5 Paul Mitchell transfer deals

Sadio Mane to Southampton (signed for £10m)
Son Heung-min to Tottenham (signed for £22m)
Christopher Nkuku to RB Leipzig (signed for £11m)
Toby Alderweireld to Tottenham (signed for £11.4m)
Kieran Trippier to Tottenham (signed for £3.5m)

Do we need him at Chelsea?

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🚨 Mateu Alemany and Jordi Cruyff continued to advance Auba’s departure at a dinner in Barcelona with the striker's agents last night, Auba’s agents arrived from London and met with the sports management to close the exit to Chelsea.

(Gerard Romero) #CFC 🔵 🇬🇦

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No Fofana in the Leicester squad to face Southampton as reported

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Average height of every 2022/23 Premier league team. Chelsea are second from bottom.

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Thomas Tuchel:

"I did the opposite [of showing muscles off in press conference] because people were asking me ‘were you rude’ and I said I cannot be, I don’t have biceps! It came off as the complete opposite."

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I’m crying our midfield is non existent without Kante or Kovacic, we are watching haram in 4K
Reece James having exchanging words with Silva before the two goals 😕

Big second half mentality is needed

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#IN-GAME ANALYSIS

When playing against a high pressing team, you need to have a strong mind and players who maintain possession and not allow themselves being hurried along. Chelsea and leeds are two high pressing teams But leeds have been better with ball retention. We need to move balls to half spaces to beat the press. Poor playing from Havertz, Loftus and Cucurella

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Conor Gallagher game by numbers vs. Leeds:

100% aerial duels won
100% tackle success rate
73% pass accuracy
49 touches
6 final third passes
5/7 ground duels won
3 interceptions
1 key pass

Solid performance in a losing cause. 👏

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Jorginho off & no natural defensive-minded midfielder on the pitch wasn’t Tuchel’s brightest tactical change. It led to a chasm of space between the lines for Leeds to exploit for the 3rd goal.But even when Jorginho is on the pitch,this missing profile in the squad hurts Chelsea.

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6 - Since the start of the 2017-18 season, Kalidou Koulibaly has been sent off six times in Serie A and the Premier League combined - the most of any player in the big-five European leagues in this time. Dismissed.

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27 - Chelsea have lost against Leeds United by a 3 goal margin for the first time in 27 years (all comps). Bonkers.

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60 - Today was Thomas Tuchel's 60th Premier League match; Chelsea conceded just 17 goals in the first 30 of these, but have shipped exactly twice as many in the last 30 (34). Concern.

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Some of Tuchel’s profiling has been dubious.Using Gallagher in a double pivot collecting the ball in deep areas (look how Gallagher invited Leeds’ press by for the 1st goal) goes against everything that made him a success at Palace in terms of pressing high & arriving in the box.

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We play extremely well against the big guns but baffle when it comes to the rest of the 16 teams

We play better in cup competitions than in a long run 38 league games

Our mentality is different when we are the underdogs

This is one main factor and starting point of our problems.The question is ,why though?

Thoughts 👇

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Fireside

#PostMatch

Todays game, it's easy to point fingers at an individual player or individual players mistakes. But the team as a whole went MIA. From the coaching staff to the players.

Tactically, Instead of systematic Preassuring, we were triggering presses all over. Useless runs in the name of pressing is what we were doing in the first half. Worse, when we were being pressed ourselves, we couldn't compose ourselves and find the half spaces to dribble to and beat pressure. And since everyone was running all over the pitch like headless chicken, we couldn't find an overload player to relieve a player getting out of a pressed zone.

The players as individuals also failed to know when to adapt their games. I don't know why James and Silva spent alot of their times exchanging words between themselves yet nothing was changing. Koulibaly for instance played 16 longballs and only 8 were successfull. This was to realieve pressure but instead ended up inviting more pressure. Fear of taking a takeon or Maybe lack of support overload.

Jorginho was dribbled past 4 times in the game and lost possession 5 times. Isolation plus lack of overloads.

Cucurella lost possession 19times and so did RLC

In such games, it's people who have attributes of close dribble like RLC that are supposed to maintain possession to kill and frustrate opponents pressing pressure. Instead he lost possession 19 times.

RLC and CuCu loosing 19 times posession each, thats a whooping 38times. Infact Koulibaly first yellow earlier in the game came as a result of him covering CuCus Marking and possesion mistakes.

It simpy means that Leeds knew chelsea strengths were in the wingbacks and that is where they pressed the most. But Jorginho, Gallagher, Mount were too isolated between themselves that the support overloads for the wingbacks just did not come.

Its either we were tactically inept or just too naive and too over excited having outrunned Tottenham last weekend.

I have always said there is a difference between just running and pressing. Sometimes you over work doing nothing. Like today

Its ingame adjustments when things are not working that wins matches and tittles

But again talking is easy and my one cent opinion only stops here

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Timo Werner on Thomas Tuchel:

"I think the coach's game system didn't suit me perfectly. So it was clear to me that I wanted to take a new step."

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Ziyech, Pulisic, Odoi, Gallagher, 'Lukaku' and probably *Havertz

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