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A real lack of focus and attention from all our defensive players today. Including Tammy. Right from that disallowed goal, where tammy gave away a cheap corner, onwards it was like they did not care.

Is basics. How can you Rudiger, in space, not concentrate and clear the ball for a throw in halfway down the pitch and instead put it out for a needless corner when you know we struggle against them?

I dont think it is a lack of talent as they could comfortably cope with a rubbish team like West Ham, is just they could not be bothered to put the effort it. That makes it worse for me. 

 
I thought he was better than this technically and physically.  Plagued by inconsistency and actually quite poor technically (the corner today was a joke).  On top of that his positional play is not all that and his concentration is weak.

Sell or bench him next season.  Not Chelsea standard for me.

 
As far as I’m concerned, the third goal is the straw that broke the camels back. To me that just showed a shocking lack of understanding of the game. I’d expect a 15-year old CB to understand that you need to step out there and leave Yarmolenko offside. It was obvious that Antonio was going to play that pass for several seconds before he did.

And when he couldn’t do that, at least he could have lead the most one-footed player in the league towards his right one instead of defending like some brainless idiot and letting him have a free shot with his favored left.

 
Rudiger always struck me as someone whose attitude doesn't match his ability level. He is meant to be this quality centreback and a veteran, sort of a mentor to our younger players, the leader at the back, whose commanding presence is supposed to instill confidence in those around him. He's nothing like it, really, both in terms of his character and his natural ability. He's nervous and hesitant on the ball, can't pass worth sh*t and has poor instincts when it comes to actual one-on-one defending. He cannot organize things at the back because he himself is clueless and gets caught out of position time and again. How can you organize anything and why should anyone listen to you if you're just as prone to errors and poor judgment as the rest of our backline? Players like Terry, Carvalho, Ferdinand, Vidic, Cannavaro or Van Dijk commanded respect because they lead by example and pulled others up to their level. They could demand an absolute best from their teammates because a)they were world class players and b)they consitently performed at the highest level.

I watched Everton vs Leicester game right before ours. Michael Keane was MOTM and I liked the look of Soyuncu from the Foxes. They just looked like the centrebacks from the past, confident, tough, no-noncense, always n the right place, good in the air and strong in a tackle. Now I'm not advocating us going after those two, I'm just using them as an example. Our centrebacks don't seem to grasp the absolute basics, the fundamentals of what makes a solid central defender and Rudiger is way too old to improve in that department.

 
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Pretty sad when you have been so bad that rival fans start taking the piss out of you:


With that said. Surely he needs to go this summer? He reminds me of some poor lanky striker having been forced to play CB all season by some twist of fate. Just horrible on every level.

 
Sindre said:
Pretty sad when you have been so bad that rival fans start taking the piss out of you:


With that said. Surely he needs to go this summer? He reminds me of some poor lanky striker having been forced to play CB all season by some twist of fate. Just horrible on every level.
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That is so embarrassing... I was actually laughing throughout a lot of it he's that bad. He's literally responsible for so many of the goals against us when he plays... Him and Christensen I definitely want to see gone. 

 
He's reached the Bakayoko level of being so bad we'd be better off playing with 10 men.

 
he just seems a lot of talk but nothing to back it up.. and loves to shout around everytime we concede as a substitute for leadership.. I think Azpi was the last real defender we signed.. 

 
I'd take a modest offer of around half what we paid for him. Should be a lot easier to move him on than our sh*tshow of a so called goal keeper.

 
Was somehow a whisker away from making Garth Crooks team of the season. He chose Maguire instead. 

An awful pundit.

Maguire: This was a difficult decision for me. Harry Maguire and Antonio Rudiger have featured in my team of the week on various occasions and both have played prominent roles in their teams securing top-four finishes.

Rudiger returned to the Chelsea defence in September after suffering a groin injury. Since his return Chelsea haven't looked back and would have struggled without the German.

Maguire, on the other hand, actually carried Manchester United until Bruno Fernandes burst onto the scene. Not to acknowledge Maguire's contribution to United's top-four achievement would have been an outrage. That is why I have selected the England centre-back in my team of the season.

 
We struggled "with" the German as well. Awful defender most of the time.

 
bisright1 said:
Was somehow a whisker away from making Garth Crooks team of the season. He chose Maguire instead. 

An awful pundit.

Maguire: This was a difficult decision for me. Harry Maguire and Antonio Rudiger have featured in my team of the week on various occasions and both have played prominent roles in their teams securing top-four finishes.

Rudiger returned to the Chelsea defence in September after suffering a groin injury. Since his return Chelsea haven't looked back and would have struggled without the German.

Maguire, on the other hand, actually carried Manchester United until Bruno Fernandes burst onto the scene. Not to acknowledge Maguire's contribution to United's top-four achievement would have been an outrage. That is why I have selected the England centre-back in my team of the season.
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Garth Crooks sounds like the most retarded man alive.

What games was he watching? Maguire and Rudiger have looked terrible in most

 
bisright1 said:
Was somehow a whisker away from making Garth Crooks team of the season. He chose Maguire instead. 

An awful pundit.

Maguire: This was a difficult decision for me. Harry Maguire and Antonio Rudiger have featured in my team of the week on various occasions and both have played prominent roles in their teams securing top-four finishes.

Rudiger returned to the Chelsea defence in September after suffering a groin injury. Since his return Chelsea haven't looked back and would have struggled without the German.

Maguire, on the other hand, actually carried Manchester United until Bruno Fernandes burst onto the scene. Not to acknowledge Maguire's contribution to United's top-four achievement would have been an outrage. That is why I have selected the England centre-back in my team of the season.
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Wow ! Garth Crooks really is clueless.

 
bisright1 said:
Was somehow a whisker away from making Garth Crooks team of the season. He chose Maguire instead. 

An awful pundit.

Maguire: This was a difficult decision for me. Harry Maguire and Antonio Rudiger have featured in my team of the week on various occasions and both have played prominent roles in their teams securing top-four finishes.

Rudiger returned to the Chelsea defence in September after suffering a groin injury. Since his return Chelsea haven't looked back and would have struggled without the German.

Maguire, on the other hand, actually carried Manchester United until Bruno Fernandes burst onto the scene. Not to acknowledge Maguire's contribution to United's top-four achievement would have been an outrage. That is why I have selected the England centre-back in my team of the season.
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Who was the other CB he went with? David Luiz?

 
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