Added to the Covid cases we have Kante and Kovacic who are barely fit, the latter of which literally just back from a battle with Covid himself and Chalobah also is only just back from an injury. Also only one wingback who's not really a wingback.
Get some of the kids in. Harvey Vale for example.
Isn’t your squad buffed up past 25 with quality u 21s?
His name is Reece.
Which players are you referring to?
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I have no problems with that in theory. I just prefer to throw kids in the mix when the situation is a bit more optimal. Not during an injury/covid crisis with the team struggling for results.
You're right, that rarely happens though, especially at Chelsea historically.
I believe they have to keep a separate bubble so not possible
Thought you had a huge amount of u21 in your squad now realise you have a shed load of 22 year olds.
Nope, no more U21 players than anyone else.
Because he's struggling with an injury now. He's playing every day 3 days barely fit himself. Jorginho did the same for several weeks until he finally succumbed to the back pain.
Looks like a better team than you put out against us
No striker though.
Got away with one on Forss I thought but only seen it live at the game and unfortunately Forss was too honest - should have taken a leaf out of Pulsic's book and taken the contact and gone down for the pen. Apart from that he was good, unfortunately, shame didn't get to see how he'd have dealt with Toney and Mbuemo from the start - it might have been a different story.
How good was Barkley tonight.. One out of ten..
I was more taking notice of how he was marshalling the defence and the midfield in front of him. I saw something different in him last night. It's like watching him learn and grow in real time. It's awesome. Of course playing against Toney is a difficult proposition for anyone and I'm glad we didn't because had those first half chances fallen to him it would have been game over before HT.
If we want Newcastle to waste their money on him, we should just stop playing him and keep him out of sight until the window opens.
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January is either going to be amazing or utterly depressing..
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Feels like that's the nature of the PL now though in recent seasons. Anything less than a win feels like a defeat with all the pressure at the top of the table.
Why would Emerson and Batshuayi be leaving on a free?.
In those fixtures who would you expect Chelsea to lose to?
None but that's not how football works. We've seen City lose at home to Palace and United lose random games nobody expected them to lose. Anyway, the point was just looking at that, things aren't as dramatically terrible as it feels. As @Kentonio says, anything less than a win feels like a defeat when you're trying to keep pace with City and Liverpool, and those annoying draws has really sucked way too much optimism out of Chelsea fans.
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