Archie Gray

And I remember our game against Spurs at home last season where I thought we were great under Dyche.

The first goal, Archie Gray passed it to Callum Hudson-Odoi for a tap-in and then Hudson-Odoi whipped a cross in that went in and then we're showboating and we look brilliant and Spurs were crap, obviously.

So it just shows how perceptions change on big moments that you were referencing.

And the third

They're going to play expressive, expansive, attacking, which means counter-press, win the ball, transition, score.

Gray might be our position.

No, I'm not.

I'll be honest.

It felt like we had 10 men.

We had a left winger who was not fit for purpose making his first Premier League start.

We had Rodgers out of position killing two birds with one stone when Rodgers should have been up against Gray.

Winning aerial duels or at least contesting for the outlet for the long ball and dribbling and trying to carry and trying to take man on.

I mean, there's also the other guy who really was kind of anonymous, but I felt was really, really good.

Archie Gray.

Okay.

Yeah.

stopper was it Sanchez at the time yeah it might have been Sanchez because he can't pass he probably wasn't as good a shot

stopper but he was far better with his feet and it's so important to Deserby thought Archie Gray deserves a mention because again he was playing an orthodox right back role as he did against Old Trafford wasn't inverted I

think that's the first game we've ever won that Archie Gray started right back

And he wasn't inverting, and he was solid.

The two centre-backs, Mickey van de Ven, I thought, played more of the sort of Senesi-type passes.

Monday night and

he didn't.

There were a few people that thought that Poirot might start and Archie Gray...

thank you very much let's continue

yes Travis sorry just a quick one obviously I know we haven't got long left I do apologise but can I just say how good Archie Gray has been for the last couple of games you must have known what I was going to ask oh well I must be sorry

here's my next advice has he deputised well was the question in mind go for it love that

Yeah, he's been unbelievable, Archie Gray.

You know, he's been played at right back.

He's put in such a mature performance.

You know, he's playing that position.

I think, you know, if we can keep hold of Archie Gray, because I think there's going to be quite a big...

There were so many great performances.

Fernandes, Tonali, Archie, Tell, the two DAF vans, and Madders showed again why he's so important.

Let's hope this injury isn't another six-monther.

We'll investigate the game's most gifted wasters.

But actually all these nice things where relationships are starting to form and people are starting to get almost, yeah, it's becoming this team.

So, yeah, I thought Tenali was up there and he was outstanding, actually, as were most of them.

They were, and Archie, I thought, was very good.

You mentioned Robertson there, and Julie, as you'll know, he's not been my favourite player.

Um, For me, it's more around the fan base need to just fucking relax on these agendas that emerge.

I think Archie Gray is the recipient of one as well.

I don't speak about him as often because for me, I'm always sort of defending the argument that I've raised because it's always attacked and I'd never really raised it.

But Archie Gray has been, I think, a... a bloody useful squad player.

I think he's also very young.

I think he's stepping up.

And the other player that I think has like, since he's joined, I don't think Archie Gray got it to the same degree as tell and the other guy, but I think Connor Gallagher as well, since he joined the football club has had such an unnecessary relationship with hate from the fans for some bullshit fucking reason, because I don't know whether it's because they expect him to be like Connor, like James Madison.

And he's not that type of player.

So we need to be careful about how much we hype these Strasbourg guys up.

Yeah, I think but but I was gonna say also prior to the game, way i did a preview and i i said that the fullbacks were going to be a big issue because i knew doggy was out for the game i actually thought that van der veen might start a left back um right to kind of have that size so yeah and also because they they like to go direct sometimes in the channel to neto or sometimes wide to rogers for his you know physicality and i think he's been he's been like that that outlet for them all season and obviously Archie Gray or Pedro Porro at right back who I thought might come back in either one of those that's a mismatch with Rodgers and then obviously Robertson at left back athletic wise Neto's obviously going to be able to outrun him so I thought those those things were going to be a concern but I also felt like can go long obviously but you also have to then gain some control of the match and i thought there was a point in that game where spurs were bossing it in midfield a lot and every time the chelsea got back possession they were too eager to go direct and i felt like they probably should have just slowed it down a little bit and gained a bit of control before then trying to test that back line because to be honest The momentum was already with Spurs.

And so even sometimes Chelsea were playing long and they weren't even set to play long.

Their positions were all over the place because they had just been chasing to get the ball back.