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Brentford vs Chelsea (PL) Sun 6th April 25 14:00 GMT

Sancho, Madueke and Neto. These are all our wingers and they have a combined total of 12 goals this season, 3 of which were scored by Madueke away at Wolves in August last year. I mean 9 goals combined from the wing since round 2 of this season is ridiculous, simply laughable... (I did not include Mudryk and George as they have no goals scored in the PL and barely contributed anything in terms of minutes.)

It would be a miracle to finish top five when you only rely on two attackers (Palmer and Jackson) to score and the occasional Enzo Fernandez surprise appearence in the box.

Such input from our wingers is just not good enough. Mid table stats. Not only they do not score, but they barely create anything and are probably the most passive and boring ones you will watch in this league.

We truly are Cole Palmer FC. Without this guy's goals and brilliance we'd not even talk about a top five finish now.

 
Sancho, Madueke and Neto. These are all our wingers and they have a combined total of 12 goals this season, 3 of which were scored by Madueke away at Wolves in August last year. I mean 9 goals combined from the wing since round 2 of this season is ridiculous, simply laughable... (I did not include Mudryk and George as they have no goals scored in the PL and barely contributed anything in terms of minutes.)

It would be a miracle to finish top five when you only rely on two attackers (Palmer and Jackson) to score and the occasional Enzo Fernandez surprise appearence in the box.

Such input from our wingers is just not good enough. Mid table stats. Not only they do not score, but they barely create anything and are probably the most passive and boring ones you will watch in this league.

We truly are Cole Palmer FC. Without this guy's goals and brilliance we'd not even talk about a top five finish now.
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Under Maresca, I genuinely don't believe this team is good enough to finish any higher than 15th without Palmer and Caicedo. That's how bad he has made this team.

 
Ooooooh Oeps sorry …….fell asleep, how did we get on ?

 
Sancho, Madueke and Neto. These are all our wingers and they have a combined total of 12 goals this season, 3 of which were scored by Madueke away at Wolves in August last year. I mean 9 goals combined from the wing since round 2 of this season is ridiculous, simply laughable... (I did not include Mudryk and George as they have no goals scored in the PL and barely contributed anything in terms of minutes.)

It would be a miracle to finish top five when you only rely on two attackers (Palmer and Jackson) to score and the occasional Enzo Fernandez surprise appearence in the box.

Such input from our wingers is just not good enough. Mid table stats. Not only they do not score, but they barely create anything and are probably the most passive and boring ones you will watch in this league.

We truly are Cole Palmer FC. Without this guy's goals and brilliance we'd not even talk about a top five finish now.
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Correct, but the lack of input from the wingers I tie directly to the gaffer.

Everytime they recieve the ball it's 2v1 as the fullbacks are encouraged to invert.

That means to create anything they need to beat two men on their own, so 9/10 they turn around and recycle it.

If Gusto or Cucurella bomb up on the outside it takes a defender away, all them going inside does is clog uo the area Palmer wants to operate in.

Stretch the pitch, create one on one's make the spaces bigger. I learnt all this playing Sunday league.....

 
Brighton must be feeling like we robbed them off 2 points.... that's how bad we are.

 
Opportunity here to be grabbing 3 points by the throat. Instead half the team look like 60 year olds playing walking football and the other half look like Laurel and Hardy.
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Played like a team that thinks there’s a UEFA ban coming.

That was wholly predictable.

How have we gone from scoring 4 goals a game and looking a threat to this?

At the very least, get Gyökeres in.
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When did we score 4 against a top 10 team?

Our GD against 3 bottom half teams is 18 so we are -1 against the rest. Big scores against Southampton and Wolves aren’t a good indicator of the ability of our team

 
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Sanchez with the save of the game to deny Mbuemo

 
Maresca just isn’t brave enough to be an elite manager. Plays it too safe. He can talk a good game but he’s showing very little to prove it.

