6 minutes ago, Andy2461 said:

No CHO 

RLC lucky to keep his place imho but who else is there 

Barkley, i want to see barkley again, remember how he opened up the game against Palace

2 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

Gianfranco swearing on live tv at 11:40 in the morning - never thought I’d see/hear that!

 

2 hours ago, erskblue said:

Some positivity on this thread !😀

Stop it once!

1 minute ago, coco said:

 

"Very strong words" 

Was hoping Hudson-Odoi would be back in the team. Alonso hasn't done enough to start 3 games in row for me and Ziyech is lucky to get back in even if he did score the winner against Watford. Both need to up their game.

18 minutes ago, The Don Antonio said:

Lol. Did you break up with Twitter or did Twitter break up with you.. just curious because a lot of my friends are going off

I closed my account, or disabled it whatever that means... Too many strange people there, the pics that some channels post were worth it for a time but other than that it's a bad place if you ask me...

I was confident but now that I see our lineup I feel something is missing...

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

Was hoping Hudson-Odoi would be back in the team. Alonso hasn't done enough to start 3 games in row for me and Ziyech is lucky to get back in even if he did score the winner against Watford. Both need to up their game.

I feel Ziyech at least tries things that are unexpected, not always coming off but he tries and he has been putting in a lot of effort, i feel there is a lot of bias against ziyech in this thread, he is a bit of a scapegoat 

3 players not in form starting, hopefully they can pick it up today

8 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

I closed my account, or disabled it whatever that means... Too many strange people there, the pics that some channels post were worth it for a time but other than that it's a bad place if you ask me...

Hey, I never asked you to follow me!

8 minutes ago, azpi28 said:

I feel Ziyech at least tries things that are unexpected, not always coming off but he tries and he has been putting in a lot of effort, i feel there is a lot of bias against ziyech in this thread, he is a bit of a scapegoat 

He's not a scapegoat, he just doesn't perform in the majority of the games he plays.

It’s not a bad line up, but what’s saddening is we got to a place where we had no weak positions on the pitch, Alonso and the CM situation worries me. 
 

Thankfully kante isn’t badly injured but what’s going on with kova it seems like forever? 
 

Alonso can do a job for now and he started the season well but I’m apprehensive for big games, I think we may consider Dave at LB playing against more attacking teams. 

Love Gianfranco! 😆

We win today if:

1. Alonso has a solid game

2. RLC comes out of his shell and commands the midfield with his strength and power. Needs more goal contributions.

3. Kai is a threat in attack. We need numbers from our attack instead of defenders bailing us out

15 minutes ago, Chelsbear said:

Wish we'd play Lukaku. 

Ruben gives me the fear, hopefully he turns up. 

I think/hope despite what Tuchel is saying it hasn't gone unnoticed how much more fluent we are playing glade 9.

As a few have probably guessed the CHO non inclusion has annoyed me greatly, both under Frank and now Tuchel he seems to get held to higher standards than all the other attackers.

Matchday lets goooo!!

Rice vs RLC midfield will be crucial. 

 

13 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

He's not a scapegoat, he just doesn't perform in the majority of the games he plays.

just like most of our attackers, maybe except CHO, who has been excellent, although you could say against United he should have scored.  with the chances we create every game and our defenders being top scorers, all attackers are underperforming and have potential to play better 

i'm a bit of a Ziyech apologist but i certainly see where the criticism is coming from, and it's deserved, but just feel that he has no credit really, and maybe gets criticised a bit more due to how he carries himself, it might look like he doesn't really care but he has always been that way. Even at Ajax where he became their best player by a margin he was booed and criticised a lot at one period. I think we should stick with him this season and just like with Jorginho he will eventually prove his worth (hopefully) 

Edited December 4, 20213 yr by azpi28

5 minutes ago, SFL82 said:

Thankfully kante isn’t badly injured but what’s going on with kova it seems like forever?  

Tuchel has changed his anti-American bias to anti-Croatian and is just claiming he’s always injured. 

COYB

ugh this is going to ruin my day if we don't win

Rice could dominate RLC he needs to get out of his shell 

2 minutes ago, Andy2461 said:

Rice could dominate RLC he needs to get out of his shell 

Mason just needs to distract him during the game 

21 minutes ago, azpi28 said:

just like most of our attackers, maybe except CHO, who has been excellent, although you could say against United he should have scored.  with the chances we create every game and our defenders being top scorers, all attackers are underperforming and have potential to play better 

i'm a bit of a Ziyech apologist but i certainly see where the criticism is coming from, and it's deserved, but just feel that he has no credit really, and maybe gets criticised a bit more due to how he carries himself, it might look like he doesn't really care but he has always been that way. Even at Ajax where he became their best player by a margin he was booed and criticised a lot at one period. I think we should stick with him this season and just like with Jorginho he will eventually prove his worth (hopefully) 

@azpi28, azpi, azpi.... there's that A word again...

 

next time i will just put it "even in the Eredivisie he was the best player" etc

Here we go. C'MON