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How can someone go from almost being sold to Roma or Juve to being a regular starter in the team over our best player last season? It just goes to show how clueless our manager is ffs

Lol never start him then

What you just said is beyond ridiculous. I'm going to stay calm and just watch the game. When Jorginho flops in the next few weeks, I never want to see you talk about him on this forum. Deal?

And Jorginho can???! Don't come to me with this fucking bullshit

Mount starts on the left wing again. Better yet, Ziyech and CHO are on the bench. This is a joke at this point, I was expecting it though.

We're fucked

I like him as a midfielder, but I don't like him as a winger.

Everyone is fit now, there's no more excuses. If I see Mount on the wing instead of Ziyech or CHO, then all hell breaks loose!

What destroyed vs Arsenal is us playing a 4-man defence when we didn't have the suitable players for that. Furthermore what's your understanding of when I'm talking about Kante playing a bit more deep? What I mean by that is that he doesn't join the attack but instead just stays back to collect the ball when needed. Do we have a Matic atm? We don't, Jorginho is very ineffective defensively. You can't argue Kante is the one that sits deep when he plays in a double pivot for France. These are facts. That is the sole reason his performances are better there. Instead of Kante joining the attack like he does rn, his job should be to collect the ball when needed that's it. That's what I'm talking about when I'm saying that he should stay deep. We don't have Matic, so our only option is to implement Deschamps tactics which literally won France the WC. There's two options we have right now: 1. Give Kante the role he has at France and let him only do defensive tasks and not join the attack at all 2. Let Jorginho sit deep, and risk his defensive weaknesses being our downfall Sadly we don't have someone like Matic, so we have to adapt and looking at his performances in the French national team, he looks like a completely different player. Why? Because he has a more defensive role and he doesn't join the attack whatsoever.

I didn't say he played in a lone defensive role, lol why are people putting words in my mouth. He played in a pivot for France, and he is the one that sits deep out of the two. In Chelsea he plays in a pivot but he is the one that presses up high. It's very easy to understand what I'm saying here.

Even Didier Deschamps talked about how he has an advanced role in Chelsea compared to France and he prefers to use him in a more defensive role. Lampard said that Kante is versatile and can play many different positions and that wants to utilise that before last season started. Now he is giving him this "advanced role" at the cost of us our defense being more easily exposed. I'm surprised Chelsea fans of all people don't know this. Mindboggling to say the least.

Exactly and he was sitting deep while Pogba joined the attack on some occasions. In Chelsea he is waaay to high up the pitch, you can't tell me that was the same in France. When did I ever say he wasn't in a double pivot with someone btw?

In France he is.

That's because Lampard instructs them to both press high up. If Kante sits back and is right infront of our defenders, then I guarantee you that our whole game changes! Lampard doesn't realise what kind of a player he has at his disposal, if used correctly Kante is the best DM in the world. He has the ability to win us titles, but that can't happen when he's told to be a box-to-box midfielder.

They thought it was a torn muscle but it wasn't, it's a bruised muscle. It's not a serious injury, that's what Matt Law and the rest of the reporters said. With Kante etc they had real injuries so you can't compare them to Mendy. If Mendy had a bruises muscle one and a half week ago I'm sure he's fine. Besides a keeper's job isn't even as physically demanding as an outfield player's.

I hope Kovacic starts against Sevilla. Jorginho can't handle pressure and I feel like Kovacic-Kante duo could work if Kante sits in front of the centre backs while Kovacic is playing a box-to-box role. Sevilla's pressure is basically like Southampton but on steroids. We need fast twitch midfielders like Kovacic to move with the ball and bring it forward to our attackers. Jorginho is very slow and he always chokes under pressure, I hope Lampard realizes that and changes his midfield for this game.

Keepers don't really get in a lot of physical battles, so even if he starts he stays fit in my opinion.

Lol I trust journalists more than Lamps atm, and that says a lot

You see this @NikkiCFC? This is why I asked an update on Mendy's fitness

Simon Johnson said that he could return against Sevilla or UTD. His injury wasn't even that serious.

Very weird that no one asked anything about Mendy being fit. He's probably still injured though.

So he basically confirmed my suspicion. He was instructing the team to stay back and defend against Soton in the second half. What we should've done is press and try to score more goals to kill the game off. Also, what he just said is very concercing. After reading that we all know that he has no control over the dressing room and players don't listen to his instructions lol.

Damn they're balling right now

What annoys me is his inferior mentality as well. We're 2-1 up against Southampton at HOME and he decides to go defensive which allowed Soton to pressure us. We then concede, but afterwards we score our third goal. Guess what Lamps does? He brings Reece James on because he is afraid of Southamptons pressure and attack. We sit deep as a result and concede yet again. To think a Chelsea manager would be afraid of Southampton is embarrassing and unacceptable. We don't play like we're the top dogs anymore. Can't believe I'm saying this but we're starting to look like Arsenal under Wenger.

I agree, regardless of him getting top four with me it's more about seeing an improvement tactical and organizational wise. If I don't see that then I'm fine with him getting top four this season and then get replaced by someone like Nagelsmann. However if he even struggles and it gets to the point to where it looks like we can't even get top four then he has to be sacked on the spot to salvage our season. It's just sad to see no improvement though, we really could've won the title this year with another manager. Van Dijk is out, City is not a force anymore because teams know how to play against Guardiola now. This should've been our moment to step in and challenge for the title, but the way things are looking we'll battle for top 4, and that's on Lampard.