🗣️ Gianfranco Zola: "I do prefer Palmer as a 10, because in that position he gives fewer reference points to the opposition. He’s an intelligent player.

He always finds himself in the right places and so often he’s the one to provide the decisive touch. He’ll do well in other roles as well, but I really do think he’s cut out to be a number 10."

{The Times}

❓ If Fofana is rested tonight, who should start vs Atalanta - Josh or Tosin?

🚨Chelsea are top of the UEFA Youth League

Stadio di Bergamo! 📍🇮🇹

#CFC | #UCL

🔗 Chelsea FC

Focused.

#CFC | #UCL

🔗 Chelsea FC

Just under 15 mins till KO! 👊

#CFC | #UCL

🔗 Chelsea FC

#INGAME

Acheampong is staking his claim so far.

Rate Acheampong's performance in the first half 1️⃣-🔟

#INGAME

Gittens still nothing near 50M

#INGAME

There is no way he is better than Disasi. Just no way

#INGAME

I said that the Satpayev kid will walk into the starting line up like nothing. Easy as A B C D

Why do we look so toothless in attack? What happened?

Were corners saving us?

He’s too good, too good

#FULLTIME

I think it's easy for us to man handle big teams because it's easy to discern their tactical abilities. We adapt our games to their style.

When it comes to teams with no specific style of play, our style of play becomes obvious and we become toothless.

We need to adjust our games against small teams. Drop wide wingers, more attacking full backs and more attacking players through the Middle.

Otherwise we will be a mid-table team that wins only against big teams.

Atalanta completely outplayed us.. Ederson ran the midfield and cooked Enzo out of the game. We were second to every duel, outpaced, outworked, and outclassed. That midfield battle was lost badly hence Gusto’s introduction into the midfield.

No comments from me for today’s game. The players and manager should do what they want it’s their own cup of tea

Joe Cole:

"Remember, PSG were in the [#UCL] play-off round last year, and they won the whole thing."

[via Football ontnt]

Chelsea continues to struggle with results.

Why isn’t Maresca using Tyrique George, Hato, and Buonanotte? 🤔

Does he not rate them?
Is it a message he’s sending to the recruitment team?

FireSide

#BottomLine

Let me tell you where the rain starts to beat us against bus parking teams. It's so easy. You could say system inefficiency or player deficiencies or both.

When teams play compactly first you need good close penetrators. Second you need your most potent attackers near the box. Third you need them to be able to drag, pass and move. That's how you break compactness.

Our system problem? We stick our attackers wide, and we push our central midfielders into the box. We want to rely on half crosses to Enzo and Cucurella on defenders blindspots. And we stick our attackers wide hoping this will create the spaces for the CM and Fullbacks to run into. If the opposing team is disciplined and remains compact our plan A fails and since we have no dribblers inside the box, we can't dribble and we can't shoot.

Player problem? Yes too. Most of our players are technically inept. Mostly runners. Almost all of them can't string consecutive two-three ball carrying dribbles.

Enzo would run into the wall like a blind donkey. Joao Pedro legs!! I have never understood them. He just runs in this funny way that results in awkward ball knocks and constant possession loss. Neto without space to run to is another blind horse. He can't protect balls in short spaces. I am not even going to say anything regarding Gittens and we all know Garnacho loses the balls as fast as kids lose virginity these days.

So unless we find a system that favours their deficiencies, we will always come short. They will perform great in one game, we pump ourselves up when they win against the current bottom three teams in the league (West Ham, Burnley & Wolves) then they normalize with crap in the next five when they come up against still silly but a little better quality.

Hot and Cold.

We will die of mixed emotions.. and rant till we die.