Chelsea woes continues as their fans this time around had to watch the that once had bit and force at the Bridge reduced to an average team like Arsenal playing a parttern of football nobody is very sure of. Unlike his co student; Pep Guradiola whose record can point to the fact that his style of play needs his employer to give him time as was witnessed in Manchester City first reason under Pep, Sarri lack of record to prove that his style is implementable cast doubt in his philosophy which many think is a “dream”
After humiliating 6:0 lose to Manchester City about a week ago following series of loses against the likes of Tottenham, Arsenal and Bournemouth, this game asides the EUFA Europa league was one of those games that will test Maurizio Sarri stay in London and as expected, the Italian tactician failed once again to convince anybody, not even himself that his approach is workable.
In a pre-match interviews when he was asked why he finds it difficult to change his style of play. He insisted to not to alter his philosophy citing Barcelona as a team that is well predictable in their style of plat but still, teams still lose against them. From that response and with no sign of changing things at the moment, that means Sarri is ready to get this right not get axed. The worst problem here is that, he got little time to convince his impatient employers who are not known to be mercifully in wielding the axe at managers.
Manchester United went into this game without two of their key players in Lingard and Martial which everybody thought was a big advantage to Chelsea and considering they are playing at home. As usual, Solskjaer used the same game tactics Arsenal, Leicester, Everton and Tottenham used by making sure that Jorginho is choked out of the game like Sirgudsson, Dele Ali, Aeron Ramsey did as Mata was made sure he stayed close to Jorginho and that ends Chelsea threat with no option of plan B by Sarri. Jorginho was again was awful throughout the match.
Chelsea were really exposed in the spaces between the centre-back and full-back positions man by David Luiz at the center to punish Sarri boys. Ander Herrera and Paul Pogba were at the right spot at the right time with their runs into the area went untracked by the Chelsea midfield, allowing both to net before the break, all through a header that could have been contested by the defensive line and the young keeper did little to help his team. Rashford was another player really gave the defence more than they bargained for with his pace after Chelsea defence were caught open on many occasions. Statistics does not play football following Sarri 63% possession of the ball with what a term “boring passing” of the ball all over the place.
There were boos at half-time after Chelsea went 2-0 goals down with chants of "F*** Sarriball!" From fans at the Matthew Harding End of the stadium before the full-time whistle had even blown. It seems fans have ran out of patient with Sarri following their call times without number for him to play Hudson-Odoi but Sarri has continue to be stubborn to the fans yearnings.
The players cannot really be faulted at this point having seen where Chelsea problem is coming from. Hazard you will agree with me was the best Chelsea player on the pitch and his efforts was never questionable like wise other players. With Manchester City up again in Caraboa cup finals, Sarri will have to convince his employer that he is the man for the job.
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