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Estevan needed that goal and Chelsea needed this win

E get how football be now that maresca gets carded for celebrating a goal and win

Silentgroper:
End of discussion ..

how many arsenal don win?

Maresca says enzo fernandes is an attacking midfielder

weird profiling i tell you

kingBolton:
We are going to miss colwill badly this season and this is not even from a defensive point of view. Ever since colwill's injury , our build up from the back has been terrible and slow. Maresca needs to do something to the set up cos it's obvious that the two cB currently starting doesn't have his line breaking passes.

One thing that might actually help now is to play either Enzo or Santos close at the pivot with caicedo and stop the box crashing from either of them, the one of either the LB or RB over laps.. more like a 3 2 4 1 build up

but this is the tactics maresca used against Bayern where enzo played rubbish unlike his performance against psg. Gusto was overlapping like you suggested but his wing was where they attacked from more often, where James and chalobah were supposed to hold down while he overlaps.

santos is good at scoring as shown in his previous two goals, so playing box to box isn't the problem for him. Maresca needs to trust Josh more tbf, and stop waiting to sub players, if he had taken off gusto, enzo, neto and dropped pedro to am and put in guiu/garnacho, estevao, santos but then it wasn't his fault that he trusted them and left them till they fumbled. For now we have no one to replace caicedo when he panicks and makes silly decision or loses form/fitness.

We can hope the team manages till January when we may get guehi, recall sarr or possibly sign wharton

Amethyst101:
They didn't turn up until the own goal.

Two giveaway goals and a pen.

Besides, we should have gone ahead, and the game would obviously have been very different

and if we don't go ahead it's not time for the defense to be panic and flinging their legs scoring own goals and giving own assists or caicedo forgetting he is in box 18.

And there's the referee, he played for Bayern today a lot and whether we liked it or not Bayern would win this game

Love our fighting back Spirit but our defense is selling us short, watch how we will concede first against united again

Amethyst101:
Remove all our individual defensive errors tonight, and we probably would have gotten a point.

Even Sanchez put in a good shift

all 😆 bro and there were many individual errors but Bayern really prepared for this game

Let's hope maresca learns from this, it was obvious bayern would win when you play the same tactics without colwill and some out of form players

I am surprised it was chalobah not tosin that sold this game. lots of positives from garnacho for now

raumdeuter:
Palmer deserves a better team

and that's not bayern anyway

Where was chalobah going

Palmer gets one goal back but that's if they don't cancel it

Caicedo 😂 how do you let Kane push him down like that

We are going to lose because of the REF he has been doing ojoro from the 1st whistle him no even dey hide am

PrinceEma:
This line up isnt bad...cos this is where you get the best of Enzo - box crashing.

And palmer will be on the RW, whoch is his strongest wing to operate from.

He was even excellent from the LW against brentford when he was subbed in.

That middle isnt his strongest place.

ya good Xi, good game enzo almost scored but Bayern look prep and ready for this tactics

Amethyst101:
Still the best we can come up with, unfortunately.
Colwill was very instrumental in that PSG game.

Tosin on the other hand hasn't had good games lately

we keep conceeding first, hope that doesn't happen today

Elnino4ladies:
Minus Colwill

we are going to lose, tricks don't work twice hope we draw though

typical maresca not surprised his Xi is obvious

mine3112:
Any way out for Chelsea today?

Bayern may be prepared for our team against PSG, if I were coach and not maresca I may start an Xi PSG are not expecting one with guiu as 9 to press them from 1st whistle then use pedro and palmer in midfield and half spaces with neto and estevao as width, caicedo and santos behind in midfield, James RCB, chalobah ccb, cucurella lcb as back three

FBS:
hang on, you mean gusto as a winger? Is Estevao on holidays?

you know marecas line ups, he will be listed as RB in a 4231 but end up at RW while we attacking in a 3241.

Or we bench Josh who I believe is a better defender anyway and play gusto at RCB so that estevao plays that RW and pull his weight defensively

potland:
NO WILLIAN IN THE STARTING ELEVEN. WHY?

between Josh and gusto who would you remove?

I feel estevao and gittens can come in later on, Bayern like to attack teams from the whistle, we can use last seasons barca tactics against them, let them have the ball and hit them on counter but we have to also defend well like very well

Elnino4ladies:
We should use same lineup against PSG in the final

ya (but without colwill)

FBS:
Trying to figure what will be the best approach against Bayern? All out/gung-ho or cautious?

I would say no to high line with tosin or we play mid block, or better start Josh instead of tosin

so cautious with quick counter, I see James and caicedo in midfield, Enzo and palmer in front, gusto at the right flank and neto on the left with Pedro 9

Sanchez, Josh, chalobah, cucurella, James, caicedo, enzo, palmer, gusto, jp, neto

popizaino:
Lost my mum this morning. 💔

may you and your family be comforted in this period of grief and find strength in the wonderful memories you all shared with her. Take heart

Silentgroper:
Punk ..

There's no reason on earth not to score that ball ..

Mbappe should've gone for it himself ..

he is 18yrs old and even though he missed a couple of chances, he played very well besides Madrid should have lost that game if not for ref ojoro

One word: Mastantuono

iamoyindamola:
Stupid foul by rice
This is what you get playing 3 DMs

is merino a dm?

How are these ath boys balling arsenal midfield like this

Hope United wins we are rooting for you

Segedinho:
Nobody is talking about how shiiiit Reinjder is ooo
If Enzo do small mistake…Shalaye go full bucket

it's all over X since reindeer's last game

Lol Amado thought he was garnacho there 🤣

Reading that second goal was offside based on their rules and they will soon come and apologize or that they didn't make the call for fear of Howard banning them.