3 points

The blues looking good...lots of firepower with solid defense.

Will Pickford last the game?

Hateeeeee!

Werner is struggling.

I guess we will find out how good Lampard is...he has the best lineup in all the PL sans maybe liverpool...

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I guess we will find out how good Lampard is...he has the best lineup in all the PL sans maybe liverpool...

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Survey says.....

Not good.

Pulisic has looked good tho.

Need those 3 points today.

Bye Frank.

Not looking good for super Frank

I swear a read a tweet that says after that match they agreed to part ways.

Definitely fake news.

FINALLY!

Sad it took that long with Fullam being down a man

3 points.

Man, are they even going to get into Europa?

Is Frankie gonna last?

He's going to get canned at some point. He has no clue what he is doing in terms of putting together a defense.

Just look at the pattern of play for pretty much everybody that's been in for Chelsea in the back for the past year and half. Basically, the longer a defensive player is in the team, he gradually plays worse and worse, and the defense as a whole plays worse and worse, until a new toy is purchased or brought into the team and stuffed in that spot, and then that player (or players) immediately looks like a savior for a run of a few games, before basically the pattern begins again and the new defense begins disintegrating as well.

I think scoring goals will take care of itself eventually, they've invested too much in firepower for it not to, but you cant stay afloat through struggles integrating those guys into the team when the back side is leaking so badly and you have no clue how to stop it. Previous Chelsea managers were capable of scraping draws at minimum, or were outright specialists at winning 1-0 with a late goal or something like that.

Well...Frank is gone. Looks like Tuchel will replace him.

I hate that Frank didn't last, but it's the right call. I wish he would have had a bit more experience running things before coming to Chelsea.

I like Tuchel

When Frank was blaming the players for not executing then attacks the media, he had lost it.

Believe it or not Frank, if the players aren't doing what you're asking them to do, they either are incapable or they don't understand what you want them to do. Both cases, that's on you.

Hopefully he can come back when he has more experience. I think it was too much too soon for him.

This was the inevitable result from the day that he was hired. Modern football doesn't really allow for the managerial careers like the one SAF put together, and our board certainly doesn't. Anyone who went into this with open eyes knew that this day would come eventually.

I texted a good friend who's a mutual fan after the Leicester game because I knew it was over. It was clear he had lost the plot. Blaming the players was the **** icing on the **** cake. Unfortunately it was "too much, too soon" in his managerial career and the fairy tale was never meant to be. Knowing that this day was coming doesn't make the pill any easier to swallow though.

My biggest disappointment is that we lost the FA Cup Final last year, so Lampard never got to raise silverware as our manager. He'll always be a club legend and my personal favorite Chelsea player. In the end, I think people will look kindly on his time in charge as well. He oversaw us through a tumultuous time (transfer ban) and blooded in a new generation of homegrown prospects. Some of those may just be role players in the future, but others will likely be mainstays in our lineup for years. I'm sad to see him get sacked, but it was the right decision to move on.

Going forward, I'm excited for Tuchel. He'll inevitably fall out with the board and get sacked too, but I firmly believe he'll have us competing for and winning major trophies in the next two years.

I never really would have expected Chelsea to hire someone like Tuchel. First he's kind of a build through youth, player development type character, rather than the typical continental tactical buy all the missing pieces and put them together type.

He also is one who ends up making enemies and getting into feuds over the way the club is run, so we might have that to look forward to, and an even shorter stint in charge rather than a long one. He gets fired, but he generally doesnt get fired for bad results.

As for Lampard, I'm sure the media (and possibly some of the fanbase) perception will be that this is a rash decision, but this was inevitable. Frank simply did not have the skins on the wall that he can point to and say, we are going to get out of this, I've been through it before and won trophies, or whatever. The only way he was ever going to stay at Chelsea would have been to win the Premier League or Champions League very fast, always improving with no down period like this. Now we have come to a down period, and Frank cannot say he's been through this before and come back stronger. This is not a bad patch in an illustrious career, because Frank is so inexperienced it also looks suspiciously like it might just be the standard mediocrity that you should normally expect out of his level of ability. It was a mistake to give Lampard the job as soon as Chelsea did, and it was a mistake for Lampard to take it, IMO, but I understand why both sides gave it a shot.

The pandemic probably hasn't helped either, I imagine another year without Champions League is probably a pretty dire prospect for a club financially, especially without having the gate revenue right now.

The plus side to Tuchel for y'all is that he might be able to get better results from the former Bundesliga players.

O/U on the number of times Frank gets rehired. 2.5

O/U on the number of managers between Frank 1 and Frank 2. 3.5

Wonder how the Teuchel/Pulisic dynamic will work out at Chelsea.

Well crap; now I know why Frankie got canned. With NBCSN going down the tubes and becoming non existent
my news source was this board plus 442 magazine which is now a few weeks behind the times in a lot of areas.

Wanted him to succeed. Darn.

Not as sad about the points as I am glad about a defensive clean sheet