Christian Pulisic

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5 hours ago, communicate said:

Anyone can elaborate what was written? It is a premium article 

As you may have seen from the headline, the writer basically said Pulisic shouldn't have scored his first two goals because he started at LW. He questioned whether Pulisic ignored Lampard's orders and drifted infield - since his first two goals originated from central position - or Lampard simply gave him the creative freedom to roam from the left side - the writer certainly tried to imply the former, for whatever reason. 

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Saw this on another forum. Pulisic is the 18th player to score a hat-trick in the Roman Abramovich era:

Didier Drogba = 4
Frank Lampard = 4
Nicholas Anelka = 2
Eden Hazard = 2
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink = 1
Eidur Gudjohnson = 1
Salomon Kalou = 1
Fernando Torres = 1
Samuel Eto'o = 1
Andre Schurrle = 1
Diego Costa = 1
Oscar = 1
Michy Batshuayi = 1
Alvaro Morata = 1
Ruben Loftus-Cheek = 1
Olivier Giroud = 1
Tammy Abraham = 1
Christian Pulisic = 1

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17 minutes ago, Jason said:

As you may have seen from the headline, the writer basically said Pulisic shouldn't have scored his first two goals because he started at LW. He questioned whether Pulisic ignored Lampard's orders and drifted infield - since his first two goals originated from central position - or Lampard simply gave him the creative freedom to roam from the left side - the writer certainly tried to imply the former, for whatever reason. 

Both goals were off turnovers and break away runs. It would seem to me regardless of your position, if you take the ball away and have a run at goal.....you fecking go!

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Just now, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Both goals were off turnovers and break away runs. It would seem to me regardless of your position, if you take the ball away and have a run at goal.....you fecking go!

Yeah but the writer argued that he shouldn't have been in the central position to force those turnovers because he was meant to be play at LW. 🤷‍♂️

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Ahhh. Like others I couldn't read the entire article. He was saying he was out of position defencively, and honestly defence is not Pulisic's strength. I will say this, Lampard loves aggression on both sides of the ball. I doubt he looked at it negatively.

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Pulisic has been given free roaming on the US team for many years under several coaches. I'm not saying that is a good thing, just it has become a natural thing for him to do.

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13 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Ahhh. Like others I couldn't read the entire article. He was saying he was out of position defencively, and honestly defence is not Pulisic's strength. I will say this, Lampard loves aggression on both sides of the ball. I doubt he looked at it negatively.

Pulisic might not be physically strong but being weak defensively at that is one thing, being weak tactically is another and the latter doesn't apply to him. As I said before, if Pulisic was going out of position and doing his own thing, we would have seen Lampard telling him off during the game but that didn't happen. And anyone who's watched us this season will know our players have the creative freedom in attack without jeopardizing the team balance. 

[Tomo 21,751]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

Saw this on another forum. Pulisic is the 18th player to score a hat-trick in the Roman Abramovich era:

Didier Drogba = 4
Frank Lampard = 4
Nicholas Anelka = 2
Eden Hazard = 2
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink = 1
Eidur Gudjohnson = 1
Salomon Kalou = 1
Fernando Torres = 1
Samuel Eto'o = 1
Andre Schurrle = 1
Diego Costa = 1
Oscar = 1
Michy Batshuayi = 1
Alvaro Morata = 1
Ruben Loftus-Cheek = 1
Olivier Giroud = 1
Tammy Abraham = 1
Christian Pulisic = 1

When the hell did Oscar bag a hattrick?

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7 minutes ago, Tomo said:

When the hell did Oscar bag a hattrick?

Against MK Dons in Jan 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/31/mk-dons-chelsea-fa-cup-match-report

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Saw this on another forum. Pulisic is the 18th player to score a hat-trick in the Roman Abramovich era:
Didier Drogba = 4
Frank Lampard = 4
Nicholas Anelka = 2
Eden Hazard = 2
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink = 1
Eidur Gudjohnson = 1
Salomon Kalou = 1
Fernando Torres = 1
Samuel Eto'o = 1
Andre Schurrle = 1
Diego Costa = 1
Oscar = 1
Michy Batshuayi = 1
Alvaro Morata = 1
Ruben Loftus-Cheek = 1
Olivier Giroud = 1
Tammy Abraham = 1
Christian Pulisic = 1

I was surprised to see Kalou had scored a perfect hat-trick as well

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2 hours ago, LAM09 said:

4 hours ago, Jason said:

Saw this on another forum. Pulisic is the 18th player to score a hat-trick in the Roman Abramovich era:
Didier Drogba = 4
Frank Lampard = 4
Nicholas Anelka = 2
Eden Hazard = 2
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink = 1
Eidur Gudjohnson = 1
Salomon Kalou = 1
Fernando Torres = 1
Samuel Eto'o = 1
Andre Schurrle = 1
Diego Costa = 1
Oscar = 1
Michy Batshuayi = 1
Alvaro Morata = 1
Ruben Loftus-Cheek = 1
Olivier Giroud = 1
Tammy Abraham = 1
Christian Pulisic = 1

I was surprised to see Kalou had scored a perfect hat-trick as well

Did it in that 7-0 win over Stoke in 2010. Had 2 perfect PL hat-tricks in that 09/10 season!

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+ there were also USA chants from the fans during the Burnley match.

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[OneMoSalah 8,885]

How many games has he started for us? 7 or 8? And hes been involved in 9 goals? He is just finding ways of affecting matches from if he starts or comes off the bench and this sort of thing is only good for us. 

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38 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

How many games has he started for us? 7 or 8? And hes been involved in 9 goals? He is just finding ways of affecting matches from if he starts or comes off the bench and this sort of thing is only good for us. 

4 goals and 5 assists from 751 minutes. He has never scored more than 4 goals in a league season. So, one would imagine him setting a new personal record this time.

His goal today was brilliant by the way. Simple but brilliant. Anticipated the cross coming in (or at least gave the passer an option) and attacked it at the right position. So often we have seen the ball being delivered into the box and nobody attacks it in those kind of situations previously. Hope we see more of this going forward, be it from Pulisic or whoever else!