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airmark:
It depends on what they do before the window closes. I still believe Zidane can do something great.

i have said it before. i don't rate zidane yet. i still see him as a poor man's benitez. this his second stint at madrid is the test that i am waiting for him to pass

Eruditor:
When I staked my hand before and was right did anybody give me an award? In fact, the only people who acted like they remembered are the people who believed me or wanted me to be right.

If he finishes anything above 6th, that is as good as winning the league. That is how certain I am, that he won't.

thank you. gradually we will get to, "he will need angels to play for him"

muyiwaadekunle1:
Make Mount sit down for bench o, the boy was not bold enough/ nervous to do some take on's against united. I agree he's for the future but he must learn. Na EPL be this, no be Championship . He can be a replacement for Kovacic, coming on as a substitute.
I for like make Alonso start because we all saw what Salah did to Emerson at Anfield last season. He may have outgrown that sha with him performance at the Europa League final and against united on Sunday.
The whole scenario just dey give me headache, all our experienced players wey go carry injury for this kind time no make sense

i don't understand how alonso is a better alternative to emerson against any salah. seems like you don't know who alonso is.


mount looks promising and will only get better if he continues to play

SkimpleD:
Zuoma is currently on mumu levels now. Chris is a sissy. Dude can’t even impose himself on that defense line. Azpi is past it. A part of me believes Emerson can handle Salah to an extent. But Manè go definitely use Azpi joke around.

We should start Willian, Bats or Giroud and Pulisic.

Kante should return to the starting lineup and Kovacic dropped. Mason should be man enough and take his chances

what do you mean by the bold? if kante should start, it would be better for jorginho to be moved to AMF or Mount to start as the AMF like in the match against united. while, Kovacic play CM and kante do his DM thing.

Mount looks to me like a player that has creativity in him. jorginho is another of our midfielder that is creative.

if willian is fit, he should start. willian is chelsea most creative player now.

with willian on the left, pulisic on the right and mount/jorginho in the centre, we have enough creativity for a sharp shooter with pace like bats to score goals from counters. while kante and kovacic give us protection and control of the ball that we need when we get the possession.

Eruditor:
Improved is that they signed players in positions they were deficient in and of more quality(the players they signed that is) than most of what the other teams have in said positions.

Chelsea's team isn't better than the other top 6. In many positions, player for player they are not better. They lost their best player and the replacement will need more than 1 season to get to that level to plug the lacuna created by said player. CFC had problems scoring goals last season, that problem will worsen now.

All things being equal is, if United loses 8 of their starters to injury. Or Arsenal get punished by the FA and have 15 points deducted from them. Or Spurs players meet their demise in a plane crash.

I am not offended by the emotional line(s) of reasoning by most of you CFC supporters. Denial is usually the first stage of grief.

at the bold, you have started now.


FYI, i will be pleased with lampard if chelsea finish anything above 6th, but i know why i continued with this conversation and i have gotten what i wanted. Now, let us wait for the season to end.




BTW, why are you not staking you hand in your claims this time around?

Eruditor:
Tottenham did not improve. Every one knows that. They were clearly the 3rd best team in England last season but derailed. They have now added to that team so they will hold unto their 3rd best tag and possibly fight for 2nd or 1st. United have improved their defence. They are still hollow in midfield. Arsenal's attack and midfield is improved, their defence is iffy. City and LFC are in a different world. Of the top 6 teams, only CFC undeniably regressed. There are no goals around that team and alot of the youngins will be inconsistent.

You can mark my post. Ceteris Paribus, CFC won't finish higher than 6th.

Firstly, if What you mean by Arsenal and united improved is that they signed players; i will do well to remind you that they also signed players last season, but they still finished below chelsea.

That means that signing of players does not automatically mean that a team improved.

Having said that, let me go back to the initial question i asked you.

What made you say that chelsea has regressed and they can't contend for ucl places?



