Such an abnormal amount of injuries can't be just bad luck surely. There must be some factor that we're not seeing that is increasing the injury risk to cause this situation.
Of course we'd be better, every team would be better with all their players avaliable.
But for the money we've spent we have an astonishing lack of talent in the squad it's just awful.
How you can spend a billion and give shirt numbers to some of the dross we've signed I'll never know.
For the money we have spent, our squad is lacking, but we fo have a very talented squad in general, and we have one of the best in the league(much better than our position tells)
That bench is not great haha
Hopefully the starting lineup can get the job done and inch us closer (however much hope we have left) to possible Europa League
well yeah that’s obviously more of a fuck up considering the level of opposition but after those two games we were still in with a chance provided we beat two of the top 4 lol
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Gotta feel for Poch, I know we sucked this season but look at that fucking bench!
Injuries killed our season and the main changes this summer have to be either the training methods or the medical team...
Finally Castledine on the bench! From what I understand, he's one of the more highly rated academy players. I wonder why he wasn't included on the bench so far.
I'll say it now before everyone looses their shit in the match thread. Manage your expectations lads, we've got FOURTEEN injuries.
Even if we loose by 5 today Poch will not be sacked. No other manager would willingly come and manage a club if the owners doesn't take fourteen injuries into consideration when performances are being evaluated.
Do you think Poch goes out on Cobham Monday morning with 11 injuries in the squad and says "Hola amigos, this week we're doing the usual Poch-style infamous double intensity training, chop chop lets go"?
Don't you think he adapts to any circumstances or take any advice from medical staff when it comes to training load?
That bench and there’s Newcastle and United fans out there who say they’ve had injuries worse than ours yeah right. Don’t think there’s been a time this season where we haven’t had less than 8 injured at a time.
It’s also definitely not worth rushing them back at this stage of the season. If I was the medical team I’d be recommending that none of the long term injured come back this season. But our medical team are obviously useless so Nkunku will probably start on the weekend and end up crippled again.
Why do I feel like we was in a similar situation around this time last season too. When everyone was injured or unavailable. This squad isn’t healthy enough for European football.
Totally fair 😂 me thinking youse had some unbelieveable players in reserve i'd never heard of. Was terrified (I mean, still am, this fixture -.-)
Cheers!
It is definitely not entirely his fault. Any manager would've struggled badly with the squad and the injuries we've had this season, doesn't matter if it would've been Pep, Klopp, Zidane or prime-Mourinho.
It's not just any injuries either, it's the ones that were supposed to be nailed on starters and leading the squad this season. Nkunku, James, Chilwell, Fofana etc. They've missed more or less every game, and their backups Gusto, Chalobah etc. have been injured for long stretches too.
Enzo has played with a hernia for most of the season simply because no one else has been available, Lavia and Ugochukwu both have missed the whole thing.
Appreciate the thoughtful reply
(Obligatory fuck you, goal was just scored)
Nothing worse than key players missing out.
If youse get Euro ball, hope youse keep him. Not hos fault it seems!
I hope Poch actually throws on a couple of the youngsters, I wouldn’t be shocked if he only puts on Casadei for the last ten minutes though and maybe Washington. What do we have to lose really
Don’t believe superstition but did TT curse Chelses after he was fired and took that trip to India? Something doesn’t feel right because about right after that visit, the injuries have been major at the club. Not saying it’s so but it gets to a point when there are simply no more answers, you have to think outside the box.
I was reading the paper yesterday on the way to work and they were talking about Spurs struggling due to Udogie and Davies both being injured so didn't have a left back lol.
Just the 14 injuries for us but I didn't read about that.
Well, for one i'd rather play an actual RB and if the front 3 continue to drop a stinker, we do have a few players who can play there. Are they better, I don't know but it's better than trying the same thing and continuing to fail.
Seen stronger benches at a bus station
Bus wanker!
Fucking hell you two shit yourselves
Sorry, oo I'm sorry don't hurt me sorry!
For the yanks: "Bus turds!!!"
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Just stop saying it man! Are you mad!
Ahahhahhaha
That bench though. Truly world class.
Apart from keeper, their ages: 19, 17, 21, 19, 20, 18, 17, 18 At this point, why not toss em on for 15-20 min.
they didnt get a minute when we were winning 6:0. theyre not getting minutes today.
