closed Palmeiras 1-2 Chelsea

[Pizy 18,368]

Our line is so high because they’re playing so deep that they look dangerous every time they spring a counter. They’ve been clean through several times now.

I feel like if we don’t score first they’ll catch us on the break and win. Because they’re obviously experts at sitting deep and parking the bus. And with our total lack of scoring threat it’s hard to see us coming back.

[Johnnyeye 7,440]

dire 1st half, we need to do much better on set pieces

[Johnnyeye 7,440]

its obvious they are sitting back and waiting to counter, we can’t open them up, typical

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

Nearly falling asleep watching this. Team needs a proper push because everything seems very half arsed.

[Vesper 28,772]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

Our line is so high because they’re playing so deep that they look dangerous every time they spring a counter. They’ve been clean through several times now.

I feel like if we don’t score first they’ll catch us on the break and win. Because they’re obviously experts at sitting deep and parking the bus. And with our total lack of scoring threat it’s hard to see us coming back.

they have a great young Portuguese manager, Abel Ferreira, who has retooled their style for this game

they are so not normally a low block side

[Vesper 28,772]

Just now, OneMoSalah said:

Nearly falling asleep watching this. Team needs a proper push because everything seems very half arsed.

our wingbacks are killing us (I say for the 1000th time) 🤬

plus Lukaku has almost zero movement, he should be eating this very meh back 4 alive, what a flop

[cosmicway 1,323]

The Brazilians are slow. They 'll never score - only something like a fluke.
Their defense is unbreakable though (especially by Lukaku's Chelsea). Do you know something from the bookies ? In all European matches the price for over 0.5 is about 2.5 or less. In Brazilian matches the lowest price for over 0.5 at half time is 3.20.
The final score will be 0-0. 

[Vesper 28,772]

9 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Their goalie is shaky 

he is worshipped in Brasil, but I think he is VERY overrated

Edited February 12, 2022 by Vesper

[Vytis33 1,144]

I thought somebody mentioned they were gonna attack us from the first minute?  TS6 is just standing with the ball for the entire first half never seen anything like it before.  And our hope is he turns into Fabregas at some point?

[MoroccanBlue 5,296]

We’ve been an expensive Burnley for months. 

[cosmicway 1,323]

Just now, Vesper said:

our wingbacks are killing us (I say for the 1000th time) 🤬

plus Lukaku has almost zero movement, he should be eating this very meh back 4 alive, what a flop

Lukaku needs a super playmaker (Platini ?). With one such he will never miss a goal like Morata did.
On his own he is no good for first division football.

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

Just now, Vesper said:

our wingbacks are killing us (I say for the 1000th time) 🤬

plus Lukaku has almost zero movement, he should be eating this very meh back 4 alive, what a flop

Would be typical for a Palmeiras goal to kick us into gear. Front players and CHO have been terrible. Our set pieces have also sucked. 

[milka 3,344]

disappointing first half

serious team like Bayer Munich  will beat them with 3 goals easily 

Palmeires do nothing and  still have more chances than us 

Edited February 12, 2022 by milka

[Pizy 18,368]

They’re the sort of team you need highly aggressive, highly mobile forwards so you can shift their bus around. A team like Liverpool for example with the movement of Salah, Mané, and Jota would be ripping these apart.

But Lukaku is like a giant oak tree that’s rooted in place, CHO looks like a player who lost 3 steps since that bad injury, and Havertz struggles when he’s got 2-3 people right on top of him because the bus is parked around him.

[Vesper 28,772]

I would invert the wingbacks

Azpi to the left, CHO to the right

and bring on Ziyech and Werner, play Havertz as a false 9, Ziyech and CHO on the right, Werner making slashing diagonal runs on the left

[LAM09 6,744]

10 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Right move will be Ziyech on for Lukaku but won’t ever happen. 

Exactly. It's tiresome seeing their defenders have him under lock, as he's just standing still. 

[Vesper 28,772]

2 minutes ago, milka said:

disappointing first half

serious team like Bayer Munich  will beat them with 3 goals easily 

Palmeires do nothing and  still have more chances than us 

we are a very crippled offensive team

and btw, Bayern were crushed 4 2 today by a very meh Bochum team playing low block counters

only reason Bayern scored was individual Lewa brilliance

[ZAPHOD2319 4,476]

Offense is horrible, fish are not biting. This day can only get better.