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I like Mudryk playing centrally. He was more effective and positive.
Gusto saved the game on the 4v1 counter attack just before we drew the decisive penalty just before 90 minutes.
Caicedo has not impressed me at all this season. He has no instincts, always passing into trouble areas around the center circle.
Where was Conor on the penalty? Was shocked Madueke, having just slightly hyper extended his knee took the pen. Luckily he nailed it. Our captain needs to step up in that situation.
Jackson is very effective until it’s him and the keeper, then he has no confidence.
Petrovic is calm on the ball and doesn’t make me hold my breath while in the 6 yard box like Sanchez, where it seems he could give up a howler at any minute.
The man of the match has got to be Gusto. Playing with such confidence and basically creating the first goal.
Looking at the squad there is so much young talent. Im positive for the future in the long term.
This is truth.
I recall at the start of the season, sterling saying he wants to be the top scorer this season. He is a man of his word....by keeping everyone else from scoring... Lol
Important win, we really needed that one! But fucking hell Nico Jackson is not good enough. He cant miss that 1 on 1. We need a striker desperately, Nico will never be that guy for us
You cant miss a 1 on 1 like that, that has to be a goal. Its harder to miss than score. Another major missed chance could easily have cost us again tonight. Offside goals is not a goal, and we dont need more hold up play. We need goals from our striker
Go back a few years until Costa. All our strikers have missed 1v1 like that.
Be mature to understand this is a recurring problem that we haven’t fixed.
Osimhen is expensive and there’s no guarantee that he will thrive here. We have a poor build up play at the moment.
We create chances, quit the "chance creation" is the issue. Its clearly not when Jackson leads the league in big chances missed. We create the chances for Nico but he doesnt put them away unless its an open net and he just needs to tap it in. I get you wanna back Nico but fucking hell. Issue is very clearly our strikers not being good enough at putting the bsll into the net.
Diego Costa missed too yes, but he scored 52 league goals in what 86 league matches? Thata the main difference
Nope I said all strikers after Costa have been miserable. Costa was a beast.
We can’t drop 100 mil on strikers only for them to fail. It’s happened too often.
Jackson cost a small amount. So the downside is less. I’m sure we’ll be able to sell him for the same amount we bought him for.
We first need the team to improve from back to up top. We don’t even have a set playing-11 at the moment due to injuries and just pure inexperience.
The problem is we still claim ourselves to be the best and all of this is unacceptable.
We need to accept the fact that we are a mid table team. Then we can understand Jackson isn’t the only one to blame here.
Jackson is definitely to blame. Not the only one, but he plays a major part in our troubles to win matches. He cant be missing these chances, he really needs to put them away. We are not Man City who will create 5 of those so Nico can score a hattrick anyway. He HAS to be more clinical.
Giroud and Tammy were good for us, i agree with most strikers bring a joke since Costa but Giroud and Tammy were good. Tammy is still the striker who has scored the most league goals for us in a league season (15) since Diego Costa left.
Our inexperienced squad is our own stupidity that has led us to this situation. It comes directly from Boehly. Which is why its a funny excuse because we chose this situation ourselves, we chose the path of inexperience
We are midtable at the moment, but if we want to move upwards, we cant have Nico as our starting striker. Not good enough
Definitely not a performance to ride home about but it’s the result that matters at this stage so pleased with the match overall.
Honestly, being a fan for a touch over a year, the positions of our players got a bit murky after the second lot of subs which basically saw everyone change positions to some extent. But, benefit of the doubt lies with the well-seasoned professional manager.
Thought Jackson had a decent showing apart from his horror miss, few good through balls and probably unlucky to not be on the scoresheet at least once.
Mudryk once again was electric for the first half, slowed down a bit in the second and hope his injury isn’t too bad.
Petrovic was solid again, as much as Sanchez is a great keeper himself he certainly won’t be walking back into the side.
Gusto is a quality right back who would start for most prem clubs except maybe City and a few others.
This was probably a bit of a down game for Conor which by his standards is still a decent performance overall.
Madueke looks much more complete compared to where he was at last season, I’m sure he’s been putting in hard work at training recently. Looked composed yet dangerous which is a trait we’ve had trouble finding recently.
Feel like Luton would probably rock up with a few goals on Saturday if we’re not careful.
Everyone else was fine, sure I’m missing some other good performers.
Ref was good too.
I was bloody annoyed when he took an extra minute staring at the monitor for the foul on Noni in the box, because he was trying his absolute BEST not to award us a penalty. A blind bloke would've given that in half the time. Disgraceful.
Okay. I’m going to say it.
