Even in the aftermath of Chelsea’s resilient second-half defensive display at Anfield following Reece James dismissal, there was still a nagging feeling the Blues had missed an opportunity.
In the first half Chelsea’s new-look front three of Mason Mount, Kai Havertz and Romelu Lukaku at times terrorized the Liverpool defence, only to come away with one goal from a set-piece. The feeling of missed opportunity has been a regular theme in recent seasons and has to become a thing of the past if Chelsea hopes to seriously challenge for the Premier League title.
Chelsea’s MLH – which I discovered is the abbreviation to a company called ‘Major League Hacking’ in Manhattan which sets up student hackathons. For the purposes of this piece, Tuchel has a lot of reason to believe Mount, Lukaku and Havertz can hack a lot of Premier League defences this season.
The major frustration from the first half at Anfield was that on several occasions the wrong pass was selected in the final third to put daylight between Chelsea and Liverpool.
Context should be given in defence of these early growing pains, Chelsea are only 3 games into their Premier League season. For Mount, Lukaku and Havertz the draw at Liverpool was only the second outing for the trio – Mount was the only one to start all three of the league contests so far.
The first two games have seen slightly altered approaches for Chelsea's attack from Tuchel. Against Arsenal, with more space to operate in and superiority in wide areas, Chelsea in possession looked more like a 3-2-5 with both wing-backs Reece James and Marcos Alonso helping to occupy The Gunners back four.
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