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A Bleeding Blue
💙COYB💙KTBFFH💙

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

These Fans driven players always take us down.
Let the professional do their work, scouting and recruiting.
We do not need double stars at every position, every Cobham product at every dept.
Sometimes Marcos Alonso type players do wonders as well, Azpi like players are loyal too.

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@AbsoluteChelsea @MailSport I want Alonso to bin any plan which involves Toxin Adarabioyo

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@LKCOYB I've always asked Chelsea for Rogers to sign as well as been confident when Chelsea signed Alonso and for his 3421 formation Rogers with Palmer will be twin #10 beasts for CFC football.

[Vince™ @Blue_Footy]

Petr Cech on Tuchel’s decisions against Argentina:

🗣 "He definitely didn't want that style of play. Harry Kane himself admitted that the instructions from the bench were: 'You have to keep playing, stay active and score a second goal.' But the team didn't manage it. The coach then explained that when the team couldn't break free from the pressure, he added a defender, because Argentina were playing with four attackers.

He wanted to play with five at the back so they'd have the advantage defensively. But they couldn't step up out of the second line or put pressure on the ball, and in the end, that buried them. It looks strange when a team like England let themselves get pinned back like that. On the other hand, I think the players couldn't handle the weight of the moment and the closing stages of the match got away from them."

~ @Flashscorecom

[Dougie Critchley @DougieCritchley]

I find it extraordinary the u-turns that so many commentators, professional or not, have made on Tuchel on the basis of last night.

Football fans have always been extraordinarily fickle, but if you were one of the ones commending his in-game substitutions, his use of the squad as a whole (despite key players being half-fit) and ability to elicit genuine world class performances out of Bellingham throughout and Kane in patches...

Then you CANNOT be calling for his sacking, on the basis of conceding 2 goals against the world champions from 85 minutes onwards.

Do you think it was a managerial instruction to drop deep, fail to retain the ball and invite pressure? Do you think that was his masterplan?

It's never solely on the manager, it's never solely on the players.

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@DanAbrahams77 England fans and pundits consider themselves a pro coach
Their own players can't comply the tactics & instructions given
TT in CFC was some genius until British gov took him away
Your own English League players are bus parking expert, yet lost the match doing worst bus parking.

[Daniel Abrahams @DanAbrahams77]

No…

It wasn’t Thomas Tuchel’s substitutions…

Anthony Gordon scored in the 55th minute. The (already) infamous substitutions were made in the 82nd minute.

England had a measly 12% possession from the moment the ball hit the Argentinian net. It wasn’t the substitutions that made the difference (although perhaps they didn’t help)…it was the mindset of the England players after they scored. And this happens to England in major tournaments again and again and again and again…

So what happened? Performance anxiety…

“Don’t be the player to make a mistake”
“Let’s just see this through”

These aren’t thoughts. They’re feelings. Feelings in the pit of the stomach. Feelings that cascade through the whole body. Feelings that generate hesitancy, inhibition…and in the words of Thomas Tuchel post game, passiveness

A Low Intent - energy-back. Arguably the biggest killer in high performance sport is a drop in intent.

A couple of months ago I had the honour of being on The Overlap. As I described to Gary, Roy, Ian and Scholesy - “A drop in intent can make great players look very average.” Last night, a drop in intent made the England players, great players, look shockingly poor - an energy-back negatively impacting awareness, anticipation, decision-making, physicality, technical and tactical play.

The same happened against Spain in the Euros final 2024 and against Italy in the Euros final against Italy in 2020. And in countless tournaments prior.

Energy-back vs Energy-forward…

Argentina - energy-forward. Singing their national anthem with gusto. As aggressive in the press and in duels as you’re going to see. Slightly bending the rules. Being nasty…in their opponents’ faces…

…competing with so much passion and adoration for each other and with so much want and will and determination that there’s no room for anxieties (fears, uncertainties, doubts)…

No room…

This is hard to accomplish. Brutally, disgustingly hard. Phenomenally hard. Why? Because striving to play with energy-forward under pressure is so metabolically costly. It requires enormous will-power and tenacity…which needs an enormous amount of energy. It feels horrible. It feels exhausting. That’s why so many teams fail to deliver under pressure.

