Of course, they didn’t make it easy for themselves. USMNT international Christian Pulisic has said that Chelsea are experiencing a "tough period" after losing 3-1 against Manchester City on Sunday at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea’s last game saw them lose to Man City, a game where they looked as lost as they have for some time against a superior opposition. This, perhaps, has been the underlying theme of Frank Lampard’s first half-season: they are a team of wildly undulating fortunes who are often weakest when they appear at their strongest, and strongest when they appear at their weakest. It wouldn’t be Chelsea if they did. Full of confidence and incisiveness, Pulisic's knack for scoring or setting up goals showed no sign of relenting, as he displayed predatory instincts to net in wins over Watford and Crystal Palace. Born in Hershey, Pennsylvania, he is the son of two former footballers, and spent time in England as a child, where he played with Northamptonshire side Brackley Town before moving back to the States. Pulisic’s entire career has, in a sense, been a case of managing these expectations. But here he demonstrated what he does best: running a game without – for the most part – appearing to do much of interest at all. The 22-year-old has yet to hit the ground running this season, but Lalas has praised Pulisic for trying to make things happen in the Blues’ 3-1 defeat to Manchester City last weekend, and has made a big claim that he is too good for the side. The States reached the final where they were beaten by Mexico. But there were many other such moments over the course of the game: eight dribbles in total, along with plenty of the usual tidy tracking without the ball. Pulisic missed his ninth straight game as he continues to work his way back from injury. Sterner challenges lie ahead: a relentless winter schedule, a European heavyweight in the round of 16. Christian Pulisic has had a … Of those 19 games that he started, Chelsea won 10, drew three and lost six, and their record was identical for the 19 games that Pulisic either sat out or appeared as a substitute. He started our next three leagues games before losing his place in the team for a while. Christian Pulisic became a member of the Chelsea squad for the start of the 2019/20 season with an agreement first reached in January 2019 for his permanent transfer from Borussia Dortmund. Agile, quick and two-footed, Pulisic is naturally a right winger but is also comfortable playing on the left or behind a striker. “Personality” was the buzzword that Lampard invoked in advance of the game. 22-year-old started on the left of a loaded Chelsea attack with Kai Havertz, Timo Werner, Olivier Giroud and Mason Mount all starting alongside him, and he was the best player on the pitch in the opening 38 minutes. Pulisic (pictured with Jamie Vardy) during a Premier League game against Leicester City in August 2019 On January 2, 2019, Pulisic signed with Premier League club Chelsea for an estimated £ 58 million transfer fee. Christian Pulisic and Kai Havertz are both expected to miss Chelsea’s game at Newcastle on Saturday, reveals Simon Johnson. Yes, they still look painfully vulnerable in defence. Mason Mount created seven chances against Fulham - the joint-most by a Chelsea player in a league game this season. Chelsea’s Christian Pulisic plays the ball past Lille’s Boubakary Soumaré. Chelsea team to face Wolves: Edouard Mendy; Reece James, Kurt Zouma, Thiago Silva, Ben Chilwell; N'Golo Kante; Mateo Kovacic, Mason Mount; Christian Pulisic, Olivier Giroud, Timo Werner. In his absence, Chelsea fielded an line-up unchanged from the win over Tottenham, but were swept aside as Bayern scored three second-half goals to take control of the last-16 tie. It wouldn’t be. Christian Pulisic did not score or assist a goal. Chelsea suffered their fourth defeat in … Opponent: Tottenham (2-1; Feb. 22, Premier League) The attacker looked like a fitting replacement for Hazard on the night Lampard’s side reached the Champions League last 16, Last modified on Wed 11 Dec 2019 09.30 GMT. This, in many ways, is the very essence of Pulisic: a high-speed game of hide and seek, in which the object is to elude detection until the last possible moment. But for now Pulisic feels like a perfect analogue for Chelsea as a whole: a player with the capacity to surprise out of nowhere, to lurch from shadow to spotlight and back again, the ghost in a clanking, alluring machine. It was always going to take a while for his team-mates to attune themselves to his inimitable cadences, for fans to work out what, exactly, he was doing out there. This could be read in one of several ways. In which case he will have been quietly impressed with one player in particular. 28th minute: Chelsea is struggling to find its playmakers and Pulisic wins a … And in retrospect it’s easy to see why it took him so long to settle at Chelsea. f course, they didn’t make it easy for themselves. He set up Olivier Giroud's opener and had a goal of his own ruled out for offside. The creator needs to play on the off-beats, to feel the game on a different wavelength from everyone else. Chelsea FC are in FA Cup action on Sunday when they welcome Morecambe to Stamford Bridge in the third round. And as the boisterous Lille fans serenaded their former idol Hazard, Chelsea fans serenaded their current one: a player who, for all the deadly expectations invested in him, looks to be making good on his promise. The United … One bright spark was Christian Pulisic, who had some nice moments and made a few things happen, without really impacting the game too heavily. And in many ways this has always been the major criticism of him: that for a player of such natural gifts he is rarely as straightforwardly impactful as he should be. The deal also saw him stay at Dortmund on loan for the remainder of the 2018–19 season. A USA international who also holds a Croatian passport, Pulisic was voted his country’s Player of the Year in 2017, and was their star player in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the