Magic Lamps

Excellent. We increased our lead for top 4 by a point today.... At this rate we will finish 4th with like 57 points lol.

Easy. we lose vs any side that know how to park the bus and have the pace to run at our isolated defenders or are good at set pieces. Unfortunately this is the style of play of about every Premier League team right now.

Great summary. We have a lot of players that are square pecks in round holes. Pep and Klopp got all the players with the right attributes and technical education for their system. Lampard is not Conte or Mourinho who style their system to fit their players but has a certain philosphy. We see that our players really try to buy into this game but time and time again they dont know what to to, run out of steam, look out of sync with each other or simply are not good enough. This squad is like 8th best in the league. Finsihing 6th or higher would be a great success. The more time the players have to train with lamps and to rest to digest his ideas the better they perform. No wonder we won most games we had full weeks of rest for. Also our best performance vs Spurs came after a nice week long of rest. When Lamps gets his players we will improve drastically IMO. But if the Board gives him the usual dregs we will struggle. Today for once was not Lamps's fault but the players individual (Kovacic) or collective incompetence (look at how Zouma and Rüdiger were aimlessly running around when our midfield decided to press up or how Jorginho and Kante were out of position once the press of the front three was surpassed.

I think it is no coincidence that Kante's return after the last internatinonal break has accompanied a poor run of form. He has not been as good as he used to and often looks isolated. Overall I think our midfield, albeit our best collection of players is overrated af. We need a complete midfielder who can score goals, play throughballs and reads the game well enough to dictate the tempo and make interceptions. someone like Lamps was as a player. Particularly goals and through balls are missing from our midfield. Our present midfielders are very lmited in their game. Mount is pretty much only good and running a lot and finding space, Kovacic is only good an dribbling and 1 on 1 defending (apart from his clumsly performance today). Kante is only good at dribbling, running a lot, defending and short passing, Jorginho is only good at passing in the first and and middle third of the game etc. Also our press sucks and was broken countless times because our midfield did either not push high enough or was out of synch with the defence when the first 3 were surpassed.

Lamps made an important point. When we have such a small side teams will get chances in set pieces vs us and the odd one will stick. So we have to take our chances. 1-0 will never be a safe result for this team. If we don’t get at least 2 goals we are not even 50% likely to win. also Kante and Kova were atrociously bad. And both are basically useless in a game we’re we have this much space.

It’s frustrating how we always feature at the wrong end of the rarest and most outrageous goals. Cisse, Adam, Agüero, Mahrez, Salah all these rare stunners always against us. other than that no complaints, even game could have lost. Selection was alright, ref was torrid, Non sharpness, bad pressing. typical post-conte Chelsea game.

Alcacer handed in a transfer request.... if Giroud leaves is we could use another experienced striker Ebonics effective from the bench. Only gripe is Paco is such a poor athlete.

Werner would also compliment Tammy better in a possible 2 striker set up. Tammy can still become a decent target man and Werner is brilliant playing off the shoulder.

I agree. Questioning one‘s loyalty to the club just because they disagree about a player or whatever is among the cheapest, most pathetic and most disgusting arguments to use on a fan forum. No respect for someone who dedicates hundreds of hours and posts to this one club out of simple passion. True Chelsea fans should be above this.

As a loan and short term fix i would be ok with Isco as a means to break down low blocks. But no way we should sign him on a perm

He is good but 27 in 2 months. If we got Chilwell he would be a good backup tho.

This. We should not be looking at pool we can’t catch them. But wolves can catch us so happy they lost.

No 2024 on a free

Great win. The only gripe is that next week we will be shit again at home vs a low block. But maybe we have learned now from turning around a losing position.

Not sure what is going on. Clearly the players are not clicking the way they used to in the beginning of the season. The hunger, the running is gone. Maybe the atmosphere is not as great and Lamps fails to motivate them now the buzz is gone. he never struck me as an extrovert guy who takes the players with him but more like a calm, well-spoken politician so maybe a better chairman than manager. anyway time will tell. He might still come out good. The problem is pretty evident and I am sure he will figure out a solution at some point.

It’s amazing how we will still finish this day 4th despite having lost 5 in 7 and 7 overall already. The league has really become poor.

We now have an average squad, an average manager and a poor board. We always need one of the 3 to be good to have success. And because of the latter I have no high hopes for anything to change with the transfer window. We will end up with a few overpaid dregs like Zaha and have the same shitty results.

I like your positive attitude. Tammy has not scored for some time now, but the service to him has been horrible for ages now

1-1 would be amazing. First league point from losing position.

Horrible game . Terrible team selection. CHO looks like the worst player in the league in current form. Also I don’t get how you roll out 8 defensive players vs the fringe players of Southampton and still concede. No way back now. This team is hardly gonna turn anything around from a losing position so Not gonna bother watching anymore as soon as we concede. those disgusting Timewasting tactics and the ref not punishing it hard enough doesn’t help

Noticed that too. The ref clearly had an agenda. Also how he needlessly booked Kovacic after he was brought down and Grabbed by Alli and let Dier get away with his open sole fouls. glad the VAR ref had not gotten the bribe. For once that dude was excellent.

What I find sweetest about this win is how Spurs threw everything they got at us, all their big guys were fit, at their new home, their fans racist chanting, throwing stuff at Kepa, them fouling badly at every opportunity, the cunt Alli constantly diving in the box yet we came out on top comfortably once again.

His best ever performance? He was at the centre of everything today. Those passes and runs to break us free on the counter on top of his goals and defensive contributions. We all know he will be shit again in a few weeks but let him have his moment. What a game the old boy had.

Damn what a game. I knew it was gonna be something different with this awesome pacy back 3. Willain easily MOTM. Probably his best ever career game. He was at the heart of everything notonly the goals but also in defense and for once quick and decisive when starting off counter attacks.Could have easily had his hattrick if Mount had spotted him in space instead of passing to Abraham. Maybe even our best performance under Lamps yet. limited Spurs attack with all of Eriksen,Kane, Alli, moura and Son to 0 real chances. And most importantly Lamps outcoached Mou by a mile today. completely ruled the midfield and that airtight defence. Even alonso was good with awesome off the ball movement. Nothing to moan about except maybe not being clinical enough for the third. Great win. Hope it gives us momentum for the hectic festive schedule.

that's what you call Bayerndusel. Play crap all game, concede tons of chances, still win 3-1 with two stoppage time goals.