BTW, your claim that chelsea can't finish above 6th is rendered invalid by "all things being equal"

I know that if by mistake chelsea finish above 6th you will start telling us that there was no Ceteris Paribus

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11679/11784633/manchester-city-fined-315-000-for-transfer-breaches-but-avoid-ban


Guys, what is the case here? Have some people's palm been robbed or is it that chelsea have a clueless legal team?

raumdeuter:
Have of heard of

Won tese ile bo
Yahoo ni babalawo
Ole lefribodi

https://www.informationng.com/2017/07/speed-darlington-reveals-hes-son-pericoma-okoye-says-hated.html

the man is a very confused person

Segedinho:
Baba, there is a large difference bw masquerades and jazz,,where masquerades depicts cultural deference jazz are powerful spiritual exercise that cannot be explained physically. ..

I would probably blv there isn't no jazz but it has worked for me. .


Ur case is a bit weird cos u believe fully in the Bible (as a Christian)

U have read about moses vs voodoo in Egypt

U know about witches,principalities and wrong powers but chose 2 probably ignore it due to science or maybe forming civilisation. ..

I wouldn't have engaged u had it been u are an atheist but it so somehow a ChristIan doesnt blv in jazz/voodoo

raumdeuter:
Manu Izuogu ko, Manuel Almunia ni

Let soldier catch am, he go confess manu manu

have you heard of Pericoma Okoye?

raumdeuter:
segedinho and other jazz believers

See as soldiers dey deal with masquerade and the egungun dey beg, he no fit disappear, cripple the soldier or jazz the soldier to dey beat himself


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QgpS3Wxsfo

are you the only person that does not know that most of these masquerades are no longer what they used to be?

most of them now are just there to dance around and beg/extort money from people.
they are no longer the cult they used to be, just there to preserve the culture.



although, some masquerades of some communities are still very much using juju like the "mmanu izuogu"

thorrvik55:
Wow So, not qualifying for European tournaments guarantees u will win the league that season...

I wonder why Liverpool have not thought about not qualifying for Europe in the last 20 years or so, so that they will win the 20th premier league they've been praying for.

Or even Maga united, I wonder why it never crossed their minds to not qualifying for Europe in the past six years, so they'll be able to win the premier league for the first time since SAF retired...

have you forgotten that liverpool didn't qualify for europe that same season, yet they didn't come near the title even with klopp as their manager

Swissh:
Too much load For Neymar to Carry and they occupy the same position so hidden may rot on the bench.

exactly! that was how he was carrying hazard at the world cup, no wonder he couldn't stand on his feet in the tournament. him go dey carry person wey pass am.

nihilistjnr:
Bros ask bimffo. No be me talk am o

make una leave my boy o. em no do una anything.

lordfalcao:
we are talking defensive aspect you are talking hazard. How does the inclusion of hazard or not change a defensive tactics??

look at this man disgracing himself upandan

nihilistjnr:
cc greatihex

wetin christensen do you on sunday?

lordfalcao:
if Chelsea became an ordinary team because hazard left, then it simply means Chelsea has been an ordinary team even with hazard...

Lampard defense tactics is wrong, this doesn't have to do with hazard been there or not.. you don't leave large acres of space between midfield and defence when playing against pacy forwards and expect not to be chopped with counter.

what is the problem? Is it that you don't understand what you read or what. Did you read the post i quoted and my own post at all?

Segedinho:
Very reasonable response,u saw the spaces..

Even in mediocrity;they struck the bar twice,they had glaring chances (courtesy man u poor defence)to change the game, all these are what I am pointin out

Like I said the Sunday game didn't speak volume of improvement in the man u defence.people singing how Maguire vs Bissaka co-ordinated the defence are just living in lies

Note Maguire et Bissaka are good defenders

saying that those singing Maguire and AWB praises are telling lies, is a lie.
Both of them held their own. But, they can't do Everything.


Although, you can argue that if a good attacker was playing against them, it may have been different. But, as long as that match is concerned, they both held their positions well

Bimffo:
I am still saying the same thing. Luiz cannot do all those mistakes Zouma was making.

