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I know we've talked about this before but I really don't know why you count their other game in hand now when we don't know when they will play it. For all we know, that game could be meaningless in the context of the title race or even the top 4 by the time they play it.

6 points off Liverpool now but only 3 behind Spurs in 2nd.

Better them than Spurs, if it's not going to be us!

Just realized that the teams around us this weekend also have tough fixtures... Palace v Liverpool Southampton v Man City Everton v Arsenal Spurs v Leicester Man United v Leeds

So so Spursy...

Crashed out of Europe last week but now just 1 point off the top of the table after 5 straight wins in Serie A.

Plastic fan.

By the way, people complained a lot about us dumping crosses into the box, just watched how many times have Liverpool done that in this game alone...

Imagine asking Chelsea fans to support Spurs...

Spurs in that 1st half: 21% possession 1 shot 1 shot on target 1 goal

TAA is so suspect defensively...

There's that bit of luck we didn't have against Spurs...

Everton 2-0 up at Leicester. That means we're only 2 points off the Top 4....

Meanwhile, over in Russia...

Long story short, he is rather similar to Ozil.

Arteta has really rung the changes for Arsenal against Southampton...

Havertz said his best position is #10.

It depends. Although he actually did build a good, entertaining side at Bolton, he's essentially another Sean Dyche or Tony Pulis. Not sure if the club want Gallagher to be playing that kind of football.

Big Sam to West Brom officially confirmed. Wonder if the club will try to change his loan and move him to another club...

We played 4-3-3 in those games because we at least had the wingers for it. Ziyech was available and even CHO was available. That wasn't the case at Everton, for example, and we ended up shifting Havertz there and he just looked lost. Then at Wolves, Pulisic was available but is only effective on the LW while Werner is not suited to either flanks. We had CHO and Ziyech available at the same time at some point but Lampard did zilch with it. Still decided to stick Werner out wide on the LW anyway. If Lampard really wants to persist with Werner out on the LW, then he needs to look at changing his role because it's clear as hell that he's not a winger. His confidence is probably already shot from being asked to do things that he isn't good at.

Equally, if the system in place isn't suitable best suited to the players available, then the team performance will also suffer. Werner, for example, isn't a winger but is asked to do the winger things and at Everton, we had no wingers whatsoever to play the 4-3-3 but we played the 4-3-3 anyway.

Define "close". Spurs had a great chance to win in 2015/16 but then bottled it when their only real challenger were Leicester and they ended up finishing 3rd in what was a two-horse title race. Similar to their Champions League run, they may have reached the final but they never looked like overturning Liverpool in that final, especially after conceding an early goal. Whether Mourinho can take Spurs over the finishing line and win a trophy - even just a domestic cup trophy - remains to be seen but Pochettino never did so.

What I would say is, until we see Pulisic and Ziyech play together and actually be the difference makers or saviors that people are making them out to be, we do not know it is guarantee that they will lead us to the top of the table. It is not like we have not had chances to go top of table or not win games without one or both of them. Also, Son and Kane have been at Spurs together for years but this is the first time they are really up there. What's the difference between then and now? They have a title winning manager at the helm now. They have someone who has seen it and done it all. Should also add that Son and Kane have been outperforming their xGs by A LOT this season, which suggests whatever they are doing now may well be unsustainable for the whole of the season.