Can see why he is an elite player, he’s always in the right position.

Reece James could well get double digits in assists this season. 

Good to see him get off the mark and at home too which is nice.

 

1 hour ago, dansubrosa said:

Can see why he is an elite player, he’s always in the right position.

Reece James could well get double digits in assists this season. 

Just need to make sure the correct people are on the end of it. 

He's carrying Havertz & Mount in attack right now.

By doing that I think he's proving that better players make a significant difference and that another top class forward or two could have us competing.

 

Excellent to see Sterling off the mark.

Hopefully this puts the ridiculous chatter that's began around him and the system to  bed.

111 premier league goals for a 27 year old winger is exceptional and after 3 games without scoring people are talking about him like he's Christian Pulisic.

A proven world class player that has been the standout player in our attack 3 out of our 4 games this season.  He's our best attacking player and he'll continue to score goals just as he always has.  His movement and anticipation is too good for him not to.

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Second goal is brilliant movement. Very good performance. At last on offensive player putting in a shift. 

Same cannot be said of Mount or Havertz.

We just need another elite player with Sterling in our attack and we can talk hard this season.

Sterling was fantastic today.

Absolutely delighted that he’s off the mark. Hope we get to see replicas of that second goal a few times this season. Trademark Sterling.

Top stuff from him. I almost liked the second goal more than the first. Little pleases me more when watching a football game than an attacker just anticipating and being in the right spot. Costa used to score tons of goals exactly like Sterling's one today but we have so rarely seen it in recent times. 

Hopefully today's two are just the start and there are a hundred more to come. 

Spiritual successor to Pedro

8 hours ago, Sindre said:

He's carrying Havertz & Mount in attack right now.

By doing that I think he's proving that better players make a significant difference and that another top class forward or two could have us competing.

 

You don't think we've been competing the past 2 seasons? 

I thought he was slightly off in the first half, touches weren’t quite there. But goodness does his ability to make the difference show through. Making runs into the 6 yard box anticipating crosses is exactly what we need. 
 

Love his spirit and fight. When we signed him noted it felt like we had finally backfilled Pedro in the squad (and with no disrespect to Pedro, Sterling is better). 

Finally someone willing to gamble on the far post for crosses. How many times do we see them go across and no-one get anywhere near them?

Done what we bought him for, chip in with goals.

We still need another Sterling on the opposite side as well as a striker.

We need the front 3 to all score goals if we are going to make the top 4 this season or have a chance of silverware.

Top quality player, someone to put the ball in the net, can't remember last time one one of our wide players scored two in a game

11 hours ago, Deino said:

Spiritual successor to Pedro

Lucky he joined us so he can match Pedro's record of actually winning European trophies 🤭

I'm hoping now Sterling is getting comfortable Havertz will improve as well.

Of course that might not happen yet no harm to hope.

In the build up play I have seen at least Havertz seems decent just the end product is missing.

 

Wish Timo stayed on for another month, would’ve been interesting to see him and Sterling up top to see if it’d click!

Raheem Sterling (Chelsea): I thought Sterling was starting to lose the fizz he had gained having escaped Pep Guardiola's straitjacket.

His performances since he left Manchester City have been bright and bubbly but against Leeds he wasn't great - and in danger of starting to raise questions about the lack of impact he was having on his new team.

However, I needn't have worried. Sterling got Chelsea out of jail having gone down to 10 men against a Leicester side who have their own fair share of problems.

Meanwhile, Conor Gallagher was brought off against Leeds and sent off against Leicester. I can't imagine what he has lined up for us next week.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62707562

For now he's the only quality player in our attack. He needs much more support and creativity to give him the ball to space so he can run at the defence.

I think yesterday he got few wrong decisions but still he was the only player that tried to create something in attack.

So far he's our best signing and provides us what we need from him, but we need more around him.

Keep it up Raheem!

He needs equality players around him to help him or the ones we have to up their game.

Best attacking player we currently have....I fully expect to see him at right centre back this weekend......

Doing exactly what I expected him to do.

Frustrate at times but dazzle or score goals most of the time.

Problem is expecting him on his own to turn us into serious title contenders.

He’s just someone who will get over 10 league goals this season, we need another player to get 10 to 15 goals AND a striker to get 15+ goals or we will just stay as a cup team.

2 hours ago, 2211 said:

Doing exactly what I expected him to do.

Frustrate at times but dazzle or score goals most of the time.

Problem is expecting him on his own to turn us into serious title contenders.

He’s just someone who will get over 10 league goals this season, we need another player to get 10 to 15 goals AND a striker to get 15+ goals or we will just stay as a cup team.

How many goals could this front line deliver?

 

James

Fofana

Silva

Chilwell

 

Sangare 

Luiz (Douglas)

 

Sterling

Gallagher

Zaha

 

Broja 

 

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