Jase 43,479 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Chelsea 1-1 Brighton PRE/POST-MATCH DISCUSSION, LIVE CHAT AND ANALYSIS 2021/22 Premier League Matchday 20 29th December, Wednesday 2021 Stamford Bridge 19:30 Kick Off (UK time) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,331 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Lukaku and CHO won starting place today. Chris for Silva I guess. Hopefully Kante is fine but for Brighton at home Jorgi and Kova would also do it. Maybe Saul can play as wing back for Alonso. And I hope Chalobah and James do not repeat todays game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,536 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Hopefully can end dodgy December on a high? Get lots of goals of our own making...and not fall apart after scoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoroccanBlue 5,383 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Mendy Azpilicueta Christensen Rudiger James Jorginho Kovacic Alonso Mount CHO Lukaku bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,280 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Im seeing our fixtures and we only have 2 really hard away games till the end of the season. City away and United away. Besides that, we will play our most hard games in our home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,331 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 19 minutes ago, Laylabelle said: Hopefully can end dodgy December on a high? Saw the stat that in last 4 seasons we won only around 35% of games from late November to late January. Magic Lamps and Blue Armour 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,207 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Chelsea news: N’Golo Kante and Thiago Silva out of trip to Brighton after suffering fresh injury blows https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/Chelsea-news-ngolo-kante-thiago-silva-injuries-brighton-tuchel-b973914.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,938 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Kante went from being Iron Man who went seemingly years without injury to being injured as often as he’s fit now. Sad to watch it keep happening. Thank goodness Kova is back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted December 26, 2021 Author Share Posted December 26, 2021 28 minutes ago, Vesper said: Chelsea news: N’Golo Kante and Thiago Silva out of trip to Brighton after suffering fresh injury blows https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/Chelsea-news-ngolo-kante-thiago-silva-injuries-brighton-tuchel-b973914.html I suppose a hamstring injury can happen at any time and even more so when that person is as old as Silva is but at the same time, hard not to wonder that Tuchel somewhat caused this to happen. Few weeks ago, he was suddenly playing Silva for like 3-4 consecutive games and dropping Christensen onto the bench over the contract situation. And now? Silva has a hamstring injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,448 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Jase said: I suppose a hamstring injury can happen at any time and even more so when that person is as old as Silva is but at the same time, hard not to wonder that Tuchel somewhat caused this to happen. Few weeks ago, he was suddenly playing Silva for like 3-4 consecutive games and dropping Christensen onto the bench over the contract situation. And now? Silva has a hamstring injury. It was dumb trying to bench a player for not accepting a contract. Why does Rudiger get a free pass for doing something similar? Club is acting dumb with the contract situation drag out for multiple players, and Tuchel isn't helping. Edited December 27, 2021 by Blue Armour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,077 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 7 hours ago, Blue Armour said: It was dumb trying to bench a player for not accepting a contract. Why does Rudiger get a free pass for doing something similar? Club is acting dumb with the contract situation drag out for multiple players, and Tuchel isn't helping. It's obvious that the club should be consistent in the way it treats its players. So obvious that a five year old will spot it. Given that the people in the Chelsea decision making chain are over 5, educated, experienced and successful it's clear that whatever is obvious to us here, is also blindingly obvious to them. This being so it is obvious that there is some other reason behind the fact that Chris is being treated differently to Toni. We don't know, and may never know, what that reason is but there is a reason for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted December 27, 2021 Author Share Posted December 27, 2021 8 hours ago, Blue Armour said: It was dumb trying to bench a player for not accepting a contract. Why does Rudiger get a free pass for doing something similar? Think the reason or at least the reason that was reported is that Christensen has supposedly agreed and then changed his mind over the new contract a few times. This obviously has annoyed the board and in Tuchel's case, maybe question where Christensen's head is at. With Rudiger, the situation is at least much more clear cut - he wants X amount of wages but the club are only willing to offer X amount and both parties just can't agree on it - and Tuchel probably knows his mindset is still clear and he still can get the max out of Rudiger. 8 hours ago, Blue Armour said: Club is acting dumb with the contract situation drag out for multiple players, and Tuchel isn't helping. Is it really entire fault of the club? As mentioned, in Christensen's case, the club thought they had agreed the deal with him but Christensen has changed his mind a few times over the new contract. With Rudiger, the club aren't willing to give what he wants (which you can debate whether it's worth it or not). Silva at least looks a certainty to sign and god knows what's gonna happen with Azpi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,819 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 15 hours ago, NikkiCFC said: Lukaku and CHO won starting place today. Chris for Silva I guess. Hopefully Kante is fine but for Brighton at home Jorgi and Kova would also do it. Maybe Saul can play as wing back for Alonso. And I hope Chalobah and James do not repeat todays game. Pulisic seems to be a much better option. He was creating chaos on the right side once Lukaku came in and he handled the role on defense. Saul seems to be slow in his decision making and I can’t see him dribbling past anyone in the final third. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 12 hours ago, Blue Armour said: It was dumb trying to bench a player for not accepting a contract. Why does Rudiger get a free pass for doing something similar? Educated guess. Rudi has made his position clear (aka likely leaving but still 100% committed until then) while Christensen is pissing us about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoroccanBlue 5,383 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Rudiger at the very least is keeping it professional ala Ronaldo 2009 and Hazard 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbluewillie 1,930 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 On 26/12/2021 at 20:53, Vesper said: Chelsea news: N’Golo Kante and Thiago Silva out of trip to Brighton after suffering fresh injury blows https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/Chelsea-news-ngolo-kante-thiago-silva-injuries-brighton-tuchel-b973914.html Errrr Vesp it's at the bridge🤪 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,207 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 2 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said: Errrr Vesp it's at the bridge🤪 lol well blame it on bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 Brighton have the fourth best defense in the premier. City-pool and Chelsea have better defenses then it's Brighton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 We will batter this lot. cosmicway and bigbluewillie 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,938 Posted December 28, 2021 Share Posted December 28, 2021 As risky as this sounds I wonder if we should sit Jorginho for this one. Tuchel has been saying he’s dead tired for a while now and he just played 90 minutes at the weekend. With Kante potentially being injured again and with Brighton being a side that really likes to run, perhaps the legs and mobility of Kova + Saul could start. A burned out Jorginho could really struggle against Bissouma. bigbluewillie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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