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Just in time for the home game against Leeds next Saturday...

Not sure if you're joking but Conte has no excuses this time when Inter have backed him to the hilt in the transfer window.

JFC! The English media are despicable!

If anything, I think Conte is too rigid and predictable with his tactics. How often does he even deviate from his back 3 system? And when was the last time we saw a team being successful in the Champions League with a back 3? His back 3 can be countered easily after awhile, as we saw it ourselves during his time here. If Inter don't finish in the top 2, it will be the 3rd time in 5 seasons that Conte has exited the Champions League in the group stage.

Inter's last 10 games in all competitions: D 1-1 Lazio L 1-2 Milan D 2-2 Gladbach W 2-0 Genoa D 0-0 Shakhtar D 2-2 Parma L 2-3 Real Madrid D 1-1 Atalanta W 4-2 Torino L 0-2 Real Madrid Conte in big trouble...

Conte's Champions League record (including tonight's game): Played - 32 Won - 11 Drew - 10 Lost - 11 Not great...

Liverpool should still have enough to qualify from the group, since 1 of their remaining 2 games is against Midtjylland. On the other hand, are Inter even going to qualify for the Europa League? Conte is so bad in Europe.

True but it doesn't mean it's not shit when you come here and see shit takes on things.

Same goes for Aubameyang really. Arteta talked about building for the future and yet, he got Arsenal to tie Aubameyang and Willian down to long term contracts, on big wages and no resale value whatsoever.

Haaland is probably indeed a freak but even he has missed 3 big chances in the Bundesliga this season and he's played about 2 games less than Werner. His xG is higher though and he's outperforming that too. Haaland in 2020/21 Bundesliga: Minutes - 561 Goals - 10 xG - 6.41 Big Chances Missed - 3 Even another freak in Lewandowski has missed 6 big chances this season in the Bundesliga - 3rd highest in their league.

For now, yes but this time next year? Debatable. We definitely need to get a new CB next summer.

We don't deserve nice things really when you see the overreaction to Werner. Better off going back to being shit.

It's a cliche but every game is a different game. Just because Giroud did well in this fixture last season, it doesn't mean he will do well again. Moreover, we played a back 3 back then and Giroud was closely supported by Mount and Barkley in that system. A bit more different in a 4-3-3. And not to mention, Spurs are in better form now than then. IIRC, Mourinho almost kinda just gave up then because he was moaning about the injuries to Kane, Son etc and having no strikers.

You're right. Last season, Aubameyang, Vardy, Salah and Mane all missed 10, 18, 15, 18 big chances in the Premier League. Mane and Vardy were the 5th highest and Salah was the 7th highest in terms of big chances missed. And funnily enough, Abraham was the 2nd highest on the list with 22 big chances missed last season, just 2 lower than Jesus. Vardy and Mane have also missed more big chances (5) than Werner in the league this season. And Werner did miss 21 big chances last season but at the same time, he also took the second highest number of shots in the Bundesliga, also only second to Lewandowski. So, it does reiterate your point there.

https://www.premierleague.com/news/1904974?sf240376962=1

Err, no. Paul Tierney is the ref for this one. Anthony Taylor will be the 4th official at two other games.

Don't you know, you gotta use words like Donkey to gain popularity on social media these days.

OH MY GOD! HE'S SHIT! WE MUST SELL HIM!

First, the Kalou comparison and now Morata? People have seriously lost the plot.

