He's a kid playing against the best club side on the planet. He outpaced EVERYONE.
Unless he gets a bad injury, he'll play for England.
What a set of defenders we have. It's amazing.
Great attacking play. However thought he struggled in defence against top players. Just couldnt understand why wide players were not marked closer and just allowed to have the ball. Can only assume Potters instructions Strange
In the first half especially, I thought he nullified several fast counter attacks. Because he did it effortlessly, it passed under most of our radars.
Lot of people were giving same grief about Bruno when he first joined forgetting it takes a while to settle in and build a undertsnading with whoever is around you. The lad has done brilliantly.
Lot of people were giving same grief about Bruno when he first joined forgetting it takes a while to settle in and build a undertsnading with whoever is around you. The lad has done brilliantly.
Liverpool mates texted me to say they’ll have him off us in 2-3 seasons. Very impressed with.
Maybe Lamptey is more of a midfielder. Great going forward, but keeps making the wrong decision.
ThisFor a 19 year old rookie against top of the league players, I thought he was outstanding in defence and attack. Prevented an awful lot of lightning quick counter attacks coming to something.
Tired in the second half and Robertson is far better than Neco Williams.
A basic mistake for the third goal, but that identical error is made by PL and ‘international’ stalwarts.
Is that a wooshy from Washie?
You are of course correct that he could play in midfield and Potter did that against United. He’d also be a constant threat played up front.
But, he defended brilliantly against some of the best players in the world last night. Nothing to do with the first two goals conceded and I attach no blame whatsoever to him for the third. Pretty much impossible to stop. Salah has made a brilliantly timed run outside of the goalposts into a position from which headers are hardly ever scored. A perfect cross and a perfect header. To stop it Lamptey would have had to be completely committed from the outset to physically preventing that particular run and, if positioned thus, that would have made him less able to deal with Salah’s more likely threat from within the goalposts. (TBF Ryan should of done better with it. Beaten at his near post again. Does that bloke ever save anything?[emoji3])
Is that a wooshy from Washie?
You are of course correct that he could play in midfield and Potter did that against United. He’d also be a constant threat played up front.
But, he defended brilliantly against some of the best players in the world last night. Nothing to do with the first two goals conceded and I attach no blame whatsoever to him for the third. Pretty much impossible to stop. Salah has made a brilliantly timed run outside of the goalposts into a position from which headers are hardly ever scored. A perfect cross and a perfect header. To stop it Lamptey would have had to be completely committed from the outset to physically preventing that particular run and, if positioned thus, that would have made him less able to deal with Salah’s more likely threat from within the goalposts. (TBF Ryan should of done better with it. Beaten at his near post again. Does that bloke ever save anything?[emoji3])
Not sure he was defensively brilliant, he got breezed passed on a number of occasions first and second half, Chamberlain beat him a number of times. It was the first chinks in the armour I’ve seen so far and an indication why Chelsea let him go. He’s very young though so hopefully quick to learn.
Not sure he was defensively brilliant, he got breezed passed on a number of occasions first and second half, Chamberlain beat him a number of times. It was the first chinks in the armour I’ve seen so far and an indication why Chelsea let him go. He’s very young though so hopefully quick to learn.
Made an absolute mug of their young left back at times last night. Bet he was relieved to be hauled off at half time.
Talking of cynical Gomez should have been sent off.Williams really, really ought to have been booked for that - the fact Lamptey got away, doesn’t alter the cynical intent.
Made an absolute mug of their young left back at times last night. Bet he was relieved to be hauled off at half time.
Williams really, really ought to have been booked for that - the fact Lamptey got away, doesn’t alter the cynical intent.
Chelsea didn't want him to go anywhere, they'd offered him a new long term contract that he was stalling on and was on the verge of signing a pre-contract agreement with Lille. We took advantage of that and got him on the cheap knowing that Chelsea would want to at least recoup some money for him rather than losing him to an overseas side for nothing in the summer.
He's going to get beaten some of the time, every footballer does, and this was a game against a side who have won the Champions League and Premier League, and he still looked like he belonged at that level. The good far outweighed the bad and this lad has a very bright future ahead of him, Chelsea will be smarting they've lost him but he's shown some hunger by leaving the comfort of Chelsea in search of actually playing, there is only one team that is going to benefit from that and its us.