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Chelsea to Be Knocked Out Early from Champions League 2021/2022
Breaking News: Chelsea Are Set to Be Knocked Out Early from Champions League 2021/2022. If the Blues manage to avoid Bayern Munich in the last 16, they will probably not survive the quarterfinals.
No match is easy in the UCL knockout stage, Chelsea only have 4 teams (Lille, Real, Ajax and Munich) to draw for. Even if they draw Lille, which is currently the least in-form team based on league and ucl performance, it can still be a banana skin match if they fail to win their first leg at home.
Champions League holders Chelsea are having to do things the hard way in the new year again. In conceding a stoppage-time equaliser in a pulsating 3-3 draw at Zenit St Petersburg, Thomas Tuchel’s side finished runners-up in Group H.
Thomas Tuchel Chelsea Beat Man City 1-0 to Win Champions League last season 2020/21
Currently, Chelsea have been battling injuries in the midfield, Kante is out, Jorginho is being overplayed and out with a back injury, Kovacic just came back from a hamstring but had COVID yesterday so he was out, Loftus-Cheek got injured during the warm up, Saul is awful in the midfield, Trevoh Chalobah picked up an injury against West Ham when he covered in midfield….. so Barkley and Reece had to play there. The knockout rounds start in February; so maybe it’s too early to be concerned about Chelsea when these important midfield players will be back before Feb and the blues can potentially get reinforcements in key positions back in the January transfer window.
ESPN FC’s Shaka Hislop and Alejandro Moreno lambasted Chelsea’s rotation, defense, personnel moves, and possible opponents in the knockout stages. it is funny how everyone’s reading too much into the Blues recent “defensive crisis” Yes, Chelsea have conceded 3 goals each in their last game but am I worried about the long term? No!
Chilwell is out injured. Kante is out injured. Kovacic is out injured. Chalobah is out injured. Lukaku just came back from injury and clearly is lacking fitness. Jorginho was playing with hip pain apparently past few weeks because of lack of personnel and is now out injured too apparently. Loftus Cheek also picked up an injury during practice last night.
There is a night and day difference between the Blues’ best players and subs.
I feel that Tuchel didn’t really care about finishing 1st, hence all the changes and all that rotation. We’ve seen recently that too many changes don’t work out too well for Chelsea. OK, many players are injured and many games are to be played, but still, some stability is still needed. The defense was very bad sadly.
Chelsea are having that weird injury crisis that Liverpool endured with their defenders last year. It’s almost impossible for any team to prepare for a situation where all your midfielders get injured. Never seen anything like this before and as such you cannot judge them as a team in this sort of state.
A fully fit Chelsea squad will take on any big team and beat them hands down,. The good news is that Come February , Tuchel will have his midfielders all fit hopefully.
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3-3 draw between Manchester United and Galatasaray in UEFA Champions League – Group A. They also analyze the performance of goalkeeper Andre Onana and the chances of Erik ten Hag’s side of advancing to the knockout stages.
Not saying Onana is done at Utd but surely ETH needs to give the back up a chance at this point. Even DDG needed to come out of the team briefly when he first came to the club. Gives him a chance to build his confidence away from the spot light. But TBH DDG was never this bad to begin with sm
Throwing away leads, basic mistakes and tonight, despite Onana performing better recently we might as well have had Jonny Evans in goal.
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As much as I like eth, he caused our exit by bringing in a keeper not too familiar with EPL. In fact he should not have sent David away the way he did. He should have kept him and the duo should have competed. Onana errors contributed a lot to the exit
Tactically, I think ETH did pretty much everything correctly. Outside of Magelof not being good enough in general, the only criticism I can offer is that Mainoo should’ve come on for McGhost after he scored his goal. Solidify that midfield and shut everything down.
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The keeper had a bad game and had a lot already this season which isn’t great but let’s hope he gets better as the season goes cause I remember when De Gea first came to United and he was not great as well but he matured, got stronger and became a great goalkeeper. But ETH needs to replace Onana for the next game and let him know that he needs to step it up.
David de Gea short-term fix Manchester United
As a United fan I have to disagree with the assessment of the performance. There was no control, no maturity. United give the ball away far too easily for this level. When you have less possession than a Sean Dyche team and then get 43% against Galatasaray, you’re not the technical side the manager wants to build. I feel sorry for Onana, he’s been doing much better recently. The mistakes he’s making are so basic it speaks to a mental problem. My hope is that Onana will feel much more comfortable when we develop into the team Ten Hag wants. Need to bring in ball-playing CBs and controller midfielders in the next two windows. Then we’ll see the real picture.
I honestly hope we finish bottom of the group so they can just focus on the domestic front. This team is poor to say the least and we will get knocked out in the second round even if we scale through by some miracle. So best not to, as for “O na na, whats my name” Don called it! He needs to reassess his priorities as a goalkeeper… now I’m ranting on YouTube, darn you ManUtd!
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Can David de Gea be the short-term fix Manchester United needs? | If I was him I wouldn’t go back there after the way he was disrespected .. I can’t believe the management could be this bold and daft after the treatment they gave that guy.
Don’t do it!!! They decided you weren’t good enough and decided to get onana. Even if you took a pay cut, it would of been to facilitate onana. That’s tells you what you need to know
Of course teams have offered him contacts and he’s chosen to say no. He’s said very clearly he’ll go to club fighting to win things and unfortunately all the top clubs have keepers. He might come back when the right club wants him.
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Wonder if Man U is telling Onana to skip the African cup due to his recent poor performances. Otherwise they’re telling him his spot is at risk
United have no transfer strategy so this potential move makes 100% sense. Afterall they bought Mason Mount for 50 million to warm the bench.
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It will be a mess and destabilising if we bring him back.. Shoking how he was treated after 12 years. And we bought a young goalkeeper, surely he gets a chance and we still have Heaton I believe.. What’s the point anymore? 😆 We’re a joke!
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De Gea deserved better treatment. He should plain down reject any offer or entertain the offer just to reject it. The Man Utd negotiators could not negotiate their way out of a brown paper bag, absolutely disgrace to their profession.
If they bring him back prep for a new manager. Cause ten hag is clearly incompetent.
And he’s been offered but he won’t take less than what he is worth, he’s a golden glove winner and a legend 🤷🏽. Onana can’t even distribute this season and can’t stop a beach ball.
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It’s a strange one this because de Gea priced himself out of a job. He wanted a contract worth more than than the £375k a week he was already getting, and Man United originally agreed to one, and then changed their mind, and I don’t blame them. He’s worth $75 million thanks to MUFC.
He was the World’s richest goalkeeper last season, and while he is a great goalkeeper, most pundits would name either Nuer or the recently retired Buffon as the greatest goalkeeper of the last 15 years, and most pundits would put the Brazilian duo Ederson and Becker as the best keepers in the Prem right now. What I’m saying is that at $75 million net worth de Gea could have afforded to be philosophical about it all and perhaps taken a pay cut.
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Still can’t believe Eriksen plays for Man United, especially after we all know what happened to him. I still remember that day and honestly thought we’d lost him. So happy to see him around and still playing.
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Glad to see Eriksen get his praise. He was always my favorite player at Spurs. Lack of competition in the squad forced him to regress a bit in his career. Barcelona/Real Madrid were interested at him at a time. Then he went to the demon Conte, who doesn’t know how to handle flair footballers. And of course after his health situation, happy he got to perform at Brentford, and for Ten Haag with his creative flair. Though now Man Utd have both Ambrabat, and Casemiro, should make him perform much better in a free role! Or at least backup to Bruno.
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The only reason i dont see Eriksen starting is because it doesn’t always look like he can play a full match, hence ETH has to be wise regarding when he should put Eriksen in the game. But everytime he’s subbed on, the entire team breaths easier and gains that extra sense of control. A game that was otherwise frantic, uncoordinated, improvised and scrappy, was all turned around when Eriksen came on the pitch. Gosh I wish we could see more to him.
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The midfield in the Derby has to be him, Brumo and Amrabat.. whenever Eriksen plays deeper, it releases Bruno.. this experiment of Bruno playing as a deep playmaker and Mctominey as a 10/Second Striker has clearly failed.
We know Eriksen can’t play 90 minutes, but ETH should try to start with him and find a comfortable lead before subbing him off. I don’t remember Bruno having any influence on the game, or in previous games, he is so panicked in possession unlike Mr.Cool here. I would swap them around and see what happens.
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