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Unlimited22:
I have always been very clear about what the squad needs.

A CB, a LB, a LW and a CF.

And a coach.

Unlimited22:
James Gusto

Fofana, Colwill, A. Silva, Chalobah

Dorgu or Ait-Nouri, Cucurella


Enzo, Lavia, Caicedo, Andrey Santos

Gallagher, Chukwuemeka

Nico Williams, Jackson (as a winger), Palmer, Madueke


Gyokeres, Nkunku



And a proper coach who knows the strengths of his players.

Tell me this team is worse than Aston Villa and Spurs and I'll curse the school you went to for collecting your fees. They defrauded you.

kingBolton:
Defence
James Gusto
Fofana colwill chalobah an experienced CB
A premier League left back chilwell

Midfield
Enzo, Lavia, Caicedo, Dolph Ziegler

Attackers
Nkunku Sterling
Palmer Carney
Olise one among Madueke Angelo and Hutchinson
Gykores or osimhen or vlahovic / Jackson

kingBolton:
They won't tell you that arteta deliberately sat a little bit deeper and allow our attackers self destruct and then hit us quickly after each of our stupid turnover!

kingBolton:
Pochettino: “Cole Palmer is the only player we have to link all the lines of the team. When you miss a player like this, it is not easy”

popizaino:
Did we create chances in this game. Make una try dey put things into context before starting agenda abeg.

WhoDeyHause:
That Disasi-badiashile pairing is enough for him to be tried for murder.
It's like he too wants to leave and doesn't care about what's coming except his future salary compensation.

Griffon:
You’re clutching at straws.

Your stats says 1.75 goals conceded per game. Una talk say attack cause am.

I no get talk with una.

Griffon:
You already know say you get issues with your defense but you can’t admit.

nihilistjnr:
Brah. I still dey train station and never reach house from work.

This teamsheet has finished me finally.

Even Job of the Bible was given a reprieve. What js this for God's sake.

WhoDeyHause:
Already given timbros, griffon and unlimited ammo before the match.

WhoDeyHause:
If palmer is sick, then I'm sick too.
I no get energy for shalaye this night.

WhoDeyHause:
With those bums?
I don die.

OasisX:


.....I swear. Sidika allegedly stole ₦8 Billions too. He is in custody now. Alaya bobo us with rented plane as Nigeria Air. LMFAO.

OasisX:


..................Yahaya must go to Prison.

WhoDeyHause:
Like this this news wan make me catch fever, cold, malaria, headache, waist pain, covid.
See what too much carry job has done to our Ice cold? Carrying bums like Jackson and sterling? If I speak in favor of the motion that attack is more problematic than defence them go tag me Iranian terrorist.

larride:
Gben gben gben

nihilistjnr:
Jah look upon me your servant and remove this burden from me.

I don't deserve this suffering. I'm a good person.

nihilistjnr:
In a game our number 9 refused to kick ball towards their keeper's direction.

BlueRayDick:
That's why I believe Chelsea needs to fix both attack and defence. Chelsea has no business playing 2-2 vs Sheffield; both attack and defense are culprits. Same thing with Chelsea Vs 10-man Burnley.

nihilistjnr:
I was really irritated watching our match against those guys that day, and na wetin make me flame Timbros up.

I was right on the touchline, and when Jackson came to overlap that wing with Madueke, i wanted to stone him with my phone.

How can we be talking attack vs defence against those guys?

Griffon:
If you’ve been following my takes on this, I’ve never said we are magnificent in front of goal. We obviously lack that firepower and there’s a need for reinforcements. However, when compared to our defensive figures, you’ll understand clearly that the reinforcements should even start from the backline or should I say the defensive system.

We are abysmal in front of goal but somehow manages 1.5 goals per game. If this was a Simeone led side, those paltry numbers from our attackers (at least from our own standards) are enough for him to win the title.

