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We're so short of attacking options it's scary! We've only got 2 players out, and with that, we have nothing on the bench. We're left with a 17 year old striker and a 18 year old winger. Nothing else. Our starting 11 is decent, but we have absolutely no depth. As soon as Ndombele was subbed, we had no one capable of bringing the ball forward.
 
Is he better than nothing?

I don't think that is fair... he came up with an excellent game plan first half - first time Chelsea were rattled - and it's not his fault that we did not convert one of the decent changes we had.

It is also not his fault that Alli was asleep for Silva's goal or that the team spinelessly downed tools when the second went in.

Do you honestly think if it were the other way round, Tuchel would make anything better from the worst squad we have had in recent years???
 
So what happened at half time?
That wasn't the same team that came out for second half. No fight, the press was gone and a couple of them looked dead on their feet.
No . Chelsea changed it up and we did not react to it. Tuchel see the issues they had and tweaked it. Game over
 
Thinking about wolves I believe Nuno knows how to lock up the midfield.
Dele, winks, Dier I suspect have favour with Levy and Nuno needs time to prove his case.
He will be hoping that Paratici adds to the squad in Dec to show some support for him.
Need to drop this 3 man midfield, especially if it has Dele in it. He just isn't a midfielder.
If Nuno can't see that at this stage...

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Agree
Dele looks like he doesn’t know where he is playing again
First 3 games I thought he was very good
The bench today looked so weak and it showed

First 3 games he worked hard...but he is just so slow on the ball. Its not his position

Sell him and Winks and reinvest in a creative midfielder
 
So what happened at half time?
That wasn't the same team that came out for second half. No fight, the press was gone and a couple of them looked dead on their feet.

Chelsea upped their game. Let's just admit we not in the same universe as they are - not just the same planet.

Winning today would have needed each player to be top of their game, Chelsea to be sub-par and - most importantly - breaks to go our way. They didn't and we lost - as everyone predicted we would.
 
He's been n doing that ever since he got here. Choosing opportunities to show his skill and avoiding getting stuck in for the team. Overrated with a troubled past, Levy should stop taking such risks.
He went missing as soon as he came out swcond half
There were 3 occasions he ran away from the ball leaving one man in the middle…. Kante then owned that space

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Chelsea are simply a far better-run club than we are ,with a far more ambitious owner far more determined to build a winning team than ours is.

Here is the result. 3-0 down, to a team better than us in every single position, with a second 11 that could kill our first team, and a world-class manager against...well, Nuno, a mid-table specialist. I don't blame NES - again, he's just out of his depth, and it's not on him, but on us for hiring the cheapest possible option. And what could he change? Chelsea could bring on N'Golo Kante and Timo Werner - we could bring on Oliver Skipp and Bryan Gil. Nothing he could do, really.

We were only ever close to them when we had the best coach we've had in 50 years in Mauricio Pochettino to make the absolute most of the scraps he was thrown. Those moments we beat them in the past decade are because of him, and him alone. Since he's left, we've seen what the actual state of the two clubs is - and sadly, the c*nts are just...better run, better managed, better-built on every single level.

It's easier to take our gradual decline if you give up the expectations we had under Poch - it helps me. I don't expect anything. A gentle, gradual decline to the mean, with good moments here and there amidst the general disappointment. It helps, and it keeps me level-headed, zen and relatively stress-free. :)

Nothing will change until ENIC leave, because we aren't lucking out on a wonder-coach again for a long time. Whether that's a year, five years, ten - when Daniel Levy and Joe Lewis leave, we can dream again. That's the hope that keeps me going - one day, we can dream.

Here's to that day -for now, just treat the good times as pleasant surprises, and try to forget days like this. Here's to next week - my only hope is we don't ship 3 again.
 
That was ok until 1-0 despite the strange plan to play one of the top 3 strikers in the world at left mid.

From 1-0 the team completely froze, as did Nuno. Didn’t react at 0-0 when it was clear the game had flipped. Didn’t react at 1-0 either. Finally reacted at 2-0 with the game dead.

The body language of the players after the first goal was awful. No movement, no one wanted the ball.

Vile 2nd half.
 
Could see Lo Celso was out of position from the first 5. He should be where Alli is.

Was surprised we even went 4-3-3, seemed to be more obvious to play Hojberg and Lo Celso as a pivot, Ndombele #10 and then Son and Alli wide.
 
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