goon wrote:
Don’t let today fool you, United are still weak going forward. Pogba is all they have.
United were trash and I would say the only reason they beat Chelsea so comfortably, apart from the fact that Chelsea had Championship players at 9 and 10, was that Chelsea were trying to integrate too much in the way of change from last season. Whilst United just have a somewhat better defence, no adaption required. I fully expected a United rout for that reason today. They would probably have beaten us today too.
Chelsea will improve when their new players adapt and the team adapts to Lampard's tactics. And obviously Rudiger, Kanté (being fit enough to start) and Willian returning will help them too. They're obviously woefully short of quality though and can do nothing to improve on Mount and Abraham this season.
United, though, that's them. There's no new players to integrate or patterns of play to adapt to. They were ragged as shit and are very lucky Chelsea, as ragtag as they were, didn't score 4 themselves today.
Looked like 5th and 6th place teams to me. Unless Emery botches our season very badly.
