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popizaino:
Times like these are when the stupid draws to Crystal Palace and Nottingham forest hits hard.

the Nottingham forest draw was deserved, they were very good defensively. The CP though, was totally unnecessary, we played them from beginning to the end and Eze just score out of nowhere

If CFC somehow win the league this season, then Maresca would be in the convo as one of the greatest managers in club history…

Forster even stood up before the panenka went in, e no reach to born Palmer so

nateevs:
Enzo Maresca! Acquisition of the season.

Say that again!!!
And his in game management is top notch!

Segedinho:
Cucu mentality after d first 2 goals was solid...


Respect

Fr fr
Took of his boot , got an assist and put in a good performance

Cucurella should give himself brain sha

Don't use boot that is making you slip like an ediot next time.

He did have okay game after the slip but what kind of ediot doesn't test his boots before going on to the pitch?

No try am again

Singapore1:
the Nottingham forest draw was deserved, they were very good defensively. The CP though, was totally unnecessary, we played them from beginning to the end and Eze just score out of nowhere

And since that time e just dey flop too.

BlueMann:
Ohh là là

https://i.imgflip.com/9d2cus.gif

What a passsss

MorataFC:
Bẹ́ẹ̀ni my ọ̀gá at the top, why we no dey see you here again?

[color=royalblue]I dey ohh.

Been out of town in a long while. My source of following matches have been online. No stable Internet to watch.

I thank God for today's victory[/color]

popizaino:
I remembered you were contented with a 2-2 draw against Liverpool some seasons ago under Tuchel. A game were we dominated and should have won but you were satisfied with the fact that the lads tried by coming from a 2goals deficit to draw.

This is the game below incase you have forgotten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWXisCP3p8A?si=qDf2TeOuQRxpgjaC

Come on Popi. Haba! Put things in context na. If I ever said that, it is always within a context.... like, new team, new players, new manager.

You know how I was the first voice on here to be Anti JM, even before it became mainstream to do so?

Never thought I saw a day we will be 5points ahead of mancity and have X2 of thier Gd

Unpopular opinion: if city had palmer he would have helped them with their injury crisis

Well well well.

His ex wive gave him and Chelsea bad luck .

NinjaMetahuman:
Well well well.

His ex wive gave him and Chelsea bad luck .

Abeg u people should leave the poor woman alone o

Cucurella on IG

Ibime:
Saudi should just bring bid for the French twins in January

We don't need to even replace them, anacademy graduate can do what they are doing

add Nkunku

PDPGuy:
If CFC somehow win the league this season, then Maresca would be in the convo as one of the greatest managers in club history…

Loud it! Anybody wey no agree, argue with keyboard!

#TeamMaresca

princeabdul:
Cucurella on IG

BlueMann:
Abeg u people should leave the poor woman alone o

well I need to apologize to Enzo cos I thought he was the cursed one.

Not familiar with his game.

nateevs:
Loud it! Anybody wey no agree, argue with keyboard!

#TeamMaresca

My own expectation for this season na shaa top 4 and a trophy

Any other thing na jara.

Next season is the real test.

princeabdul:
Cucurella on IG

NinjaMetahuman:
Cucurella should give himself brain sha

Don't use boot that is making you slip like an ediot next time.

He did have okay game after the slip but what kind of ediot doesn't test his boots before going on to the pitch?

You’re very silly for this garbage coming out of your head

Another solid performance from Andrey Santos in France...7/7 ground duels won, 3 tackles, 2/2 long balls, 1/1 dribble completed

Leyqute:
You’re the madman here, I was just trying to indulge you.

Every sane being knows it’s left footed RW and right footed LW. You’re the only one saying the opposite. When everybody sees A, a mad man will see B.

This is the same arrogance from you and others that makes me call you at anytime the opposite happens.

I now know you don't know ball. No need to worry myself any longer.

BlueMann:
Another solid performance from Andrey Santos in France...7/7 ground duels won, 3 tackles, 2/2 long balls, 1/1 dribble completed

Adding this don to Caicedo, Lavia and Enzo feels like cheating.
Estevao and Páez are coming too.

Get me those four players I mentioned. Keep this coach.
We will actually be in the title race.

Enzo Maresca: “Arsenal, City and Liverpool probably don't slide… like Marc Cucurella did!”.

“To be serious, we are not ready, we are far from these teams. We focus on day-by-day and trying to improve the team”, tells Sky Sports.


