I hope not. This felt like his last opportunity. If he can't even cut it against Watford then time to move on.
Won’t cut it against better teams. At least if Saul doesn’t play it won’t look as bad as the 1st half.
The narrative around these kinds of games is always interesting. Switches between “these are the kind of games you need to win the league!” and “can Chelsea really win the league with these kinds of performances?”.
The Football Ramble made a pretty good point about Saul… he’s been out of form for a decent while now and the EPL isn’t the league to find one’s form. Hopefully he gets it sorted somewhere….
I honestly think we would be fine to weather a slight dip in form but the injuries are a killer. Chilwell injury really impacts our ability to play now we were playing. Kova, kante, chalobah and others having injuries just creates a lot of issues. Especially with mount, lukaku, Werner and pulisic coming back from injury. Maybe we can win the title without chilwell but we can’t if our other top players keep getting injured. how many of our players haven’t been injured for at least a few games so far this year?
If chalobah is back around Christmas that would be big. Christensen will be needed in the middle to spell Thiago Silva and azpi will be needed at RWB to spell Reece. Having chalobah back to play RCB would help but tuchel is very cautious with players coming back from injury so we will see. It’s a shame with how well he’s been playing.
Really surprised that Hudson-odoi isn’t starting. He was in great form and I assumed that he didn’t start last game due to rest. He’s definitely making lukaku work to get back into this team
That looked a foul I don’t think Zouma got the ball. Hopefully Kai is okay but I would expect lukaku for Kai halftime sub.
Hudson-odoi LWB is dangerous against a team like this. Really missing chilwell today. Alonso wasn’t good enough and CHO has been worse defensively
Mendy with an absolute shocker today. Defense has been poor in general but that can’t happen. 2 mistakes by mendy.
2 bad performances in a row. Tuchel has a massive few days of training ahead. We weathered the storm of injuries to our attackers but chilwell, kova and kante being out seems to have completely ruined our ability to defend.
Don't think I've ever been as shocked with each individual goal based on how things were going, obviously Silva saved a goal himself but outside of that just stupid frustrating bullshit today Not sure we have the guys to do it now but I assume Terry would've beat the shit outta Ziyech multiple times by now for his body language alone
Not a coincidence that things have gone downhill since he got injured. Our hope now is that when kova and kante come back, the major improvement in midfield can help mask the LWB deficiencies.
0 goals allowed in the FA Cup. I thought this might be a good match, Arsenal are top in WSL and won the first meeting this season (Chelsea’s last loss) but Chelsea are on fire and haven’t allowed a goal since mid October.
If you want a good laugh, go check out the UEFA WCQ for women. England won 20-0 last match and there are very clear haves and have nots