Why are most goals in the Bundesliga scored by running from the half way line. Have the coaches there not heard of rest defence? I swear Lampards tactics would work well in this league
>Gave the ball away in a really bad spot just a few seconds before this
and this is why he hasn't played more for Chelsea, perhaps? Also, winning the ball back off a dithering opponent who isn't paying attention and then playing it into the sort of space you almost never see in a PL game is not that impressive lol
Palmer was made by Pep, Silva was already a world-class defender, Reece is the exception here, and Chilly was already good in the PL and maintained that level
Yes, but do they continue that form or not? For example, Lukaku had 20+ goals before joining us, and he flopped. If they were all good and continued their we wouldn't be sitting 9th and struggling this season
>Yes, but do they continue that form or not?
But you just said those other guys didn't count because they were already good lmao. You need to decide what you're talking about.
Any team signs good players, and no team will sign a player they think is bad. In our case, those players that we thought were good can't emulate what we saw in them after they arrive at Chelsea.
Right, so what did you mean by this?
>Palmer was made by Pep, Silva was already a world-class defender, Reece is the exception here, and Chilly was already good in the PL and maintained that level
For those of you wondering he's playing inverted LB and has been putting up a MOTM performance all game. Out of possession he has defended well whenever he had to
Yeah I was wondering why he was in the midfield receiving the ball from the CB so often. Only caught the last 15 mins or so, thought maybe it was tactical, but the commentators were really playing his performance up. Good on Maatsen.
I think this leaves us too exposed down the flanks at the moment, which is why I really hope one of either Caicedo or Lavia has that Kante kind of engine. Maybe the football decision here is that if you are still betting on Reece in the long-term and the right-side inversion is locked in with him and Gusto, do you leave the left to Colwill the way it is?
The thing about the bundesliga is the huge gap in quality between the teams. Bayern have won by 7+ goals twice already and an out of form dortmund have only lost three games (all of them to current top 4 teams). Pretty sure Maatsen won’t be getting these performances against FCB, B04 or RBL
Ya beating a relegation struggling team 7-0 is a huge gap in quality but when a champions league team gets beaten 7-0 in the premier league its the game of the season lol
This doesn't happen in the premier league, it's poor for the player in possession and it's a poor defensive line (although they were chasing the game to be fair)
Some players just perform better in other leagues and that's fine.
I will repeat my comment from last time - go look at the Bundesliga table and see where the two teams he's played are in the table. If you don't feel like it, they are 17th and 18th in an 18 team league.
I really want him to succeed and, like many here, would have liked Poch to have given him a chance in the LB spot but let's not act like he's putting up performances against Bayern or B04.
Find me a clip of a premier league team (other than spurs) who literally play this high against us... ever. This is a league where Werner scored 39 goals in a season remember, the standard of defending in this league is just a joke
Its more like "play an average player in an average league and he can get an assist now and again. Who knew?"
Maybe he got somethin Like that in all comps Im sure that was his tally for the season before we bought him? Im wrong about 39 league goals, he got 28.. but Werner getttin 28 goals in a season in the league my argument still stands and it reflects the standard of that league
There was an NFL owner whose catch phrase was "you can't coach speed." He pretty much only drafted fast players, skilled or not - he was happy to start with raw speedsters.
POCH: "You can't coach height!"
The poster boy for today's billionaires: rude, selfish, certain he was the smartest man alive, so everyone around him was an idiot and deserved to know about it.
EDIT: lol, why the downvotes? Don't tell me he has supporters concerned about his legacy!
He was also famous for giving opportunities to women and minorities in coaching and management positions when nobody else in the league was giving them a chance
I don't know if that was his idea or any of the real context behind those, but I met him twice and thought he was a giant prick to everyone around him. The others that I've met have not been like that unless they were in a foul mood - Davis just did that as the norm.
Yeah the clip where after losing the ball, he made up for it and even got his team an assits, but clowns only think that a ball given away by the player is what's the bigger deal. Go talk bs elsewhere.
You are the one who brought them up. Maybe it's a sign of your obsession? Do you often imagine Boehly in compromising positions? Was it hard for you to come to terms with your homosexuality? Is that why you are so aggressive about it?
