Jase

Is that new? We also had games last season where we started brightly and then just faded off badly after that. Last season's FA Cup final is a good example of that. If it happens once or twice, you can put the blame on the players. But if it keeps happening over and over and over again, then you gotta look at the manager and the coaching staff.

First, you have always said things will improve when Ziyech gets back. Now that he's back and things are still shit, you now say it's because we have a rubbish midfield basically. If we get a creative midfielder next and things still don't improve, then what? Are you gonna question why we're playing with 4 defenders!?

Is that the case or are we just a badly coached team? What we're seeing now is no different to some of the shitshow we saw last season, no? 18 months into Lampard's time here and we're still seeing the same BS, just with more than 200 million spent!

There's always one...

Who knew it would remain as predictable as this? Everyone in the team is just braindead now. We played better football in the first 5-6 months under Lampard.

I don't want to say I told people so but...

Have you not been watching us play?

Only 12 other players have reached that landmark for the club and only the 2nd overseas player to do so, after Cech.

Only 12 other players have reached that landmark for the club and only the 2nd overseas player to do so, after Cech.

Pulisic and Ziyech starting together on either side of Werner...where are you, @killer1257!?

Didn't see that front 3 coming and hope Ziyech isn't rushed back early from his hamstring problem...

That front 3.

YOU TWAT!

LMAO

Why are you being so combative today? My point is, yeah COVID-19 has had an impact on every one and we know the Havertz situation but he now suddenly talked about other players being asymptomatic, the medical staff etc? Not playing the virus impact down but it will sound a lot less of an excuse if it was also mentioned during our good run of form/results.

Not playing down the impact of COVID-19 of course but...

Yeah, the same thought that gets mentioned every single time before this kind of game but nothing disastrous really happened (of course now that I say this, something disastrous will happen today)...

Pretty sure the situation also aligned for us against Arsenal last weekend...

How is someone slow getting outpaced by someone quicker from balls over the top even a good example? I mean that situation is obvious, simple logic, no? Give me an example of where Azpi has truly struggled 1 v 1 against someone else.

Yes but that's down to the system on that day. Imagine knowing your team have slow defenders and yet you ask them to play a high line. If Lampard suddenly ask the team to play a high line today against City with Silva in the back 4 and he struggles with balls over the top, who are you gonna blame? Silva for having no pace or Lampard for setting us up to fail knowing there are slow defenders in the backline?

That's gotta do more with our defensive line on that day. We tried to play a high one and didn't press well, always bound to fail. If we had played a deeper line, we wouldn't have any problem no?

Who exactly? What does that have to do with Azpi specifically? We were just dumb to play a stupid high line with little pressing upfront against that Arsenal frontline to begin with.