Chelsea are NOT on the rise, they've just CAUGHT UP! - Steve Nicol after 3-2 vs. Forest | ESPN FC

Steve Nicol, Frank Leboeuf and Alejandro Moreno join ESPN FC to discuss Chelsea's 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest in their Premier League matchup.
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[@Andrewgriff22]

What is this guy on. Chelsea's last 3 wins have been against Spurs, West Ham and Forest not Burnley and Sheffield United. Cmon this guy is just a hater😂

[@thealchemist1480]

hahahaaa,,,,reminds me of Breaking Bad

[@alexandrekimpioka5233]

+1

[@snsd2200]

True so true.. haters are always haters

[@ridgefrank2707]

Ikr!!

[@chelseafc8563]

He is…very salty

[@ForestPantherGod]

Hey Steve Nicol, Care to apologize about Nicolas Jackson? You said he won't get 10 goals this season, I said he'll surpass 12. May your apologies be as loud as your disrespect.

[@Allan558]

He'd better see and reply to this fr

[@thetimeisrite]

Last year we finished 12th with 44 points. This year we sit 7th with 57 points with 2 games to go yet there is still no progress according to Steve.

[@leimerthe]

Yep and we only scored 38 goals in the leaguelast year we have doubled that

[@sdm_za]

And we had major injuries across both seasons

[@boutiquedubradio601]

Conceded twice as many goals on the hand Newcastle, Man United Brighton, Brentford were not as bad last season

[@x_MVP]

Exactly. 2 seasons without Putin = finished club

[@Castro25flow]

Have some shame Stevie, how are you a pundit and getting your facts wrong on tv. Chelsea haven't beaten teams that are being relegated, in fact they drew against Burnley and Sheffield, but beat Everton 6-0, their biggest loss of the season, West Ham 5-0, biggest victory over their London rivals, 2-0 against Tottenham, that's a double over the number 5 club. Give Chelsea some credit already

[@GeoFavTech]

That’s why MOTD never wanted him SMH 🤦

[@RevolveMuzic]

Stevie is a bitter Liverpool fan. What did he do in football?

[@NancyWangui-jm1jw]

Dont forget if was not for arteta arsenal would have scored 7

[@user-cx1yx5bc2g]

Don’t mind him

[@doubleeph8920]

​@@NancyWangui-jm1jwImagine Arsenal without their first choice back four or best player in Saka and throw in 13 injuries too, You'd have lost by a higher margin than Chelsea did 🤡!

[@sina7601]

Boy these panel must have been bleeding from their asses all these years that Chelsea was fucking every team in the PL and Europe and winning trophies left and right that now two seasons of being down they are this rude. Dear Stevie your beloved Klopp won 1 PL in 8 years. Since next season your Liverpool will be back where it belonged in the past 30 years: mid-table. This Chelsea team will win more trophies than Arsenal, Liverpool and United in the next 10 years.

[@GIBBO4182]

Frank is an ex Chelsea player! He loves them, what are you talking about?

[@sina7601]

@@GIBBO4182 Frank talks a lot of BS just to not upset his colleagues there. He needs to learn and standup for his club more. Look how Carragher defends a lot of shitty Liverpool players as well as the shitty performances of Liverpool throughout the years. If he had some backbone he would have told Stevie that he is biased and is not giving any analysis based on facts or reality. The guy said we won against Sheffield and Burnley. Alzheimer?

[@leslietinashechingosho5144]

Stevie is like a talking zombie. Firstly his getting his facts wrong saying Chelsea beat Sheffield Utd, Burnley yet we drew with both of them during this run.

[@mostafahussaini843]

This is comment I was going to make. We drew with those guys…if we beat them. We’d be close to TOP 5!!!