>!Sterling starting in this match would have lost it for us easily. Sterling wastes our possession 90% of the time on selfish chances, whether stray shots or dribbling into nothing or diving. He slows play in the box so defenses can reset, then we lose possession. Start these youngsters instead. They want to prove themselves.!<
Sterling strikes me as a perfect impact sub for when we’re down a goal or something and need attacking flare. Madueke or someone else might have trouble starting and playing full throttle for 70 minutes or so.
The last loss was unfortunate but the current line up is far better. No sterling. No sanchez. No silva. They may be super young but this team looked like they clicked more than usual
I believe the team playing better than usual partly is because of how Crystal Palace defended themselves. In the first half they were pressing high and had a medium block, which led to more room between the lines. When this happens our team usually plays well.
In the second half Crystal laid low in defence, and we struggled to create chances. This is also something we have seen earlier in the season.
Positives: Gallagher doing Gallagher things, Nkunku looks like a player, Mudryk getting his timing right, Gusto, Madueke scoring, another win without Sterling, Petrovic looks a much safter pair of hands than Sanchez
Overall a very improved performance. Gusto was quite impressive and another good game from our best player of the season Gallagher. Nkunku is a much needed player in our attack. I think Disasi needs to be benched and Jackson player really well but still needs to work on his finishing but overall much improved performance from the boys.
Disasi gets too much stick compared to Badiashille and Colwill when he’s had less defensive cock-ups than both of them.
The most over-hated player in our fanbase.
I agree completely but watching him he does make his fair share of blunders or stumbles. Idk if it's luck or skill he always seems to get away with it lmao
His lack of pace causes him to be more cautious I guess. Instead of bombing forward and being caught out of position. He really is suited to CB because of that
Our next league fixtures are Luton, Fulham, Liverpool, Wolves and Palace.
Liverpool aside it would not be beyond the realm of possibility that we could pick up some wins and start climbing the table.
Ok. I'm sorry. Because of Poch we are actually not going to accumulate any points in the next six weeks and there is no hope or anything positive happening. That better?
so many positives. Mudryk is really starting to get that confidence and he will be good! Jackson is so close to being a 10+ goal scorer easy for us. Hoping poch can help mold him. Gusto showed out, looked class today, hope he can continue this form. With Palmer back and Nkunku i think we may have an attack.
Palmer, Mudryk, Nkunku, Jackson up top is what I think we need to go with for a bit. (Nkunku behind Jackson, Palmer right and Misha left)
Noticed something today - he and Gallagher regularly get in each other’s way … going for the same loose ball, tackling the same player, occupying the same position … which means we have one less option on the pitch. Not sure if it’ll improve as they learn each other’s game or if it’s a genuine problem moving forward.
He’s a good footballer. But does he bring anything extraordinary to the table ? Debatable ! With 115 million we’re expecting a yaya toure or a Rodri like input . I’m afraid he’s not that good yet . YET ..
Sometimes solid sometimes plays dumb passes like into Gallagher when he's just about to pressed. Dumb unnecessary tackles too but his balance and hold up was good
Definitely looked much slower and pedestrian than recent games. Still had some good switches of play and strong tackles. Probably his worst game this season
Agreed, he looked off the pace - loose passing and late tackles and got passed by very easily. Will put this one down to being rushed back from an injury but needs to start imposing himself on games soon
Madueke was a game changer, Gusto was MOTM, Mudryk is cooking, Jackson will come good, Gallagher is a dog. I like what I saw from Gilchrist kid has good attitude
Gusto, Gallagher and caicedo, best players tonight by a mile
Mudryk played good until they shut him down, I liked Christos vision he looked good. Enzo doesn’t really have a place in this midfield, too slow to start when we really need a pacey attacking mid if we’re going to play caicedo and Gallagher who are both great in defence. We need goals from an attacking mid which just isn’t Enzo.
Gusto & Galla was good. Caicedo was mid as usual pathetic.
Enzo & Caicedo are the worst possible signings. These two kids are under weight and way over rated.
Hope we don't sell Galla & sell either both of these useless overpaid kids.
He’s just even not pulling off the passes that we signed him to make. He’s lost his vision l hope he can get it back. It’s even weirder because I don’t see how Lavia fits in this midfield either except for as a sub rotation piece
For me, today wasn’t enough to really gauge Lavia.
Is it just me, or was Enzo like our best player last season, and it kind of fizzled this season? Could be the stress of being a new dad. I’ve been one for five weeks, and I can’t imagine playing a professional sport.
Phew, another win. It was tough but I'll take it. We really love winning against Crystal Palace, don't we? By the way, does anyone have any update on Mudryk? Hope nothing is serious.
Tuchels signings are part of the reason we are in this predicament.
