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[Sparked_26]

Mendy has been poor for a while.

Since the Afcon.

His brainfart is why Chelsea lost to Real Madrid really.

With pens I genuinely dont know why you would guess as a keeper. Jorgi took pens because literally all keepers guessed. Then Pickford refused to guess in thr Euro Final and Jorgi has beem missing them since. Keepers just wait until the ball is struck

If you wait for contact you will save the bad penalties that have been really poorly struck. This will always happen in a shootout.

Mendy isn't too clever.

[Sparked_26]

Only preseason but woof.

Bit of a challenge for Tuchel. Hope moves are found for Ziyech and Werner. Two dogs.hit footballers

[Roy Jones Jnr]

Arsenal are the troof.

They are a top class goalkeeper away from being able to challenge for the league.

Jesus is going to score goals for fun at Arsenal and Zinchenko is a tremendous signing, he’s a baller. Saliba looks class too.

Biggest weakness is obviously Ramsdale as he’s absolutely terrible but if they can get a top keeper, maybe look to bring Emi Martinez back, they have real quality in most positions.

[Roy Jones Jnr]

Tuchel will be sacked by December, jot that down.

[Sparked_26]

Tuchel will be sacked by December, jot that down.

Stone cold certainty.

He's gone Conte and the season aint even started yet.

Not that he's wrong. They were unprofessional yesterday.

The lack of attacking verve is the issue.

I have no doubt we will bore c.unts to tears most weeks but we need goals. No intent to cause teams problems.

This happens periordically at Chelsea when you think..f.uck me all these players are dogs.hit.

It isn't true. It is poor form and confidence.

[StarshipTrooper]

Tuchel will be sacked by December, jot that down.

Oh please, Lord, let this man be right!

[StarshipTrooper]

Tuchel definitely needs a system(formation) switch though. I wouldn't even call it a system because he has no patterns of play.

There's nothing "systemic" about how he sets Chelsea up. We don't 'gegenpress', we don't press with a high line (Lampard-by-way-of-AVB), we don't position in triangles (pep), we don't 'up-down-and-through' (Jose), we don't hold possession for possession sake (sarriball), we don't play early passes, we don't play cross-happy.

Conte used 3-atb but had a system. Bad defenders, so played with 5 and used Cesc to bypass midfield quickly and let Hazard, Diego et al. play with acres. On the occasion we didn't have acres: overload one flank and play the long switch (it's why Moses and Alonso were so effective). All else fails, set pieces put us over the line.

What is Tuchel's system? *crickets*

Man puts us in a 3-atb because all of our CBs ****** in a back 4 (Koulibaly left to be seen). Fair enough.

So he gives up a midfielder to solidify the back. But has a midfield of pure utility players. None pass beyond 10 yards consistently nor protect the back.

So now you have a disjointed team. Can't protect the back, so you play with more defenders. Can't service the forwards either so you are stuck in the mud.

He doesn't utilize overloads because he choses the narrow attack (2-1). Plays with a midfielder as striker because he can hold up a ball but doesn't play 'up-down-and-through' either (essentially how Drogba or Costa held up the ball and put Lampard or Hazard through under Jose) so Mount and whoever teams with him never get much chances on goal.

Timo has been ruined, so idc how many chances he messes up, should've thought of that before making Michael Owen play like Olivier Giroud.

He also doesn't use flank switches. Which is why our wingbacks now don't flourish like Alonso and Moses were back then. They get the ball with 2-3 defenders set. Instead of being alone and its mainly because Jorginho, Kovacic, and Kante cannot play a 30 yard pass to the corner.

Thus, Tuchel's Chelsea.

I don't even know how he's going to use Sterling. Because Sterling is not too dissimilar to Werner and he only got those looks vs Charolette because Ampadu would pass over 30 yards. Good luck with Jorginho look up, seeing the run, and deciding to pass backwards.

It's like the team is put together without any concern for constructing a coherent whole, just odd parts slapped together with spit and string. No regard to how the parts mesh with each other, and lots of pieces incompatible with each other. Hasn't it occurred to anybody to acquire talent that actually fills holes in the lineup instead of creating new ones at worst, or redundancies at best?

[F l i c k e r]

Welcome to Chelsea. This is the way. Lol

[F l i c k e r]

Stone cold certainty.

He's gone Conte and the season aint even started yet.

Not that he's wrong. They were unprofessional yesterday.

The lack of attacking verve is the issue.

I have no doubt we will bore c.unts to tears most weeks but we need goals. No intent to cause teams problems.

This happens periordically at Chelsea when you think..f.uck me all these players are dogs.hit.

It isn't true. It is poor form and confidence.

We can't make that excuse.

Not when we sold our top goal scorer with absolutely zero effort to even make the slightest effort to retain him and make him comfortable.

That new manager bounce has dried up.

It's all on Tuchel. Success or failure. It's on him and his transfer targets and his way of setting up the team

[Sparked_26]

We can't make that excuse.

Not when we sold our top goal scorer with absolutely zero effort to even make the slightest effort to retain him and make him comfortable.

That new manager bounce has dried up.

It's all on Tuchel. Success or failure. It's on him and his transfer targets and his way of setting up the team

There are two ways of looking at it.

He won a champions league...pretty easily actually. It wasnt lucky. City was a toughish Final but Werner still missed 2 chances an adult ambulatory human under 90 should score, Pulisic hit a post with 90% of the goal to aim at.

In a way that shows the good and the bad. Chelsea have the worst attackers of any top side in Europe.

So do you open the game up knowing they wont score clear chances or do you control the game and not allow fast transitions for opponents. Relying on 1 moment. If Chelsea concede 2 they always lose.

I have no issue with the approach. The attackers are s.hit. All of them.

Equally we need new ones.