Chelsea 3 Aston Villa 0 Post Match Thread.

[levico]

I think we’ll be lucky to get one point out of the next two matches. We’re abject.

[john e]

Watkins will start, he’s like Kane for England undroppable

I know we love a narrative, but he’s the 9th top scorer in the league and last season got 19 league goals and 19 odd assists. He’s hardly hopeless.

My narrative it’s very simple, and I don’t mind admitting it

We’ve got a better striker in Jhon Duran that we need to promote, he’s only going to improve and get better Where as Watkins isn’t
God forbid we sell Duran in the next window, if anyone goes it should be Watkins but I don’t think we’ll get the money anymore that ship has sailed

[Sexual Ealing]

Watkins will start, he’s like Kane for England undroppable

I know we love a narrative, but he’s the 9th top scorer in the league and last season got 19 league goals and 19 odd assists. He’s hardly hopeless.

My narrative it’s very simple, and I don’t mind admitting it

We’ve got a better striker in Jhon Duran that we need to promote, he’s only going to improve and get better Where as Watkins isn’t
God forbid we sell Duran in the next window, if anyone goes it should be Watkins but I don’t think we’ll get the money anymore that ship has sailed

I said the same on another thread.

[RamboandBruno]

He scored last weekend didn’t he? Forced a brilliant save the other night? Scored 19 goals in the league last year, probably worth a bit of latitude.

Last week he scored a tap in even I would have scored then in the second half had an opportunity and set up to shoot then dithered

The Palace goal? You probably wouldn’t have. How about the 19 goals in the league last year and all the assists. He’s obviously useless…

Think I can manage to put a ball in an empty net. Sky commentator today said we should be encouraged by the spaces Watkins is nearly finding. Sums him up perfectly he's not a lone striker he's just a better version of Weimann he needs to play off a proper striker.

He took the ball on the run, rounded the keeper and then hit it in the empty net, you eejit.

[PaulWinch again]

Duran is a brilliant instinctive goal scorer, he’s not actually that great in terms of his all round game at times. Not saying he won’t get there, but the idea that Watkins isn’t up to much is just wrong. Just look at last season - in the league he was involved in over 30 goals in the league.

[adrenachrome]

I can't remember the last time I wanted to watch MotD.

Many of us knew that CL qualification and being hit by PRS would be challenging, as Newcastle showed, but I wasn't prepared for this.

[john e]

Watkins will start, he’s like Kane for England undroppable

I know we love a narrative, but he’s the 9th top scorer in the league and last season got 19 league goals and 19 odd assists. He’s hardly hopeless.

My narrative it’s very simple, and I don’t mind admitting it

We’ve got a better striker in Jhon Duran that we need to promote, he’s only going to improve and get better Where as Watkins isn’t
God forbid we sell Duran in the next window, if anyone goes it should be Watkins but I don’t think we’ll get the money anymore that ship has sailed

I said the same on another thread.

He’s the future simple as that

[HolteL4]

Watkins will start, he’s like Kane for England undroppable

I know we love a narrative, but he’s the 9th top scorer in the league and last season got 19 league goals and 19 odd assists. He’s hardly hopeless.

9th top scorer in the league ?! That is something i'd leave off my CV

Well maybe 3rd last year will do. The point is he’s still scoring a fair few goals even in a team that is struggling.

He is Paul, but he continues to miss gilt edged chances in key moments of games , we cannot win anything with a striker like that

Exactly this, Duran was linked with moves away all summer, but Watkins despite all the goals last season there wasn't a single club looking at him why do you think that is? If you want to consistently compete at the top you can have a Watkins as your main striker he's too streaky

[ChicagoLion]

Duran is a brilliant instinctive goal scorer, he’s not actually that great in terms of his all round game at times. Not saying he won’t get there, but the idea that Watkins isn’t up to much is just wrong. Just look at last season - in the league he was involved in over 30 goals in the league.

It’s this season that is the problem.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s probably because Duran was gettable and we definitely didn’t want to sell Watkins. Again he was involved in over 30 goals in the league - if we’d tried to sell him in the summer there would have been uproar, and rightly so.

[Demitri_C]

Whats Duran done to warrant a start since the beginning of October. Randomness.

Tbf how many starts has watkins had and he has been pretty bad alot of the season. Duran deserves  a start

[PaulWinch again]

Duran is a brilliant instinctive goal scorer, he’s not actually that great in terms of his all round game at times. Not saying he won’t get there, but the idea that Watkins isn’t up to much is just wrong. Just look at last season - in the league he was involved in over 30 goals in the league.

It’s this season that is the problem.

He’s still got 6 goals and 2 assists in 13 league games it’s hardly disastrous.

[Mortimer's Bear]

Starting with Torres.

I’d keep him. He’s excellent at what he does.

Unfortunately, we need him to be excellent at defending and he's not, he's dreadful.

He isn’t dreadful.

[Villatillidie25]

Watkins seems an odd one for people to pick on today. He was probably our best player. Philogene and Rogers are the two that deserve the most flack.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

It’s probably because Duran was gettable and we definitely didn’t want to sell Watkins. Again he was involved in over 30 goals in the league - if we’d tried to sell him in the summer there would have been uproar, and rightly so.

Exactly, it’s like saying Haaland is shit because no one came in for him.