The men of Leeds are not joking in this game. They have dominated the game from defence through midfield and attack. They have the possession, they have the attack and dangerous attack and the crown it all, they are leading with 2goals. I am thinking how possible it is to for Chelsea to change the score in the second half. With these same players that I am see here, it is purely impossible. Unless Tuchel will have to import another set of players and buy borrow a striker from Manchester City to achieve it.
Thomas Tuchel just need two changes to win this game back. Unfortunately we can't sub anybody in the midfield as both N'Golo Kanté and Mateo Kovačic are out due to injuries so either Ruben Loftus-Cheek gets substituted for César Azpilicueta or Chalobah to come in or he get moved to the midfield. The issue is that his wing isn't effective in this game and Reece James needs to be moved back to his usual wing. Playing him at his current position is slowing our attack.
Well the game isn't over yet, we didn't play that bad, it's just that the mistake from Mendy gave Leeds some motivation and they capitalized on it and now have a second goal to hold unto. The second half just began so now lets see what Chelsea can do to get something from this game.
Chelsea starts this season where they began half through last year. They have been very strong last season during the first half, but then conceded way too many goals in decisive phases of the game and they also didn't have the offensive power necessary to also score several goals per game. They often scored once and it was enough in a lot of games, but I doubt that they will compete for the trophy in their current shape.
The only good thing is that City also lost points, but it won't be an easy season either way. In a best case scenario we see a much closer field than last year when Liverpool and City led the field by more than a dozen of points.
So no doubt that this was a painful result for Chelsea but perhaps it was the right timing and functions like a wake up call. Chelsea gave away a number of offensive players. It will be interesting to see how he is going to set up the offensive for the coming games. He has a lot of players that are somewhere between midfield and offense, and Lukaku didn't work out that well. Compared to City they always had a similar situation but now solved it by signing Haaland. It feels like Chelsea could need a similar type of player.