And trust me, there was a time the United defence was up the pitch, Luiz would have picked out Pedro or anybody with a long pass.

I don't think we made any long pass into the final third Yesterday..

Playing long ball over the midfield and defence line is a way of creating chances, but there was no centre back to do that yesterday. No one with the vision.



Please read what I wrote. Please.

please don't go there. we have all watched luiz in chelsea. there is no kind of mistake made by any player that luiz cannot make

Eruditor:
In summary, City improved. LFC will basically be the same (they got some injured players back). Tottenham (clearly the 3rd best team even last season before they lost their way) improved. Arsenal improved. United covered some of their lapses so they too will be better. CFC did not improve at all. In fact, this is a transition season.

CFC will finish 6th. Most likely.

so, these teams did not improve last season?

Segedinho:
They know the truth but concealing it..

Hazard in that team vs the spaces given by defence
line would have been a different story

i am not sure they would have allowed the spaces in the first place, because their manager would have told them that their is a certain hazard on the pitch. that is how it works. they would have prepared for him.

the fear factor is gone. chelsea is now just an ordinary team. teams no go dey look any player dey make preparations, na only manager tactics; maybe, until pulisic and odoi starting proving to be dangerous players.

donjazet:
You're not being objective enough, most of our attacks yesterday was through the right wing via Pedro but the entire front three lacked cohesion and understanding. Tammy was constantly bullied off the ball.
On a good day, Pedro is our most clinical attacker amongst all that we possess now.

hope you perfectly understand the meaning of the word in bold?

lordfalcao:
some never appreciated what sarri could achieve in a season. We hope we don't get worse this season

oga, make we hear word. did you realize that the match on sunday didn't have hazard, kante and willian starting it. even our new attacker didn't start. sarri wetin?

Thecassanova:
I understand we don’t have a choice rn, but we need to learn that some of our average players like Zouma etc will remain average. These guys are above 23+ & we keep waiting for their future potential.

it is not like we have not seen them in their best before. We have seen Zouma before his knee injury. We have seen chris in mochenglabach and under conte.

Relax. This season will prove any of us wrong.
The will have all the time in the world to prove their worth.
After this season i will not have to defend anybody again

KingTom:
"But the shekpites shall be cast out into outer darkness, where there shall be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth"

I don't know why, but this picture always cracks me up whenever i see it

Eruditor:
I was reading some arrogant predictions about CFC finishing 3rd. I was just laughing.

So many things to say.

Siddonlook mode.

why do you think that the chelsea that finished 3rd last season can't finish third this season?

Clears throat..

Well, this is the first full match that i am watching since Lampard took over.

I don't know what Lamps sees in Barkley, but the truth is that the guy is bang average and can never get better than that.

All i saw from our play is the inexperience of the young players and the obvious foolishness and cluelessness of Barkley and pedro.

I just pray that Lampard does every thing he knows to get that super cup from liverpool and then he should do away with the stupid senior players and continue giving the young players chance. He should also make sure that we don't relegate. So that by next season we will know our young players that are qualified to be our first team players.



Seems like Willian is really going to become our new hazard.



Mehn! Chelsea is low key becoming a small club. We will no longer have the fear factor.


Who our opponent wan fear. Na our players abi na manager?




I will not like to say this, but i don't hope that it becomes obvious that hazard was the difference between our club and Leicester city this years

Thecassanova:
I started it just few days ago. Greatinex come & carry your average player away o

that is one bad side to his game. He is rash with tackles. But, he will get better.

BTW, na still the same thing with Rudiger. Two of them na twins

Someone please help me. I have gotten 51 points from my team, but only 7 point is showing as overall point. I don't understand

Unlimited22:



Statistics don't always tell the whole story. Ndombele was playing trash until he scored.

that one na your own.


Stats don't lie.

All you cursing sissokko, you need to learn football.
By our ogas; raumdeuter and Ibime standard, he had a great game.
2 assists. That is productivity

chidexxy007:
wow...lucky you na..

This one Allison is injured till further notice can I change with another goalie?

any change is till the next gameweek