I generally like the idea of covering a team that has weaknesses where not everything goes well. Covering highly successful top teams is done enough. And this way you can actually learn a lot more about football in a realistic way. I also like that you didn't talk exclusively about tactics but also individual quality/mistakes of players. It's just way more realistic that way and allows you to empathize with a manager like Pochettino. I think he is a good manager but Chelsea is a difficult "project" for any manager.

Well i think the problem in defence is three things: 1. Injuries with our defensive midfielders in lavia and ugochukwu 2. We mostly have slow centre backs in disasi, badiashile, silva and maybe colwill. Plus our fast centre backs in chalobah and fofana have had their injury woes. 3. Caicedo mostly played on the right while enzo played on the left meanwhile it should be the other way round. Enzo plays on the right to form a triangle with palmer and gusto with his strong foot able to play the ball between them while caicedo plays on the left to enable him defend with his strong foot. Either way it would work sooner than later and we are trying to adapt in situations like this. Nice work on the channel by the way. Keep it up 👍🏾

Thanks for highlighting how most of Chelsea defensive woes have been personnel issues and not structural issues. I find it interesting that whenever Poch plays a double pivot of Gallagher with either of Caicedo or Enzo we have our best games of the season like the Gallagher-Enzo pivot against Liverpool where Enzo had arguably his best game of the season on MD1. Earlier in the season after Caicedo joined Poch was playing a Gallagher-Caicedo pivot with Enzo at 10 that may explain our better defensive form earlier on. But Enzo wasn't very effective in the 10 so he got put in the pivot with Caicedo and Gallagher in the 10. Gallagher is more effective than Enzo there but isn't the best, players like Chukwuemeka and Nkunku who could probably fill in at 10 have been consistently injured. The Caicedo-Enzo pivot as you pointed out probably coincided with our dip in defensive form and with Gallagher not very effective in the 10 Palmer was given more of a free role on the RW where he could move around and drop in midfield to create chances. Poch also had the option of playing Palmer or Mudryk in the 10 but with neither having as much work rate off the ball as Gallagher, playing either ahead of a Caicedo-Enzo pivot would have probably been an even worse disaster. As we saw against Sheffield or even 1st leg against Manchester United where Palmer was in the 10 ahead of Caicedo and Enzo we lacked control and succumbed to a disappointing draw and a loss. Recently against Everton we saw a pivot of Gallagher-Caicedo again with Palmer in the 10. We controlled the game better, scored six and kept a clean sheet for the first time in 13 matches having conceded a minimum of 2 goals in each of our last 7. I wonder if this is a template Poch will lean to again during the remaining matches due to Enzo's fitness concern.

The counters on Enzo and caicedo also mainly happen because our wingers outside of palmer are far too quick to concede possession we lack ball retention in the final third

For me, Chelsea's biggest problem is the lack of leadership and experience. It's literally just a bunch of kids playing together for the first time, with Sterling who still plays like a 20 year old and occasionally Thiago Silva playing. The problem is not Pochettino at all.

Finally we have a video about Chelsea 😂😂 it's been a long time ⌛

What i observed is Chelsea attack with 2 1 2 5 formation which leaves way too much space

Loved this, interesting analysis 👍

Your videos are perfect. I like the fullbacks but they need to be more active defensively. That midfield will be sorted out soon, i think

First time on your channel, such a great graphic! Awesome job! I think Lavia will be a better partner for Enzo, James and Chilwell are better in defensively then Cucu and Gusto. In addition we could try to switch into 3-4-3 formation, due to the fact that we don't have really good wingers, 5 defenders, and James might play with Malo together

Class video ❤

Great video man! I think Chelsea need 2-3 more signings for the first team with experience in some areas that they lack both quality and experience. CB (Thiago Silva is getting older and doesn’t suit a high press team anymore) LB (Chilwell hasn’t been consistent with the injuries and his quality has dropped a little due to that + Cucurella is not good enough) and ST (You need someone with a little more experience than Jackson to lead the Attack, even though I think Jackson is a great player) maybe a different winger if they sell Raheem, and then you bring all the injured players back (Reece, Fofana, Nkunku, Lavia) then Chelsea can compete for top 3 in the Premier League next season

Your analysis is well done. Hence the solution is laying in the way he rotates the following 4 players. He should start Caceido, Ghalager and palmer depending on the opponent, or Enzo, Ghallager and Palmer on other games. One of the center back must try to slightly move forward or sideways to allow the keeper to be also involved accordingly. We will ha a balance against the lowblock teams as well as the open play teams. With the quality that we have, we will be able to score and not concede a lot as we have been conceeding.

very interesting, as always... Which software do you use in your videos?

