Chelsea thread 2019/20

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dennishasdoneit said:
Fair play to you sir
Seems I was wrong and you were correct about the quality at Lampards disposal this season and the manager appears to be a very quick learner. .to win away in the CL with that team is fantastic.Early days still of course (and I still miss Sarri,great manager imo) but the fact you are buzzing watching your team says it all.
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Lampard makes mistakes from week to week, which is understandable, but as you say, he's a quick learner (except when it concerns defending from corners ahem ahem). He appears to be experimenting with several different systems, which bodes well for the future.

Lille struggled initially with our setup last night, it took them about 45 minutes to figure it out, and then we just switched from a back 3 to a back 4 seamlessly, added Hudson-Odoi into the mix, and Lille struggled to adjust again, which eventually won us the game.

It helps that he's got a team of talented, hungry young players who are willing to buy into his ideas 100%.
 
Another impressive win.

Abraham with another goal. Now top scorer in the league and just one goal away from Rashford's best total of 10 league goals. We're only in October.

Hudson-Odoi now has 3 assists in 3 games and Mount is up to 4 league goals in 8 games.

The academy graduates are not only playing well, they're carrying the team.
 
Vialli98 said:
Another impressive win.

Abraham with another goal. Now top scorer in the league and just one goal away from Rashford's best total of 10 league goals. We're only in October.

Hudson-Odoi now has 3 assists in 3 games and Mount is up to 4 league goals in 8 games.

The academy graduates are not only playing well, they're carrying the team.
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Really coming into their own these Chelsea kids. Chelsea as have we have been slagged off for not bringing youth players through despite arguably having the two best academy teams over the last 5-10 years. Glad to see the long game is working. Bringing players into the first team who are good enough to play at the top level as opposed to United who shoe horn anyone in and let the hyperbole make them into something they are not. Imagine if Matty Longstaff scored the winner for United! He’d be hailed as the next big thing and would be straight in to the England U21 team.

Tomori, James, Abraham, Hudson-Odoi and Mount are all top quality. Compare and contrast to Rashford, Greenwood, Lingard, Chong, Gomes, McTominay. All lauded as great prospects - but none were highlighted or picked out in the youth leagues as none of them are anything special but rank average players who turn into the next big thing when they pull on a red rag.
 
They are playing really good and with a lot of energy wonder if these youngsters have it in them to keep it going all season? Still early days for the team under Lampard.
 
bluebanana83 said:
Really coming into their own these Chelsea kids. Chelsea as have we have been slagged off for not bringing youth players through despite arguably having the two best academy teams over the last 5-10 years. Glad to see the long game is working. Bringing players into the first team who are good enough to play at the top level as opposed to United who shoe horn anyone in and let the hyperbole make them into something they are not. Imagine if Matty Longstaff scored the winner for United! He’d be hailed as the next big thing and would be straight in to the England U21 team.

Tomori, James, Abraham, Hudson-Odoi and Mount are all top quality. Compare and contrast to Rashford, Greenwood, Lingard, Chong, Gomes, McTominay. All lauded as great prospects - but none were highlighted or picked out in the youth leagues as none of them are anything special but rank average players who turn into the next big thing when they pull on a red rag.
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Even though we have been forced into this situation, it's still incredibly brave of Lampard to throw all of these youngsters in at the same time and trust them to produce at this level. I would have understood if he thought throwing Mount, Abraham in with Hudson-Odoi to come back was enough and being scared to overdo it, but he's taken the 'good enough, old enough' mantra and proven it to be true and thrown Tomori in to great effect, played James away in Lille.

These kids have all grown up together and played with each other at various age groups and won a helluva lot of trophies along the way. The understanding they have with each other is genuinely awesome to watch. It obviously helps that Lampard's two assistant coaches Jody Morris and Joe Edwards coached a lot of them at various age groups. Joe Edwards coached Mount and James at U8 level and again at U16 level.

So despite the circumstances that forced Chelsea into this situation, it is no fluke that the kids are performing at such an incredibly high level and it fills me with pride watching them all living out the dreams.
 
Only two points behind us shows how well Chelsea's youngsters have been playing. I guess having not been contenders for the past two seasons their fans are probably more accepting of a "transistional" season than they would have if they had been defending Champions.

