Chelsea F.C. Thread IX

I was reading an article on Lampard and keepers. At Derby and Chelsea, his keepers had a circa 70% career save ratio before he was manager but once he was in charge they had a circa 55% save ratio.

This must be a systemic flaw in the way Lampard sets a team up, so the opposition get really good and clear shooting opportunities against the keeper.

I was reading an article on Lampard and keepers. At Derby and Chelsea, his keepers had a circa 70% career save ratio before he was manager but once he was in charge they had a circa 55% save ratio.

This must be a systemic flaw in the way Lampard sets a team up, so the opposition get really good and clear shooting opportunities against the keeper.

Even Cech would concede a **** ton of goals with this team. I said at the end of last season yes, there had been individual errors by our defenders and Kepa at times but I didn’t think they were as bad as the number of goals we conceded and also we had better defenders than when Sarri was here and yet we were conceding more so it’s to do with Lampard’s structure. I thought this Anthony Barry guy we poached from Wigan who is highly spoken of would help with this and we did look solid against Liverpool but it’s against the small teams that we actually need to do better. It’s as if we just think they are **** and are gonna park the bus so the whole team has to attack. It’s naive.

Every team makes errors but we are not set up to survive any errors. Our fullbacks basically play like wingbacks and both bomb forward at will and at the same time. Kovacic is meant to be the sitting midfielder, not Kante and he’s hardly ever there to be seen when we’re in trouble.

I’m actually convinced now we should just play Christensen as a DM for this season. He’s a good passer of the ball and knows how to pass between the lines and will be more defensively disciplined than Kovacic or Jorginho etc

****ing fraud but the media will still suck his ****

I don't know about better defenders than when Sarri was here. Rudiger and Luiz performed a good partnership and they were very good at ball progression. I don't think Rudiger was particularly bad that season, Luiz obviously was typical David Luiz, inconsistent but on his day world class.

Anyway Alonso the 'attacking' fullback has made zero crosses this season. Reece is managing 2.7 per game.

Tbh Conté was trying to replace him after a season with Alex Sandro for a reason.

Apparently Alonso chose to go back to the team coach after the second half instead of sitting on the bench and got a dressing down by Lampard in front of the whole team. Alonso is dusted at this club....About time Frank erupted too. You get the sense he's been too nice so far

You could tell Lampard was gonna kill someone in the middle of the first half.

doesn't matter because Frank will play him next weekend

Surely not? That will be worse than when Mourinho kept playing a finished Ivanovic at RB that season. We’ve been through so much lmao