@Chealsea progress in a 3-2-5. James drops into the first line with Lacroix & Fofana.
Why does Palmer drop beside Lavia from high to low? To make him harder to track and face the game for those deadly passes.
Acheampong in the right pocket, Neto wide. Hato & Rogers rotate: one wide, one in the pocket, while João Pedro sometimes drifts left.
I’ve seen people say Chelsea are well coached. That’s the contradiction for me. A team can have a clear structure and still be poorly coached if that structure consistently puts players in positions that don’t maximise them.
Two of the five are CBs: Hato & Acheampong. Palmer underneath while Acheampong stays high makes little sense to me. Chelsea have the quality to create danger, but if your structure consistently puts your best players in worse positions, that isn’t good coaching. It’s the contradiction.
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