Pressured Passing Grade in the Premier League this season.

~ Gradient_Sports

According to Football London, Six players who could leave Chelsea as Enzo Maresca eyes January transfer window fire sale.

- Tosin
- Buonanotte
- Disasi
- Sterling
- Badiashile
- Jorgensen

How the table stacked up one year ago today 📈

Can we recover our little falloff?

🏟️ Difficulties in securing either improvements to Stamford Bridge or building a new home ground limit Chelsea’s growth potential.

Chelsea are the only club among the ‘Big 6’ who don’t earn over £100million a season in matchday income.

(via TheAthleticFC)

Reece James: “Aston Villa have been on a great run as their league position shows, so we know we'll have to be on it today and we'll be leaving it all out there. I'd also like to welcome back three of our former team-mates here, Ross Barkley, lan Maatsen and Jadon Sancho, although they're our rivals today until the final whistle blows!”

[Captain notes]

Only Arsenal (10) have scored more Premier League goals from corners this season than Chelsea (8). ⚽️

Why Badiashile why

We need to win this for Sanchez

Guys, what on earth did we buy for 55 million?

Anselmino ▶️ Hato
Dewsbury-Hall ▶️ Andrey Santos
Madueke ▶️ Gittens/Garnacho
Nkunku ▶️ Buonanotte
Jackson ▶️ Delap/João Pedro

How did we spend a £250m downgrading our squad😭😭

🚨 Maresca says Cucurella complained about his hamstring and had to come off.

🚨 Maresca hints at a lack of experience in the squad saying that we lost control after conceding.

Maresca also says we arrived 1v1 with the wingers “so many times” and needed to do better:

I’m giving my best as a fan but I’m struggling in all honesty. When you realise that Behdad Egbhali and the sporting directors will never take any ounce of accountability it’s sad.

Maresca gone in summer. Will be blamed for not getting best out of new signings when above have spent over a billion for a handful of really good players who deliver every week.

In comes another coach with more young players expected to work in conditions they’ve all called out. Rinse and repeat. Definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I don’t even get angry anymore, I’m just tired, worn out of the inconsistency and refute to adapt and then being gaslighted.

We can try but we can change nothing, they’ve chosen their route and everyone else is wrong and that’s all there is to it as far as they are concerned

[Via pys]

Maresca has lost four home Premier League games when going 1-0 up, with only Glenn Hoddle (5) losing more as Chelsea manager.

[Via BBC]

Badiashile and Trevor just vibing as the ball goes through Watkins and he scores uncontested.

What are they marking?

4 years and we're still here

Billions wasted, time we can't get back. That club world cup win was fun but it tricked us into thinking we were actually good.

🚨 Alongside Arsenal, Chelsea make the earliest changes, averaging their first sub at 48 minutes, often at HT. Despite this, their subs have contributed only 3 goals and 1 assist in the league this season.

Chelsea's average age of their starting XI is 24 years and 219 days, while substitutes average 21 years and 349 days – both are the youngest in the league. 👶

[Via Nizzar Kinsella]