!Hazard!

Kante looks better than ever

Is it just me or do these opening shows get worse every passing year. Or more annoying at least hehe

Interesting. Wasn't expecting that midfield trio, clearly a slightly more defensive formation this time

He knows how to play the media. Again he said something that was sure to create headlines

Not reading too much into the result itself. This game could have ended 3-3 as well. Decent performance combined with poor finishing, dreadful defending at times together with some unlucky moments. Kurt Zouma is not good enough to play at Chelsea. Said it before and said it again. He can look great playing for Everton, Southampton or Wolves but not for Chelsea. Jury is still out there for Abraham but I wasn't too convinced with what I've been seeing during preseason and tonight. The rest are definitely good enough and once we get Kante and Rudiger back into the team we'll definitely become a more solid team defensively. Very happy with Emerson's performance by the way, he surely looked like a proper leftback. But where are the goals gonna come from? That's the real worry right now and has been ever since Diego Costa left the team.

I honestly don't have a clue which one will start. It's very much 50-50

However, considering the whole Luiz situation and the fact that we have only 3 fit CBs right now, Azpi might be tried out as CB and therefore more RB cover might needed

Well we could have lost him for free few months ago

Well, this is a massive shock to be honest. Don't know what else to say

I guess I'm the only one who doesn't want to see Zouma start this one. He hasn't convinced me at all with his defending this pre-season (tbh neither has Luiz) and on the ball he still looks very awkward. He might have physical edge over Christensen but I think we would play better out of the back with Christensen next to Luiz and our overall play would be less sloppy

I want them both on the pitch against United. Somehow

Christensen STILL doesn't physically look like a CB who could dominate in the Premier League. I was expecting that he would have picked up some muscle by now.

That's what Kovacic can do going forward. Man runs and dribbles like Hazard

Abraham wtf?

Azpi as CB and James in the RB position. Anyone?

Rudiger can't come back soon enough

I really like the positions our fullbacks are getting into

Pedritoo

Not just a marketing toy, he's a proper baller in the making

PULI!

Brilliant Pulisic!

About time somebody tells Luiz that someone else should take the freekicks

This is also why I think we could be seeing a lot of Mount/Barkley/RLC playing as wingers

According to Twitter we'll be playing with 10 men Jokes aside, I think the missing person from the XI is Pulisic since he's not on the bench

Might be good time for Lamps to experiment playing Mount and Barkley at the same time (as CAM and RW/LW). Because in all honestly they both deserve to start against United