[@wavye4979]

​@@mostafahussaini843we would be more than close to the top 5, we would be in the top 5

[@simonoliver8576]

I support liverpool and I dont really like chelsea however I think steve nicol is being an idiot here🤣 if you actually follow football properly you would know that chelsea were not even in europe when pochettino took over I think they finished in 12th place last season so to finish sixth or seventh and qualify for europe is an improvement basically 🤔

[@linfordhenry6024]

Chelsea have beaten Palace, Newcastle, Man Utd, Everton, West ham and Tottenham, Notts Forest and drawn with City and Villa why did Steve Nicol not mention these…one defeat in 13 games.

[@gadmawuli5902]

Chelsea drew with both Burnley and Sheffield..know your facts before being hateful

[@kemarjosephs4984]

That goes to show he's hating.

[@keshmuli5865]

What amazes me is that nobody fact-checked him immediately, even Frank, a Chelsea fan

[@NolanOrr-wp2kz]

​@@keshmuli5865Frank no different to them as a past player he never defended his team from those morons

[@PED_Fraudiola]

Lol lower your expectations bro you’ll be happier. These pundits are trash. They only enjoy sucking off city

[@user-hr3wk1lc5w]

ESPN need to hold there head in shame. How can you have the biggest sport company in the world and somehow employ the worst pundit (Steve Nicol) I have ever seen. FIND SHAME!

[@dreddmann6532]

You Chelsea are hilarious. Always crying in the comment sections for your "Billion-Dollar Bottle jobs" team.

[@chriskenne8700]

@@dreddmann6532 the money spent was on young players who are NOT expected to perform at a high level this year. This is a project (as the owner said himself), give them time.

[@BeatsByZetan]

​@@dreddmann6532such an original thought from you

[@moyoojo7102]

Yep, as original as fart😂

[@talksportgh1928]

He's an assholee

[@chrisgrima]

Only thing I take out of ESPNFC is that Shaka and Stevie hate Chelsea.

[@chriskenne8700]

@@PeteWalker3683yup, Burley the clownface

[@kazeemadeyemo1574]

Craig the retard

[@__meilleur]

@@PeteWalker3683burley makes my blood boil. Him and stevie are crazy

[@DyNamiC_PulsE]

@@__meilleur Forever remembered for passing the ball to Beckham and costing Chelsea the FA cup

[@blueisthecolorcfcchelsea2033]

Always finds excuses when Chelsea wins but praises other teams 😂😂😂Man stop being salty Stevie

[@karlredhead9814]

It will be good when you start to get the man utd criticism next season if poch stays

[@ZBspicey]

Wow this showed Stevie's bias. Glad he got called out 😂

[@therealbenzedryne]

Didn't like it either did he? Turned into a petuant child... 😂😂😂😂l

[@dalanisanford5598]

Just an old guy don’t have a life !!!!!

[@jahvaniebarnes3120]

ESPN is so predictable these days when analyzing chelsea not saying chelsea was at there best today but no matter how well chelsea play it's always the same neagtivity from these pundits 🤦‍♂️

[@jarloes]

Stevie mate… The hate is abysmal! Chelsea have improved so much and yes they got battered by league leaders doesn’t change the fact they battered west ham and beat Tottenham comfortably.

[@OG_1669]

Not by league leader's but more of league bottlers 😂🤫

[@jarloes]

@@OG_1669 😂😂

[@oswaldumeh8285]

But also add that his beloved Liverpool were battered by Arsenal 4 - 1 too when they were hot this season and they also lost to Crystal Palace at home, hence, he must definitely apply the same vitriolic criticism to them as well. Nonsense!

[@x_MVP]

@@OG_1669talking about bottling leagues while your scrapping for CONFERENCE league

[@KonohasOrangeFlash]

This man’s salt never ceases to give me pleasure haha

[@davididehen2505]

Spent a Billion and fighting for conference league 😂😂.

