Udinese 1 - 3 Chelsea (Pre-Season)

[Pizy 18,368]

Btw, this is just a mediocre Serie A side and they’re absolutely breezing past Jorginho over and over as if he’s not even there. 
 

Kova HAS to be first choice together with Kante. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,305]

This team isn’t ready at all. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,479]

Mase!! 1-3

[ZAPHOD2319 4,479]

Gilmore has looked crisp in his passing.

[KEVINAA 98]

Everton just won 3 - 0 dynamo kyiv

https://www.flashscore.com/r/?t=1&id=CUrGggEe

https://www.flashscore.com/match/CUrGggEe/#/match-summary/match-summary

 

Edited July 29, 2022 by KEVINAA

[DDA 9,690]

6 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Gilmore has looked crisp in his passing.

Gilmour*

[cosmicway 1,323]

That was a West Ham like opposition. We need more penetration.

[Beigl 1,387]

15 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Btw, this is just a mediocre Serie A side and they’re absolutely breezing past Jorginho over and over as if he’s not even there. 
 

Kova HAS to be first choice together with Kante. 

We should have really went for a midfielder. Waiting for Rice will come back to haunt us.

Edited July 29, 2022 by Beigl

[ZAPHOD2319 4,479]

6 minutes ago, DDA said:

Gilmour*

I thought so, the announcer’s droning voice and lack of quality play was putting me out!

[Pizy 18,368]

Encouraging in parts, concerning in others. Most concerning for me now is that there aren’t really visible patterns or “mechanisms” as one of our former managers said to open up teams. We just kind of pass it around and pass it around side to side when we get into the final third. And then if we lose it our midfield (and J5 in particular) are caught so high up and have so little pace that we get burned on the counter.

If we can add just another 2-3 players before the season starts I’ll be more comfortable. A CB and an attacker at minimum.

[Last Sicarius 610]

Havertz again cant finish? And he will be our 9? Lol

[LAM09 6,751]

I'll take away the positive: we won. There are still the same glaring issues, especially in front of goal. 

Broja really should have been in tonight's squad, as we certainly can't be reliant on those that started upfront.

[LAM09 6,751]

1 hour ago, Pizy said:

Saw a tweet earlier today that it’s close to done for him to go to Everton. Only getting about £70k per week. If we were interested I think would could quite easily hijack it.

Are Everton just picking the scraps up from Burnley?

He would be the third player to switch sides.

[Pizy 18,368]

When you sit there and really think about it, it’s absolutely mad that for so long we’ve needed a prolific forward or two. Every single “Big 6” side finds these players except for us. And now we’re going to enter yet another season without anyone who you can say with 100% confidence will score 15 PL goals or more.

I expect Mount, Sterling, Havertz, and perhaps Pulisic will each score 8-9 but I don’t think that’ll be nearly enough. 

[milka 3,346]

Good win but  we need more signings.

Without real Striker we cant  compete for more than top 4 . 

Edited July 29, 2022 by milka

[LAM09 6,751]

3 hours ago, Pizy said:

When you sit there and really think about it, it’s absolutely mad that for so long we’ve needed a prolific forward or two. Every single “Big 6” side finds these players except for us. And now we’re going to enter yet another season without anyone who you can say with 100% confidence will score 15 PL goals or more.

I expect Mount, Sterling, Havertz, and perhaps Pulisic will each score 8-9 but I don’t think that’ll be nearly enough. 

For starters, Morata, Werner, and Lukaku come to mind. They were effective in their own right, but were never good choices to come here, and most people watching from afar knew that.

Secondly, when did Arsenal & United find this magical number 9? Are you referring to Lacazette and Cavani?

Finally, 8-9 goals from our highest paid player?

All things considered, Sterling has to be hitting double figures with ease.

Edited July 30, 2022 by LAM09

[Clockwork 1,794]

feels more of the same issues, 3rd place is probably the ceiling. 
 

i don’t understand the point of Alonso, why not try RLC or Gallagher at that position? We saw a lot of Alonso he is awful.

I am so bored of Tuchel, he is neither great at identifying players or finding creative solutions to the team.

 

[Pizy 18,368]

7 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

For starters, Morata, Werner, and Lukaku come to mind. They were effective in their own right, but were never good choices to come here, and most people watching from afar knew that.

Secondly, when did Arsenal & United find this magical number 9? Are you referring to Lacazette and Cavani?

Finally, 8-9 goals from our highest paid player?

All things considered, Sterling has to be hitting double figures with ease.

Why did you name the 3 flops we’ve signed? That’s part of my point. Our rivals seem to always strike gold with strikers and forwards whereas we sign flop after flop after flop. In recent years Arse have had Auba who was prolific. Spuds have Kane and Son. United with Ronaldo. Liverpool with you know who. City with several players who score for fun.

But then there’s us who 2 years ago had our highest scorer as Jorginho with all pens and this past year a midfielder with a mighty  11? goals. All I’m saying is it’s incredible that we’ve never gotten lucky and struck gold on ANY of these forwards in recent years. You would think that by sheer brute force of buying so many we’d hit the jackpot at some point.