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Chelsea vs Servette (Conference League) Thursday 22nd Aug 24, 20:00 GMT

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I was feeling apprehensive that it was in fact Poch that got the best player out of him last season. and he’d be in for a much quieter season under Pep’s fluffer! 
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I think he's probably also struggling from having last season's entire support structure ripped away from him. Lost his supportive manager, his fellow leading light of the team in Gallagher, and his dressing room mentor Uncle Raheem. Then compound that by playing him in positions that aren't his best ... kid's head is probably spinning. 

 
We've learned nothing new from tonight. We are still very poor at possession based football, we pass it around at the back pretending like we are confident, but it's fooling nobody. The lack of concentration is staggering, and even against the weakest sides we will face all season, we will present them with multiple chances because the majority of our players just seem to expect the ball to arrive at their feet with no pressure on them. Then you have moments like that Gusto pass that was just straight at the opposition. We did that in every pre-season game and conceded goals from it, we did it against City and conceded a goal from it. Tonight we got lucky. You can't even put it down to getting used to Maresca's tactics, it's been issue at the club for years. 

The fans were groaning once again, the boo's were there at half time. This football is not going to cut it, it has to change. Fans are just going to stop turning up if this continues. There is almost zero entertainment on show. Every single game it's the same tempo from first minute to last. You can feel the atmosphere around the stadium getting more and more restless. You could even hear Jason Cundy in the background going mental. I'm not even being hyperbolic, the football we are playing is the worst I have ever seen in my life. I deliberately avoid watching teams like City, because their football bores me, but at least they are effective with it, we are just painful. There were multiple instances again where we played back to the goalkeeper from an attacking position, why do we do this? It's insane.

 
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WhiteWall said:
My thought exactly.  I can see this bloke crushing this lad. All he achieved last season may well count for nought this season.
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I have a bad feeling this Maracas bloke isn’t going to last all that long. It’s hardly a bold prediction, but he’s going to hear a lot of ‘sacked in the morning’ sang at him this season.

Lord knows who could make a top four side out of this mess though. It’s like a blind man trying to complete a jigsaw that someone has taken half the pieces out of and then thrown in the pieces of three other random jigsaws.

 
I struggle for words. All I can say is its early in our season and apparently Servette are well into theirs.

Let's see where we are after a few more games but I seriously think they will fancy thier chances at home. Maybe we'll be better away from home. I did sense some unease among the lads tonight. 

I'm trying to be patient. 

 
Scott Harris said:
Jorgensen - 7 - Looked like the only comfortable player in our defence. Saved a clean sheet right at the end.

Veiga - 5 - Looked okay in the first half, but really poor in the 2nd. Got beat too easily.

Badiashile - 4 - Slow, poor reaction times. Not good enough.

Tosin - 6 - Looked better than our other defenders. Had a bit of composure.

Disasi - 3 - Horrible at RB.

Caicedo - 5 - Tried to dictate play from the middle, never really worked out though. Looked rushed and played a few loose passes.

Dewsbury-Hall - 3 - Gave it away too much, couldn't pick out a player in good positions. Just looks well below the standard required.

Mudryk - 2 - All he can do is run, everything else was terrible. Hasn't got a football brain at all.

Neto - 4 - Decent pace, but that's about it. Poor end product, and lost the ball too often.

Nkunku - 5 - Nice penalty, but that is pretty much it. Look disinterested at times, selfish, and just gives off the body language that he doesn't want it as much.

Guiu - 3 - Hard working, but his overall game is very sloppy and that miss was something we have become far too used to as this club.

Subs 

Enzo - 7 - Looked better on the ball than anybody tonight, a nice DIRECT assist for the goal FROM DEEP. Thought I would capitalise the most important parts there.

Madueke - 7 - Shouldn't even be considering selling him. Best player in pre-season, a really well taken goal tonight. Looks a better option than Neto currently.

Palmer - 3 - Thrown into the false 9 position, doesn't look ready for the new season, everything is a bit loose from him right now. 

Gusto - 2 - Really poor. May as well have not come on. Gave the ball away that gave them a great chance to score and couldn't pick up anybody from corners. Summed up our performance as whole really. Slow, lack of concentration, lazy. 

Lavia - 5 - Didn't have much time to make an impact.

Maresca - 4 - No reaction from him with us playing the usual slow sh*te football, so this is obviously what he is looking for. Subs were good, but him bringing back the false 9 is something nobody wants to see.
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Thats about what I would have given. Maybe another point to Caicedo. I also thought Dewsbury-Hall wasn't as bad as a 3. He certainly wasn't as bad as some of our defenders.

 
Andy North said:
I struggle for words. All I can say is its early in our season and apparently Servette are well into theirs.

Let's see where we are after a few more games but I seriously think they will fancy thier chances at home. Maybe we'll be better away from home. I did sense some unease among the lads tonight. 

I'm trying to be patient. 
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I think we will definitely take a while to settle this season. But the same happened last season. We won 1 and lost 3 of our first 6 league games and I remember a labored win against AFC Wimbledon in the League Cup around this time too. In many ways that game against Wimbledon was similar to tonight's unconvincing win.

 
The idiot in charge has got to stop worrying about upsetting players, changing all the back 5 at the same time is madness, PICK your best team and get a settled side, they played one game and he made 6 changes

 
Andy North said:
I struggle for words. All I can say is its early in our season and apparently Servette are well into theirs.

Let's see where we are after a few more games but I seriously think they will fancy thier chances at home. Maybe we'll be better away from home. I did sense some unease among the lads tonight. 

I'm trying to be patient. 
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Thankfully there is still time for some entertainment tonight. Back to Pete and his Bus, Ep 19 on YouTube 

 
Nevamind said:
No no no.. Chalobah needs to be sold because he is worse than Benoit. 🙃

Sry to bring that up again, i am just fed up.
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I'm with you. It's absolutely appalling about Chalobah... He is much better than any of the defenders we currently have.  I don't fully understand all the "pure profit crap".  If we bought Benoit for 30 mil and sell him for 30 mil.That should even out 30mil on the books spent. If we spent 30 mil on Benoit and sell Chalobah for 30mil for "pure profit". Wouldn't that be the almost the same? What's the point of pushing out our best defender and keeping a crap one. Benoit hasn't improved a bit over the last 2 years. More of the opposite. 

 
Positives - We won, so you always take that no matter what.

Negative - The performance. Nothing I saw suggests we're beating Wolves on the weekend.

 
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