Jase

https://www.si.com/soccer/chelsea/news/fikayo-tomori-out-of-aston-villa-restart

Oh boy, you don't want to go there...

About that... I know other players are guilty of the same thing above but Mount becomes absolutely braindead in the final third.

Err, did they escape criticism? No, they also got criticized for making obvious mistakes and making them repeatedly. Is it too much to ask for a manager who doesn't make the same mistake over and over again and actually learn from it? This.

The inconsistency is still tolerable to some extent but the constant changes? I know there have been injuries, there will be changes to the playing squad and that it is good to be flexible/adaptable but we are one year into Lampard's regime and we are still not quite sure what is Lampard's default formation, what is his ideally preferred XI etc. We are also still seeing the same mistakes now that we saw 6-7 months ago for example and again, I do not buy the excuse that it is all the players' fault. Furthermore, you said it so yourself how Lampard was wrong to break up the Jorginho-Kovacic-Mount midfield to fit Kante in at all cost and how Lampard was sacrificing the more fluid, attacking football for pragmatic, even more defensive style after the restart. It is these constant changes, sometimes done unnecessarily, that have contributed to our inconsistent performances.

I am aware of that stat but my point is when Hazard was around, managers were inclined (not sure if that is the right word) to build the team around him because he was the best player and players did not take responsibility and ended up just giving the ball to him to do things. But when Hazard was not available, managers had to get "creative" with the team and players had to take responsibility to be the difference maker. That is why I mentioned our positive stats without Hazard in recent years, implying that we can actually play and win without him. I know we have become something of a one-man team again since the restart but would we have looked like an all-rounder team earlier this season with Hazard in it? Very, very unlikely. Plus, there is also the tactical issues that Hazard brings given how Mourinho, Conte etc complained about it.

First social media post since yesterday and it's about this... lol

As if the Premier League doesn't have that problem...

The frustrating about Lampard this season is that we, the normal football fans without any managerial experience, can see what the problems are, can tell what we should or should not do when it comes to the basic things and yet, Lampard still goes and commits some of the most obvious, basic mistakes. And I don't believe for a second that the problems we have had this summer are all down to the players. You would think that he who supposedly has a high IQ and given the fact that he played under some of the best managers in history, he would at least demonstrate some of the know-hows, be streetwise etc. But no, none of that is being shown. One game we are set up perfectly and look like world beaters and the next, we are set up naively and look like clowns. On the Hazard subject, he was very good for us during his time at the time but maybe, we overrated his impact on the team because our record without him (excluding this season obviously) was actually good. I can't remember what the exact stats are but we have lots of wins and not too many losses.

For starters, Bundesliga's VAR is a lot better than the Premier League's and hell, the referees over there actually use the pitch-side monitor!

I see we are entering the conspiracy theory zone with Willian...

So, Inter finished 2nd in Serie A and then, Conte went and moaned... https://www.football-italia.net/156686/conte-no-protection-inter

But but Mount is Lampard's....oh never mind.

If we're lucky, he might be the only one...

Forgot about the suspensions. Do we even still have a team for next week? Might have more muscle injuries coming with a free week to come!

Another thing that I'd maybe point out is that Lampard needs to decide what he wants to do with the youth players. He played them right up until lockdown but since then, he's played them less and suddenly relied on the more experienced players. It hasn't exactly turned out bad for us but it's almost like a change of direction all of a sudden when he appeared to sacrifice long term gains for short term gains.

Is this inside info again or what? Apparently, he was standing without crutches at the end of the game yesterday. So maybe it's not too bad?

Probably because he has that Ozil-ness about him, if we can call it that, where he looks like he's just playing at his own pace and looks disinterested.

I have given up on being given hope by Chelsea. They always disappoint when you start to hope or expect something.

Setting up to play the high line against Arsenal was silly. Unless we press them, we needed to drop off whenever they get on the ball or just defend deeper. Instead, we did neither and repeatedly got caught out by simple route one football, which somehow got Arteta praised by journalists for this supposedly tactical masterclass.