I hope Lampard can show his tactical acumen and switch formations or something. He is beginning to look like sarri with his dogmatic ways. Earlier in the season he switched to a 3421 and it worked like a charm, and honestly freezing out Marcos Alonso because he had a stinker against Ajax is baffling. He offers so much more as afalse 3 compared to Emerson. my team for second half

 

                                Kepa

         Azpi      Rudiger        Zouma

james      kante    Jorginho         Emerson

         Willian                Mount

                 Abraham

Pulisic  should be subbed off, he has looked knackered recently and quite rightly so because he has had to carry us with Odoi being a shell of the man we know he can be

8 minutes ago, enigma said:

With the team we've got, better than this. I mean ffs, Utd have got a team similar to us and they are almost catching up to us.

Arsenal aren't much better and they aren't far behind either. Leicester, on paper, haven't got a better team than us, but they are doing better. 

We are still in front of  Manchester and Arsenal, of course they are gonna catch us its the goddamn premier league, it wouldnt be fun if there were no competition.

Leicester have a great coach who has a ton of experience and they have a much better defence than us thats the difference. Once we buy a few players of course i want to see improvement but right now its pretty much what i expected, working hard to create chances and to finish them and a mess at the back...

Patience !

We have been pretty bad today though i ll give you that

Edited December 14, 20196 yr by DidierDrogbalala

3 minutes ago, Sindre said:

I really think Kovacic-Jorginho is the midfield pairing we need to go back too.

No coincedence we have looked the best with them two this season.

Jorginho gets a lot of stick for being lightweight but he's one of our few midfield players that isnt afraid to go for tackles imo. Coupled with the sense of direction he offers the team when playing, I don't think Frank should drop him for the rest of the christmas period. 

Anyone got any paint drying that I can watch for 45 minutes?

4 minutes ago, loz said:

6 minutes ago, coco said:

Mount for Kovacic
Pulisic for CHO
 

I'd agree. Really average performance by all bar maybe Jorginho who has been slightly better than that. However Pulisic and Mount have been very poor, especially Pulisic.

I like one or the other, both together were a bit Larry....

Just now, Frankie8Lampard said:

Jorginho gets a lot of stick for being lightweight but he's one of our few midfield players that isnt afraid to go for tackles imo. Coupled with the sense of direction he offers the team when playing, I don't think Frank should drop him for the rest of the christmas period. 

I think Jorginho this season is a new breed, he loves getting stuck in now. 

Awful. We look like sh*t. Take a shot from distance once in a while FFS.

1 minute ago, Munkworth said:

Anyone got any paint drying that I can watch for 45 minutes?

Paint a face on your belly again

1 minute ago, Munkworth said:

Anyone got any paint drying that I can watch for 45 minutes?

My grass is currently growing and I can put some water on the stove to boil.  No paint though sorry.

Just now, BlueNProud said:

Awful. We look like sh*t. Take a shot from distance once in a while FFS.

Yes at times we should just go for a few shots. Rather trying to walk the ball in the net.

Just now, BlueNProud said:

Awful. We look like sh*t. Take a shot from distance once in a while FFS.

For that we might need Kovacic to come on.

1 minute ago, Slojo said:

I think Jorginho this season is a new breed, he loves getting stuck in now. 

It looks like he has learned a lot from his first season with us. You need to be physical in this league. If teams feel that you aren't up to the challenge physically, then they will target you. That is why he struggled for most of the season last season.

Kante is playing a better RW role than Willian. All Willian does is either drop back to play a slow pass or back pass it back to whoever nearest. 

Pulisic and Mount are both occupying the same areas almost at the same time.

Our attackers need to be more creative and fluid. We won't score manynif we keep playing like this

23 minutes ago, Slojo said:

Pass it wide - pass it back - diagonal ball - pass it back - pass it wide - pass it back - diagonal ball - and this time it's back to the opposition. 

Been the pattern all game. 

Sarriball

Just now, Deino said:

Kante is playing a better RW role than Willian. All Willian does is either drop back to play a slow pass or back pass it back to whoever nearest. 

Pulisic and Mount are both occupying the same areas almost at the same time.

Our attackers need to be more creative and fluid. We won't score manynif we keep playing like this

Not to mention blind flicks that go nowhere and forward passes that hit the defender first and alllmost reaches a team mate for maximum aggravation

12 minutes ago, Sindre said:

I really think Kovacic-Jorginho is the midfield pairing we need to go back too.

No coincedence we have looked the best with them two this season.

That's a good shout tbh

What's our goal scoring machine Kovacic doing on the bench, I wonder?

4 minutes ago, TrueBlueSeaFC87 said:

My grass is currently growing and I can put some water on the stove to boil.  No paint though sorry.

Moaning already when the match has yet to start.

 

Oh wait...

f**king cheatimg divers

I'm so sick of Willian in EVERY aspect of the game.

Great defending by Zouma

good job zouma

Jesus christ... What's going on with our passing? 

Coming into this half even worse, changes have to be made. 

Make some changes this is awful. 

Need to make subs now with Bournemouth on the ascendancy