Leyqute:


LooL.

He didn’t get bad kankan. I’ve been trolled numerously in the past. Olokada doesn’t know how to troll. It was just his unnecessary disturbance that’s annoying.

Any Chelsea win it’ll be all up in my mentions shitting it’s pants. It’s like a wayward housefly that wants to badly kiss death.

Cmon na

Romelu lekwa-Ukwu you know

Skimpledawg:

As in eeh

I didn't know the lord's work was searing through the hearts of those scums

Bikeman deserves to be knighted after Diggs

Big disrespect to Diggz na... We still joked around with Diggz... Cracked Jokes outside football with him... Diggz that made us abandon our own thread after a certain game.

This one is just insulting everyone anyhow... Na Trolling be that??

gustav25:
Romelu lekwa-Ukwu you know

nihilistjnr must hear this

Leyqute:


The buck stops at the coach’s table. He’s going to shoulder all the blames. Happens everywhere.

Whether na tactics or personnel he has to find a solution.

Plus injuries are a part of the game. That’s why players who are being left out have to be kept happy so that they’ll perform when they are called upon.

Look at Origi today. He knows he’s a 3rd option for CF but he still brings his A game whenever he’s called upon.

At times, there's only so much the manager can do sha...
And you spoke about players being kept happy...look at RLC for instance; TT kept publicly reiterating his belief in him, gave him a chance this season and has been using him regularly. Surely that more than enough to keep him happy. But recently, his performance levels have dropped. Do we blame TT for that?

We've been battling profligacy literally since the man took over. Now, injuries seem to be at an all time high, and brainfarts are creeping in. All of these coming at such a critical time in the title race. These kinda things will undermine the efforts of any manager.
Not saying TT is perfect or he doesn't have issues, but I can't blame him for how these last few games have panned out.

Clear road

izzou:
Donstan18, remember when we talked about upsets?

We already have one in our hands

They waisted Mount’s effort and I’m in pains.

Guys,
If you are traveling from Naija to the UK as from Tuesday, you will have to quarantine in a hotel

This Covid - 19 no wan comot sha

Chelsea will never learn. Why go for Lukaku, why not use the money to sign Chiesa since he is on loan at Juve.

Berekete

hensben:
Chelsea will never learn. Why go for Lukaku, why not use the money to sign Chiesa since he is on loan at Juve.

Same you that trolled us when you bought Lukaku??

Itsrm:


This bet I no do with you pain you die

This should help with the tears

Drop aza, make I help you

Leyqute:


You wan cause argument Abi?

I think it’s a mix of both.

You either set up in an unpredictable way or have tactics that the opponent can predict and still win with it.

Wo Let it be anything, at this point I am tired of analysing our games. Let see down and be looking at Tuchel with one eye.

Can we honestly beat our chest that we can use Lukaku to compete against the best in the UCL.

Using Lukaku as a target man against a big team is one of the surest ways to failure.

Depth of incompetence is the squad depth people claim we have earlier in the season.

Nezzjnr:

Same you that trolled us when you bought Lukaku??

You are mistaken me for another person. Btw, You guys have not done anything tangible since lukaku so shift with your Man U.

swiz123:
Can we honestly beat our chest that we can use Lukaku to compete against the best in the UCL.

Using Lukaku as a target man against a big team is one of the surest ways to failure.

I genuinely believe that it's too early for this. I want to think that this individual has earned the benefit of doubt. He went on a goal streak the moment he came in, scoring 4 goals consecutively. Some of them created out of nothing.
We have to see him perform over an extended period of time before passing judgement on him.

I staunchly believe we have one of the best striker in our hands. Every striker needs a period of time in the team to form an understanding and connection with those around him. Learning their strengths.

It's too early to start calling him a flop after he's just returned from an injury.

popizaino:
Depth of incompetence is the squad depth people claim we have earlier in the season.

You just keep bleating since. Calm down n you're too emotional at the moment.

How many teams will continue performing at their peak with these many injury interruptions of KEY players.
Earlier in the season, we were riding on luck and tuchels tactical brilliance to attain results when we had these injuries and now the chicken has come home to roost and the injuries are still piling up.

We've been the most injury plagued squad this season. We've had 19 injuries this season. Some will recover and relapse, while some come back and another player injures. Today Alonso and jorginho have been added.
Kante, kovacic, chillwell, havertz, Lukaku, mount, jorginho, pulisic, azpi, chalobah, Werner, ziyech etc. All injured at one point or the other.
Let's hope for the best, not blaming individuals here and there.

Itsrm:


Let them win first na. I'm even willing to bet that neither of them will win

Well, this aged well.

hensben:
In as much lukaku is a goal scorer he has so many deficiencies as a quality player which is not suited to big teams that want to compete for trophies .

You are a useless hypocrite. Thunder will fire you for ever criticising my darling Sir Ole for letting Lukaku go . You are not normal

hensben:
Top managers KnoW lukaku quality while ole that have not won rubber spoon don't rate lukaku.

Tuchel was saying before the game that Hoofkaku should calm down, that he may be training period fit, but he is not match fit, and he is not EPL fit.

But no, Hoofkaku won't listen. Now he came in and he didn't get into the game. Couldn't win any ball, couldn't hold up any play, and couldn't press.

Now he put himself up for dragging all over the internet.

Always listen to the manager. No dey do gra gra.

Even if he doesn't fit our style of play, Tuchel has found a way to integrate him into the team without him pressing, but the injury happened and he lost steam. Now, wait and let's fix this, no! You want to play anyday, anytime.

And yes, using Lukaku as our no 9 always makes us predictable.

