1 minute ago, EdinburghBlue said:

If you believe what Henry says Hazard is happier and relishes playing CAM. Personally, I’d be loathed to go to a formation without one if it’s true and risk losing him.

The team has to come before any player though and Hazard playing behind the striker has not really worked for us. I prefer him out wide and cutting inside, the team as a whole look's more threatening like that.

also Morata has been locked down it seems... kinda killed 70% of our firepower !

People saying take off Drinkwater and put Willian/Pedro on lol. 

 

Cesc in a 2 man midfield. 

 

PMSL.

1 minute ago, RIP Mourinho said:

People saying take off Drinkwater and put Willian/Pedro on lol. 

 

Cesc in a 2 man midfield. 

 

PMSL.

very true.

Rollercoaster of a season.

Passion, we're is it? We've a good chance of cementing a place in a final and we're lacking drive to push us there.

Very unefficient passing the ball around. We have had couple of free kicks from quite good spots. Is it really so that Willian is the only one who can make these free kicks dangerous (And Alonso when left foot is prefered)?

This is a chance for Drinkwater to stake his claim and instead he's doing a Bakayoko impression out there. They have no Ozil or Sanchez on and we're still struggling to assert ourselves in the game. 

Not to take anything away from Azpilicueta, but you know there is something wrong when your most creative player is your CB. His crosses are the only positive and consistent part about our attack.

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I think this tie is really decided at their place. We are not on tonight it seems.

We need to stop changing our minds about players every time the wind changes... ^ :p

This is typicalll of the 3-5-2. 

Lacking ideas. Just hit up to Morata or Hazard and hope they can click once or twice to get a goal. 

Hardly a gameplan. But that's what it amounts to with this system.

Alonso needs to have someone ahead closer to him, otherwise he has pretty much zero attacking threat here, so worried about Bellerin's pace.

Fabregas should make way for Willian, imo. Always more options when playing 3-4-3.

 

f**k me its games like this when I really miss JT's leadership....

2 minutes ago, evissy said:

Rollercoaster of a season.

Seems more like we're flatlining just lately. Really quite disappointing.

Christ that was very poor. Our attackers inc hazard have all looked so toothless in recent weeks. This is basically our first choice 11 against an arsenal B team who got spanked by forest at the weekend. 

Our season really feels like it’s drifting at the moment in terms of player urgency and passion. Perhaps it comes from the manager at the moment - Antonio seems a bit non bothered atm.

Can see why hazard wouldn’t stay to play in this current line up. That said, on days like today he’s no way a 170m player or whatever!

Get another forward on and sort it out!

playing arsenal is so tedious. i'm not surprised the players aren't up for it. keep getting drawn against arsenal is boring af. var is really frustrating and never understand why they don't stop the clock to make decisions, instead the ref stands there for a minute waiting on a decision. 

getting barkley into this team is crucial. kante and bakayoko aren't attacking mids, drinkwater is held back by trying to defend, and fabregas often gets overrun in midfield. barkley will at least provide offense and dynamism into the midfield. 

Conte looking clueless.

Just hope we start moving the ball a bit quicker with more purpose. 

We keep letting them get players behind the ball. 

Come on chelsea. 

2 minutes ago, enigma said:

playing arsenal is so tedious. i'm not surprised the players aren't up for it. keep getting drawn against arsenal is boring af. var is really frustrating and never understand why they don't stop the clock to make decisions, instead the ref stands there for a minute waiting on a decision. 

Maybe it is but there can be no excuse whatever for players 'not being up for it' in this or any other game.

He should be doing better with that.

start with a bang

Huge chance for Christensen that, he should be scoring it.

5 minutes ago, Womble said:

f**k me its games like this when I really miss JT's leadership....

Where are our so called leaders when we fabregas and hazard are getting hacked down repeatedly? The team should be putting pressure on the ref to give out yellow cards. When you look on the pitch you don't see any natural born leaders.

Coming closer, christensens gotta hit the target there. P.s doesnt kante make you melt inside. 

Does anybody know why Tibo is out on the pitch at halftime while the rest of the team is in the locker room? It’s the second time i recognized it[emoji848]