Gab & Juls Show: Why didn’t Chelsea attack Arsenal more?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gab, he's Jules. Gray and miserable skies over West London. The sort that makes you want to stay in bed and crawl under the covers. Yes. That's how we felt this morning. Not that we sleep in the same bed or spend that much time together. Sorry to disappoint you there. But we still have a ton to talk about. We came out and we braved the elements for this show because, Jules, plenty going on. Barcelona advancing 2-1 in the Copa del Rey against Albacete. Inter also advancing in the Copa Italia. And, of course, we had the League Cup.
Yes, we have our finalists.
As some people like to call it. Sponsors mainly. Manchester City and Arsenal are two finalists. Yeah. Kind of reflecting first and second in the league, I guess. Absolutely, yeah. Probably the two best teams. We'll get to City later, but we're going to start with Arsenal and Chelsea. This was what you might call the tactical battle. Yeah. All right. Arsenal won with a goal from the best on earth in garbage time. Kai Havertz, of course, against his old club. Prior to that, it was nil-nil for, well, obviously it was nil-nil. So Liam Rossini got killed from some people for the approach that he took, which I'm going to sum this up.
How is Barcelona performing in the Copa del Rey?
He had some injury concerns, just devout, not ready to start. Cole Palmer, he came out and said, quite honestly, I'm managing his minutes. Obviously, the medical staff in the ascendancy these days at Stamford Bridge. Reached James failing a late fitness test. And he gave us a lineup we hadn't seen before. Three at the back, Jarrell Hato being one of the three. Almost effectively at times a front three with Enzo, Joe Pedro, and De Lappe coming in from the right-hand side. It looked like they were happy to keep the game close, pick their spots, and then maybe go for it in the last 15 to 30 minutes. I don't have a problem with that approach, given they were 3-2 down from the first half. I'm going to guess you're going to say, I do because it didn't work.
Yeah, exactly. And I can see what he was doing. I've got no problem with him trying something different, for sure. And he was right at the end. He said, if we play a normal tactic, if you want a normal system, normal football, and then we were 2-0 down after 10 minutes, and then you would have said that I should have done something different. So in that sense, he's right. The only thing I would say, and having been at the game, Chelsea at the start of the game are out of this league. They're not in the final. And in a way, his system and his tactics and the game plan played so much, too much in the hands of Arsenal, who just were like, okay, so you're not going to attack us. We're going to do what we do best, which is control the game, control the ball.
And that's exactly what they did.
Why didn't Chelsea take more risks against Arsenal?
And I think for him then to change, to go to the back four, to bring Estevao, Ko Palmer, Ko Palmer on the right side at the beginning, which makes no sense anyway, but it doesn't matter. It was too little, too late, I felt. And at times they moved the ball well. And I just think if you had actually started on the front foot or it'd be more in a more attacking way than doing nothing in that first half apart from that Enzo shot, really, and then there was not much more in the second half anyway, you probably could have caused Arsenal more problems. But maybe you would have still lost. Maybe you would have lost 2-0. Maybe you would have been 2-0 down after 15 minutes. I would rather my team being knocked out
after trying than being knocked out without trying, because they didn't really try. Even at the last 10, 15 minutes, when they put us under pressure, it was just not enough from them. And that's the only reserve I have about his tactics. I disagree a little bit.
I think you've got a guy who's come in there. The squad is really badly constructed. It's an alibi for him. It's an alibi for Enzo Maresca. You can say, oh, look, we've put all these. You have a Panini sticker collection of young talent, some of which is injured, some of which is just. He came out before. He's like, well, we have to manage Cole Palmer's minutes.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–1:21
2
How is Barcelona performing in the Copa del Rey?
1:21–2:56
3
Why didn't Chelsea take more risks against Arsenal?
2:56–4:08
4
What were the tactical decisions made by Chelsea's coach?
4:08–9:27
5
How did Arsenal manage to control the game?
9:27–10:48
6
What updates are there on Cristiano Ronaldo's situation in Saudi Arabia?
10:48–14:17
7
What impact did injuries have on Chelsea's game plan?
14:17–19:48
8
Could Lionel Messi return to play for Newell's Old Boys?
19:48–56:44
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