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Bakayoko only completed 10 passes today. 62.5% success rate from only 16 passes.

This has to be a Premier League record for a midfielder.

I did say this guy would make Kante look like Xavi in comparison.

nateevs:
Shout out to the top performers of the day Rudiger, Christensen, Kante and Alonso

Moses try too.

Marcos Alonso, the golden left foot.

Tactical masterclass from Conte. We had no right to even expect a draw here.

That's our hardest fixture of the season out of the way. The thought of facing Dembele midfield always gives me nightmares.

Aloooooooooooonsoooo.

Nihilist, bend the knee for this guy abeg!

Roland17:
Conceding that free kick was the problem.

Stewpid freekick to concede.

Chelseafan1:
It's annoying to even think it's our fellow fans that want to bring him down after 45mins.?

Stop ranting mate. Fitness never stopped a player from trapping and passing the ball. He is running around alright, it's his woeful technique that we are becrying.

Ibime:
Bakayoko has only made 6 successful passes this half. 60% pass success rate. He has attempted 10 and fumbled 4.

6 successful passes in 45 minutes. This must be some sort of Premier League record.

I have not mentioned the balls he received and was dispossessed before even getting the ball under control. He is leading the team on being dispossessed.

Bakayoko has only made 6 successful passes this half. 60% pass success rate. He has attempted 10 and fumbled 4.

6 successful passes in 45 minutes. This must be some sort of Premier League record.

Emaprince:
Remove this bakayoko abeg.

Where does he belong? Creativity zero...tackling is done by luiz and kante.

We need fabregass for some creativity.

No we need him there for now. We just have to survive by packing the midfield and try to leave here with our 1-0. There is no midfielder on the bench.

My man Alonso.

Fire dem, fire dem

You see Bakayoko? Simple control, half-turn and pass is looking like rocket science

I like Conte's formation here. This is what you need against Spurs.

Sky Sports say we are playing 3-5-2 with Luiz in midfield. That na real bus we dey park here so.

Griffon:
What are the club looking to achieve with all this shemozzle?

Make them sell the tout and focus on other pressing issues na.

Na that £75m from China still dey pain them. They have already sold Costa for that amount in their minds.

Make we try sign Mahrez jare!

Atleti ready to bid £41m plus £9m add-ons for Costa but Chelsea asking for £60m. Nna, let's not get too greedy here, that amount is enough.

I don't know how Jese didn't work out at PSG. I once touted him for our 3rd striker/3rd winger position. I'm sure anyone coulda bought him for £20m this summer which is the same price PSG paid 12 months ago.

Nihilist:
4 eyes can see the exact same thing, but the two brains may interpret them the same way. That's why I like to refer to stats when having these kind of discussions.

Tackles and Interceptions are defensive actions.

The stats say that Kante performed more defensive actions last season than Matic. The stats also say that Matic performed more offensive actions than Kante.

What I saw from Matic, I choose to interpret as an opinion that he wasn't the DM for us. The stats appear to agree with me.

If you saw Essien and Makelele stats, you would assume Essien was the DM and Makelele was the B2B.

For a player like Matic, tackle is the last option while for Kante it's his first option due to his size and speed.

A player of Matics style seeing 3 defenders behind him and Kante never far from him, and with space under control will feel no need to tackle.

Nihilist:
Kante last season 3.6 tackles per game, 2.4 interceptions per game

Matic last season 1.5 tackles per game, 1.4 interceptions per game.
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Matic this season 3 tackles per game, 1 interception

Pogba this season, 1.5 tackles per game, 1 interception


I think it's obvious on these numbers alone who is doing what at both teams.

DM is about position on pitch, not about number of tackles. Kante was not DM last season, he was even more box-to-box than Matic.

Also to add, midfield has 3 elements - defence, control and attack. With enough control, you don't need to defend at all sef. That's what Xavi and Busquets built their career on - 90% control and only 10% defence. Replacing Matic with Baka means we have lost any control we had in midfield. That's why some of us are hoping on David Luiz for midfield.

Nihilist:
Let me just get this clear, Bakayoko needs to equal 7 assists and 1 goal this season, and you will buy me a pair of Airmax sneakers?

