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Bournemouth v Chelsea (PL) Sat 6th May 2023 15:00 GMT

Ah a Chelsea game I enjoyed watching. What a strange feeling and rare air this is.

Good game from both sides. Madueke was brilliant, just lacked the final ball. Badiashile and Gallagher were excellent.

At last, and who woild have thought a win at Bournemouth could be so enjoyable?

 
Finally we got there, no more involved in the relegation scrap mathematically. Given how the season was, felt like a bit of relief to be honest. Finally Frank picked a team on form, and to be fair we played a decent game. Bouremouth is a team in form, so no surprise they gave us problems, and looked a better team for parts of the game. The subs did their job, maybe finally the message got through to them, step up or GTFO. When was the last time Sterling too on players like that, and for once Ziyech able to hit a good ball in set pieces?

 
guddy69 said:
or something even more silly and keep Lampard on..😭😭😭
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Silly wouldn’t be my choice of word if that happened. Like the rest of us extremely relieved that we’re not going down, and all those opposition fans who were praying for it to happen can go f#ck themselves. I saw on AFTV who they thought would be a threat next season and we weren’t in the equation. If we don’t win the league in the next few years so be it .The things we’ve done these last 20 years compared to nearly going down to division 3 when I started going to games? I just want to see us truly competitive again.

 
Some interesting point from this game. 

If we keep back 4, thiago is a problem. 

Enzo is more comfortable playing with a partner rather than being left alone. 4231 should be our default system for next season. 

Madueke need to practice crossing with his right foot. 

Murdyk need a lot of work. Both defensively and offensively.

Last, kai is a talented player but he is not a 9. He can receive the ball high, move side to side but he can't hold the ball and he is not a goal threat at all. I am not even sure he is a better st than solanke. The fact that tuchel disposed two st for kai is bizzare. 

If Madueke continue like this my lineup for next season 

St

Mount - Nkunku/kai - Madueke 

Enzo - kante/dm

Chilwell - Badi - Fofana - James

Gk

We can get Chilwell to push up high and wide with Mount tuck in. 

 
Noticed two of our goals came from crosses, one from Kante to Gallagher and the other from Ziyech to Badiashile. 

It is a while since we put in decent crosses think the last time was early on in the season before James was injured. 

We got lucky with the Silva challenge that VAR looked at, looks like Silva never touched the ball yet their player kicked his foot, still sure we have had many decisions go against us this season. I only noticed after the BBC looked at it in detail on MOTD.

 
Jangz said:
The image I saw showed otherwise .. but if there is a better camera angle then it makes sense.
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Different angles tell different stories. Either Silva tripped him or he didn't. I finished up uncertain. Probably why VAR ruled as they did.

 
The fact that Solanki didn't even appeal for a penalty said a lot and the way he went down, it was minimal contact. Pretty sure contact in the box was allowed. Of course when slow motion on VAR, it looked a lot worse than what it really was. So I reckon for once VAR got it right, not a clear and obvious error

 
Lost my ffing internet and we get a win!

Did the boys give everything?

Just watched the highlights - great goals

We can laugh again.

 
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It's amazing , if you put the ball in the box then you can score . Lets see if the penny has dropped

on Saturday cos another win would be awesome .

 
Make the obvious to me point that Gallagher adds a scoring threat when playing in midfield. He is not a forward. Why I advocate a 4 3 3

Also the equally obvious to me point that as brilliant as Silva is the the sooner we move him out of the team and get on with the future the better off we will be. Results might get worse (if possible) before they get better but its time.

Mudryck is yet to show what he can do but I am still fairly/very hopeful he will. Think he is a confidence player that needs steady minutes to get his thing happening.  Unfortunately none of our managers has been able to work out a good front three and play them consistently. But with Kante, Enzo and Gallagher we have a competitive midfield that will create chances and maybe even finish them.

RLC makes a fine utility wing back. Probably his best position in this squad.

 
ozboy said:
Make the obvious to me point that Gallagher adds a scoring threat when playing in midfield. He is not a forward. Why I advocate a 4 3 3

Also the equally obvious to me point that as brilliant as Silva is the the sooner we move him out of the team and get on with the future the better off we will be. Results might get worse (if possible) before they get better but its time.

Mudryck is yet to show what he can do but I am still fairly/very hopeful he will. Think he is a confidence player that needs steady minutes to get his thing happening.  Unfortunately none of our managers has been able to work out a good front three and play them consistently. But with Kante, Enzo and Gallagher we have a competitive midfield that will create chances and maybe even finish them.

RLC makes a fine utility wing back. Probably his best position in this squad.
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As much I like Gallagher and have defended him many times, I don't think it is a good idea to build your team around galalagher. 

 
Bob stark said:
As much I like Gallagher and have defended him many times, I don't think it is a good idea to build your team around galalagher. 
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I can agree with that, yet I think our team will do better when we have goal scoring, hard working midfielders. We didn’t build the team around Ramires but we did well when he was there. Did we build the team around Lampard. Certainly he only worked in a 4 3 3 

 
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