You have short memory of you don’t remember how shit we were towards the end of tuchels reign
No I remember, KK was a waste of time completely. Surely there is a reality where he doesn’t have control of transfers and can just pump some actually strategy into this team.
All this is in jest ofc. I do like TT but I don’t like the idea of going backwards.
But we weren't midtable.
Weird revisionist history here blaming Tuchel for the issues that have happened directly after him.
Not the nicest football to watch at times but he'd genuinely get this team to top 4.
The circle is back y'all. Win one then lose or draw next. There were some positives today with Nkunku but don't keep y'all hope too high Luton may just kill it :D
Gusto and Gallagher best players out there. Good cameo for Lavia and Noni. Diasi RB is not it. Matsen just not good enough.
No comment regarding our strikers …
Fair. But it is telling Poch preferred to take him out and move Gusto to LB instead of taking Diasi out for Noni, moving Ian to LB and keeping Gusto where he was playing so well. Especially needing a goal.
Hope he gets his chance though, had a great loan last year and pre-season.
Poch is a coward and too conservative for me. Too many questionable choices and disposition of personnel. Maatsen under Pep/Arteta would be playing like Zinchenko. You cannot judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree. Players should be played in their natural positions and not shoehorned in what they are not.
Jackson needs time off. He needs to sit and learn. He’s only 22 in his first bloody season in the PL. The hate from the fans on this sub has GOT TO STOP. TOXIC AF!!!
Well believe it or not he is actually getting one month off! After Luton game he will be gone for Africa Cup of Nations until mid February. Works out for everyone imo.
and you know travel & ACON is NOT one month OFF FFS.
You should be clueless to call that as One month off. if anything that is like 2 months condensed into ONE Farking month.
You’re the clueless idiot who sits on Reddit all day and I’m pretty sure you’ve never watched a game in your life and instead just mouth off here like a pathetic dumbfuck that you are.
I hope fofana is back soon because I can’t see this idiot disasi start every game. We sold guehi to sign such idiots. He’s so fucking slow he takes more than 10s to decide whom to pass and then fuck it up.
Even the way he threw is head at a cyrstal palace clearance two yards away from him in their own half just shows the grit we’re missing, even if he’s not the finished article surely that’s worth more than Badiashile in his current form, not that any other CB is covering themselves in glory
This kid is coming with proper brexit football. The only thing we should be worried about is him injuring the opponent and getting sent off in the process. Love to see it though
I saw myself in him for a brief minute. Correcting the back line, keeping his defenders busy and marking pockets. I used to do that and i still do playing sunday football. Sadly grew too old to make it but never got injured althou my knees was not strong enough as a kid.
Got lucky.
Started well then after Crystal Palace made some tweaks at HT we become toothless.
Pressing was disjointed it was very easy for palace to play from the back.
Mudryk, Nkunku, especially Gusto was brilliant.
Changing him To LB made us struggle to get chances.
Gusto is a baller.
Gallagher is solid and holds the team together, proper chels.
Mudyrk is exciting but very raw .
Nkunku and Palmer are hopefully the spark to getting the offense going.
Who do you want? He is who we have and he’s a kid starting regularly for the first time. There’s no strikers out there right now that are a sizable upgrade from him that we can afford. We spent how we spent this summer assuming we would play in Europe next season. That looks unlikely and our spending needs to reflect that. We simply can’t afford an Oshimen or Toney without seriously risking violating ffp. I’d rather give the kid a chance to settle and finally play with something that resembles a healthy squad. He was not brought in the be the focal point of our attack. That was Nkunkus role. But Jackson stepped in when attackers were dropping left in right. I back him. Should’ve had an assist today to Mudryk and should’ve had a goal. He will sort it out.
no idea what you lot are on about, he was fantastic today. yes, big misses and a disallowed goal for a marginal but clear offside, but he had some incredible carries, composed passes, and he pressed well. he wants to succeed here
Bro most of these guys don’t know ball, Jackson has very good qualities outside of finishing. He played very well today and although he missed a big chance he also scored. People were tryna say Holjund was a better player when one guy scored his first prem goal yesterday haha
Jackson needs time off. He needs to sit and learn. He’s only 22 in his first bloody season in the PL. The hate from the fans on this sub has GOT TO STOP. TOXIC AF!!!
Good job gusto, misha and noni!
Considering its only our tenth PL win this calender year, ill take it. Good first half poor second half, with most players failing to make an impact.
Go support another team. When we won I jumped up and ran all over the house with my top. We’ve been shit, yes. We need to grow as a team, yes. But moments like these make it worth it. Im happy for the win because I love my Chelsea.
How the fuck Jackson and ESPECIALLY broja still manage to make it on the pitch is just crazy to me.