 
Under Maresca, I genuinely don't believe this team is good enough to finish any higher than 15th without Palmer and Caicedo. That's how bad he has made this team.
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I don't fully agree. I think that first the owners must understand that they now must take the next step and give this squad the final shape. The core has been created - Palmer, Caicedo, Enzo, Cucurella, Colwill, James and to some extent Jackson. From the loanies, Santos feels like the most valuable one to come back and add to that core.

You simply can't go ahead with wingers that don't even try or bother to find ways to score goals and have such a bad input. There is not a single big club in this world without at least one top winger. Madrid, Barcelona, City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Bayern, Paris, you name it. They all benefit from a lot of goals from the wing.

Milan will finish outside of Europe and needs cash. Leao is quality and proven on the big stage. Could be the perfect fit on the left. Mbuemo also PL proven on the right wing and a goalscorer. As we all know, Barcelona are skint and need cash the same way a prostitute with a fentanyl addiction needs it. Rumour is they would let Raphinha go in order to bring funds in. He is quality and perfect for the right wing. I mean there are very good option out there in order to take this team to the next level and add firepower, the owners must wake up and take the next step.

 
Yesterday I said we needed 5 wins to make top 5, still the case but with one game less now.

These are the kind of matches we have got to look to win if we want Champions League football.

This is crunch time, we need to start every league game with our strongest team - drawing isn’t gonna help us overtake teams.

I still think Maresca lacks the winning mentality to get us into the top 5.

 
Here comes the bollox

“Overall, I think it was a good performance. The only thing we missed probably was a goal, but we created enough — more than 20 shots, so I think it’s a good volume. This is a tricky game, tricky pitch, 24 hours less than [Brentford] in terms of recovery. So overall, it’s a good one.”

How difficult is it to play two Premier League games on Thursday and Sunday? “Especially at this stage of the season, it’s very complicated. 24 hours makes a difference, that’s why I said. We planned the game to start one way and finish the other way, but overall I think we did enough to win the game. … First of all, for me when you don’t win it’s important you don’t lose so at least it’s a good point.”

 
Glad that’s done. Off to the pub, I’ll give my opinion tomorrow so I don’t say something I might regret.
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I'm back.

Maresca is sh*te, worst human on the planet in the last 80 years.

Sanchez is awful.

Reece is the best RB in the world, play him at RB.

If you're playing Gusto, play him as a touchline full back.

Tosin is average, least of our worries though. Happy to have him as a squad player. Along the same lines as Chalobah.

Cucurella is a bang average footballer and the fact he's arguably one of our players of the year tells you all about the depth our club has reached.

Caicedo is genuinely world class. Love him to bits, would let him marry my daughter is i have one.

Enzo has improved recently. Not worth close to what we paid for him but that's not his fault. Hopefully continues his current trajectory.

KDH. I don't want to speak about him.

Madueke is an enigma. One game can look class, another look like he's never controlled a ball in his life. Still young, least of our worries again.

I don't understand how Enzo has managed to nullify Palmer so much and not change it. The talent is obvious, shame he;s shackled by a stubborn bellend.

Sancho doesn't really do anything. Would be good if we had a full overlap him but the thought of such a thing happening is terrifying for our manager. Goes back to Utd in summer.

Can't believe we spent what we did on Neto. Never been clinical and has seemed to continue that trend at Chelsea. More interested in doing a step over than scoring.

Nkunku. Please sell.

Jackson. His game is great, his finishing is awful. Needs genuine competition.

Stewart and Winstanley. The money they will have been paid to build this squad is staggering. Give me the funds and i could have made a squad to compete for a decade. The should be hunf for their crimes against the sport. A genuine cancer to the club.

 
Despite the poor result today think we are still in the top 4 race as think more up and downs to come for others not just us.

Due to tidying up late Dad's things have missed the prediction thread tohugh thought a win against Spurs and a draw today.

Manx derby today 0-0

London derby today 0-0

 
4 league matches in a row now where our forward line (wingers, 10 and "striker") have failed to score in...

 
Nkunku shouldn’t be starting games. It’s obvious he can’t be bothered. I’ve no idea why Maresca is persisting with him. George has shown more in games than Nkunku. Anyone from the academy would put in more effort. What’s that about?

 
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