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Has anyone wondered why Ibime didnt say a word about Zouma's terrible performance today; Cos it doesnt buy into his silly escort and rugby players anecdotes

Always hyping runners and rugby players ahead of organized, intelligent footballers. Always knowing the players who dont have the legs for whatever.

Same guy who says Kai isnt interested in running back to defend totally absolves Mount of any blame in the goals with the same excuse.

Funny thing is I dont even blame Mason ( He was certainly better than few guys on the pitch today). Was Just Pointing out the hypocrisy in how certain players are treated.

Ibime:
What was his role in the 3rd and 4th goal?

3rd goal was Alonso clearly. Mount had nothing to do with Callum Robinson but tried to close him all the way from the halfway line. 4th goal he was in position but did not get enough on his clearance, same as Essien vs Barca in 2009 for Iniestas goal. We don't have problem with those who hustle to get into position even if the bounce of the ball skews away from them. What we have problem with is lazy strollers ago won't even get in position.

Keep quiet if you have nothing to add, still bleating on about Mount with the season almost done and Mount unarguably our player of the year

It's been over a month since Kai was sent to play striker and we are yet to see goal. Focus on that.

Smh.

See my message above.

Ask yourself if Mount traded places with Kai or Jorginho in the buildup to those goals if u would have the same remarks.

P.s - No one gives a *** about player of the year in an average to woeful season

rooftops:
... How is he at fault for the 4th goal.. the ball was further from him, he even tried to stop it.
The 4th goal summed up zouma's afternoon... Christensen that attacked the ball during the corner was already in the box while zouma was jogging

Believe me, I was one of the first to bring up Zouma's cluelessness at the start of the match.

Look at the runup to the 4th goal, Mason had a part to play; lost his man then the ball with a miscue, Werner got blamed for a similar one earlier

Also for all the escort talk, There was no bigger one than Mason in the 3rd goal

P.s - Not blaming Mount for the loss or our woeful perf, Just bringing up a part ignored here that wouldnt have been if it were some other player

For all the scapegoating being done, I dont see anyone mention Mason's Part in the 3rd and 4th goal. Wonder the reaction if that was Kai or the usual patsies

Anyway we needed that reality check. Better now than later

BikeMan:
It's nice that the coach and the boys know that they are not untouchable before the Porto match. The L is a bitter one but one that comes with a lot of lessons.

Where I will fault Tuchel is disrupting a back 3 that was working well. If he wanted to change anything, he should have gone for Azpi instead.

Zouma. Dude doesnt read the game well for me.

FBS:
No sir. Go watch it again.

Zouma started the chain with a stupid panic pass to Kova. The ball should have been passed to the back.

Jorgiboy was also sloppy in his pass but without Zouma's panicking, that should have been avoided

FBS:
Nah. Jogginho was directly involved and single handedly wrecked the first half.

The chain of bad passes was started by Zouma

Kovacic with the stupidity

Alonso with the X factor

BlueMann:
As I predicted, Mount, Havertz and Rudiger are all rested after playing three games in the Int'l break.

Abraham still not on the bench. Just hope we can get big bucks for him

BikeMan:
Tuchel’s passionate defence of Timo Werner >>>

Funny guy compared it to missing out on a date with a lady

swiz123:
That's why I blame him. His first instinct should have been to let the ball roll to his stronger foot. Da guy just likes rushing things. Always in a hurry.

This has been the problem with him in recent times. Unfortunately not gonna get better especially with all the added pressures from all these misses

Anyway glad the internationals are over

Cant understand the overeaction

Clearly a mishit on his weaker foot is all I saw there

BlueMann:
Chelsea vs Man City

Well....We might have a shot

Ziyech cementing his place

I hope the sub is Kante for Mount

donjazet:
This has to be our worst match under tuchel

Crap showing

BlueMann:
We've barely gotten out of second gear.

Especially our front 3 and CHO. They looked so out of sync.

Hopefully second half is better

How many subs are allowed in FA cup?

BlueMann:
What the fvck

The lineup has been updated.

This one has also been updated. Mendy isnt among the subs

hensben:
it is 3 man defense. Cho to play RWB, Emerson will play LWB this time after his goal against athletico, and also Chilwell struggle in LWB.

Emerson will be among the centre backs.

Chilwell most likely will play LWB.

Is Emerson playing LCB?

Strange

raumdeuter:
That 7-1 from last year put the fear of God in them Almost all Chelsea players will panic once they see Bayern on the field

Werner Ziyech Pulisic were players deemed not good enough for Bayern at some time in the past

While Tuchel and Harvetz are waiting on Bayerns call in their future

Just wonder why I have not really paid attention to TT prior to these recent times. He has a brilliant football tactical mind.

All my German acquaintances speak highly of him. Nicknamed the Professor over there

TalabiAudu:
Porto Manager Conceicao : “ We are glad we escaped Bayern and Man City. Chelsea are good side but they are no different from Juventus being happy for the draw, we will stick to our usual style of play and eliminate them as we did to Juventus."

Who dey think say this Porto na walkover?
We have to play them as if we were playing Bayern... Weyrey dey disguise.

It's a fcvking war!!!

Conceicão has always been boastful. I like that word eliminate

We just could get an easy stroll to the finals. Lovely!!!

Ibime:
Don't be silly. What can you interprete from heat map without knowing the position of the ball?

Do you know someone with heat map on halfway line could be the most advanced player in the team while another person with heat map on the same halfway line could be the deepest player depending on where their team holds the ball?

Havertz is only interested in pressing for the opportunity to attack. He is almost always found wanting with his press in midfield, causing overloads on the other CMs. Take that to the bank. His current position suits his mindset toward pressing. It's the same mindset as RLC and Dele Alli. They only press offensively for the opportunity to score, they don't press the second defensive phase to help their midfield from becoming overrun.

I'll allow this. Any other day I would have dragged it. At least u admit he can press

Ibime:
What are you shaking head for?

Do u want me to show heat map

[quote author=rationalmind post=99972858][/quote]I really dont understand at this moment

Ibime:
Like RLC, he's only interested in running forward. He doesn't press in midfield.

Smh

Ibime, Do u still think Havertz cant press?

To be fair to Ziyech. He's the one who tries the most difficult through passes