Why Pochettino's Chelsea STILL Isn't Working
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- čas přidán 10. 12. 2023
- Another defeat, this time at the hands of Everton, has increased the pressure on Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino. Has he been unlucky with results, or is his plan for the team simply unworkable? FourFourTwo's Adam Clery examines English football's biggest conundrum.
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Hello everyone! At 8:22 we have a small editing error here as a graph hasn’t loaded. Very embarrassing, but you get the picture about them not taking those chances though. Much love AC x
Wow a comment written by the man himself! Love your videos, Adam!
Adam… your content is so deep and throught out unlike a lot of the reactionary content out there 🔥. Chelsea will eventually get there if they are given time. It’s a club that has never really wanted to invest for the long run.l, and as painful as it is to see, the fruits of this investment/pain today could pay dividends with a bit of patience!
Great analysis …nice change from the usual knee jerk rubbish that’s going on with Chelsea right now. I will say this though …they need to stop the slide and if the get beaten this coming weekend by Sheffield United there’s going to be a melt down with the plastics.
Love the video, pretty spot on and I like that it's not just spiteful hating on Chelsea (refreshing!). Just wanted to point out there is also something weird happening at 12:23 where you glitch a bit, just in case it's something you can fix in further videos
I despise fellow Chelsea fans that think that the solution is to buy new expensive signings when the system isn’t working.
What would you suggest
If we follow this great analysis video, it’s really clear that 1) we don’t have a clear plan of attack 2) the few chances we do create, because even hapless players know how to craft a few, aren’t very good. On a personal note, I’d say the attitude is a huge issue, we look lost after the first 20 minutes of every game if we don’t score or concede. I’d 100% push for 2-3 experienced premier level players who can finish off chances (Toney), play a few progressive passes, and know how to fight for a win (or at least a fucking tie) even when we’ve had a bad day in the office.
Unless that expensive signing is a veteran that has a tough backbone in him. I think it will works.
If you overpay for crap at a car boot sale, it doesnt mean its worth what you paid for it.
Its probably part system but we have overpaid for every single player. Jackson had 2 good months. Mudryk played 30 career games. Enzo had 6 months experience in Europe and cost 5x less the previous summer. I do feel for Jackson. He doesn't have a more senior pro to learn from/receive guidance. Imagine him learning from a prime Drogba? We have Sterling, Silva, Chilwell and James (if you can call the latter two senior, though neither of them can stay fit). Disasi is average.
For me, its a mix we dont have the quality and the system/manager. I don't want Poch gone. Though some of his decision making and refusal to change things is annoying me.
It will take more than Osimhen to save us
The problem is most top young players never make it.if you go through lists of top 10 wonder kids each year for the last 10yrs,you,d be surprised how many flopped
What wonder kids are there in this current team?
There are no wonder kids at chelsea, they got scammed.
Remember this is the same chelsea who had youthful Lukaku, De Bruyne, Salah and many other young players whose talent they wasted.
@@willliamtaaffe8099If they were all in early 20s and playing at Chelsea now, they would get the same criticisms as the current young players.
@@Kash11114Palmer is Quality💯
Best video I've seen on the current state of Chelsea!!!! Die hard. Chelsea fan here and I'm so sick of listening to my regular CZcamsrs because they just think Chelsea is an absolute shambles and don't take the time to really analyze their game. I know it's a project and it is making me frustrated too, but I'm so sick of hearing that every single player out there is not worthy to be a Chelsea player. They just need to figure out how to finish and make better decisions in that final third and then we're up there. We're up there again competing for top four and cups and trophies.
