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Stuart Robson

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214 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

There's a lot of good wide players playing throughout Europe at the moment and he's one of those players that can go past people down the outside.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

He showed he's got a right foot as well because he's a left-footed player when he runs with it, scores with his right foot.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

He's got that bit of pace and he looks an intelligent footballer as well.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

Quite a lot of players that dribble with the ball, do it at the wrong times, they run into defenders.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

It looks as though he's got a bit of that football intelligence as well.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

So, yeah, good player.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

They've got to get it right at some point.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

they're not going to be... They will have to play as energetically as they did today, but they can't make that early mistake, because they could have gone one down today with that first pass, and they won it in midfield, Barcelona and Ferran Torre should have scored.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

If they did that against Arsenal and Arsenal score, then they're up against it.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

So they've got to make sure in that first 20 minutes they try and dominate Arsenal in terms of their intensity, and I would say get the ball into the front areas that little bit quicker, and don't give Arsenal a chance to go and press it.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

Because what happened?

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

You lose the fear factor.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

You know, in years gone by, when Man City were seven points behind Arsenal at this stage, I think in a couple of seasons, you went, oh, Man City are going to win all their games from now to the end of the season and Arsenal are going to have to do well.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

And people were frightened of Manchester City.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

They didn't want to go and play them.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

It's how can we stop them scoring rather than go and attacking them.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

Now you can go and attack Man City.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

There's lots of spaces to play.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

They've lost that fear factor, which is a big blow for them.

ESPN FC
Chelsea give Barcelona the Blues

He's got a big squad, but is it full of quality?