I would like to see James get forward more. IF we are going to counter then we need to make better use of our wing-backs. Get Barkley and Mount closer to Giroud.
# of giveaways ********ing kills me. Jorginho and Kov are unreal when it comes to going from heroes to zeros in a span of a minute. Could be up or down a goal at this point. Happy to go into half 0-0. I think Ruben, Willy and Tamantha are all liable to come on at some point soon.. don't think this ends scoreless. Also.. Marcos on the left man. Seems like a back 3 is our best formation with the current set of guys.
Chelsea 7 Bayern 6 - shots Chelsea 2 Bayern 3 - shots on target Not too shoddy Tammy and Willian for Giroud and Dross Barkley - sooner rather than later
Cabby has had a good night, but Kepa would have been blamed as stats show he let one in, to beat a dead horse and again fuuuuccckkk
Lol. Kepa sitting there thinking about how Willy has "let in" 6 goals in 4 games We suck, they're good. God. Get Ross far ********ing away from this starting lineup
We start Barkley, they sub on Coutinho edit- wouldn't even be playing Bayern if Barkley didn't think he was some pk superstar
Had the same thought. El oh ********ing el. What a joke. Reece with the biggest lesson of his young career. He got ********ing washed today.
On my way home from the game, I would be happy if Kepa never played again. I was lucky enough to be in Munich in 2012. How far the mighty have fallen.
Speed kills and it crushed us. Christensen might have been our fastest defender on the pitch. We are so ********ing slow. Kova has decent speed, Mount too, maybe Reece, but beyond that, they carved us apart in the second half. Mount through twice and Davies made up 20 yards each time in 2 seconds. Maybe if Dave doesn't slip it's different, but I doubt it. This result sucks, but honestly, I expected a thrashing (maybe not this bad though). Barkley was awful, like looked out of his depth as a professional awful. Giroud wasn't very good, not like the two previous matches. Thought Rüdiger and AC were alright on the day and AC especially because he was always having to cover the RCB/RWB space. We lack talent, we knew that. Tammy isn't hitting the heights he was. Pulisic hasn't played in two months. CHO is hurt. RLC has been out damn near a year. We need talent, and we just don't have enough of it. Silver lining for me is this. We need to focus on the league and get that right. Getting knackered at this stage, yes it sucks, isn't the worst. We made it this far. We need to qualify next season and get the likes of Sancho and someone else up top and get an actual proper left back so we aren't playing Alonso who is so slow. Also, the Alonso red, really? Lewandowski cut in front of him and was leaning on him, that's another one that went against us incorrectly IMO. I'll have to see it again though. Anyone see it differently?
Well to be fair, Bayern have struggled against the last two sides that played 3 at the back (Hofenheim and Leipzig). The plan wasn't neccesarily bad, the execution on the other hand was bad. When we play with 3/5 at the back, our wingbacks are SLOW, Bayerns aren't. I mean, I don't know. We sucked today. First half gave is a glimmer, but we have weaknesses all over the pitch. We're playing Ross Barkley as an attacker because Pedro and Willian have been just as poor. Giroud was pretty useless today, Tammy not much better. Neither are fully fit I guess. Who was going to break them down with a pass, maybe Jorginho, but he doesn't do it that often.
Sooo slow. Was making the same comment to some colleagues when watching in the kitchen at lunch. There is no pace there and certainly no pace with ball control. There are pieces there to work with, it's not all doom and gloom, but consistent with everyone's comments, we need to invest and invest intentionally. We are paying the price for not having a better long term plan and not having a Director of Football setting a strategy that goes beyond the manager of the day tactical approach.
I don't think Lamp got it right today ...ahem...Barkley...but look who was available and tell me the magic line-up that was going to shut down and tear apart Bayern with Lew, Muller Gnaby Thiago, Coutinho off bench etc Alll the goals were by being ripped down the middle of Jorg, Az, Rud and AC (so a liitle harsh to call James out also I think, though Davis beat him for speed once late) Bayern are just better and far more talented and deeper right now. Except for City the next 6 PL matches are winnable and where the CL spot will be won or lost, hopefully some of the walking wounded return soon