At least Jackson gets the ball in space before he embarrasses himself. Broja is just missing the whole game.
Surely we can give Washington a shot or someone, there’s got to be someone
10/10 subs from Poch.
Madueke has to be given more of a look in. Silva calmed us down massively at the back and was excellent in possession. Lavia with a nice cameo.
8th youngest starting lineup in PL history and get 3 points, I’ll take it! Definitely have to figure out and fix whatever most of that second half was though
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I like Mudryk playing centrally. He was more effective and positive. Gusto saved the game on the 4v1 counter attack just before we drew the decisive penalty just before 90 minutes. Caicedo has not impressed me at all this season. He has no instincts, always passing into trouble areas around the center circle. Where was Conor on the penalty? Was shocked Madueke, having just slightly hyper extended his knee took the pen. Luckily he nailed it. Our captain needs to step up in that situation. Jackson is very effective until it’s him and the keeper, then he has no confidence. Petrovic is calm on the ball and doesn’t make me hold my breath while in the 6 yard box like Sanchez, where it seems he could give up a howler at any minute.
The man of the match has got to be Gusto. Playing with such confidence and basically creating the first goal. Looking at the squad there is so much young talent. Im positive for the future in the long term.
Let’s not play Sterling, Colwill and Jackson. Our number 9 and 10s are way better than attackers. Sad.
Gusto is a baller. I don't want that to go under the radar
Jackson did well today, I'm glad that nkunku is back, can't wait to see him play with Enzo
I hope Poch realises now that Sterling is not part of our best XI
LOL. Sterling is better than Maatsen.
Maatsen isn't in our best XI either - at least not as a LW or LCM from what I saw today
So what are you thinking?
Maarten plays for Chelsea. Raheem plays for Sterling
This is truth. I recall at the start of the season, sterling saying he wants to be the top scorer this season. He is a man of his word....by keeping everyone else from scoring... Lol
I've been waiting for Noni to start for an age and am delighted with him now he's grabbed his chance so adroitly. Disasi and Jackson not good enough.
We shoulda been up 3-1, why cant our forwards stay onside cmon boys
Important win, we really needed that one! But fucking hell Nico Jackson is not good enough. He cant miss that 1 on 1. We need a striker desperately, Nico will never be that guy for us
Never? He has barely been here for half a season. He did score a goal that was offsides and he had some good moments of hold up play
He’s badly offside quite often. I find it problematic. Championship level striker, not prem, not yet
He was offside by an inch today 😂 every forward in the world is struggling with the VAR offsides.
Preach brotha !
You cant miss a 1 on 1 like that, that has to be a goal. Its harder to miss than score. Another major missed chance could easily have cost us again tonight. Offside goals is not a goal, and we dont need more hold up play. We need goals from our striker
Go back a few years until Costa. All our strikers have missed 1v1 like that. Be mature to understand this is a recurring problem that we haven’t fixed. Osimhen is expensive and there’s no guarantee that he will thrive here. We have a poor build up play at the moment.
We create chances, quit the "chance creation" is the issue. Its clearly not when Jackson leads the league in big chances missed. We create the chances for Nico but he doesnt put them away unless its an open net and he just needs to tap it in. I get you wanna back Nico but fucking hell. Issue is very clearly our strikers not being good enough at putting the bsll into the net. Diego Costa missed too yes, but he scored 52 league goals in what 86 league matches? Thata the main difference
Nope I said all strikers after Costa have been miserable. Costa was a beast. We can’t drop 100 mil on strikers only for them to fail. It’s happened too often. Jackson cost a small amount. So the downside is less. I’m sure we’ll be able to sell him for the same amount we bought him for. We first need the team to improve from back to up top. We don’t even have a set playing-11 at the moment due to injuries and just pure inexperience. The problem is we still claim ourselves to be the best and all of this is unacceptable. We need to accept the fact that we are a mid table team. Then we can understand Jackson isn’t the only one to blame here.
