Not sure I agree, sure England are going through a poor patch yet let's recall Wales at the Euros and heard Mark Hughes saying today it would be great if they could qualify for the WC. Think it just depends on your perspective.
Allen went to Palace as part of the Kenny Sansom deal. Looking back that certainly was a weird transfer. Clive Allen at Arsenal in basically the summer of 1980. Think he had a perfectly good goal disallowed at perhaps Coventry. It was on tv and he hit a great free kick that came back from the station at the back of the goal and the ref disallowed it. Ref thought it had hit the post !
When exactly has Conte had a chance to give Kante a rest ? With the tough early fixtures and lack of midfield options, he has had no choice but to play Kante.
we could easily have played a midfield duo of baka and cesc since they both dont play internationals but hey we have no choice but to play them both now
I beg to differ. Kante plays a high energy game and covers a lot of distance during games . It is an accumulation of fatigue in his hamstrings. It was easy for him to play that way with leicester because they had no european games and wasnt really a starter for france. In his first season for chelsea he didnt have europEAN games and started playing more for France. NOW this season he plays every freaking 3 days plus internationals. Trust me the miles add up
Yes, remember seeing the picture in the Sunday paper of it over the line and bouncing back out.
Luiz is back from suspension, so he's another option to play in a holding midfield role.
Think he is better served at CB, drinkwater will prove to be important for us I think.
Against who ? You need to remember that Bakayoko has been recovering from an injury too, Conte couldn't just throw him into the team. This is why Conte said he didn't want to sell Matic.
You are right. Drinkwaters injury definitely f**ked us, and also Luiz's red card because he could have subbed in for one of our midfielders. I just see this as a learning curve for conte because he didnt have European games last season and he could pretty much play the same line up week in week out. He tried it gainst Mancity and we were exposed due to fatigue.We cannot play our high intensity game with the same players when we have 3 games in 7 days I am sure fresher legs like pedro willian batshuayi and zappacosta could have added a bit more aggresion to our game against sh*tTY . I am pretty positive Conte will learn from this just as he has learnt from every setback since he took over chelsea..
It should be an absolute cakewalk, this Palace side are every bit as bad as the Villa side that went down the season before last, the game should run a similar pattern to the game at Villa Park for us that season. Palace should have gone last term but Allardyce's outstanding management has delayed the inevitable.
Luiz is multi talented, has two good feet and was tremendous in his holding midfield position against Tottenham. At the moment, we're well covered in defence so I would have no hesitation in putting Luiz in midfield against Palace. I agree Drinkwater will be a huge asset but it's unlikely he'll be ready yet.
Last season, we had won lot of game with Fabregas in medfield, against teams stronger than Palace....Cesc in a 2man mid field.
Palace are lucky c**ts.