Join The Roar
Become a member to join in Australia's biggest sporting debate, submit articles, receive updates straight to your inbox and keep up with your favourite teams and authors.
Oops! You must provide an email address to create a Roar account
When using Facebook to create or log in to an account, you need to grant The Roar permission to see your email address
By joining The Roar you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions
Login and get Roaring
Oops! You must provide an email address to create a Roar account
When using Facebook to create or log in to an account, you need to grant The Roar permission to see your email address
Opinion
What has suddenly gone wrong at Chelsea? A team flying on a high couple of weeks ago has now gone three games without a victory in the league and just one win in their last six outings.
The team’s woes continued as they lost again to Manchester City in a 3-1 thriller, thereby losing more ground in the title race.
After the Manchester City game, the Blues now sit eighth on the log with 26 points after 17 games. They are seven points behind league leaders Liverpool, who have a game in hand.
Chelsea will have to bounce back quickly to avoid being further away from the top and continue to mount a strong challenge but they need to improve massively – especially with goal-scoring.
Although I think under fire Chelsea boss, Frank Lampard, has his share of the blame for the poor run of form. The Chelsea boss’ choice of players for games has been really poor. He hasn’t picked the right players for the right games, his decision-making is poor and needs to improve – especially moving forward.
In the Arsenal game, he opted to start Ben Chilwell and Reece James, having just recovered from injury and not fully fit in place of veteran defender Ceaser Azpilicueta.
The following game against Aston Villa, the manager started Andreas Christensen, a player who had featured just four times preceding that game and whose last league appearance was against Southampton as far back as October.
Also, I think it’s time Frank Lampard begins to start Timo Werner from the bench and play Callum Hudson Odoi more regularly and play Christian Pulisic from the left flank where he his more prolific.
Werner hasn’t found his feet in the league yet. Introducing him bit by bit might help him a lot. And Lampard also has a decision to make considering Oliver Giroud in his starting line-up.
Lampard knows with the amount of money spent in the summer that a position below the top four might be considered inappropriate to the Chelsea hierarchy.
He needs to be swift and get good results to avoid losing more points and risk moving farther away from the top.
It’s still a really long season so it will be interesting to see how things go.
A thrilling weekend in the Premier League as more records tumble, frustrations rise and new heroes are created. Let’s get stuck into this week’s talking points.
After some mid week European action, the Premier League was back in action and as usual there’s plenty to talk about.
The best football clubs in Europe will battle it out over nine months in the UEFA Champions League, with all the action kicking off on Wednesday, September 15 (AEST). This is The Roar’s guide to live streaming the UEFA Champions League.
The international break is over and normal service can be resumed in the Premier League. This weekend saw some wonderful debuts, a number of records being set and a sad injury. Lots to talk about so let’s get stuck in…
The Premier League transfer window has shut until January. Who has done the best deals and which club’s fans are left underwhelmed?
Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea laid down a marker at Anfield, Tottenham maintained a perfect record, while their north London rivals Arsenal suffered further misery at Manchester City, and Man United won a scrappy encounter at Wolves. Here are the Premier League’s match week three talking points.
