The Pre-Season Thread

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Madness to leave the striker hunt this late. Strikers need pre-season to settle. One Michy injury away from Musonda False 9 on opening day.

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Polo7 3,496]

12 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

The season that keeps on giving.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

[King11Didier 916]

Is there a list with all the players that are going to China?

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

16 hours ago, King11Didier said:

Is there a list with all the players that are going to China?

CHELSEA SQUAD FOR CHINA AND SINGAPORE TOUR

Goalkeepers: Thibaut Courtois, Willy Caballero, Eduardo, Marcin Bulka

Defenders: Cesar Azpilicueta, Gary Cahill, David Luiz, Andreas Christensen, Tomas Kalas, Jake Clarke-Salter, Fikayo Tomori, Marcos Alonso, Kenedy

Midfielders: Cesc Fabregas, N'Golo Kante, Mario Pasalic, Lewis Baker, Kyle Scott, Pedro, Willian, Victor Moses

Forwards: Charly Musonda, Jeremie Boga, Michy Batshuayi, Loic Remy 

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

[manpe 10,861]

 

[nachikethas 1,149]

At the stadium now 

[nachikethas 1,149]

[nachikethas 1,149]

Ffs. What a shit defending! 0-2 down already

[Fernando 6,491]

Yeah this is the game you see the real team not the one against Arsenal where everyone was hyping Boga, Bats and the likes....

[Fernando 6,491]

Well to be fair the only youth that has been great is Boga. 

Boga might pull a Moses. 

[nachikethas 1,149]

And finally a decade long dream came true today!! Loved watching my blues play. Kante's tackling, Luiz's long balls, Alonso's goal and many more

About the match, it was like Bayerns B team yet we lost.. The defense was atrocious in the first 30mins. After second half we played well. Mitchy looked bulky enough to muscles the defenders in the league. But Morato is too thin, hope he can suite our play. Moses was having 90% ball in Chelsea! I know it's a friendly but without hazard we are little boring most of the time.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

 

[nachikethas 1,149]

The queue to get to the PL trophy was too long. Will try my luck on Saturday.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Zidane out

[Barbara 15,149]

For some reason I just now realized that we are only playing 3 pre-season matches. What the hell are Conte and the board thinking? Have we learned nothing from the 15-16 season? 

We are most likely going to start the season physically behind most teams which probably means that we will have a slow start leading to panic all around. 

Problem then was never lack of games, but starting training too late and too soft. Honestly, two more or less matches make no difference and it is five. Fulham, the three in Asia and the most glorified friendly of all known as community shield.

Preseason is about fitness, not amount of friendlies. Conte is known to be anything but soft in his training sessions, so I wouldn't worry about it. In the end we added only the closed doors Fulham friendly. So 4 + CS. Don't need more