Cucurella at Chelsea
- Thread starter SilentWitness
- Start date
Cucurella is comfortably better than Chilwell. Never understood how people found any logic in judging players off 2/3 games like we've seen with cucurella and Nunez especially cucurella who's actually been good in most of his matches for Chelsea.
I rate Cucurella, actually think he'd have been better off joining City as he'd suit their style better. He's very tidy on the ball, intelligent, and energetic, but not the physical specimen you expect from wing backs in a back 3 formation. Although Tuchel may be looking to use a back 4 more frequently this season, but still, Cucurella as an inverted LB at City would have been immense.
Think you are massively underrating Chilwell there
Why?
Seems the Glazers only made funds available very late in the window. Can't do much with no money available.
The lad will be having nightmares about facing Antony again! 
Once you realize he only has one foot you just run him into Koulibaliy again and again. Ziyech was three times the player Antony was at Ajax and can’t get off a cross against Cucu in training.The lad will be having nightmares about facing Antony again!
When did they match up?
That will be if Koulibaly isn’t suspended for showing himself up to be a liability again.
Tweet
— Twitter API (@user) date
Courtesy of @Adnan
Not a single goalscoring chance created. £100 million. Is it too late for you guys to pull out?
Fine, then Silva. The man has probably had both moves Antony knows memorized since the kid was 12.
I’m still curious where Cucurella and Antony have faced off.
THOSE clips? Are you for real a closet Chelsea fan? Antony looked the abused one. Totally contained. Cucu straighg took the ball twice, and rode him off the ball 2 others. They played him in those clips like I would suspect you’d play him: dare him to go right, then ride him off the ball or out of bounds instead of allowing a cutback.
It was the gold medal match in the Olympics. Antony got the assist for the winning goal in extra time.
Chelsea fans rattled in here.
Antony eats Cookie(s) for breakfast.
The Spanish ended up having to double up on him to try and spare Cucerella’s blushes!
The Spanish ended up having to double up on him to try and spare Cucerella’s blushes!
For such an expert on Antony I would expect you to be able to put two and two together and figure it out. One has played for Brazil and one has played for Spain. On occasion, Brazil and Spain play each other.
Am I going mad or is that video not remotely impressive for either of them? Literally one cross goes in, other than that it’s just a bunch of jostling where we don’t really see the outcome
You're not going mad. I think Thereligion has posted the wrong vid.
Excellent little player. Comfortable at the ball. Very dynamic and available all the time for a pass.
Its good when you have those players in the first line that can build from the back under pressure. Probably will shine if the team get better.
Its good when you have those players in the first line that can build from the back under pressure. Probably will shine if the team get better.
How can someone from the club that had Robben think that’s how these things go if the player is good enough?
£85m so £62m Cucurella wakes up in cold sweats? Bargain
Not a single goalscoring chance created. £100 million. Is it too late for you guys to pull out?
I'd never betray Tommy's trust.
The kind of objective analysis I love to see on the caf! Bravo
More like you are rattled after watching that video.
.Hope he will do well for you.Our leader duffman has spoken. No leaks in this house.
I did t want to assume. That’s why I asked. You don’t have to be an expert on Antony, he isn’t that complicated. People have been talking about him as a possibility for multiple teams for almost two years now. And my opinions were similar long before he decided to go to you - to a degree based on our experience with Ziyech.
I see Dutch league defenders running right up to him in those YouTube vids to press him way out wide, and I’m thinking “why?” That’s practically the only time he looks really dangerous.
In the vids Religion posted they play off him mostly and let him have the outside until he commits, and then they ride him out, or off the ball with help.
He could actually be really dangerous if you had a RWB like James who could be dangerous inverting or attacking from out wide. It would be harder to play by just anticipating the spaces he wants to be in. But you guys don’t really have that. At least not yet. If you are going to invest that much in Antony, it should be your next investment though.
When Antony has Cucerella on toast in the vid I actually thought the poor devils head was going to spin off!
Just a big mess of hair going all over the place.
Will be an interesting match up this season.
Just a big mess of hair going all over the place.
Will be an interesting match up this season.
That beautiful hair though..
Not sure what this one game scouting is supposed to tell us but Cucurella has two assists already after 4 games so let‘s see how many games Antony will need for that. In case one is particularly interested in comparing those two which I for sure am not.
Defo one of my fav players right now, pure quality and an excellent signing. Think in some time he will be played like Lahm was by Pep at Bayern.
Not sure what this one game scouting is supposed to tell us but Cucurella has two assists already after 4 games so let‘s see how many games Antony will need for that. In case one is particularly interested in comparing those two which I for sure am not.
Defo one of my fav players right now, pure quality and an excellent signing. Think in some time he will be played like Lahm was by Pep at Bayern.
He's does feck all productive with the ball in that video. Not sure what's impressive about it?
Maybe you shouldn’t get so cock sure about how easily Chelsea will defend against him based on You Tube videos.
It’s Chelsea team news not the D Day landings plans.
Same thing.
Seriously though, no idea. I can imagine Chilwell could well start given Cucurella has started 3 straight games but who knows honestly.
Ok. Maybe your team shouldn’t come on a Cucurella thread talking about hiw a completely unrelated player will destroy him? ….
…… Then get rear end hurt when people are completely unworried about a guy who looks like the footie equivalent of an And1 player, and managed like 8 and 4 …. In the Dutch league? Feels like 2015 .
But, for the sake of argument, I have a satellite device that allows me to watch the Dutch league. Much to the chagrin of Lionel Messi, I don’t care who wins the Olympics, don’t think it matters much more than U21 Euros, and want familiar with the particular matchup Religion was alluding to.
Doesn’t make anything I said about Antony wrong. It should say something that you guys had to create a thread asking oppo fans how they feel about him. When that didn’t stick, you had to come in a Cucurella thread to spark discussion on him.
If people end up being wrong about him, good for you!
Should just keep Alonso - very underrated player I feel.
I dont get the hate to Cucurella, he's great I would have loved him here. Solid defender and good offensively. 50M may sound as a lot, but who you get for 20-30M?