A lot of people harshly criticising Jorginho in my opinion. He got the ball forward as best he could in the first half. It’s not his fault players in more advanced positions (Jesus, Saka, Odegaard) kept losing the ball and making sloppy passes. Jorginho created our best chance in the first half with the ball over the top to Jesus as well.
Second half he was able to thread the ball through a compact Chelsea midfield only for Jesus to lose it. He also made several recoveries and interceptions before getting dragged off. The reason we improved going forward has nothing to do with Jorginho coming off, but the fact that Chelsea were two up and dropped back several yards.
I’m not saying Jorginho was great, but Jesus, Odegaard, Zinchenko and White were worse in my opinion. Raya also dropped a clanger, but no-one is disputing that.
100%. It’s ridiculous. I feel like people don’t even watch the games.
They just parrot “Jorginho needs to progress the ball through the middle”.
As you said, he did it fine, Zinchenko and Odegaard were horrendous and almost always lost it immediately after.
And when they weren’t losing the ball, we often vacated the entire middle of the pitch and tried to exploit the wings, we just didn’t do it well enough.
I want someone to go through the film and point out just 3 instances of there being a pass available through the middle and Jorginho turning it down. They won’t be able to find it.
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A lot of people harshly criticising Jorginho in my opinion. He got the ball forward as best he could in the first half. It’s not his fault players in more advanced positions (Jesus, Saka, Odegaard) kept losing the ball and making sloppy passes. Jorginho created our best chance in the first half with the ball over the top to Jesus as well.
Second half he was able to thread the ball through a compact Chelsea midfield only for Jesus to lose it. He also made several recoveries and interceptions before getting dragged off. The reason we improved going forward has nothing to do with Jorginho coming off, but the fact that Chelsea were two up and dropped back several yards.
I’m not saying Jorginho was great, but Jesus, Odegaard, Zinchenko and White were worse in my opinion. Raya also dropped a clanger, but no-one is disputing that.
100%. It’s ridiculous. I feel like people don’t even watch the games.
They just parrot “Jorginho needs to progress the ball through the middle”.
As you said, he did it fine, Zinchenko and Odegaard were horrendous and almost always lost it immediately after.
And when they weren’t losing the ball, we often vacated the entire middle of the pitch and tried to exploit the wings, we just didn’t do it well enough.
I want someone to go through the film and point out just 3 instances of there being a pass available through the middle and Jorginho turning it down. They won’t be able to find it.