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Chelsea v Spuds (PL) Sun 14th Aug 2022 16:30 GMT

I know we beat them easily 4 times last season but I don't think we faced them after they signed kulu and bentacur. 

They looked very good against soton. With kulu and bentacur they are a completely different team, not sure it is going to be as easy as last season. 

 
Bob stark said:
I know we beat them easily 4 times last season but I don't think we faced them after they signed kulu and bentacur. 

They looked very good against soton. With kulu and bentacur they are a completely different team, not sure it is going to be as easy as last season. 
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those two have improved the team quite a bit and yet were largely unknown prior to spurs. and we know the team will be super fit with conte. And conte plays his wing backs to really attack. He is a very good coach, one of the very best. Maybe the team will blow up at the end of the season but they will perform in the league this year. 

 
ozboy said:
those two have improved the team quite a bit and yet were largely unknown prior to spurs. and we know the team will be super fit with conte. And conte plays his wing backs to really attack. He is a very good coach, one of the very best. Maybe the team will blow up at the end of the season but they will perform in the league this year. 
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I haven't watched spud for full 90 after they signed those 2 until last week and they looked very good.I thought son did not play well and kane was OK but it did not matter. Kulu was fantastic, bentacur looks very good. 50m for this two was a bargain. 

What is interesting watching spurs is how different their 343 compare to us. Their two pivot are pivot, they rarely move forward. They create overload by having their two wide CB getting forward. Their two wide fw, kulu and Son was playing typical wide forward. They are free to go inside or outside. Sometimes son even play as st with Kane as 10 which make opp defense play very narrow then sessegnon is free attack far post. 

 
Bob stark said:
I know we beat them easily 4 times last season but I don't think we faced them after they signed kulu and bentacur. 

They looked very good against soton. With kulu and bentacur they are a completely different team, not sure it is going to be as easy as last season. 
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Yep, they will be a completely different prospect to last season. Now have good options off the bench too.

There are two things in our favour:

1. As @Argo has pointed out Conte may be more cautious in his approach to this fixture than our form and personnel merit.

2. Eric Dier.

I think the key to this game is gonna be winning the midfield battles.

 
We know exactly how Spurs will play - counter attack and defend deep. I hope Tuchel is prepping the team now

 
just said:
Yep, they will be a completely different prospect to last season. Now have good options off the bench too.

There are two things in our favour:

1. As @Argo has pointed out Conte may be more cautious in his approach to this fixture than our form and personnel merit.

2. Eric Dier.

I think the key to this game is gonna be winning the midfield battles.
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Agree, Conte will definitely play very defensive and that is a good thing for us.

I am not sure about midfield battle. Conte does not care much about possession. 

Usually when you play spurs, it is all about stopping son and kane. Hence I think Tuchel  will pick james as rcb against son. I will also pick Azpi as RWB. 

Offensively, I really don't know. Stretch front 3 is probably our best bet to open spurs up. Kai cf, mount lw, sterling rw is my pick. Mount tuck in more and let cucurella overlap. Kai as false 9,sterling as rw. 

 
Bob stark said:
I know we beat them easily 4 times last season but I don't think we faced them after they signed kulu and bentacur. 

They looked very good against soton. With kulu and bentacur they are a completely different team, not sure it is going to be as easy as last season. 
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Kulusevski in particular looks very good and needs to be well contained. That being said I watched some of their game against Saints and their defense still isn't convincing.

 
Bob stark said:
Agree, Conte will definitely play very defensive and that is a good thing for us.

I am not sure about midfield battle. Conte does not care much about possession. 

Usually when you play spurs, it is all about stopping son and kane. Hence I think Tuchel  will pick james as rcb against son. I will also pick Azpi as RWB. 

Offensively, I really don't know. Stretch front 3 is probably our best bet to open spurs up. Kai cf, mount lw, sterling rw is my pick. Mount tuck in more and let cucurella overlap. Kai as false 9,sterling as rw. 
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I'd like to see us start Broja instead of Kai. Broja caused Spurs a lot of problems when he played for Saints against them last season. 

 
Bob stark said:
Agree, Conte will definitely play very defensive and that is a good thing for us.

I am not sure about midfield battle. Conte does not care much about possession. 

Usually when you play spurs, it is all about stopping son and kane. Hence I think Tuchel  will pick james as rcb against son. I will also pick Azpi as RWB. 

Offensively, I really don't know. Stretch front 3 is probably our best bet to open spurs up. Kai cf, mount lw, sterling rw is my pick. Mount tuck in more and let cucurella overlap. Kai as false 9,sterling as rw. 
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Kane drops into the space between the opponent's defence and midfield to receive the ball and link up play, which he often does really well. We need to make sure he doesn't have that space to operate in.

 
just said:
Kane drops into the space between the opponent's defence and midfield to receive the ball and link up play, which he often does really well. We need to make sure he doesn't have that space to operate in.
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Hence why i see a Kante+Kovacic Pivot. 

 
Sorry to post here, but i don't know where else, cause I can't post in the ticket topic...

I'm from austria and got two adult tickets vs Spurs. I was in contact with some covid-positive and eventually can't flight over with my daughter. Is there any safe way to sell it to a Chelsea fan (face value of course)?

 
just said:
Kane drops into the space between the opponent's defence and midfield to receive the ball and link up play, which he often does really well. We need to make sure he doesn't have that space to operate in.
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Kante is fit so we should be fine in that area. 

 
Kane will get some touches in the midfield, that much is a given. On paper Spurs maybe even have more depth in the attack but how much possession will Conte be okey with, given his history even if his squad is more ready than ours, he'll go for a more defensive approach.

Basically we must avoid any real counter-attack and that's going to be hard to avoid for the full 90'min but because of it we can at the very least be confident that a lot of time will be spent without much happening, unless Conte instructs his midfield to push forward. The one obvious situation I'm concerned about is how well will our backline do in a potential 1on1 situation vs Son/Kulusevski because Azpilicueta simply doesn't have the pace and Koulibaly is still new so one slight error there and we can be punished.

Part from Kante, James vs Sessegnon/Perisic is one of the key matchups and also their new full-back Emerson vs Chilwell/Coocoo, whoever scores first will probably win the match.

 
Not gonna be easy this. Depending on the squad Availability I would go with 

Mendy 

chalobah silva koulibaly 

james kante kova cucurella 

mount havertz sterling 

 
Forget about form, forget about whose fit, we are their bogie team. It’ll likely be a draw but I’ll settle for a home win all the same.

Come on Chelsea !! 

 
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