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As we continue to call for Ake to start benching Cahill, we should remember that the boy has one deficiency which is his height. Kane almost took advantage of that yesterday

Unlimited22:
Nah... Tho I believe the person there was also in D spirit...
I'm in Abia State University.. .

okay. The person slided on the floor just as you did.

We can't create any chances without hazard and fabregas.
Batshuayi still need to do something on his pace, movement, power and pressing. Costa maybe misbehaving, but he still has his pressing, power and aggressiveness. It was evidenced immediately he was introduced today.
I pray madrid never succeeds in taking away hazard

Unlimited22:
I dey school, so I watched in a viewing centre.
That goal got me sliding on my knees on a cement floor.
I forgive him for today, even though he was non-existent till he scored.

Are you serious. Don't tell me i was in the same viewing center with you at small market ihiagwa.

As in, dem dey try

We want freedom not money

Good

Truth

Bigot

Very laudable

Chelseafan1:
Seconded! But I do not think its late for Kelechi, just a season shouldn't have affected him such that he wouldn't turn up in Chelsea next season.

Lukaku suffered more than Kelechi in the hands of Mou but that didn't stop him from doing well at Everton, I think if you got it, you got it.

be sure of what you type. Lukaku did not suffer anything under mou. Someone that didn't even stay up to 2 months before being shipped out. He was shipped out before 1th of October.

Anybody wey dem tell say Barcelona no go see one goal against juve before yesterday no go believe am. But, here we are, with no goal from Barcelona in 180 minutes of football

What can we make out of the Chelsea vs Manchester United stats?



We take a statistical look at yesterday’s
game in the North-West…
Antonio Conte said after the match that
Chelsea did not play a good game and during
the course of the 90 minutes we did not
have a shot on target.
Pedro had four of the five efforts we did
have. Manchester United had nine shots,
three of which were on target.
The Blues had 54 per cent possession but in
terms of territory, Man United had the
upper hand with 54.9 per cent.
We completed 378 passes, 60 more than our
hosts.
N’Golo Kante (54) was the top passer
followed by Cesar Azpilicueta and Paul Pogba
(both 46), and David Luiz (42). Azpilicueta
and Kante (both 18) were our top passers in
the final third. Azpilicueta to Eden Hazard
was our most frequent pass combination.
No Chelsea player attempted more take-ons
than Kurt Zouma (three). Overall Marcus
Rashford led the way, successful with four of
his seven.
David Luiz made a game-high 16 ball
recoveries, and Gary Cahill won all eight
tackles he went in for, at least three more
than anyone else on the pitch.
Overall, Man United made more ball
recoveries and clearances than the Blues and
won more tackles.
Kante topped the rankings for interceptions
with seven, while Marcos Rojo made nine
clearances, more than the entire Chelsea
team put together.
The defeat was our first against the side
from Old Trafford in 13 games, a run dating
back to October 2012.
www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2017/04/the-data-day--manchester-united-v-chelsea-.html

airmark:
Thats why i prefer belotti. He is the only striker close to suarez in style. We need a strong striker who can play with others, could go solo and score goals. Today was just not chelsea's. The moment i learnt alonso and courtois were out, i knew odds would be against us. At least we could see how important hazard is in the team. Mou did a good job today lording herrera on him. I hope this match will let other players adjust and up their games. I wont mind benching costa in the next game. He needs a break, he is killing the team.

if conte does not bench costa if he continues like this, i won't be happy with him.

nateevs:
And I am sure Conte knows this. This is why the first name we should be chasing in that transfer market is Sanchez. Creating a formidable second attacking outlet, which renders man-marking useless, before it gets conceived.


And I say again, No to Lukaku. When team stays as organised as they were today with the intent to defend, players like Lukaku cannot unlock shi!t. Get a player who complements co-attackers with intelligent movement on/off-the-ball, even if that player scores fewer goals.

exactly what I have been saying all along

In everything we go still win the league. That one no dey shake me at all. Tottenham must drop points.

With what Costa have been giving to us this past week, is there anyone who still believes that link up play from a striker is less important than putting the ball in the net?

nateevs:
I agree with the last point and this is why I insist it is the personnel and not the formation. Imagine we had Sanchez/Bernado Silva instead of Pedro. Mbappe instead of Costa, Verratti instead Matic and Joao Cancelo instead of Moses. Then you have a near perfect situation, still in a 3-4-3, where marking out a single player is an impossible defensive tactic.

So 3-4-3 is not the problem. As a matter of fact, Conte has performed magic getting us this far, with the little creativity the team possesses. Imagine what he could do with better players?

exactly. But, for me, there are loses that i don't blame anyone for. This match is one of them. Even if we had all those players, we could still have lost. The day you will lose, you will lose. Conte's post match comments summarises everything.

Even the great Barcelona of pep's era used to lose.

