Magic Lamps

gonna be disallowed bc of that stupid hand rule

5 great goal by marez

I guessed right that pool would lose intensity after the title is clinched. I fancy our chances vs them at Anfield

That is the path to immortality. Very few players have played in teams for club and country were they were the only world class players in either and carried both teams to titles. Maradona is best example.

And someone must have scouted him and given a recommendation. That person needs o have their eyes checked. His weaknesses are there in plain sight. This and his obvious physical attributes that are completely disadvantageous for a pro athlete (short weak limbs, lacking core strength, poor leap and no explosiveness) . The only thing he is good at is making the easy goals he concedes look like like worldies by always being in the wrong position and stupidly Swinging his arms around like a child trying to fly. And even at that he failed miserably yesterday.

He scored one last year. You were saying he is not a good free kick taker and his goal yesterday was just luck when clearly the opposite is the case

Maybe you have started following the club later then 2016 then. Willian has scored 11 free kicks for us. In the the Torrid 2015/16 He scored 6 and was the most prolific free kick taker in Europe’s top league that season.

Tbf William scored quite a lot of free kicks for us. his performance today was average apart from his goals but at least he kept his side clean defensively. We have bigger problems than him right now.

lol Cakir is not even a real upgrade and Thiago silva will be 36 next season. Going tis road is what has brought us all the dregs that are still on our payrolls in the first place.

I hope he will not haunt us like Salah and KDB. TBF it would be even worse cos he is a Chelsea boy through and through. So there is always a chance of him coming back. But if he indeed goes to Napoli he will never return to us

You seem to be quite a fan of Boga. tbh i never understood why we did not take that buy back clause. Even if we can not use him we surely could sell him for more than 13m

Deeney is the least of my worries from set pieces. he is actually one of their shortest players. Sarr vs Alonso will be a bloodbath

What part of Kepas game is great? Surely not his passing. He simply was a panic buy, a third choice attempt after Allison and Oblak opted against us. So we snapped and spent a fortune on a mediocre talent with mediocre potential. Now we are stuck with him. But two wrongs dont make a right. We should accept that loss and learn from it not to spent this much out of a position of weakness. If you have to decide between pest and cholera always pick cholera.

He brushes it off cos he is constantly grilled about it. Lampard will become a top manager. he has the right philosophy, attitude, professionalism and understanding of the game. (I still think he would be better suited to a technical director role tho) Anyway, if we had been successful with our bids to sign VVD and Alisson we would even be having this conversation. No manager in the world can be successful with defenders this bad at this level.

Then again the same was true for his Derby defense and goalkeeper. in fact most defenses in the championship are weird. Just look at the table, all teams up to 6th place a gd of less than 10. Derby this season have conceded 52 goals already in 40 games which is just 2 less than under Lamps for the whole season. Sure he is not a good defensive coach and i miss the times where you could rely on our defense to not concede stupid goals and shit away winning positions constantly. Give a not so good manager shit defenders and it will be chaos. Give a shit coach like Avram Grant a world class defense and it will be alright. Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola are not exactly great defensive coaches either. They only won stuff as soon as they got a world class goalkeeper and half-decent defenders. Our current defenders wont fix it. Lampard wont fix it. It has to be an external solution. Either sign some decent players or hire a better defensive coach (which i am sure Lampard will not give himself the blemish of doing) or get a manager like Conte who prioritizes defence and play boring football again. I am fine with any solution but i prefer the second in the short term and the first in the long term.

I just noticed that not only we are playing Wolves on the last day but also ManU and Leicester are facing off against each other then. Quite possibly an epic showdown. I can so see the FA manipulating games such that the last matchday will indeed be a decider.

This is true. I think Lampard got nervous and wants to finish off the season without risking to expose our defence. It is only natural to rely on experience when its crunch time. Now we have the worst of both worlds. But Lampard is not an ideologist. I can see him reinstate Jorginho in an instant. He will learn from this. Esp since Jorginho is closest to a leader we have on the field. I am pretty sure we will see him next game vs Watford Kante is not what he used to be. In his prime he dribbled through pressing opponents with ease and thus broke up the play. Nowadays he just defends. He should be used to see out wins like the way Mourinho used Mikel.

tbf Westham were not even that bad. They did not just park the bus, simply defended well and attacked sporadically but with poise and purpose. Antonio had the game of his life as expected. Also they knew how to protect their shitty goalie. The only positive memoryi have of them is when they beat tottenham in 2017 and gave us the opportunity to clinch the title early. Still want them to be relegated.

Why do our rivals always play before us putting us under pressure? Who the heck drawsup these massively unfair anb biased schedules?

To put our position into perspective. Klopp finished 8th in his first season with Liverpool with transfers (and a similar mediocre squad as ours now). That Liverpool side lost 10 times, just as we did so far and finished on 60points which is surely less than we will finish. The season thereafter they had 76 points and 6 losses, scraping 4th place, again with transfers. We should give Lamps time. He has committed amateur mistakes that are typical of a rookie manager cos he is a rookie manager. But Klopp was already a veteran and they struggled badly defensively in his first two years. Lampard has massively overachieved by even putting us in this position. My expectation for the season was 6th and I still think that is where we end up. But we also managed a cup run and got out of the CL group stages. All in all this is already a solid season. And if we lose out on a top4 palce then to settled teams which are in better shape than we are. As annoying as this set piece shit is, we should give it time. We are building a dynasty . After yesterday I am convinced Kepa and Rüdiger can not be part of this. neither can Alonso. But before we have replaced them we will leak goals irrelevant of how good we practise defensive routines. If Kepa decides to try to collect the ball for a first time in ages while having no chance of reaching it, this is not a coaching error it is an individual error. Same as Christensen stopping to his run ball watching. The last one maybe was a tactical mistake if Alonso was instructed to stay up, no idea. Anyway, we should stop overreacting. I think there are some mental issues in the team which result in the same mistakes being repeated over and over again. Has to do with confidence and I dont think this can be fixed from within.

So annoying. That we always need to go gung ho. Amateurish getting caught in the moment. We could have simply seen out the game more conservatively, a draw would have been a fair and decent result. Yet we always need to risk it needlessly. We would have never scored from open play.

It was obviously a miskick under pressure but such a lack of effort in it. JT would have kicked that out of the stadium

Was a bit unlucky. Barely in the game at first but wreaks panic in the opposition Defence once he gets on the ball. Should have scored one of his chances

This and his love for Barkley are absolute beyond me. We should be signing at least 2cbs, 2lbs and a fucking goalie

Despite all the hate he gets, Azpi is our only proper defender. The rest are absolute honks.