I can’t bear in mind the final time I noticed Chelsea’s gamers ending like they did yesterday towards Fulham. Maybe when Cole Palmer was scorching and scoring for enjoyable.
Granted, Jadon Sancho additionally did it towards Ipswich to avoid wasting our complete embarrassment in that sport. However apart from that, we simply don’t end like that sufficient.
Actually simply half a sight of objective, one contact, and BANG! Typically they don’t even want the contact.
Satirically, Chelsea and Enzo Maresca have been saved by a Cobham starlet yesterday. After spending £1.5bn constructing a giant and costly squad, the hero of the day was Tyrique George, who banged in a worldie to avoid wasting one other embarrassing defeat.
The ball involves him, he has half a sight at objective, and his first contact is hit with conviction.
Why don’t all our gamers do that? Why aren’t they coached to do that? All of our attackers and midfielders want to look at this objective on repeat and do the identical factor.
Maybe that’s precisely what Pedro Neto had in his thoughts when the ball got here to him in an analogous space in stoppage time yesterday afternoon, as a result of his end was even higher and much more instinctive.
Neto let the ball glide throughout his physique together with his first contact, and spun to smash it house together with his second.
The definition of 1 contact, BANG!
Please can we do extra of this. That is the way you rating targets. Don’t enable time for gamers to reset and get the blocks in and extra numbers behind the ball, simply smash it with conviction. We don’t have to make that additional go when a shot is on.
The irony on this objective as properly was the construct up was so fast earlier than it, very a lot not what we’ve got grown used to seeing from ‘Maresca-ball’. However the sport opened up at this level and went very finish to finish which clearly suited us a lot better.
Belief in Cobham extra, maybe?
Play extra direct and quick, maybe?
Take photographs even when you have got a half sight on objective, maybe?
Do all these issues and we’re instantly higher off.
