Atalanta vs Chelsea

[mkh 648]

Chelsea’s remaining fixtures in December 

🔹 Everton (H)

🔹 Cardiff City (A)

🔹 Newcastle (A)

🔹 Aston Villa (H)

🔹 Bournemouth (H)

😪☢️☢️🔥

[mkh 648]

Enzo Maresca:

"First half we were winning, we were good and controlling the game.

"After we conceded the first goal, we lost control a little bit of the game.

"We are playing every two days, two days, two days. For a moment we looked like we struggled a bit. Now it's about trying to win the next game.

"We were aggressive like them. We had different chances to make it 2-0 and when we conceded 1-1 the dynamic of the game changed a little bit."

(@tntsports)

[Fernando 6,664]

Disappointed with this. 

I still think James at mid is not the best 

Only against big team, but I prefer someone else there. 

[OneMoSalah 8,954]

1 hour ago, mkh said:

Maresca won a pre season tournament at the end of a gruelling season, and people act like he’s Guardiola or prime Mourinho°°

He won Conference League in which our budget was 20 times that of our opponents. 

1.5 years here. Less points than last season and the football is WORSE!!!!

🔴Simon Phillips has also repeatedly emphasized that, according to the best sources, R. James Enzo and Palmer are not fans of Maresca at all and are not happy with where they are being deployed.

In all fairness Enzo Fernandez can follow him out the door as well if the price is right, he has no right to not be happy at all. Cannot afford passengers in football. He is arguably one of the biggest we have had in years. So slow without the ball.

But yes Maresca has to go. As do the sporting directors.

[DDA 10,050]

I just can’t get past the fact that when I look at the 11 players out on the pitch and that can be any 11 of the full squad we have… i just see average all over the field. After spending what we have spent… it’s fucking insane. 

And to top it off, we have a gaffer who acts like a crackhead most weeks.
 

I’m not even angry anymore… just sad.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by DDA

[Vesper 30,554]

1 hour ago, mkh said:

Chelsea’s remaining fixtures in December 

🔹 Everton (H)

🔹 Cardiff City (A)

🔹 Newcastle (A)

🔹 Aston Villa (H)

🔹 Bournemouth (H)

😪☢️☢️🔥

Cardiff City is now in League One

if we lose to Everton AND them

Maresca HAS to be sacked the next day

IF we do lose both of those games we could easily lose the other 3

I saw someone claim the EPL is full of mediocre teams this season

NO

not at all

it just has so many quality teams, so many great players and managers

it is a BRUTAL league

put a lot of the EPL (say the top 12 to 14 or so teams)

in most other leagues 

and they all (or most) have real shots at qualifying for the CL or at least the Europa League

[DDA 10,050]

We are below Spurs in the CL table…..

 

[Vesper 30,554]

Just now, DDA said:

We are below Spurs in the CL table…..

 

lol, someone called Thomas Frank a long-haired monk

🤣

[Vesper 30,554]

3 minutes ago, DDA said:

We are below Spurs in the CL table…..

 

[OneMoSalah 8,954]

Maybe not getting to the next stage of the CLs is the wake up call BlueCo need.

They said they thought they’d assembled a top CL quality squad when they got rid of Poch & it’s clear they thought the Europa Conference League & Club World Cup was some sort of vindication & proof that what they were doing was working as well as with Maresca’s tenure. How wrong. 

Still think that to spend £2bn & other than a handful of signings (Caicedo, Palmer, Estevao as well as Neto, Cucurella & Fernandez - when he can actually be arsed to run back - to a much lesser extent), it should be studied at Harvard as how not to do a squad build.

[Blue Armour 4,572]

4 hours ago, Vesper said:

that fucking piece of shit

wtf is wrong with Maresca playing his horrid ass

Give more exposure to the players like Tosin.

Force Chelsea to play in the playoff rounds. Additional games. Even more exposure for Tosin.

Genius move by directors and the manager.

[Blue Armour 4,572]

3 hours ago, Special Juan said:

t's like a theme in CL and PL

Hopefully when the teams lands in London the board are there to meet them and hand Maresca his P45 and send him back on a flight to Italy

I think the board will actually congratulate him for giving minutes to their players, raising their value. Although Tosin's value is probably going down with each showing 

[Blue Armour 4,572]

3 hours ago, mkh said:

Enzo Maresca on making 5 changes:

"I think tonight's first XI, we had eight or nine players that played against Tottenham, Barcelona, Wolves, Arsenal. If you see the five changes we did compared to Bournemouth, it's different."

(@BobbyVincentFL)

Yeah, keep rotating the squad. It's obvious who you're trying to please.

Maresca is not going anywhere anytime soon. This is exactly what the directors want.

[Blue Armour 4,572]