Jase

Sarri's open style has certainly contributed to Azpi's struggles this season (looked better when we defended deeper in last two games) and it certainly doesn't help that Sarri appears to have frozen Zappacosta out and is playing Azpi in every game, even the Europa League.

Two good performances and Sarri is already back to blowing his trumpet. 🙄

They had ZERO shots against City today!

Knew that was coming. It's silly to judge the standing of a player based on the number of goals he scores. I don't disagree with you that Ivanovic did give us some of the biggest moments but let's not forget, he was a CB and CB that got moved to RB. As a CB, you're more likely to score goals, especially from corners like the goals you pointed out there. You said Ivanovic was arguably one of the top 3 right backs (which might be an exaggeration)...equally Azpi got considered as one of the best defenders in Premier League by Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher, both who were among the best defenders in the league's history. As for Ivanovic being one of the best right backs in the world, let's not exaggerate things (again) and rewrite history here. He may have gotten forward a lot but his end product for a right back was horrendous. I still remember he always hit crosses into players or basically put bad crosses into the box and there were plenty of complaints about this in his thread. I guess it's a sign of how football has changed when goals, stats, numbers trump over consistent, reliable performances.

TBF, I never said I didn't want Lampard as manager now...

Imagine getting beaten to the top 4 by a manager whose only work every week is harping about the good old days of the club.

Life is truly fucked up. It can take ages to build up trust and reputation but it only needs one bad moment for it to crumble to pieces.

You're right...because his status will be higher.

Derby just got tonked 4-0 by Villa and it's their third straight league loss. In fact, Derby have won only 3 of their last 13 Championship games and now sit in 7th. Oh Frank...

Refreshing the page helps solve the issue but yeah, it's annoying.

WTH were we doing before then?

If he doesn't? Sack him?

JOSE!!

SMARTASS KLAXON!

Assuming Sarri doesn't get himself sack before the end of the season, which I don't think we will do it at this point, I'm genuinely curious to see then whether we will keep him or sack him if we don't qualify for the Champions League.

Did you or did you not read the article?

Play well and win our upcoming games convincingly and I might just subscribe to that view. As I said in another post, one was a cup final while the other was against Spurs, who we have played well against in 3 of the 4 games this season. Those games took care of the motivation factor. It's game against smaller teams we have frustratingly faltered this season. Will take more than just two games to convince me that we have turned the corner.

You're tempting fate there. This is Chelsea we're talking about.