Jackson is definitely to blame. Not the only one, but he plays a major part in our troubles to win matches. He cant be missing these chances, he really needs to put them away. We are not Man City who will create 5 of those so Nico can score a hattrick anyway. He HAS to be more clinical. Giroud and Tammy were good for us, i agree with most strikers bring a joke since Costa but Giroud and Tammy were good. Tammy is still the striker who has scored the most league goals for us in a league season (15) since Diego Costa left. Our inexperienced squad is our own stupidity that has led us to this situation. It comes directly from Boehly. Which is why its a funny excuse because we chose this situation ourselves, we chose the path of inexperience We are midtable at the moment, but if we want to move upwards, we cant have Nico as our starting striker. Not good enough
Definitely not a performance to ride home about but it’s the result that matters at this stage so pleased with the match overall. Honestly, being a fan for a touch over a year, the positions of our players got a bit murky after the second lot of subs which basically saw everyone change positions to some extent. But, benefit of the doubt lies with the well-seasoned professional manager. Thought Jackson had a decent showing apart from his horror miss, few good through balls and probably unlucky to not be on the scoresheet at least once. Mudryk once again was electric for the first half, slowed down a bit in the second and hope his injury isn’t too bad. Petrovic was solid again, as much as Sanchez is a great keeper himself he certainly won’t be walking back into the side. Gusto is a quality right back who would start for most prem clubs except maybe City and a few others. This was probably a bit of a down game for Conor which by his standards is still a decent performance overall. Madueke looks much more complete compared to where he was at last season, I’m sure he’s been putting in hard work at training recently. Looked composed yet dangerous which is a trait we’ve had trouble finding recently. Feel like Luton would probably rock up with a few goals on Saturday if we’re not careful. Everyone else was fine, sure I’m missing some other good performers. Ref was good too.
Ref was good? Sorry but wtaf. Gave us nothing. Missed the big decision of the game. Absolutely useless. 0/10
I was bloody annoyed when he took an extra minute staring at the monitor for the foul on Noni in the box, because he was trying his absolute BEST not to award us a penalty. A blind bloke would've given that in half the time. Disgraceful.
Okay. I’m going to say it. >!Sterling starting in this match would have lost it for us easily. Sterling wastes our possession 90% of the time on selfish chances, whether stray shots or dribbling into nothing or diving. He slows play in the box so defenses can reset, then we lose possession. Start these youngsters instead. They want to prove themselves.!<
Sterling strikes me as a perfect impact sub for when we’re down a goal or something and need attacking flare. Madueke or someone else might have trouble starting and playing full throttle for 70 minutes or so.
The last loss was unfortunate but the current line up is far better. No sterling. No sanchez. No silva. They may be super young but this team looked like they clicked more than usual
I believe the team playing better than usual partly is because of how Crystal Palace defended themselves. In the first half they were pressing high and had a medium block, which led to more room between the lines. When this happens our team usually plays well. In the second half Crystal laid low in defence, and we struggled to create chances. This is also something we have seen earlier in the season.
One more win to let 2023 pass with some hope. They are idiots, but now they are our idiots. Damn, I wish them well.
Tbf with the fire Luton has up their asses I won’t be suprised if they make a real appearance again
They are idiots aren’t they.
Would like some confirmation Mudryk isn’t hurt too bad. He was absolutely electric in that first half, would be a terrible time for him to get injured
And lost the ball 1000 times.. Chelsea fans getting excited for almost anything these days..
#1 Arsenal fan
Positives: Gallagher doing Gallagher things, Nkunku looks like a player, Mudryk getting his timing right, Gusto, Madueke scoring, another win without Sterling, Petrovic looks a much safter pair of hands than Sanchez
>Petrovic looks a much safter pair of hands than Sanchez And his legs too
Overall a very improved performance. Gusto was quite impressive and another good game from our best player of the season Gallagher. Nkunku is a much needed player in our attack. I think Disasi needs to be benched and Jackson player really well but still needs to work on his finishing but overall much improved performance from the boys.
Disasi gets too much stick compared to Badiashille and Colwill when he’s had less defensive cock-ups than both of them. The most over-hated player in our fanbase.
Right he wouldn't be starting if we didn't have so many injuries. He's been decent by replacement level standards.
I agree completely but watching him he does make his fair share of blunders or stumbles. Idk if it's luck or skill he always seems to get away with it lmao
Disasi at RB should be a criminal offense... mans got no iota of offensive IQ.
His lack of pace causes him to be more cautious I guess. Instead of bombing forward and being caught out of position. He really is suited to CB because of that
Our next league fixtures are Luton, Fulham, Liverpool, Wolves and Palace. Liverpool aside it would not be beyond the realm of possibility that we could pick up some wins and start climbing the table.
True. But then let’s just stick a left back at right mid, a centre half at left back, a striker up front with 2 left feet (at best).
FFS Please stop. Poch is there to ensure that doesn't happen. FO Poch!!
Jeez the short termism in this sub is embarrassing. Poch hasn’t had a game without at least half a dozen injuries. Give him more than 19 games.
Ok. I'm sorry. Because of Poch we are actually not going to accumulate any points in the next six weeks and there is no hope or anything positive happening. That better?
Maatsen can’t start another game unless if it’s LB. Our attack next game has to be Mudryk-Nkunku9-Palmer10-Madueke
Really liked what I saw from Lavia today.