This is the main problem of Poch, he should have explored playing like this at the start of the season and tried being more defensive towards the end of the season.

Do a video on Arne Slot please. Your analysis is amazing.

As a Chelsea fan, I've been waiting for this video for a long time 😂

Please do a video about Pioli and Milan, I would really like to understand what's with these ups and downs that the team had this season

I remember watching “Why Chelsea can’t score” months ago and this video complements it. It’s brilliant. The insight you provide between then and now is clear and coherent. Thank you

Could you maybe do a video about De Rossi’s Roma?

Only time will tell if we build on this form and stay fit 💪🏾

​@FootballMeta It's hard. Inconsistency is something we are used to at Chelsea and we have never seen anything so perfect. You can see that the team that won the Champions League will struggle in the league. But the project that was started now seemed to fix that inconsistency, but since it is the first season, we have not seen anything different. There are more problems than positive things. Chelsea's culture is to be successful in a short period of time, or to be cool in every game, or to be a cup team, it is not necessary to see cool things.

Please make a video on Stuttgart

The Timing of the publishing of video is amazing

Knowing Poch, we should get a target man for deep blocks. I recall Llorente having a mamoth season at Tottenham a while back. Someone aging and not really insistent on starting, Chris Wood would do. Adds prem experience and leadership. Also a cm who is box to box and mature. Dream player is Rabiot, he also has the physicality Prem needs but should be expensive. Alternatively, a replacement for Gallagher advance role who has workrate but infuses creativity, Morgan Gibbs-White can be a good player to provide this while still being young. But thats a 70M+ player given Nottinghams investment. For the backline, Cucurella leaves and if we sell Maatsen, we can get a decent future option to compete with Chilwell, someone like Quentin Merlin would have been great as he can swip in great deliveries. France has plenty to look at and Gusto has shown this. CB- We should replace Thiago SIlva. Perhaps get our former players, Tomori or Guehi. They are top and offer speed so transistions shouldn't bother us much after. Knowing my club, this would not happen tho

We are not compact enough defending and the cover in transition is poor. Fernandez is not mobile enough to support Caicedo defensively. We still do not move the ball quick enough through the lines and we need to use diagonal switches of play more often. As well as playing the ball over presses when we are struggling to play out of the back.

Hi! Could you please do an Arne Slot video?

The problem is the center area when they lost a ball they got easily to counter attack however since they got humiliated by arsenal, rn pochetino doing some impressive movements they are play some inverted fullback like in aston villa and whu match, the idea is to cover a center area with cucurela and caicedo together being a double pivot while Gallagher/ the other partner of caicedo left him , due to need an extra player in attack zone, rn they are balance in deffense and attack but let's see if this is the true answer to fix their problem

Make video about Arne Slot please!

A cool think I think you should do is talk about champions league games. eg. Man City vs. Real Madrid. And talk about how Man City won and what man city could have done to win the game. I like to watch stuff like that, and i hope you can do something like that.

Can you provide an analysis course ? I Really need this kind of education!

Can you maybe make a video on athletic club pls ? 🙂

could you make analysis about Man Utd bad defense structure?

I hadn't watched any of their matches, so I don't know much. But from this video, I think their wingers need to be improved (not replaced), not better support in width.

Decent video. Though a couple of things to add. Palmer has actually rarely played as a 10 for us this season. He probably should have and has generally been excellent in the few instances that he has played there but it hasn't been a regular occurrence. Gallagher has actually been our starting 10 for most of our games and much like when enzo played there he limits the attacking potential of the team imo. His overly enthusiastic pressing is a big reason why enzo and Caicedo usually have so much space to manage. In terms of the individual errors, there is virtually no pattern and sequence to anything we do and there are frequently very limited passing options in our buildup. The lack of a rehearsed pattern and overeliance on improvisation leads to hesitation, confusion and ultimately seemingly basic errors.

