Have Chelsea turned a corner under Mauricio Pochettino? | The Football Show 

Sky still don't get it. They've called Chelsea "Billionaire blue bottlers", lambasted them over how much players have cost (without acknowledging sales). they've said they spent "scattergun" and now say Enzo, the bright young star of the last World Cup is hampering the team while not understanding the guy has a hernia problem. Suddenly they say Chelsea have " turned the corner". The word to describe those pundits at Sky has to be "hypocrites".

If they sell Gallagher and get rid of potch it just shows what the owners are willing to do to destroy chelsea

Enzo isn't a question. He was playing with a hernia all season. He'll fit right in once he's healthy.

Their inability to score? Theyve scored 70 goals so far, and will probably get more

People are only saying now that Chelsea have ‘turned a corner’ but I’ve been saying this for almost three months. I’m not even a Chelsea fan, but even I can see that since the Wolves defeat at the start of February, Chelsea are unbeaten in 11 of their last 12 games in the Premier League - winning six, drawing five and losing just once. They’ve been improving for a while and as far as I was concerned it was always just a matter of time under Pochettino. His teams generally tend to follow this pattern. He doesn’t always come in and make a flying start, because he’s a tactical coach not an impact coach. A similar thing happened under Spurs when he joined - after the first few months some fans were calling for his head but he eventually found his best team and the best system to use, and after that they grew and developed exponentially. Even at PSG his side were far better in his second season and I have no doubt they’d have kept getting better and better had they given him another year. And now at Chelsea, after half a season of trial-and-error, and trying to unify a squad that’s largely made up of young players who were only signed in the last year or two, his side are starting to look like a really strong unit with bags of potential. They still have their cracks but I think they’ll only get better from here on out - and I really wouldn’t be surprised if Chelsea were in the mix in the top-4 battle next season.

Stop comparing Jackson to Drogba had enough of these idiotic statements. Jackson will never be a Drogba firstly the way they play is totally different. I don't want to sound like I am having a go at Jackson because I am not he has played well considering the team overall circumstances with injuries yes he has missed chances but he is young and is evolving. I personally belive he is a player for the future. CHELSEATHROUGHANDTHROUGH

Cucurella and Caicedo know each other from Brighton so of course they have better chemistry than with Enzo. That's just a blatant ignorant comment. Can't hack Enzo because of his injury.

Chalobah brings calmness to the back, Gusto should play his usual right position, with Silva gone, he will be very important. Also Cucu in that position works better with Ghallager upfront than Enzo up and Ghallager playing behind him. The reason Cucu is working in midfield is because he has pace and can recover, unlike Enzo

Still need a top striker and centre back

Now enzo fernandez is the problem😂😂😂english media never fails to amaze me

What do you mean big squad? Chelsea's squad is 24 senior players plus academy kids

Yeah Chelsea's side been better over the last few games, Jackson improving and all the players new found teamwork but most of the Credit to poch for unleashing cucurella as inverted LB, that's the gambit🔥

I’ve criticised Enzo as much as anybody this season, but we’ve got to reset our thoughts now the injury has come to light. Don’t want another world class player slipping through the net.

Enzo's crime is he is not British

Chelsea need to sell Sterling (definitely not worth £325k a week). In the last few games the team has started to form strong player bonds that does not exist when Enzo and Raheem are on the pitch. Defence still needs to be sorted but Casiedo and Cucurella seem to be bonding too. Oh and Mudryk can go too, he does not do very much.

this isn't about the team being better without enzo. it's about cucurella walking into that mid-field which gives the freedom for an extra man to move forward and create overloads in the attack and more channels for passes etc. this is a completely different system and is unfair to judge enzo given they didnt try this system while he was playing and that is down to the manager not the players. also we saw this style of play in preseason and when nkunku got injured, pochettino just dropped it and hasnt done it again until now when he still didn't really have nkunku available (he only played 10mins in 2,5 games this style was used). the manager is still not good enough. as soon as injuries come back he will go back to his old style and we will be bad again. he is so slow in making adjustments, simply not good enough

Drogba's return was in a season we conceded 15 goals. Mourinho played 9 men in the box and needed Drogba to score anytime he got a whiff of the goal. Jackson's return has been good but that doesn't mean his finishing hasn't been woeful for most of the season. Dumb comparison

Singling Enzo is so stupid. Bro has been playing in pain for the past 3 months

Enzo is a CM . But in Chelsea he playes as a CDM . Thats the problem .

