cosmicway

Historically players from what leagues have been the most succesful and least succesful at Chelsea ? Make separate lists for attackers and defenders if you can.

Azpi will be 34 and he is not like Tiago. Unlike Tiago his position demands of him to cover many kilometers. Pulisic and Auba are definitely not Chelsea material. I disgree with the decision to sell Kova, while Mount and RLC are erratic but sometimes brilliant. I think with PSG in the state they are in we have a chance to hit Mbappe.

That was a good win. Leicester played better than any European opposition so far !

Suella is an immigrant. Never had the opportunity to meet a converso of this type. I have come across converted commies, converted fascists, converted socialists - all kinds. But a converted immigrant ? Extraordinary.

Inter are an abysmal pile of crap, lost 1-2 to Spezia, Lautaro missed pen. Easiest of opponents if they eliminate Porto, which they won't.

Ideal for us is AC Milan whom we have already beaten twice this year and the success over Spurs does n't make them of course any sort of great team. Then come Porto who will dispose easily of Inter Milan, then Napoli.

Bayern were the winners of 2019-20. Then they fell victim to the freak snowstorm in 2020-21 and last year the shock from Villareal. Villareal were coached by Unai Emery who should be the next Chelsea manager. For me Bayern Munich are the clear favourites. Then come Pep and Real Madrid or Real Madrid and Pep and I give a good outside chance to Benfica.

We lost 2-0 to that sh*thouse.

Spurs are a sh*t team.

The haters are crazy folks. The haters think the Belgians should take on the Swiss, the Swiss against the Portuguese, all together against the Swedes and so on. It's literally like that. Altogether in the service of Putin (Stalin-madame Mao previously).

Dortmund was for seven goals aggregate. Their defenders are cub scouts. We scored only two. The chances of Potter getting any better are infinitessimal, with the present forward line at any rate.

Potter's rabbit's foot: https://footballhandbook.com/can-you-score-a-penalty-rebound-off-the-post/

Benfica who are going to win the champions league ?

I 'd like to see Spurs.

Cucu was brilliant though.

True.

Potter out. He can't deal with packed defenses and the Gerries are not good at it.

If it was n'y for the encorachment Havertz would have scored off the post and then ruled off side. Porto next.

He may win today -let's hope- for the reason I explained.

The Germans are not good at man to man marking. This works for Chelsea and we should have had more by now, including the first leg.

Should haven been over by now but still nothing decided.

I 'v been looking at things from a different angle. Potter is unpopular because the club dismissed Tuchel in order to hire him and Thomas Tuchel was an icon. It's unfair for two reasons: a) It's not Potter's fault that the Chelsea board sacked Tuchel, b) the problems we see now existed in Tuchel days as well. Chelsea cannot score goals with the fluency of ages past (Lamps-Didier, Diego-Hazard) but were they doing much better last year ? Surprisingly the problem in the scoring department to an extent disappears against continental opposition, or it looks that way from several results. This may be because the continental teams are not marking people man to man as hard as the premiership teams and this suits the Chelsea forwards. But overall there is a problem and although Potter seemingly has no solution it's not HIS problem. It's a problem he inherited. The way I see it is that the Chelsea attackers are absolutely clueless when they have to play the ball in the vicinity of the semicirlce, in the opponents half. All they can do is lose the ball and hence they are unable to split defenses and create chances. Some other big teams like Paris Saint Germain and Real Madrid do not have the same problem and I will of course confront anyone who says to to me "how dare you compare PSG and RM with Chelsea ?". Against whom am I supposed to compare Chelsea, the champions of Europe only two years ago ? Everton or Notts Forest ? So we don't have good enough players in this part of the pitch. Havertz has no business playing there, Sterling little things, Pulisic-Ziyech-Aube no way. Joao Felix looks like an improvement and about Mudryk I don't know if he is going to shine but in his first four weeks with the club he has n't. Lukaku and Werner who are gone now were similarly problematic. I don't know what Boehly plans for next summer but for now those players I mentioned will stay the same if we bring tomorrow Zidane, Pochetiino, Unay Emery or anyone else like that. Having said all that, I 'm not impressed by Graham Potter. It's a gordian knot he has to solve but gordian knot or whatever he has n't solved it. But I think the situation is best described like this: We don't at this moment have a forward line worthy of the history of the club. This is the real problem.

If we don't lose 6-0 but instead we are eliminated on penalties it means Potter stays. There is nothing of significance between now and May, except having to stay in the division, so it means Potter starts next season as well. I can't think of anything more disastrous.

One of the problems Chelsea have in the premier but not in Europe is with man to man marking. Witness the three goals we scored against Real Madrid last year, when under Tuchel things were generally not exactly bright in the scoring department for us. If Dortmund's defense behaves likewise then maybe.

They are level on points with Bayern Munich right now, held to a 0-0 draw against the 5th Freiburg yestarday. Basically we should be put to the sword. Not because they are any sort of European power but because of Potterball.