MD14.

#CFC | #LEECHE

🔗 Chelsea FC

Time to get warm. 🌡️

#CFC | #LEECHE

🔗 Chelsea FC

Where has our midfield been today?

Charity FC at it again?

It’s becoming clearer by the week that we’re nowhere near ready to mount a serious title challenge. December has exposed our inconsistency in every direction, and this period is always the true test of a squad’s mentality and depth.

This is when you find out who’s really built for this club and who isn’t. Unfortunately, too many players are falling short of the standards required. We can’t rotate effectively because the drop-off in quality is massive. Yet at the same time, we can’t rely on the same XI every three days , the legs just won’t hold up.

So what’s the solution? Truthfully, there isn’t a magic fix right now. All we can do is hope that this “average” B squad shows enough fight to get us through this brutal run of fixtures.The expectations have lowered and it’s simply about surviving December / January and keeping ourselves in the conversation.

Lavia... Why? Why Lavia?

It seems Anthony Taylor has a fierce competition...the worst referring I've seen in a while

#INGAME

When you have players thinking about the vulnerabilities in defence, they play in fear. It becomes a game of ping pong.

Tosin should find that amazing Saudi Move.

Pedro Neto PL goals:

5 — This season after 14 games
4 — All of last season

Midfield was non existent today

Shambolic performance

Palmer’s best position is not as a 10.

Gary Neville: "#Chelsea will be in the top four or five, no problem. But their centre forwards, centre backs and goalkeepers aren't good enough to be title winners."

(Sky Sports)

Palmer RW. Gusto RB. Enzo, Moi, Reece in the midfield should be the way forward till the others develop their game. we win most games with this

◇The rawness and average quality from some of our players is genuinely worrying. The inconsistency at the back has become a real problem.Badiashile’s injury issues and Tosin’s shaky form have forced a defensive pairing that clearly isn’t working. Credit to Chalobah, he’s trying to hold things together, but it’s not enough.

◇We looked defensively solid in recent matches, but that stability has vanished. Leeds completely overwhelmed us from minute one with their intensity, and even after having a fresh squad, we couldn’t respond. The absence of Lavia and Caicedo is already showing there’s no physicality or control in midfield, and that will hurt us even more in the games ahead.

◇Up front, João Pedro and Delap just aren’t the answer against low blocks. They look far too raw in front of goal, lacking the killer edge you need in tight matches. This isn’t the same João Pedro who shined in the Club World Cup.Right now there’s almost no real threat.

◇At this point, the objective is simple: hang on to the top four through this brutal fixture schedule and hope key players return before the situation worsens.