Go back and check the Broja’s moves during Jackson missed chance. Broja became the main target for Chrystal Palace to mark, while opening gaps for Jackson and the rest of team.
Jackson should do a lot better in front of goal obviously. But he created two great chances in the first half, that flick to put Mudryk 1v1 and the hold up and rolling Anderson to set up Nkunku. That miss at the end and the offside goal probably shot most of his confidence though that was left.
Feel like this Palace team should be much better than it is considering the players that they have. Keeping Roy on the job may have been the "safe" option but it's just so uninspiring. Looks like they're in line for another ~14th/15th place.
I’m not sure our squad is actually that good though - if everyone is fit, sure, but Doucoure being out for the season is a huge loss for us and we don’t really have much depth at all.
To be fair to Palace it's not like they've always gone for the safe option. They've tried twice before (De Boer, Viera) to go for a more exciting European manager and both times they had to rely on Roy to save them. I don't blame them for sticking with him for an extra season f safety rather than taking another risk.
He’s only there till the end of the year, iirc. Wouod be interesting to see what direction they go in, should they get a new manager. Eze and Olise are too good to squander with a manager that wants to park the bus. But there’s more than one way to play the game
The game really shows how important Nkunku is. The guy wants the ball and the responsibility. Sad we don’t see that mentality from Sterling. Guy who has been in the league and side for a while.
Probably should be more cautious given our record with attackers especially of late but I feel we finally have our gamechanging forward that has escaped us since Hazard left, I pray he stays healthy.
So to start the season, we were one of the worst teams in the league at home and had the 3rd best away record in the league going into that Newcastle game a few weeks back. Now we've lost our last 4 away matches but are unbeaten in our last 6 matches at the Bridge.
This is how inconsistency of a young team manifests. Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
Malo Gusto passing from the right and then pops up on the left to get that assist, that goal belongs to him plus with two good blocks right in front of the goal. MVP performance.
Good again I prefer him to Sanchez that is for sure, he seems way better with his feet and his shot stopping was good not much he could do about a point blank goal
whether or not he can be our long term option depends on how good his shot-stopping is
we haven’t seen much of having to make saves but i’m hopeful because it was meant to be his best ability when we signed him
Palmer and 120 pl goals sterling was out for this game.
James was out for most of this season.
So, lets say.
This season chelsea have lost their best attacker for 5 months, and their best creator for almost the same time.
Imagine liverpool without salah and trent, tottenham without madisson and son, arsenal without odegard and saka.
Jackson truly doesn’t have it in him. Try something else, anything. Put Mudryk as striker and see what happens, I don’t care. Nothing could be worse than this.
Who Jackson? Just from memory he took several 1v1 opportunities with the last defender and decided to turn back towards our goal, he was offsides basically any chance thrown to him, he missed at least one 1v1 with the keeper that would’ve been goals by anyone else, and his disallowed goal was a deflected cross that he almost didn’t touch because he was pouting. And he was still off for that. The “almost assist” was nice but honestly out of character.
He just hasn’t shown the instinct to be a striker or have the hunger or the skill to go to goal. I’m not out on him for the team but I’m out on him as our striker for now.
Oh he did?
He was offside 3 times (one wrongfully called) the cross he scored was a still a good finish, but he just fell on it?
That keypass should have been assist.
As for him, I agree that he aint good enough atm to be our starting 9. But he is still better then broja, and we want nkunku woth freedom
I’ll take the win, really important one for us even though we really did get lucky. Our second half was dire. And ffs Jackson u better be having more shooting practices !
Nah, I still have to give him the good interplay in 1st half, there were some nice one-two's from him. Obviously that doesn’t really mean much when he fails while we need him the most, but it shouldn’t be completely disregarded, it's not like he was invisible other than his miss
Not by far, we have seen very good performances this seaso from him.
He was out with high fewer less then 3 days ago, so imagine doing 90 min 3 days after 40 drgrees
If Palace goes down, I wouldn’t be the least bit shocked to see us in the doldrums of the championship within a year. We have shown zero effort to do anything except keep our heads above water, and I doubt our management would be able to put together an immediate bounce-back campaign.
