Magic Lamps

Yes! he definitely has his liberties at Leverkusen when it comes to defensive contribution and he uses them. Not an avid tracker of opposition fullbacks most definitely

Good point about afcon we sold the buy back clause for boga and got a sell on clause sadly i agree his too expensive and not worth the gamble. I actually don’t think we need to sign a 4th am/winger. Ziyech, puli, Cho and one from the academy like anjorin should do.

He is different to Özil tho. Much faster and better in the air. Likes to drift inside from the wing. Özil is completely useless out wide. Tbf he is useless anywhere by now. Timo and Havertz could easily play off each other and interchange vertically as opposed to a classic strike force with Havertz attacking long balls and Werner With the off the shoulder run. Once they would get used to the physicality they would wreak havoc

Really? i remeber it that we still would play Robben and Duff/Cole flanking Drogs and Crespo coming from the bench. could be wrong tho its been ages. We had so much quality in depth back then its crazy. 7 central midfielders including Tiago, Maniche, Lassana, Essien, 5 wingers and 4 stirkers with Gudjohnsen and Crespo too. Basically 2-3 top class players for every position. https://www.transfermarkt.de/fc-chelsea/kader/verein/631/saison_id/2005

We will need to play much better than we did yesterday. Jorginho will be crucial to bring structure in the game, as their style is to cause anarchy. I dont think they will knackered. This is like a new season in fitness terms, you get fresher by playing more. Its somewhat amazing how they are in front of teams with three times more valuable squads. tbf i had not heard of a single one of their starters before. Their average age is 28 thats ancient compared to ours. Based on individual quality alone we should walk this so its important we dont get sucked in their messy game and simply stick to our gameplan, dont give them any space to breathe.

Havertz is lazy off the ball. No manager likes that. He would be an absolute luxury player and force Lampard to change his system or not start Pulisic or Ziyech. Shevchenko being forced on Mourinho in 2006 cost us the league title because we had to change our system with wingers to a diamond. The difference is mostly that we had a title winning squad dirsupter back then whilst now the team still has to be moulded. Anyway if Havertz really joins, which I still doubt, albeit we currently look like his most likely destination, we need to shed midfielders badly.

yes. i doubt they will recover but stranger things have happened. I dont want us to just take 4 points from 4 games anyway. Anfield will obviously be tough cos the refs surely will want them to break the points record but if we can at least afford one loss i can see us getting at least 6 points from the other matches which should be enough

told you Sheff Utd would take something from this game 3 wins from the last 4 league games guarantee top 4. 4 points guarantee top 5.

at this rate, if we sign havertz we should just go with out a goalkeeper and with one defender the only way to field all our decent midfielders ----------------Mount----------- (he has so much energy he covers the whole pitch anyway so we can just give him the gloves) -------------Azpi----------------- one man defence ----Kante----Jorginho--Kovacic--- our bestmidfield lol Ziyech----RLC-------Pulisic ------Werner---Havertz---- playing off each other and then just add Barkley as a freebie wherever he wants to play cos Lamps loves him lol

tbh I have no idea how our midfield is gonna lineup if we indeed get havertz. we would surely switch to 4-2-3-1 cos Puli, Havertz, Ziyech and Werner all have to start. So this just leaves two midfield spots and i dont know if any combination of Jorginho, kova, mount, kante will actuallywork as a double pivot.

jorginho kovacic mount would be perfect for this kind of game but i doubt we will see it.

i wouldnt put it past Sheffield to get a draw. Wolves have been mixed since the restart. Sheffield however have been absolute rubbish and will need some luck

then its easy. if wolves lose today, we win on sat and city lose the appeal we need just one point from the last 3 matches to get CL

I am not even sure Gary would have caught up with Willian but Willian being Willian the mere presence of a defender would have made him stop and compeltely derail the attack by keeping hold of the ball for ages till the opportunity has passed. Playing on was definitely the right choice, not a fair play issue at all and class from Woy to not dwell on it. Imagine the meltdown if it had been VVD. Anyway I wish Gazza a swift recovery!

I hope it was not as bad as it looked. Still somewhat thankful we did not need to defend him in the box

JC looks slightly taller than both Kepa and Willy in the training vids. Height stats for players who are still growing are usually outdated. Also in contrast to kepa he has long arms which is even more vital. I dont know how good he actually is but if we had any decent CBs, LBs or GKs in the youth teams, Lampard surely had a look at them already. On a different note, I read a rumour from some random paper that we enquired about Areolawho is out of favour at Paris and Real so would be cheap. He is an interesting option. He is capable of incredible saves and is one of the most athletic goalies on the planet but at the same time prone to stupid mistakes. Think of a huge, younger Caballero.

that little chip to abraham was brilliant. the only way to play that pass through the defence in a way that abraham can finish with one touch without shortening the angle.

Not exactly a tank that Romagnoli guy. Also pretty high body fat percentage for a professional footballer. I would say 80-83kgs at 18-20% bodyfat. Surely his strengths are not in the physical side of the game. Milenkovic looks in way better shape. I would say that 90kg is about accuarate, does looks asimilar bmi as Romagnoli but much leaner. solid 12% bf. At this point any defender would upgrade our defence.Christensen looks an absolute shadow of the player he was at Gladbach. Stupid schoolboy error again. You would think he was a smart defender cos he is not a strong or a quick one but think again.

I can totally see Leicester losing toTottenham and ManUre. So whilst two wins out of four would probably secure 5th place for us, we can not rely on 5th place being enough for CL. ManUre will surely win all their remaining matches, so I do not expect us to stay above them, but as long as we stay above Leicester and Wolves we will be fine. Will be an absolute grind tho. More shit defensive performances to come in the next few weeks. Not just from us.

They are still fighting for Europe so definitely will be up for it. Not really necessary to talk permutations/combinations yet. Unless ManUre slip up we have no cushion whatsoever. Can not even allow a draw bc of the fuck up at Westham. Really need to win all remaining games.

No on knows cos he is not playing

No none who saw the natch yesterday can say that was an assured performance. It was absolute chaos. And Gilmour in the middle of it. We could not control the midfield to save our lives. Getting overrun. Also only 37 of 81 touches forward how is that a good stat.

equaliser doesnt count

I have never considered them as threats much. schmeichel with a couple of great saves. Arsenal arelooking fabulous going forward. Arteta knows what he is doing. All hail the king of dregs lol

Gilmour and Kante as DP would be catastrophic. would look like a dooryard with garden gnomes.