Burnley at Home Saturday

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    chelsea1967
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    Hopefully we won’t play Burnley into some form like the others. A reasonably comfortable 2-0 win. I like Sean Dyche though. More worried about him than most of his players to be honest.

    #1814910

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    One word based on the last couple of home PL games against struggling sides “tricky”. But surely we’ve got to start winning these sort of games soon.🤞👃

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    aindro
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    I won’t underestimate Burnley. They are a tough side. And what we must learn from recent form: we lost points against lesser side. This match will be exactly like against Southampton or Bournemouth or West Ham. We really have to be careful here. Our form at home is not great either. So I cannot say that I am optimistic about this match

    #1815086

    nine nine nine
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    Predicted team v Burnley from football London who are usually fairly accurate:

    Kepa; James, Rudiger, Zouma, Azpilicueta; Jorginho, Kante; Willian, Mount, Hudson-Odoi; Abraham.

    #1815309
    aindro
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    I would prefer Kovacic than Jorginh. I even think that the trio Kovacic, Jorginho, Kante must play. We don’t want to take an early goal from them. Looking at our form recently against lesser teams: I’d prefer us to play careful.

    My team (4-3-3): Kepa – James,Tomori,Rudger,Alonso (if fit) – Kovacic,Jorginho, Kante – Mount,Abraham,Willian.

    CHO will come from the bench to replace Jorginho if we stil don’t score until 60th min

    #1815531

    nine nine nine
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    Kante injured Christensen back in for Zouma, very attacking line up from Frank.

    Chelsea
    1Arrizabalaga
    24James
    2Rüdiger
    4Christensen
    28Azpilicueta
    8Barkley
    5Jorginho
    19Mount
    10Willian
    9Abraham
    20Hudson-Odoi

    #1815683
    Stuilse
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    Clean sheet, comfortable win. Tammy back among the goals. Barkley played a blinder. CHO showing some of his earlier great form…plus a goal. And Reece James, my Lord what a player. My man of the match and hes only 20. Should be a shoe in for the England Euros squad.

    #1815737
    Blueowner
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    So many fans want Barkley out but for me his a must stay. He brings something extra to that midfield. We played well in patches and thankfully var also favored us. Important win as many teams are in the running for those CL places. Pity about those points we dropped at home.

    #1815804

    nine nine nine
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    Reece James was outstanding for Chelsea again yesterday and formed a very strong right hand side partnership with Hudson Odoi who is getting back to his true potential scoring his first PL goal yesterday whilst Tammy Abraham scored his 15th goal of the season and looks on target to match his 26 goals for Villa in the Championship with many believing that he wouldn’t be able to match that scoring record at Chelsea.

    Yesterday saw 5 Academy players start for Chelsea with another one on the bench, Tariq Lamperty has reportedly just agreed a new contract with the Club and Loftus Cheek is almost ready to join in first team training. #thefuturesbrightthefuturesblue. 😊

    #1815904
    aindro
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    It was a good match for us. For the first time for a very long time, Barkley showed his ability. We shall still see if this is a fluke or if this is his real self. Callum Hudson-Odoi performed as before he was injured. I hope this will be his starting point on his career with Chelsea and everything will go forward for him from now on. Look at our team, for the first time since long time we have this many English players starting (James,Barkley,CHO,Abraham,Mount) and one Homegrown (Christensen).

    A bit lucky though with our opening penalty as Willian was looking for it. The defender pulled his leg but Willian fell anyway. For me it was not a penalty. And our 2nd goal was again a fluke as the GK should have been able to save it. Tammy missed some good chances and nobody was able to shoot from outside the box either except James who tried. He was easily the MoM yesterday. We need to be more clinical in front of goal, seriously.

    But it’s encouraging as so many times lately we weren’t able to win at home against lesser teams. Hopefully this victory broke the hoodoo and we will win again against Newcastle next weekend.

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    chelsea1967
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    “But it’s encouraging as so many times lately we weren’t able to win at home against lesser teams. Hopefully this victory broke the hoodoo and we will win again against Newcastle next weekend.”

    Yes it was good to win against the lesser team at home and moreso convincingly.

    Newcastle is away

    #1815947
    NIBlue
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    My first visit to the Bridge in 10 years on Saturday!!

    Good game, great result. James had a great game as did CHO. I also thought Chritensen was good and Barkley excellent!

    Mount was quiet, but that is maybe because Barkley is a different type of midfield partner. Kepa certainly does not inspire when it comes to dealing with crosses and set pieces.

    1967 you mention our struggles to beat lesser teams, and to be honest I thought Burnley were another one of those teams who would nick a point if not all 3 if I am honest.

    The difference I think in this game was the forced team selection …. no Kante.

    Barkley offered that physical presence in the middle of the park that Kante doesn’t.

    Barkley or a RLC have the ability to intimidate in the opposition half either when attacking or preventing the opposition attacking. Kante does not have that in his locker. He is the best in the world at breaking up play in the defensive half but not in the attacking part.

    Burnley are team that can bully, intimidate and frustrate the footballing sides, but not on Saturday.

    I have called it before and have not changed my mind, either play Kante to his strengths or cash in and allow Barkley, RLC (when fit) and the likes get used to playing together.

    #1816094

    nine nine nine
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    Barkley is offensively stronger than Kante but overall I would say that Kante is the better and more complete player which is presumably why Frank keeps selecting him.

    I wouldn’t want to see us sell Kante even for £100m plus and I suspect neither would Frank.

    Having said that I thought Barkley played very well on Saturday if he can do that consistently and cut out the off field issues we will have a real player.

    #1816095

    nine nine nine
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    Barkley is offensively stronger than Kante but overall I would say that Kante is the better and more complete player which is presumably why Frank keeps selecting him.

    I wouldn’t want to see us sell Kante even for £100m plus and I suspect neither would Frank.

    Having said that I thought Barkley played very well on Saturday if he can do that consistently and cut out the off field issues we will have a real player.

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