Pulisic and Musah all games PBP thread

and yet oddly, nobody was fired.

 

Well, duh. I was exaggerating. Here are my ratings of the ratings:

Sky: 1
Evening Standard: 3

See, that's easy.

 

So..no-one has bumped yet. When will lineups come out?

 

They usually come out 1 hour before the game. So, I suspect then.

 

Would be pleasantly surprised if he starts.

 

Hypothetical, would you rather he starts and plays 70, or comes off the bench at 70 with the potential for extra time and a game winner?

 

I want him to start, selfishly. But if I was the manager, I have to be honest - I’d make him an impact sub. The idea of him coming on at the 60 min mark vs tired legs and potentially needing him to help the team go for 120 minutes make sense to me.
Of course, if it comes to penalties, I’d probably not put him in my first 5 takers.

 

The latter. But one has to hope that Man City has not already put the game away when he comes on...

 

I would rather him just go 90 and score the winner. If he comes off the bench at 70 or 75 or something and they’re down 2 goals already it’ll be pretty frustrating. They’re likely to get played off the pitch so I have a feeling it’ll be a wrap by the time he gets on.

 

Christian Pulisic on the bench for Chelsea in the Champions League final.

Zack Steffen backing up Ederson for Man City.

— Paul Tenorio (@PaulTenorio) May 29, 2021

 

I think that lineup by Tuchel is a mistake and it’s gonna be 3-0 by halftime. Which it might have been anyway, but that lineup is just begging for constant pressure.

It’s also frustrating to see him persist with Werner when he’s done absolutely nothing to warrant this many opportunities other than be a sunk cost for the club. Not that Pulisic was great during the last 2 weeks-none of them were, but if I were Tammy Abraham I’d be out of there this summer.

I suppose I should be grateful to Tuchel for saving me at least an hour where I don’t have to watch the game.

 

Yes I think they’ll need ~a miracle by the time Pulisic comes on. Could be 2 goal game or 3 but then they’ll be in desperation mode.

 

Wish I had made a tee time.

 

I'm happy to be a homer:
Screw the logical arguments. Screw Tuchel. Screw Chelsea.
I hope they get hammered, CP gets subbed on, scores and assists, then (of course) points at his watch.

Note: If you come at this post with some "rational" discussion about why I shouldn't feel that way I'll just scroll past

 

My absolute and total dislike of City and especially Guardiola prevent me from hoping for that outcome but I think it’s exceedingly likely

 

Also, imaging being English and thinking Reece James was better at anything than Trent Alexander-Arnold. You could hand England prime Maradona and Cristiano Ronaldo and they wouldn’t have the first idea how to use either of them, and they’d end up shrugging their shoulders and starting like Eric Dier and Kyle Walker ahead of both.

 

Agree. Chelsea most likely need an early goal to win this. Our boy on the bench lessens the chance of that.

 

Its standard dumb coach thinking; “oh we can bring his pace in late to run at tired defenders” except City are going to have like 85% of the possession and the only tired defenders are going to be in your team.

 

At least Mount has value. Werner looks borderline incompetent in front of goal and what’s worse, he always looks like he can’t believe he was 6 yards off/missed an open goal

 

Welp. Seems like Paramount plus is garbage, to, I assume, no one’s surprise

TUDN it is

 

Yeah, and I posted in the CP thread that if this is the situation, Super Sub CP will be blamed for not helping Chelsea get a come from behind victory.

 

Game should be on CBS. i.e. the over the air network, if you are in the U.S.

 

Unfortunately I am not. But thanks

 

Mods and posters. Totally Ok if you would rather post here but I created a separate PBP to include Steffen in the thread title. Maybe we can merge? I just think this is so historic it deserves more than a all matches thread.