I really only watch Yan on Football Therapy regularly, he's generally pretty positive but the last game even had him questioning things lmao
I kept my eyes on Enzo throughout the game because we all knew he isn't a 10 but for some reason poch decided to play him a 10 again and he wasn't able to create. But that wasn't his fault. He literally had no one making those runs for his through balls and lobs. There were countless occasions when he tried to look for a lob but then went backwards because no one was making the run for his lob. This team lacks anticipation in the final third
This is probably the best analysis of Chelsea’s struggles. Having watched every game this season I’d also add that we’re suffering from not having a few players on the pitch who can look around and say “we’re down a goal but let’s fucking win this”. Again, that’s definitely an issue that stems from most of our starting XI being so young. (I’d also add that having Silva as the oldest player in the league definitely drives up the average.) The oldest player in our game against Everton was 26. I’d love to see Ivan Toney and Calvin Philips brought in over the winter. Toney is a proven goal scorer who’d take our chances and put pressure on Jackson to learn. Phillips would add experience AND avoid defensive mistakes. Then we’dsee Enzo flourish a bit more.
agreed i’ve always thought phillips would be a good signing
Imagine a midfield of nkunku, Enzo, and caicedo supporting toney, Palmer, and sterling up front. That’d be a proper attack
How many more strikers
We have Lavia and Caicedo lol
@@obokemaosi9678only have Jackson and Broja
Cucurella as our LB
Colwill LCB
Badiashile RCB
Gusto RB
Lavia as our No.6(holding midfielder)
Caicedo as our box to box or destroyer
Enzo as our orchestrator
Mudryk as our Left Winger.
Palmer as our Right handside Second Striker
Nkunku as our Central False 9.
That's our short term solution till the summer
All I heard in that team was unbalance playing a left sided CB on the Right sure sounds smart and lavia who has a similar profile to Enzo definitely work right and 3 creative players out of those 3 no complete finishers definitely exacerbate the issue already with our attack
@@jesterbeats2898 need to stop copying Pep Guardiola's tactics
Palmer should play in the middle with sterling and mudrik either side of him with Silva leading the line as the lone striker.
Try that didn't fucking work against united Sterling only works on that LW nothing else
Top level analysis.
Got right to the heart of Chelsea's issue, and used xg (and other stats)but also pointed out the issues with the data.
Best analysis on youtube right now.
Jackson. Good prospect, doesn't look like a natural goal scorer to me. Which is part of the problem.
It's refreshing to see more than crisis content regarding Chelsea tbh
Hey Adam! At this point your analytical videos are a kind of therapy for me as I struggle to get through these disappointing performances being a Chelsea supporter. Thank you for sticking to your previous statements! The best is yet to come.. If we get to wait this time around!
See it’s interesting that enzo is the player that gets highlighted for the creative issues. He’s simply not a 10. He should be sitting next to Caicedo and dictating. In fact he has been for a lot of the season (which is why he has some of the best progressive passing and throughball stats itl). For some reason poch decided to put enzo back into the 10 against Everton. It just doesn’t work. There’s a whole lot more that’s wrong with Chelsea right now but that feels indicative. The whole thing is confusing. It feels like poch just… isn’t giving the team any instructions? We don’t look like a team that’s struggling but with a clear identity, we just look like we’re lost. Personally I think the squad isn’t the problem. They’re very talented players. They should be trusted and backed… but I’m not so sure about poch right now. At some point we do need to bring in a manager and stick with them but it does feel like poch might not be the one
Coz he,s failing as an 8.which game has he controlled.he played deeper vs united and was so anonymous
@@ShawnGitahi he controlled the game against liverpool and west ham before we lost even more players to injuries and poch started playing him as a 10, then he moved him back into his position in the double pivot but for some reason started relying much more on transitions rather than trying to control the ball (which would allow players like enzo and caicedo to thrive and is the entire reason we bought them). Poch had a set of tactics that worked fantastically in pre season and in the first few games of the season but after the injury list piled up he threw them out and is resorting to transitional football which simply doesnt suit the team. So no, Enzo isnt failing the team as an 8, poch is failing the team by not playing to its strenghts
Spoken like a true Chelsea fan. 👍
Difference between your club and mine (United) is that you’re ruthless enough to fire Poch and keep going till you get someone you want. It actually hasn’t stopped you from winning a load of trophies along the way as well.