[@kevinfrancisco6504]

@@davididehen2505 "1 billion", totalnonsense while you know that in the 1 billion there are players like Koulibaly

[@davididehen2505]

@@kevinfrancisco6504 Yet youldnt finish top 4. Stop defending them haha. Chelsea are shite

[@kevinfrancisco6504]

@@davididehen2505 and? I will keep defending them, especially against people that talk, and don't know what they are talking

[@wallacegachanja9219]

​@@kevinfrancisco6504Leave him alone. He's probably a United fan 🤣🤣🤣

[@abdul-latifzakariyya3329]

For the record Chelsea didn't beat Burnley and Sheffield What is Stevie on about

[@joseadaomendes8474]

Man Utd 3-4 Everton 0-6 Lost to Arsenal 5-0 Vila 2-2 Spurs 0-2 West Ham 0-5 Forest 2-3 Blah blah blah idiots if they can’t see process they are definitely horrible pundits

[@ChuckFrankie]

ESPN should sack these pundits. Clearly they are clueless.

[@x_MVP]

5-0 bukkake

[@AliMunirFarooqui]

I am a simple man, i run out of Salt I tune in to ESPN and borrow it from Stevie 🤷🏽

[@1syde1793]

Steven need to worry about liverfool n just shout up geez

[@adamross1992]

So do big clubs only get credit now if they beat Arsenal, Liverpool, or City? I mean come on, you cannot only gauge a team based on their performance against the current top sides - Stevie just refuses to credit Chelsea, in fact he doesn't even engage with an evaluation of their play, the man just speaks generally about their results

[@iamlegend303]

these "experts" dont even know who chelsea beat 😂

[@raymullababii2846]

Only the top three have gotten more points than chelsea in the second half of the season we were 11th in January

[@fireproximity4225]

Nedum is the only objective pundit on the show, the rest are clowns. Also let Stevie be salty, Liverpool's complete capitulation in the FA Cup, Europa and PL has him more bitter than usual

[@BDAShadow1]

Is Stevie genuinely brain dead? The last 18 games Chelsea have only lost to Man City, Arsenal, and Liverpool, the three top teams in the country. If we were in this form all season we would be in the title race… It doesn’t matter how poor Newcastle and Man U have been we were 10+ points behind them, that takes a lot of catching up. We STILL don’t have literally most of our starting 11 either.

[@FreewayMJG]

Rest of the premier league reverses a score they showed guts...... Chelsea reverses a score they got lucky 😶

[@BoiSugape]

Steve Nicol is a shameless Chelsea hater

[@yoonjoonoh2693]

I knw espn hates chelsea but we really improved as far as character goes we actually came back to win a fkin game and we are playin better football

[@adre412]

The teams they have beaten lately are West Ham and Tottenham!!!! How is this guy a pundit!!!!

[@brandonjablasone7544]

They also beat Everton. Went head to head with city. That Arsenal game was a fluke

[@hahahaha-nt3yn]

This guy hate Chelsea with a passion, always the negatives.

[@MrGhostTube]

Nobody is giving Chelsea a title. Chelsea are top 4 form over the last 12 games despite the Arsenal result. Nicol is bitter that Liverpool fell apart as we've picked it up.

[@moneymase180]

This Steve is so pained in the heart that Chelsea is doing better.

[@datboidiego9164]

But when it was Arsenal completing a comeback against Luton in the last minute, they were “resilient” and “brave”

[@x_MVP]

Rent free

[@datboidiego9164]

@@x_MVP You can’t be rent free with 0 UCL’s

[@x_MVP]

@@datboidiego9164 look how giddy you are that you are 7th. Less league titles than Everton 🤣

[@mikeyminit5059]

​@@x_MVPAnd yet Everton wish/dream they were Chelsea! Just stfu n go away. Gooners ain't winning sh^t just like Cfc. And the fact that most of em have turned spuds fans to have a chance at winning the title is absolutely disgraceful!

[@datboidiego9164]

Reminder that like a week ago Stevie laughed and said Chelsea had no chance to get top 6.

[@marim4478]

Steve Nicol brain got fried since Liverpool bottled the title. He just kept talking pure nonsense.