Video for Arne Slot maybe? he's joining liverpool now

Fernandez is not cut for a two-MF-pivot in the Prem. The ball moves too fast for him; he's also small and leaves large swathes of land undefended.Surprisingly his dribbling through the press is quite mediocre; he gives away about 20 balls/match. To make matter worse, his subpar performance forces Caicedo to constantly mop-up after him , which is a real pity: Caiceido has great potential going forward. This has become glaring in the last few games when Connor deputized for Enzo. Connor efficiently covers a large area, defensively, which frees Caicedo to push up the field and contribute with runs and one touch ball deviations. Enzo should not be automatic starter, regardless of being a world cup winner and all that.

As for me, I can see that the double pivot of pochdoesn't work in most of our games he should start one and bench one either. Also the pairing of disasi/badiashile with any of our defenders are more even worser because these two players lacks confidence and they make a lot of mistakes during the match.

In my opinion inorder for better Chelsea next season need to deal with Injury problem they need to buy experienced 2 central defenders ,1 central defensive Middlefield who can partner up with E. Fernandez, 1 experienced left wing and right wing Loan players like - Badishile, Chalobah, L. Colwill, Chukwumemeka, R. Lavia, Ugochukwo, C. Casadei, Mudryuk Sell players like -M.Sarr, ziyech and farewell for Thiago silva and lastly I would like Lukaku in the starting lineup.

Can you check out Terzic's Dortmund Tactics? Theyve been a revelation this season in Europe and are still very competitive against Rising Teams in Germany.

1 fix might be to play with Gallagher deeper. Have Enzo play the Pirlo role with Caïcedo and Conor on both sides of him for their legs. Cole, Jackson, and Nkunku, when fit, could combine up top with Malo and Ben overlapping.

The manager. Top teams with top transfer spend hardly ever have bad squads, hence the problem normally is the manager. Be its leadership style, its communication abilities or simply their ability as a manager (which we are suffering in Barcelona)

We may have a little flaw in the whole tactical structure. But the main issue is rhe profile of the players. Are they a counter attacking squad? Are they a ball possession squad.? Caicedo is decent. Enzo is weak...he is not good defensively...neither is he superb in attack with great passes. Gallagher works hard...but he is lacking technically for a team that has eye for trophies. Mudryk Sterling Madueke lose the ball seriously cos it's not in them. The defense of Disasi Chalobah Colwill badiashile is midtable.

We need a fast CB and RB to cover for gusto,Chalobah and Tiago incase of an injury

Mudryk, palmer and Madueke have only started 1 games together all season. Usually, Palmer plays off the right and drifts inwards, and Gallagher drops slightly deeper.

New COACH Quality Grade A.

Do Arne slot newly appointed Liverpool manger 🙏🙏

no change . They just need to give the coach more time

Which software do you use to edit and to use the formation video

Great content. Let Poch know. 😂😂

Changing to a 3-4-3 seems to solve some of our defensive and structural issues without necessarily limiting our attack

It all started with too many new players in a too short amount of time, plus injuries. That led to poor results and then low confidence. 4 managers later and they still haven’t found that confidence. I think Potch should be given another season with this squad

what need to change? Easy, medical stuff or whatever is the reason for players having so many long term injuries.

The main problem is that out wingers our lazy and don’t track back and Cucerella is a league 2 full back

That is why caicedo and Gallagher is the best combination in pivot. we had the best performance against everton where we did not concede, thanks to these boys amonng others.

What do you think about Gallagher playing Cam against weaker teams or teams that sit back forcing Palmer wide right

chelsea need players like thiago silva, with him having his farewell this season, chelsea desperately need an experienced player who can motivate and guide the youngsters

We just need experience and a healthy squad

As a Chelsea fan I'm 100% supporting Pochettino. He needs time

But I think there is someone who can fix it all. Roberto De Zerbi knows a lot of players in the team for such a project with emerging players in the cool transfer budget provider investors group.

The squad building has been terrible how can we have so many weaknesses after a billion pound Sporting directors have done a terrible job

i think the problem is lack of Experience. being a child could make you rush to the goal instead of considering the highest chance to get the goal.

Honestly, there is not much Poch can do, a solid back 3 in possession is what nearly every team uses successfully to fight counters. They need better defenders. And this doesn't mean buying Inacio and Mancini and every in-form CB out there, but instead repurposing players. Shift Caicedo back to CB. Experiment with Mudryk and Moreira as full-backs. Chelsea has enough depth, they just need to start using it.

