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Two worst games of the season, Spurs and Chelsea but still come away with a draw despite making a huge error leading to a goal in both. Eddie scores one of those two chances after Leo’s goal and we complete one of the best comebacks in recent premier league history.
Palmer could have been off before the arguable penalty, then scores it and Mudryk scores a complete fluke that he didn’t mean as well. About the only way Chelsea were going to score. Sanchez punches Jesus/Tomi and no pen given.
First half was awful and our worst 45 of the season but objectively we were way better in the second half.
Declan really dominated the game once Mikel moved him back to 6. If Rice is playing LCM then I feel Partey has to be playing instead of Jorginho and Vieira/Havertz/ESR LCM if Rice is the 6. Arguably Tomiyasu instead of Zinny until Timber is back.
For me, Havertz has to start up front at this point whether Jesus is moved to the wing or dropped. He’s been our best centre forward so far this season. All our goals against City and Chelsea came when he was subbed on as the number 9.
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Havertz has had 2, 15 min cameos at CF and has stank up the place at the LCM position. Benching someone as influential as Jesus for someone who’s been as lackluster as Havertz is a moronic take.
Why are the likes of Jesus, Ødegaard not allowed bad games but Havertz has 2 decent appearances out of the multiple games he’s played and we have people wanking off to him?
Havertz started 5 games at LCM where his only contribution was defensive duels. Now he shows up with 2 good substitute appearances and he deserves to start over Jesus?
Jesus overall game at CF is far far superior to Havertz’s. Yes Havertz is better aerially but that’s the only department he can beat Jesus in. Also if we constantly need to go long to progress the ball there’s something wrong with us tactically.
Answer me one question, what game was Jesus good at CF this season in any competition?
He was electric for the first 6 months last season until his injury. He was obviously rushed back and didn’t look the same for the rest of the season but he’s still not got back to his level this season and he’s not a better winger than Saka or Martinelli.
I’m judging all of the players from how they play this season. Both Eddie and Jesus have lacked something at 9, Havertz has been good up front whether you like it or not. Not sure why Havertz being poor at LCM means you have to mark his performances down when talking about up front.
Weird take.
Hasn’t Jesus recently come back from injury? I get that things aren’t going great for him but you need to give players time to settle.
You say that Havertz has been our best CF this season when he’s played 2 games as a sub in that position for 15-20 mins each. That’s a very small sample size. We find much bigger sample size of him playing as a LCM where he hasn’t been great.
Havertz offers us more aerially when we are completely onto the opponent and we need a goal. That’s not the only thing we need when he starts a game. Jesus’s overall game when completely fit is onto another sphere compared to Havertz. When we need to go long and need a physical presence, I get it, get Havertz on. But not at the expense of Gabriel Jesus at all.
I also don’t believe you bench your star players when they are going through a bad patch, especially for someone as unproven as Havertz.
People talk about giving your players confidence, it isn’t only applicable for fringe players, you need to.give confidence to your star players too. You shouldn’t just bench Jesus and Ødegaard because they’re going through a bad patch.