Magic Lamps

I really hope now we have Timo, Kai and Hakim, we can get some of the weight off his shoulders. Defenders foul the shit out of him, but now we have 4 players who draw many fouls and oppositions can not risk this many cards,s o they might have to go a bit easier on him. At times tho I think Pulisic is his own worst enemy, he never takes any prisoners in games and always goes full steam when it would sometimes be smarter to jsut glide past challenges and only launch the afterburners when he has space. I feel he oftne just runs straight into defenders at full pace after picking up the ball in midfield. we need to get him into 1on1s in the final third more where he will always be favourite to beat a player for pace without the defender always risking a foul for a penalty or last man challenge.

Read the exact same like a few days ago. Fabrizio said its done, so its done. No idea why some dubious news outlets keep beating a dead horse.

Could see him becoming the next Sane at pool. Wouldn’t mind Sarr here at all.

Cant see him not succeeding over there but lets just hope he fails miserably

He’s our best player. we will not be playing at our best as long as he is missing. Same time we should be looking at improving without him cos he is always gonna miss half a season with his fragile body catching injurie slept right Centre. All the more flabbergasting Lampard is refusing too use our only fit winger from the start.

And if that doesn’t work they can still hang crosses in the air or wait for corners. That’s worse than the occasional but unpredictable howler cos it gives every opponent an avenue to the scoreboard

Mount at least is still just 21 and already producing better numbers than Willian. I don’t rate him Too much but if he stays on his trajectory he will become a very good player.

A 4th lb for Jose? Maybe after his tall guys fixation he has a left back Fixation now.

Jorginho got an injury and was subbed off.

Mendy won’t be on outrageous wages I guess. He can be shifted If necessary. The problem remains Kepa. For me the Mendy deal is a bit of an inside job. No way we would be looking at him if it weren’t for the lollichon Petr Rennes connection. If that turns out good or bad Idk I just hope he turns out at least decent like Leno, Pope or Dubravka.

No. I could imagine Mendy is a bit of a stop gap himself until a genuine wc goalie comes avaiable. Mendy has his deficiencies and that will cost us. not as much as kepa but is that really the benchmark. when ederson, alisson came to city, pool, their defense woes were mostly sorted all at once. we would need a goalie with a similar impact to challenge for titles and everyone knows it.

I actually think it was tactically spot on. Everyone expected us to come out all guns blazing and run out of steam early but we sat deep and waited for the counter attack opps. Individualy it was a very poor performance. the passing from all midfielders was terrible. werner would have needed just a coupleof great passes straight through the middle and he would have socred a hatful. we had brightons number just couldnt finish them off. RJ and Alonso made individual mistakes to allow brighton chances but they have never been very good defenders. AC and Zouma were very collected and solid tho, sussed out tons of dangerous attacks.

I guess lampard bought that myth about Werner being better in a front 2. Or maybe he just wanted to accomodate him a bit too ease his transition into english football. Anyway RLC badly failed to playing bodyguard for Werner, so Timo was basically on his own anyway and did just fine. I could see the 4-2-4 working with Giroud but I can easily see Werner leading the line on is own too. Not sure if Havertz can drop into the position RLC played today and not get crushed tho, so no idea if it is so smart to play him high up front in the middle. we will see

Maybe we can sign Martinez more easily from Villa next year or so. I guess what went against him is that Martinez has so few games at top level and only really impressed recently. Even though he looked tremendous it was just 10 games. He never did anything special in all his loan spells before.

Don't worry Timo is rarely injured for more than a few days. Has only missed 13 matches in his whole career. Most of them due to common cold. I have to say i have a bit of sympathy for RLC. he was basically used as a battering ram to create space for werners runs. He failed miserably but it is not really his game. anyway, given how poor a player he is he should try his best at anything that is asked of him and he did not really look bothered today. I like how we scored from a corner first time fo rages. AC-Zouma looked rock solid. only the dunk header was a chance they conceded. Reece and esp alonso were particlalry poor. It can not be that an average player like lamptey cuts through our left side such that we need to double up on him. Alonso is just so so terrible, we really should sign yet another LB and get rid of emerson AND Alonso

Pretty sure he was played on the right on purpose today to keep him a bit out of the meat-grinding middle. RLC was tasked with taking down the long balls. He did not do particularly well but Havertz would have been crushed by Dunk. Quiet debut. Give him time. The pressure clearly took to him but he will be fine once he settles.

goal of the season so far. What a strike. This and the dunk miss effectively won us the match

The sort of game we have come to expect from him. No major cock ups but again useless once a shot is cleanly struck at goal. The shot was right in the corner but it was not very hard and from a narrow angle. A top goalie would push it away easily. He got his eye hand coordination wrong and the ball dipped under his arms even though his dive was sufficient. he just failed to direct his hands towards the ball. Like he needs glasses. At least he did not try his weird swinging technique

Isn’t Wonder Woman like strong or can fly lol? (Idk never seen or read that stuff) The injury took his pace, his touch and confidence. Now all he has left is his big strong body. maybe he can be molded into a defensive midfielder. But surely done on the top level

That is bc we are mostly playing the same team as last season while missing our best player. RLC as no 10 not being able to hold onto the ball or playing simple passes Fucked up all our attacks alonso and Kepa are just being Alonso and Kepa. Crap players with a normal performance for their standards. For any other player that were poor performances but for them it sexagtky what you expect

Game comfortably won in the end by luck and without breaking a sweat. Could have been a worse start

Timo deserves a goal tonight

Azpi coming on for Jorginho? guess Reece will step out to midfield

Hooray another injury

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