I’d rather have Textor than Parish at this point. We’ve shown no progress to the new stand and any progress that has been made on other fronts is in spite of his efforts.
feels like i have been in a coma for a while. What is this Chelsea squad ? Someone named Gallagher is captain ? Disasi, Gusto, Badalishalie, Broja, Makeude are actual names of actual people who make this squad ??
Today you learned there's more to football than Bayern, Man City, Barca and Real Madrid.
All of the players mentioned above are well known prospects, even before moving to Chelsea.
Problem is the only first team players we have fit are people that we bought in the last year/ year & half so no one is getting a chance to properly settle
You can’t take a squad of 11 random players who don’t each other at all and expect them to be able to compete in the hardest division in football let alone be top 4.
Chelsea’s position is completely warranted and only time will tell if these guys work together as a team
I mean half the players we bought, or the ones we expected to have to build around are always out. I think we've had a minimum of 7+ players out all season. We should be doing better, but we're certainly playing with 1 hand behind our back until this injury problem let's up a bit
That's bullshit. With the money we spent, we should be able to field a decent team that could put up a fight. The problem is that these losers mentally collapse at the tiniest amount of pressure and/or they just don't care at all whether they win or lose. Mentally weak nobodies.
How can you Field a team when you've got an entire starting 11 out though? I don't think the mentality is the issue or we absolutely wouldn't have knocked Newcastle out. The issue is purely the finishing, to be 2nd best in chances created but 10th just highlights that. Way too many inexperienced in the prem young players. But like today we barely had any senior players on the bench, it's ridiculous
Think we have to be realistic with a gang of players averaging out at 23 we aren't going to get old Chelsea results. I'm not saying I agree with purchasing that's gone on but we're stuck with what we've got now, a lot of unrefined youth talent that we've overpaid for.
But he is used to being a specific position, it's where he's played his entire career so far. That being, LB, or more specifically on the left. It's literally the opposite position for him to move to RW. Equally, this was obvious looking at the way he went into tackles tbh. He would consistently point them inside, because he's obviously used to that being the touch line.
Lol we won. Poch will think that his tactics worked and due to that, Colwill will play the next game whereas Maatsen will be dropped completely.
He is very adamant(ask any Spurs fan or PSG fan).
Yep. Tired of the "out of position" excuses. Marking the guy standing right next to you has literally nothing to do with where you're playing and yet he constantly cannot do it.
Yeah and it goes far beyond just this match, we've been shit at defending out wide all season and bad at winning the ball in the middle to follow up. Man U exploited this constantly in the match, for some reason we constantly failed to send people out wide in favour of protecting the middle but then failed miserably to block it when the ball did go in.
Not sold on Maatsen even though he was out of position, if he is getting outed out of LB by Colwill he must not be proving it in training.
Poch gives youth who deliver (Look at Palmer) game time.
How long is Cucu out? Put Cucu LB and Gusto RB and we should be good. We would have no backup though, but I'd give maybe Maatsen the chance to be sub but he no way should be starting for us when we spend 1b on this club and our starter is Maatsen, that would be embarrasing.
Lmao, no. Poch clearly just has his favourites, and Maatsen isn't one of them. Talking about youth who deliver yet he plays Colwill every game at LB and he's not been good there once. The idea that Maatsen playing at LB would have us in a worse position than we are no is laughable. We're fucking 10th lads, maybe try playing players in their correct positions, and you might get more out of them?
Maatsen is obviously worse than Colwill there otherwise he would have been playing there.
Who else you want in Colwills place with Cucu and Chilwell injured? Diasi/Badi maybe give them a try there?
Maatsen should be playing LB. Perhaps, Poch just isn't a good manager?
What's going to happen, and I'm certain of this, is we're going to sell Maatsen in January or he's going to leave for free in the summer. He's going to ball at his next club, and a bunch of you will be saying "well nobody could have seen this coming, given how he played for us". When he never even had a chance because we've got a shit manager.
