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Here's the assist in all its glory...

They're 2 points above the relegation zone...

United have Liverpool after the international break...

Chelsea 1-0 Newcastle PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS 2019/20 Premier League Match 9 19th October, Saturday 2019 Stamford Bridge 15:00 Kick Off (UK time)

One of Pedro/Willian will stay next season, IMO but just a case of who...

#justsayin

He's on 4 yellow cards in the league, by the way. Get one more and he'll have to serve a one-match suspension...unless he somehow avoids one till the end of the year.

Must feel great scoring against Southampton today, considering he's a Portsmouth fan.

Let's see how long he can keep this up...

TBF, the Southampton defence looked horrible throughout the game, tired or not.

Lampard is in love with Willian, by the way. Spoke glowingly of him pre-match and now post-match. Getting even more love than he did under Mourinho!

You would still expect Willian to be in attacking positions. It's just that he would do it differently than Pulisic because they are not the exactly the same type of players. And by the way, Willian isn't going to play every game this season and time will tell whether he can keep his current form throughout the season. So, Lampard has to make sure things don't crumble when he doesn't play...

4 assists in 7 games. Not a bad record. 2 of them for Batshuayi. The Dortmund combo working a treat so far.

At the risk of starting the whole debate again, that's the thing I don't understand. Like okay, he shouldn't be starting games right now but you would think Lampard and co. would try to ease him in by bringing him on for 20-30 minutes here and there but that hasn't happened much. That's the more perplexing thing than him not starting at the moment, IMO.

Erm, is it a surprise? We were attacking, you would expect him to be in attacking positions. Would've been disappointed if he was hiding behind the ball. Moreover, it's not like he didn't drop deep and help the defence when needed.

Why not? Why does he have to be loaned out? You don't see suggestions on CHO, who is younger and has less experience than Pulisic, to be loaned out, do you? We obviously don't know what's going on behind the scene but assuming if things are a lot calmer and patient between the relevant parties than the mass hysteria outside, then I don't see what's the issue. Furthermore, it's not like we're 100% successful with all these loans anyway. A lot have sent the players backward rather than help them improve and move forward.

Not sure what happened. Same issue when I loaded up the site on mobile and tablet.

Jesus, what happened to the site?!

Scrappy game, scrappy performance but again, super clinical with the chances. Up to 5th, have a healthy looking GD (+4) and just 2 points behind Man City.

Well, you did say it goes both ways, no? And besides, Pulisic is nowhere near as bad as Bakayoko technical wise. His problem is a lot more fixable.

Yes, imagine passing some sort of conclusive judgment on a player after like 5 games. You would think after what happened with De Bruyne and Salah previously, people would have that little more patience with younger players but nope, not at all.

Yeah, he isn't physically strong right now but imagine thinking players have never lost the ball in training. Jesus christ!

There's a reason why the fella above said "emergency".