His Enzo comment tells me that this guy doesn't know anything about football

I think it was Steve Nichol who Chelsea don’t or can’t score goals…where will they get the goals. Chelsea have scored 70 league goals only Arsenal, Man city, Liverpool, Villa and Newcastle have scored more

Chelsea needs further building to be where they were prior to their collapse. Backing the manager is the first thing to do

I remember enzo’s first season anytime he’s with the ball he tries to give a good up through to the attackers i hope to see that next season

With 14 injuries but Poch is showing his capabilities to do this Chelsea is going to be dominant soon 😜

The fact that Jackson has scored a good amount of goals with the chances he’s missed. Imagine if he was clinical, he’d have 30

Enzo has been injured and playing on injections for over 8 months this is a clear explanation of his displays.

Lessons learned... Poche takes too long to bring the simple changes. Ghallager is not an attacking option. There are hidden talents like cucurella, Carney, casadai, brazilian kid etc. etc. poche should open his eyes wide open and think more.

They have been better by playing a proper 10 in that position if they keep doing that and rotate enzo caicedo lavia and gallagher if he stays in the 2 midfield positions

Respect Enzo! He was playing injured.

Turned a corner? Next season will be key.

I think if not for injuries Chelsea will be in top 4 and Chelsea will do better next season

Enzo had been playing with pains of hernia....but now that he has had an operation he will be great.

The fact that that bloke on the right said that CFC is better without Enzo makes me wonder.

Chelsea have been very inconsistent this season but their last few games have been good... I would also say that the teams they played against (except for arsenal) have all been on a downward trajectory maybe due to tiredness...

People just sit down in front of cameras and criticize other peoples ability so well then later say maybe they were being too harsh.

Gallagher Palmer Jackson Caicedo Madueke and Reece should all be on the no sell list... IF any of them are sold this club is a joke

By the way, who are these 2 commentators on Sky? Are they journalists or RU-vidrs?

Not yet without a reliable striker.

Yes, I agree Chelsea do look much better when Enzo is not playing. Slows the game down way too much, holds onto the ball unnecessarily long, killing off possibilities of a counter attack or a quick, sharp buildup play, incapable of making those intelligent late runs into the box to take a shot at goal, has horrible shooting and incapable of playing that inch perfect long pass up the field or across the field to convert defense into attack. I wonder who(and why) put that ridiculous price tag on him and on what basis.

Nobody was saying that when Arsenal annihilated them a couple of weeks ago, since then they drew with Villa, played a terrible Spurs team and an awful West Ham who are on the beach. Nothing to get excited about.

One easy win from westham and the pundits call out turning corner already 😮

why isn't anyone motioning that Jackson has actually way more goal contribution than the likes if Nunes, Gabriel Jesus, Jota

The key to Chelsea improved play is not the absence of Enzo but the absence of sterling and the conversion of Cucurella to hybrid left back CDM

After all the money they spent he will need to be top 4 at least next season. Liverpool and maybe MU will have new managers so that should give Chelsea hope. Amorim might well be their manager next season though.

Yeah absolutely, he was obvious things we will change with time and with players staying fit

Mmm. I'm not convinced yet. Maybe if we start next season well.

"....Nicolas Jackson's return this season is better than that of Didier Drogba's in his firstseason..." That hit me...