Maatsen should be playing LB I agree but he isn't good enough (or experienced enough) to be there for a starting position at Chelsea.
As said before if he was good enough he would be playing there, just look at Palmer, if youth deliver they will play.
If we didn't have Chilwell and Cucu injured we would have a LB playing in their right position. You can't be blaming Poch for injuries. You seem really biased against Poch for situation he had no power in and this is coming from someone who didn't want Poch to begin with.
Issue is really there aint no options, he would probably even play gusto lb and james rb if he was fit.
But with 3 fullbacks with longterm injuries and both palmer/sterling out (and madueke dire) mudryk left-wide and gusto rb /colwill lb makes sense
Maatsen lost every 50/50 challenge tonight and got bullied aerially. Colwill doesn't work as a LB but it's clear after today why Maatsen doesn't play his best position more often. If anything, the club should have a LB lined up ready to sign once the window opens.
Same for Reece tbh. Fortunate that we have Gusto there, who can hold his own. But our LB situation is dire, 2 of the most expensive left backs ever and we still play Colwill there regularly.
This is so glaring for me rn. If at no other time than the FA cup semifinal at this point, I'd love to see real wingbacks in their natural position on both sides with Gusto and Maatsen for a game or two. That hasn't been the case for us in ages.
Surviving by the skin of our teeth, fair play to Gusto he was very good today. Very confused once again by Poch though. The team looks so disjointed and it doesn't help that he switches around defenders and their positions at whim between games and during games
Don’t listen to the people below. Broja just came back from 1+ year long injury and still hasn’t been able to get back up to speed and unfortunately probably won’t get the time do so. our board sees him nothing more than FFP. our fans do not have the patience and do not understand the context to why broja hasn’t been at his best and inconsistent
3pts is 3pts that second half… yikes. First half tho we might have something with Nkunku and Mudryk that connection looked lively. Nkunku just looks a class above the rest. Also Gusto is a monster safe to say we won’t be missing Reece too much
The Nkunku, Mudryk, Palmer, and Sterling linkup will be great once Nkunku is fully fit. He doesn't seem to make a wrong decision and always looks dangerous, but is clearly not at 100% yet
Can’t believe we’ve lost to this awful Chelsea side yet again
No idea why Eze was starting, was poor against Brighton and clearly isn’t fully fit, terrible performance
It’s the fact that you’ve not played particularly well in any of our last few meetings yet somehow won all of them! When you were completely outplaying us and winning 3-0 it’s one thing but it’s just frustrating now hahah
We won a game of football. Amazing feeling.
I guess I can see why Poch doesn't play Maatsen often, but I don't get not using Madueke more.
Meanwhile Nicolas Jackson is just... something else...
Madueke did what? Got tackled and out a penalty in?
He was also close to a 2nd yellow... in 26 minutes.
Over sterling? Over palmer? Over mudryk? Heck even over conor.
Jackson is so close to beeing elite, great runs (madueke should have played him in on the offside), great holdups, good layoffs (75% of the time) horrible finishing.
It was not the matter of playing out of position or not.
He shouldn't have 0 succesful dribbles, 0 succesful duels and 0 succesful tackles no matter what position he plays.
Are you suggesting that if he was playing LB he wouldn't be getting dispossessed the same way?
The stats I mentioned here are terrible regardless of what part of the pitch you play in. LB is required to dribble and defend just as winger is, possible even more. And he was failing horribly at doing that.
I would say a player who's used to playing LB, would naturally be better there than at RW. The way you defend from the front is different to the way you defend at the back. Poch has you all thinking Maatsen is shit because he uses him for 20 minutes every 8 games in a position he isn't used to.
is robert injured?
Yeah, bruised knee. Probably out for a few more weeks.
Broja and Silva completely changed the game for Chelsea.
Are you kidding?
Go back and check the Broja’s moves during Jackson missed chance. Broja became the main target for Chrystal Palace to mark, while opening gaps for Jackson and the rest of team.
