Jase

If Lampard is not able make his sides defensively solid or at least defensively competent, then he is not going to achieve anything in his career, never mind here. If he can't sort it out himself, then get a defensive coach! IMO, I want to see us defend properly, defend with nous and competency and I don't mean it has to be defensive or pragmatic but defend with good organization like we did under Conte/Mourinho. That our defenders aren't great and need to be upgraded is well documented but I don't believe for one second that they could haven't been coached or drilled better defensively this season. So many of these players played under Sarri last season, for example, and we conceded less goals. Some times, I can't help but wonder if we don't do much defensive work in training at all under Lampard and that the players are just left to their own devices for matches. We some times don't mark players, we some times leave spaces unmarked for players to attack, we some times don't close down spaces etc. PLUS more often than not, whenever we have the ball, pretty much everyone bar the 2 CBs get ahead of the ball with little regard of counter attacks when we lose the ball, which happens a lot and this comes from how the manager sets the team up. It's little wonder why our matches have tended to be like basketball games, why we have conceded so many goals from counter attacks this season, why we have always looked so exposed etc. We won't get anywhere if this continues next season.

Thank fucking god this bloody season is finally over. It started off well and fun and then it became almost unbearable. Only Pulisic and the new signings made things exciting for me in these last 2 months. Other than that, am sort of excited for next season but at the same time, I don't know if we'll improve, especially defensively, or achieve because of our unpredictability this season.

Hey! A sub and...it's Giroud.

Lampard isn't even making any subs.

But nothing he said there is new. We know we want him. We know Havertz wants to join. We also know it's been a case of the club agreeing the payment structure with Leverkusen. It's been that way for the last 1-2 weeks.

Everyone is just copying and pasting at this point...

According to Sky Nigeria, Chelsea are gonna pick Havertz up on the way back to London tonight.

Seriously man, who the hell cares!?

The number of goals in the game is already that. Another will just ruin it.

Worth noting that we might face Bayern in the group stage next season.

But some times, you overdo it.

It's your M.O. Can't be helped if you can keep on doing it.

God, gotta love your optimism some times.

What does that have to do with being a team looking fresher?

This is Bayern's first competitive game in a month and they look fresher than us...

Will love to be proven wrong but I have no hope Lampard will sort out our defensive problems next season, regardless of whether we sign new defenders or not.

Confirmed now...

Confirmed by the club as well...

Must have suffered a late problem...

lol Not everyone is gonna just sack their manager after just one season...

It certainly isn't for Juventus and they didn't win it this season because Sarri's football. They only won it because of Ronaldo and Dybala and because other teams tailed off, especially Inter and Lazio. It felt like they only won it by default.