11 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

Seems Gusto regularly suffers muscle and hamstring injuries throughout his career.

Hope we can fix it, he's a really good player, don't want him missing games 

Not sure it is a surpise he looks like a mummy

Huge fan, and think he'll be Madrid bound one day.  But today (other than his red card last season) was the worse performance I've seen from him.  A little asleep on the goal, and looked poor in and out of possession today.  

12 minutes ago, PhilH930 said:

Huge fan, and think he'll be Madrid bound one day.  But today (other than his red card last season) was the worse performance I've seen from him.  A little asleep on the goal, and looked poor in and out of possession today.  

All of his issues right now are because of the system. He's not an inverted full back and the way we set up defensively is making no sense. The defenders are in 1v2 situations.

Do we even need both fullbacks to be inverted full backs? It was working under Pochettino at the end of last season, and it seemed like Cucurella was the only one doing it.

Yes, we've got Cucurella who is good playing the inverted role so, why does Gusto have to do it as well? To keep it more fluid? In any case, that's making him look lost in many games. Stop inverting Gusto and play him to his strengths.

It makes no sense why Malo plays so high up when we have possession of the ball. He offers absolutely nothing going forward and I believe he has never scored a goal in senior football.

12 hours ago, The Don Antonio said:

It makes no sense why Malo plays so high up when we have possession of the ball. He offers absolutely nothing going forward and I believe he has never scored a goal in senior football.

It is pretty straight forward, isn't it. Pretty much every team attack with 5.

Neto, jackson, palmer, madueke 

Now which of these players you want to play as that 5th guy

Sanchez 😁😁, crooked Reece, Colwil, Fofana, gusto, Caicedo, Lavia, 

13 hours ago, The Don Antonio said:

It makes no sense why Malo plays so high up when we have possession of the ball. He offers absolutely nothing going forward and I believe he has never scored a goal in senior football.

He's an excellent crosser and creator generally, but I think the issue is that teams know that and can hedge that he will not shoot or shoot unsuccessfully, making him a lot easier to defend.

57 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

He's an excellent crosser and creator generally, but I think the issue is that teams know that and can hedge that he will not shoot or shoot unsuccessfully, making him a lot easier to defend.

Not sure this the problem. Gusto played as a 10  and not sure that suit his game. 

Edited October 30, 20241 yr by Bob stark

Yeah that just adds to the problem. Defenders just let him have the ball because the attack breaks down if he can't overlap/underlap. He's not going to play a through ball and he sure isn't going to score.

2 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Yeah that just adds to the problem. Defenders just let him have the ball because the attack breaks down if he can't overlap/underlap. He's not going to play a through ball and he sure isn't going to score.

As attacking fb/wb gusto is amazing (as we saw many times last season) but as 10/inverted aka midfielder, he is just meh. 

It is what it is. 

 

 

 

 

 

5 hours ago, Bob stark said:

As attacking fb/wb gusto is amazing (as we saw many times last season) but as 10/inverted aka midfielder, he is just meh. 

It is what it is. 

 

 

 

 

 

Yup. Excellent last season getting forward if not the world's greatest crosser. Less effective now with Maresca wanting him to be another Cucu. What's the point?

7 hours ago, Bob stark said:

It is pretty straight forward, isn't it. Pretty much every team attack with 5.

Neto, jackson, palmer, madueke 

Now which of these players you want to play as that 5th guy

Sanchez 😁😁, crooked Reece, Colwil, Fofana, gusto, Caicedo, Lavia, 

Caicedo.

12 hours ago, Gordon Bennett said:

Caicedo.

We need to see him playing there 

12 hours ago, dermott said:

Yup. Excellent last season getting forward if not the world's greatest crosser. Less effective now with Maresca wanting him to be another Cucu. What's the point?

It is what it is, I think all of us suspect before the season that this inverted + defensive fb combo doesn't suit gusto. 

 

 

 

Looked so dangerous overlapping last season. 

Really don't get this fetish Maresca has to have him playing next to the number 10.

Thought he did well yesterday and made a difference. Probably the best I’ve seen him play this season. Had been disappointed with him after a very good debut season.

No doubt yesterday it helped that he was allowed get up and down the line, which I feel is his strongest asset, rather the inverting.

I'm yet to be convinced by him

8 hours ago, Zeta said:

I'm yet to be convinced by him

Same.

In fact I would question the advice Acheampong is getting. With a perennially injured Reece James and Gusto who looks limited in some tactical set ups I am not sure where Acheampong thinks he'd getter a better crack of the whip in contesting a first team RB berth.

 Did anyone else notice the difference it made to Palmers game when Gusto came on.

https://www.footballfancast.com/liverpool-want-him-chelsea-heading-for-salah-repeat-with-malo-gusto/

HA HA NO CHANCE

So this is what it feels like buying kids and developing them or waiting for them to gain experience in the PL for a season or 2, instead of buying the finished article, lol.

There's rumours going around for Enzo, Gusto, Badiashile (!), and a whole load from team B like Casadei, chucky, Jorgensen, etc...

 

Idiots, should have believed in the experiment like all the Chelsea fans!

😝

 

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 

 

 

*seriously though, now we are second and playing well the narrative has really changed with a lot of ppl in rgds to the quality of the players we have.

Edited December 17, 20241 yr by Simplymo

Lad will be a top fullback. He will have plenty of game time to improve as Reece will only play 5 or 10 games a season.

Paid 30m for him, i imagine it would take double that to even be entertained. 

Funny how all of these rumours for our players have suddenly picked up now that we are competing again.

10 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Funny how all of these rumours for our players have suddenly picked up now that we are competing again.

Strangely at the same time as out title rivals are getting good news stories across the board....but obviously theres no bias in the media...no way.