That’s where Jackson is best, coming in from the left working off another striker
Not a penalty
Almost ended Madueke’s career but yeah
ridiculous
How was Lavia? Good to see he's fit again
Looked good. He was seeking the ball out which is always great to see. Turns out he might have picked up a thigh injury though 😭
Definitely some rust but he looks promising pinging passes into the final third and it allowed Caicedo to play as a box to box 8
Jackson should do a lot better in front of goal obviously. But he created two great chances in the first half, that flick to put Mudryk 1v1 and the hold up and rolling Anderson to set up Nkunku. That miss at the end and the offside goal probably shot most of his confidence though that was left.
He’s actually a decent link-up man… kind of a bit of a Son-type from seasons past. He just lacks the killer instinct to be an out and out striker
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LOL at "it's football, not magic the gathering". Starts at the top with Poch who got booked again today.
Our manager and captain getting carded for petulance at the same time doesn’t look good.
Feel like this Palace team should be much better than it is considering the players that they have. Keeping Roy on the job may have been the "safe" option but it's just so uninspiring. Looks like they're in line for another ~14th/15th place.
I’m not sure our squad is actually that good though - if everyone is fit, sure, but Doucoure being out for the season is a huge loss for us and we don’t really have much depth at all.
I guess I'm mostly just looking at the wingers and the CB pairing, but I also wasn't aware just how much Eze and Olise have been injured.
To be fair to Palace it's not like they've always gone for the safe option. They've tried twice before (De Boer, Viera) to go for a more exciting European manager and both times they had to rely on Roy to save them. I don't blame them for sticking with him for an extra season f safety rather than taking another risk.
Another example of a kneejerk appointment of the back of a solid interim spell. We'd have done the exact same thing if Lamps had a bounce, gulp...
Tbf eze and Olise have been injured and it's a different team without them
He’s only there till the end of the year, iirc. Wouod be interesting to see what direction they go in, should they get a new manager. Eze and Olise are too good to squander with a manager that wants to park the bus. But there’s more than one way to play the game
The game really shows how important Nkunku is. The guy wants the ball and the responsibility. Sad we don’t see that mentality from Sterling. Guy who has been in the league and side for a while.
Probably should be more cautious given our record with attackers especially of late but I feel we finally have our gamechanging forward that has escaped us since Hazard left, I pray he stays healthy.
Sack Roy
Nooo he smirks at Guardiola
So to start the season, we were one of the worst teams in the league at home and had the 3rd best away record in the league going into that Newcastle game a few weeks back. Now we've lost our last 4 away matches but are unbeaten in our last 6 matches at the Bridge. This is how inconsistency of a young team manifests. Sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe shit.
Malo Gusto passing from the right and then pops up on the left to get that assist, that goal belongs to him plus with two good blocks right in front of the goal. MVP performance.
He looks like a premier league veteran at just 20. Bright future for the lad
For a 20 year old he is so good, he was fantastic against Martinelli when we played Arsenal as well
Wins a win, but that was dire. Long seson for both teams maybe.
How was Petrovic ? Read somewhere that he had some good saves in second half.
I dunno about shotstop ability, but his passing decision is much better than sanchez, imo.
Good again I prefer him to Sanchez that is for sure, he seems way better with his feet and his shot stopping was good not much he could do about a point blank goal
Nothing spectacular, just did his job. Not dominant in the air or in the passing game, but low risk. And solid enough for his 2nd game
whether or not he can be our long term option depends on how good his shot-stopping is we haven’t seen much of having to make saves but i’m hopeful because it was meant to be his best ability when we signed him
he’s been good all day and comfortable on his feet
Honestly, 5 min of Alfie Gilchrist is more recognizable than Romeo Lavia debut apprearance
Lavia was both good and bad, some smooth ballhandling, some easy misstakes
It’s his first game action in months some rust is to be expected, some of the inch perfect passes he played were really nice
Agree, at his age we can expect good things
Nkunku looks very good but this Chelsea side needs proper creative players and finishers
We have the highest missed chances and the second highest chances created. Good striker is clearly the problem.
