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Chelsea vs Aston Villa (PL) Saturday 27th December 17:30 GMT

HOW ABOUT THIS STAT FOR NETO

Stat

Number

Touches

67

Number of times ball lost

24

Pass accuracy

83%

Crosses completed

1/9

Duels won

1/4

Tackles won

0/1

Dribbles completed

0/1
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Sad as it may be, but having that 1 successful cross actually marked him down as our "best" winger for crosses yesterday LOL.

Garnacho 0 out of 4

Gittens 0 out of 2

 
'Free Header': Ollie Watkins thanks Chelsea star for Aston Villa winner as Jamie Redknapp slams defender
The England international spoke to Sky Sports after the match with former Tottenham Hotspur man Jamie Redknapp asking if he could ‘believe his luck’ that it was the smaller Malo Gusto closest to putting in a challenge for that 84th minute goal.​
Watkins replied: “I felt like they were stood off us. They had a lot of chances from our own corners when they were countering. I’ve gave him [Gusto] a little shove and he wasn’t marking me too tightly. It’s basically a free header. It’s nice to see that float into the corner. It’s a nice moment for me.”​
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AND ITS NOT THE FIRST TIME GUSTO HAS MARKED PLAYERS BIGGER THEN HIM AND COST US, MARESCA STOP PICKING YOUR SEX TOY​
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Come back when you can speak English, Ollie. Present participle.

 
I still feel flat after yesterday.

We are at the stage where all we can talk about is beating a Bracelona team that have thier defenders on the half way line and not losing at home to Arsenal with 10 men.

When the chips are down we fold, each and every time.

Play aggresive against us, we crumble.

Play fast football, we crumble.

Apply sustained pressure on us for more than a few minutes, we crumble.

We've lost 3 times at home this season after taken the lead!

There's a lack of fitness, we have the worst running stats in the division and we never play well for more than 45 minutes - and most of that time in this 45 minutes how many real saves does the opposition goalkeeper have to make??

There is a lack of charactor in the squad.

Of course we know the square root of the problems at this club is the board and the sporting directors and thier stupid rigid transfer policies but we have enough good players to not be 10 points behind Villa half way through the season!

I blame the manager for a lot of our demise. Teams generally play in thier managers image according to thier principles.

So when our defender waste 60 seconds passing side to side to each other it's because what he's trained them to play like this.

When we have a throw near the opposition penalty area but 10 seconds later the ball ends up at our goalkeepers feet it's because he's trained them to play like that.

He thinks control is keeping the ball even if you're going backwards.

10 points being Aston Villa is alarming and highlights what Uni Emery brings to a team compared to Maresca, but this isn't even the long term pain.

When the likes of Palmer, Estevao wake up and realise this board has no real plan to be a top team again and this manager coaches any creativity out of our players and consider leaving then the real decline will happen at warp speed.

Yesterday was a real eye opener, Villa was pants for 60 minutes and won the the game and caused us no end of problems in the last 30 minutes and had nearly 3 times more shots on target than we had in the whole match.

We are a sinking ship and there isn't a lifeboat in sight at the moment.

 
I still feel flat after yesterday.

We are at the stage where all we can talk about is beating a Bracelona team that have thier defenders on the half way line and not losing at home to Arsenal with 10 men.

When the chips are down we fold, each and every time.

Play aggresive against us, we crumble.

Play fast football, we crumble.

Apply sustained pressure on us for more than a few minutes, we crumble.

We've lost 3 times at home this season after taken the lead!

There's a lack of fitness, we have the worst running stats in the division and we never play well for more than 45 minutes - and most of that time in this 45 minutes how many real saves does the opposition goalkeeper have to make??

There is a lack of charactor in the squad.

Of course we know the square root of the problems at this club is the board and the sporting directors and thier stupid rigid transfer policies but we have enough good players to not be 10 points behind Villa half way through the season!

I blame the manager for a lot of our demise. Teams generally play in thier managers image according to thier principles.

So when our defender waste 60 seconds passing side to side to each other it's because what he's trained them to play like this.

When we have a throw near the opposition penalty area but 10 seconds later the ball ends up at our goalkeepers feet it's because he's trained them to play like that.

He thinks control is keeping the ball even if you're going backwards.

10 points being Aston Villa is alarming and highlights what Uni Emery brings to a team compared to Maresca, but this isn't even the long term pain.

When the likes of Palmer, Estevao wake up and realise this board has no real plan to be a top team again and this manager coaches any creativity out of our players and consider leaving then the real decline will happen at warp speed.

Yesterday was a real eye opener, Villa was pants for 60 minutes and won the the game and caused us no end of problems in the last 30 minutes and had nearly 3 times more shots on target than we had in the whole match.

We are a sinking ship and there isn't a lifeboat in sight at the moment.
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Ya, that's what worries me ... our best players, like Cole and Estavao, will go if this clown is allowed to carry on "managing" their minutes etc.

 
Been over this before but I often wonder why people think we hsve a lot of talent in our squad. I really dont think we do. Certainly not enough to be a top four team and that is in a season where a lot of teams are under performing.

If you categorise our squad in terms of being Premier league team so categories are First Class, First Team Standard, Squad Rotation, Back Up, or Lower League then I would have something like (and I include potential as well as current ability

First Class - Palmer, Caciedo and James

First Team - Cucurella, Acheampong, Esteveao, Sanchez, Lavia

Rotation - Neto, Fofana, Santos

Back Up - Colwill, Gusto, Mudryk, Enzo, Delap, Pedro, Jackson, Chalobah

Lower League - Jorgensen, Tosin, Garnacho, Badiashille, Gittens, George' Sterling, Guiu

Probably missed a few

Looking at that it's quite clear what a bang average squad it is for a team supposedly with top four aspirations. Only three players that are of genuine high class. And of the 5 first team ones three are really there based on potential rather than current contribution and the keeper we know will f**k up again.

