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Poch's secret of latter day success is he dispensed with man to man marking. The running off the ball was to find spaces and create attacking situations rather than "safety first" - hence we were able to score more goals. The drawback was no clean sheets. Another thing going for him was many of the opposition were tired. Spurs and Villa for example did not last the marathon. I don't know, do you approve of this ? Or are you looking forward to a Mou type of system ? But the last Mou team had of course teeth up front. Eden - Diego - Cesc. Anyway with the exception of the Arsenal match we were happy the last few weeks. The big titles "Poch out" all but disappeared. Overall he was better than Tuchel in his last two months - Potter - Lamps but now whether we like it or not some new adventure begins.

Iraola is good. Also Unai.

Current odds for next Chelsea manager via Sky Bet Roberto De Zerbi- 15/8 Ruben Amorim- 5/1 Kieran McKenna- 6/1 Sebastian Hoeness- 6/1 Thomas Tuchel- 7/1 Jose Mourinho- 10/1 Antonio Conte- 16/1 Julian Nagelsmann- 16/1

Ok. Let's have Eghbali then as long as he knows what he is doing (and I 'm not assuming either that he does or he does n't). Let's wait for his choice.

I 've been watching football for centuries. My first visit to a football stadium was in March 1959, when I kicked the radio man as I have told you. His sister in law, the judge's wife, told me he was supporting a rival team so I kicked him. Well, the occasions when I saw a manager making a team or breaking a team are rare and few between. Typically if the squad is poor they can't buy a 100 million x 11 new squad, so the manager gets the blame. Typically also if they actually do have the 100 million x 11, then any old chap they take as manager becomes a hero. There are exceptions - managers who made history. The exception verifies the rule. Ferenc Pushkas imo never became a great manager. But with the crop of players he had plus his name he became a hero for Panathinaikos in the seventies. Stefan Bobek the other Panathinaikos great hero, unfairly sacked by the junta, upon his return in 1975 did n't last for more than a couple of months - but the team was old and going no place. Now with this Pochettino story I can buy it if the clownlakies already have something better in the oven. Otherwise ?

We have seen some improvement the last two months, bar the Arsenal result. Poch worked out a system -at last- and our scoring was significantly improved. That was the biggest problem. Against Nottingham Forest for example back in September if we had scored three would anyone bother with Forest getting back one ? Overall he did n't make it and we saw the likes of Spurs and Aston Villa finishing above us. Plus the horrendous injury list, yet is he to blame for that or some other department ? I hope the blueprints of the improvement we saw lately will not be lost as a result of the change of guard. But who will be the next one ?

A cup final is always a cup final. Remember Sunderland. But Pep wants it. He wanted the five-tuple now he can only do a double.

The new Poch system is to abandon man to man. This makes scoring easier but the drawback is the opposition have a field day up front. Eventually the defense and Solanke had to perform many heroics.

Chanko:

I find this strange: How come four PL teams in the champions league and only two in the Europa ?

Saw this: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauricia Pochettina ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is it AI or does he have a daughter ?

If it was n't Sheffield United we 'd surely finish above Spurs. Pep wants the double so he is not going to slip.

How come we don't have so many controversies concerning VAR in Greece ? Greece was the land of sending referees to hospital:

Bournemouth. Bou.

I 'm happier now because this team can score goals. Under Potter - Lamps - first half of season with Poch, only through the ... eyedropper. W.r. to league position it's been several years we are not seeing something really good. This time we finished below the CL positions by some margin but it's not as if I remember something a lot better, since Antonio.

The Brtn man was instantly up on his fcuking feet. Lampley did worse.

I explained I could not get full screen. So ffff off. It looked to me he was trying to get himself up and scratched the other man.

I watched from small screen. You think he is to blame ?

Fc*king var destoyed the match. What did James do ? They tumbled him down -free kick to Chelsea it was- then he was pulling his legs and touched someone.

Chels is in. Pray for Athletic Bilbao.

United doing us a favour.

0 days, 0 hours, -43minutes. The referee is about to blow the half time whistle 😄😄😄

To finish above Newcastle requires point difference. This can be achieved with a variety of results. We have Brighton away, Bournemouth home. They have United away, Brentford away. I can't tell. Rememeber the crazy ending of the 2020-21 season and how we finished fourth above Leicester ?

Newcastle were very poor yesterday. Against Burnley they managed to score early and looked better but yestraday was an anticlimax.

They won't. So what does 6th place give us ?