Magic Lamps

Pressing in parts of the game is how pressing is done otherwise you run out of steam. Bayern press maybe 25% of the time they don’t have the ball. I think it worked pretty well in the first half. Spurs always lumped the ball up the pitch. our system is 4231 with the 3 interchanging ans this season. Lots of fullback underlaps, crossing and cut backs. I think there is a clear, idea just not being executed well I think the idea of how we play is getting is clearer by the day

With great players, basic football often is the best. Just get the ball into the danger men and let them work their magic. Our great 2005 was basically get the ball long to drogba or wide to robben//duff/cole to cross or cutback/layoff to Lampard. Bayern, PSG, pre-Sarri Juve all play simple football getting the ball to the danger men and let them combine. Underdog teams like our 2016/7 need coaches with some extravagant plan. Great teams just need freedom and confidence+ a solid defence wheremost of the coaching goes. Coaches in great teams are there to make the players express themselves to their full potential, fell good. As long as our defence is shit, we obviously wont win a title but we will comfortably get top4 even with lampard in charge.

not saying his decision making wasnt poor but all of them were right into the corner. so he should have speculated but most penalty saves come from pouncing on a poor shot.none of those spot kicks was poor enough such that you could have dived after the shot is taken.

tbf all spot kicks were brilliantly taken until the one from mount. not sure what kepa would have done if he had gotten the right way once, probably fumbling it. Caballero clear #1 with pens. saves like 30-40% of them.

Great goal, really happy for him. Lloris did not see that shot until it was past him. Now hopefully adds his first PL goal vs Palace. Really can not blame his effort. Just a bit more concentration on the first touch would be nice.

With everyone fit we will steamroll most teams in the country by sheer individual quality, i am sure of that. even without team chemistry. It's probably not the best way forward but I do not really care. Also team chemistry comes with time playing together. I have still not given up this team will grow together as a great group independent of Lampard

Then Mount will be his downfall. Mount is an alright squad player but Lampard wants to use his best players to full extent, he needs to leave out Mount. Yeah, lets say 5 out of 8 consecutive games, like the games you field your first XI in.

lol yeah that sure didn't help. But he probably had not been prepared to well for a shoot out. Oblak once had the nerve to stand still for an entire shootout in a cl final and still turned out a decenet keeper^^ Apart from one drop of the ball he was quite good. I particularly like the sharp save he did with his leg that was something that i feel would have beaten Kepa. He collected a ton of high balls and even punched a few corners. Also I liked most of his passes. As I said in the match thread. Nothing special but he looks super assured which is exactly what we need.

-----------------Mendy--------------- Azpi----Zouma---Silva--Chilwell ----------Kova-----Kante----------- Ziyech-------Havertz------Pulisic ---------------Werner---------------- Is our best lineup IMO. If we see it for a few, say 5 matches in a row and still do not improve even my patience has run out. Until then I will keep preaching to have faith.

I think Lampard should not be sacked but 'promoted' to some management capacity that involves scouting and recruiting of players. Here, his record speaks for itself. At some point he might even come out as a decent manager but IMO his true forte is politics and management. He does not enjoy the day-job of coaching drills and all the repetitive micro-managing that comes with it. Also, I think to be successful as a coach you need to be a bit crazy like Conte, Klopp, Pep all are. I always saw JT as coach and Lampard as executive director of the club.

You really should look up the definition of the term 'toxic relationship'. You keep using it in such a frequency that I just could not let it go once more.

Massively better? most of our players are still new to the Prem. I have seen lots of Havertz and Werner before, they are guys who need time to perform at their best within a team. Sarri had Hazard who carried him on his back. Top form hazard was still better than anything we have right now. Also Sarriball was different IMO. Sarri had this one rigid system he played all the time. It looked like shit but it worked allright bc we had Hazard and more positional discipline. But they also got thumped 6-0 at City which is still the most humiliating loss I have ever seen from us. Lampard is the opposite. He hasno specific system, is super flexible, so the players get confused and their passing turns to shit cos they dont know all the runs. Jorginho has nothing to do with it. Mount is Frank's Jorginho. Also massively limited but of a different kind.

He is by far my favourite ever player but you can see how he lacks the expericne to be a top coach right now. This job came too soon for him. Lets hope he somehow comes up yet with some Eureka moment but i dont see it happening. Anyway, we should be thankful for him for getting all these great talents here. The club could really have gone way down the wrong route without this summer of great buys. Lets also hope the board identifies a coach to continue his legacy at some point.

If only he scored that second shot he had but Lloris sussed it out. Great display otherwise. Still want to see him leading the line tho.

and he remains a shit coach. Chelse and Juve won titles for him. When Conte e.g. came here he won the title for us.

Nagelsmann is still a nearly-man all the same. I think we need a proven winner to bring us to the next level.

Passing the opponent to death is exactly what you have to do against a bus parked 10 m within their own half.

Simeone's ultra-destructive ugly suffer-ball? Simeone vs the big sides is 10x worse than what Lamps did vs Liverpool Allegri with his fondness forwashed up granpas? Poch alright maybe but also never has won a title.

I thought he got his first half tactics spot on once again but second half we looked like the less eager side. FL sadly already feels like a dead man walking in that jobwith the fans getting on his back here at least. I think he will be given a bit more time by Roman tho. It is not at all black and white. This might not be the best football in the world but we lost with bad luck vs a highly motivated Mourinho side. There is no shame in that and no sense in blaming shit coaching or tactics. This is still a team finding its feet even tho it should be further ahead there is no use in throwing your toys out of the pram. Mourinho in 2015 was 10x worse, the Sarri slump was worse, Conte missing out on 4th was worse. Lampard has been through rough patches here already and so far always bounced back. Lets at least give him end of the year before being too terminal in judgement.

Also whilst Chilwell was rusty AF, he was defensively solid. better than alonso for sure, albeit just as invisible in attack. Emerson more or less cost us the game (a case can be made for zouma ducking under the ball). This is why i demanded 2 new LBs not just one and people call me greedy.

This. Mou went full Lyon mode. Put a lot of very hard working athletic players and no true strikers on the pitch to overload the wings. they got a scrappy goal which is all they hoped for. I dont envy them for their schedule. We just should have taken our chances and this is an easy 3-0. deservedly got punished. you really must put those away. we failed at this last season and still dont look much better. really frustrating start to the season so far but i think our cohesion is slowly improving. The understanding of the front 3 was already pretty decent I thought.

i honestly think the first half was our best of the season so far bar barnsley ofc. we really pressed them into submission. Mendy looked alright but nothing special. should do but surely not one to build a dynasty with.

well shit happens. we should have put the game to bed with the 2 golden chances we had for 2-0. if you fail to take your chances you get punished. i hate this pattern of always losing finals or pen shootouts lately, usually with thelast kick. the abab way of taking pens is rigged. the performance was overall ok i think. we had 2 mistakes in defence and obviously missed 2 great chances. this can cost you the game at this level. tottenham were really disciplined and gave it their all. no shame in losing here.

I think hr is way better through the middle tho. He is not a winger

That js a red on lamela with Var