A shit defense makes a poor keeper looks worse. Kepa is done with Chelsea, but I won't be shock if he find his footings with another club.
Sometimes we overthink things and don’t trust our eyes. Kepa is not good. And for the price he is terrible.
To my eye (but apparently not everyone’s) Chelsea midfielders and backs missed about 20 potential Werner runs behind the very high Liverpool line. Over and over it was there, but no pass. I think that when Pulisic and Ziyech get healthy Werner will go off.
O/T but glad to see a POC as a keeper at a big club. I can only think of Keylor Navas and maybe the dude he replaced at PSG
Correct. Chelsea mid and defense have absolutely no vision or creativity in going forward or attacking. Same exact things happenn to Pulisic last season. CP, Timo, Havertz, and Ziyech will thrive together. The rest just don't seem to be at the level of these guys.
Really?!? So this is the Go Pulisic, F-Chelsea forum? I'm really not a fan of that type of BS fandom.
I saw that as well. I feel like Chelsea bought too many attacking players in one window. It's going to take more than a few games to figure out how to play together. By then they may only be chasing a Europa league spot.
I am a go Pulisic, F-Chelsea poster in a Yanks abroad thread. I'm not really a fan of people telling other people how to be a fan.
I had a busy day yesterday so I missed the first half, but I was able to watch the first ten minutes or so of the second half, during which the game was lost, and thereafter just a smattering. Since I saw so little of the game, I will compensate by speaking more authoritatively. Knowing that Christensen had been red-carded right before halftime, my teenage son correctly predicted that Havertz would come off and that Tomori would come on, not Azpi, who could not possibly be 10 v 11 v Liverpool fit. So far, so good. I would have pulled Jorginho also - he makes me look fast - a more difficult feat than perhaps you can even imagine - and during my limited viewing he was making some of Liverpool's (admittedly speedy) players look like the Flash. Lampard's bench is pretty thin with all the injuries, but he might have brought Barkley in to tackle and block, or at least to hustle. What boggles the mind is that no further adaptation seemed to take place, given the very different circumstances. All of the pre-game planning, the bravado, should have gone out the window. Chelsea didn't need to switch completely to route one, kick and clear, but safety first should have been their new mantra. Speedy Werner should have played up top, to keep Liverpool's defenders as honest as possible. As you did, I also saw Werner ready to burst into space but the ball almost always went elsewhere (or nowhere). Often he had to come back to touch the ball, in less-threatening positions. Mount should have become the only two-way player, as long as his legs and lungs held out, and everyone else should have gone on high alert, safety-first mode. Not against every PL team, necessarily, but down a man against Liverpool, certainly. Liverpool's first goal was very nice, the second one a gift - but it seemed almost absurd to watch the Chelsea players make risky passes deep in their own end, oblivious to the danger, as if they were playing up a man vs the BS All-Stars.
Wait, what? I said nothing of the kind. I don't like Chelsea, watching them struggle has been fun for me for 20 years, I am not going to stop enjoying it because of Pulisic. Conversely, the last time I saw Pulisic with them both he and the club were looking just fine.
Think back to the last Chelsea-Liverpool game before this and I think you'll find the sarcasm he's going for.
I'm in the same boat as sXeWesley. In fact, that's why I'm here in the CP thread in Yanks Abroad, instead of the Chelsea FC threads. I'd think folks posting here would be more a CP fan than a Chelsea fan.
That's absolutely correct. Keepers, in the earliest stages of their development, are told to "command their area." Part of that command is educating the defenders about what the keeper's abilities are that enable (or not) the control of his own area. Then, he enforces that understanding such that all the defenders and the keeper fully understand what each player's capabilities and insisting that all players coordinate according to that understanding. It is apparent that the defense communicate poorly and lacks organization, especially on counterattacks. Much of the disorganization falls on Kepa's shoulders and would disappear with someone more commanding in goal. Kepa is a lightweight and nobody trusts him, particularly the back four.