But United are the total opposite. The sentimental fools that run this damn club get dreamy eyed and start thinking of legacies from a bygone Fergie era after wining the energy drink cup. We give stupidly long contracts to players that wouldn’t be anywhere near this club when we were actually giants.
The problem is that you can’t play enzo deeper with a struggling caicedo. Enzo is a complete passenger defensively and with caicedo struggling as well, we are so open. You either drop Caicedo when Nkunku is fit so that Gallagher is the nominal DM for his work-rate alongside enzo as a fabregas-type or we pin our hopes on Lavia when he is fit. Neither option fills me with confidence.
Speaking on the lack of cutting edge and chance creation just makes me think, are Chelsea just missing Nkunku?He’s the type of false 9 profile that can link play, create chances, drag defenders out of position and score goals. Otherwise Chelsea will struggle with Enzo as the creative player, he’s just not that kind of player.
It's much more than that. Nkunku is also a good passer of the ball and can press, which immensely helps the midfield. Right now, there's nobody in the team who can do that (Carney might but he's injured and young).
As an alternative, we have to play a 3 man midfield. Gallagher can press but not create, whereas Enzo can create but he doesn't get the ball much as a #10 and isn't the best presser (which Poch needs), so neither of those options are good. Combine that with low chemistry and lots of losses due to poor finishing, and you can see why the performances are just getting worse over time.
@@JustMeSach and with nkunku coming back fernandez can play in his best position
Buddy if you think bringing in one new Leipzig forward again will solve your problems, you're as delusional as the fans who said you'd challenge for trophies this year 😂
@@mrraiz390the prob is poch didn't decide to move him up front. Enzo said playing forward is his best position to poch and requested to be played there himself. I just hope he realises that maybe he's wrong and should play where he played best at Chelsea.
Good breakdown...I've seen a lot about their XG and you explained why that can be misleading
Can we make sure Pochettino see’s this
Easily one of my favourite takes on what’s going on at Chelsea. Love your videos, so reasonable and level headed.
I must say that I enjoy your analysis a lot. You are a Football Diagnostics. You have clearly dissected the problem of CFC from a tactical and technical point of view.
From the metrics which you based your analysis on, it clearly shows that the project is well ahead of schedule. MP is just weeks away from getting it right in terms of "key passes in the final third". It is the reason CFC are not scoring goals that could see them win games.
Contrary to wide spread beliefs that Chelsea's season is over, I do not believe so. I see this team turning things around very soon and finish in European places.
The owners should not make the mistake of sacking MP because that will set the project backwards. Rather, they should take a queue from what Arsenal board did with Arteta during his first two seasons at the Club. Today Arsenal are now title contenders.
This Chelsea team will be scary to opponents next season by the time they become a finished article. MP is indeed cooking one of the best teams in Europe in the making. I encourage all Chelsea fans to be patient and support the team.
By the way, I hope Todd Bohly and Egbali are watching your channel. You deserve a spot in the technical department at CFC. Thanks for your wonderful analysis.❤
The thing with arteta was that there was a style of play that people could see when he started.
2. He also had to get rid of quite a few players that had huge egos
With poch I don't see the attacking system. The coaching is lacking. The players don't seem to know where to go. Enzo looks really lost for most of the games ive seen him. It's hard to watch at the moment
I think the problem with the youth approach is that if it doesn’t work straight away, which it isn’t, then you can end up mentally ruining these players and therefore basically sabotaging their development. If we had a solid, experienced striker who was good for 15/20 goals a season, then the pressure to score is off of the likes of Jackson or Mudryk.
Individually, if all these players were introduced into a settled team, their own shortcomings would be easier to ignore, they’d be on the winning side more and they’d get better and settle in quicker.
Really it's the Sporting directors lack of balance when recruiting. Chelsea over the years have been successful because of buying players with proven experience. This system of only buying younger players with potential is just going to take time and patience. A few more experienced players will make a difference though with some peripheral players sold on.