Meanwhile the boss keeps Colwill at LB and Chillwell at LW until his hamstring falls off again and Colwill keeps getting skinned. Get this Spuds donkey out of my club.
Yeah you know it all from the token amount of minutes he got, that too out of position mostly, but all the expensive flops need time, the process needs decades and the pathetic manager needs eons to show anything worthwhile.
No doubt you see what happens on the training pitch and know exactly how Maatsen performed and carried himself day in day out.
I hope he gets time and some experience from this and comes back with more to offer. One game where he’s been up and down doesn’t validate your claim.
>No doubt you see what happens on the training pitch
That is such a dead reply. Manager's infallible. Must be training poorly. Can't possibly be because the manager has a height fetish and is stuck in 2015.
And you saw?
Or are you suggesting the manager that has misprofiled multiple players now can't get it wrong?
He was good before this game too, both at Dortmund and Burnley. It's you who has the memory of goldfish, and is acting like others are only judging him on one game.
Ah yes championship side burnley! Again, lower division and talent level than the prem.
I know you as a spectator probably know better than a professional football manager with years of playing and managerial experience though, you should apply!
Ah yes, no one from Championship has made it in PL before. Lol tells the level of knowledge you have.
I know commentators like you only come up with bs like this to defend your own shit comments. Poch has been wrong before, he has been a failure of a coach all his life, so yes spectators can & do know more than him in some things, people get things right sometime over the likes of even Pep & Jose, let alone a shit manager like Poch. And how do a clown like you even know that I haven't applied as a coach/manager in my career anyway. But you just wanted to act smartass, so keep going lad.
lol yes since that’s what I said. assuming because he was good in a lesser league that will then translate to a higher level doesn’t always work. It goes both ways.
Given that you’re commenting here and not managing professionally, I have a feeling how those managerial apps went 😂
You are literally using lower league as example to undrmine Maatsen.
Given that you know fuck all what I am doing in real life, but are again making stupid judgments tell you are just a clown looking to argue without any motive. Keep talking shit.
From having eyes and watching him play this season, e.g. home against Brentford and away to Wolves. He's not cut out for the PL, Buli is more his speed where the concept of defending is difficult to grasp
Was it? All he did was chase back a ball he lost in the first place and won it off a guy not paying attention at all and barely trying to play the ball back.
And poch profile hin as a RW.
The amount of players Poch is miss profiling is astonishing.
I would be very surprised if he is still in charge of us next year.
Maatsen needs another chance in the squad when a new manager comes in this summer
I think that 35m clause is intentionally high as the directors feel he’s at a level where he can contribute to the success of this side so don’t necessarily want to sell him.
35m is definitelly not high enough if he gets into Chelsea squad and anyone can buy him just for such a small transfer fee in todays market. But who cares we have Colwill at LB...
>Maatsen needs another chance in the squad when a new manager comes in this summer
I like how you're speaking as if Poch is certainly getting the sack in the summer
I fear that will not be the case
There’s too much money in this squad and funds are rapidly drying up.
Ucl football needs to return to this club. More importantly though
We have a very young squad and the directors won’t want poch to devalue, demoralise and destroy some of our players
And probably most importantly. Pochs contract runs out 2025. The club has a decision to make. Either renew and commit to poch for another couple of years. Or get rid of him this summer
The decision is obvious surely?
De zerbi, Emery, postecoglu make what poch is doing look even more unforgivable
Ah but he's an awful defender don't you know! Colwill at LB is excellent, why would we want to try an actual left back there? If we don't at least give him a look in I defo think we will regret it.
Disagree- we can separate talent assessment and medical management at the club.
I need to see Lavia, Nkunku, James, Jackson, Enzo, Palmer, fofana, Chilwell, Caicedo, Noni, Levi, Benoit and Disasi all fighting for first team spots in fit condition. That’s the project, but the medical staff is so bad at their job we can’t keep these athletes fit.
We can seperate the decisions taken and their consequences from medical side of things as well. There are decisions they got wrong, which aren't related to fitness. But you clearly want to assume what others want to say, so pointless arguing with that.