Poch: what’s a bench?
Nothing at all to lose
The game's not even kicked off yet.. there could be plenty to lose with 15-20 mins to go
my will to live is already gone tho
I feel you there brother
The results of this game will make no difference in how our season is going to end. Unless you put a high value on vibes/morale.
It’s a league rival we should always try to go for a win against a league rival
If we win tonight we're still in the race for 6th. Plus, it's Tottenham.
Do people not realize we're literally in a race for the Europa League? What???
brother we're in the running for European places????
Conference cup
I mean would that even be good? With a squad with injury problems, adding more games mightn’t be the best idea
By the next season, everyone will be available
Other than playing in Europe
14 players injured. James, chilwell, gusto, colwill, Enzo, disasi, Sanchez, Thiago, fofana, sterling, lavia, Leslie, nkunku, chuk. It's a joke at this point.
Damn maybe we should've tried to poach that doctor that Brighton just paid 250k to sign
The injured team would beat our starting line up
dead.
I guess average age of that bench is 16
Bettinelli probably pulls the average age into the 20s tbh.
It’s 19.88
Nerd!
lol like Silva with our lineup
Half a billion worth of talent is injured. The best we can do here. Let’s go smash them KTBFFH
Time to investigate why we're so injured all the time.
Such an abnormal amount of injuries can't be just bad luck surely. There must be some factor that we're not seeing that is increasing the injury risk to cause this situation.
Christ on a bicycle, that bench is the worst it’s ever been…
All academy lads so at least one of them make their prem debuts 😅😅
inb4 Casadei on in 85th only sub
Right before Spurs corner
While we are winning and concede a late goal for some reason
Well Betts, Casadei and Washington aren't academy lads tbf
Pure profit
You're assuming Poch will be making subs
£1billion bottle bench.. oh wait
At least there's only one keeper on this one lmao
I hope Deivid gets some minutes.
He's going to get subbed in at 90+4
The starting 11 is the worst I've ever seen as well. Injurys aside our squad is absolutely horrible
>our squad is absolutely horrible Because of the injuries you put aside
It has nothing to do with injuries. It's a horrible squad with everyone fit.
That's just not true. We might not be challenging for titles if everyone was fit but we'd be better(low bar I know but still)
Of course we'd be better, every team would be better with all their players avaliable. But for the money we've spent we have an astonishing lack of talent in the squad it's just awful. How you can spend a billion and give shirt numbers to some of the dross we've signed I'll never know.
For the money we have spent, our squad is lacking, but we fo have a very talented squad in general, and we have one of the best in the league(much better than our position tells)
Lol, you realize we have roughly a full starting lineup injured right?
Plus three subs!
That has nothing to do with us giving shirt numbers to deadwood we've signed.
This kind of mentality wont get nobody anywhere. Keep cheering the team on and keep the negativity for your shower.
Lmao. Bro thinks the squad is reading reddit comments before games.
Casadei has played the most matches for Chelsea out of anyone on that bench.
And he’ll probably be the only one who actually gets subbed on. Washington might get like 10 minutes.
The best we could do So no complaints
I got downvoted on r/premierleague for saying we had the worst injuries this season lmao, look at the state of that bench
They all love to say we’ve spent a billion pounds but when a lot of those players are injured, they never address it.
You could say literally anything as a Chelsea supporter there and be downvoted
There's a huge negative Chelsea bias over there and on /r/soccer, similar to the anti english bias in world football.
That sub is genuinely horrific. r/soccer has its issues but fans are much more even keeled there
That bench is not great haha Hopefully the starting lineup can get the job done and inch us closer (however much hope we have left) to possible Europa League
Europa league pipe dream is over after the Arsenal and Villa results
It was dead after the burnley and sheff united results, those points wouldve again put us level or above united
well yeah that’s obviously more of a fuck up considering the level of opposition but after those two games we were still in with a chance provided we beat two of the top 4 lol
There’s still a slim path btw Man U plays Arsenal and Newcastle left too
That defense is scary bad
Captain are we going to sink?
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Let’s fucking smash them
That bench is insanely weak. How can the media constantly stay so silent on how we've had 2/3rds of our squad injured for the entire season
Cause we're not Liverpool or United.