Coach don talk am we no dey title race,tell your friends, rivals, families etc. 😁

nateevs:
Come on Popi. Haba! Put things in context na. If I ever said that, it is always within a context.... like, new team, new players, new manager.

You know how I was the first voice on here to be Anti JM, even before it became mainstream to do so?

Maybe i wasn't here then.

Caceido was lucky not to see red

Unlimited22:
This thing is very annoying.

Airmark, Popizaino and even Nihilistjnr think that my saying our bigger issue is at the back means that I don't want a better striker for us than Jackson.

When my point has always been that even if you sign Haaland today, as long as you keep making comical errors at the back, you will keep throwing points away.

If you look at my posts for a while now you'll see I've been highlighting four positions where we need to strengthen more: CB, GK, LW and ST.

But their own na to dey shout outscore outscore every day like say na basketball we dey play.

Chelsea has always been known for defensive steel. We won the UCL conceding just 4 bloody goals and still hold the record for least goals conceded in a PL season. Go anc and check how many goals we scored in those seasons.

It is obvious here.

Fix the errors at the back by getting at least one more quality CB and definitely a GK (or hope Jorgensen comes good).

With the dysfunctional striker we still have outscored everybody in the division bar none. Even at that, get a good LW to keep Sancho on his toes, and get another CF who's a different profile to Jackson.


That's all I've been saying.

Below is one of my very first comment on this matter. January 18th to be precise...

timbros:
We just need to strike a balance between this attack and defense thing.

If you score 5 goals in a match and concede 6, will you praise your attack for scoring 5 in a match or will you blame you defense for conceding 6?

Conversely,if you concede just 1 goal but scored zero, will you praise your defense for being tight enough to concede "just" 1 goal or will you blame your attack for not being able to score any?

While our attack need massive improvement to convert chances created, our defense also need to tighten up. Individual errors in defense have cost us a lot this season. So yes, defense is also our problem.

In 2004/05 when Mourinho broke the record of least goals conceded in the league, we scored 72 goals. Arsenal in second scored 87..... The amount of 1-0 matches we played that season was uncountable.

2020/21 when Tuchel won us UCL, we conceded just 4 goals all campaign. 4 goals in 13 matches!

Make una no dey underrate the importance of defense in football.

Later that same day, I said this...

timbros:
Once more, you are looking at this from a biased pov that's why you keep making reference to Spurs.

How about you look at it this other way... We have scored more goals (35) than Man Utd (24) and West ham (33) but they are higher in the table than us. If just scoring goals is the answer, then they should be below us because statistically, our attack is better.

While scoring more goals is important, conceding less is also important. There is no major or minor in both. Balance it out and we are good to go.

You can't go into a match believing you will win when your defenders make individual errors all over the place and you concede needless goals everywhere.

The very next month (February), I made this recommendation which covers both ends of the pitch.

timbros:


If I can get ONLY 3 players with 200m, I'll get a CB and CF. The last spot will be either of LW/RB/LB.

Fofana, Chilwell, James all have terrible injury records. Silva is already semi retired. These are defensive positions that needs reinforcement critically. I have not even mentioned the goalkeeper department.

Our left and central side of attack currently needs upgrade.

So you see that our problem is not just attack.

And apart from just signing players, we need a coach that can actually upgrade the players we currently have. A different coach can come in and change these crop of players to monsters and drop the jaw of football world. These are young players that can be moulded.

Mourinho came into Chelsea in 2004 and suddenly Geremi became solid. Terry became a rock. Lampard already have the talent but he became much much more better. Joe Cole became a terrorist. Even soft Glenn Johnson deliver wenever he was called upon..... All these are players Mourinho met in Chelsea. So apart from his signings, he still improved the players he met in the club.

Chelsea issue is not just attack.

I even recommended a tactically sound coach who can change things with the personnel on ground because improvement is not only about buy this player or buy that player....

They make it look like you MUST be either on the attack OR defence side of the divide. Once you think defence is the MAJOR problem, it automatically means you are very okay with he attack. You don't want anything to be touched in the attack.

Look at him mocking my "balance" comment.

airmark:
You don't need any balancing rim, fix the attack. Period.

Who in his right senses doesn't want his team to be balanced?

dostr4:
Caceido was lucky not to see red

When them elbow Lavia where you bin dey?

Erm... Popizaino come out, I wan discuss 2 goals down and 15 years with you...

timbros:
Erm... Popizaino come out, I wan discuss 2 goals down and 15 years with you...

Wahala wear tie 😂😂