Blue Armour

I dont think any of them close., including Lukaku IMO. Drogba had it all. Attacking corners, defending corners, taking corners, taking direct free kicks, crosses from either wing with both left or right foot, long shots from outside the box, goals taken on the pivot, bringing down long passes from the goalkeeper, diving headers, bullet headers, penalties, the ability to play quick 1-2's with likes of Lampard and Hazard...the list goes on and on. Even if we ignore all the goals, he brings value to the team. This video from 2011 season, which was still a mediocre one from Drogba, shows what he can do even without scoring

Tbf, he was only saying the closest player we've had since. But I agree. There are several more levels to get to Didier Drogba. Its like a mountain.

He's doing very,very well since start of the year. Do it against Arsenal in the upcoming cup game & that will be as Drogba-like as it can get.

Garnacho probably grouchy because he was probably expecting to start against Arsenal in the cup game, given the goals he scored in the first fixture. Moody player, and we knew that when getting him. Either he bucks up or he goes the way of Jadon Sancho.

I've said the same for Maresca too. Rotating the squad to grant minutes to specific players when possible, managing player minutes to prevent injury, those are more to do with club's policy and less to do with the manager. Managing player minutes to prevent injury is of course understandable when you have high caliber players like James and Palmer that you need to wrap them in wool. But the strange rotation, bringing in lackluster players like Tosin or Badiashile back into the line up, thats something we saw under Maresca too, when he would seemingly sacrifice the league game for a midweek cup fixture. I'm not calling Rosenior world class, but he has one saving grace, and that is correcting all the errors sooner rather than later. How many times have we seen Maresca wait till the 70th minute or later to even make 1 or 2 subs? In the end, regardless of who the manager is, we'll continue to see these large scale rotations with matches in the midweek. Thats the club policy.

The rotation is down to the directors and their strategy, not Rosenior. Thankfully Rosenior, unlike Maresca, is not afraid to make the big subs and make changes quickly.

West Ham should have got at least 2 more red cards.

Adamant Traore is a brick shithouse.

Joao Pedro also coming clutch there with his cross

Lion tattoo on Enzo's back

Enzoooo!

Done it!!!

Well done Delap too for that goal. Made a ruckus in the box

20 mins to grab a winner.

Another sub with a goal!! Cucurella

James also coming on. Excellent

Caicedo with nearly a banger of an equalizer there

As good a time to pull 1 back. More room to get an equalizer

Thank you Joao Pedro

Best move of the match so far. Delap coming close

Credit to Rosenior to that. He took the bad eggs out quickly.

Agreed. This isn't some elite squad that can risk using a B team to take on important games. Apart from absolute fitness based decisions, there should be very little rotation for these kind of games that affect the league standing.

Some of the backwards and sideways passing looked odd. Almost as if the players were intentionally trying to piss off the crowd.

I remember days when we could play nearly the same starting 11 in back 2 back matches in both Domestic & Europe. Its not a controversy to retain at least your entire back 4.

Rosenior isn't shy about making half time changes. Hope he does that and brings Joao Pedro on. We need his scoring form to help here. Hopefully can pull 1 back before half time.