Manchester United captain Ashley Young will not be joining Inter Milan next summer neither will he be signing a pre-contract agreement with other clubs having be given a one-year contract extension. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a huge fan of the 34-year-old and feels his presence at the club will be useful to the younger players in the team. Although, the decision to keep him at the club haven't gone down well with fan who vented angrily on different social medias. Some of the tweet reads; "How the might have fallen.. " Another aggrieved post reads: "The more Man U fans want to escape the more the owners give them pain". Another reads: "This Ole and Co. are really taking us for granted. You can't be renewing Ashley's contract while there are real loopholes to cover.. it's getting out of hand". Sad ones goes this way: "Why, just why would you do that? He is part of the dead wood that they need clearing out "This ...
The blockbuster encounter between Chelsea vs Liverpool will see two of Europe's finest teams pelt their wits and tricks against each other.
Frank Lampard youthful side will be hoping to become the first team in 15 attempts to Liverpool's juggernaut from taking all three points in the Premier League. But achieving that fate won't be easy and Lampard knows it.
Lampard and his coaching team know they have to stop Liverpool's world class attacking trio of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane from scoring. Those three have scored 16 of the 21 goals Liverpool have scored in their opening 5 matches of this season.
If Chelsea can stop those three from scoring, their chances of winning the game jumps from 35% to 75%.
Secondly, Lampard also knows Liverpool's midfield is made up of three aggressive tacklers and incessant runners who will press Jorginho, Ross Barkley or N'Golo Kante {if that's possible} to win the ball back and launch a quick counter attacker.
But Chelsea already have good midfielders who will pass the ball round them and force them to retreat until the Salah, Firmino and Mane joins the pressing.
The only weakness Frank Lampard's Chelsea have at the moment is their defense. Kurt Zouma, Antonio Rudiger or Christensen are not good enough to stop Liverpool's attacking trio.
Roberto Firmino alone is a menace and his movement, daft touches and creativity will single handily expose them. The Brazilian is very good in drawing defenders out of shape and inward's into middle thereby opening up spaces for Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane to burst through and score. .
Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso or Emerson will have to sit deeper to stop not just Mane and Firmino but Robertson and Trent Alexander Arnold. Pulisic or Willian will have defend deep or risking losing the game.
Simply put, Chelsea's main strength is their outstanding midfield and youthful strike force but their weakness is the defense.
Liverpool meanwhile have the attackers {world class}, midfield {average but very hardworking} and defense {world class}.
My Prediction: Chelsea 1- 2 Liverpool.
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