Thoughts on Gittens?

It’s obviously still early days but he looks a bit raw/rusty 😬

#INGAME

The game is too open than I had initially thought it would be. Brentford chose to at least play rather than deploy the dark arts of bus parking.

It's just that we haven't had great control to be ahead.

It could be new players vs cohesion challenges

#INGAME

We can't string meaningful buildup

#INGAME

Gittens is making Madueke look like Messi.

Every time Brentford clear the ball a forward is 1 on 1 with one of our CBs, what is this setup😭😭

🅰️ Geovany Quenda assist alert!

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The rotations are just crazy… you can clearly see it’s why the build-up looks off. Hato, Gittens, and Fofana don’t look settled at all. Chalobah is basically covering two positions by overlapping everytime, same with João Pedro who comes too deep into the midfield and in the process he’s overshadowing Bounanotte.

#INGAME

Had it been Chalobah in that one v one we conceded the goal with, he'd have prevented it.

Very underated

#INGAME

Gitten's level of laziness and heaviness is just shocking.

I think he needs to be pulled out now

Done

#INGAME

The number and quality of legs Cucurella alone brings in for this system to work is never mentioned enough

Tosin’s 1v1 defending in this game has been VERY questionable

He is good at deep defending inside the box. In games with wide spaces to cover, he doesn't have the legs

#INGAME

As the game progresses and becomes more urgent for a win, Maresca may need to pull the Fulham stunt he did with Tyrique George

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Cole Palmer climbs to 8th on Chelsea's all time PL scorers list, with 38 goals in 72 games.

Is it just me or Sanchez hasn’t made an error this season?

He has been great today with this kid.. lots of quality movements

#FULLTIME

We just started poorly. Today is 2 points lost rather than 1 gained.

Some of the new guys have a lot to learn.

We move on.

After 4 billion spent on players. 4 Billion pounds. Telegram might ban me if i say what is on my mind with these signings we have made. This is just sad

Full-time Thoughts:

◇Conceding from a throw-in in the last minute of a game after fighting back from 1-0 down… honestly, it’s heartbreaking.

◇Tonight has been a roller-coaster of emotions. Maresca clearly had Bayern on his mind, overthinking and protecting his key players and it ended up costing us 45 minutes of a PL game.

◇Second half was much better, the turnaround looked complete after Caicedo’s screamer and I genuinely feel for him, because that goal deserved to be the match-winner. Instead, poor defending let us down not once but twice. Tosin looked nothing like himself today, got exposed badly, and Fofana didn’t cover himself in glory either (can’t even run ffs).

◇Only Chalobah came out of that defence with credit felt like he was a one-man army back there.

◇This is one Maresca will want to erase straight away… straight into the bin. We move, but Bayern on Wednesday has to be so much better.

He’s not Lazy. he’s not a good player for this league it’s simple. No need to beat around the bush. Say it how it is. Sometimes trying your best is not enough and that’s the situation with Gittens