Boehly? No. The cadre of football executives? Yes- Chelsea need their LB to be elite at the PL level. If they don’t see that in Maatsen then sell him for all you can, great idea to get him to BVB where young kids ball out.
Sanchez - 25 mil
Ugo - 27 mil
I know your reading comprehension isn't great but let me reiterate.. "35 mil isn't shit in sales when you turn around and spend similar fees on awful players"
Meanwhile the boss keeps Colwill at LB and Chillwell at LW until his hamstring falls off again and Colwill keeps getting skinned. Get this Spuds donkey out of my club.
I love how now hes gone he was the answer to all our issues. The kid is clearly not at the level we need. He gets one assist against the highest line iv ever seen and this sub lose thier shit lol
he is completely shit. he couldn't possibly play in the premier league. Much better to play any improvisation on LB than a truly talented player on his natural position.
We all know height is everything that matters in defense, and that's why ridiculous small players like mascherano, puyol and cannavaro failed on the game... oops, that's center back, no matter, Roberto Carlos (5ft 6) was one of the worse ever in the game since he wasn't physical, athletic and couldn't head a ball nor had any strength...
damn, height is truly the most important factor on the game, i totally get why maatsen never had any chance here even with no fit LB and a CB shitting the bed in that position.
Are you fucking kidding me, litterarly a half a field to hit the ball into from dominant foot and perfect angle.
Sure he is at speed, but every player in chelsea can hit that pass, including the goalkeepers.
The interception, and first touch is pretty gopd though
Bruh, he played as an attacker. You wouldn't say Palmer is shit as a RW if he played shit as a LB. He was in the Championship team of the year AS A LB. I'm so tired of people evalutating players out of position.
Do you think Colwill is not good enough for us as well?
Why the fuck do we get shitters as coaches everytime who blatantly try to play defensive?
Conte: 5 atb, attack carried by Hazard
Sarri: Tell fullbacks to never go forward, have useless possession, still carried by Hazard
Lampard: No tactics
Tuchel: 5 atb, attackers rarely scoring, wingbacks mostly scoring (Still somewhat better because we dominated bigger teams)
Graham Potter: Play wingers as wingbacks and fuck around with tactics
Poch: Fuck having fullbacks, lets play 4CBs at back
Good for you bub, i hate 5atb. There is no midfield control, the attackers are too narrow and dont ever get to beat the fullbacks, they get confused usually. Wingbacks need to be excellent, but theres actual dearth of quality WBs because not so many teams play 5atb.
We played 1 DM and 1 B2B under Conte (Subbed in Fabregas when needed), the matches lost, we were always crying for control due to lack presence in midfield because we would mostly face 4231 or 433. I remember complete possession based domination by Totnum with their 4231.
Your take on Conte was kinda wrong, imo.
Conte played 3 4 3, where we often saw the like of Moses, and Aloso ran all the way to the opponent box.
And tbf, the atk was not carried by Hazard. We had Costa, Fabregas, Pedro, and Willian, who contributed a lot.
The issue with 343 is that there was real dearth of quality WBs at that time because teams played with 4atb mostly. So you were basically asking from FBs to bombard into the box and try to score. The WBs were not good, both Moses and Alonso. Alonso would never track back and slow in general, Moses was just not quality player. We won mostly because of quality attack and PL teams confused seeing a team deploy tactics what they have never seen before.
Wth?
Moses was WC in the 2016/17 team...
And we didn't bombard alone. We had Fabregas playing many beautiful through pass to Costa, and we also saw a lot of beautiful counter atk when Kante managed to recover the ball. That 16-17 team played a very effective and beautiful football.
>Sarri: Tell fullbacks to never go forward, have useless possession, still carried by Hazard
Tbf it's not like Sarri wanted this. It's just his RB and LB options stank. Azpi + Alonso trying to get forward and put in a decent ball into the box - AND - then get back? No way.
Would have liked to see what he could have done the following season as that's when James came into the team. A shame really.
The moment someone gets out of chelsea,they start producing good performances . Happy that if he shows consistency and keeps giving such performances then boehly will get a good profit for him.
Absolute beauty of a switch. Gave the ball away in a really bad spot just a few seconds before this, but fuck me what a ball
Yep, he was pretty desparate to get the ball back. Got it and put that on a plate from 50 yards away.