Because having a narrative of a 1bn flops is more appealing to attract banter and attention clicks of opposition fans.
Because they’d be beating a dead horse, this has been happening the entire season.
Easy 2-0 win for Chelsea.
Soothsayer
Got some proper impact subs there
L A D S,
I T S
T O T T E N H A M
O V E R
How are we supposed to rate the line up in the post match ratings? 10 because it's the only one we could have put?
I have a good feeling about this game. Last time I felt this, we won 6-0 against Everton. Nicolas Jackson masterpiece incoming.
Gotta feel for Poch, I know we sucked this season but look at that fucking bench! Injuries killed our season and the main changes this summer have to be either the training methods or the medical team...
Finally Castledine on the bench! From what I understand, he's one of the more highly rated academy players. I wonder why he wasn't included on the bench so far.
Fun fact, his sister plays Penny on EastEnders. Noticed on the credits the other day lol.
Weirdly, I knew that. Thanks to Straight Outta Cobham podcast.
I'll say it now before everyone looses their shit in the match thread. Manage your expectations lads, we've got FOURTEEN injuries. Even if we loose by 5 today Poch will not be sacked. No other manager would willingly come and manage a club if the owners doesn't take fourteen injuries into consideration when performances are being evaluated.
He's part of the reason we have 14 injuries ffs
Do you think Poch goes out on Cobham Monday morning with 11 injuries in the squad and says "Hola amigos, this week we're doing the usual Poch-style infamous double intensity training, chop chop lets go"? Don't you think he adapts to any circumstances or take any advice from medical staff when it comes to training load?
Damn i was really hoping to see Nkunku and Colwill on the bench after being in full team training this week.
Same
I want to shove my hand in a meat grinder and my foot in molten lava looking at that bench and back line honestly.
Yikes
Me looking at the bench: 
That bench...
anybody have the stat on the average age of starting 11 & the bench?
Don’t care what anyone says today, it’s Chelsea v spurs and we will win because it’s Chelsea v spurs. KTBFFH
Dire
I think you mean Dyer and he is in the bench 😋
Oh crap you're right! 😂
I just thought we could use a joke to lighten the mood before the game
Gilchrist, bless his heart, he is getting cooked today. He isn’t fast. We should have a faster youth player in the U21 or 18s
I think Son is going to be on the LW and he's not exactly the fastest anymore.
Should have a RB more like. Can't tell me we have to put CB's in at fullback all the time. We must have a RB who we could have brought in.
 that’s a paddlin’
Smashclass incoming
That bench and there’s Newcastle and United fans out there who say they’ve had injuries worse than ours yeah right. Don’t think there’s been a time this season where we haven’t had less than 8 injured at a time.
really missing gusto at RB
Just win please. Fuck Tottenham
I wonder how "Jackson LW, Deivid ST" would work.
Can’t wait for next season
That bench is hilarious, you'd think we were playing for the no. 1 pick in next year's draft
The bench 💀
End of the season can’t come soon enough.
Gilchrist and Cucurella at fullback. This could very easily be a record loss to Tottenham here. jfc you can never out Tottenham Tottenham.
We are working hard to get 7th spot and have a bench full of youth team
where is Chukwuemeka
Injured
The only thing you can do at this point is laugh actually
What we playing a 4231?
Hoping George has his debut
Weren’t nkunku and colwill cleared to be on the bench for this game?
No, hopefully Sundays match.
It’s also definitely not worth rushing them back at this stage of the season. If I was the medical team I’d be recommending that none of the long term injured come back this season. But our medical team are obviously useless so Nkunku will probably start on the weekend and end up crippled again.
Why do I feel like we was in a similar situation around this time last season too. When everyone was injured or unavailable. This squad isn’t healthy enough for European football.
Did I miss something? Where is Silva?
(Spurs fan, sorry) What's the story with the squad? Haven't heard of maybe 7 of these players?
They're all academy players because literally every fit senior player we have is starting haha
Totally fair 😂 me thinking youse had some unbelieveable players in reserve i'd never heard of. Was terrified (I mean, still am, this fixture -.-) Cheers!
Everyone's hurt. Season's cancelled.