[@rohitsurve6953]

Lol.. agree 😂😂

[@eeee1185]

We finished 44 pts last year being terrible and Tuchel gave us like 10 of those pts we were the worst team in the league. We’re 7th on 57 about to hit 60 pts with young players that can even get better. These pundits don’t know ball

[@denisbuwembo7695]

Stevie forgets that Chelsea went down not because the other teams where on the rise. Chelsea went down because they were consistently poor and are now coning up because they are becoming consistently good. Stevie is a hater.

[@Dtmans941]

One thing I have noticed about this Chelsea team is they have become consistent since Enzo got injured. Can we say he has been the problem?

[@destinyanetor7875]

well Chelsea are improving let's trust the process

[@sumayo1000]

This is sad, even for ESPN that apparently hates Chelsea

[@chukagorretti]

These pundits are clueless. Espn wasting wages on these bozos

[@alexegharevba1026]

Steve the hater, he never stops shitting on Chelsea

[@innocentabaa2979]

Liverpool was beating by Everton 2 nothing chelsea gave them 5

[@ParcelsPostSection-yz2qw]

Actually it was 6.🤓☝

[@josephajibowo-wp2rw]

Poch is the right man for the job. When Chelsea were really good under Conte, Spurs were our main rivals. I loved that Spurs team because they were relentless. Poch improves teams year on year and slowly. If Jackson was clinical striker, we would have more points.

[@kudzimusar]

This team has lost only 1 for a long time and the one is against a very good Arsenal side. That game had many bad injuries. Even if you argue they aren’t improved, they have been scoring loads of goals, close to average of 3 per game. Remember around new year, they were r scoring even one eg October they scored only one the whole month. I think they have improved..

[@slvme3819]

Whatever Chelsea did to this guy is huge😅

[@chrisdon4148]

Poor old Steve is listening to burley too much.

[@therealbenzedryne]

What did Burley win again?

[@kabwemwamba5288]

Thats how Frank needs to be talking

[@Jeron402]

These guys really have a hate for chelsea lol 😂😂😂😂

[@Someone-uh7ib]

He just made a blatant lie on tv and there was no response from anyone else… do they not know what they are talking about?

[@NikolaBulatovicgnr1994]

So why don't we say united, spurs, newcastle and villa are ahead just because we were inconsistent in the beginning? We lost 1 game in the last 14 in the league. This clown can't even get his facts straight for a live TV which is his only job.

[@neverskanja6448]

Before the Arsenal game,Chelsea beat Everton & Man U,staged almost late come back at Villa Park!So what is Stevie talking about 😕

[@eddiebles_]

1 loss in 12, collected the 4th most points since the turn of the year. I think the boys are doing just fine

[@nigelmariga7176]

Chelsea put on good performances against the top six except for the Liverpool and arsenal game . And the pundits kept on saying why do they play better against the big six and are dismal against the rest of the league. Now they perform against the rest and yet still they find negatives.

[@ojogbenga1986]

Poch gradually shutting them up. Now 3 and a half games lolllll

[@batandro2119]

Since the start of 2024, only the top 3 teams have won more points than Chelsea, and we have lost only once since October at home. We have only lost once in the last 13 pl games. Only the top 3 + Newcastle have scored more goals than Chelsea this season. It's ok to hate on Chelsea, but you have to be blind to not see the progress.

[@jyd93]

Had it been Arsenal, Liverpool or City who came back in late stages they'd say how brilliant Pep, Arteta & Klop are. Fact is Ponch made great subs today and it had a direct impact on the outcome. Be interesting to see Reece James & Maduke on the same side.

[@classicspeech7202]

Chelsea isn't progressing because other teams aren't doing well, they're progressing because they're actually doing well. Other teams could've drop point and they drop point as well.

[@Sim1FootballArena]

Nicol spoke a whole lot of Rubbish. If the other teams are inconsistent what does it have to do it with Chelsea performance. Chelsea were also in consistent and the improvement is very clear to see.

