Jase

Nothing new with Sarri's stubbornness in rotation but it's stupid. Didn't rotate much either at Napoli, only did it here and there in European games.

The injuries are piling up...

Chelsea 0-0 Southampton PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS 2018/19 Premier League Match 21 2nd December, Wednesday, 2019 Stamford Bridge 17:45 Kick Off (UK time)

At the risk of being dragged into the whole 'Sarri needs time or the players don't suit his style' argument again, we are basically watching the same football this season that we saw under Conte (last season) and Mourinho. Dominate possession against the lesser sides, which we have tended to do as well under Conte and Mourinho, but offer very little going forward. We always relied on someone to do something out of nothing in the past and it's the same now again under Sarri. Yet to see any of the trademark Sarri-ball that we keep hearing so much about. The football feels so rigid and the players don't look like they are having 'fun'.

He has less league goals this season than Kante...

But Palace didn't even bother to have a go at us. Just looked content to sit back and defend. Even the last 5-10 minutes of pressure wasn't a real, sustained pressure. They were just hoping for something to fall their way, like the Wickham chance (thankfully he skied the shot!).

Important win but again, another uneventful performance. A lot of passes (again), little penetration (again) but scored thanks to one moment of quality. Palace were surprisingly hopeless.

Suffering With The Ball.

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So @Tomo, are we gonna win/draw/lose?

But we have 4 defenders on the bench. LMAO

CHO, Pedro also still injured of course.

They can talk about making it here all they want but at the end of the day, if they don't get the chances, the playing time, they will want to leave.

But we are having to make the choice because the manager isn't giving CHO enough game time and if that's already happening, then who's to say that the same won't happen with the other young players? We are already bad at developing young players and we have a manager who doesn't boast a good record at using young players as well.

Was assuming when everyone's fit and Muller and Goretza do play out wide for Bayern.

If we sell CHO to Bayern, then best of luck to Mount, Abraham etc...

At the moment, it does feel like Bayern just want to jump into the bandwagon and get their own Sancho. They've already got substantial amount of players in the wide areas.

Indeed. They have got Gnabry, Coman, Muller, Goretzka and god knows what they are gonna do with James and Ribery. Unless he's been promised substantial game time at Bayern, it's tough to see him play regularly at there. Only need to look at Solanke. Left us to go to Liverpool, thinking he'll get more game time but he's been rotting on the bench and there are now talks that he will be going out on loan.

Higuain after the Milan v SPAL game...

And he's just scored to put Milan 2-1 up.