Chelsea F.C. Thread IX

Pep got sterling scoring 20 a season and he's Werner level in terms of finishing, what we need to improve on imo is creating clear chances. I think that's partially a coaching issue but also a player issue.

I wouldn't call any of Man City's attackers clinical but look at where they are right now. If I'm being honest, we miss hazard more than we miss a striker. A player who can create space for others because they're triple marked every game.

Our chance creation came from dynamic wingbacks who then got injured. We don't want a single source of failure for chance creation. That's where Pogba/Pogba like player comes in.

That's fair but I think the overload of creativity in City's midfield and wing more than makes up for their poor finishing. Werner isn't going to be supplied with 100 balls across the box unfortunately. We don't have a de bruyne or b silva. That's why they can afford to go without Aguero.

I can't see Pogba alone changing our game to that level compared to a competent striker but that's just my opinion. I can see what you're getting at though and I'm all for another Hazard or two to juice up our midfield and just kill the opposition with chances.

Also am I reading this right but Alonso to Barca? Are their scouts blind lmao. I'd take it and get that LWB we've needed to compete with Chillwell.

Do you guys reckon we'll beat Liverpool in the FA cup final?

The entire point is that we overload creativity in our midfield, Pogba + Kovacic + our wingers does that.

We work by scoring the one clear chance we actually get, but we don't get many clear chances, we create lots of half chances, so either we have players who can do something out of nothing(Costa was good at that) or we create a style of play that allows us to move oppositions. We don't look like scoring despite all our possession vs the park the bus teams.

I hate Alonso man, all I want is a LWB who can do a give and go and pass progressively. Chilwell obviously does that but he's injured.

Azpi needs to go man, having an absolute shocker today. Chalobah really doesn't get a break, this is reminding me too much of Tomori and it's triggering. I don't think just going for experience is the way to handle playing out of poor form. Also imagine Azpilicueta or Christensen vs Diaz in the FA cup final, I don't want to imagine.

Watching today I don't think the strikers are at fault at all. In fact I think they've done quite well even though they haven't scored. The supply into them is poor frankly.

Thank God for Wolves! Let's go gunners

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That's fair but then the problem is you're massively overestimating Pogba to fill that role imo. The guy will give you a wonder game once every 5 games but he'll ghost the rest. We can hope it's just United's system holding him back since that team turns anyone to ****.

Yeah with Christensen and Rudi most likely leaving, an ageing Silva and Azpi with this shambolic form the past few games, we might need 2 new CBs. Alonso's only ability is to score volleys or half volleys with his left at the far post. The guy has no other attributes. It's so easy to see when the team channels the ball to the right and into James. You rarely ever see anything come from the left since Chillwell got injured.

In all seriousness, how likely do you think it is that Arsenal could get 3rd? Chelsea's form atm is really bad.

I think Pogba would be perfect, same way that Fabregas was perfect, we don't need the defensive stability, we need to be able to break these sit back and counter teams down, Pogba doesn't need to start big games, Kante + Kovacic would suffice there but we have an issue against the mid table sides breaking them down. I think we need one creative midfielder for that. Take it this way Lukaku has an excellent game today but we still have issues creating chances and putting teams to bed, we could have scored 5 today but we scored 2. It's not as simple as buy a striker. Our issue is with the final pass, but the final pass is easier if we can transition better vs the park the bus sides.

Also with our defenders going/ageing and us not knowing if the defence can be improved upon with signings, I think we should focus on how we create chances. Today e.g. Rudiger was busy making the Luis style passes but surely that's also a job for our midfielders.

United have a similar problem where they can't attack on the right because Wan Bissaka was playing there. Our fullback situation is awful when you consider that we sold Livramento and Lamptey, as well as loaning Emerson, all for us to be using Alonso, a CM and Sarr there instead.

Another thing is that Lukaku runs the channels and likes the ball into space but we take ages to transition so he's often complaining that the ball wasn't given into him early enough.

Just a reminder that Lukaku was more expensive than Halland

Just a reminder that Lukaku was more expensive than Halland

I know, well I said already I'd rather have havertz for another year and try for Haaland, Broja having a solid season for Southampton and Abraham having a good season for Roma only further solidifies my point.

I hope people don't come up with the nonsense that we are only a striker away, we've had quality strikers but they don't work in the system. We're stuck with Lukaku anyway for now.