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We didn't overcommit to a high pressing game, which was part of our undoing last time. But when we did trigger tonight, we really put them off their game. And we were relentless in doing it. Moi and AA constantly getting into good positions, and harrassing. Adams was a great outlet. Smart and sneaky as well as skilled. He bullied their defense. They tried falling over a lot for a while. But when that, and their mewling didn't work we had an advantage over them. Our own defence worked really hard as a unit. We had a very physical looking pairing, but they worked intelligently off each other too. Cover from Perraud (another who worked his socks off as normal) and the excellent KWP. Having Djenepo, now more comfortable at Perraud's positon, come on is a good bonus. It freshens things up as Perraud generally runs himself into the ground. Djenepo has the pace to keep teams on the back foot too. Lavia offered plenty of support form the back, lots of skill to give himself space and time to make the right choices and link up going forward. Let's hope it's nothing more than a niuggle that took him off. Such a good feeling to have 7 points on the board.

wow. Nosebleed. 🙂

Yeeees!! Such a good win. Loads of good performances. And what a difference between this performance and last season!

COuld do with seeing more nbite from Aribo. Not winning too many, and we could do with giving Adams the chance to hold it up.

good tackle from Moi there.

dropping back quite a bit now...

Moi and AA again working hard.

Moi might not have much luck with the flicks he's tried., but he's working really hard and making himself available. AA doing the same.

Adams played for that free kick, but Cucurella is all elbows. Sneaky.

That KWP/ JWP link up nearly worked again there. Like to see that.

Gah! So close to a third!

thankfully, yes. I'd have hated for those posts to have been lost in among the other rumours. 🙂

Uh oh...Broja...

But we have diallo who can drop back, and Aribo nearly got onto a pass within a minute of coming on.

Possibly just maneuvering by the club ahead of the transfer deadline. Silly to have it impact the match day team, but that seems to be the way it works.

we might have an injury there

ref really needs to book one of those diving Chelsea players. Sterling and Mount and that embarrasment Jorginho just before half time. Still, the less he gives them, the more they might get upset and make a mess of things.

nearly from Moi.

Moi! well done sir.

Didn't need much of a press for that to go wrong for Chelsea. Another 40 odd mins of that please.

Lavia really is looking excellent. Lovely touches and positional sense there.

Really pleased for AA getting a goal. He's worked hard. While being up front by hmself clearly wasn;t working, out wide, with Adams holding it up for everyone works much better. They were backing off Adams for large parts of that half, as they were losing every challenge he was involved in. Haven't noticed Moi much, but he's probably the guy who is doing all the little things I've not been noticing. He certainly celebrated the goals. Please dwith the wya the team goes about it's work. They don't get flustered or carreid away. They keep doing what they've been working on. Last season I thought this was apathy on the road to another defeat, but I'm having another thought about it. 🙂

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