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nihilistjnr:
What an underwhelming teamsheet.

Gallagher and Caicedo pivot looks like a recipe for disaster on paper.

The bench looks threadbare as well.

On the bright side, a swerve from the not-too-convincing 4-3-3.

Frank Lebouef don finish us

swiz123:
I hope the club isn't using their money to treat Sterling.

Ballzproblem2:
🚨 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: Enzo Fernández and Axel Disasi are out injured for Chelsea, club confirms 🔵

Raheem Sterling and Robert Sanchez are ill while Levi Colwill, Fofana, Reece James, Roméo Lavia, Nkunku and Ugochukwu are still all on club’s injury report.

🔙 Ben Chilwell, back on team training.

One would think they’re organizing a medic team vs the fit team.

Just imagine the number of key players who’re either on long or short term injuries.

“Hey Lavia, it’s Nkunku. I just checked in today. Is that Fofana in charge of the ding wing?”

nihilistjnr:
Your argument makes zero sense.

If you think Chelsea deserve to win because they scored from a corner and a speculative shot at a patently shït keeper , then I don't know how you can rationalize an argument that Sheffield deserved to lose a game where they did better than us attacking wise.

The only logical outcome of your argument is that we should have parked the bus after going 2-1 up against Sheffield, and that is A position I can never agree with. So I'm quite happy to leave it there.

Sheffield literally netted Liverpool only 3 days before yesterday. And instead of trying to protect their eventual 2-1 lead, Liverpool fired another one in. Both in the final 8 minutes of the game.

Sheffield conceded an average of 25 shots in each of their last 3 games. We went there and shot only 6 times, 2 of which were speculative shots into row Z from Gallagher and Madueke.

We are not the first team to go to Sheffield and concede 2 goals this season. However we are the only team in the whole league, and in the whole season to post worse attacking stats than the team YOU describe as having the worst attack in the league.

You’re still clutching at straws mate.

Worse attacking stats is for the reading, did we score two goals or not?

Did we have our noses ahead twice in the game or not?

I’m not a fancy footie manager, I don’t care if Sheffield have been conceding gazillion goals every game, if my team can score twice in the game and still couldn’t hold onto those leads, then I’ll be looking at my defense.

You making a case for that defense is an eyesore.

nihilistjnr:
All of this makes sense until you look at thr facts of yesterday's match.

Sheffield created more chances than us: 10 key passes vs 6
They had more shots than us: 11 vs 6
They had more shots on target than us: 6 vs 3
They won more aerial balls than us: 23 vs 21


By every attacking metric, they dominated us. Our 40 year old centreback had more shots (1) in the game, than our lead striker (0) against an opponent that has conceded 82 goals.

And that's why I'm not buying any nonsense argument that we did enough to win the game, when actually they did more.

Its gotten to thr point where niggas are beginning to ask why we shouldn't be prioritising protecting a lead against Sheffield for God's sake.

People shouting about City, won't see that City conceded 2 goals against Palace on Saturday but won 4-2.

How on earth are niggas complaining that we did not protect lead against Sheffield? Team wey we suppose dey give 3 goal head start, before trashing.

This is what our mates are doing. Then there's us looking for cleansheet...against Sheffield?!

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

When it has turned out that we can’t forward more than four goals or get to do an Aston Villa or Burnley against Sheffield, but can score at least two, doesn’t it rest with the defenders to carry out their primary duty?

Your claim is valid but it isn’t sufficient. We didn’t score four or five but we scored and not once, but twice, same as the free scoring City.

At this point what you should be asking yourself is what were Chelsea doing to concede twice against the leagues worst attack.

swiz123:
Don't even think they will click on that link when it will automatically end their agenda.

One is good and one is poor. Na white man get that site and na him talk am and him no follow us dey for this thread.

Check:

If dem add an extra 2 minutes after Palmer grabbed his hat trick against manyoo to give us the lead, the devils go still equalize that ball 4-4.

Clowns!

If this was our attack:

Palmer Haaland Vinicius

We’ll definitely score goals, and everyone will be happy right? Well, not until Disasi, Badiashile or even Sanchez happens!

That’s a short summary of our season.

larride:
The funny thing be say both sides has solid point.

The kuku is that both your attack and your defense are trash.

Not really.

One problem is manageable, the other is utterly obdurate. There is nothing anyone else has to say here and I’ll buy it.

Men and women may lie but figures don’t lie. Go through our stats, we’ve ‘managed’ to average 1.83 goals scored per match this season - 0.87 in the first half and 0.97 in the second half. Now see why it’s realistically a manageable situation. One may argue that we should be punching above those numbers if not for profligacy and disoriented play upfield, which honestly is true but on the flip side, 1.83 goals per game is realistically ENOUGH to win you a game if you have an astute defense. However, in our case we get to average an abysmal 1.73 goals conceded per game this season - 0.63 in the first half and 1.10 in the second half. Chelsea’s BTTS (Both teams to score) percentage this season is an outrageous 70%. Abeg Oga Larride, how do you manage such numbers?

My guys here who are saying you get it done by outscoring your opponents are bringing a shortsighted fix plan to the table. Going by every metric out there, we can never outscore any team because our defense will end up undoing whatever genius you’ve displayed on that third half.

How many top teams across Europe’s top five leagues are averaging 1.73 goals conceded every game? A club like Chelsea are doing 50+ conceded goals with 6-7 more games to play in a single season and you’re pointing accusing fingers at the attack, mate you’re high on some meth.

Cmon let’s stop playing here and face the reality before us. Na those carpenters they brought here who are masking themselves as defenders be our major and primary problem. Scoring more goals or outscoring your opponent is a secondary problem which wouldn’t have risen if you had kept a clean sheet or kept the goal fest low.