Oldest at the club is thiago silva after that its raz and then a 26 yr old disasi

i think if we want to better defensively we need a gallagher caicedo pivot

These sound very similar to the tactics from his most successful period at Spurs

Chelsea's biggest mistake was buying Caicedo. I'm not disputing him as a player I think he is not what we needed. What we need is a pure CDM i.e Onana from Everton. When we get him and pair him with Enzo we might see an improvement in defense

The problem will be that they will probably have to sell Gallagher in the summer to avoid FFP troubles, and Thiago Silva will also probably leave. So that's pretty much all your leadership gone. Boehly seems allergic to buying anyone older than 22, so I can't really see them having a better season in 24-25, despite the brilliance of Palmer and the improvement of Petrovich and Gusto particularly

Chelsea needs a coach

7:44 The manager

Why we playing better without enzo

One of biggest issue is Gallagher playing the 10. He hides from getting the ball and offers absolutely no creativity. Just passes sideways or back every single time if you watch

Play Gallagher at 6 to give Caseido more room for error. Gallagher is extremely intelligent and reliable but he is a "play it safe" type of guy hence he struggles in areas that require risking with the ball and a lot of times will try to avoid the risk altogether. He has the skills, the technique and the physic he justs lacks the guts of risking the team to make good play. Also he strives in a team with a good anchor man, a play maker a cut in winger and a high line my full back as it allows him to make decisions using the process of elimination, drift into the wide area to make deadly crosses, use his body to protect the ball and lay it of to players who actually want the ball, get into scoring position and protect his defence incase of a counter where the full back has moved high but Chelsea don't have that. They buy they do have number 8 players who can build up the and create chances and fullbacks who a comfortable on the ball during the build up phase. So why not just give him a simple job and let the 8s and the fullbacks do the rest. This will maximize the abilities of all the players and benefiting everyone while compromising him. He is a team player so he doesn't mind

One of the Mai problems is Poch playing Gallagher every game like he’s prime lampard. Doesn’t make any sense to me to not atleast try someone else in that role

It's all Palmer let's not get it twisted. I've just watched us lose 5-0 to Arsenal

Moisés Caicedo was OVERPRICED....his lack of defensive ability will cost Chelsea They need to get Lavia up and running to play along Ceicedo/Enzo 🔥

Loan out Jackson, sell Sterling and Mudryk, and bring in a real striker that languishes in the lower half of the table

Firstly Chelsea needs to change their whole medical department. Injuries have been a problem for far too long.

Consider Potter + Lampard's record. Pochettino's defensive tactics are not good. Also, without Palmer and Champions League, Poch has considerably lots of time to rest players.

Pair callagher with caicedo or callagher with Enzo, that's all

That’s sterling selfish not to assist always haunt me

Need to change the manager the striker and the defense. Sell disasi and Badiashile give Thiago another year, bring in kimmich and victor as the main striker...sell madueke also watch how the club gets back into a proper team

They need to change manager

Chelsea's biggest problem is their owner .They need to change that !!

Chelsea need a striker and a mature central defender now!

Chelsea need to change the manage sorry but he is tactically inept, and has no proven record as a serial winner in terms of trophies, it's like he is allergic to the winners medal... he has G2G

Who here after the 5-0 thrashing

Todd Bohely

A lot of this isn’t right. We’ve only played a back 3 this season when we’ve come up against other teams also in a back 3 (like Brentford). We’ve mainly played 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 with Palmer coming inside from the right or Gallagher as the #10 or one of the midfielders. It was really only against Everton that Palmer played centrally, and that was mainly because Gallagher had to play deeper since Enzo was out.

Conner ghallager in the attacking third is Chelsea's problem. This guy is not good in attack.

I just realized Fofana was a Chelsea player. 🤣

All poch has to do is play palmer 10 and two wingers at the same time and not start disassi i swear we will start flying

So far that million pounds midfielder can't even control the midfield proper yet.

We need an actual ball playing goalie

Will Chelsea be great again ?

Just don't play Badiashile

Tactics??? There aint any.

Who came here after arsenal?

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High risk high reward, not sustainable enough in my opinion. Hope we get a different manager end of the season.