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I don't think we can go false nine Neto/Pedro against their CBs, we'll never touch the ball. Delap probably needed to put himself about.

Let's not wear blue-tinted glasses and ignore reality. In a top 3 players on the pitch, Rice will definitely be there. James at RB might be up there, James at CM won't be.

We're pretty bad defending set pieces, so I can see us conceding several from them. Probably be a routine 0-3 for them. That being said, I don't see why teams struggle so much with Arsenal's back post routine. Maybe I've under-thinking it, but they have multiple players standing far back at the far post, who then run into the centre for a fast, whipped ball right into the 6 yard box. Bayern tried zonal marking, but that'll never work very well, because you jump from a standing start instead of running and you'll lose that challenge most of the time. So, why not just block them and let the keeper catch the 6 yard box ball?

German league is a 1, maybe 2 team league at best. They can essentially walk most of their league games. They might have had 4 wins in CL, but they couldn't pass or control the ball in what I watched. They looked nowhere near old levels.

Bayern look terrible. But Arsenal look pretty strong. They've got to be the favourites for league and CL this season.

Just pick the same 11 from Barcelona game. let them build momentum.

Very good performance. But we've seen this before in 1-off games, like against PSG, and we all hoped we'd see more of it, only to revert to type as soon as the league started. So, I will not get carried away. The team still needs to find out a way to break down low blocks, which will be the majority of what we play against throughout the season.

There is simply nothing positive about this club. The ownership have made wrong decision after wrong decision, can't even get a shirt sponser after 18 f**king months. The sporting directors have signed billions of pounds of sh*t players. The players and management are tactically inept, mentally weak, with no football IQ making stupid mistakes over and over. I am just so f**king sick of it. And it's all so predictable. You know what's going to happen within 5 minutes of every game. This will be Potter-esque by the end of the season and we'll be lucky to finish top 10.

Going to find something else to do at 3pm. No way I’m watching this sh*t.

I hear Nicholas Jackson is a big fan of expensive watches as well. You could contact him?

0-3 defeat if ever i've seen one coming.

Propah Chels

7th and back to the conference league

He won’t be sacked this season. He’s their perfect yes man.

I'm just so tired. I have no enthusiasm for Chelsea any more. Maybe i'm just getting old. But I can't stop myself watching, because I have to watch. But then I just feel either nothing, or annoyed.

Gusto is so bad. He slips under the radar with so many others getting more criticism, but he really can't do anything.

Was clear from about 55 mins the game was slipping away, we couldn't get the ball, were hanging on, but no changes until it was too late.

Too many bozos in this team. Especially in the defence.

Most of them haven;t

If our CBs could stop giving the ball away, that would be nice.

Men vs Boys. Going to be an embarrasing scoreline.

Reckon we'll lose about 2-1 or something. Score line won't have a lot in it, but the performance will be pants and depressing. Yet we'll stay in it long enough to have some slimmer of hope, only to be dashed. So, standard really.

Guiu should have stayed at Barcelona. His career would be going better.

Yup. Spoilt like week old milk.