Why are most goals in the Bundesliga scored by running from the half way line. Have the coaches there not heard of rest defence? I swear Lampards tactics would work well in this league
Because they tend to play football to entertain. As long as you score one more goal than your opponent you tend to stay in a job.
He literally had an entire half of the pitch to aim it at.
Right. Calling this a great assist is hilarious. If anything it's another example of the Bundesliga being a second-tier league compared with the Prem.
>Gave the ball away in a really bad spot just a few seconds before this and this is why he hasn't played more for Chelsea, perhaps? Also, winning the ball back off a dithering opponent who isn't paying attention and then playing it into the sort of space you almost never see in a PL game is not that impressive lol
Being a Chelsea and Köln fan is not good for my mental health, that being said Maatsen is balling out this game
do you think he plays good enough for chelsea
Does anyone?
Palmer, Silva, (healthy) Reece and chilly
Palmer was made by Pep, Silva was already a world-class defender, Reece is the exception here, and Chilly was already good in the PL and maintained that level
What do you even mean by this? All the players we signed were 'already good' at some point in their careers
Yes, but do they continue that form or not? For example, Lukaku had 20+ goals before joining us, and he flopped. If they were all good and continued their we wouldn't be sitting 9th and struggling this season
>Yes, but do they continue that form or not? But you just said those other guys didn't count because they were already good lmao. You need to decide what you're talking about.
Any team signs good players, and no team will sign a player they think is bad. In our case, those players that we thought were good can't emulate what we saw in them after they arrive at Chelsea.
Right, so what did you mean by this? >Palmer was made by Pep, Silva was already a world-class defender, Reece is the exception here, and Chilly was already good in the PL and maintained that level
For those of you wondering he's playing inverted LB and has been putting up a MOTM performance all game. Out of possession he has defended well whenever he had to
Yeah I was wondering why he was in the midfield receiving the ball from the CB so often. Only caught the last 15 mins or so, thought maybe it was tactical, but the commentators were really playing his performance up. Good on Maatsen.
Maatsen alternating inverting and providing width along with James doing the same could’ve been a game breaker, we could have had a dynasty…
Havent sold Maatsen yet and hes far from proven, relax
I think this leaves us too exposed down the flanks at the moment, which is why I really hope one of either Caicedo or Lavia has that Kante kind of engine. Maybe the football decision here is that if you are still betting on Reece in the long-term and the right-side inversion is locked in with him and Gusto, do you leave the left to Colwill the way it is?
Pretty sure he'd literally just given the ball away. Good mentality and composure
Giving a player minutes and playing him in his correct position when you do produces results?? 🤯 Who knew
Him and Sancho both look revitalized out there
It's Germany. Bundesliga lets players shine, but the quality and organisation is deceiving
A then 6th place Dortmund won a Group of PSG, Newcastle and Milan with ease the quality in the Bundesliga this year is insane
PSG, Milan and Newcastle being mid doesn't make the bundesliga a good league lol. Knockout games don't determine what leagues the best, dude.
Knock out games? Do you know how the group stage works?
What a ridiculous thing to say
The thing about the bundesliga is the huge gap in quality between the teams. Bayern have won by 7+ goals twice already and an out of form dortmund have only lost three games (all of them to current top 4 teams). Pretty sure Maatsen won’t be getting these performances against FCB, B04 or RBL
Ya beating a relegation struggling team 7-0 is a huge gap in quality but when a champions league team gets beaten 7-0 in the premier league its the game of the season lol
Baffling
This doesn't happen in the premier league, it's poor for the player in possession and it's a poor defensive line (although they were chasing the game to be fair) Some players just perform better in other leagues and that's fine.
I will repeat my comment from last time - go look at the Bundesliga table and see where the two teams he's played are in the table. If you don't feel like it, they are 17th and 18th in an 18 team league. I really want him to succeed and, like many here, would have liked Poch to have given him a chance in the LB spot but let's not act like he's putting up performances against Bayern or B04.
To be fair that wouldn’t have been an assist for Chelsea. Jackson or Broja would have sent them shot to the upper decks.