I knew this season was going to be rough, just didn’t think it would be THIS ROUGH LOL
I called it from the moment we chose Poch over Luis Enrique.
Gallagher is not the sitting midfielder though is he.
The coach clearly needs to rethink how he approaches games
Its very twlling that guys like Giroud, Pulisic, Tomori, Loftus Cheek, De bruyne, Salah, Cuadrado, Ziyech, and even guys like Broja and Kepa have all improved and even flourished the second they went to a club with a real identity. Hell, AC Milan seem to have made it a yearly tradition to revive the potential of Chelsea outcasts for 1/10 of the price😂
A missing stat is how quick Chelsea are getting into the final third of the pitch!!! Usually they take ages to get there and when they do, the defending team is already in a comfortable shape which makes it harder to create chances.
When Enzo plays in the pivot, Chelsea move the ball a lot quicker. He should not be playing in the 10 position.
That training routine poch has is causing more injuries
Fantastic video brev thank you
I think you flipped Everton and Chelsea's xG on the last game. Most xG models have everton at 1-1.3 xG and Chelsea at 1.0 or slightly under. Your point remains though.
A difference of .1 or .2 xG is the difference between 1 or two half chances really so it's not THAT significant, but I thought I'd bring this up.
Yank newbie here. My love of the beautiful game blossomed rather predictably with Lasso, Wrexham, and my hometown MLS Cup champs, the Crew. Also love me some Men in Blazers. But what I've been missing is this. Your analysis is entertaining and educational. I feel I actually might be able to see what you're talking about as I watch a live match. Most important, you're deepening my appreciation for the beautiful moments and my understanding of what separates good teams from great ones. Cheers!
The new owners R MAD!!! Poch went along with them-so he’s MAD!!! Relegation here we come!
Good stuff,makes alot of sense.
the Cricket sfx killed me
I really enjoyed it u have nailed it all
As a chelsea support that literally is depressed everyday with whats happen to our club, this has been a very good refreshing video. Well done.
This is by far the most logical Analysis i have seen on You Tube❤❤
Poch should have them train night and day on how to pass forward and how to find the back of the net
Even experienced players will struggle playing with inadequate instructions or an inconsistent/ ill fitting system … their experience will only help a little.
This team doesn’t have to get more experienced players if poch simply stuck to a system that suits our players and made sure that his instructions and training sessions are detailed enough for the youth to not second guess themselves or do unplanned rogue actions….
Very good analysis as always. 👏👏
we just havent taken our chances, which shows how average our attackers actually are. we shouldve won so many more games, and the longer we dont the worse these young players become due to their lack of mental strength.
we need an experienced midfielder, experienced rb and an experienced striker
Other teams have midfielders scoring for them. Liverpool, arsenal and even man UTD.
Without the midfielder scoring, man UTD won't even be where they are. Neither will arsenal and Liverpool won't win their last 3 matches.
To defeat low block teams, u need clinical midfielders. When the attack draws the opponents in their own box, u need midfielders that can hit that shots goal ward and score. Everton won us with goals coming from their midfield. Mctominay is man UTD highest goalscorer in the EPL and has won them more than 12 points this season alone. Rice have won 2 games for arsenal.
So quit this bullshit about attackers not scoring.
Very fair analysis my guy
Very true the players just lack any sort of experience, it’s foolish to think they will consistently win games
Excellent analysis
Great analysis 👍🏿
This is the kind of squad building that works in leagues like Bundesliga and Eridivisie. Where football is slower and its all about technical ability.
No one has ever done this in the EPL not even Arsenal because they still had a good mix of experience and youth even through the young players like Saka and Martinelli.
How come you didn't think to compare the pass map of Doucoure to Fernandez? I think it would have been emblematic of 2 teams playing the same formation taking completely different approaches, and one with far more identity, planning and drive.
The midfielders are also made awful by the fact that those front 3 dummies don't attempt any runs.
