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PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS Sunday 4th February 2024 Premier League Stamford Bridge 2pm UK

Dullest deadline day ever.

Tbf, it is hard to see improvement when we are constantly shuffling players. I find it a step backwards that we have not been playing the ball through the middle better. Seasons are full of false dawns for just about everyone lately. De Zerbi was getting loads of praise at the beginning of the year and he now has 3 wins in 17 games. It is like a cycle of how can be shit at different stages of the season.

This was the graph

I tried to look at the graph that the Premier League put in a tweet, it was not January. It was the past 5 games, that tweet was of course before tonight. We had 4W and 1L. Liverpool had 3W and 2D. So we had dropped 3 points in the past 5 and Liverpool had dropped 4 points. I think it was our best 5 game string this year.

I dont think it is a matter of satisfaction but we have been winning lately and the opportunity to move up is there. I am an optimistic person. We are going through this new reality that the owners are not going to go out an buy the prime players in their mid to late 20s. Their approach is looking bleak, especially for all the money they have spent. It has, to this point, been a bad approach for sure.

I would not call it naive when we have drawn with them 7 games in a row. The last time with the kids we have now. It would really suck to support a team that with that history you are going to be gloom and doom about. Before this game started we had the most points in the PL in in January. We have been in good form. If you take pleasure in shitting on a team that has been performing that well, that is you.

COYB!!!

I dont think it is over. Sterling, Madueke, and Palmer forward with Chilwell joining them should be a lot of speed versus the high line Pool likes to play. Mudryk has the speed but his passing is almost as bad as his finishing. Adding Nkunku to the attack in the second half may be good against tired legs. It is our defenders that will decide the match.

This doesn’t sound close at all.

Santos loan confirmed

Jackson will not return for this game. Senegal manager insisted they all return home as a team before departing for their clubs.

A player with serious previous injuries is available you say?

I was thinking this was a weekend game. Really happy it is Wednesday. I have been barely with it since early Saturday. Popped positive for Covid along with my wife. I thought this was a thing of the past.

COYB!!!!

ESPN is broadcasting so there will be plenty of high quality streams. They don't even try to protect their broadcasts.