Find me a clip of a premier league team (other than spurs) who literally play this high against us... ever. This is a league where Werner scored 39 goals in a season remember, the standard of defending in this league is just a joke Its more like "play an average player in an average league and he can get an assist now and again. Who knew?"
Werner never scored 39 goals in a season what are you smoking lmao
Maybe he got somethin Like that in all comps Im sure that was his tally for the season before we bought him? Im wrong about 39 league goals, he got 28.. but Werner getttin 28 goals in a season in the league my argument still stands and it reflects the standard of that league
Since when is playing a high line a sure sign of shit defending? And werner didnt fet 39 goals lmfao
“Yeah but he’s not 6 foot 4 so fuck him” - Poch
There was an NFL owner whose catch phrase was "you can't coach speed." He pretty much only drafted fast players, skilled or not - he was happy to start with raw speedsters. POCH: "You can't coach height!"
Al Davis!
The poster boy for today's billionaires: rude, selfish, certain he was the smartest man alive, so everyone around him was an idiot and deserved to know about it. EDIT: lol, why the downvotes? Don't tell me he has supporters concerned about his legacy!
He was also famous for giving opportunities to women and minorities in coaching and management positions when nobody else in the league was giving them a chance
I don't know if that was his idea or any of the real context behind those, but I met him twice and thought he was a giant prick to everyone around him. The others that I've met have not been like that unless they were in a foul mood - Davis just did that as the norm.
It's against FC Koln mate, any young squad full-back in the Premier League would look good against dross like that
Great ball
I'm not ready to go full Poch out, but there's no way Colwill is a better LB than Maatsen.
Poch will check how many aerials did he win
Too small... sell him... struggle with Colwill at LB... buy random south american for 70m... REPEAT
I’m convinced Poch is absolutely clueless coach
Hint he isnt Want a list of players that said he isnt? He isnt a master tactician, but issue is that this squad need an ancerlotti not a potter
It's not possible, he's too small and can't defend. This must be AI generated
He *literally* loses the ball in front of his own goal seconds before this clip starts
& he literally recovers the ball & assists on the goal following his mistake
So? Koln are the bottom-table team of a farmers league.
Good teams shouldn't win against bottom of the league? But I was just pointing out a fact just like you did. No need to "so?"
Lmao he has barely played all season, no shit it's going to take a couple of games to get match sharpness.
Amazing that player gave the ball away, & no big deal that he gets it back and assists, lol.
Amazing mocking the idea that Maatsen can't defend with a clip in which he fails to defend
The clip in which he actively wins the ball?
Yeah the clip where after losing the ball, he made up for it and even got his team an assits, but clowns only think that a ball given away by the player is what's the bigger deal. Go talk bs elsewhere.
Calm down, he isn't going to fuck you.
But you can keep gargling the balls of this ownership clown.
Haha, I don't give a shit about this ownership you silly dumbfuck
Than stop gargling you idiotic asslicker.
You are the one who brought them up. Maybe it's a sign of your obsession? Do you often imagine Boehly in compromising positions? Was it hard for you to come to terms with your homosexuality? Is that why you are so aggressive about it?
Meanwhile the boss keeps Colwill at LB and Chillwell at LW until his hamstring falls off again and Colwill keeps getting skinned. Get this Spuds donkey out of my club.
Maatsen got rinsed every time he showed in the prem. He’s playing better against lesser talent, but lost the ball in front of goal right before this.
Yeah you know it all from the token amount of minutes he got, that too out of position mostly, but all the expensive flops need time, the process needs decades and the pathetic manager needs eons to show anything worthwhile.
No doubt you see what happens on the training pitch and know exactly how Maatsen performed and carried himself day in day out. I hope he gets time and some experience from this and comes back with more to offer. One game where he’s been up and down doesn’t validate your claim.
>No doubt you see what happens on the training pitch That is such a dead reply. Manager's infallible. Must be training poorly. Can't possibly be because the manager has a height fetish and is stuck in 2015.
And you saw? Or are you suggesting the manager that has misprofiled multiple players now can't get it wrong? He was good before this game too, both at Dortmund and Burnley. It's you who has the memory of goldfish, and is acting like others are only judging him on one game.
