DANILA

Let's suppose Lampard is sacked tomorrow - who is available as a caretaker? Theoretically could Poch come right away or is he on long-term vacation?

Werner is looking frustrated because he's tired of this nonsense from an out of depth manager

lucky goal masking our absolutely horrendous quality and play

I wouldn't give Lampard until Jan - we spent >200M in the summer!!! There are teams far below us in quality that pay with some strategy, tactics, etc. - look at Lokomotiv last night FFS! If things don't pick up, and it sure doesn't look like it, I want Lampard replaced. Don't care much for legacy - need to separate church and state / player and manager. No hard feelings if the sack is early;

Also not playing kovacic and starting Pulisic on his off-wing just when he is coming back from injury - talk about reintroducing confidence.

Yeah, Zenit stadium was almost half full in their last game.

We'll win 1-0, get dominated for periods of 10-15 mins, get outshot, and Lampard will say it was a great performance. Just my prediction but hopefully we get a solid 4-0 win here.

His career at a top club is sadly over

Definitely. Kovacic as well, who was our best player last season and Lampard is consistently going with Kante who loses more balls than he makes passes

I think Werner, Pulisic, Havertz, Ziyech are already wondering what theyve gotten themselves into with Lampard...

Did anyone watch that can give an opinion on how he was tonight?

really hope he picks it up - right now his best play is passing it backwards. Really want to love him

Haven't had a chance for 30 min - wait, haven't really touched the ball either in their half

They're dribbling circles around our players

What is Hiddink up to?

If Puli plays on the right im going to lose my mind

Agree, Kante has been one of our worst players all season

I doubt ziyech is starting so I bet Mount will play

Welcome fellow Canadian!

He'll have plenty of time to show how bad he is and how weak his football IQ his this season; but yeah, hopefully someone will offer decent money for him!

Pulisic has to play on the left. Mount on the bench for this one and can come on for Ziyech later if necessary. Remainder of the team likely stays the same except Silva in for Zouma (due to this mistake and laziness) and Mendy in if muscle is ok.

Improving players is a second priority right now - we have immense talent all around except in defense which we will have to spend in Jan or summer to reinforce in any case. We have fundamental problems like ive stated numerous times across the forum which can only be solved with a manager change - we need a manager who has experience at the top level and is tactically strong. Nagelsmann would be a great replacement for Lampard - he is ruining this club. I can't recognize our team anymore. Every game I am unsure if we're going to win or play well, even against bottom feeders.

couple of players missing does not enable us to play this poorly - we have an inherent, fundamental issue with lampard's chelsea; no attacking tactics, horrendous defense (do we even practice defending in training?), park the bus philosophy, and having bottom table teams dominate for 10 minute periods (driven by no tactics). Patience is running low with FL - if we play this way in the next 3 games I hope he's out

Absolutely disgraceful - individual talent got us the goals once again. The same theme over and over again - we score and then get DOMINATED for 15 minute periods where we can't even touch the ball. Defense was bad but there are fundamental issues as a team here

Wouldn't be shocked to see Mount play GK ahead of Kepa