"In this case I wasn't able to transfer the right
motivation to play this type of game."
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Chelsea have a favourable run-in compared to
Tottenham, but with the gap now at just four
points Conte claimed that the title race has
become a 50-50 tussle.
"We lost two games. The two games were
totally different - we didn't deserve to lose
against [Crystal] Palace - today we deserved to
lose. There are six finals until now and the end.
The league is open. We have a 50 per cent
probability of winning the league.
"The pressure is normal - I prefer to have the
pressure rather than not fight for the title and
to joke in very moment. We are lucky to have
the pressure - last season Chelsea had no
pressure as they were 10th place.
"Something important is happening this season.
We are doing a quick job, a miracle this season
considering the problems last season."
Chelsea's Italian head coach Antonio Conte
shouts from the touchline
He added: "I am concerned, we have to work
together and find quickly the right desire and
ambition to win this title.
"For us it is a fantastic target. For me if we
were able to reach this target it would be a
miracle. We must understand this and find the
right motivation.
"We stay in a great position, but Tottenham
are in good form and playing very well and
with enthusiasm. We must have the same."

Ibime:
Nah, he was poor. Moses, Zouma and him were the worst.

TBH though there's no way we coulda won that match.

As soon as they scored, I told my mate the game was over cos I couldn't see a single passing lane for Chelsea to pass through.

Mourinho did a real job on us, the same job he did to Liverpool 3 years ago. That 3-6-1 formation is our Kryptonite. Now I can see why Manure are unbeaten in 6 months.

Fellaini was MOTM easily.

exactly. I for once never thought we will win that match. At most a draw. We deserved to lose.
We can't win all the time and man utd were really prepared.

airmark:
If Conte could buy batshuayi for millions and we need halogen lamp to see what he offers, then conte is not above errors. We dont even know why he wants him. May be to replace batshuayi as a back up to our in-coming striker. I saw the tweet below last season and speaks volume of the type of striker morata was, at juve. Zidane is not a f00l.

batshuayi has always scored whenever he was given the chance. You don't have anything against him. Conte doesn't want to tweak his winning team. Dazzol.

I smell a draw in our match today.

airmark:
There was a moment in today's match he dodged his head instead of nodding the ball into the net. There's a reason madrid also joined in chasing belotti. I dont know how anyone would want him to spearhead our attack next season as costa's replacement, when better strikers are reachable.

you are saying that conte is sick for signing him at juve and still wanting to sign him again.

raumdeuter:
If you stop watching ball who does that help? Or how are we even going to monitor that you stopped watching ball

Put money on it. Something that will pain you so that next time you pick your argument and your opponent carefully

na so you go dey wan form rules for here. If them catch you for that one tomorrow, you go jump to the next

raumdeuter:
if you insist on losing money, I will prove to you Suarez had at least 21 assists in all comps for Liverpool in his last season

maybe you will start counting his passes as assist. You can't prove it with only the penalties won and last pass to scorer as criteria for counting.

Nihilist:
Where you fvcked up was agreeing to count nonsense with Dayo in this post:


Any fool can wake up one morning and decide to invent his own measure for counting activities. You won't be able to argue against such a person using his own terms. To avoid such tedious arguments, there is a concept called standardisation. That's why instead of agreeing to count penalties and so on, you should have just asked him if he was counting using the industry standard which is Opta.

The way I see it, you're the one who got suckered and in a court of law, you would be liable.

i understand your point. But, even at that Suarez assist will never reach 21 in epl that season. If it does i stop watching football.

Ibime:
Be careful, Whoscored does not list domestic cup games.

to be forewarned is to be forearmed.

it was for the league alone that he claimed Suarez had 21 assists. And, there is no way Suarez could get 9 assists in the few cup games that Liverpool played that season, even if cup games are to be considered.

raumdeuter:
You are not staking money on it.

So whats your penalty for disputing a fact? I dont have time to waste

Time for free lessons don finish

You can ask people around you to support you

Infact the time is gone sef

you are very aware that this is not even something to argue on, but your stubbornness wan disgrace you. I have shown you every proof and you should have agreed earlier that transfermatkt made a mistake, but you kept doing strong head even when nihilist advised you to stop being stubborn.

raumdeuter:
Are you staking the $500 and let nihilist confirm or not. No time to waste. I will wait for onile to confirm the stake in 10mins time 3:40pm Naija time or the deal is off

i don't have a PayPal account and I am not staking any money with you.
Apologize to the board with the $40 or forever remain mute on this board.
You have been exposed.

www.lfcstats.co.uk/suarezopta20132014.html
More prove with opta.

raumdeuter:
You said its 12, I want to prove to you its more than 12

Nihilist or anyone interested in moderating this

Greatihex. I will send $500 to nihilist now, you too do the same. Confirm when you have. Then I will know we have a deal

Now I have posted a list of games SUarez made an assist

Now which of them do you want to refute?

Lets do this fast. I have to do something else very soon. So we have 1hr 30 mins to do this

no, you said it is 21, prove to us that it is 21.

raumdeuter:
You can seee how unintelligent this is sounding?

Your summary is that I am the owner of transfermarkt that is why Suarez has 21 assists

I have given a list of the games where Suarez has the assist. Pick one of the games and we will look for highlights,

If I can prove to you that Suarez has more than 12 assists from videos showing he was either the one who won the penalty, he passed the ball then you will give me $500

Deal?

Time for wasting time on people who dont want to learn is gone

if the assist will be up to 21 deal!
If you can't prove it, you will give me $500 deal!