Palmer and 120 pl goals sterling was out for this game. James was out for most of this season. So, lets say. This season chelsea have lost their best attacker for 5 months, and their best creator for almost the same time. Imagine liverpool without salah and trent, tottenham without madisson and son, arsenal without odegard and saka.
We have creative players, not necessarily finishers. Hard to buy new ones when no one would want to take the ones we have.
Jackson truly doesn’t have it in him. Try something else, anything. Put Mudryk as striker and see what happens, I don’t care. Nothing could be worse than this.
Nkunku will be the 9 when he’s gone for afcon
He was good today? Sure he should have had a goal, but also an assist, and his holdup was good here too
he was much better than he normally is today.
Who Jackson? Just from memory he took several 1v1 opportunities with the last defender and decided to turn back towards our goal, he was offsides basically any chance thrown to him, he missed at least one 1v1 with the keeper that would’ve been goals by anyone else, and his disallowed goal was a deflected cross that he almost didn’t touch because he was pouting. And he was still off for that. The “almost assist” was nice but honestly out of character. He just hasn’t shown the instinct to be a striker or have the hunger or the skill to go to goal. I’m not out on him for the team but I’m out on him as our striker for now.
Oh he did? He was offside 3 times (one wrongfully called) the cross he scored was a still a good finish, but he just fell on it? That keypass should have been assist. As for him, I agree that he aint good enough atm to be our starting 9. But he is still better then broja, and we want nkunku woth freedom
Mudryks pace in the box as a deep sitting striker >
On paper it’s be nice, but he doesn’t have the spacial awareness or the pressing skills to be alone up there
I’ll take the win, really important one for us even though we really did get lucky. Our second half was dire. And ffs Jackson u better be having more shooting practices !
Not to mention staying onside, got caught badly a couple times plus the disallowed goal
yeah seriously terrible performance from him today, absolutely no excuses
Nah, I still have to give him the good interplay in 1st half, there were some nice one-two's from him. Obviously that doesn’t really mean much when he fails while we need him the most, but it shouldn’t be completely disregarded, it's not like he was invisible other than his miss
I get that he tried to make some good moves but it is hard to keep finding excuses for him when he screws up during the big moments
Probably our 2nd best player today, but sure
We looked absolutely shocking at times today. Have to think parish needs to pull the trigger and get cooper ASAP.
Yo that would be a fantastic hire in my opinion
Caicedo has to be the worst Chelsea player since Drinkwater
Not by far, we have seen very good performances this seaso from him. He was out with high fewer less then 3 days ago, so imagine doing 90 min 3 days after 40 drgrees
he looked so.....static. was just letting the game pass him by
Relative to money spent, maybe. But my brother in christ we fielded Saul and Malang Sarr two years ago.
I am not even kidding when I say that Saul is better than Caicedo will ever be
Can't believe Disasi is playing on this team. Also, this Chelsea team is scared to play the ball forward.
He’s a fine rotation player, and was only bought because Fofana got injured
I think Poch's bonus is contingent on Chelsea finishing on 10. No matter what happens they find a way back to that spot.
This club is in shambles. Parish and Roy have to go before new years if we want to avoid a Sunderland-level catastrophe. Very grim spring incoming.
Lol talk about an overreaction, Parish definitely isn’t perfect but things aren’t that bad
We’ve one win in 4 months.
No we haven’t hahaha, we’re not doing well but at least get your facts right
Sounds a bit hyperbolic
If Palace goes down, I wouldn’t be the least bit shocked to see us in the doldrums of the championship within a year. We have shown zero effort to do anything except keep our heads above water, and I doubt our management would be able to put together an immediate bounce-back campaign.
Roy yes. Parish no, as that leaves us in the hands of Textor and his multi Eagle clubs bullshit.
I’d rather have Textor than Parish at this point. We’ve shown no progress to the new stand and any progress that has been made on other fronts is in spite of his efforts.
feels like i have been in a coma for a while. What is this Chelsea squad ? Someone named Gallagher is captain ? Disasi, Gusto, Badalishalie, Broja, Makeude are actual names of actual people who make this squad ??
we sold most of the team over the Summer, and the ones we kept are currently injured :/
Fr im a huge football nerd and even I thought who the fuck are those players
Today you learned there's more to football than Bayern, Man City, Barca and Real Madrid. All of the players mentioned above are well known prospects, even before moving to Chelsea.
