zephyr690

I was there in the 70s. Club had no resources for buying players, was still more entertaining going to matches  than watching this fare albeit remotely on TV upon my part. I’m all in favour of backing ones manager but it has to be the right manager. Clearly GP is not the right manager unless I’m missing something and not understanding the club’s project fully?  Also no shame in admitting one made a mistake and correcting it in any walk of life. Arrogance and ego can sometimes get in the way of informed decision making - we all know that ! 

One more point. 3(4) west ham efforts on target. 3 (4) west ham goals.
Terrible.
 
Honestly I would fully back Frank making 8 changes for Watford to let those dropped know that was not good enough for the Chelsea badge.
 
Willy Cab
 
James
Zouma
Tomori
Maatsen (I know it would be Emerson)
 
Gilmour (or Jorginho not both)
Kovacic
Mount
 
Willian 
Giroud
Pulisic

or left back.....in the changing room.

It was a crazy game, Lampard got it all correct in the press yesterday, he said the correct things.
We could win that, I wouldn't say we deserve but we could and had to, we have a better quality. Their second goal is just luck, they missed some big chance, so we did.
Overall it was a fun game to watch, but we still were lacking a lot in our defence. I feel much more comfortable when Tomori plays with Zouma to be honest. Christensen and Zouma weren't in a good game.
Joke penalty was given, I think Garay's landing on Abraham was penalty as well. Kepa saved that perfectly. 
Depsite our control with our midfielders, we're lacking creativity of chances. James was the best one for this, Willian had a poor night, Pulisic had moments of brilliance but he needs to do that more.
Kovacic except his goal, was fantastic. Kante and Jorginho weren't at their best as well.
Feel bad for Abraham, he had a good game and I hope this injury will not take him out for a lot, hopefully one or two weeks.
We still can go far, victory against Lille and we will celebrate.

Farewell sweet prince.
 

You guys are forgetting games are coming in thick and fast, we have a game again on Sun. It will be irresponsible by Sarri to field a majority of the players starting on Sun. He has a large squad at his disposal, use it. If our squad players can’t hack it away against PAOK, then they have no business here.
I’d rather take a draw away & all 3pts on Sun.

Conte is a serial winner isn’t he whereas Sarri has never won anything?

Say no more!
https://mobile.twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/972561143737847808/video/1

They've been comparing him to Beckenbauer on the Villa forums

Top post. 
A lot of problems on this side still, this is a really bad Palace side and we could only just about scrape a soppy 2-1 victory. Forget the chances we made, Palace could've scored about 3-4 as well due to our mistakes and their pressing alone. 
The philosophy of playing out the back isn't whats problematic, it's that we haven't got good enough players to do it. Pep's team does it and it's why they're unplayable, you just can't get the ball off them. Rudiger, Luiz & Azpilucueta are our only capable defenders of playing it out from the back, but with the David Luiz situation, it has caused us a lot of problems this season. Many people will disagree, they think Christensen has not only filled the void but he's upgraded, that's not necessarily true. I highly rate Christensen, he's actually our best defender when it comes to actual defending, but as a footballer, he's very limited, it's like another Kurt Zouma situation before his injury. And the distribution from the back compared to last season is what's really punished us, people won't see it because we've created a lot of chances but we just don't have that solid build-up play like we did last season. 
Gary Cahill gets much worse every season, Luiz has an attitude problem and has been riddled with injuries, so we are left with Christensen, although that's not really bad thing it is when we are playing in this system. People are only realising it now because the mistakes have caught up with us, but his distribution was never top tier, this system will not work right now, we just don't have the players for it because our spine is f**ked.
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For me the problem lies right there, not saying our wingbacks are world class or Willian is consistent, but they're minor problems and probably not even problems at all. The main issues are and I will probably get a lot of slack for saying this is Courtois in goal, this system definitely does not suit him. Not going to go into his shot stopping, but his distribution is piss poor, our middle centre-back can't play it out from the back when we had that creativity from the centre last season. We have nobody to play next to Kante, and Morata has gone missing for our key striker.
SO yes that's basically our spine that is f**ked, the most key part of a system. 

I see your point, but I daresay that Man City at peak Guardiola have more in common with Barcelona than Bournemouth and Watford.

pathetic, you got to take the pain to enjoy the glory.

that was fast lol