Jorginho

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

Superb choice. Could see even last season his leadership qualities, not a surprise to me at all hes been chosen as vice captain.

[Vesper 28,779]

5 hours ago, Jason said:

 

[NikkiCFC 7,942]

🤙

[Vesper 28,779]

16 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

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cryptic

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Lampard explains new Chelsea role for ‘driver’ Jorginho

https://www.football365.com/news/lampard-explains-new-chelsea-role-for-driver-jorginho

Chelsea boss Frank Lampard has praised the influence of midfielder Jorginho on and off the pitch and has confirmed that the Italian is the club’s vice-captain.

Jorginho was widely criticised under Maurizio Sarri last season but his fine displays this season are beginning to win over the fans.

Lampard has been hugely impressed with the £52million man and believes he is key to the Blues on the pitch, as well as being an important presence behind the scenes.

Asked if the 27-year-old has now assumed the role of vice-captain, Lampard said: “Yes, Jorginho is vice-captain as it stands.

“Azpi [Azpilicueta] is captain, that was clear at the start of the season, and I think his professionalism and his career here speaks for itself.

“And Jorginho, I keep talking about him as a character, and he’s a driver. I think it’s very evident to see on the pitch. So that’s the situation as it stands.’

On how quickly Jorginho has learnt English, Lampard continued: “It’s obviously important. I think we always try here to push that along as soon as players come in because communication is key, on and off the pitch, in the dressing room.

“He crosses the borders, if there are any. It’s easy to come in and stay within your groups and nationalities, and Jorginho doesn’t. He’s a driver, on and off the pitch.”

 

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[Jase 43,479]

9 hours ago, manpe said:

Can't look past Jorginho for that role. It's not like we have an abundance of leaders, but Jorginho is one. In line to take over from Azpi when the time comes.

Azpi is only 2 years older than Jorginho. As long as the former is still at the club, he'll remain as captain, especially if the situations with Terry-Cahill and Cahill-Azpi are anything to go by. 

[kellzfresh 7,229]

A lot of people thought his career will take a nose dive once Sarri leaves, but I think he's rejuvenated under Lampard. Fantastic today

[Jase 43,479]

He's on 4 yellow cards in the league, by the way. Get one more and he'll have to serve a one-match suspension...unless he somehow avoids one till the end of the year. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,296]

Some of his challenges weren't even yellow card offences. 

[NikkiCFC 7,942]

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

He's on 4 yellow cards in the league, by the way. Get one more and he'll have to serve a one-match suspension...unless he somehow avoids one till the end of the year. 

We have big squad, we are flexible with formations, no problem here. Kovacic started last four matches on the bench. 

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Just now, NikkiCFC said:

We have big squad, we are flexible with formations, no problem here. Kovacic started last four matches on the bench. 

#justsayin

[NikkiCFC 7,942]

He is our vital player. People need to understand this. Stats don't show much in his case. For instance today he had influence in all four goals. If you look at the scoreboard you will see four different names for goals and four more names for players who made assists. You won't see Jorginho's name but he won the ball for first goal, gave the ball to Willian for second, great pass to Alonso for third and also pass to Michy for fourth goal. Also savad clear goal after Tomori mistake. Leader on the pitch, so vocal. Frank recognised this and that's why he promoted him to vice captain. I never criticized him last season because I knew he was a victim of the system and players around him who didn't cope very well with Sarriball. 🤙

[Pizy 18,368]

I love him. But my goodness do I close my eyes and pray every time he makes a sliding tackle 😂. He's so bad at that particular thing. Seems like that's how he picks up all his yellow cards. Sprinting full bore at someone and sliding in. I always think to myself "please don't be red, please don't be red." They always look terrible in real time but not as bad on replay.

But yeah, he's the heartbeat of the team. He doesn't quite have that killer long pass that Cesc had and doesn't carry any kind of goal threat but he's much more of a midfield general. He totally controls the game. Probably the closest player to Busquets out there.