No, it wasn’t Tuchel’s substitutions. It’s a failure to address a national characteristic - a socio-cultural and bio-psychological tendency to play with fear (energy-back) under pressure.

This needs to be tackled now for the 2028 Euros and the 2030 World Cup. Plans need to be put in place…mental frameworks need to be laid down.

Attention
Intensity
Intent

England (like all nations and like all club teams) need mental frameworks that help players to compete with High Attention; Optimal Intensity; and (most importantly) High Intent under pressure.

And there is a behavioural template that shines like a beacon through the fog of complexity in the world game - the Argentinian National Team…

…they are, quite simply, the warriors of international football

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@talkSPORT Please FA make simon Jordan English Football NT Manager asap. He's been too honest and correct in people's eyes.

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@talkSPORT All English pundits & ex-players will blame Tuchel. But what he did with this team (not a WC winning team obviously), they won't appreciate him. If any sensible or tactical person will know Tuchel set a proper game with 1-0 lead.
Players UNABLE TO MANAGE MINS WAS THE PROBLEM

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Yes, England were too defensive. But the abuse pouring down on Thomas Tuchel’s head today is ridiculous. He was 5 minutes away from leading us into our first World Cup Final in 60 years. And if we’d hung on, he’d be lauded a hero today by the same people trashing him.

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@Evan_Justin_ @stesmithy48 @talkSPORT These arrogant englishmen don't know what is flair, skills. They know only formations & tactics but this thickheads will understand when they'll see estevao bypassing every player w/flair like messi in EPL
But I doubt that they can digest such skills in epl & will card him asap

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@talkSPORT Dumbest people on earth right now are these so called ENG pundits who ask to sack Tuchel
No other coach was so influential than Tuchel with Their EngNT being full of huge egos.
No one is holding players accountable for their laziness in man marking.
It's plain stupidity to sack

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

No. They don't know. No one consider this tribute as some good deed. FA & PL won't promote it as well as it is good deed from a club they all hate from heart.
But Chelsea always contribute in social welfare.
Very Proud of it
Abiding by their Original name 'The Pensioners' #KTBFFH

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🚨| 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖: Chelsea used a portion of Club World Cup bonuses paid to players to make a financial donation to the families of Diogo Jota and André Silva. 🥹💙

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🚨| 𝐃𝐈𝐃 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖: Chelsea used a portion of Club World Cup bonuses paid to players to make a financial donation to the families of Diogo Jota and André Silva. 🥹💙

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@Blue_Footy @mcgrathmike One of the worst league to develop.
Atleast get him a French league loan.

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@Blue_Footy Santos is on the brink of best season incoming and selling him will do the as KDB.

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@Tiamcfc Maresca was too stubborn to not sell BB or Disasi instead of him.

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@TheChelseaForum He can be Gonzalo Garcia under Xabi

[Pys @CFCPys]

🚨 🫵🏻 Palestra says fan support is vital:

“In Cagliari they loved me, I think it’s one of the most important things, it made me feel like an important player”

(@ChelseaFC)

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@CFCPys @JacobsBen Another short heighted player,
Another Cucu in disguise. Another Cucu without long hair.
I was happy with Cucu leaving, his height was issue whenever CFC had any problems on the left side.

[BlusSupportor @BlusSupportor]

@LKCOYB What if we end up with only Xhaka, and we already have the ammunitions like Lavia, Essugo and Santos.
Who is more similar to Xhaka and Caicedo from above 3 considering a starting double pivot of Xhaka-Caicedo ?
Is it wise to sign a new CDM/CM this window?