ElTerrible

Should be 2-1, but damn if that is not one of the best 0-0´s you´ll ever see. Also painful to see how much better this team is without Lukaku. >And please don´t give me any of that Lukaku would have scored that BS. Put Werner as the first sub, too, Lukaku will be Chelsea´s downfall, if he comes on. Nobody beats this Liverpool 10 vs. 11.

I think he´s above seven touches already. 🤣

Well what Lukaku should do is come short into the space behind the referee, receive the ball, pass it through to the player on the left (Pulisic?) and immediately run into the box to receive the return ball for a tap-in chance. What in the world is Rudiger supposed to do with that ball over the top? If he plays it sharp the goal keeper takes it. If he plays it soft any of the four defenders surrounding Lukaku takes it. Then there is the possibility of offside, too.

https://www.transfermarkt.de/kai-havertz/profil/spieler/309400 Look at this profile. Havertz can play every attacking position, except one. See which position Havertz is not playing: LEFT WING. Ziyech has earned the starting position on the right wing, but the problem is that it´s the best position of Pulisic and the preferred position of Havertz, if he cannot play through the middle. Basically the only attacker that has successfully played on the left side is Werner playing off a real striker in Leipzig. So either play Werner - Lukaku - Ziyech and hope Lukaku acts like a real striker or play Havertz through the middle with Werner - Havertz - Ziyech.

I wonder whether Werner is the victim of a little 3D chess here. Chelsea trying to signal to him that he should consider a summer transfer, because there is no place in the team anymore. If there only was a struggling team that would need a new proven top Bundesliga striker, when they lose Haaland. I wonder which team could make such a transfer "swap" happen. God knows Dortmund is not paying Lukakwho´s stupid wages.

People argue that there are financial incentives to play Lukaku, when there are not. Winning makes the most money. Other teams are not stupid. You think they are like: Well normally we´d only pay 30M for Lukaku, but since he played every game for Chelsea (like crap), we give you 50M instead. That´s United/Ed Woodward level of stupid, who keeps extending the likes of Phil Jones and Juan Mata on stupid wages, because he thinks one day he´ll generate a transfer fee. Like all these teams are glamoring to sign them on a paid transfer, when nobody bothers to chase them on a free transfer. Cut your losses. You f***** up. Just don´t double down. Bring back Broja and go back to the 11 men workhorse unit that was nearly unbreakable in cup competitions.

Ziyech, Havertz and Werner came from other countries and league styles to the Premeir League during a pandemic and contracted COVID, multiple times. In all that mess, they still contributed to winning the Champions League. Everything was going fine under these circumstances. Then Chelsea had to mess with it, because of the outside pressure. Every year the press tell Pep he needs to buy a striker. Evey year Pep fakes interest in some washed-up has been like Sanchez, Cavani or Ronaldo. Then he laughs his ass off, when United buys them and just continues with the same successful tactics.

Win Champions League without Lukaku = €100M Lose Last 16 with Lukaku = €10M Not sure it´s the best idea to double down on your mistakes.

I do. You are saying Tuchel gets it right half the time.

At this point I´m thinking Tuchel is intentionally sticking Lukaku out there to make his case for signing Haaland. 🤣 Will be interesting to see what happens against Liverpool and in the CL. I say he´s benched for the League Cup and gets two more mercy appearances in the CL last 16, before the real show begins in the CL QFs.

Classic crazy Toni. Never thinking sh*t through. This screamed for a..... finish. He already done the hard part.

It´s not the battle for 4th. It´s the battle for 40, cause it´s just 17 teams fighting relegation.

My coach always said don´t worry about the guys that miss a lot of easy chances. Worry about those that can never get any chances, That´s especially true for a 20 year old.

Let´s just extend Rudiger, Christensen, bring back Gallagher and Broja and that´s how we roll next year. They accomplished so much more in the last 12 months, then they were supposed to. This team is so young. It´s stupid good. Christensen 25 Chalobah 22 Sarr 23 Chilwell 25 James 22 Mount 23 Havertz 22 Pulisic 23 CHO 21 Werner 25 Gallagher 22 Broja 20

Kepa would have saved that.

Hey at least Havertz, Werner and Rudiger didn´t play in 2014.

Exactly. What a chump. Imagine if he scores the winner in the league cup final against Liverpool. Then he can live off that until he scores the winner in the next final.... 🤣

Azpiluceta needs a break. Why did he continue to complain after the referee was already going to the monitor AND after he had already given the penalty. 🤣

If Poch goes to United, we can escape the Lukaku experiment. Desperate United will offer Tottenham 120M for Kane, then we can sell Lukaku to Conttenham for 70M and just play Broja.

Very simple decision. Keep Broja and sell Lukaku. Harry Kane needs to show some ambition for once and leave Spurs, so Conte can use the money to replace him with Lukaku. I just have a hard time finding a club willing to spend big for Harry Kane. I guess United, but I said he should show ambition and they are just another Europa League mid-table team like Spurs. 🤣

What a disgusting foul on Broja in the lead-up to the Tottenham goal, not only clear cut foul and at least yellow (arguably red), but also a head injury and game not stopped. English referees are the biggest trash on the planet. You can take any amateur bush league with flipbook VAR make better decisions.

Let´s buy the player for Al-Hilal. Great assist, also looks like he could develop a social media following and sell some jerseys in the female demographic.

Dubai has a law that they can hold you there, if you have no valid passport...so say somebody was to lose his passport....😁

Since Inter are 5th in that table, it would be interesting to know, where they were last year.

Chelsea is taking all the trophies. Let´s send Lukaku to Beijing to compete in Biathlon. That´s 10 missed targets, but at least he gets some shooting practice.