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FA Youth Cup 4th round vs Chelsea
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Jay Dasilva is excellent, Tammy Abraham is a monster.
Team sheet is incorrect for Chelsea - Kyle Scott and Ike Ugbo are starting in place of Sammut and Christie-Davies.Josh Grant also replaced the captain Clarke-Salter (must be injured or something)
Excited for this, I know its not even been a week since our last match but I miss watching football.
shame Gomes isnt starting, hopefully he will get at least 15 minutes....
Could someone pm me a river is they have one.. Thank You
David Gill and Van Gaal together watching.
Giggsy watching as well
Shitty pitch. Is this where you play all your youth games?
TFM has a knock
Nathanial Chalobah's brother/cousin is Trevor?
We're playing an odd formation.
dont like the look of Kehinde on the wing, its a bit of waste as he is much better in the midfield as he is probably our best midfielder.
Younger brother. Their mum died last week, Napoli (where Nat is on loan ) actually had a minutes silence.
Great save from your goalie in the first instance.
Getting fecked tbh.
Chelsea 1-0. Top initial save from Bryne, almost made a excellent second save as well.
Been all Chelsea going forward to be fair, deserve to score
Been all Chelsea going forward to be fair, deserve to score
Chelsea are living up to their rep at this level. Different class so far.
Ollie Byrne has been fantastic so far, shame he isn't getting the support in front of him.
Chelsea are clearly on another level to our lot.
Rashford, Dearnley and Gribbin have been completely isolated so far. Chelsea not giving us any time on the ball
We look a mess in the middle of the park
I think we need to drop Kehinde into the midfield, and play a 4-3-3. We're struggling in midfield to keep the ball, Chelsea closing us instantly
Can't say I rate Whelan or Scott much at all.
we are gonna need a "bit" of luck to do well this year
First shot.
They are stronger, quicker, better with the ball, better without the ball. The only area where we seem to match Chelsea is the ability to hit Chelsea-players with our passes. We are just as good as them in that area 
BIt of pressure from you lot now.
We should really have made more of the first 35 mins, at 1-0 it's still anyones.
We should really have made more of the first 35 mins, at 1-0 it's still anyones.
one stride forward, 3 back, pass to our defenders and they thump ball forward to a Chelsea defender
Outclassed in every department this half.
TFM and Williams have been good, we'd be behind by a lot more if it weren't for them
Berbatov-esque control from Kehinde to being down that long ball from the back.. Probably our highlight of the half 
2-0 Abraham scores.. Top finish, in off the post.
Can't see us coming back in this game unless we make some serious changes to our shape at half time
Can't see us coming back in this game unless we make some serious changes to our shape at half time
I agree with this man.
pretty much this. If we played with our strongest we would have a chance but this way with were destined to be slaughtered.
Abraham is a real monster.I really rate him last season but he does seem to take his game to an even higher level this season.
Rashford needs to stop thinking that he can outpace everyone.
Rashford needs to stop thinking that he can outpace everyone.
Absolutely no threat from wide, someone should be trying to get in behind Dasilva but there is just nothing showing on either side. Its a stroll in the park for Chelsea's defence. Gribbin is invisibile, Kehinde has made some great touches but he is never in an effective area on the pitch, I don't know what position he is supposed to be playing. Everything is just nice touch from Kehinde, give the ball to Rashford and hope he somehow runs through 3 defenders who are physical beasts, its never going to work. Kehinde needs to go central, Gribbin and Dearnley need to pull the finger out and we need someone to offer something out wide. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the bench offers any wide threat either other than maybe Kenyon, I've seen very little of him though.
Gomes is the best bet.Boonen can do it next season but he's too weak atm.
The problem with playing Kehinde or Whelan wide is they keep playing as if they're still playing centrally.Bit similar to Mata's in the 1st team.
Gomes isn't really a proper winger either though is he? I'd still throw him in there anyway as he will look to take his man on and drive an attack. There is simply nothing other than Rashford at the moment, so something needs to be switched up.
Yeah we don't really have a natural winger other than Dearnley.Kenyon and Makela are behind in the development curve due to their injury problems in the last 2 seasons.Boonen is still weak.Even if he's fit Buffonge is quite similar to Kehinde from what I've seen.