closed Wolves 2-5 Chelsea

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On 9/1/2019 at 8:30 AM, kellzfresh said:

Espirito Santo is the manager we should have gotten, but it is what it is. We have to make do with our naive tactics of collapsing every second half to even relegation candidates at home for this season.

Let's hope we somehow scrape a win here..

meh, don't worry about the manager this season and I disagree with you (for once); you should be feeling abnormally hopeful with Chelsea IMO.

Maybe things won't go so well in the next couple years, but for once since about 2007, I personally feel more hopeful about Chelsea's future even if the current squad is young, we're banned on transfers and Frank is an inexperienced coach.

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On 9/9/2019 at 11:55 PM, Tomo said:

Pepe was arguably the best player on the market last summer bar the Ajax pair.

The real top ones are more than likely out of reach no matter what. The only elite player there's even a 0.1% chance of ever attracting is Mbappe (from social media he appears to have a close friendship with Drogba and a few of our players so if Didier can get his charm offensive on you just never know but even with DD I imagine the answer would still be no), the rest we would have to pay China esque wages from them to even consider, CL or not.

Whoever emerges as next summer's Pepe I would still believe we have a very good chance of signing, CL or no.

Think their other Target, Everton Soares has the finishing. 

 

Yes, he's older (23), but fuck he has the finishing. Starts for brazil and scores every fucking game. Tite is going to move Neymar to the centre to give the left wing to everton. Short dribbling, pace, strength, and work rate. The thing holding him back is that his rights are owned by 3 parties. Gremio who wants 40m for 50% and then 2 more guys asking for a lot... so no, not cheap.

Arsenal were quoted saying it is a difficult deal.

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20 hours ago, !Hazard! said:

The XI I'd go with would be in case all the players apart from CHO and James are fit.

 

Mount-Abraham-Pedro

Kovacic-Jorginho-Kante

Emerson-AC-Rudiger-Azpi

Kepa

 

Bring on Pulisic second half for Kovacic (Mount dropping into midfield) if we still chasing a goal

Mount can play as lw but clearly that is not his position. I think it is better to play Puli as lw. 

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No Kante against one of the best counter attacking teams in the league at their place. 😔

This could get ugly if our midfield play like shit.

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Nobody asked about Emerson...

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1 hour ago, communicate said:

Mount can play as lw but clearly that is not his position. I think it is better to play Puli as lw. 

Well since Kante is out I'm pretty sure we'll see both of them in starting XI

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1 hour ago, Jason said:

Nobody asked about Emerson...

He didn't train yesterday so is probably out. Honestly I can't see us winning tomorrow. If us or Utd win tomorrow I would be shocked. 

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1 hour ago, !Hazard! said:

Well since Kante is out I'm pretty sure we'll see both of them in starting XI

Yup I think it is 4231 with mount and Puli. Although I much rather us playing 433 with barkley. 

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5 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

He didn't train yesterday so is probably out. Honestly I can't see us winning tomorrow. If us or Utd win tomorrow I would be shocked. 

Hopefully we can win tomorrow. We need to start picking up points especially with ucl coming up.

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28 minutes ago, communicate said:

Hopefully we can win tomorrow. We need to start picking up points especially with ucl coming up.

without Kante, I am less optimistic about us not tiring in the 2nd half.

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36 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

without Kante, I am less optimistic about us not tiring in the 2nd half.

I am not sure about tiring in 2nd half has anything to do with kante. Two games that he played for us, pool and Leicester, we still got battered in 2nd half. 

With kante, we are just ok defensively, without him we are a disaster. 

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5 hours ago, communicate said:

I am not sure about tiring in 2nd half has anything to do with kante. Two games that he played for us, pool and Leicester, we still got battered in 2nd half. 

With kante, we are just ok defensively, without him we are a disaster. 

It’s a bit of both. Not keeping possession and not winning second balls makes you run constantly chasing the opposition.

the main reason I disagree with the singling out being done, esp azpi. Someone will always look bad and it is usually in defense, but it’s always the team.

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If Rudiger does start, he's going to need to have the game of his life with our potential back four.

[Pizy 18,877]

My expectations for tomorrow are now at rock bottom. Another L on the way I fear.