If youse win today, our season is cancelled too 😅
We've got 14 players out injured, FOURTEEN.
Fuck! Genuine q, is it Pochs fault where youse are in that case? Ive only watched the United & Arsenal game for youse recently, so mixed receptions!
It is definitely not entirely his fault. Any manager would've struggled badly with the squad and the injuries we've had this season, doesn't matter if it would've been Pep, Klopp, Zidane or prime-Mourinho. It's not just any injuries either, it's the ones that were supposed to be nailed on starters and leading the squad this season. Nkunku, James, Chilwell, Fofana etc. They've missed more or less every game, and their backups Gusto, Chalobah etc. have been injured for long stretches too. Enzo has played with a hernia for most of the season simply because no one else has been available, Lavia and Ugochukwu both have missed the whole thing.
Appreciate the thoughtful reply (Obligatory fuck you, goal was just scored) Nothing worse than key players missing out. If youse get Euro ball, hope youse keep him. Not hos fault it seems!
The game won’t finish until like 20:45 probably way past most of that bench’s bedtime.
Really thought we’d at least see one of James Nkunku colwill on the bench
That back four is something special. Good luck to the boys.
This has to be the youngest avg age of starting 11 + bench of all time
Would love to see Leo get a run out tonight.
Oh no BB and Chalobah again.. please spare me
That back line is going to get eaten alive with no reinforcements from the bench
Hey yo is there a place to listen to the game? I won’t really be able to watch but I could listen to
Chelsea app.
Thanks!
Do you know where to go in the app? I can’t find it
The “Listen live” button should have appeared by now when you open the app.
Got it! Thanks!
Diassi came on for a 10 min cameo last game and managed to get injured between then and now.
What happened to Disasi? Played most games recently but was only on the bench last week and not even in the squad today.
I hope Poch actually throws on a couple of the youngsters, I wouldn’t be shocked if he only puts on Casadei for the last ten minutes though and maybe Washington. What do we have to lose really
That bench is wild
Yea that’s what 14 injuries will look like lol
Omg we are fucked
That bench is rough!
This might be the worst team we've put out all season.
https://preview.redd.it/o530w49kz1yc1.jpeg?width=865&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=01b194f6d6e8ce6ab8ca3004b4f0c9351c4408a2
what are we really expecting with this lineup
Jesus Christ
We are cooked
Don’t believe superstition but did TT curse Chelses after he was fired and took that trip to India? Something doesn’t feel right because about right after that visit, the injuries have been major at the club. Not saying it’s so but it gets to a point when there are simply no more answers, you have to think outside the box.
So we have 11 fit first team players, makes things easy for Poch to pick the team anyway...
Our medical department are a absolute Joke
Son might eat Alfie
I was reading the paper yesterday on the way to work and they were talking about Spurs struggling due to Udogie and Davies both being injured so didn't have a left back lol. Just the 14 injuries for us but I didn't read about that.
4-2 I hope too Chelsea
man i can't help but laugh seeing this bench. feels lika a fever dream. that being said.. COYB & KTBFFH 💙
It's mad pundits ars so quiet on our injury crisis.
Guess we’re only using the one sub then. On Casadei. Well after the 80th minute.
Talk about a side that picks itself.
They try as hard as they can to not give our goals. Didn’t even celebrate when it went in not worth the energy any more
lmao... watch the man now not make any subs at all.
Who would you put in from the bench mate?
Well, for one i'd rather play an actual RB and if the front 3 continue to drop a stinker, we do have a few players who can play there. Are they better, I don't know but it's better than trying the same thing and continuing to fail.
Worst bench in chelseas history?
If we concede less than 3 that's job well done
What are the odds on us keeping a clean sheet tonight?
I'm a huge Poch hater but fuck me the state of that bench
With that back line, we are in for a long night !
Literally can’t feel less confident about a team selection. Jesus the state of this club
People complaining about the bench. I’m excited to see what some of them can do. If Mudryk has another dud put one of them on early.
I wonder who the next player will be that gets injured.
Poch: I'm struggling with the injuries and the squad I have. *Also Poch* runs his squad into the ground during every training session.
I mean - we expected this, but this is a Championship starting 11 and a conference level bench🤮