They pass the ball and stay glued.
Agree with you for the most part. Slightly dowager on Cole Palmer ‘having to’ cut inside. He does but the pitch map is misleading because once Sterling came on, he moved into the 10 position. Hence the amount of touches in the middle.
Maybe Nkhukhu coming back might help with the incisive passes in the middle. Probably too much pressure on him but sounds like that’s what Chelsea need. A creative playmaker who can break the lines with a pass. Of course Jackson needs to put them away but that’s another story
Didnt De Zerbi prefer Steel to Sanchez because of his mistakes with the feet? Long term i dont see this going great at all
He previously praised Sacnhez for his ability to play with his feet and statistically he was better. It had more to do with personal grievances between De Zerbi and Sanchez imo
Spot on!
Top tier analysis as always.
I know we've had injuries and stuff but I sincerely think De Zerbi will do better with this team. This team is too inexperienced for a coach to want to rely solely on their “world class potential" abilities because at the end of the day they're still just “potentials". It'd be better if you automated them or systemize them till they become comfortable enough to express themselves for you to start seeing that potential. Something De Zerbi did with Colwill and caicedo and even Mudryk.......
Spot on!!
Nice analysis
TOP LEVEL ANALYSIS!
Great man
Good analysis
Enzo isn't a 10. And he's a better box-to-box than Gallagher.
They need to drop Gallagher, move Enzo into the midfield and EITHER find a true number 8 OR employ Stering as a False 9.
Fernandes is being wasted by the lack of balance in midfield. It isn't 1995, you can't play Paul Ince and Roy Keane both bombing forward and back together in the midfield. The game has evolved.
Add to that, Mudryk doesn't look up to it. Palmer is too young to be expected to carry the creative burden. And they just have nothing through the middle.
We don't have the midfield to do this cause of injuries
Put Palmer in at the false 9 and Sterling on the wing. Worked well when they did it earlier this year. Maybe Nkunku slots in with Palmer in the middle up front if he is ever helathy.
I think Chelsea were wrong selling all their previous players,they should have retained some of them and built the team around them
I think we should have kept Kante and replaced Lukaku with a proven striker. All the rest wouldn't have helped solve our issues.
Spot on mate ! This is what exactly I’ve been telling to my Chelsea fellow friends. Chelsea should kept senior players and gradually change the players for the young proven talents.
Problem was most of those senior players abandoned ship , quit on us and wanted out. They underperformed big time then quit like losers instead of showing some leadership and fighting for the badge.
@@garytibbles9756 They did not abandon the ship, they been pushed out. I don’t trust new Chelsea owners propaganda.
Maybe a couple of new players could fix this?
They haven't acquired anybody in quite some time now.
U make a good point towards the end… young players often need time and nurture! However I don’t know who is more impatient, the Chelsea board or Chelsea fans. But if the owners were to say to fans: “ we are committed to a long term project to build the best team in the world, give us 3-5 years and you will see some results” - that’s all fine and dandy but as seen with potter ball both the fans and the owners actually want overnight results in a postecoglou esque transformation. If you go back to Mourinho era, Ranieri already had built a pretty good team that could challenge anyone in the league at home especially, with a mix of younger and older players but lacking the star quality to beat arsenal/Man U in the table. Nowadays the league is much more competitive (the lower ranked teams are more of challenge) so patience is the key here! Sad thing no one in football has any
With all the context of how “young” this squad is, the alarming thing about the current system is players in attacking positions intruding into each others areas.
In a team needing to first establish its core principles I think it’s an over complication to deliver such fluid instructions & ultimately opponents needn’t worry of man tracking but instead sit in & remain compact, which is exactly how our attack has been nullified on numerous occasions.
I think the solution right now is to simplify the system by implementing stricter zonal play. Familiarise each player with their own area & allow it to served as the foundation to any future ‘fluidity’ within the system.
We’re basically trying to run before we can walk, seemingly attempting to fast track development of a squad put together in an extreme manner & facing countless teething problems.
