Next three

Malmo 2/3-0 win....draw a decent side get knocked out
City 3-0 defeat
Spurs 0-2 defeat

Biggest problem for me is Jorginho is the key to the system but he hasn't settled into English football yet (or he is simply too slow I can't tell which one).

The other problems e.g. Willian, Alonso, striker have been there for ages but we have never been this bad

Even before this season I mean

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 30 minutes ago
Next three

Malmo 2/3-0 win....draw a decent side get knocked out
City 3-0 defeat
Spurs 0-2 defeat

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Sounds about right, EL is our only hope. We need an easy run all the way to the final...

It always bemuses me how despite constantly changing managers we make the same mistakes time and time again

Almost every Chelsea fan could see we should have cashed in on Willian at £60m who is near or already past it, and focused on developing Hudson-Odoi and giving him more game time. Not only would we play better, we'd save tons of buying five new wingers to try and replace Willian over the next x amount of years....

It's infuriating, and these bad decisions that fans can see are bad decisions happen over and over again

comment by Obers (U3904)
posted 9 minutes ago
Biggest problem for me is Jorginho is the key to the system but he hasn't settled into English football yet (or he is simply too slow I can't tell which one).

The other problems e.g. Willian, Alonso, striker have been there for ages but we have never been this bad
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League is too difficult for Jorginho, he's never been pressed/man marked like this before. He has no answer, Sarri has no answer to it as well. We're such an easy team to play against. We go a goal down and we react like Arsenal did under Wenger and just roll over.

Seems like whenever we go 1-0 down that's the end of the game. Sarri just has no plan B whatsoever

Just fed up of losing with a whimper, even last night the sarri protectors will point to us dominating the 2nd half but we really didn't, United just let us have the ball and were happy to sit back and just let us try as they know we're so toothless, evidenced by the fact we didn't even muster a shot in the 2nd half on target even with about 80% possession.

Players just look clueless, just no link from midfield to attack, all our strikers before and now higuain all drop deep to try claim the ball and when he does get it we duly have nobody in the box at all

Willian and Pedro really is Kalou/Malouda deja vu when they got old, they're both so bad now it's not even funny yet he just persists with them over Cho who is also pretty much the only decent crosser of a ball we have in our whole squad and we could do with playing

Width is the key....look where they scored from...two crosses....we have little to no crossing talent, hence no service into Higgy & co - hence don't score.

In saying that...if CHO & Emerson were playing more we might...

Width is important but to score from crosses you need players in the box, we have Higuain in the box surrounded by 3/4 defenders so we're never going to score.

Our midfielders will never get in the box and if they do it's usually Kante who's not great in the air. Hazard and the other winger rarely get in the box too, just stand outside.

Then the actual cross itself is appalling, just hits the 1st man, pretty much like our corners.

The two crosses yesterday from Pogba and Rashford were amazing, don't think any of our players can produce that.

comment by Tablighi Jamaat (U15973)
posted 53 seconds ago
Width is important but to score from crosses you need players in the box, we have Higuain in the box surrounded by 3/4 defenders so we're never going to score.

Our midfielders will never get in the box and if they do it's usually Kante who's not great in the air. Hazard and the other winger rarely get in the box too, just stand outside.

Then the actual cross itself is appalling, just hits the 1st man, pretty much like our corners.

The two crosses yesterday from Pogba and Rashford were amazing, don't think any of our players can produce that.
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very much so...Jorg Kova & Barkley are never ever getting into those scoring positions, yet we play them every week thinking they will

Tighter defending would not allowed for Herrera scoring either...that's just basic

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 47 seconds ago
comment by Tablighi Jamaat (U15973)
posted 53 seconds ago
Width is important but to score from crosses you need players in the box, we have Higuain in the box surrounded by 3/4 defenders so we're never going to score.

Our midfielders will never get in the box and if they do it's usually Kante who's not great in the air. Hazard and the other winger rarely get in the box too, just stand outside.

Then the actual cross itself is appalling, just hits the 1st man, pretty much like our corners.

The two crosses yesterday from Pogba and Rashford were amazing, don't think any of our players can produce that.
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very much so...Jorg Kova & Barkley are never ever getting into those scoring positions, yet we play them every week thinking they will
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Don't expect Jorginho to be in the opposition box, I've seen him shoot, it's not a pretty sight. Kova is a sideways footballer, just looks neat and tidy but no substance, he'd be more useful in that Jorginho role in my eyes. Barkley has got no footballing brain, he did a dummy yesterday for a United player.

and the saga goes on...we roll our bandwagon into Wembley on Sunday for a dose of the same punishment

Thank fack i'm not here

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 2 minutes ago
Tighter defending would not allowed for Herrera scoring either...that's just basic
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Yeah it was a great cross but Alonso was sleeping as always. He just doesn't understand the role of a LB, no idea on how to defend. He's meant to be our best aerial player too but was nowhere to be seen for that goal. We were actually playing well before they scored.

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 11 seconds ago
and the saga goes on...we roll our bandwagon into Wembley on Sunday for a dose of the same punishment

Thank fack i'm not here
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Hope they don't batter us too much and just rest at 3-0

Wonder if we could get Ashley Cole back for a spell...

John Terry is the only person I'd replace sarri with currently
Zola is too engrained with what's going on at the moment and by his press conferences believes in the same things.

Or Steve Clarke

or peks

comment by peks (U6618)
posted 2 minutes ago
or peks
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Would he take that step down though ?

only for a massive salary

kepa
azpi rudiger luiz emerson
kante kovacic
pedro hazard cho
higuain

comment by Obers (U3904)
posted 2 minutes ago
kepa
azpi rudiger luiz emerson
kante kovacic
pedro hazard cho
higuain

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Would love that team, been suggesting it for a while but under Sarri it's not happening. Wouldn't mind seeing Christensen given a run too, Luiz has been poor. Give Zappa a chance too.

Same 11 alert for Sunday 🔊🔊