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Silva is in full training since Thursday, no doubt he will play.

Alonso is not even helpful defending set pieces cos he can't mark a player and is poor in the air for someone his height.

🤪 Honestly he's a Palace player at best. He aint no Drogba.....

Zouma's positioning was absolutely shocking for their goal. As I have said elsewhere, AC is really the only one that can play the CCB role when Silva is out as Zouma and Rudi get caught he poor positions and do not read the game well enough. 
As for the second half, we are going to need to get Ziyech and CHO on as we are far too static at the moment as Kova, Mount and Werner are the only ones moving off the ball properly. 

He should have been sold before the start of last season. Not because he's bad but because we've seen over and over again that our squad doesn't support a really effective set up with him in the side, and because summer 2019 was the time to maximise his market value.

because of alonso obviously

The reason is form, and that is the only of reason why Mount starts. If you believe that Mount is better than an in-form Ziyech then you're deluded. Ziyech is by far our best attacker/midfielder, the things he has done with Ajax in the CL is something that none of these players have achieved. Ziyech in good form is basically world class, while Mount is good. The difference in both of their ceilings is astronomical

Lack of movement == static? 🤔

Think if we bring Giroud on we score. Solely because he has a more ruthless approach.

I was responding more to Nikki than you.
The thing with Mount is while he will likely never be a star man himself he has attributes that are complimentary in playing with the stars, in that respect although not the very same position i see him similar to Pedro who has played with Messi and Hazard and not only fitted in but brought the best out of both. If anything Havertz and/or Ziyech in the team will make the need for someone like him or Gallagher even more important as we'll need someone to bring the level of workrate that those 2 won't.
Furthermore, even if he was to get a reduced role that will still mean lots of gametime as Tuchel swears by rotation as we saw last night.

“I would like to come and work with you, but I can’t do it for four months. I’m not an interim coach. To the media and players you would be the ‘four-month manager’, a lame duck, from day one.”
 
“If you watch Chelsea now you see a mutual plan for when they have the ball or the other team have the ball. Thomas is tactically on a very sophisticated level.
“Zsolt Low was my player and assistant coach at Leipzig and plays a vital role in his staff and you can see from the way he interacts with players Thomas also has great leadership skills. Appointing him was a top solution. I can only congratulate Thomas and Chelsea for the choice.”
-Ralf Rangnick; source: Times via Metro
So club wanted interim. I wonder what was the thinking behind that? Who would they go for in the summer?

He is performing at a world class level at the moment. When he is in this form, he genuinely is unplayable. His decision-making has improved massively in this game, and we love to see it.

Brilliant tonight!

Liked his breakaways. We faced a very athletic midfield today and showed his technical superiority 

Best midfielder today.

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Mount is what I consider unaesthetic player. Their game is not eye pleasing and silky. This type of player usually tend to receive tons of stick from fans. 
Kovacic on the other hand is a very2 curious player. Silky smooth and Technically brilliant, but pretty much useless in final 3rd. He probably will never produce number for us but I doesn't matter, somebody need to bring the ball to the front player and Kovacic is just happened to be very good at it. Everyone last year was talking about how good Thiago for Bayern was. His number was actually pretty mediocre. 

Sorry if it has been said but Kova is world fucking class atm

Havertz is not ready.
Pulisic has been poor for a while. Deserves to sit on the bench. 

Tuchel needs to convince all those players that do not play often that they are still in his plans. 
I also believe that players like Ziyech need to play couple of matches in a row to get into their rhythm again. For example, KDB is a top class passing midfielder and when Mou did not use him for 3 months in a row and played him in a cup game, KDB was useless and could not play a simple pass. I was shocked when I saw that.
Having options is good, but having too many options with those kind of names is a disaster because the day will come that they start moaning behind the scenes again. 
We will see in pre season what Tuchel's long term plan is regarding formation, but if he wants that kind of formation to play almost every week, we have way too many players

Really good set of games for  Tuchel to get his ideas through. Oppositions have been absolutely poor throughout .  Feels about like pre season apart from the Spurs one. They don’t tell us anything tho. Atlético is the first real test. And we really should not start Kepa, Alonso and Christensen vs Atlético. 

For aslong as he's playing 3atb got no problem with Alonso playing, especially as Chilwell has been off it for ages.
But yeah Kepa can't play, he will cost us.

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