20 Apr 2018 12:38:52
A decent performance although we just cannot kill a game off at all. Still not convinced at all by Bayakoko although with more game time Emerson caught the eye. What I noticed was how free we played and spread the ball about although we still have that dreadful habit of running towards our own players and then passing to them so the receiver has nowhere to go. Hazard looked sprightly BUT I felt for all his fancy play his appearance killed off our free flowing football and we reverted to playing the ball from one side to the other (often him) in front of a packed defence, short passes and flicks and our penetration went. As I have side before I was very pleased we signed Morata but the deterioration in performance has been dreadful for the money and clearly Conte was unhappy with his misses long before he brought him off.
20 Apr 2018 17:17:19
I know it is only reasonable to say that Morata has not seen enough time with us and too early to decide but IMO I see Torres in him. He might be good but he's not the striker we need. He's too fragile and don't have enough mental and physical strength to lead our attack. Morata can be a useful sub but not our main striker.
Regret all Costa's baggage but he would have been Drogba's replacement.
I feel Chelsea need a better striker than Morata as much as other quality players.
20 Apr 2018 18:19:56
Freeborn: I agree there is a lot of the Chelsea Torres in Morata and I have come to the conclusion that the EPL is not for him. He is fragile physically and temperament wise and defenders are on him too quickly although like Torres he does have good movement.
20 Apr 2018 19:23:57
at least he's young if we ever want to sell he should be snapped up handily enough athleti madrid maybe if they sell griezman?