Time is just what this team needs. Time with each other and time with Poch. Klopp's gegen-pressing didn't set in instantly nor did Pep's tiki taka. No manager will do any better with this team. It's just the growing pains of a young squad. Tactics may not be visible in every game, no consistency, chemistry and cohesion missing etc. We forget that even the best of players need to be settled not only on the field but off it too. New players, new environments and new surroundings. A new culture and homestead, add to the mix that the majority are youngsters too makes it difficult to adapt immediately. Sure, people will always point to the amount spent and mention that it should be relative to the success but this is a unique scenario. Boehly and co. not only invested in the first team but largely the potential second team which are either out on loan youngsters (Datro Fofana, Gabriel, Santos, Washington, Hutchinson etc.) or backups (Cucurella, Petrovic, Lavia, Ugochukwu, Chukwuemeka etc.). They tried to condense five years worth of work, scouting and development into a short space of time. Every time we sack a manager the whole process resets, this is essentially our first year under Poch, including different players once again. Projects like these need time to breathe. Sadly us football fans are impatient. Klopp, Pep and Arteta all had mediocre first seasons in charge with a somewhat more stable group of players and backroom operations than what we have had for the past couple of years. We probably have the most experienced and emotionally adept coach to deal with this core. No other manager will have the patience to handle this group as well as Poch has, period. Most coaches would constantly complain about the inexperience, scrap the project, start again with new players and thus the cycle continues yet Poch is dealing with it well enough. He understands that it's a process. Forget comparing him to his Spurs days, we're a basket case of a club at the moment where even the most tactically astute would suffer. The team speak highly of his man management. For a squad of this size, it's commendable that he's held the team together as well as maintain morale throughout. No other coach would deal with a young group and still give the likes of Golding, Gilchrist, Matos and Castledine a chance. Added to his push to build an English core of James, Chilwell, Colwill, Palmer and he's constant appreciation of Gallagher, he is probably the one person at the club who is striving to maintain Chelsea's recent traditions. Give this team and coach three years, same spine of players, no major overhauls then we can truly assess what we have.

What people don’t seem to grasp is that every great team has tactical flexibility. Chelsea can play a different way with Enzo than Cucu. If Poch can dial in his midfield to operate with either setup, teams would have major problems trying to adapt to Chelsea.

I don't understand the word sloppy anymore.....enzo and sloppy can't be in the same sentence

If anyone has watched Chelsea as much as I have they will realise that forest is where we need to improve massively. It’s that type of game we drop points. Beat forest then I think we can say we’ve turnt that corner. Brentford away, Sheffield United away. Tbh anyone away from home is a problem atm

Smaler Squad? With the injurie list, he can play with the youth Squad.

Enzo Fernández is a good profile for Chelsea I beg to differ.

Chelsea have scored more goals in the past two months than they did in the entire last season. Something is definitely happening at Chelsea.

nice one

That 5-0 against Arsenal really taught them a footballing lesson , now Chelsea are balling too 👏🏻

Gallagher needs to give his contract hopefully sam jewelll has to give conor gallagher and chadolobah their contract

the season was rough beginning of season and mid season, better end 12 games 1 loss so far I think. I think the owners should be more patient with pott wait at least till next November before doing anything drastic. And don't sell Gallagher!

Caicedo and Gallagher are workhorses, we have to stick with them. Enzo just hasn’t the same rhythm.

For large portions of the season, Poch has actually had to bring academy lads over to the first team training sessions to make the numbers up due to all the injuries so Warnock's high training numbers comment is nonsense.

The guys in the media think Chelsea must win 15 - 0 every game? What do you mean they cant score? I'd rather be a team DOMINATING possession, creating chances and missing - than a team who cant do either of the above

Lol Chelsea played terrible in the first half against villa without Enzo still.. the tactical change of inverting Cucu into the midfield is whats making the difference..

Our team has been coached poorly all season. We're playing better now with zero pressure. Still lost 5 - 0 to Arsenal. Poor final and semi final results, clueless at times.

