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Chelsea vs Manchester City (PL) Sun 18th August 24 16:30 GMT

When all is said and done i don't think it was as passive and submissive as some have mentioned. A bit more sharpness in the final third, a little bit more pace and ideally a true presence up top and its a different game. Drogba, Costa. These types of player profiles score in this game.

I know that this is only showing us with the ball and not us without but there was opportunity. This is more progressive already than i am kind of expecting from Maresca ball in the long run. Yeah, i know we lost, i know we played some players out of position, didn't use the best players for those positions and there were some definitely off their game, but it wasn't all sh!te.


 
Even though it was a disappointing result good to see Lavia, Nkunku and Fofana come through unscathed  not sure due to injuries they have ever played together before.

 
After yesterday's game, albeit a loss, there were definite sign of shape, that was missing much of last season. I am quietly optimistic now for things on the pitch, but will avoid talking about the Owners, DOF's, shocking signings, lack of a Shirt sponsor (nobody wants us for ONE year) and the abandoned plans to upgrade Stamford Bridge, for the very real fear of getting high blood pressure, and this, from a point of historically very low blood pressure.

Some observations

Sanchez is definitely NOT good enough. Same errors and lack of control as last season. Slightly worrying that Maresca picked his as his starter because of his distribution.

Jackson, 😖same old, same old, errors, misses, can't time his run, how many f*cking more times? Guiu is a better bet - long term

Enzo, gave the ball away so much that he should have had a sky blue shirt on. Definitely NOT Captain material and on this performance, should be dropped in favour of Gallagher who looked excellent alongside Caicedo at the tail end of last Season or Dewsbury Hall who will get more game time under Maresca and looked decent.

Lavia looked excellent, why was he taken off ??

Nkunku needs a run of minutes, not to be taken off after less than an hour.

Need a REAL goalscorer like Osimhen NOW !!!

Players that really do need to leave ASAP are Sterling, Broja, Badiashile, Kepa, Mudryk (loan) Lukaku, David Fofana, Betinelli and Sanchez.

 
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Simplymo said:
Unfortunately I missed the game...anybody got a link to the full match pls?
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No need to put yourself through it. 
Haaland scored.
Sanchez should’ve saved Kovacic’s goal.

Jackson cost us a draw by being brain dead, all he had to do was watch the line and time his run like you’re taught when you start playing 11 a side at 10 years old?
Outside of that, probably one of the most boring 90 minutes of football you’ll see all season. 

 
Yeah after giving it some time, probably not the worst we’ll see all season just some glaringly obvious players who aren’t good enough for this level.

Sanchez shouldn’t play another minute unless injury dictates.

Jackson isn’t a footballer and never will be. 
If people persist on playing Enzo as a 10 then we may as well not play him at all.

KDH is more Drinkwater than Kante, no more than a Championship level player.

Was actually surprisingly disappointed in Gusto’s performance yesterday, not his usual self going forwards and especially defensively.

Other than that Lavia was my Chelsea MOTM & I thought Fofana & Colwill look to be forming a solid enough partnership, better than what we had last season at the least. 

We left points on the table with Jackson’s inability to do the basics of a professional footballer.

 
The Boehly Babes said:
Yeah after giving it some time, probably not the worst we’ll see all season just some glaringly obvious players who aren’t good enough for this level.

Sanchez shouldn’t play another minute unless injury dictates.

Jackson isn’t a footballer and never will be. 
If people persist on playing Enzo as a 10 then we may as well not play him at all.

KDH is more Drinkwater than Kante, no more than a Championship level player.

Was actually surprisingly disappointed in Gusto’s performance yesterday, not his usual self going forwards and especially defensively.

Other than that Lavia was my Chelsea MOTM & I thought Fofana & Colwill look to be forming a solid enough partnership, better than what we had last season at the least. 

We left points on the table with Jackson’s inability to do the basics of a professional footballer.
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I actually think that KDH is actually going to be very good when he settles into the pace of the Prem.

 
Long time lurker, now registered.

A huge problem is Winstanley and Stewart.

Everyone knew Potters bloated squad was a problem - yet they have failed to move players on over successive windows - in fact have compounded the problem by buying more

They went for Maresca - but in doing so, his tactics were well known, and it ought to have been obvious it meant one of Caicedo Lavia and Enzo being sacrificed from the team each week, but they still chose him (this also ignores that the system threatens to also not get the best out of Nkunku and possibly Palmer)

We have the wrong players for the tactics yet the same people have recruited the players and the manager - they should be out of the door rapid

 
Highlight of the game was the crowd singing Conor's name.

I thought City didn't really get out of first gear, we failed to capitalise on Rodri's absence, and isolating our two most creative players extremely wide was pretty baffling.

I was told Palmer did well in spite of Poch the other day, if he's out getting chalk on his boots like that all season he'll be lucky to get a third of last years output.

 
Didn't really see any difference with Palmer. Did what he normally did. Stayed wide or played through the channel. Freedom was up to him. 

 
tbh - I thought Palmer and Nkunku did well enough - it is bloody hard to play against Citeh.  I think Enzo was the weak link. And it is a link. Or it should be. the no.10 spot. Clearly not the position for Enzo jnr.

I wasn't particularly impressed with Neto - but then he has hardly played with any of his teammates at this point.  But bringing him on says that Enzo.Snr has very little faith in Mudryck or Madueke - and of course no faith at all in Rheem Sterling.

 
The thing that really pisses me off is that Kovacic goal. Never rated Kova, still maintain he is a very limited footballer, but if he is limited, what does that make Caicedo and Enzo who both costs over £100m each FFS? He waltzed past both of them before putting the ball past Sanchez (who should have saved it). Rubbish goal to concede.

 
jaffaboy said:
Long time lurker, now registered.

A huge problem is Winstanley and Stewart.

Everyone knew Potters bloated squad was a problem - yet they have failed to move players on over successive windows - in fact have compounded the problem by buying more

They went for Maresca - but in doing so, his tactics were well known, and it ought to have been obvious it meant one of Caicedo Lavia and Enzo being sacrificed from the team each week, but they still chose him (this also ignores that the system threatens to also not get the best out of Nkunku and possibly Palmer)

We have the wrong players for the tactics yet the same people have recruited the players and the manager - they should be out of the door rapid
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Welcome back !

 
Captain Enzo 😂 he as so good last season when he was injured  perhaps we will get lucky

 
Argo said:
Biggest ever defeat vs Arsenal

Cup final lost against kids

Nunez poor finishing saving us from potentially breaking the PL loss record
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Arsenals gone way better than the past so makes sense

Losing cup final yes but then again poch had to play the "kids" every game and they dont have winner mentality

Nunez is nunez lol we can say that about anything

Poch wasnt a world class manager but we was playing decent and scored a lot of goals

I feel like we went backwards with the maresca signing short term but long term we may look better oh well let's hope a manager with about 3 years experience will be good enough to get top 4 👌

 
Conte said:
Arsenals gone way better than the past so makes sense

Losing cup final yes but then again poch had to play the "kids" every game and they dont have winner mentality

Nunez is nunez lol we can say that about anything

Poch wasnt a world class manager but we was playing decent and scored a lot of goals

I feel like we went backwards with the maresca signing short term but long term we may look better oh well let's hope a manager with about 3 years experience will be good enough to get top 4 👌
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Well, a manager with one year experience and Willian as our best attacker did....

And I disagree we were playing decent, Spurs and West Ham gave some false hope but the last three games despite winning them was back to the same old crap.

 
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