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Chelsea might have something to say about that.

Two wins out of two under Xavi Alonso.

Probably not the scoreline he would have liked in the end against Brighton at the weekend, but they took the lead very early again.

Just four minutes on the clock when they got themselves in front against Brighton at home.

And important to start well at home.

Important to give the fans some cheer.

They didn't have too much to cheer across last season.

And here was Romeo Lavio who started the season well, poking in to give them a really good start.

But now, Joao Pedro was involved there.

Now, a lot of people have been talking about Cole Palmer and Morgan Rodgers and Joao Pedro makes up that front three.

Could you argue, Thierry, that he's actually as important, if not more important than any of them?

With the way that they are playing and how low they are when they play, he's vital because he holds the ball, he invites people in and he brings the ball up for them.

And also, he didn't go to the World Cup.

Let's not forget that.

He's on a mission this year and you can see it with the way he plays.

It's almost like a very close to, in a way, by the way, less meaty than what Didier Drogba used to do for Chelsea sometime when they were low.

As you're going to see here, that's the goal of Pedro Neto.

You're going to see he's going to properly pass it to Morgan Rodgers.

Morgan Rodgers is going to win his battle.

Pedro Neto comes in and scores.

Same here, him coming back.

Brighten on the ball like they were by the way the whole game.

And on this one he didn't start it.

That's Morgan Rodgers that comes to it.

Pass it.

I like what Ado does here.

You see grass.

Go.

As far as you can.

Don't stop.

And obviously, Joel Pedro receives that ball and scores.

That you would say kind of a normal thing to do.

But what I like is what comes now.

Boom.

Holds it.

Goes to Malogusto.

He asks for the ball okay the ball didn't come back

well he's gonna hold it a tiny bit of you know

what see you later he gets a foul way out did

he did he you know regardless of what it is he was there

and passed that ball

and then obviously that's that's just the you know that's what you you want to see at times

but i prefer personally this one they get the ball back he's gonna get it boom absorb contact

he doesn't go down he turns see you later next thing you know you're on the counter

and Brighton is gonna have to defend their box that's what he got that's what he does

and by the way we're going to talk about it later on they went long

so many times the one you have a player

that can play like that ball goes to Cole Palmer plays it straight away to Morgan Rodgers again Brighton are defending

their box and that happened so many times in

that way that's why i said for how he plays is

very important for chelsea at the minute especially the amount of gold

that they consider canime the switch

that he has martinez why do you want to put the ball down

and try to wait and play out from the back

when you have a player that can play like that

and give you that and a goalkeeper that can play long

or so obviously didn't score he could have passed the ball to call palmer there

But you're still there once again with him.

And him again here.

And then, yes, Cole Palmer scored, but he held the ball.

He realised where he was, passed the ball to Cole Palmer, and then we all know what Cole Palmer can do.

But the way he's playing right now is so important in terms of how Chelsea likes to play at the minute.

Chiri, when you talk about strikers, there's nobody better.

You understand strikers.

You're not a great lover of people who are just goal scorers.

For you, you always want a bit more.

So, I mean, where would you place him in the Premier League, in European football, in terms of what he's doing?

It's early doors.

But I think he has a chip on his shoulder because he doesn't go to the World Cup.

But right now, the way he plays, the way that his team plays also, suits the way he is and what he likes to do, having Palmer and Morgan Rodgers close to him.

But at the minute, the way he plays, like I said, it's not because you score goals that you played well.

And sometimes some guys cannot score goals

and are very important in terms of what the boss is asking and how the team likes to play.

But right now, for me, it's really hot.

It's still early to call big things on what he's doing or not.

There's still a season to go.

But right now, in how Chelsea likes to play, he's vital.

He's made a great start, as has that really exciting front three, which Chelsea fans are really excited about.

But they have conceded five goals in Javier Alonso's first two games in charge.

And for context, it took Arsenal last season 11 games to concede five goals at the start of the season.

So what's going on defensively?

Look, something is working well, as we saw, with the way they are when they're low.

But they conceded five.

And when they're low, it looks like some players or other teams, they don't know what to do.

And I'm talking about Malo Gusto, obviously.

We can find excuses for Malo Gusto because he plays as an old midfielder.

We can talk about Fofana and also Pedro Neto.

So at times you will look at it and I could have taken so many images, but look at my logo already right from the start.

You're one up.

He's looking at the boss and like, shall I go, shall I not go?

What am I doing?

Next thing you know, you play.

He's going to go because here, Alcuyo is going to go down and get the ball.

Labia is dependent on cross, of gross, sorry.

