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Chelsea vs Benfica SL (UCL) Tuesday 30th September 20:00 GMT

Incredibly, this result pushed me up to 7th in the club's predictor game! Out of 69,777!

I'm going to lean back and savour my top 10 position. It's probably better (for a very short duration probably) than Chelsea will achieve in the CL....

 
George's game vs Benfica

Minutes

61'

Expected Goals

0.12

Goals

0

Expected Assists

0.1

Assists

0

Shots on Target

1

Dribbles

0

Touches

15

Passes

8/9 (89%)

Key Passes

0

Lost Possession

2

All Stats via Sofascore


SURELY THE END OF THIS FAILED EXPERIMENT, IF YOU DONT PLAY GUIU YOU ARE A COWARD, YOU ARE THE MANAGER AND ITS TIME YOU STOOD UP TO THE CLUB AND TELL THEM YOU ARE GOING TO PLAY HIM

 
NO HE WASNT
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Well he wasn't good either. That Benfica RB locked him down with relatively no effort, but we all knew Garnacho was a sh*t dribbler but hey ho lets waste 9 months trying to sign him.

 
Garnacho was involved in the goal.

He also crossed the ball into the penalty area a few times.

His contribution helped.

 
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It’s not badders fault that he’s picked over Josh is it

Call him out for coming off after 80 minutes when his back from injury and out on his feet isn’t his fault. What did you want to happen ? Stay on ? Christ get some perspective man for gods sake
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These posts between us are becoming more surreal and bizarre as they go along. I really cannot understand the vitriol from you. I don't rate Badiashile. I never have done. Apologies but that it my opinion. For me he offers nothing. 90% of his play is merely giving the ball to the player that is nearest to him or just returning a pass back sideways having just received it. Furthermore I find his awareness of danger and his defensive capabilities limited at best.

I would rather he wasn't picked. I would rather one of our academy players got the opportunity to play over him. I appreciate that it is not his fault that the manager has picked him but, unfortunately that doesn't change my thoughts about his quality.

Now i also appreciate that you have a different opinion than me and you might like watching him out there. You are perfectly entitled to your opinion, and even if my opinion differs from yours what i don't do, ever, is report to replying to users posts calling them dicks or idiots. I am also not sure how you have inferred from my snipe about him passing the ball sideways to the nearest player as calling him out for coming off on 80 mins. Far from it. Him coming off reduced the possibility of us choking at the end and conceded. imho

 
These posts between us are becoming more surreal and bizarre as they go along. I really cannot understand the vitriol from you. I don't rate Badiashile. I never have done. Apologies but that it my opinion. For me he offers nothing. 90% of his play is merely giving the ball to the player that is nearest to him or just returning a pass back sideways having just received it. Furthermore I find his awareness of danger and his defensive capabilities limited at best.

I would rather he wasn't picked. I would rather one of our academy players got the opportunity to play over him. I appreciate that it is not his fault that the manager has picked him but, unfortunately that doesn't change my thoughts about his quality.

Now i also appreciate that you have a different opinion than me and you might like watching him out there. You are perfectly entitled to your opinion, and even if my opinion differs from yours what i don't do, ever, is report to replying to users posts calling them dicks or idiots. I am also not sure how you have inferred from my snipe about him passing the ball sideways to the nearest player as calling him out for coming off on 80 mins. Far from it. Him coming off reduced the possibility of us choking at the end and conceded. imho
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100% agree with this.

Minutes going to Josh are for the future, his potential is immense. He’s only going to improve by playing men’s first team football.

Minutes going to Badiashille are a waste as we know how limited he is and know he isn’t a long term option an

Badiashille can play a squad a role but Josh should get first refusal everytime ahead of him.

 
Thats not the kind of thing he was doing to lose the ball the vast majority of times though, most were just fairly simple passes he ddnt manage to make. They werent him attempting incredibly difficult defence splitting passes at all.
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Sure and that’s exactly why I think we all expect more from him.
On the other hand, passing, unless we’re talking about ridiculously short and meaningless passes, is a skill that heavily depends on the players around you.

The point remains: he’s still a highly sought-after player, and plenty of top clubs have him on their radar. Real Madrid might be thinking that he's currently surrounded by young and inexperienced players, and that he'd perform much better in their setup--not a crazy notion in my book.

 
Just saw that on the BBC match report. "leadership and grit" I knew it would make your head explode 😀

And @loz and @Term_X

I didn't think you could ever look past the stats SF.
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At least we know @Gol15 's real name now.

 
On the other hand, passing, unless we’re talking about ridiculously short and meaningless passes, is a skill that heavily depends on the players around you.
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Wow.

 
Don’t assume everybody even kicked a ball around here 😉

Thanks for taking it out of context tho.
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Its a nonsense statement, passing is entirely down to the individual. Having options is a different thing all together, but he didnt misplace incredible defence splitting efforts, these were often just simple passes to open players, which is pretty much how his time at Chelsea has gone. Ive said in the past I like him for the effort he puts in, he obviously has a passion to win on the pitch and fights for the team, but he simply isnt good enough to play where Maresca puts him, or to try the things he does.

 
Sure and that’s exactly why I think we all expect more from him.
On the other hand, passing, unless we’re talking about ridiculously short and meaningless passes, is a skill that heavily depends on the players around you.

The point remains: he’s still a highly sought-after player, and plenty of top clubs have him on their radar. Real Madrid might be thinking that he's currently surrounded by young and inexperienced players, and that he'd perform much better in their setup--not a crazy notion in my book.
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Let the fat boy leave, he can't play high intensity football. Spends half the kilometers he covers chasing his first touch.

 
Its a nonsense statement, passing is entirely down to the individual. Having options is a different thing all together, but he didnt misplace incredible defence splitting efforts, these were often just simple passes to open players, which is pretty much how his time at Chelsea has gone. Ive said in the past I like him for the effort he puts in, he obviously has a passion to win on the pitch and fights for the team, but he simply isnt good enough to play where Maresca puts him, or to try the things he does.
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Not specific to this actual thread but more as a general question.

Do you guys think that when they show the passes made and passes completed stats that they take the two yard goal kick sideways to the keeper into account?

 
Not specific to this actual thread but more as a general question.

Do you guys think that when they show the passes made and passes completed stats that they take the two yard goal kick sideways to the keeper into account?
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yes

 
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