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Bloody fantastic, oozes class. We need a song for him!

Agree completely, loan to the end of the season.
these last 2 games were perfect for him to get some game time and should have started at least one of them especially with Kante unavailable. 
 

He missed a penalty but other than that I thought he played very well, combining well with Tammy and getting into the box dangerously. He needs to improve in his first touch, but he has been good today.

Thought it was one of Werner’s better performances for us actually, he’s been a constant distraction for the opposition when Tammy comes deep to get the ball. It’s worked really well and I reckon after a few more weeks it could be very good. 
 
After a few games we could start seeing more of the Pulisic chance, when Timo did a great dummy.

"They were sharper than us and ran more than us," says Chelsea manager Frank Lampard.
"The bare minimum is to run and sprint and cover ground and too many of our players didn't do it."
 
For me. That's what's made me realise Frank is out of his depth. EVERYTHING is about how hard the players are trying. There's never any depth to his thought beyond that. It's like he's only learnt how to be a manager from Harry Redknapp and not even considered anything more modern. 
He's an incredibly man manager, motivator etc. But we need more than that at this level. 

It's getting worse every game, I would be surprised Roman will decide to sack Lampard. 
In the last months our football doesn't change, we play the same way and nobody can understand how our buildup supposed to be going. Ball movement from side to side it's the basic, but we're not creative enough when the ball enters into the middle or attacking zone. We have enough of quality to make things happen, but it doesn't work. Maybe the players needs their time or maybe Lampard should work a way out for them. 
We clearly don't know how to defend as a unit, every pass breaks our line. It seems like only Kante knows how to steal balls or close down the pass route. We're giving too much space to our opponent and we're not physical enough. We must be aggressive on the ball, we have to look like animals that are looking for the ball, just like Jose said, we can't win games if we won't be bad boys. 
Current situation is worrying, we still haven't beat a team from top 10. We're going down and far from the top 4, if we won't get there then it will be a huge failure. Changes need to happen, maybe Lampard should think more and get anything that will shock the league or he will lose his spot. 

We actually looked okay for the first part of the second half. Havertz was starting to move between the lines and was genuinely creating things, Hudson-Odoi/Pulisic were starting to drift inside in order to combine with him and Abraham. We looked like we might score. Then Lamps took both of them off (and not our makeshift holding mid who was on a booking and who had been genuinely horrendous all game)... and Leicester strolled to their deserved win.
We keep getting worse and worse. We have seven points from our last eight games (one very laboured win against a ten-man Fulham, one scarcely-deserved win against West Ham). We're three points behind a West Ham side who have 0.75 strikers and who are managed by David Moyes. We are only two points ahead of the worst Arsenal side in two generations.
How bad does it need to get?

That was white hot, steaming dog sh*t. Second best all over the pitch. Abysmal performances from the whole team, and every individual bar Mount.
James is clearly not fit. Why put him up against a rocket like Harvey Barnes?
Why do we consistently fail to ever play the ball between the lines? Every single time we have possession the ball goes into the corner of the pitch (if we even get that far). Havertz’s movement off the ball is non-existent, and the closest thing we have to incisive passing is the speculative efforts of Rüdiger (the less said about that the better).
Our midfield completely collapses without Kanté. Kova?i?’s positioning when we are out of possession is comedy gold. There is just a gaping hole in front of the back four!
Fair play to Leicester though, they have been fantastic. I sincerely hope they can keep this run of form up - they are a really good team from back to front.

Would you stick with AVB for 4 years to see if he can turn it around? Avram Grant? Roy Hodgson? The manager has to be the right one, or you are just wasting everyones time.

I'm not saying my opinion on Frank one way or the other but sometimes you need to question the sheer amount of players out of form.
People blame and label Werner and Havertz as flops but  you just have to look at the rest of squad to know everyone is dire 

Sorry Frank - buck stops with you.  Can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
I struggle to praise any element of our play today.  Toothless in attack and spineless in defense - midfield falls somewhere inbetween.

The players are not that bad, they are not being setup to play properly to their strengths and FL has no ideas of how to change things.

This performance is dedicated to the Sarri haters.

What has Lampard done to instill confidence that he can make those necessary changes to turn things around? From what I'm seeing, things are regressing, there ate no signs of improvement. Lampard quite simply isn't cut out for top level management, its very clear to see.

line up looks decent on paper but I'm afraid we are going to keep seeing more of the same, play out wide to the wings and cross, cross, cross.  I hope not as I'd like to see Tammy running the channels and balls over the top...still here's hoping. 

One of the main reasons why players like Pulisic are so ineffective this season is because Lampard has changed tactics on the wing. They aren't instructed to be direct anymore. They have become support for the fullbacks to overlap and get a cross in. It's not worked to our benefit though, it's made us much worse as a team.

Is it me or were we more exciting last season? I get very little enjoyment watching this team right now. 

Odoi is on red hot form, we are on a poor run. We need players on form, why not start Odoi. This is just baffling to me.
I hope we win and Pulisic is back on form, we need the win badly 

What is this? Lampard must be fed up with his job and trying to get sacked on purpose!

I actually don’t understand Lampards selections at times. How is Callum not starting this. He’s not playing people on merit.

That midfield three is awful not goals in there at all 

Never should've been signed. Baffling decision to be added to the long list of terrible transfers last season. 

Alanso is awful. Can’t understand how he is in this team. Give Emerson a chance. Also why doesn’t Barkley ever shoot? Kovacic coming on shortly...

Our left side has not been enjoyable to watch. really don't understand what Sarri sees in playing Alonso every match.

Plain and simple- Do not sell to a rival.