We're going to play it nothing is going to happen from that at that particular moment there is nothing like

not so right as you can see lavja is running

because sulla is going to drop that creates confusion but one thing

that i wanted to understand is the position of pedro netto

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people were talking about the back five he was kind of

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always in this type of situation never there never really here he was always kind of there is

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that because he's a winger rather than

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but you should know by now after three games

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because they had a game in the cup

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and you're free one up what you should be doing

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when you should be going the timing of everything first

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and foremost is back is to to the game but okay

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if you're here then i will explain that's your man if

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that guy passes you that's your man

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and you're going to see malo gusto now are going to say to joe pedro this is your man

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that everyone stays in position let them move and come to you

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but because he's going to retreat early look at Look at the amount of space Brighton's gonna have to operate.

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Look, Malagusto tell Joel Pedro to get his player.

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Look, he went down.

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So now he wants to go.

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And they end up at one point pointing at the same player who takes him.

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But what you have here is you're in trouble.

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If that ball goes to the Kuiper, which it will go to the Kuiper, if now the Kuiper controls the ball on the outside of his left foot,

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they would have been in trouble because that run would have killed them.

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They escaped punishment the ball is gonna go back.

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But what happened is if you pose here, you were defending here.

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Just because of that now you're defending here.

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You're not defending forward.

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This is why Brighton was enjoying possession and feeling like they were going to score.

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So play it.

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Ball is gonna go on the other side, but look at what Fofana is gonna do now.

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Ball is gonna go on the other side.

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Fofana is asking Malagusto to stay here when normally he should slide with his team.

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He's not going to slide because Fofana called him.

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They have nobody here.

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He shouldn't be calling him.

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Next thing you know, he stays because Fofana told him.

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Normally, he should have been there.

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If Brighton again wanted to punish them now with Boscagyi inside, they would have punished them because normally here,

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Malugusto should have been there.

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But Fofana called him again.

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You should slide with your team again.

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They escaped another punishment, but you are again lower.

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And now a ball is going to come here on Cardioglu.

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Pedro Neto doesn't know if he has to go.

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There is no urgency to stop the cross.

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Ball is in your box.

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They're not winning the second, the third, the fourth ball.

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And then Gomez maybe could have scored.

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But what happened from that is the goal came from that corner.

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And look at how Brighton is playing.

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So this Chelsea play is getting used to a new system.

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It looks like it's a 5-2-3.

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And is it a little bit of man-mark in the midfield as well?

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This is not criticism.

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This is what needs to be better.

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Because at the end of the day, they won two games.

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Like, if you're going to talk to your team, the message is a bit nicer to pass on because you won the game, but you can also concede five.

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But at that particular moment, now, again, Cardioglou goes there.

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You have your centre-back and your wing-back, winger, I don't know what was his position technically on the day,

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pushing out on the same player.

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He can make a run.

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He can make a run.

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They're gonna realize that they're making a mistake, they're gonna stop.

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But by stopping, who's going?

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Nobody's going.

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Who's going there?

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Who's stopping that cross?

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Look at now the spacing between the two centre-backs.

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If that ball is on the money, you're in trouble.

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You could see there is a lot of uncertainty and I invite you now to look at...

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It could have been 3-3 by the way, that's straight after the goal.

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Look at Pedronetto turning and going to the boss, what am I doing?

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You know what the boss did?

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Well, send him on the bench and for Fana too.

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That's exactly what happened.

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I'm not having a goal, but because they didn't know what to do, it changed him straight away.

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By the way, I rate him a lot.

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I'm just saying in order to be able to challenge Arsenal and go further, yes, you scored seven, but you're not going to concede and outscore every team all the time.

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That's early doors.

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I just wanted to highlight some of the stuff that they don't do so well.

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And yet again, there might be a personnel shift in coming weeks as well.

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There is, what, 24, 25, 27 hours left of the transfer deadline.

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It looks like Enzo Fernandes could be on his way.

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Manchester City have apparently reopened talks with Chelsea over Enzo Fernandes, but Lamine Kamara is being heavily linked with a move to Chelsea.

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So if it was Kamara and Caicedo in that midfield too, might that be a different story?

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Yeah, but it's pretty repetitive to the friendly games also at the beginning of the season.

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Sometimes it's not so much the personal, it's what you're trying to implement to your team.

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This is why they went long a lot.

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Sometimes some managers come to a club

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and put a lot of information in the head of the players

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and they don't understand at times what they need to do.

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That's why you didn't see once them in the game trying to play out from the back.

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I don't know because in some of the friendly games, some great players and players that understood the game, played in that situation.

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Caicedo came on after and he had a little issue, but Rhys James came on after.

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But it's about knowing when and the timing of it, especially when you wait and you want to jump.

