Premier League Gameweek 1

He is neither a mighty midget nor the smartest ass, a bit like Bernardeschi, Expectations to contribute straight away in a declining squad and the inability to adapt to a tactical, conservative set up just killed his morale.
How do you find Allegri's style of play?
 
Or a defensive approach to keep them in matches and hope they take their chances, similar to what Rooney did at Derby. But Lampard has really no clue as to what he wants nor does he want to accept being more cautious and defensive to start out with.

Wrong. He's said his preference is a back 4 but he is choosing a back 5 to be more cautious in these games and compensate for injuries. This whole line up is about being cautious and countering.
 
This Chelsea kit is horrible, some sort of half Inter, half QPR golem.
 
Or a defensive approach to keep them in matches and hope they take their chances, similar to what Rooney did at Derby. But Lampard has really no clue as to what he wants nor does he want to accept being more cautious and defensive to start out with.

I think that’s the problem. Lampard doesn’t have the tactical nouse to grind out a lot of clean sheets to compensate for the lack of goals.
 
The physio definitely said "Fractured" to the ref who then signaled for a stretcher.

Lampard really does look bad.

Put on a good bit of weight, losing hair, the outfit etc
I did miss that. But you could see that his ankle was in bad position.
 
They wait to put the flag up as they can just check the build up if a goal is scored. By not stopping play, a player is injured.
VAR has no involvement in that at all regardless of whether the ball was out or not. Linesman or referee should spot that the ball is out. Neither does.
 
How do you find Allegri's style of play?

He’s not as bad as they say… simply put, he is a men manager, not a football coach. Without grown-up, smart players a la Khedira, Pjanic, Mandzukic, etc. he is lost.
 
That looked pretty dodgy, especially with Sterling's, er, pelvic posture.
 
VAR has no involvement in that at all regardless of whether the ball was out or not. Linesman or referee should spot that the ball is out. Neither does.
But the linesman is supposed to hold his flag until the play has stopped because if he prematurely raises his flag and the ball wasn’t out after all (as seen by VAR) then a perfectly good goal would have been ruined. That’s where VAR comes in. If VAR wasn’t there the linesman immediately flags it as he sees it and Godfrey doesn’t get injured (if the linesman saw it as ball over line)
 
Wrong. He's said his preference is a back 4 but he is choosing a back 5 to be more cautious in these games and compensate for injuries. This whole line up is about being cautious and countering.

You just proved my point by saying "these games". His overall approach and trying to work off a foundation of that back 3/5 should be the norm and catalyst...but it is not.