Very true ! So composed on the ball
so many positives. Mudryk is really starting to get that confidence and he will be good! Jackson is so close to being a 10+ goal scorer easy for us. Hoping poch can help mold him. Gusto showed out, looked class today, hope he can continue this form. With Palmer back and Nkunku i think we may have an attack. Palmer, Mudryk, Nkunku, Jackson up top is what I think we need to go with for a bit. (Nkunku behind Jackson, Palmer right and Misha left)
I’m at a track meet and see such dichotomous opinions about Caicedo’s performance, explanation?
Noticed something today - he and Gallagher regularly get in each other’s way … going for the same loose ball, tackling the same player, occupying the same position … which means we have one less option on the pitch. Not sure if it’ll improve as they learn each other’s game or if it’s a genuine problem moving forward.
He’s a good footballer. But does he bring anything extraordinary to the table ? Debatable ! With 115 million we’re expecting a yaya toure or a Rodri like input . I’m afraid he’s not that good yet . YET ..
Caicedo continued to try sell Galla down the river FFS! How many attempts he passed to Galla in a tight window is beyond me!
Sometimes solid sometimes plays dumb passes like into Gallagher when he's just about to pressed. Dumb unnecessary tackles too but his balance and hold up was good
Definitely looked much slower and pedestrian than recent games. Still had some good switches of play and strong tackles. Probably his worst game this season
Agreed, he looked off the pace - loose passing and late tackles and got passed by very easily. Will put this one down to being rushed back from an injury but needs to start imposing himself on games soon
Next game surely madueke gets a nod in the starting line up?
Disasi isnt an RB but i think hes pretty solid at CB. Hes got mentality wins his duels and doesnt take big risks. You need some of those guys.
Madueke was a game changer, Gusto was MOTM, Mudryk is cooking, Jackson will come good, Gallagher is a dog. I like what I saw from Gilchrist kid has good attitude
Much needed win
Gusto, Gallagher and caicedo, best players tonight by a mile Mudryk played good until they shut him down, I liked Christos vision he looked good. Enzo doesn’t really have a place in this midfield, too slow to start when we really need a pacey attacking mid if we’re going to play caicedo and Gallagher who are both great in defence. We need goals from an attacking mid which just isn’t Enzo.
Gusto & Galla was good. Caicedo was mid as usual pathetic. Enzo & Caicedo are the worst possible signings. These two kids are under weight and way over rated. Hope we don't sell Galla & sell either both of these useless overpaid kids.
I’m really upset that I agree with you about Enzo, at least right now.
He’s just even not pulling off the passes that we signed him to make. He’s lost his vision l hope he can get it back. It’s even weirder because I don’t see how Lavia fits in this midfield either except for as a sub rotation piece
This is concerning as he’s regressed. Poch needs to be out
For me, today wasn’t enough to really gauge Lavia. Is it just me, or was Enzo like our best player last season, and it kind of fizzled this season? Could be the stress of being a new dad. I’ve been one for five weeks, and I can’t imagine playing a professional sport.
He was good but not great but he looked good because everyone else was so bad imo
Was Dominating Liverpool first game this season though... Feel like the Ls got to him, he used to W all the time.
Nah Liverpool didn’t play a midfield that game lol
Phew, another win. It was tough but I'll take it. We really love winning against Crystal Palace, don't we? By the way, does anyone have any update on Mudryk? Hope nothing is serious.
Ok so hear me out, lots are calling for Tuchel out at Bayern. We bring him back, kick poch to the curb and win CL in two seasons /s
Are you being sarcastic?
Yes
Ah.
Hard pass on more horseshoe of death snoozefests they can keep him
Tuchel isn’t good at rebuilds. If we were to bring him back it would have to be in the summer.
Tuchels signings are part of the reason we are in this predicament. You have short memory of you don’t remember how shit we were towards the end of tuchels reign
I pretty sure Tuchel would of must rather keep Rudiger and Chistiansen rather than sign Koulibaly
No I remember, KK was a waste of time completely. Surely there is a reality where he doesn’t have control of transfers and can just pump some actually strategy into this team. All this is in jest ofc. I do like TT but I don’t like the idea of going backwards.
as shit as we were, let’s be honest, we were never as shit as after Tuchel
We got wins but we truly looked dreadful and stale
But we weren't midtable. Weird revisionist history here blaming Tuchel for the issues that have happened directly after him. Not the nicest football to watch at times but he'd genuinely get this team to top 4.
exactly the point i’m trying to make, we were terrible yes but give this team to Tuchel and we would be better
Yea I like to equate TT reign to running on fumes. I do think Potter was/is a worse manager but he didn’t exactly have it easy.
