cosmicway

We had terrace managers, now forum managers. We tend to avoid doing that yet some things are obvious.

Yes ok. I don't criticize Frank for using Felix but for me today's match proves conclusively he 's not one for the hall of fame. About Sterling I do criticize him. We saw him all these months and Ziyech / Pulisic are better options.

Against RM tonight one could see plainly how awful our attack is, in terms of individual efforts, movement. In the premier this is many times obscured because we have to play against brick walls of teams who park the bus and it's not obvious. Tonight against Real you saw the snail pace, inability to do even basic things. James too who was getting involved from the right wing had one of his worst games. I think Kai should have started and I 'm afraid the great white hope Joao is proven to be inferior or just inferior to Kai. Sterling no. Mount from the beginning maybe or Mudryk who is fast, but that of course hardly fixes things as we already know.

The semis are City v. Real, Inter - AC Milan / Napoli.

Pep = Man City

They can't lose to the Italians. They will lose to Pep and everybody will lose to this year's Pep team.

Against RM over there your best chance of escaping is not the clean sheet but to score goals. We kept it at 1-0 then conceded one more when we were ten but we were spineless and impotent (which is the hallmark of Chelsea this season).

Come on. Modric shot ? And Kepa was space age. We approoached Courtois two times all in all (Felix 2', Mount 92').

Pep knows what he 's doing. Mourinho also, less so than Pep maybe. Today Chelsea's transfer management is chaotic.

Chil's sending off situation was caused by Sterling. He sold the ball in attack like an idiot.

I even miss Ziyech.

Those attackers we have are Verona-Huelva-Galata Saray players.

You can expect some great attacking play from Real, but in 4 matches, 2021-2022, they did n't manage to screw us that badly, it used to be 50-50 us and them. This time we could n't put absolutely nothing up front - Gobi desert. Chelsea 's motm was Kepa.

Twice as impotent in attack with Felix and Sterling.

I know that. That's why we scored three against them last year.

Ramirez

That's how they play. When they have the ball in midfield it's seldom they will not complete an attack

Played off the pitch and only 1-0.

TT destroyed - bring on Graham Potter.

Cucurella is short - no good for left back. Also he cannot attack. His first shot at goal of the season was against Villa (wide). His bodybuild is that of a midfielder but it's not his position.

Penalty and Kepa will take it.

Pulisic

Lampard played 4-3-3 against Wolves and gave them possession of the midfield, especially in the first half when Wolves was pressing. Against Real this can be disastrous because they are more skilled. A 3-5-2 formation is better, or rather whatever system TT used last year. Our hope is that their slow defense will be vulnerable to counterattacks.

So they have n't been so bright - compare with Pep team. But under Boehly it's the scouts again who decide and the manager perhaps. We need some professionals. As a rule when we bring a player from an inferior league system it's a fifty-fifty situation. But there is more to it than that.

Under Roman we did make a lot of lousy -or not so great- transfers: Falcao-Pato-Morata-Haverts-Barkley-Werner-Lukaku ... The scouts we have are to blame.