MoroccanBlue

The 4231 just limits the team in general. Doesn't matter who is playing there. Our fluidity in attack is not existent when we have two holding midfielders. If we do get Rice, I hope Lampard tells him he sees him as Kante's successor and that he will be utilized as either rotation or for tactical purposes for the time being.

I’d even sneak Emerson here ——————Mendy—————— Dave—Zouma—Silva —Emerson ——————Jorginho————— ———Havertz———Kovacic—— Ziyech——————————CHO ——————-Giroud—————-

No doubt he’s watching right now

Real good chance City dont finish top 4

We cannot let these mugs get an early goal

Make your way to the Giroud thread and I’ll let you decide

Yup. Very easy game for Lampard to analyze. Kane always drops deep to begin the transition counter.

Hope we can rest a few here

This. He dribbles with a lot of pace but his touches are very close to him. Just look at the counter attack for example.

Lies

Quite telling we won this relatively easily without even getting out of 2nd gear. Add the kick off time, international break, and the fact it’s our bogey ground.

3 points here could be the start of a glorious weekend with a few of our rivals facing each other later on.

So now we are moving the goal posts from: Our attack only goes through James, to 90% of our threats come from a James cross and/or Ziyech. Cheers for avoiding my questions by the way. The answer is none. James was involved in 0 goals against sides that were massive shitehouses. 1st goal : West Brom - Mount shot from distance 2nd goal : West Brom - Havertz + CHO link up play. 3rd goal: West Brom - Attack initially came through a CHO pass to the box 1st goal: Palace - Abraham + Chilwell link up 2nd goal: Palace - Chilwell cross to Zouma 3rd goal: Palace - Penalty 4th goal: Palace - Penalty 1st goal: Burnley - Abraham + Ziyech link up 2nd goal: Burnely - Mount corner to Zouma 3rd goal: Burnley - Ziyech + Werner link up 1st goal: Sheffield - Ziyech + Kovacic + Abraham link up play 2nd goal: Sheffield - Ziyech cross to Chilwell 3rd goal: Sheffield - Ziyech cross to Silva 4th goal: Sheffield - Werner one on one.

What goals of those 14 have James been directly involved in?

But that was never the issue last season? The issue was failing to kill games off against teams that played a low block. Our play was very predictable and slow that allowed the opposition to sit back and remain organised. We scored 14 goals against 4 shitehouses in Palace, Burnley, West Brom, and Seffield. Games where we struggled massively last season.

I'm firmly on the Declan Rice train. Seems to have upped his performances the moment he's been linked with us.

It's always funny too because its constantly from the same members.

That's genuinely a sad state of affairs' if someone not only made up the article, but fabricated Messi's quotes.

It's why I believe Giroud is very much a cup player. Both he and Tammy are streaky players but if we can learn from last season we can manage both fairly well.

Sheffield and even the international break shows that Kovacic shouldn't be limited to a holding role. Keep the 433

Predictable as in 34 goals in 13 games?

Nothing at the moment suggests that. It's difficult watching CHO play as its incredibly predictable. He gets the ball, holds on to it for 5 seconds, then recycles it. Until he builds the confidence to actually make runs behind defenders or to take players on, he'll continue being considered the most over hyped youth player on the planet.

You honestly can't go a day without slating Mount. Until CHO actually displays the confidence to take players on and make runs behind the back line instead of holding the ball ala Willian, he'll get no minutes and deservingly so.

He wasn't mysteriously dropped! Again, Tammy tends to start off the season very well and his mobility make him more appropriate in Lampard's system. This isn't some devil's work at play here as you make it out to be. It's also quite amusing how Deschamps continues to say to the public Giroud needs more minutes, yet he continues to not only select him for the national team, but starts him again and again. He will be France's ST come the summer. Willing to put my house on it. So we have to add the inability to read along with your inability to analyse performances neutrally? Tammy Abraham [77] - 8/10 Abraham set up Hakim Ziyech's first goal with a neat lay-off on the edge of the box. His hold-up play was superb on the whole and acted as a target man against a physical Burnley defensive line https://www.si.com/soccer/chelsea/ The issue here is that I believe Giroud will get minutes whereas you don't think he will. My mind escapes past agendas and subjective view points that only relate to matters of what's going on right now. That's what you've beautifully displayed this entire conversation. I look at the grand scheme of things. Starting Saturday, we have a game every 3 days until March. Nearly 5 months. Adding to the fact this is such a congested schedule, injuries are likely to occur. Not only injuries, but contracting Covid. Tammy is also notoriously known for slowing down towards the latter stages. There are a wide variety of factors as to why Giroud will undoubtedly be needed.

Sitting at home doing nothing. What a tediously condescending argument. If you want to argue the concept of morality, let's first discuss the notion of honoring a contract your employer pays you handsomely for. Again, you are flat out lying. Why are you doing this? What are you gaining? Anyone who's watched Tammy's performances this season, without an agenda, can see he's improved on his overall hold up play. Since according to you I can't "critically watch the game" what ever that means, look at Tammy's ratings for both Burnley and Newcastle. Tammy Abraham [77] - 8/10 Abraham set up Hakim Ziyech's first goal with a neat lay-off on the edge of the box. His hold-up play was superb on the whole and acted as a target man against a physical Burnley defensive line Tammy Abraham - 8/10 Netted Chelsea's equaliser with a cool finish into the bottom corner. Another all-round brilliant performance from the Blues forward. https://www.si.com/soccer/chelsea/ It's not subjective when you take into account we play every 3 days starting this weekend, until March..... Did that put some perspective or is that still 'subjective thinking'? Here's another one. Imagine we sold Giroud last January when he wanted to leave. There's no way we would've finished Top 4. He will be needed. It's an inevitability. You literally posted your frustration and asked why Tammy got ahead of Giroud in the pecking order. Virtually no one but yourself made that argument. Yes you praised Tammy but then immediately undermined him by saying Giroud would of been shining had he been given that same time. It's clear as day you have an issue why Giroud isn't starting. Had you been in charge last January and sold Giroud out of "sympathy", we would of finished 6th last season Your argument to Roman ; "Who cares we didn't finish Top 4 and who cares we jeopardized our season and the long term financial stability of the club. None of that matters because Giroud was sad. I sold him to be happy. That's the real victory here." How old are you?