But Tuchel has made us win with him.

But he was not fit today. Tuchel was telling him to calm down his balls during Pre-match Press. But No, Hoofkaku forced his hand to make that change in half time. Now, we don see am, and everyone feels he is at fault.

Trevor012:

You are a useless hypocrite. Thunder will fire you for ever criticising my darling Sir Ole for letting Lukaku go . You are not normal

Is conte not a top manager. He is not suited to ball possession and pressing play. Conte should come get him, give Kane.

Meanwhile,Na God go judge Origi .

Softwareguy21:

This your big L represent Lukaku

hensben:
Is conte not a top manager. He is not suited to ball possession and pressing play. Conte should come get him, give Kane.

Thunder will fire you. Why can't top manager Tuchel use him? Why can't Tuchel see his quality?

hensben:
Top managers KnoW lukaku quality

popizaino:
Meanwhile,Na God go judge Origi .

After that loss, you could have just concluded that we were already in 3rd..

Now, City is top in December. You don't allow City to go top in December. To catch them now will be a very big big problem..

They will drop points, but we will also drop stupid points.

hensben:
Is conte not a top manager. He is not suited to ball possession and pressing play . Conte should come get him, give Kane.

Yet you said Pep will buy him. You are not normal. You are a confused bot

hensben:
It is possible for pep to sign Lukaku. if you are electrifying as a player pep will sign you and then work on your deficiencies. Look at sterling for example. Is Ole in the class of Conte. Does he play ball possession footie.

TT's post match comments

Performances have dipped, how concerned are you?

"I didn't see our performance dip against Man United or today. I think the performance is enough to even win the game but what we clearly see is we give easy goals away and this is very unusual. We make big mistakes that lead to big chances that lead to easy goals. We do this now in three matchdays against Man United, Watford and again today. If you do this at this kind of level, you can't expect to have a result."

Does the standard of the Premier League mean you have to get out of this bad period very quickly?

"The race is not interesting at the moment. What is interesting is always the next 90 minutes and what is interesting is to have the focus right, the attitude right, and to take care about the details.

We are not good enough on the details at the moment. We do too many big mistakes and have to care about the details. There is not need to ask questions or start doubting about the big picture. This is a game if you play at West Ham about the details. I can only repeat myself: without doing big mistakes, there is a big chance we win this game."

What did you make of Edouard Mendy's performance and how is Kai Havertz's injury?

Kai has huge pain, Marcos Alonso has back pain, so that is another two substitutes due to injury. We have to deal with it.

Edou is dealing with a rough period. I don't know why exactly but he seems to have lost a bit of confidence. OK, his decision making was not on the highest level today with the first goal but we also bring him to a really awkward situation.

He could have saved the situation but he did not. We are far, far away from blaming anybody but we need to admit that we do too many crucial mistakes at the moment that cost us a win against Man Utd and today as well.

Midfield issues - when is N'Golo Kante back and how much are you missing him?

No, I actually have no idea when he will be back and we are missing not only N'Golo, also Mateo Kovacic since five or six weeks ago.

Jorgi is playing with hip pain for many matchdays and you can see it. That is the situation.

When you say "no idea" does that mean he won't be back before the New Year?

How can you say? If I say I have no idea how can you say it is before the New Year?

Asking, not saying, do you think he will play before the New Year?

It is not interesting what I think. He plays when he is back. He has a long way to go, if I say now he plays at Zenit and he doesn't play then that doesn't help.

I take care of the injured players. N'Golo has not been on the pitch since Juventus.

Lost 4 games last December, have you looked at that for this season?

No, not one second.

The goal conceded vs Watford, ball given away, mistake vs Man Utd for a goal - is there overplaying at the moment?

We have some overloaded players, yes. This is not an excuse and I will say overload and if you look at our schedule, there is no escape and this is exactly where we struggle at the moment.

We have crucial ball losses in situations where you simply cannot have them if you want clean sheets and want to dominate games.

If you want to protect against counter attacks, it is impossible to do these kinds of mistakes, three times in a row, it is simply too much and we cannot give any excuses that we are tired.

It is absolutely normal to be tired through the Premier League in winter, it is a question of precision, details, risk management, where you take it and where you absolutely don't.

If you invite a team like West Ham into your own box, into the last 20 metres by giving big ball losses then you are in the trouble.

https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/fixtures-results/chelsea-west-ham-kante-mendy-22365971

BlueMann:


At times, there's only so much the manager can do sha...
And you spoke about players being kept happy...look at RLC for instance; TT kept publicly reiterating his belief in him, gave him a chance this season and has been using him regularly. Surely that more than enough to keep him happy. But recently, his performance levels have dropped. Do we blame TT for that?

We've been battling profligacy literally since the man took over. Now, injuries seem to be at an all time high, and brainfarts are creeping in. All of these coming at such a critical time in the title race. These kinda things will undermine the efforts of any manager.
Not saying TT is perfect or he doesn't have issues, but I can't blame him for how these last few games have panned out.

You may not blame him but others will.

It’s a dicey position to be in. Sometimes only luck can help- and 1 billion dollars.

Bimffo:


After that loss, you could have just concluded that we were already in 3rd..

Now, City is top in December. You don't allow City to go top in December. To catch them now will be a very big big problem..

They will drop points, but we will also drop stupid points.

Longest time, you've been very scarce around here.

donjazet:


Longest time, you've been very scarce around here.

I dey always read all the posts na.

I go just laugh and move..

I don dey old. I can't keep up with replying everyone..

But today's game just pain me, and I had to type.