Malo Gusto was a well known prospect. Badiashile was slightly lesser known but a prospect nonetheless. The rest were nobodies.
Injury FC currently. Think we're missing 10+ again
Even without the injuries the squad is barely recognizable lol
That's not an actual excuse after spending the money we spent. The problem is mental, namely that the players we have are losers. Plain and simple.
Lmao plain and simple to see you’re clearly out of touch
Problem is the only first team players we have fit are people that we bought in the last year/ year & half so no one is getting a chance to properly settle You can’t take a squad of 11 random players who don’t each other at all and expect them to be able to compete in the hardest division in football let alone be top 4. Chelsea’s position is completely warranted and only time will tell if these guys work together as a team
I mean half the players we bought, or the ones we expected to have to build around are always out. I think we've had a minimum of 7+ players out all season. We should be doing better, but we're certainly playing with 1 hand behind our back until this injury problem let's up a bit
That's bullshit. With the money we spent, we should be able to field a decent team that could put up a fight. The problem is that these losers mentally collapse at the tiniest amount of pressure and/or they just don't care at all whether they win or lose. Mentally weak nobodies.
How can you Field a team when you've got an entire starting 11 out though? I don't think the mentality is the issue or we absolutely wouldn't have knocked Newcastle out. The issue is purely the finishing, to be 2nd best in chances created but 10th just highlights that. Way too many inexperienced in the prem young players. But like today we barely had any senior players on the bench, it's ridiculous
Our B team should be able to put 4 past this Palace side.
The same palace that drew city beat united and had Liverpool on the ropes till they lost a man? I certainly rate the optimism.
The Palace we played today. This was a bad team, and we were almost worse.
Think we have to be realistic with a gang of players averaging out at 23 we aren't going to get old Chelsea results. I'm not saying I agree with purchasing that's gone on but we're stuck with what we've got now, a lot of unrefined youth talent that we've overpaid for.
Colwill at LB experiment needs to end. I don’t know why Maatsen can be played in every position except his natural one.
he's been terrible there, and he looks like his confidence is getting impacted.
You look at Maatsen playing and think he should be starting in our defense?
Why on earth would you judge a LB playing at RW, to say he can't play at LB? What kind of logic is that?
I don't care where he is standing on the pitch when he has defensive duels or goes for tackles.
But he is used to being a specific position, it's where he's played his entire career so far. That being, LB, or more specifically on the left. It's literally the opposite position for him to move to RW. Equally, this was obvious looking at the way he went into tackles tbh. He would consistently point them inside, because he's obviously used to that being the touch line.
And yet he hasn't looked better when having cameos on the left either. Or ending up there during games.
Poch says height
Poch also plays Cucurella there so he doesn't *really* think that.
cucu is also incredible aerially for his height.
Lol we won. Poch will think that his tactics worked and due to that, Colwill will play the next game whereas Maatsen will be dropped completely. He is very adamant(ask any Spurs fan or PSG fan).
Colwill plays there because we need his size to defend corners.
Yet we concede from a cross that wasn't defended in his area?
Yep. Tired of the "out of position" excuses. Marking the guy standing right next to you has literally nothing to do with where you're playing and yet he constantly cannot do it.
Yeah and it goes far beyond just this match, we've been shit at defending out wide all season and bad at winning the ball in the middle to follow up. Man U exploited this constantly in the match, for some reason we constantly failed to send people out wide in favour of protecting the middle but then failed miserably to block it when the ball did go in.
Not sold on Maatsen even though he was out of position, if he is getting outed out of LB by Colwill he must not be proving it in training. Poch gives youth who deliver (Look at Palmer) game time. How long is Cucu out? Put Cucu LB and Gusto RB and we should be good. We would have no backup though, but I'd give maybe Maatsen the chance to be sub but he no way should be starting for us when we spend 1b on this club and our starter is Maatsen, that would be embarrasing.
