Does anyone think he should? He’s horrible on defense and playing LB in a back 4 when the winger on his side is hazard who doesn’t track back. Even having kante help him out won’t make him look decent.
ManU didn’t look great. First match but didn’t outplay what appears to be a mid table Leicester squad.
Wow, shocked Kepa is already in goal. And surprised we would start Kante but not Hazard. Given Sarri’s comments about patience to start the season, what are everyone’s realistic expectations for August and September?
Hudson-odoi and ampadu not even on the bench is dissapointing when Moses makes the bench as a winger.
Beat the bad sides and if we can pull a draw between Arsenal and LFC I’d be satisfied. Dropping points to garbage early will get us in a bad spot fighting for top four like last year.
Agree. I’m expecting we squeak out a couple 1-0 wins but it’s still hard to see where goals are going to come from until the “system” starts to produce them.
Jorginho is gonna be phenomenal. Quick precise passes. Will be interesting to see what help he can get.
A decent bit of pointing and shouting at each other as we're still figuring out where everyone should be. Jorginho drawing lots of attention and having a tough time getting on the ball.
Really excited for him and hazard to combine, just need to survive while the squad gels together with the new tactics
Huddersfield look awful everywhere except when they play the ball into the position where the LB should be and there is no one there for us.
Big goal. Looked like shit before that. Kante needs to get a bit more offensive in this system so that should hopefully help his confidence. Have to give props to both Pedro and Willian on that. Both made great plays.
Great touch by Jorginho. Great run by Pedro. Great ball by Willian. Good enough on target finish by Kante haha.
I feel like our entire left side of back 4 are midfielders. I feel like our squad will look a lot different by Christmas.
Rudiger looks so much more confident and a lot better in the middle of a back 4. His marking has been great.
Morata is so frustrating. I feel like Giroud is better at everything except age. Wow. Hit the the bar.
Wouldn’t mind seeing Eden soon. Get him some run and he would be deadly on the counter with Huddersfield chasing
Eden is so good Great result but did we really need Moses instead of Hudson-Odoi for the last 10 min? Not having the youngster on the bench seems bizarre. Maybe we are trying to audition Moses for a loan somewhere?
Morata didn’t score and didn’t do anything particularly well but he wasn’t flopping like a little bitch and didn’t spend half the game on the ground or pouting so I’ll take that as progress. He has the talent it’s mental. Just needs a few lucky bounces.
No way of knowing if Milan will use the option to buy bakayoko but supposedly it’s a €5m loan fee with a €35m option to buy. Not quite what we bought him for but not much of a loss on a player that looked pretty bad in conte’s system which was supposedly tailor made for him and a guy who isn’t a fit with what sarri wants to do.