CHO is effective on the Left at this current level of maturity that is Hazard's side, do we drop Hazard?

57 minutes ago, ForeverCarefree said:

Lots of praise flooding in for CHO, many saying what a lot of us have for months now. 

Equally, lots of questions being asked of Sarri why he's not played him more. 

 

I would love to think CHO will be given a fair chance after impressing over the last 10 days but I think we all know the stubborn old fool won't. 

I'd be putting my money on Pedro/Willian.

Sadly Sarri is as predictable and stubborn as they come.

11 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

CHO is effective on the Left at this current level of maturity that is Hazard's side, do we drop Hazard?

From what we have seen from him in a Chelsea shirt, he is pretty good on the right too. On the right, I notice he takes on his man and swings a really nice cross in, on the left, he will run at players and cut in more. He's got strengths on both sides.

CHO can easily play on the left. 

Sarri has to start him now. But he won't, the stubborn old goat. 

56 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Not sure about that, Robben seems to have made a pretty good career out of being direct at all times.

And you could argue if Hazard was direct enough he will score as much as Salah, Ronaldo & Messi.

As stated earlier, why are we wasting anymore time with a manager that won't play him, the support from some for Sarri on here is unbelievable!

We have a real gem of a talent here and we are in serious danger of losing him, he needs to play.

 

Sarri will be blamed for not playing him, he’ll also be blamed for playing him but results not improving (most likely outcome). He knows the board are ultra short termists so what is his motivation to play him? He’s a decent young player, not the second coming of Messi. 

Edited March 26, 20197 yr by cuppaT

15 minutes ago, cuppaT said:

Sarri will be blamed for not playing him, he’ll also be blamed for playing him but results not improving (most likely outcome). He knows the board are ultra short termists so what is his motivation to play him? He’s a decent young player, not the second coming of Messi. 

We don't know how good he COULD become. He already looks decent and okay it's unlikely he'll be the next Messi as he's a one-off but he will only have the chance to become anything like that good IF HE PLAYS!!!

And Sarri won't get blamed for playing him and results not improving. Most of us have all agreed that Sarri would be given a fair amount of slack if he stopped being so stubborn and rang a few changes.

23 minutes ago, cuppaT said:

Sarri will be blamed for not playing him, he’ll also be blamed for playing him but results not improving (most likely outcome). He knows the board are ultra short termists so what is his motivation to play him? He’s a decent young player, not the second coming of Messi. 

Sure, but Sarri hasn’t done anything well has he? He’s not delivered results now (short term) and he’s certainly not been thinking about the long term either. Playing underperforming and old wingers over CHO week in week out which is about to lead to Callum leaving the club this summer over lack of playing time.

2 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

From what we have seen from him in a Chelsea shirt, he is pretty good on the right too. On the right, I notice he takes on his man and swings a really nice cross in, on the left, he will run at players and cut in more. He's got strengths on both sides.

I've seen him swing in one cross from the right, he is infuriating as he prefers to cut in and when on the right normally passes backwards. He is much better on the Left. It was apparent last night for England.

Potentially he might play on the right yet will he need to be coached to do this. 

Article from the BBC won't help Sarri's case when it comes to CHO:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47701796

30 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Article from the BBC won't help Sarri's case when it comes to CHO:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47701796

Phil McNulty is a manyoo mouthpiece, he fails to point out........Montenegro are not man city, or liverpool, or spuds, or manyoo, or bournemouth, leicester,everton.......

4 minutes ago, coco said:

Phil McNulty is a manyoo mouthpiece, he fails to point out........Montenegro are not man city, or liverpool, or spuds, or manyoo, or bournemouth, leicester,everton.......

Agreed. He always has a dig at us. Will be interesting to see if City get similar attention over the lack of playing time for Foden, now that he seems to have fallen behind CHO, Sancho, Rice etc. in the pecking order for England. I think we all know the answer to that though. 

1 hour ago, Strider6003 said:

I've seen him swing in one cross from the right, he is infuriating as he prefers to cut in and when on the right normally passes backwards. He is much better on the Left. It was apparent last night for England.

Potentially he might play on the right yet will he need to be coached to do this. 

He has 4 assist from right wing crosses. 2 for morata in the fa cup, 1 for morata at home to vidi, and one for giroud in Kiev. 

He can comfortably play on either side in my opinion. If anything he is more predictable when he plays on the left since he cuts in nearly every time. 

By the way Reece James also trained with the England Senior team this week. I assume that was down to the Steve Holland connection. No doubt in the near future we will be getting shamed about lack of opportunities at Chelsea for him too ?

10 minutes ago, coco said:

Phil McNulty is a manyoo mouthpiece, he fails to point out........Montenegro are not man city, or liverpool, or spuds, or manyoo, or bournemouth, leicester,everton.......

True, but then the old adage that you can only play against whats in front of you is also true.

We look stale and we're crying out for something different - CHO is fearless and he will take on All Comers!!

48 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Article from the BBC won't help Sarri's case when it comes to CHO:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47701796

If willian (Rashford) and Pedro (Sancho) were both injured then CHO would start. So it's a stupid argument. 

Add to that lingard also injured and it's Montenegro. CHO has started against better teams than them for Chelsea.

10 minutes ago, Nibs said:

True, but then the old adage that you can only play against whats in front of you is also true.

We look stale and we're crying out for something different - CHO is fearless and he will take on All Comers!!

You know my viewpoint on this, want him on the pitch, but to compare 90 mins away to Montenegro to an EPL game is absurd.

36 minutes ago, big blue said:

He has 4 assist from right wing crosses. 2 for morata in the fa cup, 1 for morata at home to vidi, and one for giroud in Kiev. 

He can comfortably play on either side in my opinion. If anything he is more predictable when he plays on the left since he cuts in nearly every time. 

Did you watch him last night before he moved to the Left side?

1 hour ago, forbzy said:

Agreed. He always has a dig at us. Will be interesting to see if City get similar attention over the lack of playing time for Foden, now that he seems to have fallen behind CHO, Sancho, Rice etc. in the pecking order for England. I think we all know the answer to that though. 

The Foden thing shows just how we are targeted against others at times, its not been mentioned once this week that he has fallen behind CHO in the England order. Strange that.

Just now, dkw said:

The Foden thing shows just how we are targeted against others at times, its not been mentioned once this week that he has fallen behind CHO in the England order. Strange that.

I agree. If Foden is getting so much more game time for City, how come he didn't even make the squad over CHO when so many pulled out through injury? From what I have seen of Foden he is a quality player too. Perhaps a German team will pick him up and offer him more playing time ?

52 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

Did you watch him last night before he moved to the Left side?

Yeah, he didnt have the best opening 15 mins, but considering what I've seen of him on the right for us this season, I would put that down to nerves, more than an inability to play on the right. He has generally produced the goods on right.

Also hazard swaps wings a fair bit with us, so I wouldn't get too hung up on what the team sheet looks like at the start of the game. I'm sure CHO would have licence to switch sides and mix things up.

16 hours ago, EdinburghBlue said:

Sorry mate, Hazard is definitely not consistently direct. He slows the play down significantly and on a regular basis beats a man 2 or 3 times instead of just going past them once and driving forward.

 

Pedro is direct but in a different sense.

Hazard is way too gun shy to be considered direct, he likes to carry the ball. 

I don't see any reason why he shouldn't start ahead of Willian or Pedro at this point.

Even if he doesn't have a good game, that's fine put in Pedro at min 60' or something or Willian, they are older but would be more fresh to impact the game (not that it's a guarantee though).