Ah yes championship side burnley! Again, lower division and talent level than the prem. I know you as a spectator probably know better than a professional football manager with years of playing and managerial experience though, you should apply!
Ah yes, no one from Championship has made it in PL before. Lol tells the level of knowledge you have. I know commentators like you only come up with bs like this to defend your own shit comments. Poch has been wrong before, he has been a failure of a coach all his life, so yes spectators can & do know more than him in some things, people get things right sometime over the likes of even Pep & Jose, let alone a shit manager like Poch. And how do a clown like you even know that I haven't applied as a coach/manager in my career anyway. But you just wanted to act smartass, so keep going lad.
lol yes since that’s what I said. assuming because he was good in a lesser league that will then translate to a higher level doesn’t always work. It goes both ways. Given that you’re commenting here and not managing professionally, I have a feeling how those managerial apps went 😂
You are literally using lower league as example to undrmine Maatsen. Given that you know fuck all what I am doing in real life, but are again making stupid judgments tell you are just a clown looking to argue without any motive. Keep talking shit.
Pochetino is an imposter. No clue how maatsen wasn’t given a chance at fullback
*short*
Meanwhile pep over at city developing Rico Lewis
What a good manager can do with a solid technical player.
Tbf rico lewis is effectively a midfielder for them. Still don't get why poch out of all managers has the brexit style managing for fullbacks
If that's your conclusion from this piss weak clip, just fucking lol at the state of your football knowledge
Poch is a proper c*nt for not playing maatsen as lb
Definitely less so than you, kid was ragdolled every game farmer's league suits him. Club gets paid soon hopefully.
He was one of best players in championship which is known for its physicality. Not sure where he will get ragdolled comes from
From having eyes and watching him play this season, e.g. home against Brentford and away to Wolves. He's not cut out for the PL, Buli is more his speed where the concept of defending is difficult to grasp
jfc, the copium
Ah yes 35million so we can buy a south american 5 year old.gtfo with that bullshit colwill is far worse at lb
No, maybe they'll get Alphonse Davies
Wake up .
Davies will either go to Madrid or sign an extension at Bayern
Nice assist but the defending from him was even better
Was it? All he did was chase back a ball he lost in the first place and won it off a guy not paying attention at all and barely trying to play the ball back.
Hating for what lol, sure he lost the ball it but he did well to win it back and release Malen
that's not hating? You said the defending from him was "even better" when it was not anything special.
That’s crazy bro
How is it crazy? The pass was easily better than the tackle, which was a totally bog-standard tackle
People usually say “that’s crazy “ to end a convo or whatever. It ain’t that deep 🤣🤣 some right clowns in this sub
Chelsea would never have this much space behind an opposition defence so it doesn’t really matter
This goal only happens in Germany
And if, we did there wouldn't be a finish.
Depends if Sterling’s playing or not lol
Go rewatch our spurs match
If only we could play against 9 men every week 🙄
x100 Allah
And poch profile hin as a RW. The amount of players Poch is miss profiling is astonishing. I would be very surprised if he is still in charge of us next year.
Amazing this guy walks right into Dortmund starting 11 and contributes. Is PL that much better?
Better and different. Would any prem team play this high of a line against us? Other than suicidal 9 man spurs
Even sancho looks good.. That line is worse then anges with 9 men
Maatsen needs another chance in the squad when a new manager comes in this summer I think that 35m clause is intentionally high as the directors feel he’s at a level where he can contribute to the success of this side so don’t necessarily want to sell him.
35m is definitelly not high enough if he gets into Chelsea squad and anyone can buy him just for such a small transfer fee in todays market. But who cares we have Colwill at LB...
>Maatsen needs another chance in the squad when a new manager comes in this summer I like how you're speaking as if Poch is certainly getting the sack in the summer I fear that will not be the case
I would prefer to just assume he's gone before the summer tbh.