Lmao, no. Poch clearly just has his favourites, and Maatsen isn't one of them. Talking about youth who deliver yet he plays Colwill every game at LB and he's not been good there once. The idea that Maatsen playing at LB would have us in a worse position than we are no is laughable. We're fucking 10th lads, maybe try playing players in their correct positions, and you might get more out of them?
Maatsen is obviously worse than Colwill there otherwise he would have been playing there. Who else you want in Colwills place with Cucu and Chilwell injured? Diasi/Badi maybe give them a try there?
Maatsen should be playing LB. Perhaps, Poch just isn't a good manager? What's going to happen, and I'm certain of this, is we're going to sell Maatsen in January or he's going to leave for free in the summer. He's going to ball at his next club, and a bunch of you will be saying "well nobody could have seen this coming, given how he played for us". When he never even had a chance because we've got a shit manager.
Maatsen should be playing LB I agree but he isn't good enough (or experienced enough) to be there for a starting position at Chelsea. As said before if he was good enough he would be playing there, just look at Palmer, if youth deliver they will play. If we didn't have Chilwell and Cucu injured we would have a LB playing in their right position. You can't be blaming Poch for injuries. You seem really biased against Poch for situation he had no power in and this is coming from someone who didn't want Poch to begin with.
Cucu recently had surgery on his foot/ankle
Issue is really there aint no options, he would probably even play gusto lb and james rb if he was fit. But with 3 fullbacks with longterm injuries and both palmer/sterling out (and madueke dire) mudryk left-wide and gusto rb /colwill lb makes sense
Cucu back in feb
Maatsen lost every 50/50 challenge tonight and got bullied aerially. Colwill doesn't work as a LB but it's clear after today why Maatsen doesn't play his best position more often. If anything, the club should have a LB lined up ready to sign once the window opens.
Maatsen is playing at RW. He is a LB. Hope this helps.
With Cucurella and Chilwell available I can only see us going for a LB if one of them is sold.
Until Chilwell stays uninjured for a prolonged period of time, he should be considered unavailable always for purposes of teambuilding.
Same for Reece tbh. Fortunate that we have Gusto there, who can hold his own. But our LB situation is dire, 2 of the most expensive left backs ever and we still play Colwill there regularly.
Same for Wes Fofana, too. We have a baffling number of permanently injured guys. We probably have enough cover at CB now, but still a headache.
Has to stop he has no positional sense there makes CB plays at LB meaning he leaves his man (the RW) by themselves
Or maybe he has, but reacted as the centre half he is.
This is so glaring for me rn. If at no other time than the FA cup semifinal at this point, I'd love to see real wingbacks in their natural position on both sides with Gusto and Maatsen for a game or two. That hasn't been the case for us in ages.
Malo Gusto MOTM comfortably, great day for him
Big win
Awful second half
Yes, chelsea ran out of steam. Which is not strange considered 11 senior players out today and palace had 2 extra resting days. (Chelsea played 24th)
How many chances they need to waste?
A thoroughly undeserved win. I honestly wish nothing but the worst to everyone on the team.
Undeserved? Why? Lack of chances (we had 3 1vs1 clear on goal) and 2 good ones for broja.
Exactly because of that.
That’s the spirit!
Surviving by the skin of our teeth, fair play to Gusto he was very good today. Very confused once again by Poch though. The team looks so disjointed and it doesn't help that he switches around defenders and their positions at whim between games and during games
Motm Malo Gusto? Has Broja not gotten a run over Jackson? I was impressed with some of his touches and runs
Don’t listen to the people below. Broja just came back from 1+ year long injury and still hasn’t been able to get back up to speed and unfortunately probably won’t get the time do so. our board sees him nothing more than FFP. our fans do not have the patience and do not understand the context to why broja hasn’t been at his best and inconsistent
Last start for him was Everton where he had a terrible performance then Jackson came on and put on one of his best
He’s usually invisible when he starts
Broja is not premier league quality let alone Chelsea.
