Sideshow Luiz

Another Statsbomb article. Half on Morata, the other on Torreira: https://statsbomb.com/2018/11/alvaro-morata-lucas-torreira-and-evaluating-imperfection/

C'mon Sarri. Just get CHO on, please. This match is bullshit, just play him.

Thanks, but it's okay. The quality is quite good. This match is kind of bullshit anyway. It's put my dog to sleep:

Wow, my stream is well behind.

Yeah, outside of this forum, there seems to be a massive call for RLC and Barkley, because Kovacic isn't really needed.

If Sarri said that Hazard would need about 45-50 minutes, can we get CHO on? Would at least give us something to be excited about.

Moving the ball to the edge of the penalty area, then passing backwards isn't helping either. Have to take some risks.

Way too slow. No one making runs. No 1-2s, no one making the 3rd man runs. Too horizontal, needs to be more vertical.

Yeah, I had your post and another kind of mixed up.

Responses above: Really, it's Dembele if we can do a swap with Willian (plus cash, obv) or Zaha. I'm surprised you never bring up Depay. He's really doing well at Lyon. Can play striker or either wing. Certainly don't have to worry about him losing confidence.

Yeah, but I'm not sure that Malcolm is better than Willian right now, so that's why I say that it doesn't make us better in the short term, even a little worse.

Yes, and no. It doesn't make us better. There's an argument to be made that it actually makes us worse in the short term. Sure, 3 years from now, it looks good. But, that's a downgrade in January, and Tonali is someone I'm interested in, but I'd be surprised if he was better than Cesc, right now.

I think it would be cheaper, we'd be looking at either a ready made player like a slightly younger Cesc, who is okay with being a back-up, or a younger player who can grow in to the role. I say cheaper, not in the sense that it won't cost us anything, but we'd be looking for a 1st team winger. That's going to cost us a lot.

While I agree that Cesc is important right now because we have literally no back-up for Jorginho and that position is so crucial for us, we really should be looking at getting a long-term replacement in. If Jorginho gets injured for any period of time, we are really screwed. At Napoli, Sarri had Diawara who he had no issues with playing against anyone. I also agree that it's importance is behind areas that you've mentioned, like our wingers, but it's also going to be a lot cheaper to fix than those positions (so, in theory, easier).

And Conte WON 13 in a row.

OMG, Morata. Stop thinking too much!

That was poor, Luiz. I stick up for him, but he's having a terrible game.

C'mon Morata. Get us the 3 points and save us 100M in the transfer market.

I know. But, we needed (just scored) more creativity in midfield, and Kante wasn't even doing the ball winning thing.

Hazard for Willian, Kovacic for Kante.

The scary thing is that the underlying statistics and metrics suggest that they are even better than last year.

If we were Liverpool, they'd be making a big deal about it (they make such a big deal out of the ones that are actually ruled correctly).

After Ox looked like it was going to happen, but went to Liverpool, and he needed to be English. Ox would be really good in this midfield we have right now.

Barkley vs. Pogba: