Thought Chelsea were largely fine last night despite the build-up issues.
Enzo is an 8 who needs a Jorginho type facilitating the first phase progression for him. Oh well.
Build-up issues reverberated and impacted a lot of individual performances IMO.
Yet, with all these issues, some players like Reece back from injury and playing very cautiously, with all the new faces, it’s the 4th game in a row with positive xGD and little to show for it.
Fulham are far from a banter team, and this should have been a solid 1-0 or 2-0 win.
Whether Potter can handle a squad of 30+ players to build chemistry is the insight we’ll get from the remaining games, it’s a tall ask for managers used to drill much smaller squads.
The CM injuries, again, crucial and numerically nothing changed there.
Like I said, a lot of these new signings are project players. They’ll have a lot of ups and downs. The requirement is to get some of them up to PL speed to be legitimate week in, week out starters by next season.
I do find it funny how the same fans often angry at Roman’s short-termism are now absolutely losing their minds at a team not looking like prime Barca 3 days after the end of the window.
Those fans were lucky to have Roman because they clearly can’t handle any hardship.
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