Magic Lamps

Hasenhüttl is a great coach btw. His philosophy is based on high pressing and quick attacks after winning the ball..for him, posession play is just to tire the opponent or win set pieces. Need to be super careful when playing out of tje back even tho Southanpton have yet to adapt fully to his style

Just out of curiosity why didn you like him? I always hated that his form decined at end of season and he is tiny and slow af but as a person he seened to be likeable.

really should make a few offensive signings now. Not that the board will bother but we fucking need a goalscorer.

I really liked Emerson on the wing as a sub because he can break out of the press and did some great work creating space out of a tight defensive situations with his dribbling today adn also vs Watford. Also i think he wanted a player on that side to keep tabs on zaha. Emerson is really good in attack IMO just a bit shaky. in defence albeit no worse than jogging Alonso

by not going nearer to him than 10 yards. I think Agüero has forced a restraining order on Southamptons entire backline. Absolutely mad how easy Sohtampton gifted City the win here. own goal and practically also gifted the 3rd with that torrid piece of defending. And we all know that they will turn up vs us next time. That beign said. We also beat Crystal palace easily after they smacked city.

tbf this Palace team under this manager suck any joy out of football, just stacking 11 men in the box, hoofing the ball upwards. If the opposition does not wanna play football and we can still beat them comfortably why bother wasting too much effort. I have to admit i missed big parts of the game due to my shitty internet connection on the travel(Germany is stuck in medieval infrastructure-wise) but what i saw was that we patiently passed the ball around with maximum control (apart from willian who let it run out of play for fun) and palace barely had a look in. Even at 0-0 i was confident some individual magic would give us the win at some point. Ofc we are not an exciting team, we have almost 0 creativity. Barkley and Jorginho are hardly created too provide breakthroughs with their Apart from two zaha shots to the stands i did not witness any chances from them, our defenders especially Luiz and Azpi were superb. Ofc our offense is shit apart from Hazard but that is a known problem and we know whose fault that is.

What a player keeps on improving. Some players sulk when played out of positon, but kante just soldiers on, adapts and does what he is asked to. When he first came here his passing was mediocre, he got some stick for it and now it is immaculate. Begnning of the season his offensive off-the ball movement was very minimal and now he keeps making those run whenever Jorginho or David are on the ball. If you tel this guy to score from the halfway line he will master it weeks later . What a character this guy is. An absolute inspiration this guy, not only for footballers but for mankind in general, there is nothing you can't master with his attitude.

Today was another low, the amount of times a ball went out of play just because Willi could not care less about chasing the pass was painful. Please just leave. 65m everybody... 65 fucking millions

so relieved we missed out on golovin. has been complete rubbish at monaco. the low level of the world cup and the russian league flattered him but he is a below average player.

makes you wonder what happened to the art of passing. given he is probably our best long range passer in the team We used to have Lamps, Deco and Ballack and now if we lose Fabregas we basically have no passing range whatsoever. Probably has to do with the centre-backs doing more long range passing nowadays. anyways, i understand cescs desire to play, albeit i think he is a bit overestimating himself.

some say we even have a buy back clause. However, not even Thorgan imself knows^^ https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/thorgan-hazard-chelsea-transfer-clause-15432901 but from the sound of it, he would not say no if we were to bid for him.

this deal looked very plausible from the beginning. lets see how it works out. HIs end product is shit and i cant stand that but he still has time to work on his decision making and composure. He has one trait however that I really like and that is his directness when running at players. instad of turning and passin gbakcwards when having beat a player (Willian specialist of squandering those) he knocks the ball into space and goes full sprint. Dortmund reportedly gonna reinvest the Pulisic funds to buy Thorgan Hazard , which makes sense weakening their direct competition. Also Thorgan is in the form of his life. I wonder whether going for him instead of Pulsiic would tempt the more talented older brother to stay. Especially if we continue playing false 9, we can easily afford playing both...

Lol imagine Cech and Cahill playing high line and playing out from the back at Arse

This. Had a few phenomenal defwnsive interventions when our defenders had fucked up. And he can still play great passes put of nowhere even if he has a quiet game. And what has he added to the team? Easy..he removed the need for Fabregas and thus resolved his defensive liability without us losing creativity (which tbf was not on a high level)

There are nunerous examples of absolute shite players playing regularly for top clubs and national teams..esp when those have rather poor squads relative to their peaks and leftback is traditionally a position that does not have quality players in abundance.

As if Emerson is defensively weaker than Alonso.they are both equally shit. Alonso is taller so can help out aerially but Emerson is way quicker and can recover. Offensively however Imo Emersons technique and pace is way more valuable than the occasional free kick goal.

As opposed to a lb with horrible positioning, bad tackling, no pace and who can only pass the ball back to Hazard but scores a wondergoal every blue moon?

This nowadays..a 5m player is just as much a gamble as a 50m.one. the only difference is the 50m is on form and flavour of the month

I would like that a lot. RLC was hugely effective on the wing lately..few teams are equipped to handle a player his size on the wing and he would also be a threat from distance and aerially. I think we have seen enough proof why having too many similar players on the Pitch is detrimental. The wins vs City and Watford were kinda flukey. Apart from the Kanye and hazards chances how many more did we create? Yes Morata and Giroux are shot scorers but we create way more chances with a big striker on the pitch. Defenders have to stay tight tomhim and that leaves more space for the agile players to run into.

City are shit lately. If we turn up we will beat the mighty Crystal Palace. We have mediocrity in depth so no worries if any player bar Hazard is injured.

Ofc, Salah does not get a ban for his obvious dive vs Newcastle. Media darlings and FA prodigies.

Would be still possible ronhet rid of alonso for some.money as the footballing world has not entirely figured out what a fraud he is

Amazing from.emerson

Yes he was shit but he was taken off bc of injury

Nice effort.