Seems everything has gone against us the last month. Loss of form, goals being leaked, most important players out for the tough part of the season, poor decisions not helping, and Covid. To be honest, Audi will work a miracle to escape against Liverpool with a point. We are vulnerable down both flanks whoever plays, soft in the middle due to injuries and lack of fitness, and the usual shambles with the front 3, none of whom score enough, whoever we play. They are always the "Almost " threesome. Me, I'd not play Lukaku. As a person, he's dumb as dumb gets, as a player, overated, over pampered, and needs a massive kick up the arse. Also, we don't have the players available at the moment to deliver what he needs to score, which is not his fault ,but nevertheless a reason to keep him on the bench which Audi has done for a month. He needs a critical self examination and attitude change to come even close to what we though we were getting for 95mill. His brain dead love letter to Milan, and his disrespect to all at Chelsea could be his goodbye note. Another more interested in money than anything else. At least Rudi, cut from the same cloth, earns his salary and works for the team, not a word of criticism of tactics from him. Please, please, no Pulisic anywhere near this game. Can 't see us worrying Liverpool much, but Liverpool have their problems too, and are almost as brittle as us, so not all lost. Very hard game has become an almost unwinable game.Our shallow depth of quality is exposed now, and our lack of real class can now be seen by anyone with eyes. By the way, Haarland should be avoided like the plague, he's yet another greed driven troublemaker, and as ugly as sin, who has yet to achieve anything on the world stage. Remember Kylian M'Bappe the 17 year old genius? Hasn't come close to that form on any big stage. Good , not great. I'll take Conner Gallagher above either. Proven ability at PL level, which is light years beyond Bundesleiga or French League. Oh, and Jadon Sancho, wasn't he supposed to be phenomenal? So what happened? Don't get suckered like we did with Werner, Ziyech, Pulisic and probably Havertz. Buy home grown first, from the Academy.
We have key personnel out but I'd much rather play them now with no Robertson, Alisson, Firmino and without Klopp on the touchline. Not a great fan of Pulisic but I'd start him, he will do better without Lukaku in the XI. I trust Mount, Havertz, Jorginho, Kante and Kovacic to step up today.
We definitely deserved a point today. Good performance all round, I’d leave Jorginho on the bench for a bit, I prefer Kovacic and Kante, ball moves forward quicker. Kova was unbelievable today, not just his goal but all round. Some of his first touches looked almost impossible but couldn’t fault anything he did. Still, couple of mistakes cost us and if you want proof as to why Rudiger isn’t worth 400k a week then watch Salah’s goal. Apart from that though great performance and a draw was a fair result.
He has been well out of form but he never plays in his best position. Played LW today and it was his best game in ages, wish he’d play there regularly.
