🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Frank Lampard

[NikkiCFC 8,324]

6 hours ago, milka said:

 

Lamps forbid him only thing he's good at 😂

[Vesper 30,189]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Lamps forbid him only thing he's good at 😂

very strange

I never took issue with Luiz's long game, it was a big plus

his defence is why I was often dismayed, lolol

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[Vesper 30,189]

Liverpool fans manufacture Sadio Mane stat, Chelsea Twitter hits back

https://www.chelsea-news.co/2019/09/liverpool-fans-manufacture-sadio-mane-stat-chelsea-twitter-hits-back/

Liverpool fans manufacturing information to make their players appear better than they actually are – is this news or merely a daily occurrence?

The Reds faithful are renown for forcing their agendas upon rival fans, whatever the cost or distortion of the truth. They have attempted to do so once again here.

Anfield Watch posted this below Sadio Mane stat on Twitter, which in fairness, is pretty damn impressive. If it were actually true, that is…

 

Chelsea Twitter legend ChelseaChadder struck back, rubbishing the supposed stat and clarifying that NINE representatives of our glorious club have achieved it in the past.

 

[Vesper 30,189]

IF we beat Wolves, and then win away at Ajax and Valencia (or draw those, but would certainly want to WIN all 3) 

I think we have a CHANCE at winning (or certainly not losing)

18 of the next 20 fixtures (Victimpool and Shitty are the only almost locks for losses if I am being honest) The 21st first game (and last one before X-Mass, is on December 21st, away at Spuds)

I think there will be some further EPL Cups games too, which should be wins. Away at Everton is the next hardest league game after away at Shitty (please NO SIX-NIL!), home with the Bindippers (probably close to the biggest non CL game of the year for me wishing for an upset, unless we get to the League Cup or FA Cup final, OR we drop down into the EL and get to the final again, as then CL for next year, and a return to the Super Cup is on the line), and away at Wolves.

Am I being cray cray?

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Just realised we had 3rd best defence last season. Despite obvious flaws and lot of complaining here, we didnt do as bad in general at all.

But this year, our defence is truly bad.

Hopefuly Rudi and Kante return improves our backline.

[NikkiCFC 8,324]

3 hours ago, BlueLyon said:

Just realised we had 3rd best defence last season. Despite obvious flaws and lot of complaining here, we didnt do as bad in general at all.

But this year, our defence is truly bad.

Hopefuly Rudi and Kante return improves our backline.

Exactly, if you take away City and Bournemouth where we conceded 25% of our goals last season we had very solid defence. And it's weird because Alonso and Luiz played majority of games. 

[milka 3,393]

Chelsea have already given more Premier League minutes to English players aged 21 or younger this season (703) than in any of their previous 14 seasons, since José Mourinho gave 1,170 minutes in 2004-05. #CFC

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On 9/8/2019 at 7:44 PM, BlueLyon said:

Just realised we had 3rd best defence last season. Despite obvious flaws and lot of complaining here, we didnt do as bad in general at all.

But this year, our defence is truly bad.

Hopefuly Rudi and Kante return improves our backline.

I don't think our defense was great last year but we played very slow possession football which limit opp chance plus we have Azpi staying back more. 

[manpe 10,861]

Last season Sarri spoke quite a bit about defensive positioning while having the ball. This was when we were too exposed to counter-attacks and leaked goals due to attacking players' positioning being too forward and not thinking about what would happen if they lost the ball, after which our style of play became more pragmatic and less fluid. It wasn't easy on the eye at times, but our defence certainly improved. I think this might be one of the issues now - players having maybe too much freedom, which means the team loses its shape defending quick counters. Perhaps the team needs more time and experience playing together, to develop that positional understanding and discipline.

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, manpe said:

Last season Sarri spoke quite a bit about defensive positioning while having the ball. This was when we were too exposed to counter-attacks and leaked goals due to attacking players' positioning being too forward and not thinking about what would happen if they lost the ball, after which our style of play became more pragmatic and less fluid. It wasn't easy on the eye at times, but our defence certainly improved. I think this might be one of the issues now - players having maybe too much freedom, which means the team loses its shape defending quick counters. Perhaps the team needs more time and experience playing together, to develop that positional understanding and discipline.

To say "it wasn't easy on the eye at times" is a HUGE understatement and you're being generous with the "at times".  It was only when Loftus-Cheek and CHO started playing and offering something different from all that relentless passing that we looked a tad better to watch.

As for the other point, Fabregas - IIRC, it was him - made the point about Sarri asking the players to make less forward runs after that Arsenal home game last season. 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Just realised we had 3rd best defence last season. Despite obvious flaws and lot of complaining here, we didnt do as bad in general at all.
But this year, our defence is truly bad.
Hopefuly Rudi and Kante return improves our backline.

Nowhere near as bad as people make out. We were 1 - boring as fuck and 2 - pretty toothless up front.

Defensively we were miles ahead of where we are this season. It's pretty amateurish if I'm honest

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[BlueLyon 9,359]

1 hour ago, Supermonkey92 said:

Nowhere near as bad as people make out. We were 1 - boring as fuck and 2 - pretty toothless up front.

Defensively we were miles ahead of where we are this season. It's pretty amateurish if I'm honest

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Speaking of boring, I actualy quit watching a few games last season, something I never did before. You just knew we aint gonna turn it around in 1000minutes nevermind 30 or so.

This year, our attack is realy a joy to watch though.

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Speaking of boring, I actualy quit watching a few games last season, something I never did before. You just knew we aint gonna turn it around in 1000minutes nevermind 30 or so.
This year, our attack is realy a joy to watch though.

It's mostly about intensity. The first 10 minutes against Leicester, a 15 minute period against Liverpool as well as Norwich and we look the dogs bollox. But there's also still shit on a stick football. Large parts of the Sheffield game were worse than last season, we couldn't even keep possession let all do anything with it. Same against Leicester, the midfield disappeared.

It's kinda nuts that the Liverpool game has been our absolutely best performance by a mile. As with all games we were second best at times but always competing on their level.

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[BlueLyon 9,359]

2 hours ago, Supermonkey92 said:

It's mostly about intensity. The first 10 minutes against Leicester, a 15 minute period against Liverpool as well as Norwich and we look the dogs bollox. But there's also still shit on a stick football. Large parts of the Sheffield game were worse than last season, we couldn't even keep possession let all do anything with it. Same against Leicester, the midfield disappeared.

It's kinda nuts that the Liverpool game has been our absolutely best performance by a mile. As with all games we were second best at times but always competing on their level.

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And the small stuff like Tammy running towards Lamps...its what builds character and team spirit and reminded me of Klopp at Pool. 

Might have some shit games but the passion and team work is always there. I didnt recognize that from Sarri last year, he was more like an outsider coaching a group of players rather than being a part of the team.

[Fernando 6,585]

I have said it before and today is another proof. Lampard is smart and he adjust. He is not stubborn. 

This is what I like about him and gives me high hopes for him. A manager that is smart, adjust and has charisma can go a long way. 

It's still early in the season and his career but this is amazing to me. 

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

Changed the system today which was smart as it accommodates Alonsos strength more although he was still quite poor but still conceding goals. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,382]

19 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Changed the system today which was smart as it accommodates Alonsos strength more although he was still quite poor but still conceding goals. 

Mostly accommodates the lack of width we have in options, which was evident against Sheffield and their 5 at the back system. 

Lampard is learning. 

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Very good of him adapting to the other team and changing formation, hopefully he finds out what to do about Zouma upsetting the balance of our defence. Maybe put Azpi in the Right centerback position once Reece james comes back.