Its evident to see that the team plays much better without enzo.

Gallagher surely staying

Did you watch the Liverpool game at the start of the season?

Chelsea should sell Lavia , Fofana we are better without them

We defeated Tottenham at home and beaten West Ham who downed their tools. It's good that we're climbing back to our deserved level, but we need to remember that we are still exposed positionally, and that better teams will punish us. Also, don't forget arsenal. We've got a long way to go, and I still have my doubts about Poch in terms of his tactics and match management (many times during the season, he made bad decisions that have nothing to do with injuries or lack of player experience, and was outplayed by other managers)

Any team can have a 4 game run. Only time will tell.

The analysis of Enzo is horrible

I think we have to believe in the process has Chelsea fans and to support our players ❤

It might be a bit salty... Enzo F. not playing is a blessing to the team. The player is so overrated. Let him recuperate well. Another player at the back is Badiashile. Am thrilled to hear one of the interviewers say this.

I wouldn’t say chelsea are better without Enzo. I would rather say it’s the Gallagher at the 10 role that’s cost them and makes Enzo look bad. Any double pivot with caicedo, either with Gallagher or Enzo will work then with Palmer as 10 instead of Gallagher.

Poch is a genius. Top level systems of play and he really is second to none at developing players 👌🏾

The end of season games are liars because many teams are on the beach

But we must understand that he is playing as left winger converted into a striker it will take some times for him to come around....

I think Nick.Jackson he is the striker. We need to bring Datro Fofana thus need to SELL some players like Lukaku, R.Sterling and probably think twice in keeping Zyech. We do not need a new CF rather we need CB & CDM

Wish we got Poch at United

💯 I have been saying this for 7 months. Enzo Fernandez should be shipped out.

I Miss the old Chelsea with Jose Mourinho and Lampard and Drogba. We'll never get such a squad ever again 😢

Let's be honest, whenever Chelsea seem to turn the corner, they go back to the corner they just turned

A 100 percent. Caicedo and gallagher together is the way

Short answer, NO!

And if they lose two or three games in a row the call for his sacking will be heard again.

Should someone remind them ENZO was struggling with a Hernia all season.... Foolish comments!!

No they didn’t. They just finally play 11 v 11 without useless Ezno.

No enzo is good ...its just that the whole team is starting to click ...at first it we were just see glimpses from just a few players Its a team working together now Just like when madueke passed the ball for tap in... Sterling wouldn't do that😂

Sky Sky sports always discuss good things around their own love for certain players, teams and owners. Name calling for Chelsea and now Enzo is surely hypocrite. We know as Chelsea, with this young team we will be there, the future is bright

Chelsea is better without Enzo Fernandez.. That's it..

Warnock the waffler. Scoring has not been the problem and Enzo has been playing injured all year

Leave us alone

No

Not a huge fan of Mauricio Pochettino but they were always going to improve

ENZO WILL BE JUST FINE. JUST WAIT UNTIL HE COMES BACK. POCH JUST NEED TO ROTATE BOTH OF THEM FOR THAT POSISTION. IN THE 3-2-2-3 OR CREATE ANOTHER EXTRA SYSTEM WITH ENZO. THE 3-2-4-1 OF SOMETHING NEW

Enzo is the best you don't what you talking about

The moment i hear an English accent from a pundit i already know that they are going to be biased.

See this Enzo slander is too much his a very good player his also really young the system potch plays doesn't suit his ability if he wants to get the best of Enzo he has to tweak it a little but next season lavia Enzo caicedo would benefit each other

Listen drogbas first season wasnt a good one! Many fans didnt like him and its why we bought schebchenko and then drogba raised his game. Costa and hasselbaink hit the ground running as did gudjohnsen

inability to score? They scored 70 goals this season and its not over lol. A striker is the last thing they lack

Lads Enzo has been playing this season, with a Hernia! You go play professional football with a hernia and come back to me, because those things are bloody painful