[@charlesapana9935]

You are so blind not to beat the drum for Chelsea

[@Majikal.22]

Frank you are getting drawn in to foolish conversations with Craig

[@Sideshowbob97]

They high or what they beat spurs and west ham aswell

[@zack-mavin200]

London is 🔵

[@bluenation1254]

When Chelsea wins,the other teams are not doing well,yeah right..Stevie is so salty like a grade one kid

[@ikechukwueze4438]

Shame on these 3. Chelsea started the game well they were being outfought by a side fighting for survival but the fact that Chelsea turned up their energy for the last 20 minutes is a huge positive. Even after the winnings goal chelsea showed some game management to take the sting out of the game

[@420_Emissary]

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.

[@adrianndlovu3856]

Stevie should just shut up.The rest of them were up in the first place because we were not consistent and were not in form.

[@jahzeedmuller7980]

The only thing Stevie does is hate on Chelsea. They never liked Chelsea even when they won the Champions League😂. Stevie had no Footballing Career and now his taking it out on Chelsea. What a disgrace.

[@williamleke1810]

At this point if Chelsea beat Real Madrid 10-0 Steve Nicol would still have something bad to say about them. what a joke of a pundit lol

[@AceFootballCrib]

The difference between Potter and Poch is.... Poch had way more injured players in his time than Potter and yet won more matches and did better, this is what made Potter lose his job. Injury is unfair to good managers but Poch managed. I rest my case

[@brightbumhira9418]

ESPN don't you have Better Pundits????? Surely some are getting old and blind

[@jimknight5420]

Stevie, you gotta give them credit for their recent form in a chaotic season, with the youngest squad with formidable potential, and the exquisite and elegant Cole Palmer leading the precocious talent by example. The only way is up for them next season, at least top 4, maybe champions!

[@ritzmarcos7733]

Stevie's word will bite him next season. I just wish from Lord. We will switch on to ESPN UK again to watch his reactions. Till then take some rest. UP THE CHELS!!!

[@DRIVER-SEBVET]

Haha Stevie's sarcasm was epic, he just swinging it the other way for them in saying exactly what they want to hear😂😂😂😂

[@user-hq3se1nb3j]

Who puts Stevie up there

[@ionnicoara6657]

Yeah yeah the rest of the teams decided to give Cheslea a free pass.. This guy...

[@patrickhelmke9083]

West Ham, Spurs, Man United etc are actually the teams we’ve beaten lately. ESPN this is honestly a joke

[@FrankOwusuafriyie-wm3ue]

Chelsea will win the premier league and Steve will still credit the second place team. 😂😂😂 This guy.

[@koketsomokone2975]

Credit to Forest they had a game plan that made it very difficult to play our game. There was no space in midfield for Cucurella to operate. Poch tweaked the setup and returned Cucurella to traditional LB to maintain shape- CHO was class though, what a player 😮‍💨... Forest were smelling blood and their players started relaxing their shape allowing us expose space that we never had in the first 70min. That's what allowed Reece the space to run it and cross to an unmarked Jackson. All in all I'm proud that the boys never gave up. There's been a real shift in mentality from this team. 4TH BEST FORM RECORD SINCE BOXING DAY! NEXT SEASON WE EATTTTTT

[@jakethesnake8842]

By no means do I think they are world beaters...but chelsea was the statistics "expected goals/wins" darling in the first half of the season and now are the 3rd highest point tallying team since the new year?

[@salmanparker5394]

If you are Chelsea owners do you keep Poch next season? or do you replace him and with who would you replace him with?

[@neilcoles1780]

At the end of last season under Lampard the discussion was whether they were capable of winning a single game so i guess we have to concede progress even if like united under some US billionaire franchise holder the football will always be an irrelevance secondary to marketing rights

[@NateMwanyosh]

Really Nicol? "You don't win titles with 3½ games" Surely? Cut them some slack, tell him Frank. Thank you Frank. Beating relegated teams is rough.

