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.
 
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