Magic Lamps

Willian out of the squad is harsh and risky. He is superb at wasting time with his ball hogging. just one player with pace.... don’t like it also as for Kepa is gone... sitting him on the bench is one thing, finding a buyer is another

I doubt it’s true but would be sensible buy. One of the best dms in Buli for years now

Apart from Ziyech they are all more finishers than creators. a bit more creative input from the fullbacks wont hurt

I have to admit i have only seen him play once. there he looked a bit wild. I am not sure he is any better than Emerson defensively. But apparently we are looking for an attack-minded fullback not defensively super solid one.

I would love this to bea boring draw but knowing us this will be super tight where we either collapse in the last second or somehow get it over the line hanging on for our lives. Wolves are a very competent side I dont want to see Jorginho from the start. we need energy in the middle,their midfielders and central defenders are notexactly quick and can be vulnerable when isolated and run at. Our match plan for most of the restart has been to work free a player onthe right to cross to Giroud. I can imagine, Boly and coady will be rather comfortable with this approach. but if we are able to get behind their wingbacks and isolate pulisic vs one of their cbs, i can see us getting pens. Obviously we are gonna start the match by wasting 5 glorious chances as usual.

Have to agree. Put last season's Hazard in Lampard's Chelsea and I could have seen us 75-80 points. All those chances we created, Hazard would have scored a few more and created some of his own. Plus our next best offensive midfielder from last year, RLC was injured almost the whole season, Pulisic our current best attacker was injured for almost half the season as well. Lampard has forged an attacking system that has allowed a pure poacher( and not even a class one)like Tammy to score a decent amount of goals and now has Giroud score almost every game. I think some here are giving Lampard way too much stick. Wait at least the next two games. If we win both, the season can be called a success. It is almost as if some people on here want him to fail, which is weird for a fan. Sure, if he doesnt fit the defence by next season, he wont succeed but he should be allowed some mistakes given the shit situation in which he took over.

But they were not Pep players either. He did not buy them but inherited them. Also he sat Müller on the bench a lot. We know pep wants his AMs to be as nimble as possible

Doesn’t strike me as a Pep player. Too direct and way too tall for an attacker compared to his usual suspects.

Their length, strength and the speed he is able to move them. But he has so many problem areas, physical, technical and mental that I don’t think he will ever be a world class goalie. Even if he somehow recovers his confidence. It amazes me how he even managed to become a professional athlete with such remarkably average physical characteristics, middling talent and football intelligence. If you go to the nearby Highschool, pick a random lanky teen and train him reasonably well to be a goalkeeper for 10years, he would probably do just as good/bad as Kepa. I can’t find any personal dislike for him tho. Even after the shit he pulled with Sarri subbing him off which was an unprecedented act. He just seems a guy in the wrong job. Should have been a much better ornithologist

Whilst I think it is nothing to aim for and below our level as well as financially devastating, a season of EL could benefit us in the long term, blooding in more youngsters and having enough games to keep a bloated squad happy it also renders us a great chance of winning a trophy.

If that is everything he does then I prefer Kovacic who is 3rd in final third passed and at least can defend and dribble a bit. Much more complete player

Gimenez again is just 1,85m tho

Lamps said in the post match that Puli was not fit enough for 90mins hence not started. Surely we will see him in the next two games from the beginning.

That would be a good role for him if he is satisfied with that

Hence Lukaku does not lead our line either. yeah 15 goals per season is his level

Tbf Europa league is a great competition to blood in more youngsters and have them gain experience. Also we would be Instant favourite for the title. Obviously financially not ideal or where we belong but not a disaster no idea if we should mirror their 3 at the back again or play our better 433. We need another world class performance from Pulisic to get anything from this. We know Willy will save most shots but he will also have 1 or 2 incredible blunders so we need to score at least 2. If we concede first it’s over .i would be less worried if Utd had any interest in winning va Leicester. They look tired they will be away, Leicester will be fresh af and highly motivated . Not optimistic as again we will be up against the full power of refs and FA like we were yesterday

Still I think that penalty showed his true character. Not that he missed but the way he did. Too afraid to take a chance. Just meek, content with hitting the target. If Adrian would have had to claw out his shot out of the bottom corner then alright, fair play to both but he just had to wait for Abraham to roll it into his hands. Abraham just couldn’t handle the pressure just as he can’t handle carrying a top club. It is no shame, he is a good goal scorer but just not the one to lead our line

You can have bad seasons and you can have seasons like this one.... the problem is not that he produces howlers like de Gea. The problem is that he is afraid to make the save and look bad. He is just scared. He swings his arms to make his saves look harder On easy ones and he stays rooted to make his goals conceded Look world beaters. He just coasts through games hoping that nothing fiercely hit comes towards him. And if it does his first concern is not to look to bad saving it instead of actually saving it. He obviously is not in a state of mind where he should be a professional athlete i have never seen a goalkeeper in a top league being at fault for this many goals. As a defender you want to rely on you goalie a bit to facilitate the defending . Most defenses allow shots from 30 yards bc you expect the goalie to save them. We can’t so we leave space in behind.

Have we tho? I think we took a massive step forward with the performance vs Utd and today a loss va a far superior wide was always in the cards. You always criticized that our offensive dynamism has gone lost during the season but we have rediscovered some of it lately. Become more versatile too. Today’s loss was more down to an inferiority of individual quality than a Regress in development

True but lack of foresight or football intelligence has always been his problem as it was in this particular situation.

Guys let’s simply ignore those 20post trolls

Let him block the path of Saka and Nketiah at Arsenal. Today was a game we really needed his experience yet he was the one who brought us down first

There has been a slightly OTT influx of American Pulisic fanboys/trolls who derail the discussions. Maybe we should have some temporary restrictions on new members. I have seen it in other forums where new members can only post once in every 60 mins until they hit 100 posts or so. Ensures they stick to it and show some co cistency and commitment to the forum. also there is one of these individual who practices hate speech against our manager and his country in almost all of his posts on top of being extremely biased and monothematic. Most of the forum would appreciate that guy being banned

No, Manu need to beat Leicester that is our ticket

The only way we qualify for CL now is if ManU don’t stick to the script and somehow beat Leicester. Obviously the FA/pgmol will do everything in their power to have us lose vs Wolves same as they did today to make us lose vs their beloved pool