It is a shame that it takes something like this ban combined with a new manager whose playing history gives him fair more tolerance than outsiders would receive for them to get their chances in the first team.
 
jamesha said:
Only two points behind us shows how well Chelsea's youngsters have been playing. I guess having not been contenders for the past two seasons their fans are probably more accepting of a "transistional" season than they would have if they had been defending Champions.

It is a shame that it takes something like this ban combined with a new manager whose playing history gives him fair more tolerance than outsiders would receive for them to get their chances in the first team.
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Or how badly we have been we would have atleast another 6 points between us if it werent for our injury crisis. Everyone who thinks that we should be like chelsea and how good they are think back to spurs last season and how much of a difference between us points wise in the end.
 
terraloon said:
Many Chelsea supporters will also add the names
Ruben Loftus-Cheek 23
Reece James 19
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Yeah, them two as well, and even though he isn't English, I'd count Christensen too, as he joined our academy at aged 14 or 15.
 
cityboy1 said:
Or how badly we have been we would have atleast another 6 points between us if it werent for our injury crisis. Everyone who thinks that we should be like chelsea and how good they are think back to spurs last season and how much of a difference between us points wise in the end.
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Yeah, that's true.

I think, while I'm fairly satisfied with how our season is going so far, I also know we haven't really set the world alight with our results, while performances have been good, the results have been pretty average at times so far, and us being just 2 points behind City is more of an indictment on a couple of City's results than anything incredible Chelsea are doing. In a couple of weeks, the gap between us will probably be back to 8-10 points.
 
Vialli98 said:
Yeah, that's true.

I think, while I'm fairly satisfied with how our season is going so far, I also know we haven't really set the world alight with our results, while performances have been good, the results have been pretty average at times so far, and us being just 2 points behind City is more of an indictment on a couple of City's results than anything incredible Chelsea are doing. In a couple of weeks, the gap between us will probably be back to 8-10 points.
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I think you'll be a lot better next season when you can actually improve your team but people saying we should copy chelsea despite what we have done over the last two years and us having the injuries we have is crazy.
 
cityboy1 said:
I think you'll be a lot better next season when you can actually improve your team but people saying we should copy chelsea despite what we have done over the last two years and us having the injuries we have is crazy.
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Bloody hell, who is saying that? That is genuinely absurd. I'm buzzing at what is happening at Chelsea, and watching this team genuinely awesome, but I think the ideal scenario would be to do what City are doing with some of what Chelsea have been forced to do sprinkled on top - meaning Foden and maybe another young lad become mainstays in the team alongside KDB, Bernardo etc.
 
Hudson-Odoi on Sterling.

Despite not linking up with Sterling as England prepare to face Czech Republic and Bulgaria, the teenager says he still talks to the former Liverpool City man, who he rates as one of the best players on the planet. ‘I’d say he is one of the best wingers in the world right now,’ said Hudson Odoi of Sterling. ‘When I watch him play it’s an amazing feeling because he likes to help and contribute to the team as much as possible. ‘I look at him as a player and say if I can be like that, get the goals he’s getting and the way he’s playing for the team, it could be amazing, not just for me but the team as well. ‘When I have the opportunity, I do speak to Raheem. I ask him, “How do you get all the goals you are getting, how do you work for the team, how do you impact in big games?

‘He gives you the best advice possible. He’ll tell me to keep working hard, he’ll tell me how to get the goals, how to get the assists. ‘For a person like that to help you, it’s an amazing feeling. Obviously, he’s in a different team so he doesn’t have to do that. But he does because he wants everyone to do well. ‘But a player like him, it’s a massive thing to know he’s in the national team and I can chat to him and say what’s good and what’s not good. It’s an amazing feeling.”
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Lampard on Sterling.

Chelsea boss Frank Lampard backed Sterling as an ideal role model for Hudson-Odoi, saying last month: ‘I don’t like to talk about other club’s players but Raheem Sterling is an incredible example of a player with great talent, whose work ethic added to that talent and improvement in a short period of time through absolute dedication, has seen him become a complete player, who we are all wowed by.

‘He is a great model for Callum because Callum has those talents. I want him to be the absolute best because he has the potential to do that and some of it is about hard truths and I saw some hard truths in the game the other day – ways that he can improve. ‘He needs to listen to them and he will. Then he can be that player for us.’
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Hudson-Odoi looks pretty sharp already, albeit it's pretty obvious he has outgrown the U21 international level, but it was a good game for his fitness levels.

 
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In the 5 games since coming back from being out for 6 months, Hudson-odoi has 4 assists and 3 goals.

 
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