Bonzo 198 Posted October 25, 2021 Saturday was an accident waiting to happen. We are a long way behind Chelsea and a Chelsea under Tuchel is a long way ahead of a Chelsea under Lampard. Comparing our performance this year to the performances against Chelsea last time we were in the Premiership is facile. Arguably Tuchel is one of the top three managers in the world right now and his team are Champions league winners. Deservedly so. In addition he's had plenty of time with his players to develop a system or indeed systems of play and of course his players are world class. This current Norwich side under Farke is recently assembled, they are a season and a half behind Chelsea and we have no one who'd make the Chelsea starting line up. On top of this Tuchel knew we'd set up in a 532. He knew what was coming and he had both the talent and the game plan to counter our inevitable attempts to stem the tide. Add to this a poor performances all round, the misfortune of an own goal, the penalty against Normann (who was facing away from the ball when it struck him) and the rank stupidity of Gibson's final tackle of the day and the result was not pretty. Sacking Farke would make no sense at all. Admittedly we were given a good hiding and the performance was woeful but Chelsea at home, a well oiled Champions League winning side was a 20-1 shot at best. Attack them and push up and they pass though us.Concede early and heads drop. The players know they are not Chelsea and Farke knows he is not Tuchel but on top of this Chelsea and Tuchel have a year and a half head start on us. The only real concern is that the desire shown by senior pros seemed to ebb away once defeat was certain. Understandable but not acceptable. Yet hardly the fault of the manager. The only consolation is that the Brighton and Burnley games showed some promise. The Chelsea game showed us that we have a long way to go. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