[@patrikbull4303]

Stevie just succeeded in making a whole panel sound crass. Nobody says the team is a finished product people just talked about progress and he still can’t understand that

[@mide546]

When it comes to Stevie, i never expect anything positive from him about chelsea. I'm not surprised.

[@HgHg-yp6ft]

In the last four out of if five games in the league in which we have Enzo out we got <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="360">6:0</a> against Everton( who beat Liverpool after that),<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:0</a> against WH and two full remontadas away against Villa( robbed by VAR) which are kind of still 4th and Forest now. But ofc someone like Steve will remember only the disaster against Arsenal with Enzo on the pitch.

[@user-tt2ks8js3u]

The asnal game we were coming from playing city and had a couple of injures like palma nd gusto

[@ryanlawson9095]

When Stevie got called out for his mistake he doubled down with sarcasm.

[@noelgeorge3947]

Lol. Steve.. it was the other way around. Chelsea has been inconsistent and hence all the other teams seemed to be surging.. Now they are getting their first team players slowly back from injuries. :)

[@doubleeph8920]

ESPN have to bring in some fresh blood on their panel someone who actually is somewhat objective! Since Boxing day 2023 only Arsenal, City and Liverpool have won more points than Chelsea and only City have lost fewer league games. If that isn't some signof progress then what else is it?! Clowns like Stevie conveniently skip context when talking about results, Chelsea had like 13 players out for the Arsenal game and Poch inexplicably didn't play our first choice centre backs or fullbacks, Palmer was also out with an illness. Imagine Arsenal without Saka, Gabriel, Saliba and Ben White playing away from home I'd reckon they find it hard to win too!

[@jimwilson-kl2xs]

Well Mr Dour if Liverpool had collected the same number of points in the last 4 games they'd still be in title race, with Lavia, Fofana, Nkunku, James fully fit Chelsea will be a force next season

[@ikbev]

I like how Stevie forgot Chelsea beat spurs and west ham also. Arsenal game was a blip

[@peluminova2515]

REECE JAMES IS GENERATIONAL! iNJURIES HAS BEEN ROBBING US OF AN ALL TIMER! The highlight today was the quality of performances we could have had all season with key players being fit and available. Our mental fortitude as regards coming back from behind of recent as been impressive. It shows this team have the stones to get results when it matters, sad we didn't have this much earlier. One has to give credit to players like Caicedo who's contributions in the team can be overshadowed by prettier performances from forwards like Cole Palmer. His off the ball work is superb, and his on the ball ability; technical ability, ball distribution, is top notch. The likes of Sterling and Nkunku need to be starting the rest of the games, we need to start and finish games strong, not chasing a win at the 80th minute with the likes of Mudryk and Noni being subpar for a huge chunk of the game.

[@kemarjosephs4984]

If chelsea lose it's a problem if they win it's a problem. Lol.

[@baaaads]

The hate against CFC during nearly every show of them is insane …

[@paulw6183]

Actually the wins in this run have included Newcastle, man United, Tottenham, West ham, Everton, Palace and forest, also included are draws away at both City and Aston villa, 26 points in the last 13 games, the dropped 4 points against Sheffield United and Burnley ironically are the worst results. Arsenal was a bad result but is an outlier.

[@emmanuelk.tambwe2628]

Stevie is right in a way bcz he remembers what Chelsea was as a team that competed at high levels for seasons....

[@user-rm6fk7ko4i]

This Steve of a guy,does he understands improving and improved

[@Peranak-Samaa]

That guy's forgot that every teams in EPL especially had to fight for not eliminated next season gonna play like the world gonna ends..that are scary stuff for every visitor team.. it's not a easy win for Chelsea but luckily their got many talented young player to step up. This team are young and if they keep playing like a team that beats west ham, this team gonna have a good runs next season..

[@aman8549]

The improvement is in the performance.. the collective effort in defending... moving the ball quickly... movement with and without the ball is more in sync than before. This is what you analyse as a pundit not just scorelines. These PPL are such clowns 😂😂