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11 hours ago, kellzfresh said:

A lot of people thought his career will take a nose dive once Sarri leaves, but I think he's rejuvenated under Lampard. Fantastic today

Born leader this lad.  From the time he started here under Sarri directing traffic every game.  Just wish he had a bit more pace.  Vice captain well deserved even in his short time at the club.

[the wes 7,212]

Jorginho would be in double figures in assists if his teammates didn't let him down with their poor finishing 

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

5 hours ago, the wes said:

Jorginho would be in double figures in assists if his teammates didn't let him down with their poor finishing 

Again come the end of the season, the majority of these pundits will change their tune. Personally I think Jorginho was doing things last season in phases that he is doing now, creating good chances, recovering balls, making interceptions despite his defensive side of his game being critically analysed almost every 2nd week by folk like Rio Ferdinand, who lets no forget as good a defender and player as he was, has said some ridiculous things like United are back under Ole after an inevitable bounce period that most top clubs get with new managers who haven't alienated half of a temperamental squad. I don't think Sarri's stubbornness and insistence on playing him every week helped as well as it being a first season in a different league among other things but he got a lot of stick which was undeserved and I won't forget when he got boo'd by the fans either which I think is a disgrace by all accounts. 

The whole 2000 passes and 0 assists comment last year was one of the fucking stupidest things I think I have ever heard. I mean its obvious hes not a number 10 or a box to box midfielder or winger so why was his assists a huge topic of interest? Even then out of those 2000 passes probably 2/3s went forward and undoubtedly a percentage of these led to chances or key passes prior to a chance being created. I mean how many chances did Jorginho set Higuain, Morata, Willian, Eden, Pedro etc up for last season that they fucked? Its absolutely baffling. I mean the numbers don't look great but stats can be misleading, it maybe looked like he was just passing it square at every opportunity but once you get into the games and watch them, he wasn't just passing square. Anyways, a number 6 in a 433 isn't there to score a hattrick every week or assist 20 goals a season either. I mean even then when Cesc left he said in an interview that Sarri stopped having players run beyond the striker, I don't think it is any coincidence that Jorginho started to get criticised for passing sideways and backwards after that period, when the likes of Barkley or Kovacic stopped running ahead of the midfield like they did in games vs Arsenal, Southampton, whoever else early doors. I watched Newcastle v United the other day, they lined up with Mata as a number 10 and I see a similar situation albeit different positions. No third man runs, everything short and to feet, predictable. I mean how many times did we see David Luiz kick long diagonals to Pedro last season? Other than Pedro who else did that when we hit a bad run of form and performances? 

People also talk about passing range, you don't need to be able to pass the ball 50 or 60m if you can create a chance by passing it 20m or play a key pass that is 5-10m . I honestly don't understand people must think that he has to be playing these sweeping hollywood passes every 2nd pass like Charlie Adam used to do for Blackpool and Liverpool, absolutely unnecessarily at times. There's a member on here we were debating about his passing range, the likes of Alonso and Pirlo came up who were top class players and perhaps unfair to compare many midfielders to, where or not his range is good or bad or okay or not okay etc but like many folk on here, I watch a of other European games when I can as well and you don't always see Verratti, Thiago, Pjanic, Modric, Kroos, Busquets etc passing the ball longer than 30m  more than on average four or five times in a lot of games because all these teams like to play quick, short passes into attacking players and they always seem to have forward movement and good options off the ball. 

I just think the whole Sarriball thing didn't help him, it was very uncompromising and unvaried in how the team would approach the games even when it was going well but for me, you can see in any system with any manager he is a top player. 

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Mason Mount lauds influence of Chelsea teammate Jorginho: ‘He’s had a massive effect on me’

https://www.101greatgoals.com/news/mason-mount-lauds-influence-of-chelsea-teammate-jorginho-hes-had-a-massive-effect-on-me/

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