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Match Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur (A) Sat., 22.2.2020 (12:30)
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Relevant to us as well as Liverpool: the PL is rubbish this season.
They’ve been in horrendous form for months and devoid of confidence.
The exact tonic they needed was a passive Spurs team who were setup in terms of both selection and tactics to believe they were inferior.
It was a big mistake.
Just saw the JM IV where he says we did not have an out ball [because we didn't have a 9].
Why didn't you have one on the bench even, Jose?
So Poch set up with tactics that were inferior? I can't recall our set up for that game so if you could refresh my memory I'd appreciate it GDG
Why are you referencing Poch?
If you believe the tactical setup and team selection on Saturday was correct, more power to you. You’re wrong but who am I to rain on your parade?!
Aah I see, I read it as you speaking about Bayern before they played us, not Chelsea hence my reference to Poch and the confusion about your post. All good mate, nothing rained on I just couldn't remember our tactical set up for that one but it's irrelevant as you weren't speaking about the Spurs Vs Bayern game, all good.
Gun with no bullets. May as well call the players shit to their faces. Maybe it's the person holding the gun
Or maybe we can be realistic and acknowledge that in the last 5 weeks we have lost 75% of our goals (or should I say bullets?)
Silver bullets yes. Still got the other kind
You mean rubber bullets? Our 3rd highest goalscorer available at present is own goals mate
Remember..... we played 3 games in 6 days, a few of which played a full 90 minutes in 6 days:
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"There were a few reasons why we couldn’t reproduce that outcome. The first is that this style is high-octane stuff and that amount of energy being used twice in four days seemed beyond us, understandably. Try watching Liverpool these days and remember their old heavy metal high-energy style. They don’t do it nearly as much now; it is too exhausting if done too often."
Thoughts on how this may have and probably was a far greater factor for us seeing as we had to muster 33% more out of our boys legs than Chelsea had to given the extra game with just 2 days of recovery involved? Safe to say that the Aston Villa game was pretty high octane stuff.... did it and the duration between games as well as a key London Derby mean we should approach it in a somewhat conservative manner? I mean he is an ex professional footballer so he should know the issues with playing multiple games every two days right?
Pat Nevin analyses an energy-sapping evening and hopes for a relaxing weekend
In his column this week Chelsea great Pat Nevin explains why playing three at the back has produced mixed results in recent days, wonders what difference N’Golo Kante might have made against Bayern, and hopes for a weekend to break free and enjoy…
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Thoughts on how this may have and probably was a far greater factor for us seeing as we had to muster 33% more out of our boys legs than Chelsea had to given the extra game with just 2 days of recovery involved? Safe to say that the Aston Villa game was pretty high octane stuff.... did it and the duration between games as well as a key London Derby mean we should approach it in a somewhat conservative manner? I mean he is an ex professional footballer so he should know the issues with playing multiple games every two days right?
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They also put 7 past us though
Oh I do miss the glory days under Poch. We were treated to 3 goals against Brighton just a few days later as well.
Ain't gna change if we keep it long ask the shortest player on the pitch to chase it
I read somewhere that Lamela hasn't trained all week as well. We could massively do with him to get a run of games going.
Jose said similar regarding last week's game.... Erik on the Ledley tip now?
It's been on the cards for a while. King, Lamela, Wanyama is there another team that gets hammer blow injuries that alter a players career so frequently as we do?
I just meant a 'skip training; just play if you can' approach to his game-time.
Our luck sucks tho', yes.....
If we can squeeze 20-30 minutes out of Lamela each game, with our fully fit starting XI that'll probably be a half decent knock given his injury record.