Baby steps, no matter how silly you look. Trying to overestimate your potential looks even sillier.
@@bazeyx potter tried the simple approach and got sacked 😢
it's a good selection of players, but it's not a good team yet
when you said that you summarized it very well
How cannot Chelsea analytic teams see it like this? Like it’s horrifying to see that enzo have 1 forward pass. Clearly the Chelsea analytic team have seen this, right? RIGHT?
Very interesting listen as a Chelsea fan 👏👏
That’s what I’ve been saying since the start of the season, that midfield 3 doesn’t work, Enzo, Gallagher and Caicedo are all too conservative, that’s why it only works against teams that leave space in behind but against a low block we need a creative number 10 and 2 classic wingers
There is experience. And then there is determination to be successful at whatever one does. The mistakes being made by Chelsea forwards, for example during counter attacks, are horrendous.
I have been Chelsea fan since 1970 and I think your analysis is pretty spot on. I hope Poch has the same statistical analysis that you do otherwise, would you share it with him?
I think obviously need a good striker but also I would rather have a creative player like madueke on the wing with palmer as a 10 and enzo caicedo cleaning up in a double pivot! Nkunku could also either play as a cf or striker sometimes and maybe rarely on the wing.
Most touches but no key passes -> Pochettino is so coward that only moves the ball at side line. Sideline attack can be good ,but he doesn't even put players into the box.
Also, no promised attacking play(isolation, 1 2 pass, penetration), no one at box and compelling him to cover more spaces are why Enzo cannot put good forward passes and he was good when he passed to opposite side and playmaked at the central spaces under Potter. That means Pochettino still doesn't know players (he said Enzo came to Europe only 3months which means Pochettino even didn't monitor last season how Potter used Enzo well)
Plus, Pochettino do not use full-backs well enough. He always use 3 Centerbacks and rarely demand overlapping or underlapping for full backs. Properly put FB into the box and overlapp is important, but use them as old-dated way.
Dude, I love how he unintentionally showed the issues with United when showing the stats for Chelsea 😂😂😂
I'd also add that the average age is even more skewed by having 39 year old Thiago Silva in almost every game. Swap him out for a 25year old and the average drops to around 24.
From a Tottenham supporter’s perspective he’s lost his swagger, after the UCL final he was never the same if you watch our press conferences in pre season until he got sacked you’ll notice his demeanour was FUCKEDD. But psg was where i saw him fully crumble Playing a back 3 at home against Toulouse🫤, I can categorically tell you he’s going to fail at Chelsea and end up a washed manager.
Edit : Dw tho Chelsea will spend another £800m, and it’ll all be ok😂.
Damn😢
he didnt fail at psg tho lol. mourhinio had a bad season at chelsea like poch at spurs dosnt mean mourihnio is a bad manager. i think its just down to the fact your quite annoyed one of your best managers has joined a rival team.
@@JOSHA9 Did Poch win a UCL that I don’t know about? The only trophy that PSG count as real success is the UCL. Also what does Jose have to do with this lol? The fact you’ve tried to make a comparison between is embarrassing ones a serial winner, the other a serial flop. And to address your point about him managing Chelscum, sure I didn’t wanna see it but the moment he played A 10% fit kane over Lucas & a outta form sissoko over wanyama in the UCL final I wanted him gone in essence it’s not that deep🫶.
@@JOSHA9buddy, Jose hasn't been a decent manager since 2016😂
@@tricky1506 watch football "buddy"
Dear Mauricio, your problem is only about scoring goals. If you don't have Drogba or Kane, maybe you should go the oldschool way of two striking partners of NJ and CP? Put Mudryk in left wing but not cutting in all the time, Gallagher as early days Milner down right, only use Cucurela against proven weaker teams, Enzo and Caicedo in midfield workhorses, establish a back four, AND KEEP THE TACTICS SIMPLE.
