4 hours ago, wizardous said:

Without him we lose. Simple as that.

With him we lose the ball, all the time.

If he learn to pass more or more precise passing maybe the forwards would score more. 
that is what I expecting from playmaker.

he rather shoots and the other wing is the same Odoi shoots first pass later.

Benches both of them.

1 hour ago, dkw said:

With him we lose the ball, all the time.

Tell me whether Pulisic, CHO, Werner, Havertz or Lukaku can score a goal like that?

TBF - even with Havertz we looked stale just before Lukaku came back from injury.

Although it is not working well he set up a good chance for Azpi whose shot was poor and his own effort produced a corner as did Azpi's.

We are not converting from corners, that needs work. We had 7 last night. Perhaps have someone on the front post to flick it on.

Something needs to change and can only come from the training pitch.

 

 

1 hour ago, WeatherMan said:

Genuine question, what winter break, there isn't one in the Premier League, or any other league in England ?

There aren’t any Premier League matches scheduled between 23rd Jan and 7th Feb 2022. Assume it’s the weekend of Sat 30th and Sun 31st.
We play Plymouth Argyle on Sat 5th Feb in the FA Cup. I might be wrong !😀

Lukaku has been a problem at all his clubs , Everton, man u, time to get rid he wants the glory with no effort  no wonder the team dont want to work for him 

2 hours ago, wizardous said:

Tell me whether Pulisic, CHO, Werner, Havertz or Lukaku can score a goal like that?

Yes.

32 minutes ago, dkw said:

Yes.

So why don't they do it? 

Nearly all of Ziyech's goals, in both of his seasons, were crucial ones.

10 hours ago, wizardous said:

So why don't they do it? 

 

They have.

22 hours ago, erskblue said:

Brighton played at a high tempo and pressed us from the kick off. We looked sluggish and overplayed it.

Our goal came from ‘out of the blue’ and ia good one at that from Ziyech. Why can’t our players shoot more often.

My old man would have called it. ‘Trying to walk the ball into the net!’

Their equaliser was very poor marking on our part. 

High tempo... Oh how I wish we could describe Chelsea as that instead of endless, aimless slow  passing !

1 hour ago, dkw said:

They have.

Past tense is the problem.

28 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

High tempo... Oh how I wish we could describe Chelsea as that instead of endless, aimless slow  passing !

Agreed. I simply don’t get us not playing at a high tempo.

It’s far easier to start at a high tempo, than have to react to another team playing at a high tempo. 

On 19/01/2022 at 16:31, wizardous said:

So why don't they do it? 

Nearly all of Ziyech's goals, in both of his seasons, were crucial ones.

I'm just glad that someone had a shot from the outside of the box for once instead of trying to pass it into the goal

8 hours ago, Evenflow20 said:

I'm just glad that someone had a shot from the outside of the box for once instead of trying to pass it into the goal

Totally agree.