Vischy:
You forgot this is agendaland where everyone got an opinion on football matters 😂😂😂

FR the conclusion of that argument is encapsulated in his submission.

There’s no one dimensional way to defend, rather you stick to what works for you. Some CBs are great when it comes to going toe to toe with a forward, while some are great at cutting off supply to the forward, like you have to literally watch as they step up and intercept a pass that was directed to you.

VVD’s style is more of ball reading. The time he takes to drift backwards, is simply him buying time to decide when is perfect to make that timely interception, block or even a tackle. It’s not a bad approach. John Terry was effective with same approach and excelled at it and this was largely because he lacked pace, so couldn’t charge forward.

Everyone must not charge forward, unless you’re playing in a system that demands such.

ThierryJay:
You actually have a point which is that there've been great defenders known not to shy away from robust challenges.

But there is something you are missing: Effectiveness.

At the end of it all, the hallmark of a great defender is how well he's able to prevent opponents from scoring or creating dangerous situations. It is not necessary that all great defenders have to employ the same style so long as whatever style they adopt is effective.

And it isn't a matter of argument that VVD was the EPL's most effective defender between 2018 - 2021. He had some 2-year downtime afterwards due to injury but has come back strongly since 2023 and the results for Liverpool are there for all to see.

It doesn't matter that VVD avoids lunging into tackles while Vidic and Nesta are tackling warriors. At the end of the day, they are all elite defenders that have helped their teams challenge and win league and UCL titles. What more evidence do you require?

No be only one road enter market.

Btw, Boateng no dey VVD's level.

Give this man a trophy.

raumdeuter:
What type of mental problems made Vidic to do this

We learnt that Cole Palmer just left Liverpool dressing room, we are yet to understand why he was there.

On March 7, 321, Roman Emperor Constantine I issued a civil decree making Sunday a day of rest from labor, stating: All judges and city people and the craftsmen shall rest upon the venerable day of the sun.

Arteta has a squad that are out to set the records straight.

Impressive!

God1000:
No Israel on the list, the so-called christian country.

According to a report At the end of 2022, Christians made up 1.9% of the Israeli population, numbering approximately 185,000. 75.8% of the Christians in Israel are Arab Christians.
Imagine, in a country of 9.5 million people, only 185,000 are christians.


The worst thing that can happen to any man is to ignorantly support the wrong cause.


Happy Sunday nairalanders

Nothing concern Israel with Christianity. They are Jews and are engrossed in their judaic faith.

The Romans were the ones who stole and plagiarized some of their teachings and stories. Gave credence to their own faith - Christianity, then sold the world the lie.

Some Nigerian Christians are even naive to this fact. They’ll be praying to the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”, who the Jews addresses as “Yahweh (YHWH), while still parading themselves as Christians. Sheer stupidity.

BlueMann:
By the way, Nico Williams dropped a masterclass in the Copa del Rey final against Mallorca, helping Athletic Bilbao to their first trophy in 40 years.

“I have many years left here, I am calm and happy. I can’t wait to get to Bilbao to celebrate.”

He is surely staying for at least one more season.

The only man who commanded winter to cease because he was flying into the USA for evangelism and winter went away.

Sai Baba!

Just dey drop these lines small small, make the lamba no choke us.

Silentgroper:
have you ever heard of shadow marking

I know most of y’all here didn’t even play street football or made it to the amateur leagues.

Jodera is right, there is what is known as shadow marking in football. It’s a defensive strategy that involves a defender shadowing the ball to man mark or having a close eye on an opposition player in order to limit their threats.

Na normal street football parlance.

Dclique:
These guys no dey taya!!. Abeg, Make una help me greet am!!

Reply him with this:

“Give Mr Jerry 32,500. You take 32,500. Make una no fight o”

raumdeuter:
DiMatteo also won the CL and he has been jobless for almost 10yrs now

How will it be possible that all the players will out of form at the same time

Unless they deliberately want him out. I read somewhere that some players are disgruntled with his decisions and style of play.

raumdeuter:
What Boateng consistently did in his career was win big trophies. 2 trebles 1 world cup all as a starting defender

Top defenders get dribbled since they do not flee from attackers like VVD and Lindelof
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Wetin dey worry Bayern egbon?

AdisaOwala:
If Top defenders were synonymous with being dribbled almost every damn time, they would be the butt of jokes and no one would take them seriously...

Boathand was single handedly one of the worst players of his generation - a pon pon, tag - along mofo with the footballing abilities of Titus Bramble...

Some of these incidents make it seem as if the fella was suffering from some form of mental ailment, cos how person wan take explain the "aleluya" pic below?

Be fair brah

timbros:
You mean slot in sir?

Just wondering either of Orgy or BDSM, which would tickle Saka's fantasies.

Ibeme:
Griffon, any comment on your boy Caicedo?


Lassana Diarra did 10 times better as a youth player for Chelsea than that Caicedo is doing and didn't still make first team

He’s underwhelmed

Unlimited22:
The attack is the problem 😉😉

We need to outscore manyoo.

timbros:
The stats say otherwise.

Upfront have consistently scored two or more goals recently but the disaster behind have equally conceded 2 goals consistently.

I know who to believe between airmark and stats.

@bolded... Your surer bet is defenders conceding at least 2 goals.

Words on the marbles.

PDPGuy:
Yes, our defense is stu’pid

Only blind man no fit see am.

Useless team!

raumdeuter:
So continuation of the defence vs attack

See idiots we are parading as defenders!