Interesting video. But most of it blames the midfield for poor chance creation when I feel its more a lack of a settled pattern of team attack. The midfield can and does get the ball to the attack very frequently but the attackers are poor at linking up not only amongst themselves but also in bringing the rest of the team into the attacking phase of the game to amplify danger and confuse the defending team. For me, the midfield guys need to take the responsibility and shoot more often and look for each other more often in attack as passing the ball to the headless attackers too often does not yield desired results. Yes the likes of Enzo and Conor can and should produce more in attack but it does not help that wingers/attackers rarely look to bring them into the attacking equation by fluffing chances or not finding a team mate when they are better placed to score
Based on this analysis :
Swap enzo with cole, let cole be the BBM, as enzo will play as 2nd ST. Higher role and/or pos discipline needs to be implemented.
Use mudryk as Inverted winger, supported by marc (DONT LET THIS GUY PUSH INSIDE, LET HIM HUG SIDELINE UNTIL MIDFIELD AREA) or better choice, colwill, and covered by caicedo/gallagher as the roaming playmaker, considering their stamina.
On right flank, let sterling do his thing, hold anybody filling RB pos in the back tandem with 2 CB to keep mid-high press line.
Try to play direct pass (short/long). Especially in opposition box, try to not hold the ball for extended time.
Back 3 (1 as libero behind 2 others) BAIT ONLY NECESSARY AND TRY TO BE LESS THAN 5 secs.
Sanchez, stop trying to be sweeper, try to play direct pass to midfield area,
Enzo playing high with his back to goal receiving second balls is there in an effort too increase the frequency in which his passes are into an area of danger but when most of the time there’s only one more player more advanced than him it’s a bit stupid isn’t it. Makes more sense to let him have 111 touches deeper instead of Gallagher who created 2 chances that game which were 30 yard forced long shots. 2 players have scored 15 league goals in that team one hasn’t even seen the pitch the other has been declining since 2020. Even the experienced players are very inconsistent with either fitness or just application or work rate.
Chelsea need an experienced striker who knows where to find the space in the box where there doesn't seem to be any and the wide players to pick their heads up before playing the pass into the box instead of just passing into an area and hoping someone is there. We saw it a lot with Mudryk against Everton, Mudryk created more chances than any other player on the pitch, consistantly put it into a dangerous area where the space was in the box where no one had made the right movements and Everton defended it easily. Jackson needs to analyze highlights of some of the top strikers and study how they've been finding space in the box when we are heading for the byline to cut the ball back and he'd easily bag 15-20 goals a season with simple chances where he just needs to hit the target and he scores
amazing!! pleas do ManU
Definitely couldn't be that Everton are in good form or anything
People keep forgetting caicedo isn't a dm.... Why would we splurge on caicedo and then also get lavia..... Lavia is the dm caciedo is the box to box, lavia will add that solidity we desperately need
Adam please email Pochettino and give him this info!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
This clip should be sent directly to pochetinno.
from day one, i am seeing the same thing. Ball moved so good till opponents D box and suddenly seem lost or know what to do... They take a pause and think what to do by then they are closed down... Jackson is the main problem... He isnt an intelligent striker... This team need someone like adeyemi of dortumd who is a finisher and creative as well
The problem is Poch. I don't understand why he play cb at side back, when our wingers are not skillfull winger. Our wingers need proper support from sideback to attack
As a Sheffield United fan, Im glad that Chelsea struggle to make chances but it is sad seeing a once a top team below a team like West Ham
I watched Poch’s team evolve from decent wing play in preseason into this sloppiness. At this point they are better off with a 5 back and more central play. Especially if they want to be as predictable as they already are.
Last row at 1:53 is incorrect. Everton had more xG than Chelsea last weekend.