Werner is doing so much right already – the odd miss can be excused https://theathletic.com/2219400/2020/11/25/werner-chelsea-finishing/?source=emp_shared_article It took Timo Werner less than four minutes to find the back of the Rennes net. The only problem for Chelsea was that he didn’t take the ball with him. Hurdling goalkeeper Alfred Gomis and grabbing the netting with both hands, he bent over double in disbelief. Callum Hudson-Odoi’s low first-time cross from the right had been brilliant, verging on perfect, and yet Werner’s attempted tap-in had sent the ball arcing high into the stand behind the goal he ended up occupying. “Timo wants to score that but the ball’s bobbling as it comes along and I know myself that those finishes look a lot easier from afar than they always are,” head coach Frank Lampard said afterwards, taking the sympathetic line. Werner’s early miss didn’t prevent Chelsea from extending their winning streak to six games across all competitions. Nor did his late one; a scuffed shot from Hakim Ziyech’s pinpoint pass that Gomis deflected up into the air, leading directly to the towering Olivier Giroud headed winner that broke Rennes hearts. But both moments reinforced the notion there is still room to grow for a striker who has been largely as-advertised since arriving at Cobham as a hugely anticipated £52 million signing from RB Leipzig in July. “I think it’s just normal that a player of Timo’s quality and where he is that he’s going to get even better, because he’s a top-class player,” Lampard added. “I’ve been really happy with him since he’s got here. He’s feeling his team-mates and his team-mates are feeling him, hence he’s getting in positions to score in every game; so more goals will come, as a progression from that.” Eight goals — including three emphatic penalties — from his first 12 Chelsea appearances across all competitions was a particularly impressive return considering that, in addition to the usual challenges of adapting to a new team, league and style of play, he has also been shifted by Lampard from the central striking position he occupied on the Premier League’s opening weekend against Brighton & Hove Albion to a wide role on the left of a front three, working around and often in tandem with Tammy Abraham. Last night’s 2-1 win in Rennes was the second game in the space of three days in which Werner’s wastefulness in front of goal prevented Chelsea turning clear superiority into a comfortable win; against Newcastle United on Saturday, he skewed one shot wide from near the penalty spot after good work from Abraham, then underhit an attempted square pass to Ziyech rather than try to beat Karl Darlow himself after dispossessing Fabian Schar to go clean through on goal. But nothing in the overall numbers this season suggests Werner’s finishing has been a particular issue. In fact, his five goals from open play across all competitions constitute a slight overachievement when compared with his non-penalty expected goals (npxG) rating of 4.0. He also significantly outperformed his npxG ratings in each of his final two Bundesliga seasons at Leipzig, giving us a solid body of evidence to support his reputation as one of the most efficient high-volume goalscorers in Europe. Timo Werner's open-play goalscoring SEASON MINUTES PLAYED NON-PENALTY GOALS NPXG 2018-19 2509 16 14 2019-20 2795 28 20 2020-21 770 4 3.7 Werner’s final Bundesliga campaign with RB Leipzig set an incredibly high benchmark to emulate at Chelsea. He scored 28 goals — of which only three were penalties — in 34 appearances against an expected goals (xG) rating of 22.3. His 0.81 non-penalty goals per 90 minutes in 2019-20 was the sixth-highest average in Europe’s big five leagues and of the five strikers ahead of him, only Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski played a comparably large number of total minutes. Europe's best open-play scorers 2019-20 STRIKER MINUTES PLAYED NON-PENALTY GOALS NON-PENALTY GOALS/90 NON-PENALTY XG90 Kylian Mbappe 1513 18 1.07 1.01 Robert Lewandowski 2759 29 0.95 0.77 Sergio Aguero 1452 14 0.87 0.73 Luis Muriel 1260 12 0.86 0.61 Mauro Icardi 1267 12 0.85 0.7 Timo Werner 2795 25 0.81 0.64 Josip Ilicic 1663 15 0.81 0.5 Duvan Zapata 2026 17 0.76 0.59 Andreas Cornelius 1494 12 0.72 0.43 Patrick Schick 1298 10 0.69 0.41 The early evidence suggests it’s a tall order to expect Werner to match that level of relentless goal threat from open play at Chelsea this season, and not through any fault of his own. He’s simply playing a different role under Lampard, operating slightly wider in a team who can count on two or three prominent attacking options at any one time. He is averaging 2.31 shot attempts per 90 minutes across all competitions so far, putting him behind colleagues Abraham (3), Christian Pulisic (2.86) and Ziyech (2.35). Last season, he unsurprisingly led the Leipzig squad with 3.78 shot attempts per 90 minutes. There’s plenty of time and potential for that to change, of course. Werner could be deployed as a central striker again if Lampard sees a particular tactical need for it, if Abraham’s form dips or if the injured Pulisic returns to make the starting spot on the left his own. As they continue to grow in confidence and comfort with this dynamic 4-3-3 system, it’s also very possible that Chelsea will exert more pressure on opponents than ever before, giving all their attacking players more frequent opportunities to threaten the goal. Werner has hit the ground running at Chelsea, and it’s easy to see why Lampard has come to consider him indispensable so quickly. Even when not in positions of immediate danger, he always commands the attention of defenders, creating space and possibilities for the likes of Abraham and Ziyech with his mere presence. Whenever he does spark into action, he looks a unique nightmare to come up against, blending the devastating speed of Mohamed Salah with the predatory instincts of Sergio Aguero. The fact that he has harnessed these gifts by the age of 24 should be even more frightening for Chelsea’s rivals. Werner has missed more of what Opta terms “big chances” (four) than he has scored (three) in the Premier League, yet he has already shown enough flashes to justify the formidable reputation he brought with him from Germany. It is hard to picture a scenario in which his finishing in key moments doesn’t improve with time and further experience. Lampard’s more immediate concern should be the risk of burning Werner out. He has played more minutes (1,224) across all competitions than any Chelsea player this season and started all but one of his new club’s 15 matches — including last month’s trip to Burnley, when he was initially named among the substitutes but got drafted into the starting XI when Pulisic injured a hamstring in the warm-up. That rest is unlikely to come at home to Tottenham Hotspur in Sunday’s third vs first London derby, but heavier rotation will be unavoidable in a packed, eight-game December. As long as Lampard can keep him fit and fresh, Werner will be a hugely valuable weapon for Chelsea — and the occasional jaw-dropping miss should only serve as a reminder of how much more there might be yet to come.

We have a player named Wenger?

With the way people have been going about Werner missing chances, you would think this isn't someone who has scored 132 goals and even provided about 60 assists in his career. Heck, he already has 14 goals and 4 assists for club and country this season! If Werner's passing, ability to retain the ball, first touch, finishing were so bad, he would not have been wanted by Hansi Flick, Klopp and even Guardiola and he wouldn't even be a fully fledged German international. On paper, yeah, Werner doesn't look suitable against low blocks but people haven't really been watching him over the past year or so, if they believe that's the case. He improved that part of his game under Nagelsmann and is getting better on it. He didn't score 34 goals for Leipzig in all competitions by accident last season and not everyone played a high line against them either. Think we can all agree that Werner needs a rest but the overreaction to his form because of the misses in the last 2 games has been .

No, you didn't. You said he needs a rest and then went on talking about him missing chances, being low on confidence etc. If you had just said he needs a rest on Sunday, no one would have really replied to your posts.