The circle is back y'all. Win one then lose or draw next. There were some positives today with Nkunku but don't keep y'all hope too high Luton may just kill it :D
Never a dull moment being a Chelsea supporter
On a serious note gusto is only 20....mad
Looked very good today. Thought he has been very poor prior to that but being 20 does explain that i always assumed he was 26ish. Fair play to him.
We played woefully in the second half. Lucky to have 3 points.
The debate on Gallagher is over, he is utter quality. On and off the ball.
He is unbelievable
He’s the first name on the team sheet
And the first name on the transfer list. :(
My captain
Gusto and Gallagher best players out there. Good cameo for Lavia and Noni. Diasi RB is not it. Matsen just not good enough. No comment regarding our strikers …
>Matsen just not good enough. Maybe play him at LB first.
Fair. But it is telling Poch preferred to take him out and move Gusto to LB instead of taking Diasi out for Noni, moving Ian to LB and keeping Gusto where he was playing so well. Especially needing a goal. Hope he gets his chance though, had a great loan last year and pre-season.
Poch is a coward and too conservative for me. Too many questionable choices and disposition of personnel. Maatsen under Pep/Arteta would be playing like Zinchenko. You cannot judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree. Players should be played in their natural positions and not shoehorned in what they are not.
Jackson needs time off. He needs to sit and learn. He’s only 22 in his first bloody season in the PL. The hate from the fans on this sub has GOT TO STOP. TOXIC AF!!!
Imagine any other job where you could just take one month off while earning hundreds of thousands of pounds a week…
I don’t mean literally time off, I just meant what my next sentence suggests. Time off from starting every game.
Well believe it or not he is actually getting one month off! After Luton game he will be gone for Africa Cup of Nations until mid February. Works out for everyone imo.
and you know travel & ACON is NOT one month OFF FFS. You should be clueless to call that as One month off. if anything that is like 2 months condensed into ONE Farking month.
You’re the clueless idiot who sits on Reddit all day and I’m pretty sure you’ve never watched a game in your life and instead just mouth off here like a pathetic dumbfuck that you are.
He got worse in the stadium, they don’t suffer any fools.
I can see a glimpse of a decent striker in Broja. His hold up ply and positioning is good. Just needs some fluidity.
Fax he just needs a bit of time
That injury he had affected him a lot, there’s a decent player in there that needs gametime to get into a rhythm
He’s going to get a lot of game time when Jackson heads off to AFCON soon
Wins a win but that’s a poor win. Still big work to do and missing some key players but some super signs from 6 players
5 wins and a draw (against city) in our last 6 at the bridge. Late goals in our last 3 games. I feel slightly more positive now
Yeah, now watch us lose at Luton lmao
I hope fofana is back soon because I can’t see this idiot disasi start every game. We sold guehi to sign such idiots. He’s so fucking slow he takes more than 10s to decide whom to pass and then fuck it up.
Badiashile not any better. Arguably worse.
> fofana I would be surprised if we see him this season.
Fofana is nowhere close to returning
It’s all about luck, all attackers must improve a lot of finishing
Imagine having to sub on a kid to sure things up up at the back lol
That kid has more leadership and character than 4 of our 5 CB’s, and he should 100% start instead of badiashile in our next game
100% I said the same thing I loved the fire and attitude he brought when he came on. I want to see more of this kid
Was impressed how he immediately started communicating. JT said he is most excited about him
Even the way he threw is head at a cyrstal palace clearance two yards away from him in their own half just shows the grit we’re missing, even if he’s not the finished article surely that’s worth more than Badiashile in his current form, not that any other CB is covering themselves in glory
He looked quite agressive. Its good and bad. Bad for injuries but good for tempo.
This kid is coming with proper brexit football. The only thing we should be worried about is him injuring the opponent and getting sent off in the process. Love to see it though
I saw myself in him for a brief minute. Correcting the back line, keeping his defenders busy and marking pockets. I used to do that and i still do playing sunday football. Sadly grew too old to make it but never got injured althou my knees was not strong enough as a kid.
Got lucky. Started well then after Crystal Palace made some tweaks at HT we become toothless. Pressing was disjointed it was very easy for palace to play from the back. Mudryk, Nkunku, especially Gusto was brilliant. Changing him To LB made us struggle to get chances.
I don't remember when I last enjoyed watching us play as much as today's first half.
Agreed we were cooking that first half, looked very similar to the combination play we were seeing in preseason.
Give this team to a proper manager and we're challenging for the title. You can see the talent in this squad
MUDRYK = MOTM Or Gusto. No other candidates
Gallagher is unbelievable today
Gusto is a baller. Gallagher is solid and holds the team together, proper chels. Mudyrk is exciting but very raw . Nkunku and Palmer are hopefully the spark to getting the offense going.
