Edouard Mendy

[Puliiszola 519]

27 minutes ago, Hutcho said:

5 hours ago, Puliiszola said:

So are we going to blame FL for this too? 

I'm sure it will be his fault some how

Same here 😂😂. Can't wait for "FL should have cancelled his tickets", "why did he even let Mendy go" kind of arguments

[Superblue 6,372]

Simon Johnson of the Athletic has said early signs suggest it's just a minor injury and more precautionary.

Minor could quite easily be though a couple of weeks and I would imagine at present he's still a doubt for Southampton and the first Champions League game.

I suppose if that is the case, it's an early opportunity to see what effect Mendy will have on Kepa. Caballero has always been a short term solution to take Kepa out the firing line, it's hardly put him under huge pressure. Signing Mendy was a huge statement to Kepa that he'll sit on the bench for the season if he can't sort himself out. In an ideal world we have two keepers capable of pushing each other for the first team spot, like United currently have with De Gea and Henderson.

[Azul 1,615]

How unlucky can we be?! This is ridiculous wtf!!!!!!

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

Could be a thigh contusion, or dead leg. 

If treated properly he could be back by next week. 

[Jase 43,479]

Simon Johnson on the injury...

https://theathletic.com/news/chelsea mendy injury update latest/KfZdMZhAEtgh

What happened?
It is understood Mendy felt pain in his right leg at an early stage of a training session with the Senegal squad on Wednesday after catching the ball on a couple of occasions.

Rather than risk any further damage, the 28-year-old ended his involvement in the session and went to get the issue looked at.

What is the nature of Mendy’s injury?
The former Rennes goalkeeper, who joined for an initial £22 million last month, has already had an early diagnosis at a hospital in Rabat, Morocco which showed it is only a minor problem.

Early indications suggested it is a thigh problem, although The Athletic has been told it could actually be a hamstring strain.

How many games could he miss?
It looks certain that he will miss the Premier League match at home to Southampton on October 17.

Chelsea begin their Champions League campaign at home to Sevilla three days later and Mendy hopes he will be able to be back for that.

Chelsea will want to carry out their own tests first though before finalising any potential comeback date.

[King Kante 1,500]

Kepa be like: 

 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Nero 1,847]

Fantastic news

[bigbluewillie 1,859]

On 09/10/2020 at 1:27 PM, Jason said:

Early indications suggested it is a thigh problem, although The Athletic has been told it could actually be a hamstring strain.

 

What about this?

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

 

[Azul 1,615]

21 hours ago, Jason said:

 

Beautiful news, does this mean that he can feature against Southampton?

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[NikkiCFC 8,048]

Very happy with his first 3 games. If not Emerson he would still not conceded a goal.

[killer1257 3,282]

Most important signing of the summer

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[Jase 43,479]

Mendy's presser tomorrow (Thursday) at 5pm UK time...

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/10/21/watch-edouard-mendy-and-hakim-ziyech-press-conferences-live

[bigbluewillie 1,859]

Not only do i reckon the guy immensely in such a short time, and how good was it to see our keeper not afraid to catch the ball, well done bruv 

[Hutcho 8,443]

Conceded 1 goal in 3 games. Tiny sample size I know. But gotta be a good sign of things to come.

And if my theory of us not actually being as bad as we all think defensively and it's just individual errors caused from panic and confusion on top of a shit keeper costing us goals then we may start to see that in actual results. But we won't know til we get a big run of games and can see over a larger sample size.

As lamps said we give up very few shots relatively speaking in comparison to the rest of the league barring the top 2.

[King Kante 1,500]

19 hours ago, Hutcho said:

Conceded 1 goal in 3 games. Tiny sample size I know. But gotta be a good sign of things to come.

And if my theory of us not actually being as bad as we all think defensively and it's just individual errors caused from panic and confusion on top of a shit keeper costing us goals then we may start to see that in actual results. But we won't know til we get a big run of games and can see over a larger sample size.

As lamps said we give up very few shots relatively speaking in comparison to the rest of the league barring the top 2.

True. Atm, he looks and upgrade on what we had so in that respect he is winning. My thoughts on Mendy was that he was signed to be a GK1 this season but we may have an eye on another GK for next Summer and he would be a expensive GK2. Let's see how things play out over the next 20 games. It would be great if he is actually the long term answer. 

[OneMoSalah 8,784]

On 21/10/2020 at 3:55 PM, Hutcho said:

Conceded 1 goal in 3 games. Tiny sample size I know. But gotta be a good sign of things to come.

And if my theory of us not actually being as bad as we all think defensively and it's just individual errors caused from panic and confusion on top of a shit keeper costing us goals then we may start to see that in actual results. But we won't know til we get a big run of games and can see over a larger sample size.

As lamps said we give up very few shots relatively speaking in comparison to the rest of the league barring the top 2.

Maybe but I still think its easy to see we arent that organised and purely blaming it on the GK isn’t necessarily correct. 

A good bit of them he who shall not be named should have done better perhaps but your not going to sit and say that the team doesn’t have its shortcomings defensively or the in game management and tactics hasn’t contributed at all either in moments either, surely not? Same last season. The in game management was more of a contribution to how the game went v Southampton the mistakes from Zouma and Kepa for that second goal. Even Danny Ings goal what are Christensen and Zouma doing? There’s countless games you can use from last season for the argument its more than just one person why our defensive record is so bad. Most goals teams conceded from open play they more than likely have more than one opportunity to prevent the chance from being created, not just necessarily due to individuals making a mistake like Zouma did or he who shall not be named again.