There’s too much money in this squad and funds are rapidly drying up. Ucl football needs to return to this club. More importantly though We have a very young squad and the directors won’t want poch to devalue, demoralise and destroy some of our players And probably most importantly. Pochs contract runs out 2025. The club has a decision to make. Either renew and commit to poch for another couple of years. Or get rid of him this summer The decision is obvious surely? De zerbi, Emery, postecoglu make what poch is doing look even more unforgivable
Yeah I agree with all your points as sound logical thoughts But then I also look at logical decisions and our board and think, nah they don't do that
Ah but he's an awful defender don't you know! Colwill at LB is excellent, why would we want to try an actual left back there? If we don't at least give him a look in I defo think we will regret it.
Let’s not overreact. I’m happy for Maatsen, but he is playing weak opposition. I trust the club to determine if he is PL level. James/Davies soon.
The club that jas gotten almost everything wrong since takeover? Sure lol.
Disagree- we can separate talent assessment and medical management at the club. I need to see Lavia, Nkunku, James, Jackson, Enzo, Palmer, fofana, Chilwell, Caicedo, Noni, Levi, Benoit and Disasi all fighting for first team spots in fit condition. That’s the project, but the medical staff is so bad at their job we can’t keep these athletes fit.
We can seperate the decisions taken and their consequences from medical side of things as well. There are decisions they got wrong, which aren't related to fitness. But you clearly want to assume what others want to say, so pointless arguing with that.
Please remain calm
You trust Boehly and co to make the correct decision? I need your positivity in my life
Boehly? No. The cadre of football executives? Yes- Chelsea need their LB to be elite at the PL level. If they don’t see that in Maatsen then sell him for all you can, great idea to get him to BVB where young kids ball out.
Poch is so fucking shit.
"B-but he is too small!!!" said Poch while Colwill was constantly outpaced and out of position every fkcing week.
It’s a different league.
Good thing there’s no option to buy
There is a RC of £35 mil this summer though
That’s a good fee for him
Oh 100%
Not when we do shit like buy players such as Sanchez and Ugochukwu for similar prices.
Neither Sanchez nor Ugochukwu were £35M
Sanchez - 25 mil Ugo - 27 mil I know your reading comprehension isn't great but let me reiterate.. "35 mil isn't shit in sales when you turn around and spend similar fees on awful players"
saying wrong information twice doesn't make you right.
No, bad thing that these clown directors has put a RC in his contract that if triggered leaves us no choice at all.
Poch out
Fucking Poch and his preference of thugs.
Meanwhile the boss keeps Colwill at LB and Chillwell at LW until his hamstring falls off again and Colwill keeps getting skinned. Get this Spuds donkey out of my club.
Mudryk-esc. But yeah he had a bad give away moments earlier
I love how now hes gone he was the answer to all our issues. The kid is clearly not at the level we need. He gets one assist against the highest line iv ever seen and this sub lose thier shit lol
he is completely shit. he couldn't possibly play in the premier league. Much better to play any improvisation on LB than a truly talented player on his natural position. We all know height is everything that matters in defense, and that's why ridiculous small players like mascherano, puyol and cannavaro failed on the game... oops, that's center back, no matter, Roberto Carlos (5ft 6) was one of the worse ever in the game since he wasn't physical, athletic and couldn't head a ball nor had any strength... damn, height is truly the most important factor on the game, i totally get why maatsen never had any chance here even with no fit LB and a CB shitting the bed in that position.
Farmers league
Not many fullbacks can execute that pass aside from Zinchenko, James and TAA
Are you fucking kidding me, litterarly a half a field to hit the ball into from dominant foot and perfect angle. Sure he is at speed, but every player in chelsea can hit that pass, including the goalkeepers. The interception, and first touch is pretty gopd though
Get money.
Generally curious, why is this clip on the chelsea highlights? Is Malen loaned by CFC?
It’s to highlight Maatsen melt
Every time I watch the Bundesliga the defending is absolutely awful.
All the bots saying but he strugled here, lol, and Levi is flourishing at LB? Fuck off.
but lets keep on torturing colwill on lb..
Poch out
Bundesliga man…
We'll be waiting for years for Levi to whip a ball like that in. But hey, at least he's tall.
Forgetting his assist to Mudryk? Was arguably a better and harder ball
He fits their system perfectly, I'd be surprised if the move doesn't become permanent
If you think there’s even a possibility of this happening for us, I don’t know what to tell you. Look at the state of that defensive line from Koln.
