Pochettino is a good man-manager but is tactically inadequate – Talk Chelsea

It was unfortunately peak Mauricio Pochettino Chelsea on Sunday night as we once again TWICE threw away a lead to draw with bottom of the table Sheffield United, a team who have been hammered for fun by most other teams this season.

A moment of individual brilliance from Noni Madueke had us all believing that we had somehow skanked another win without fully deserving it like we did against Manchester United earlier this week. But once again Chelsea’s shocking organisation and defensive coaching saw us throw it away and concede late on.

I don’t remember the last game under Pochettino that I truly enjoyed watching us in from start to finish. For me that says a lot. I think he’s a good man-manager, but he is tactically inadequate.

On Sunday, Sheffield United won more duels, had more shots on goal, more big chances created more shots inside the box, as well as a better xG. Chelsea haven’t had an away clean sheet in the Premier League since beating Fulham 2-0 on October 2nd. Since then they have conceded an average of two goals per game (24 in 12 games) on the road.

Imagine anyone even trying to claim that this is not on Pochettino at all, the HEAD COACH of this team!? He’s tactically inept, completely out of his depth in that department. He will never get Chelsea where we need to be, unfortunately.

Individually I think we have some decent players (also some bad ones). But putting them altogether in the right way is the issue. We rely on individual moments of brilliance, like Sunday and against Man Utd, but we don’t play as a team. That’s a mix of coaching, and a young team maturing for me, but mainly coaching.

Bottom of the table Sheffield United had 11 attempts at goal, 6 on target. ‘European challengers’ Chelsea had just 6 attempts, and 3 on target. That’s truly tragic and I’m sorry, is on the manager. He is the one who trains them every single day, he is the one who leads and instructs them, he is the one who is responsible.

Afew things that stuck out to me about Sunday is the setup; Conor Gallagher basically playing as a left winger? PLEASE! Cole Palmer didn’t have a great game but he can get a goal from nowhere, yet he was removed early. The subs came too late as per usual. Mykhailo Mudryk got about 9 minutes after playing the last two games, was he THAT bad in those games? Why not go to bottom of the table United and setup in more of an attacking lineup and take the game to them? Why not play more attackers? Why not be bold and brave? Why be the same old predictable setup that really, teams should find it so easy to beat because we are that poor? All of that is on the boss I am afraid and just sums up how he coaches.

I know that our league position is not terrible now and could actually look very good if we won a couple games, and we are still in an FA Cup semi final and also made the League Cup final. All this is great. But Pochettino is NOT getting a good enough tune out of these players and for me, never will. Tactically, he is just not good enough. I see the players we have and granted, too many are too raw and will perhaps never be good enough, but I still think a tactical manager could be getting much more out of them right now – Pochettino, quite simply, is not.