With the new Chelsea board and management, I feel like I can not bet on Chelsea to win and lose at the same time. Chelsea is likely to struggle in many games this season, and I can’t afford to bet on them losing. Every team seems to be chasing a better version of Guardiola, but Chelsea doesn’t measure up mentally or tactically. I didn’t see any new patterns of play today in fact, the style they played today was disappointing and made little sense.
In my opinion, Chelsea did not play too badly today and that's probably because Manchester City didn't play excellently. Manchester City were without Rodri and it showed. They missed him.
Chelsea on the other hand did a couple of things right but couldn't score. How does a club spend over 1.3 billion and still have a player like Nicolas Jackson as their main striker? He was part of the reason they didn't score in the first half. The backup striker of this team is an academy graduate from Barcelona who was not good enough to replace an ageing Lewandoski.
Also, why did the coach have to play Enzo Fernandes as a no 10? Isn't he supposed to be a deep-laying midfielder? Since when did Enzo become a creative or attacking midfielder?
I know it's just the first game, but these are things that a coach should have known since.
Jackson shouldn't have started the second half, Enzo should have been taken off and Palmer should have taken the number 10 role. Pedro Neto should have come in to take over the right wing.
Well, it's just the first game, let's watch and see if Chelsea can get better.