26 Feb 2020 10:09:31
We were poor last night, the players we had could, and should, have performed better. But I'm not overly disappointed by the loss. If you want to look to our failures in this season's competition, then look to our home game vs. Valencia. Not winning your group always make life difficult.
Lampard quite rightly pointed out the fact that Chelsea haven't been competitive in the competition for some time. It's going to take time and smart recruitment, not a CM or FIFA style mass overhaul, before we are competitive with the likes of Bayern, Real, Barcelona or Juve.
26 Feb 2020 10:27:15
I’m more disappointed in that performance than I have been for any of our other poor performances.
We have known for ages who we were playing and how they play and yet we left gaps between the lines allowing their give and go game so much space.
We didn’t track runners, our possession and positional play was at best poor with Rudiger being all over the place.
I love Lamps and I do think we have some very talented players but for me last night was down to him and the coaches. Let me make it clear, I want Frank to stay but he has to learn his best team and play with a consistent shape and pattern.
We have to improve the quality of our players and some will no doubt be sold. Also, some will be out of contract, so my guess is this will be a big window but it need to be.
26 Feb 2020 10:35:49
If I'm honest I as concerned when we put out exactly the same team as the weekend.
26 Feb 2020 16:52:25
Tom you have hit the nail on the head there mate. Despite all Bayern's brilliance, we have ourselves to blame and how the team was set up.
26 Feb 2020 17:09:17
I’m so cheesed off with last nights performance. It’s as if Bayern playing that way was a surprise.
Credit to Bayern but we were woeful and let them play. People will understandably blame the players and they do deserve criticism but it’s the manager and coaches who had plenty of time to work on systems and shape and for me they deserve more criticism.