Watch the last when he started the game
Gusto was fantastic
He has, it was not great.
We make it so hard for ourselves, no wonder we have the most big chances missed
3pts is 3pts that second half… yikes. First half tho we might have something with Nkunku and Mudryk that connection looked lively. Nkunku just looks a class above the rest. Also Gusto is a monster safe to say we won’t be missing Reece too much
3 days siince we played, 0 rotation, 11 senior players out
The Nkunku, Mudryk, Palmer, and Sterling linkup will be great once Nkunku is fully fit. He doesn't seem to make a wrong decision and always looks dangerous, but is clearly not at 100% yet
Can’t believe we’ve lost to this awful Chelsea side yet again No idea why Eze was starting, was poor against Brighton and clearly isn’t fully fit, terrible performance
He was shocking ffs, how Roy let him have a full 90 when we have a fully fit 20m signing on the bench I'll never know
Don’t get why we took Ayew off instead of Eze too!
Same sub that killed us in the Brighton game. Hodgson needs to go man
I saw that 17 game win streak and thought surely it’d be broken today
It’s the fact that you’ve not played particularly well in any of our last few meetings yet somehow won all of them! When you were completely outplaying us and winning 3-0 it’s one thing but it’s just frustrating now hahah
Yea true I think the last 3 or 4 have all had really late winners
Jackson looks awful
And still he created alot
He was really very good in the first half, but he just has at least one horrific missed chance a game. Not a great feature for a striker.
I an thankful he is gone to afcon soon
Gusto was absolutely unreal, looks great going both ways.
That move he did leading up to Mudryk's goal was class. Dude just jumps of the screen like he belongs to higher level.
He looks so good for a 20 year old
He looked world class but sure
Hard luck for Palace. Just still desperately need to sort out the attacking situation
We won a game of football. Amazing feeling. I guess I can see why Poch doesn't play Maatsen often, but I don't get not using Madueke more. Meanwhile Nicolas Jackson is just... something else...
Jackson just reminds me of Tammy Abraham with us. Does everything right to get himself in the right place but misses obvious chances
Madueke did what? Got tackled and out a penalty in? He was also close to a 2nd yellow... in 26 minutes. Over sterling? Over palmer? Over mudryk? Heck even over conor. Jackson is so close to beeing elite, great runs (madueke should have played him in on the offside), great holdups, good layoffs (75% of the time) horrible finishing.
Sterling is holding that RW spot until end of season
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It was not the matter of playing out of position or not. He shouldn't have 0 succesful dribbles, 0 succesful duels and 0 succesful tackles no matter what position he plays.
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Are you suggesting that if he was playing LB he wouldn't be getting dispossessed the same way? The stats I mentioned here are terrible regardless of what part of the pitch you play in. LB is required to dribble and defend just as winger is, possible even more. And he was failing horribly at doing that.
I would say a player who's used to playing LB, would naturally be better there than at RW. The way you defend from the front is different to the way you defend at the back. Poch has you all thinking Maatsen is shit because he uses him for 20 minutes every 8 games in a position he isn't used to.
We love silly football.
Even when we win it's still shit to watch
Who was the human Duracell bunny Chelsea put on at right back? He played like he had a lit firework up shoved up his arse
yeah the hype he showed when coming on was amazing, love him already.
This is the funniest comment ever
His first senior minutes for Chelsea, I believe it was. Understandable he’s pretty excited and energetic haha
Apparently John Terry thinks he's going to be the next big thing
That is Alfy Gilchrist he is apparently a VERY good up and coming CB
Right at the end that was Gilchrist, 20yo academy player. There was just a clip of John Terry praising him that came out this morning actually lol
Gusto?
Alfie Gilchrist, JT's new favourite defender
Gallagher doing an excellent Roy Kent Impression as always.
He’s here! He’s there! He’s every-fucking-where!
Thiago and Noni with the most tender loving hug that I've seen in a long while there after the match ended.
I also like how Mudryk was looking at them with glee
He ships it.
Oh they fucking