i havent watched a ton of real but that was my take after the first leg. Benzema had two nice headed goals and then pounced on a gruesome error for this third goal, but Vini was terrifying the entire match
i suppose they might be playing a 5 with James in the middle of loftus-cheek at WB (or vice versa? he's used loftus-cheek as a progressive CB a couple times, though never in a game of this magnitude.
woke up feeling like chelsea have a chance to turn this around in madrid today, and then saw the line up. they're either gonna score twice and make it interesting or lose 6-1 on agg
Uhhhhhhhh... These horsefeathering "I'm a very logical debate person" chuds always, ALWAYS fall back on the "I'M JUST JOKING!!!" horsefeathers like the cowards they are. their argument doesnt even seem to be that it was a joke, just that "uhh he literally said let me send you some followers. he was trying to be nice!" what a load of horsefeathering horse horsefeathers. i've been sued multiple times for defamation and it's ALWAYS some sociopath idiot like this who thinks he's the protagonist of reality and anyone holding him responsible for his actions is the movie villain. it's so horsefeathering transparent.
makes sense for a moment til you reason that instead of Schwarber Darvish Bryant doing nice things sometimes, you just have a couple new guys to provide a few compelling moments on a kinda dog horsefeathers team in actuality you get to May and you're sick to death watching Andrelton Simmons pop out so you steadily tune out for the remainder of it i steadily tuned out the last 2-3 years too though with all those guys doing good stuff occasionally.
at least there's something new to look at i guess? im not optimistic about the team (obviously) but stroman and suzuki will be cool. Maybe Davis comes up at some point and impresses. I'm not going to watch most of the games or anything but im interested in the season because it's important that they at least show some progress and upside. We can all keep wishing they would have signed correa and whoever else, or we can accept that it didn't happen and realize that they're going for the rome wasn't built in a day approach. I wish they would have gone for it all this offseason but they didn't. Hopefully the win 80 games this year and the guys who are longterm pieces are healthy and good going into next offseason to give us some momentum to keep adding to the roster. you can squint and put yourself back in 2013 or whatever when the most important thing was that the prospects all kept developing so we'd at least get a few of them up and cranking. That's how we ended up in 2016 with a core sort of coalescing and them topping it off with zobrist, heyward (lol) and adding chapman to the mix midseason. It's not ideal but it's what we've got.
i was afraid the ricketts might have a leg up because the number 1 mandate for the new owner is to build a new stadium, and the ricketts could be like wow isnt it great how we built up wrigley and the surrounding?
Looks like a launch angle disciple. Reminds me of Josh Donaldson with his physical frame, leg kick, and swing yes and the way he crouches after the leg kick is straight out of the ohtani playbook
if the horsefeathering ricketts group buys them i swear to god ill travel to london and protest i dont give a horsefeathers i did see that the papa ricketts "muslims are my enemy" story is making the EPL social media rounds today so hopefully that helps submarine the bid
They can't trade players, have fans except for season ticket holders, or sell merch. Really seriously frozen, like in ice. so the uk government has in one fell swoop briefly turned chelsea into spurs but with good players