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Brighton next big test

Discussion in 'Chelsea' started by Chelsea Pensioner, Sep 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM.

  1. Chelsea Pensioner

    Chelsea Pensioner Well-Known Member

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    Having served up dross our last 2 matches, will it be a dross hat trick v Brighton or can we hope for some improvement??
    All down to Maresca again.
    Will he get his selections right, his subs right or his tactics right ?? Or even one of them right?? Will it be back 4 Mogodon or will we see someone actually run ??
    Hope springs eternal, but heart says prepare for another sluggish game of long ball chasing with nothing direct from the midfield.
    Scoreline?? A very hopeful 2-0 !!
     
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    if you could keep 11 on the pitch you might you a tad better <whistle>
     
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  3. Liquidator

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    Hmm yet another classy defensive display let me guess was that the Franco Baresi model 2.0? That World Club championship podium is beginning to look like an albatross round our necks with every game that passes; 7 competitive games pre-season is taking its toll - a long season beckons me thinks.
     
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  4. Chelsea Pensioner

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    Not much to say about a team that can’t score with all the ball and makes dopey mistakes.
    Top to bottom, we are a rudderless ship.
    A inexperienced, intransigent 2nd rate Manager hamstrung by a pair of terrible Football Directors, clueless owners and a lunatic player policy based around profit.
    Short term, a more experienced Manager is the best fix, but that doesn’t change the bigger problems.
    Still, unless we can best utilise the talent we do have, and start playing the football the players and fans can relate to, we are certain to start losing what talent we do have.
    Watching this atrocious play is doing my head in. Can’t even be bothered to watch the games live now at midnight or 4 am, so have resorted to replays before hearing any results.
     
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  5. Super_Chelsea_Blue_Boys

    Super_Chelsea_Blue_Boys Well-Known Member

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    Maresca has been given plenty of time. It clearly isn’t working. How have we ended up with zero leaders on the pitch? 2 red cards in back to back games shows we need experience.
     
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    Watched the game against Benfica , it started at 5am here, nice sunny morning. unfortunately another terrible display. We had a massive percentage of the ball and never looked like scoring. Benfica played all the football, but are a very ordinary side.
    Despite this they look better coached, motivated and tactically aware.
    By contrast we look like a bunch of timid, clueless novices. Garnacho and Gittens are mid Championship standard, Tyrique George was a day away from escape, and now finds himself as our striker. Giui was playing regularly and is now a spectator.
    What a hopeless, sad looking mess we are, walking, passing sideways and backwards, never looking for a fast attack.
    The football directors have destroyed our Team, Maresca has destroyed our play and the Owners have destroyed the Clubs’ soul.
     
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