Champions League 20/21

[rez9000]

Was it "live" ?

I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about it!

 

[karennina]

Havertz is very tidy and seems to have a great touch, but still haven’t seen him do anything particularly creative.

 

[Gareth88]

Havertz is very tidy and seems to have a great touch, but still haven’t seen him do anything particularly creative.

Looks so lightweight a strong wind would have him tumbling

 

[PCozzie]

Ha, Chelsea missed pen. Stupid bloody run up.

 

[rez9000]

Bit conflicted during the group stages this season. Want the 'big' sides to do well enough so they don't drop into the Europa just to maximise our own chances, but at the same time hate it when they do do well.

Edit: Teehee! "do do".

 

[TheTanguy]

 

[TheTanguy]

 

[tiger666]

Van De Beek finally starts

 

[nailsy]

Are BT still using fake crowd noise even though there's a crowd there?

 

[Timberwolf]

Havertz is very tidy and seems to have a great touch, but still haven’t seen him do anything particularly creative.

He actually reminds me a lot of Alli when he's played deeper.

Two tall, lanky, not especially quick, goalscorers who are renowned for their creativity and technique but really thrive when played closer to goal and get a bit lost when played deeper.

They are stylistically quite different in other ways - Havertz is a bit silkier, a better dribbler and more economical in possession, while Alli is a master of finding pockets of space in the box and timing runs - but I think they both thrive in the same kind of areas and kind of need the team to be built around them.

In this deeper role Havertz looks...fine but he flourishes higher up the pitch with runners around him. I don't think he really suits Chelsea's current system tbh. Or maybe he just needs more time to settle.

 

[slartibartfast]

Ridiculous penalty decision. What an idiotic law. Totally spoils the game.

 

[jonnyp]

Ridiculous penalty decision. What an idiotic law. Totally spoils the game.

And he got a yellow card too...

 

[slartibartfast]

And he got a yellow card too...

Yeah, its pathetic. Whats the point of picking the best 11 you can, coaching them every day. Working out tactics, motivation and everything associated with winning a match... and then someone blasts a ball at you and it flicks up, hits your arm, and they get a penalty!!! For that?????
Its not why the handball law was brought in. It was to stop cheating.
The powers that be really are trying their best to ruin football and I have to say they're doing a bloody good job.

 

[PrettyColors]

Chelsea are menacing going forward. that 4-3-3 they were playing with Pulisic, Werner, Ziyech, and Havertz with Kante sitting was really good.

I hate to say this but they have spent that money well. Ziyech is ridiculous.

 

[Seafordian Spurs]

Chelsea are menacing going forward. that 4-3-3 they were playing with Pulisic, Werner, Ziyech, and Havertz with Kante sitting was really good.

I hate to say this but they have spent that money well. Ziyech is ridiculous.

They are excellent going forward but they were playing some Europa fodder tonight.

 

[philll]

The state of that dive by Martial.

 

[philll]

Of fucking course they get the benefit of a tight (but obvious enough) offside call.

 

[jonnyp]

That looked offside all day long to me

 

[ajspurs]

WTF, I swear you could see by the cut of the grass that his foot was offside.

 

[midoshairband]

something wrong with my eyes, thought Greenwood was clearly offside there.

Leipzig don’t look anywhere near as dangerous as when we played them, yet are top of the Bundesliga.