Mayra Ramírez

one of these things yeah yeah yeah

and and your lovely family um and shared your sweets for which i'm eternally grateful um right so that's the gang for tonight looking forward to it and before we start we are just going to take a little ad break welcome to part one of the show so on wednesday of wednesday on sunday uh we played west ham away we lined up as follows hampton carpenter bronze buchanan boorman captain wush nuskin baltimore hermano and mallard substitutions on the at half time for Lexi Potter.

Beaver Jones and Thompson came on for Mallard and Baltimore respectively and Katie McCabe recovering from her illness came on for Buchanan in the 77th minute.

The goals were in the 38th, Mallard in 38th, Walsh in 80th and Hermano in 87th.

Unused substitutes, Peng Cuthbert, lovely to see her back on the bench, Dragone and James.

So just a quick look at those match stats.

I don't like comparing men's players to women's players, but a bit of old school Ronald Koeman coming out in there.

Same country.

And, well, even when Chelsea won the league, not last season, the season before, sometimes they were scoring goals in the... 80th to 90th minute you know that it was them finding a way to win it was the same as against Arsenal the other day they just had to do in a different way which was defensively being strong so yeah I think like he'd said they're they're just a winning mentality team and right now that's what they're doing

and we all wondered how they do you know without Sam Kerr I know they brought Mallard in but clearly their greatest striker at the moment is Keira Walsh

well she has scored on a few to be fair to that you know we know Keira for the quality that she has on the ball and you know being able to keep the team going from defence to attack make the team flow but now she's getting higher up the pitch and you know she's scored a few goals from outside the box and you know Keira's quality and leadership skills will only benefit Chelsea's performances

Yeah, she does all right.

And when we talk about Aggie, we're talking about a position at Chelsea that they're currently needing players in.

So we're talking about Ramirez not being there.

Mallard is a competition.

And Aggie is, for me, the backup striker at this point in time.

She was getting bollocked by teammates for not making runs and I don't really know where we go.

Obviously, Mallard was good.

She pressed.

Um, she should've scored in the second half.

So again, there's kind of like two sort of trains of thought with this in that one, we're creating the chances, and I think I'd be more concerned if we weren't creating the chances to score.

Um, and then the second is obviously the lack of, you know, being clinical in front of goal, which is a concern, but not as much as I think as if we weren't creating the chances at all.

Um, I thought Mallard's movement was pretty good, and she was getting herself into positions to take shots, and she was taking them.

Okay, um, you know, she, she didn't take any, um...

Okay.

Uh, Mayra Ramirez from Colombia has been dealing with some injury issues, and then now there's a rumor that, uh, Paris Saint-Germain is looking at Mayra Ramirez, so she might be out of Chelsea.

Aggie Beaver-Jones, their English, uh, 22-year-old forward-

Yeah

And there are elements of her game which... have been annoying you know like there's there's missing chances right which is a bit like oh it's just hard if you're in strike stuff but like the offside stuff is annoying if you can't have the level of concentration that you you can make better runs that you're not you know and they're not small offsides right so that's the kind of stuff where i'm like yeah maybe you do just need to sit for a bit until you can get your head straight and like concentrate on those elements of your game Because I think I can forgive a striker missing chances, but there's more to it, right, than just that.

Yeah, it'd be interesting to see where her kind of role materialises, obviously with Mallard not expected to be out that long.

Probably as soon as Mallard's back, she's going to be a sub option anyway.

And before Kerr left and Bunny didn't arrive, it was up in the air whether she would still be at Chelsea.

Now she's got the new contract.