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Delap doesn't do much in aerial situations, defensively or in an offensive sense. Might as well keep him up front to launch counter attacks

Estevao also being rested for Napoli. Red card came at the perfect time.

Feels that this would be a harsh penalty, if given.

Ooh. Penalty?

Perfectly weighted ball by Estevao for Joao Pedro.

Wish we had Estavao a lot sooner, then maybe Palmer wouldnt have been burned to the ground. If Palmer chooses to leave, hope we use the profit to sign a quality attacker that can share the duties with Estevao.

Estevao with almost another.

Ice cool Estavao

At least Estavao is seeing more minutes

Most likely starting Badiashile to save Fofana for Napoli. Remember when we could play Center backs 90 mins for back 2 back matches in the same week?

Calculated move..I wonder what kind of move that is. Any top ranking sponsor would prefer a club that plays in top tier competitions consistently and attracts viewers. Doesn't look like Clearlake has that on lock.

These are the kind of games where Rosenior can show he's better than Maresca. I.e. get a good result when you're expected to. Not because Palace is a weaker team., but because of the turmoil they're in Hopefully it won't be true to Chelsea form where we throw away a good opportunity

I think a manager like Mourinho or Conte would take a dim view towards something like this, especially if he's not backing it up with goals scored.

This, I sort of get. The younglings deserve a trial. But if they were worried about blocking pathways to Badiashile and Fofana, screw that.

It would be funny if Disasi returns, puts in a good shift in 1 or 2 games, and people start thinking he's the 2nd coming of Rudiger. Knowing how flip-flop some Chelsea fans are these days, it wouldnt surprise me.

Very few of those games in those 1.5 years, but he showed he could turn up when it mattered like in the conference league and CWC finals. Think he needs a good motivator too.

He is good when you tailor the system to not expose his weaknesses. I.e. dont crowd the box when balls are being crossed in, permit him to launch the ball instead of always playing out from the back. There are better keepers out there, but Sanchez is far from the biggest problems in our back line atm.

Not the best move we CAN do, but the best we WILL do, at least for now. It was already reported that Clearlake would never go for high salary, expensive CB unless they moved out other players like Fofana. Youth players with resale value will always be their first preference, no matter what their supporters keep saying. Clearlake's intentions are as clear as day.

True, but maybe that was what we needed more of this season? There were plenty of games against lesser sides (and Brentford is not a weak side based on the table) were the play was decent, but the result wasn't there. Don't want to jump to any conclusions here. On another day Brentford could've put away their chances and we could be having very different match reaction. At this stage I want to give the first team coach the benefit of the doubt. Not enough games played to conclude anything

Penalty!

Palmer body language not looking the best

Think it will be given ⁸

Matisse brought up a fair point about the first goal we conceded in the corner. One of the solutions we came up with this season was to empty the box and leave attackers up front, so that Sanchez has less difficulty collecting crosses into the box and setting up counters. I agree that you're not going to win a lot of duels in our own box with the players that we have. Should have concentrated on making life easier for Sanchez, since we know he has limitations. Now, new coach. Different problems.

The defensive problems might have been masked if Caicedo and James were on the pitch, but that's the point these director goons are failing to realize. The problems are only being masked. The center backs are our weak links. We can only hope Rosenior can convince them of that, where Maresca failed to do so.