Yes. It be like say you no know Bakayoko. You want draw blood from stone?

Nihilist:
You see what Pogba is doing now at Manyoo? That's what I was expecting from Matic last season.

When I was pointing out how Kante was our DM based on his tackles and interceptions numbers, I was hearing yarns like temple run, and big men don't tackle.

Now Matic is averaging 3 tackles a game, similar to Kante last year. It just goes to emphasize why Matic had to go - The only thing he's really good at is winning the ball back in midfield. When Kante took over that duty, Matic lost his purpose.

I am quietly confident that Bakayoko can play that Pogba role for us when fully integrated into the team. Looking forward to his debut.

Two words. 93 points. 2nd highest in EPL history.

If Kante is DM, Fabregas should feel free to be AM. Fabregas has already failed and we are barely out of preseason, now you are focusing on Bakayoko.

Serbian bag of beans is already shaming the naysayers, don't try and contextualise it. Matic was doing exactly what he should do. Nothing like DM and AM in 2 man midfield.

Bakayokos job is not to contribute as AM, and if it is, I will buy you Nike Airmax if he even equals Matics goals + assist contribution of last season.

sinizia:
LOL. So that means the Tamara or Tamuno completes a word to give it a full meaning? Coz I know all Tamunos to stand alone unless the bearers of the name decided to go with only Tamuno.

Tamuno or Tamara is God, then Ebi or Ibi (Ibime) means good. So God is good like Chidinma!

sinizia:
I didn't know Tamaraebi is his full name and that it can mean Tamuno as well. The "Tamuno" made me laugh coz I remembered the various comedy skits on Instagram about people that misspelled or pronounced words wrongly [tagbon as Yorubas call it], and the preceding "Tamuno" word that followed each of the "bullets" that were dropped. Example is that of a lady that's interviewed for one of D'banj's reality shows, the amount of tagbons from her mouth and the way the maker of the video shouted "Tamuno", was too hilarious.

I wish I can find the video on YouTube but I can't.

Funny enough, Tamaraebi means exactly the same thing as TamunoIbime, so no laugh us abeg

sinizia:

Why you dey laugh? Tamaraebi is actually his name. He is a Niger Delta boy, of which some call God Tamuno, and others Tamara.

raumdeuter:
ibime a 19yr old Ohis Felix Udokhai started in defence for Wolfsburg

Is the NFA tracking him or has he commited to Germany?

If he knows what's best for him, he will wait as long as possible to see if he can make German National team.

A40:
One day we would still sit down and talk about what happened to Alaba

Sell him to us if you no like am again. Alabas mind is on playing midfield. He no send leftback again.

ToyinDipo:
Are you saying Pep = overhyped moves buster no nut drawing p*rnstar

Any pōrnstar wey no draw nut na failure na. Reason am.

raumdeuter:
If diggz hire a porn star to fuckkk him a certain way and she fuckkks him like just a regular Veronica. She come say since you bust nut its all the same. Diggz is here saying he doesn't just want to bust, he wants to nut in a certain type of way

This is better than pōrnstar that came with all hype, bust all the moves in the karma sutra and still couldn't draw nut from diggz.

If you have old defenders, you play with a low block.

Pep is incapable of playing a low block and that's why he failed. . . because he is tactically inflexible.

Pep is not the first manager to inherit old defenders. Max Allegri has been playing with old defenders year on year, Mourinho won league in 2015 comfortably with old defenders, ditto UCL at InterMilan with the likes of Zanetti, Lucio Samuel etc.

Even Wenger can win league with Adams, Keown, Bould, Dixon, Winterburn so Peps story is for the birds. He simply failed.

Funlordjnr:
“What I know is that this offer Chelsea will get is bigger than what they paid, so I’ve given them something back in all senses.

After three years they will receive a fee higher than what they paid.

This is all we are waiting for. As long as Atletico trump the £32m we paid for him, we are all Gucci.

EvilMetahuman:
Looks like we won't need cobhams for the mails.
Gmail is handling it well so far.

Which one be Cobhams? Cobhams Asuquo?