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Or you do like you showed before, Jamie, with Hull City, 5-4-1, and you slide.

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Because if you miss that jump and you're not well against a team like that, they will open you up, and they did at times.

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Really eye-catching stats that will have caught your attention as well as ours after that game against Brighton.

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You see the possession, 26% at home, the average last season, 58%,

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mostly under Enzo Maresca, just 105 successful passes across the game as well.

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22% of those were long when you see the average last season was under 10% and straight into the team for Chelsea,

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the new goalkeeper, Emi Martinez, 97% long passes.

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I think only one time did he play it short.

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But all of that, Jamie, saw them create a non-penalty XG of almost three, but it was the lowest possession and successful passes for Chelsea on Premier League record.

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Was that what you were expecting from a Xabi Alonso side?

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No, I think when you go back to his Leverkusen team that won the title, I think we took up towards almost 60% possession.

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And it's not just, you're not used to seeing the big teams have numbers like that.

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It's because of Xabi Alonso.

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We're talking probably one of the best passes we've ever seen in the Premier League as well.

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Now, it's only two games, and Thierry just mentioned something to flag.

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Is there something, the way they're going to go about it going forward?

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Or is it because they got early goals in both games?

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Also, they were playing against Brighton, and we highlighted how good they were on the press against Aston Villa.

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So they're saying, OK, we've got a goalkeeper who can go long, and he can get it into João Pedro.

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But both games, and even last Monday, we were a little bit interested, weren't we, how easy it was for Chelsea to go back into that 5-4-1 away, full on the edge of the box

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and almost accept the opposition having possession is it is it

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the premier league evolving pep guardiola has moved on it we

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spoke about the premier league change in last season maybe being more direct about set pieces long throws coming in

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but the biggest thing

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and it's something iraiola said to me in an interview a

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couple of weeks ago he wasn't interested in possession the big

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thing for him as who has the most chances in the game

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and when you look at of the XG's about games for Chelsea, they have come out on top.

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But they are not things that we normally see from the biggest teams in our league.

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It was eye-catching enough for us to have a little delve back in terms of the stats

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and to see how that compared against other Chelsea low-possession performances.

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We actually took Manchester City out of this as opponents because certainly in the Pep Guardiola they were dominating games so much.

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But that was the lowest possession, as you already heard.

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And last Monday, his first game was also in that list of the lowest possession they've had in matches, and that's going back 23 years.

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Can you win a title?

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I mean, we've talked before about Ruben Amrim and Manchester United.

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We've talked about Oliver Glasner perhaps not being suitable for a bigger club because of the way he plays with his formation.

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Can you win a title playing this way?

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I think it'd probably be difficult, but Xavi Alonso's in there in two games, and he's trying to implement a lot.

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So in terms of actually playing out from the back, and he's going quite direct with the goalkeeper, we're seeing the slight problems that they have adjusting to a new system.

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There's a little bit of man-marking going on in midfield as well.

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So rather than probably bombard his players with so much sort of information about where he wants to take his team, it's probably baby steps early on.

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And hence why probably they're not looking to get on the ball so much, certainly when the goalkeeper's got it.

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But what I'm saying is game state always makes a big difference.

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So if Chelsea had gone behind in both games early on, I'm sure they'd be on the ball looking to obviously get back into the game.

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So it's just something to flag and just maybe, is that the way Xavi's going to go with it or is it because of the way the games fell?

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We'll keep it on it.

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I guess we'll learn a lot more next Sunday when they play Arsenal.

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No, but I just wanted to say, if you play out from the back also, you need that sure attitude.

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And so if you have some players that were at the World Cup

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and came back late and didn't work out really with that one, this is why I think it's going long.

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It's going long by design just

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because you don't have the time to work with some guys that are going to play later on.

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So like I said earlier, you need to make sure that you implement stuff but not too early because there's a lot of information sometimes to understand.

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He will have time and that's the point where I think people are a little bit excited

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or talking Chelsea up because he will have plenty of time on the training ground in between games and no European football.

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But like that, they won.

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But it has to change the way they defend when they're low.

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Two out of two.

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Two out of two.

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Six points on the board already for Xabi Alonso.

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Next up it is Arsenal with us next Sunday at 4.30.

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Before then, Kosovo joining us now because people have tipped you guys as title favourites.

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Do you feel it?

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Are Chelsea back?

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We asked the Man United fan if they're back.

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Blurring, tell us.

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Are the Blues back?

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I mean, it's about time that we're back.

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It's been 10 years now since the Premier League.

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I think these are exciting times.

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We can see we are scoring a lot.

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We are conceding a lot.

