling, etc. that is the same type of feeling as a lower ankle sprain which is why it's commonly misdiagnosed, it is still susceptible to reinjury until completely healed.   A lower sprain can often be taped/braced, even early on in the healing process, but the high sprain is just extremely sensitive to reinjury until completely healed. 
 
Look CP is obviously prone to injury, and maybe he's a puzzy or faking it or something.  
 
But his last two major injuries are just historically bad injuries that are prone to reinjury more than other injuries and the best course of action is usually to rest them completely until completely healed.   The oblique injury is also a killer for athletes and in ways has similar problems than a high sprain: long recovery time, hypersensitivity to reinjury,  not usually treatable by physical therapy.  
 
I am not a medical person, but I have spent a life time dealing with kids' injuries and suffered a severe high sprain myself in my late 20s playing soccer.  Down for about 10 weeks and I was always a quick healer.  I gained about 20lbs BTW. 
 
So bottom line CP could be a puzzy, but the last two injuries if he truly had them I guess for you conspiracists out there, shouldn't surprise with the length of recovery.  They need to heal completely.

Look at my reply above. a commonly misdiagnosed injury.  If you don't know what it is, it's probably not as "high" on the ankle as you'd think.
From my experience coaching, its the probability of reinjuring this thing that is so problematic.  You can do almost anything with your high ankle sprain past a certain point after the swelling etc.  Casually shoot jumpers, go for a run, even hike in the mountains.  Almost anything is OK, EXCEPT playing sports with intensity.  High ankle sprains are usually caused by sudden movements: twists, cuts, turns while running.  It almost never happens to people who are not engaged in this type of activity. 
 
So after the initial pain, swelling, etc. that is the same type of feeling as a lower ankle sprain which is why it's commonly misdiagnosed, it is still susceptible to reinjury until completely healed.   A lower sprain can often be taped/braced, even early on in the healing process, but the high sprain is just extremely sensitive to reinjury until completely healed. 
 
Look CP is obviously prone to injury, and maybe he's a puzzy or faking it or something.  
 
But his last two major injuries are just historically bad injuries that are prone to reinjury more than other injuries and the best course of action is usually to rest them completely until completely healed.   The oblique injury is also a killer for athletes and in ways has similar problems than a high sprain: long recovery time, hypersensitivity to reinjury,  not usually treatable by physical therapy.  
 
I am not a medical person, but I have spent a life time dealing with kids' injuries and suffered a severe high sprain myself in my late 20s playing soccer.  Down for about 10 weeks and I was always a quick healer.  I gained about 20lbs BTW. 
 
So bottom line CP could be a puzzy, but the last two injuries if he truly had them I guess for you conspiracists out there, shouldn't surprise with the length of recovery.  They need to heal completely.

I read it was a high ankle sprain.  I spent several years coaching HS American Football.  A high ankle sprain is probably the worst non-catastrophic injury you can get.  It takes a long time to heal, and you can't tape it and go like you can a lower sprain.  You will inevitably reinjure it.  The best course of action is to let it heal completely before returning. 

I read it was a high ankle sprain.  I spent several years coaching HS American Football.  A high ankle sprain is probably the worst non-catastrophic injury you can get.  It takes a long time to heal, and you can't tape it and go like you can a lower sprain.  You will inevitably reinjure it.  The best course of action is to let it heal completely before returning.