As I’ve been saying to all these people calling me a Connor hater because he’s been “our best player”, the point is that he doesn’t do anything when he has the ball, yeah he runs all day and makes tackles but we have so much possession and can’t do anything with it! These stats back this up (I know enzo was poor this game too). It was clear that palmer was dropping into Connor’s positing constantly to pick up the ball and drive or play the ball forward because Connor doesn’t do it. He’s a waste of space in midfield. Push enzo back and get another attacker on
Incisive analysis there! It's the final third, the through ball...Sterling should've put Broja through against Utd with 10 mins to play but took a couple of extra touches and was brought down eventually. Broja often makes great runs but isn't fed. Mudryk's speed isn't exploited enough. He too is often found knocking it about in triangles...lots of possession with no end result! Spurs don't mess around...they put the ball through to running, often overlapping attackers without any hesitation. They were brilliant against Newcastle...balls were flying into the box from all over the place. I hope Poch sorts it out soon!
Pochettino should see this and advise his players accordingly.
Adam Clery!! The wrestling world misses your presence. Hope to see you doing some wrestling content one day again. In the meantime footy content rocks.
Does anyone know where he got these stats from ?
As someone who has watched a whole lot of Caicedo i feel like Pochettino is holding him back... he is sooo much more offensive when he was in brighton and even currently for his NT. Covers so much more ground.. at Chelsea he basically jogs loll.. It frustrates me!! Seeing him only pass it back, it's like that is all he is being told to do.. He plays much higher up the pitch for his NT, actually one of the leaders in assist for the World cup qualifiers in Conmebol, creating more than enzo..
Great analysis
As a Chelsea fan, this stable failure is annoying miss the fire one get success from another approach of yesteryear
the criticism of Joao Félix was that he was very creative but kept losing the ball - he would, ironically, be exactly the kind of player they need now - someone to take some risks in order to create chances, and as the video points out, the rest of the team is very neat and tidy and good at winning the ball back so the risks would be mitigated. however he's gone now, so that's that.
Way I see it Felix had to be let go because we have Nkunku. Just as creative and has far better end product.
Felix decision making is so bad
I think they miss James and Chilwell massively. But they're both made of poppadoms these days and can't be relied upon. Gusto is a decent backup but he's injured too.
I feel like the same thing would have happened at Tottenham under Pochettino if they didn’t have a harry kane or son. The individual class or a harry Kane can easily offset the tactical issues in the final half because he himself is able to create the chances for himself. So as long as the balls gets in the opponents back third there will be danger but Chelsea doesn’t have a striker like Kane. The strikers at Chelsea need the midfielders to create really good chances for them to score.
Guardiola and Man City do that really good in my opinion. Kevin de bruyne exceeds in that regard.
I hope nkunku ist gonna help here because he’s skilled enough to create those chances himself.
Also I genuinely hope they trust their young players and keep them on regardless of the results. The payoff could be massive for Chelsea
The really fascinating thing (depressing for a Chelsea fan) about this is you didn't need to title it "Pochettino's Chelsea". I'm not a stats guy but I'm willing the bet if you look back at us over the last five years those same metrics will tell you an interesting story especially if you combine them with chances created. This has been the bane of our existence under Sarri, Lampard, Tuchel, Potter & now Pochettino, as control in the first two thirds of the pitch has gotten better, the chance creation rate has gotten worse to such a point where in the first few months of Potter's reign we'd regularly have less than 10 efforts on goal a game with 65-70% possession. It's on an upward curve now, painfully slow but steady progress is visible.
But what's fascinating about this is the amount of squad turnover during that time not making the slightest bit of difference. The squad's gone through three major revolutions since 2018 & not a single player from that 2018-19 PL squad is still at the club, not one! This problem has even overseen a change in ownership with completely different ideals via recruitment strategy too each other. It's freaky as hell.
The problem is they haven’t even started shaving yet not formations
xG against Everton was actually slightly lower.
Make a video about Manchester United. With all data and structures.
Its very simple. You have a clueless owner buying players at ridiculous prices and shafting them to a manager who don't even need some of them because they don't all suit his system. I hope this continue because it proves you can't always win no matter how much money you spend.