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But I mean, as long as we score one more than the opponent, I think that doesn't matter but eventually I think we will figure out that defence.

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But Morgan Rodgers, Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro, I think they will be the highlight of the season and potentially be a replica of what Costa,

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Pedro and Julio and Hazard were actually 10 years ago.

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Yeah, I mean, it's interesting.

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I mean, you signed Martinez and you still concede three, but you're absolutely right.

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It's all about scoring one more than the opposition.

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It is exciting times.

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And, you know, everybody are tipping Chelsea because they haven't got any European football.

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It's one game a week.

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Alonso is a terrific coach and can see what he's trying to develop.

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And it's a good way to start.

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The most difficult thing is to score goals.

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I think it'd be easier for him to stop conceding goals, didn't you?

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I think this is the same situation exactly as 10 years ago.

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I mean, we had finished, I think, 12th or 10th in 16th.

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Conte came, there was no expectation because there was no Europe and then we won the league.

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I think the goalkeeping position, I mean, obviously I feel bad about Sanchez, but I still think that Emilio Martinez is a better option.

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I don't think he was that fault for either of the goals.

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So I think he'll bring that experience.

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He's a world champion, he's a European champion, and eventually he'll pave the way for Penders to maybe be the first goalkeeper in one or two years.

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My only, let's say, my only concern is the midfield.

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I mean, with Enzo potentially leaving, I hope that we have someone else, maybe a potential Scott or Wharton, which I really adore.

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But then again, even if we don't, I think Lavia is actually finding his feet and being better since this is his fourth season, and actually this was the first time he played three games in real.

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So long may he reign.

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People are saying that Emi Martinez is the signing of the season, Blurham.

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Do you share that thought as well?

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No, no. I mean, he's a bit old in terms of football terms.

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And for me, the signing of the season should be

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and will be Morgan Rodgers because I believe because of his friendship with Cole Palmer, they connect better.

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I think Palmer needed someone that actually knows his game.

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And because Morgan was better than Palmer last season, now potentially this year they'll sort of transform powers.

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And given that they have Joe Feather up front, I think this would be the best time for them to shine, each of them.

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I mean, there'll be no, let's say, sort of egocentric behaviour like we had a few years ago with the penalty.

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And I think these three will dwell really well and potentially give us a title.

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But even if not the title, if we finish second, that's a great progress.

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And then next year we'll be able to roll.

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Well, going for second.

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Well done.

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Yeah, I was going to say the sky's the limit there.

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If it's not first, you're happy.

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So where do you see yourself then ranking amongst the other top teams? because you have a huge game coming up, Blurham.

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And I guess people will say that's the real test for you and Arsenal coming up against the defending champions.

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You made a huge statement there.

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How do you think you're finished?

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That game gives so much stress.

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Arsenal gives me so much stress

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because obviously we haven't beat them since like 2021 at their home and then 2018 at our home.

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I think, I mean, I can't expect a lot.

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To be honest, I'm feeling that this will be our only defeat or maybe the first half of the season.

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I believe we are better than Man United better than Liverpool

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and better than City because Pep left that's a simple reason not

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because I hate Maresca now

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but still Arsenal is a team to beat I do believe they have the greatest defence in the league

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and they have just added on to that especially with CONSA

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but then again I think that we have the best attack

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so that will be maybe the difference on Sunday hopefully a draw

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that will be perfect but if we win I'll celebrate like maybe a month

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going for a draw now going for second in the league

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now it's going for a draw they're really ambitious he said

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Arsenal's giving him stress we have to be realistic again music to my ears arsenal's giving blur and stress

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but very quickly then before we let you go how confident are you in chubby alonso

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and this project

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that he's got then in terms of taking you back to

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those those higher those higher heights in the premier league very

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confident i mean the main issue for chelsea has been the change of managers I mean, not even two years, four managers since Tuchel time.

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So I think if in this season we can finish, as I said, second or third, that would be ideal.

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Then he will have actually the base to fight for the title next season.

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Even though, you never know, I mean, this season can be the best.

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We saw what he did in Germany, so you can't write him off.

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But I still think that for this season, second should be maybe something to be proud of.

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And then we go for all.

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But you never know, football is always surprising.

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So let's see what happens on Sunday.

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If we don't get defeated on Sunday, then whenever I'm on here again, I'll say we'll go for the title.

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OK, so maybe seconds is a good target for you, given where you finished in the last five seasons, Blaring.

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But so, yeah, maybe I'll agree with you on this one.

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I think he's gone.

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He's crashed.

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Anyway, Blaring, thank you so much for joining us.

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One of our resident Chelsea fans on the show.

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But that's it for part one.

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