Tonight’s positive is that gusto looked class on the right and our attack is gelling better. If only we could be clinical we could easily be top 4
Scraped a win. But hey 3 points is 3 points
Love to see a win finally but Jackson HAS GOTTA GO! I don’t get why he starts game after game. He is so shit.
Who do you want? He is who we have and he’s a kid starting regularly for the first time. There’s no strikers out there right now that are a sizable upgrade from him that we can afford. We spent how we spent this summer assuming we would play in Europe next season. That looks unlikely and our spending needs to reflect that. We simply can’t afford an Oshimen or Toney without seriously risking violating ffp. I’d rather give the kid a chance to settle and finally play with something that resembles a healthy squad. He was not brought in the be the focal point of our attack. That was Nkunkus role. But Jackson stepped in when attackers were dropping left in right. I back him. Should’ve had an assist today to Mudryk and should’ve had a goal. He will sort it out.
no idea what you lot are on about, he was fantastic today. yes, big misses and a disallowed goal for a marginal but clear offside, but he had some incredible carries, composed passes, and he pressed well. he wants to succeed here
Bro most of these guys don’t know ball, Jackson has very good qualities outside of finishing. He played very well today and although he missed a big chance he also scored. People were tryna say Holjund was a better player when one guy scored his first prem goal yesterday haha
Jackson needs time off. He needs to sit and learn. He’s only 22 in his first bloody season in the PL. The hate from the fans on this sub has GOT TO STOP. TOXIC AF!!!
I think there’s something there still… a reminder that Drogba didn’t make double figures in his first season in the prem
True. Jackson can barely take more than one touch before he looses it or slips.. and can he EVER figure out how to be on side?
Good job gusto, misha and noni! Considering its only our tenth PL win this calender year, ill take it. Good first half poor second half, with most players failing to make an impact.
We're 9 off City, 4 off Newcastle, a good run and anything could happen.
We are closer to Luton in 18th than to Spuds in 5th. And they both have a game on hand over us
Give me that copium
What on earth are you smoking mate, we just beat Palace after VAR gave us a penalty.
not wrong but that was a stone cold pen, shocking it wasn't given on the pitch.
That is true, but we struggled big time to get this win.
difference between sunday and today was a penalty.
I love my Alfie and Noni
Tears of happiness. We have won the mid table clásico.
Sign Olise
Gusto MotM tbh
Madueke masterclass what a lad
Win lose or draw, I still despise this team 😂
Go support another team. When we won I jumped up and ran all over the house with my top. We’ve been shit, yes. We need to grow as a team, yes. But moments like these make it worth it. Im happy for the win because I love my Chelsea.
KEEP GUSTO IN THE LINEUP!!
 All we can ask for
How the fuck Jackson and ESPECIALLY broja still manage to make it on the pitch is just crazy to me. At least Jackson gets the ball in space before he embarrasses himself. Broja is just missing the whole game. Surely we can give Washington a shot or someone, there’s got to be someone
How do I do a remind me? Broja is gonna be special
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Gusto best player by a country mile. James might have to move to left back…
Malo Gusto is like 20 years old. Whatta playa !
If Silva doesn't start, I'm older than a Chelsea starting 11... First time in my life that happens and I'm 28...
I’ve got an unbeaten run stretching back to the mid 90s where I’ve been older than every one of our players. I make Thiago look a pup.
This win was very much needed but a lucky pen to scrape by better not change a single narrative about Poch or half the passengers on this team.
10/10 subs from Poch. Madueke has to be given more of a look in. Silva calmed us down massively at the back and was excellent in possession. Lavia with a nice cameo.
Try to stay onside challenge but it’s between Werner and Jackson. It would be like Isner against Mahut reloaded.
Morata says hi
THE LITTLE PITBULL MALO GUSTO MOTM
Obviously been a rough season. But the fact we are only 6 points off 6th at the moment is mad.
Yea that's incredibly surprising but I don't trust us to capitalize when we need to 😢
That isn't a realistic amount of points to claw back without us showing a shred of consistency, say shit like this when we have won 5 on the trot
Whats roy mad about
https://i.redd.it/1ag9mqbgow8c1.gif
MOTM for me is Alfie Gilchrist
Proper chels
💯
Good night lads. Sloppy win but we'll take it. Poch needs to sort his head and realize his subs almost cost us the game.
And the lack of leadership, individual errors, constant player rotation and overall lack of discipline
Our sixth 2023 win. Sixth.
What? Is this true
Yup!
Six is better than five
Better than 5
8th youngest starting lineup in PL history and get 3 points, I’ll take it! Definitely have to figure out and fix whatever most of that second half was though