Chelsea 3 Aston Villa 0 Post Match Thread.

[ChicagoLion]

Rogers Mcginn looked tired from the off. We are not coping with the midweek games.

[HolteL4]

It feels as if Watkins is expected to score every chance he gets. The fact is he doesn't see an awful lot of the ball and some of his chances are self-generated so I'm not going to criticise him too much. Haaland and Salah miss a fair few, they just get fed a lot more.

The problem with starting Durán is that in the few times he has played from the beginning, he's been average at best. His qualities are his unpredictable playing off the cuff which unsettles defences, his powerful shots and his aerial ability. If he can be coached to have more awareness tactically, maybe you dull his strengths.

If clubs are offering daft money in January and we can use the money get in a winger with pace and another striker, I'd seriously consider it.

Not asking for every chance to score just a quarter would do as that'd easily get him passed 20 goals a season.

So you describe Duran being average at best when he's started... Strange considering the 2 games he's started this season he's scored in both of them.  Watkins is too wasteful to be the main striker at a club fighting at the top end of the premier league it's as simple as that, can't knock his effort but you need more than that up here.

[London Villan]

I was surprised to see Rogers start after playing the full game on Wednesday.

The trouble is, there are no other attacking options at the moment.

[The Edge]

Watching Tielemans yesterday he looked like he was blowing out of his arse after about 10 minutes. He looked like that when he arrived but he seemed to have got his fitness levels up. He now looks unfit again which is a bit surprising. There was one incident in the first half which illustrated this nicely. He won the ball and the Chelsea player was left on his arse Tielemans was running goalwards looking to pick a pass. Their player got up, chased him down and effortlessly just took the ball back and set up a Chelsea attack. This kind of thing was happening all over the pitch yesterday which is quite concerning.

[Risso]

Watching Tielemans yesterday he looked like he was blowing out of his arse after about 10 minutes. He looked like that when he arrived but he seemed to have got his fitness levels up. He now looks unfit again which is a bit surprising. There was one incident in the first half which illustrated this nicely. He won the ball and the Chelsea player was left on his arse Tielemans was running goalwards looking to pick a pass. Their player got up, chased him down and effortlessly just took the ball back and set up a Chelsea attack. This kind of thing was happening all over the pitch yesterday which is quite concerning.

Yeah, he looks like he's back to his arthritic 75 year old phase. And then he's playing next to McGinn who looks really out of shape, again.

[Concrete Tom]

Did I hear the commentary say that Chelsea made 10 changes from their Europe match? Unfortunately we have too many players who know they are playing every match as we do not have the quality of players who can come in and keep the level of performance up. We need to show more enthusiasm and a definite attack in our play not keeping playing it about around the penalty area.

It's easy to make so many changes when you're playing in the Conference League rather than Champions League and have a squad worth billions.

Two games to save the season now. Win both and who knows? Fail to win both and we'll likely end up mid table - the table is starting to settle now.

[Risso]

I think fail to win either game this week, and we'll drastically have to alter our ambitions for the season.

[brontebilly]

Tielemans should move further forward and Rogers out wide. Takes the pressure off Rogers who can just focus on running at people, and the defensive responsibility off Tielemans.

Cash Konsa Mings Digne
Kamara - Onana
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Watkins

Rogers is rubbish when he plays out there, like he was v Juve and last season. He isn't athletic enough to play that role. He just needs a spell out of the team which should have started a couple of weeks ago. That's on Emery.

Tielemans after an excellent start to the season has regressed to the shadow I was expecting he would be in that position. It's such an obvious change to move him into Rogers position for a few weeks, like he did to great effect at times last season. Playing him as a 6 at Chelsea was another poor decision by Emery.

[Demitri_C]

I think fail to win either game this week, and we'll drastically have to alter our ambitions for the season.

I already have unless we intend to spend big in January i think its 7th or 8th. We just not very good this year. If that happens we have to take the hit and learn from the mistakes we made this year.

Then give it another go next year.  Chelsea for example wont have the luxury if playing a second string team in europe like they have been doing this year so it might be abit easier than this year if we miss out.

Id be amazed if this team with no additional signings finishes top 5. That would be  a bigger achievement than last year if that happend

[Mister E]

Tielemans should move further forward and Rogers out wide. Takes the pressure off Rogers who can just focus on running at people, and the defensive responsibility off Tielemans.
Cash Konsa Mings Digne
Kamara - Onana
McGinn Tielemans Rogers
Watkins

Rogers is rubbish when he plays out there, like he was v Juve and last season. He isn't athletic enough to play that role. He just needs a spell out of the team which should have started a couple of weeks ago. That's on Emery.
Tielemans after an excellent start to the season has regressed to the shadow I was expecting he would be in that position. It's such an obvious change to move him into Rogers position for a few weeks, like he did to great effect at times last season. Playing him as a 6 at Chelsea was another poor decision by Emery.

We really miss a fit Jacob Ramsey: he squeezes defenders down our left side, creating space for others.

[London Villan]

Without alternative, pacy attacking options there is no-way we are getting into a CL place. Have we got the capacity to bring in two attacking players?

[Demitri_C]

By the way that was chelseas first clean sheet in 8.

[pauliewalnuts]

Oh my God, COULD THINGS GET ANY WORSE?

[Demitri_C]

Oh my God, COULD THINGS GET ANY WORSE?

Some bastards cursed us