Álvaro Morata

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

I'm not sure how popular this site is outside of North America, but they have some pretty good articles (and the only American football articles I'll read)

Why Álvaro Morata, Mesut Özil, and Paul Pogba Are Better Than You Think

Meet the five most intriguing players ahead of the 2018-19 Premier League season

https://www.theringer.com/soccer/2018/8/10/17672154/premier-league-preview-alvaro-morata-mesut-ozil-paul-pogba-players-to-watch

[Blue Armour 4,278]

Good performance by him today. Worked hard, led the line well.

[LAM09 6,744]

Good performance by him today. Worked hard, led the line well.

It was certainly an improvement

[communicate 2,703]

Led the line quite well, still not strong enough. Go to the gym please.

[Abreu03 292]

What's wrong with this guy? IS SO FUCKING SHIT.

Ok. He was never a good player, but he is currently at the 'Torres level'.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Oh Boy...

[Blue Armour 4,278]

It will be interesting to see how he links up with Kovacic, since they've played with each other before.

[Blue Armour 4,278]

15 minutes ago, Abreu03 said:

What's wrong with this guy? IS SO FUCKING SHIT.

Ok. He was never a good player, but he is currently at the 'Torres level'.

Exaggeration.

Especially if you're saying that after today's game.

[Jase 43,479]

45 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

Good performance by him today. Worked hard, led the line well.

I know it's still early days in the season but pray this doesn't become a thing over the next 8-9 months. We used to praise Torres for his performances but not the main thing he was bought to do - score the goals. Don't need and can't afford Morata to go down the same route.

[Unionjack 7,531]

11 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

Exaggeration.

Especially if you're saying that after today's game.

 

48 minutes ago, communicate said:

Led the line quite well, still not strong enough. Go to the gym please.

Sorry llads I didn't see what you did

[Blue Armour 4,278]

52 minutes ago, Jason said:

I know it's still early days in the season but pray this doesn't become a thing over the next 8-9 months. We used to praise Torres for his performances but not the main thing he was bought to do - score the goals. Don't need and can't afford Morata to go down the same route.

What happened then was decent goal scoring chances ended up being thrown into the trash..

I'm hoping that doesn't happen here, which at least in this game, it didn't.

[positivefootball 195]

Excellent game by him. Good Center forward play.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Improvement today just based on the fact that he didn't fall down after every touch. That alone improved his holdup play and helped the team maintain attacks.

[Unionjack 7,531]

If I was him I'd get as far away from the number as possible! Which would be -9

Chelsea’s nine number nines since 2000 - is the shirt cursed?

https://www.givemesport.com/1369140-chelseas-nine-number-nines-since-2000-is-the-shirt-cursed

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

Personally think he was the weakest link today. Hearing all this 'led the line well' but not enough for me. No threat at all. Think he'll eventually be phased out for Pedro or hazard up front. Done with him after last season anyway tbh 

[robsblubot 3,502]

Keep hearing the Pedro and hazard as false 9 crazy talk... yeah move the one (attacking) world class player we got to play in more contested areas to exploit his most glaring weakness: finishing...  

and we complain about morata physicality... have you look at Pedro? He gets away with it because of his pace and because he enjoys more space on the wings, but he’s lightweight. In most of our games we will have the football and will need a cfs who are a threat in the air too.

my hope is that morata did score plenty of goals before his injury last season. So hopefully it is just a slump now that he is fit again. Of course he needs to start scoring or we have to try something else. IMO if we go false 9 it only means we have no striker and therefore are fucked.

Morata did play well today, but his finishing was lackluster as lacking conviction. His first touch was particularly impressive at times. And he’s always an aerial threat.

[Henrique 9,133]

Haha. I think I just watched a diferent game, because Morata performance today was nonexistent. The team was basically playing with 10 men. A CF that after 90 minutes only had one shot (blocked by defense) when the team was already winning 3-0 getting praised by his performance is a "little" odd.

[Pizy 18,368]

13 minutes ago, Henrique said:

Haha. I think I just watched a diferent game, because Morata performance today was nonexistent. The team was basically playing with 10 men. A CF that after 90 minutes only had one shot (blocked by defense) when the team was already winning 3-0 getting praised by his performance is a "little" odd.

I thought he was alright. Not great, not poor.

He didn't actively make us worse like he often did last season.