Played really well last night, I think he benefited from us sitting a little deeper. When we play the high line, if Hazard is playing on the left our left side of the defence gets exposed a lot. 

Hazard tends to drift inside leaving Alonso with a lot of space to cover. I did notice Kovacic hugging the left side quite a lot yesterday, particularly in the first half which I think helped us a fair bit. 

Played really well last night, I think he benefited from us sitting a little deeper. When we play the high line, if Hazard is playing on the left our left side of the defence gets exposed a lot. 
Hazard tends to drift inside leaving Alonso with a lot of space to cover. I did notice Kovacic hugging the left side quite a lot yesterday, particularly in the first half which I think helped us a fair bit. 

Spot on.

On 28/02/2019 at 08:55, ForeverCarefree said:

Played really well last night

A little rest, and a little competition for his spot has definitely helped. Really, who would've guessed? 

The early cross for Girouds 2nd was what's been missing from his game. Early crosses my man, dont wait for 4 defenders to get in the box

Edited March 14, 20197 yr by TheChelseaBlues

If Emerson had that game today people would be heavily praising him. 

Alsono deserves criticism but I also think he deserves a lot of praise, he gets far more stick than he deserves. I only hope he can adapt in the LB role, with Emerson and Alonso rotating more we might see better performances from Alonso, he was playing far too much when he was out of form. 

23 minutes ago, Slojo said:

If Emerson had that game today people would be heavily praising him. 

Alsono deserves criticism but I also think he deserves a lot of praise, he gets far more stick than he deserves. I only hope he can adapt in the LB role, with Emerson and Alonso rotating more we might see better performances from Alonso, he was playing far too much when he was out of form. 

He’s always been a good attacking LB/LWB. The problems start when we play a half decent team with any sort of pace on their right hand side. The fact he had Christensen beside him helped IMO. As opposed to Luiz who is prone to going wandering in his own right.

 

He played very well tonight which is good news, there will be harder tests than this to come though but credit where credits due!

Can't remember a worse season by a LB since the 90s.

Every time he comes up against someone even half decent he looks like a complete dud.
 

Never disliked a Chelsea player as much as him. Useless.

Needs a spell on the bench now, he is not suited to a back four 

We are stuck with him. No way we can sell him...

6 hours ago, JMaher94 said:

Never disliked a Chelsea player as much as him. Useless.

Rated our 2nd best outfield player today on Whoscored.com. Only 0.1 behind Jorginho in the ratings.

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2 minutes ago, just said:

Rated our 2nd best outfield player today on Whoscored.com. Only 0.1 behind Jorginho in the ratings.

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I'll give you that one.

I thought he was a disgrace yesterday. His head went after giving the pen away and then spent the rest of the game trying to get himself sent off. Even that he failed at. 

It’s obvious that He’s not a fullback, 

19 hours ago, axman2526 said:

We are stuck with him. No way we can sell him...

Certainly not for a profit, but we could probably offload him to someone in Spain or Italy

 

He's a striker that plays LB 

Great header for the winner last night but he didn't half stink up the joint aside from that. 

I like Alonso, I think when he's on form he's a really good player. 

But he's been awful for months now. He started the season well but has just slumped into such poor form. 

He's better suited to playing as a wing back rather than in a back four no doubt but he shouldn't be struggling as much as he is. 

BBC said Alonso had a poor game by his standards 

I didn't watch it but what is a poor game by Alonso's standards? 

 

If we get a good offer for him in the summer we should sell. Even with a transfer ban I'd rather see the back up left back to to a youth player / Azpi 

Edited April 12, 20197 yr by bisright1

8 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

If we get a good offer for him in the summer we should sell. Even with a transfer ban I'd rather see the back up left back to to a youth player / Azpi 

Real were rumoured to be interested in him before, though given his form they may have since cooled their interest. 

No sure I can see him leaving any time soon personally, not after we handed him the new contract. 

Was dogsh*t other than the goal. Can’t be too mad, cus he got the winner, but he was definitely out of position for that goal. If that ball gets cleared, they have an easy break down the left. 

Alonso was good for 3 seconds in the game. His well-timed run and good header were good (abd very important) but other 89 minutes and 57 seconds he looked like a player who doesn't have any attributes to be succesful in Sarri's system. 

As soon as he got his contract extension he turned into turd. Best right back in the league last season. Today, a tall branch of grass on the football field. 

Honestly I think it would be a master stroke if Sarri tried him out as a striker.

He can defend, shoot, head the ball. Even knows how to time his runs well. Having said he can defend, he’s currently shocking as a left back, maybe he can lead the press instead up front?

Hes easily one of our best finishers, he has everything you’d want in a striker, why not?

2 hours ago, bisright1 said:

BBC said Alonso had a poor game by his standards 

I didn't watch it but what is a poor game by Alonso's standards? 

 

If we get a good offer for him in the summer we should sell. Even with a transfer ban I'd rather see the back up left back to to a youth player / Azpi 

Well Jay DaSilva is playing well at Charlton, so be interesting to see how the club plan his next steps. The same for Reece James.

I personally don't think Azpilicueta is that good at all as a RB in an attacking system. He can defend well, but going forward he is very mediocre. Playing him at LB would be a disadvantage. Just have Jya dasilva as backup to Emerson. 

1 hour ago, evissy said:

Alonso was good for 3 seconds in the game. His well-timed run and good header were good (abd very important) but other 89 minutes and 57 seconds he looked like a player who doesn't have any attributes to be succesful in Sarri's system. 

As soon as he got his contract extension he turned into turd. Best right back in the league last season. Today, a tall branch of grass on the football field. 

My problem with a few of these players is they need a specific system to suit them and make them look good. Take them away from one system and they look poor. Our full backs are perfect examples of this.