Great all around game from him. Pretty much the only one creating anything for West Brom in the first half. Missed a pen though, it was a very poor pen. He needs to work on penalties the one he scored against Sunderland was also the exact same poorly hit pen.
I think if he gets decent amount of playing time till the end of the season, we should try to get him a premier league loan instead. Swansea, Southhampton or Wigan if they stay up.
Holy shit, dude is a beast defensively. I didn't know he contributes that much defensively, very Oscar esque. Great pressing and great tackling too. Very impressive.
Def a Spurs win please. I want the biggest gap to 5th and we still play Tottenham at the Bridge so I could care less if they are tied to us as we can distance ourselves if we win the derby.
The reason he was held back and not sent on loan is purely because we are so thin in midfield and required a contingency plan. If no one gets injured for the rest of the year and we got knocked out of Europa then he will probably get no more minutes. His development would have never factored into that equation, sadly.
Shoulda started with JT and played Luiz in midfield. Lamps and Mikel play like they are scared of pressing and run away towards goal like scared little babies. Ramires has been awful, not sure why he was picked over Moses. Hazard prolly been our best player, tell him to stay aggressive and maybe get someone on their team sent off.
This is the kind of danger man we need. Just his sheer size and pace in addition to the fact his high work-rate spent not only making runs behind but also occupying the channels will employ an entire back-four. And, if the back-four is busy dealing with him good luck dealing with MAZACAR!!! hahahahah jizz jizz jizz, can't wait!!
People need to calm down with saying Chelsea making a mistake in loaning him out. There is no way he would have made such strides in his play if he was still at Chelsea. Instead of praising the board of finding the PERFECT team for his loan we have people criticizing them. The board has made mistakes but credit where it's due they've organized some wonderful loans for our young talents.
Any good english streams? I don't think know Bundesliga doesn't get much attention, it's such a fantastic league. If anyone has an english stream, please PM.
We have the wrong players for the double pivot, in a 4-3-3 Ramires would be a god-send. Mikel is the only midfielder who can adequately play in a double pivot.
I think McEachran is a player that plays well when his team is playing well plus it also doesn't help that he contributes almost nothing on the defensive side of the game, whereas Chalobah most often ends being the best player for Watford whenever they do end up loosing.
Torres is not only hard but downright impossible to move. Who will take on his wages? The only way I can think of is if we loan him out and accept paying 50% of his wages while he's out on loan. I also love the Ba + Lukaku partnership. Even though he's impressed, Lukaku is still not ready to be first choice but as a super sub off the bench he can def do the job for Chelsea. He can get loads of sub appearances in the league and start all the cup games. If we can't guarantee he will get all those minutes then we should let him out on loan again next season because right now his development is more important than using him as a squad player. Just cause he's impressing I also don't want Chelsea trying to rush him into our squad because he's still very young, spending one more year on loan and building on his already impressive development will pay dividends for the next 10 years.
Yeah, Ash can still make great runs but his movement is all that's helpful anymore, provides nothing really in the build-up. Especially now that you're forced to compare him to the other flank, Azpi who plays like a midfielder out there.