Today was Caicedo x Cucurella more than Caicedo x Gallagher. In the first half when it was Gallagher x Caicedo you all saw what happened

A tidy finish from Madueke. 🙌

#CFC | #AvlChe

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Gallagher's equaliser from range. 🎯😮‍💨

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This is what I meant by if the tables turned you think it would have been given as a pen? 😂

🔗 Palmered

I will give Madueke one thing and that is that he gives us something different. I am not sure anyone else on this team (bar Palmer, maybe?) can take on their man and try to get past him as consistently as him.

But once he does that he almost always shoots, never a pass, never a cross just a shot. This is why in my opinion he is better as a super sub because he brings something so different and can change a game.

If he wants to start day in day out, he needs to be a more balanced player and he has to get rid of his terrible attitude.

(His defensive frailties do cause us a lot of issues so it's hard to ignore him for his weaknesses)

Noni Madueke played 90 minutes for the first time this season for Chelsea and has now started 5 games in a row for the first time this season. #cfc

Match of the Day's thoughts on the disallowed goal.

Cucurella backs Pochettino to stay:

“When we lose 5-0, I don’t think the manager can do anything. I think it is more about us (the players), about our attitude. He has helped a lot of us, he has good communication skills, and the team supports him. We are in a good way.

We all need to improve every week, stay at the same level, and have the same attitude every minute because we need to win. If we stay together, we can do good things.”

Always good communication skills. When would a player ever credit Poch for his tactics?

Looked at my current manager and sighed

Neville on Jackson: “Might be an unpopular opinion on here but I think that player, I like him. I think he’s got a lot to give, he’s a young player and I think that he’s not cost stupid money. It’s his first full season in the Premier League, he’s scored quite a few goals and he keeps going and there’s a lot to be said for that.

And he might not be striker number one but if he was your striker number two or three in a squad of 18 to 20 you’d say I’ll take that.” [sky] #cfc

Gary Neville on whether Pochettino deserves more time: “Definitely. I think he’s absolutely the right man to work with young players, we’ve seen what he did at Southampton bringing young players through.” [Gary Neville Podcast- sky] #cfc

I love and miss Tuchel but this just seems like d*ck riding to me. He is talking about making his players more CREATIVE in outer conditions. It made chillwell and james look so good but that was all the team was about. All the attackers were blunt and the whole world realized that it was easy to stop chelsea by limiting the creativity of his wing backs. Jorginho became a scapegoat because he did all the diagonal passing but no goals and hardly much assists. And even when tuchel left thats all he knows now.
So whats the point?
Every coach has a process they feel can take them to the top. But they dont need to deliver a lecture to prove it. Pep has his process but he attributes his success to the players. His job is to motivate the players each game to keep pushing and thrive in his dynamic system. City dont even have a pattern of play. They play players in wrong positions, very very dynamic. But if its chelsea the whole fan base woukd come for the coaches head. We lack trust in managers. Its just a toxic relationship. The same tuchel we didnt appreciate when he was around. Poch has come into very tough conditions. The whole team is new but if we play bad its the coach. Sometimes its when we criticize the line ups that we play good. When we play good it makes us believe more in the “players“ and not the coach. But during the last game i clearly saw a very good build up process in the second half. The players started pushing like crazy. So why dont they fight like this everyday? The whole team is learning. After last season some of these players, were heavily criticizzed because they played rubbish. It affects confidence and we need a coach who can build that confidence. We just need some experience to manage games.