You simply need to understand that our defensive system is a mess. Having a lone man to screen the backline isn’t going to work in a midfield that has a stroller like Enzo - Caicedo would always suffer, those defenders would always get exposed. On the other hand, having error prone defenders like Disasi and Badiashile in our backline will never work, we would keep shooting ourselves on the foot. Lastly, having your best defenders lodged in the sickbay for months would never help us, we must find a way out of it.

All these needs to be addressed. It’s even the primary issue with this team. You don’t build a squad by stockpiling attacking players all over the place and expecting goals which definitely should transcend to victory, rather you start with a good defensive structure, one that would give your attacking bands the license to attack at will, whilst keeping the defensive system in shape.

Maybe he had such plan with the acquisitions of Caicedo and Lavia, but injuries won’t let us see through his plan.

Without a good defensive system, we are going nowhere. Sign Messi and Ronaldo today, we’ll end up fetching watching fans tennis score lines. 4-5, 5-4, 6-7.

popizaino:
I believe Real madrid did not outdefend Barcelona to win the game .

Real Madrid conceded 2 goals and still won the game.

Real Madrid twice came from behind to win the game.


Some would rather want their favourite team to emulate Stoke City rather than aspire to be like the greatest football Club in Europe.

airmark:
Since Messi left, Barcelona have become a God forsaken club.

Bluelines69:
Thunder fire Jackson and co, would have had a chance of redeeming our season

nihilistjnr:
Interestingly, Aston Villa have conceded 50 goals and are 4th.

Meanwhile Chelsea with 52 goals conceded are 9th.

That 2 goal difference is the reason why, if you let some niggas tell it.

nihilistjnr:
The only way to win a match is to outscore your opponent. You cannot out-cleansheet an opponent - if both teams keep a cleansheet, it's called a draw.

West Ham have conceded 6 goals more than Chelsea this season and are higher in the log with -6 goal difference.

Newcastle that has conceded the same 52 goals are in 6th place. Villa and Spurs that have conceded just 3 goals less than Chelsea are fighting for UCL positions.

When you look at the trends, except for a TWO outliers like West Ham and Manyoo, 6 out of the 8 teams above Chelsea have outscored Chelsea this season, with half of then conceding around the same number of goals we've conceded.

Meanwhile, nobody from 10th place down has scored up to us, with a a couple of teams having actually conceded less than Chelsea this season.

Without resorting to absolutist and reductive arguments like attack good, defence bad, it is clear to me that Chelsea’s problems stem not from an inability to lock up shop, but an inability to kill off games..which are slightly overlapping but entirely different concepts.

That's why I focus very heavily on Sheffield in my analysis. A team like Chelsea should be expecting to outscore rhe team with the worst defensive record in EPL history. Even if they score 1, they should be loaded with 2 more in response.

At one point yesterday, Burnley had the same 2-1 scoreline that we held against Sheffield. The difference is, instead of wasting attacks or not even attacking at all (Nicolas Jackson didn't even bother to shoot on or off target that day), Burnley went and pumped them 2 more.

If the 19th placed team in the league can beat Sheffield 9-1(home and away) this season, then how cam we be discussing defending against such a team? That's football anathema.

Thank God we all saw what Jackson did yesterday. Tomorrow now, someone will start spinning a narrative that City defence locked up shop for a 1-0 win, instead of tbe truth that if Jackson wasn't such a disgraceful attacker, we might have won that match 3-1

BlueRayDick:
airmark just dey do agidi dey post number of big misses per game up and down

Everybody knows if Chelsea fix their defensive issues they will be in a better position on the league table than where they presently are.

Like Griffon rightly puts it, outscoring ur oppnent is a fantasy in modern football that is not practicable.

I checked Chlesea's last 10 games on Sky sports and I discovered Chelsea has conceded in 9 out of those 10(Bar the 6-0 Everton Trashing). Guess what? Chelsea only failed to score in 2 out of those 10 matches i.e vs Loserpool & Man city.

How will anybody see this and claim the attack is the culprit for Chelsea's woes when the defence can't keep opponents from scoring?

popizaino:
Because attack was surely our issue when we suggested that we need to improve on it.