Álvaro Morata

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5 hours ago, Thor said:

I was one of few against the signing on the board, and thought we should have gone for Lukaku, but after watching him play last night, I thought he did really well. 

I commented on the missed penalty just as some perspective based on how some on this board will bash one player for a certain thing, but another will get a pass. At the end of the day, should hit that nearly every time, but it happens. I won't blame him for the missed penalty. Everyone misses. 

Aside from his very first touch in the game where he bobbled it and lost it in the middle of the park, he was very impressive with his hold up and distribution off some difficult balls. Courtois was lobbing them to him and nearly every time he was around the ball, he controlled it or headed it to one of our men. Obviously when we're playing our best side, that will come extremely handy. Something we didn't get much of with Costa in the line up. 

 

this, it is just crazy that the one who wanted Lukaku (including me) is the one that actually impressed with morata. I was also impressed, in 20 minutes his perfomance I thought was quite good.

His link up play and passing is just so much cleaner than Costa, no wonder he is a better no 9 for spain compare to Diego. 

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7 hours ago, Thor said:

I was one of few against the signing on the board, and thought we should have gone for Lukaku, but after watching him play last night, I thought he did really well. 

I commented on the missed penalty just as some perspective based on how some on this board will bash one player for a certain thing, but another will get a pass. At the end of the day, should hit that nearly every time, but it happens. I won't blame him for the missed penalty. Everyone misses. 

Aside from his very first touch in the game where he bobbled it and lost it in the middle of the park, he was very impressive with his hold up and distribution off some difficult balls. Courtois was lobbing them to him and nearly every time he was around the ball, he controlled it or headed it to one of our men. Obviously when we're playing our best side, that will come extremely handy. Something we didn't get much of with Costa in the line up. 

 

I came here to comment but this post already lays it out. 

Morata played far better than batshuayi imo and because he missed a penalty, he's been crucified.

People are acting as if he didn't play while we're with ten men. He made runs off the ball like costa and in his presence and running, we created more chances than when batshuayi was playing. He won more headers than batshuayi and Costa combined and could be a genuine aerial outlet for us. And most importantly, he wasn't losing the ball and passing it to the opponent like costa did in the second half last season. 

Hazard takes our penalties anyway, so I'm not worried if he's poor at them.

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11 hours ago, Superblue_1986 said:

There is a big difference between strikers who have flopped for Chelsea and first choice strikers who have flopped.

We've definitely brought some dross, but certainly in the last 20 years I can only think of Torres and Sutton as first choice strikers who have been pitiful. 

Zola, Vialli, Hughes, Flo, Hasselbaink, Drogba, Costa...we've far from had it too bad.

Shevchenko?

[MefiX19 1,092]

Just loan him to Vitesse

[Reddish-Blue 2,356]

Hopefully Morata scores early on in the season...otherwise the media will have a field day with Torres 2.0 

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2 hours ago, DDA said:

Shevchenko?

The intention may have been there but he never usurped Drogba as first choice. 

It's hardly like we were reliant on him like we were with Torres.

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7 hours ago, Cosmin said:

FERNAAAANDO TORRES, CHELSEA'S NUMBER NINE!

Oh, wait!

I'm just kidding, it was just a bad game. He only had a few trainings with the team. Cut the guy some slack.

Tbf the exact same thing was said about Torres. "He has not been training with the team enough", "he is not used to the new environment", "he is low on confidence becasue he has not played so much recently " and all this shit. It fits the notion spread in the media that Morata, similar to Torres, is kind of  a nice guy, a sensible palyer who needs the backing and confidence of the maanger in short a sissy who can not cope when things are nog oing his way. The penalty miss also adds to this. I do not bealieve the case is as grave as with Torres. Morata is younger, bigger, in better physical condition bought as the manager's not the owner's darling, had at least half a pre-season with the team. Also better players have missed more important penalties. Finally, the msot important reason why I think MOrata will succeed other than Torres is this: For him to play it is not Drogba we need to renounce - but Michy Batshuayi. 

[CaptainConte 83]

This is Morata Guys...I said this...

 

Is an important offensive Jolly, a good young player, but is not ready...Diego Costa is  very more powerfull...

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Imagine on your first day at work your colleagues start whining about the fact that:

-you were very silent the whole day, you must be a poor addition to the team

-it took you a while to figure out how the company's ERP system works

-They had to hold the elevator door because you came in seconds behind them => slow!!!

Give the guy some time will you? I start to believe that some 'fans' here will only tell someone is good after scoring match winning hattricks...

On topic: still think we should have gone for Lukaku. Pre-season or not... he would have been 100% ready! 

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morata is not a target man... that would have been lukaku.

morata is a player who will, hopefully, enable his attacking teammates to do more and score more.

that lukaku cannot do.

point being that the club made a choice on how to play rather than on merely picking one striker vs another.

[Polo7 3,496]

Morata is the type of striker that most people on here have been talking about when slagging off Costa. Give him time, he will come good.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Costa was and will still really perfect for us. Not sure about Lukaku.

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He needs to get that 1st goal under his belt quick the longer morata doesn't get a goal the more he will started to lose his confidence so Mr conte please started with him against Burnley 

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

This thread is beyond pathetic. People are actually calling him Torres #2 for 20 minutes of play where he was completely isolated upfront and a penalty he missed. What would you expect Morata to do in this situation? He did all he could in winning multiple headers - which Costa never did - and he was unfortunate that he missed a penalty, which everyone does. 

In fact I found that he was quite good given the circumstance he was in. He's just been super unlucky this pre season. Getting played out on the wing a lot and the one time he gets to be a lone forward he is so isolated because the team is down a man and is parking the bus. 

Not to mention some on this forum are calling him out for his 'weak mentality'. What nonsense.  Is that solely because he's good looking? Because the boy has a very good record in the Champions League and has overall proved himself to be a big performer in big games. Apparently 20 minutes isolated upfront is a more accurate sample size than his record in the past 3 seasons.

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16 minutes ago, Hybrid Angel said:

This thread is beyond pathetic. People are actually calling him Torres #2 for 20 minutes of play where he was completely isolated upfront and a penalty he missed. What would you expect Morata to do in this situation? He did all he could in winning multiple headers - which Costa never did - and he was unfortunate that he missed a penalty, which everyone does. 

In fact I found that he was quite good given the circumstance he was in. He's just been super unlucky this pre season. Getting played out on the wing a lot and the one time he gets to be a lone forward he is so isolated because the team is down a goal and is parking the bus. 

Not to mention some on this forum are calling him out for his 'weak mentality'. What nonsense. The boy has a very good record in the Champions League and has overall proved himself to be a big performer in big games. Apparently 20 minutes isolated upfront is a more accurate sample size than his record in the past 3 seasons.

You don't belong here with your sensible and well thought out posts.

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Feel he needs to start. 

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7 hours ago, Polo7 said:

Morata is the type of striker that most people on here have been talking about when slagging off Costa. Give him time, he will come good.

This, after the amount of complained i heard about costa last season now we have a striker who is good in the air unlike costa, has good touch unlike costa, does not lose control of the ball a lot unlike Costa, yet we are stil complaining