Magic Lamps

Has to play vs Palace. Their strikers, Benteke and Wickham are exactly the kind of challenge he relishes.Especially Benteke has the exact same height and build as Kurt with those huge legs, wide and strong core but relatively light arm/shoulder region which gives them more agility when they have to move the upper body for challenges in the air and keeping balance after a change of direction. One reason why Cahill always looks so suspect when people run towards him is that he is the antithesis to Zouma with weaker core and legs and lots of needless muscle mass on his upper body which makes him top heavy and clumsy on the turn.

Good for us. It will surely prolong his career. Also Carvajal plays over him bc he is at RM. everyone can see Azpi is the better defender

Who has had 0 minutes? Watford and Leicester were perfect opportunities for Jorginho to get some match fitness yet Lamps played billy over him who made an absolute meal of it. I am quite sure Billy will start and he better get it right this time.

Really. If that video is anything to go by, he is a very limited player. If Masten or him were any good they would be in the squad given how Lamps rightly distrusts both Alonso and Emerson

lol the ref disposessed the Villareal player there with an attempted McGeady spin

Lampard managed Pulisic perfectly. He did not have a summer break and was near burnt out. Lampard gave him a bit of time to acclimatize and is now reaping the rewards. Wins are all that matters now. I could not care less if Lampard does not include Jorginho for the rest of the season as long as we finish top 4.

Actually penalties won count as assists

He ain’t as robust as hazard but he is even quicker and also works hard against the ball. Great defensive shift from him today. Superb attitude.

Yeah but we don't have anyone near that level in midfield to play in front of him. this would mean he can never play to his full potential for us. Tbh i see more of jorginho in him, playing simple passes quickly between the lines and controlling the tempo. he has not really shown the vision and long range passing ability of Pirlo.

a defensive masterclass in how to control a pacy winger. Just dont give him an acre of space before he controls him and give him no room to run at after he has controlled it. Sarr had one chance to run at azpi and did not even dare and crossed instead. Other than that it was the other way round. Sarr was chasing Azpi's shadow because we defended his side well as a team.

No one in Germany was thinking one minute they could win the title tho even when they were like 8 points above Bayern. Some of my colleagues who are Gladbach fans were bullish about them, some are dortmudn fans, so i challenged them for a bet with outrageously good odds for them and no one dared it.

Yet they rolled over for a poor Leicester side today. The thing with teams that are on the beach is, once they concede one they basically stop playing. Getting the first goal vs Palace will be crucial. The good thing is, away games inside London with no travelling and opposition fans are like home matches on a slightly different pitch (Selhurst park has almos the exact same measurements as SB).

It woked today. Kante broke up quite a few of their attacks and even did one of his dribbles that he used to be so good at. I Watford were so deep, Jorginho would not really have been much of an improvement but when Kante got subbed for the again ineffective Gilmour what is going on behind the scenes

it has been one single game vs one of the poorest team in the league I would not hang it too high. but both have higher football iq than rüdiger for sure.

I think he is playing the Essien role in Lampards version of the 4-3-3 Kante obviously being Makelele. Does it exceptionally well so far.

Mine too. But I seperatemy admiration for Lamps as a player and my sympathy for him as a person from my appraisal of his management. The latter is still flawed. I don't really care about what he says to the press. Blaming it on height was a classic Mourinho line to deviate from the actual topic but he will get away with it cos thepress likes him. Anyway, good game management from Lamps and the lads today. Was not excited by the selection but we got lucky with the pen and from there on it was a cruise. His swaps were a bit dangeorus and because it was only Watford it did not backfire.

It is. Given the GD,if it is 9 points after the next matchday top 5 is clinched at least.

yet both scored. it really is baffling. Still even a blind can see both will see their purplepatches come to an end soon. It is Pulisic and Mount who are running the show. Both are unplayable when at full fitness. Giroud was also vital today. Dominated their defenders and his goal was exceptionally well taken.

actually he was poor on the ball mostly but he has developed a knack of impacting the scoreline lately. both his goal and assist were well done

guess who is starting for us the rest of the season

decent game. good performance helped by the utter shit side that Watford are but we never made them set foot in the game. completely shut them out and defended with the ball. good game management.

Welbeck is our best defender today

pulisic still has a lot to learn. terrible defending there. no idea how atford failed to score there. great defending by RLC even though he probably had no idea about it

thats a clear pen on Puli

barkley is the worst. how many turnovers does he have to cause till he gets dropped. sarr taken off. had been in azpi's pocket all game.