Smal

Phillips, Grealish and Kovacic all starting according to Pep

Pep loves the carabao. They've won it 4 out of the 7 years he's been there.

Raya is honestly not that good with his feet. Better than Pope like, but I reckon Ramsdale's better. In fact if Ramsdale becomes available we might look at him.

he made 12 progressive passes yesterday, which is the most anyone's played in a game for us this season. tbh his data is always really good. Small sample size from his minutes but vs midfielders from big 5 leagues over the past year:

I’d heartily disagree that Colo was better on the ball than Schar.

Surprised Heckingbottom hasn’t been sacked yet this morning tbh. One of the most abject performances I’ve ever seen. He made it so obviously worse at half time as well. They went to a narrower shape and just left Trippier free to do whatever he wanted.

Get him a new contract pls

I actually think he’s better running in behind than he is coming short for the ball. Or at least it definitely suits our game more at the moment when he does run in behind. Always confident when he gets 1v1 or only has 1 defender to mug off. Sometimes when he’s come short this season his control has been unusually poor (ie vs Milan).

1.39 goals per 90 so far this season but not clinical enough. lol.

underrated bit of play for Wilson’s goal as well. Not many CBs pick that pass for Trippier.

from previous showings I’ve thought one of the things he could improve on is his ball retention and just being safer in possession. He was excellent at it today. Pass completion was 93% from 46 passes which is great considering how far forward he generally plays.

feel like it was the first time we’ve managed to play an aggressive press this season so far. We won the ball and forced errors high up a lot.

Completely lost our shape now

Carries it through lines really well too. Very clever player.

this is just mean now

they are an absolute disgrace

Them going more narrow and leaving Trippier completely free seems unwise

Honestly reckon 20 points might be safe in the PL this season . Fucking shame because any other year I’d be relishing Chelsea going down.

He’s absolutely mint, like. Really starting to develop now and getting better every game.

Genuinely a world class player

And then a sympathy not letting us take the corner . It cannot be understated how shit officials are.

been giving them sympathy calls for 20 minutes now. So boring and predictable

this is pretty brutal. Somehow there is massive space in front of and behind their defence

Longstaff looks a million dollars out there