Meanwhile we have about 6 players getting regular playing time who are either squad fillers or shouldn't even be playing in this league.

 
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HOW ABOUT THIS STAT FOR NETO

Stat

Number

Touches

67

Number of times ball lost

24

Pass accuracy

83%

Crosses completed

1/9

Duels won

1/4

Tackles won

0/1

Dribbles completed

0/1
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Abysmal.

 
Been over this before but I often why people think we hsve a lot of talent in our squad. I really dont think we do. Certainly not enough to be a top four team and that is in a season where a lot of teams are under performing.

If you categorise our squad in terms of being Premier league team so categories are First Class, First Team Standard, Squad Rotation, Back Up, or Lower League then I would have something like (and I include potential as well as current ability

First Class - Palmer, Caciedo and James

First Team - Cucurella, Acheampong, Esteveao, Sanchez, Lavia

Rotation - Neto, Fofana, Santos

Back Up - Colwill, Gusto, Mudryk, Enzo, Delap, Pedro, Jackson, Chalobah

Lower League - Jorgensen, Tosin, Garnacho, Badiashille, Gittens, George' Sterling, Guiu

Probably missed a few

Looking at that it's quite clear what a bang average squad it is for a team supposedly with top four aspirations. Only three players that are of genuine high class. And of the 5 first team ones three are really there based on potential rather than current contribution and the keeper we know will f**k up again.

Meanwhile we have about 6 players getting regular playing time who are either squad fillers or shouldn't even be playing in this league.
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But Aston Villa have maybe one or two players in their squad who would get into our first team and they’ve won nine matches in a row and are ten points clear of us and sitting pretty. Maybe it won’t last, but how has Emery made the most of a bang average squad?

Sure there are glaring deficiencies in our squad, but Maresca doesn’t seem to be getting the most out of what he has. He’s learning on the job supposedly, but is he improving us? We look like a right shower at times. And that’s got to be on the manager.

 
But Aston Villa have maybe one or two players in their squad who would get into our first team and they’ve won nine matches in a row and are ten points clear of us and sitting pretty. Maybe it won’t last, but how has Emery made the most of a bang average squad?

Sure there are glaring deficiencies in our squad, but Maresca doesn’t seem to be getting the most out of what he has. He’s learning on the job supposedly, but is he improving us? We look like a right shower at times. And that’s got to be on the manager.
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I would say all of these would

Martinez

Obama and/or Kamara

Tielemans

Rogers

Sancho (depressing to say that, just because Garnacho and Gitrens are so sh*t)

Watkins

 
Poor game management. Poor substitutions. Poor decision making. Inexperienced manager. Inexperienced tinkering manager. etc.

The reasons for failure at Chelsea FC are quite consistent.

Our players were/are better than the Villa players and we should have won that comfortably. But their manager was/is much better than our manager.

Rogers is Cole Palmers best mate - so why didnt we sign him and not bother with Gittens and Garnacho?

 
Rogers is Cole Palmers best mate - so why didn't we sign him and not bother with Gittens and Garnacho?
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Because we're not building the team around Cole, we're building it around Enzo Fernandez !

Hence we signed Enzo's best mate, not Cole's, to make Enzo feel more comfortable at the club !

All very logical LOL

 
Because we're not building the team around Cole, we're building it around Enzo Fernandez !

Hence we signed Enzo's best mate, not Cole's, to make Enzo feel more comfortable at the club !

All very logical LOL
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Sad but true.

Who do we think made that decision?

 
Eghbali would be my guess
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Yes I agree. Wasn't he directly involved in the negotiations to sign Enzo at the time? There had been some suggestions that 1 or 2 of the big La Liga clubs had some interest in signing Enzo and logically we would sell him as he would be better suited to their league. But I cannot see it happening under the current owners.

 
Yes I agree. Wasn't he directly involved in the negotiations to sign Enzo at the time? There had been some suggestions that 1 or 2 of the big La Liga clubs had some interest in signing Enzo and logically we would sell him as he would be better suited to their league. But I cannot see it happening under the current owners.
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I think Eghbali's ego is in play on both the Enzo signing, and also on Mudryk. The decisions on paying the huge fees seem to have been his in both cases.

What judgement he has LOL. His choice of such weak Directors of Football Should be no surprise to anyone !

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall in that final meeting they all had with Pochettino. Poch probably laughing at them and their half arsed data charts ... and then "oh, you're actually serious ... ! LOL. Bunch of amateurs ...

 
HOWS THIS FOR A STAT

In their last 18 games Aston Villa have won 16, they have only lost to Go Ahead (CL) and Liverpool (PL)

Meanwhile the great Maresca has won 2 out of 8 (Cardiff and Everton)

 
HOWS THIS FOR A STAT

In their last 18 games Aston Villa have won 16, they have only lost to Go Ahead (CL) and Liverpool (PL)

Meanwhile the great Maresca has won 2 out of 8 (Cardiff and Everton)
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“……the grating Maresca…..”

 
I think Eghbali's ego is in play on both the Enzo signing, and also on Mudryk. The decisions on paying the huge fees seem to have been his in both cases.

What judgement he has LOL. His choice of such weak Directors of Football Should be no surprise to anyone !

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall in that final meeting they all had with Pochettino. Poch probably laughing at them and their half arsed data charts ... and then "oh, you're actually serious ... ! LOL. Bunch of amateurs ...
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Also Fernandez is going nowhere for the next 3 or 4 years. Nobody in Europe has the money to pay what these clowns would need just to break even.

 
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