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Chelsea 2-1 Plymouth PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS 2021/22 FA Cup 4th Round 5th February, Saturday 2022 Stamford Bridge 12:30 Kick Off (UK time)

Tuchel vs Spurs: W 3-0 W 2-1 W 1-0 W 3-0 W 2-0 W 1-0 W 2-0

All our best results this month have come against Spurs. 🤣

I mean, check my post again. I edited it before you quoted it!

Check the post again.

What do you mean? They practice it for social media purposes only. 🙃

I just remembered. That Ziyech goal is his first league goal at the Bridge.

Well yeah but relying on goals from sources like that is never gonna be sustainable, especially when we aren't creating enough from proper attacking players.

Spurs have been the most clueless team when it comes to dealing with Ziyech.

Only way we were gonna score.

You can't say that. Everything and I mean, EVERYTHING, has to be put perfectly for Lukaku to do something useful.

Don't need to tell me. Looked through the XI earlier and I thought, "Tuchel has selected those players to provide the service to Lukaku". He hasn't done anything and neither has those players selected to provide the service.

A kind way to put it. We are just dumping hopeful crosses and cut backs into the box. Ziyech is also a really like poor man's Fabregas. Looks nice whenever he swings a cross or makes a pass with that left foot of his but it's so inaccurate most of the time.

Are we? All our attacks are basically coming down the right side, almost the opposite of that 1st leg game recently.

All that possession but no penetration, no quality. Huffing and puffing like a mid-table side. No defensive mistake or comedy own goal to profit from (so far). Was Lukaku trying to make up to the other players? Happily giving the thumbs up to every attempted pass. Also, hilarious how he showed his frustration on that one occasion when CHO suddenly got the ball on the left from the right and he didn't pass it to him in a box crowded with players.

The club are trolling us.

That could still happen but United fans have really been hammering Sancho and I mean HAMMERING Sancho, probably even more than we do with our players.

Our league xG last season was 64. Only City (73.3) and Liverpool (72.6) have higher xG than us. The difference wasn't that huge. Not gonna pretend we are great at creating chances consistently but there was definitely something exciting to work on from last season. However, we threw all of that out of the window the minute we bought an incompatible player.

Minus the finishing issues, I'd say we were onto something last season with the system that we played. But then, we bought Lukaku, of all strikers, and things began to slowly go haywire and whatever good things we did last season went out of the window.

Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this stat but CHO has scored only 4 goals (FOUR!) in 71 Premier League games.

If anything, I'd say the manager and club need to have the same vision, with of course the club providing proper leadership and clear ideas. The idea of fully backing the manager and giving them full control can backfire massively if that manager gets sacked. Matt Law said that we should follow what City and Liverpool are doing with Guardiola and Klopp. He seems to forget that City have a bottomless pit of money. They have spent god knows how much now on defenders and have been able to just go out and spend on a new one again if one of those signings go wrong. Our case? We tend to get stuck with that signing that goes wrong for ages. As for Liverpool, it has not turned out to be anything dramatic but it also seems to fly over Matt Law's head that their sporting director Michael Edwards have some times overruled Klopp on signings. So, they haven't always backed Klopp, even though he has managed to keep things steady.

I was merely reiterating what people keep on saying about him. What I'd say is, if you look at Pulisic's overall career so far, then yes, you could say he is injury prone. But over the last 12-13 months, he has had only ONE notable long term injury and it wasn't due to his body breaking down like often before. Is he somehow becoming less injury prone all of a sudden? God knows.

Pulisic played 43 games last season and people still call him injury prone.

I hope you remember that we still have Barkley in the books and have been struggling him to get rid of him.

We paid big for Pulisic, who wasn't even close to a guarantee to begin with and we're surprised by the current situation? Moreover, even if Dembele is on the cheap side, I find it weird people want an injury prone player when the same people always complain about Pulisic being injury prone (even though he hasn't had a notable injury "caused" by himself in a long time).