Magic Lamps

No midfielders now on the bench. really not ideal. jsut mark Pukki out of the game and we will be fine. damn taht ground is buzzing. either score early or tire them out with posession.

we really need to be more variable tactically. all we can do is this total football pressing for 15mins and then get tired. we neeed to be able to park the bus and tire the opponent with slow posession footy as well. And we really should do because we have plenty of experience in both and they are arguably easier.

not gonna say told you so, but i said pedro should not start, just pulled out injured

Why do we still keep saying to "try" Tammy. He had plenty of time this season and in preseason and has never repaid any of this trust. Nothing we have seen from him so far warrants further starts. Also absolutely baffled with pedro starting he must be knackeres even having not trained the full week. The rest is dictated by the circumstamces.

Who is gonna be our hazard today tho. O guess Willian will start cos Lamps alluded to Pedro being rested. But i could also see Mount on the wing again and would honestly prefer it. Kepa Azpi Chris Zouma Emerson Jorginho Kovacic Mount Barkley Pulisic Giroud Is what I expect. Makes you realize how we have regressed....that is one bang average lineup. Not a single world class player bar maybe Kepa...how the mighty have fallen

Ngolo is injured...again. Should still win without him. Will he ever truly recover tho? Fucking Sarri

Damn that's him out of reach

True. Whilst Mount, Cho and James IMO deserve the chance because of their immense talent and potential regardless of the ban, Tammy is so clearly out of his depth it is literally written in his face whenever he misses a chance.

He sure does look like RLCs Dad in that pic 😂

The bullet is not dodged yet. He will be 28 and cost 120m, Bayern will never trigger his buy option. he will be back for sale in 2020

Yeah hope he gets well soon. Pneumonia at that age is not harmless. Being a chain smoker does not help either. So hopefuly he recovers and quits.

Sure, that was not meant as criticism. It is just become a habit for him. Remember when he scored two goals against Newcastle, got loaned out the next day, started teh weekend vs Köln and scored 2 again. He is a brilliant poacher, make no mistake. I rate him more than Giroud and Tammy. But also he will never be a complete all round striker, who I would trust to lead the line for a top club. But he was hugely successful in Dortmund and we play very very similar to Dortmund under Lamps, committing people forward, a lot of running off the ball and low crosses fizzed across the goalkeeper.

Got a brace and should have scored more, so hopefully Lampard noticed his contribution from the stands. scoring a brace vs a shit team is probably the most Batshauyi thing there is^^

adama traore looks like a body builder. just a square bundle of fast-twitch muscle fibres. Shame he aint got half a brain.

poor pen. justice served

Jon MOss is doing his best to fuck wolves over tonight. tbf that is a clear dive, he is in the air before he touches Coady. and the commentators are even fucking justifying that disgusting dive

yup especially if something happened that was like 10 passes before the goal i nthe build up and it was a fraction offside. Who the hell cares? They should have ruled out 2 goals of ManU vs us then as well. Anyway, we introduced it last year in Germany already and it was lamighty confusion in the beginning but it works better now, albeit still not perfect

I was just gonna rant how ManU are always favoured by aluminium hits. In the 2008 final alone, we hit the woodwork twice, Lamps and Drogs both with brilliant shots.

VAR coming to the rescue for manure

Ruben Neves and his long shots are the bane of ManU. was just about to complain how the post comes to save utd the 4th time this season already.

Hate to say it but whilst Wolves are poor, ManU are excellent defensively. And when you have martial and rashford up front you always have a chance.

Pukki is on ahot streak but their other players are shit. We should walk all over them.

I agree mostly. I thing Tammy is an absolute shitty header of the ball tho. He usually dives underneath crosses like today. I think midfield is the least of our worries. The defence does not really join the pressing and pushes high, so we usually hav e alot of space between midfield and defence for teams to exploit. I really would like to see Bats in this system. His hold up play might be shit but he has the legs to press so he should be able to learn it. Our chances come from playing quick and not building from the back where we would need a big target man anyway. I am not even sure Lamps knows what a nice little poacher Bats is. Maybe he is just like Demba Ba someone who is absolute useless in training but still scores his fair share in games. I understand that Giroud had to be kept on cos he scored and it would have meant throwing Tammy under the bus. But now both have sucked so I think it is Bats turn. Willian, Pedro, Tammy (we need a catchy name for it maybe Tamwilledro) is the most frustrating offense. one i want to never see again but probably will. Miles worse then Anelkalouda. I dont get the insistence on Tammy. Lamps obviuosly has his darlings, especially Mount. But the little fella is a brilliant player, full of energy, pace, determination and can actually score goals. Tammy is absolutely useless. Even Lukaku was better at 20. Already had 17 EPL goals under his belt at that age. But yeah our defence is shit as well. Usually you would expect a chelsea side to get a 1-0 over the line. There are phases were you are shit in any game like Souness said and then you have to make sure you do not concede. But we still played like we were chasign the game and were all over the place in midfield. And part of this was due to faitgue but also i think lamps can improve the tactics on running afte rlosing the ball. Azpi's decline and Pedro consistently losing balls in dangerous positions does not help either. But our right side was clearly target by Leicester yeseterday. Only when Willian came on to do fuck all they attacked his side as well. We are under pressure now and need to win the next two games 100%. I expect us to do so and would have even if we had 6 instead of 1 point in the bag right now.

We are super predictable this season. Start with brilliant power play, create a ton of chances, dont score them, tire and concede. Rinse and repeat. We are not fresh enough, dont defend as a team and most of all are not clinical enough.

It really is not if you look at the situation the same amateurs responsible for not selling Willian have brought us in.