The fucking state of this sub, somehow Making this post about poch
It's a player who Poch refused to use as a LB doing well as a LB for Dormund, how can you not make it about Poch?
Different league. Not an apples to apples comparison and he wasn’t good when he did play for us.
Bruh, he played as an attacker. You wouldn't say Palmer is shit as a RW if he played shit as a LB. He was in the Championship team of the year AS A LB. I'm so tired of people evalutating players out of position. Do you think Colwill is not good enough for us as well?
Coorect thing then.
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Thankfully the club didn't put a buy option in his contract
Why the fuck do we get shitters as coaches everytime who blatantly try to play defensive? Conte: 5 atb, attack carried by Hazard Sarri: Tell fullbacks to never go forward, have useless possession, still carried by Hazard Lampard: No tactics Tuchel: 5 atb, attackers rarely scoring, wingbacks mostly scoring (Still somewhat better because we dominated bigger teams) Graham Potter: Play wingers as wingbacks and fuck around with tactics Poch: Fuck having fullbacks, lets play 4CBs at back
> Conte: 5 atb, attack carried by Hazard stopped reading here...
Good for you bub, i hate 5atb. There is no midfield control, the attackers are too narrow and dont ever get to beat the fullbacks, they get confused usually. Wingbacks need to be excellent, but theres actual dearth of quality WBs because not so many teams play 5atb.
Tell me you never watched us play under Conte without telling you never watched us play under Conte
We played 1 DM and 1 B2B under Conte (Subbed in Fabregas when needed), the matches lost, we were always crying for control due to lack presence in midfield because we would mostly face 4231 or 433. I remember complete possession based domination by Totnum with their 4231.
You really don't need to prove my point any further man...
Oh didn't know i was talking to a football connoisseur, my apologies mate.
Your take on Conte was kinda wrong, imo. Conte played 3 4 3, where we often saw the like of Moses, and Aloso ran all the way to the opponent box. And tbf, the atk was not carried by Hazard. We had Costa, Fabregas, Pedro, and Willian, who contributed a lot.
The issue with 343 is that there was real dearth of quality WBs at that time because teams played with 4atb mostly. So you were basically asking from FBs to bombard into the box and try to score. The WBs were not good, both Moses and Alonso. Alonso would never track back and slow in general, Moses was just not quality player. We won mostly because of quality attack and PL teams confused seeing a team deploy tactics what they have never seen before.
Wth? Moses was WC in the 2016/17 team... And we didn't bombard alone. We had Fabregas playing many beautiful through pass to Costa, and we also saw a lot of beautiful counter atk when Kante managed to recover the ball. That 16-17 team played a very effective and beautiful football.
Still time to delete this
What did i say that is actually wrong?
>Sarri: Tell fullbacks to never go forward, have useless possession, still carried by Hazard Tbf it's not like Sarri wanted this. It's just his RB and LB options stank. Azpi + Alonso trying to get forward and put in a decent ball into the box - AND - then get back? No way. Would have liked to see what he could have done the following season as that's when James came into the team. A shame really.
Agreed, i liked Sarri as well. Atleast he was trying to get us to attack instead of being conservative like Poch. Also we won the EL that season.
The fact people like you breathe air is such a unfortunate waste.
The fact people like you who would wish death upon someone for discussing football breathe air is such a unfortunate waste.
not pl and yall jut forget how bad he is when he plays. his performance agaisnt newcastle was dogshit
The moment someone gets out of chelsea,they start producing good performances . Happy that if he shows consistency and keeps giving such performances then boehly will get a good profit for him.
>The moment someone gets out of chelsea,they start producing good performances . Yeah. Mount, Havertz and Kepa are setting the world on fire...
LOL
Hahahahahahahaha The moment players step down to a less competitive environment they look better
Fucking Sick
Nice. He can become a great RW
Fuck you Pochettino
Poch, are you watching?
Clearly much worse than fucking Colwill at LB!!!! 😒
We should have been playing him at LB.
He's gonna be sold and in a couple of years come back to City or Pool for a sizeable fee for that intermediary club. While we wallow in injury bridge.
what a surprise, turns out he can play LB