summer of 2019 shortly before he joined up with the Chelsea squad. But there are differences between them, too. Christian Pulisic hit a perfect hat-trick as Chelsea beat Burnley 4-2 in a thriller at Turf Moor. In his barrelling energy and provocative runs, Hazard wants to be seen at all times. The States reached the final where they were beaten by Mexico. Yes, they still struggle to finish teams off. Christian Pulisic and Chelsea were poor all over the field in a loss to Leicester. He sprints and he skims. Albrighton’s cross is flicked by Barnes onto the path of Ndidi for the game’s opening goal. Paul Scholes singled out Pulisic following his impressive display at Wolves He is aware Hazard's impact at Chelsea before his £130m … His first half-season in the Bundesliga provided nine appearances and two goals, and he became a regular under Thomas Tuchel during the 2016/17 campaign, adding more than 60 league appearances over the next two years. Pulisic, by contrast, wants to disappear. Christian Pulisic injury update: Chelsea star has hamstring strain, will miss Champions League game vs. Bayern Pulisic's game ended early after this knock Getty MF Mateo Kovacic , 5 - Reacted far too late when Maddison linked up … Christian Pulisic is too good for Chelsea and is being wasted at Stamford Bridge, says ex-USA star Alexi Lalas. And Pulisic has underlined the importance of the Blues bouncing back as soon as possible. He absorbs the ball with a deft first touch and a tight turning circle. His dribbling skills also earned us a penalty in the 4-4 epic against Ajax and his first Champions League goal for the club helped secure a crucial draw at Valencia. Christian Pulisic claims Chelsea 'need to show character' and be 'smarter' without the ball in order to revive their form. Christian Pulisic has urged Chelsea to prove they have the "character" to end the dismal run that has plunged their season into turmoil. But when they’re good, it can be extremely fun to watch. Maybe, with the January window looming, he was trying to prick a few egos. Chelsea slow up against Lille after Tammy Abraham sets last-16 pace, Chelsea’s Frank Lampard wants strikers in January transfer window. He had become a regular in the starting line-up by the end of 2019, but a combination of injury and the suspension of football during the Covid-19 pandemic meant he didn’t play between New Year’s Day and the first game of the restart in mid-June. Partly, of course, this is simply the nature of the creative midfielder. No part of this site may be reproduced without our written permission. Paul Scholes says Chelsea winger Christian Pulisic is the closest thing he has seen to Blues legend Eden Hazard. With a number of European clubs monitoring his progress, Pulisic signed for Dortmund as a 16-year-old in early 2015, quickly rising through the academy ranks to make his senior debut a year later. Christian Pulisic is flattered by comparisons with Eden Hazard, but the Chelsea winger says his game is not modelled on any one player. International. (The game ended 0–0, a solid, if unspectacular, result for Chelsea, Pulisic's team, which right now is one of the four best clubs in England's Premier League and … The previous highest was also Mount, against Leeds. Ederson is missing the match because of isolation due to the current Covid-19 Pandemic. The teenage prodigy, the finest male player America has ever produced, the new Hazard: none of these labels was ever going to work to his benefit. With Man City’s starting Goalkeeper Ederson is set to miss Sunday’s Premier League match against Chelsea. The match would come to be defined as the moment when Pulisic’s Chelsea career finally burst into life, though. Pulisic, by contrast, wants to disappear. In the modern game this is a doubly difficult task, because as well as attacking to a syncopated rhythm, the creator is also usually required to defend to a conventional one. Like Eden Hazard, the man he was putatively signed to replace, Pulisic likes to start outside the defender’s eyeline, whether cutting in from the right flank as he did at Borussia Dortmund or on the left as he does at Chelsea. LONDON: Christian Pulisic has urged Chelsea to prove they have the "character" to end the dismal run that has plunged their season into turmoil. Pulisic could feature when Chelsea face Arsenal on Saturday. Frank Lampard’s side suffered a fourth defeat in their last six Premier League games on Sunday as Manchester City eased to a 3-1 win. You can follow all the action and reaction from this evening's game at Molineux in our football.london live blog. LONDON: Chelsea's Christian Pulisic said the first half of the game against Manchester City "really let us down" and his side allowed the opponents to "dictate the tempo of the game." A series of minor injuries limited Pulisic’s playing time in the 2018/19 season, but his goals included a Champions League winner at Club Brugge and one in his final home game for Dortmund that helped take their ultimately unsuccessful Bundesliga challenge into the final day. However, an injury meant an early end to his match and we struggled to maintain the same incisive attacks in his absence, as we missed out on finishing the season with a trophy. He spent the remainder of that season on loan at the German club. His form was worth the wait, though, as he opened the scoring in our first two games of the restart, wins over Aston Villa and Manchester City. Former United States international Alexi Lalas believes Christian Pulisic is ‘too good for Chelsea’. © 2021 Chelsea FC. Maybe Lampard was challenging his side’s mettle. Pulisic, 22, is struggling … Moreover, they thoroughly dominated for large periods here, at least until the screwball climax that followed Loic Rémy’s late goal. He finished his first campaign in England as arguably Chelsea and the Premier League’s form player, underlined when he became the first American to score in an FA Cup final as he again got the first goal of the game, against Arsenal at Wembley. London (AFP) – Christian Pulisic has urged Chelsea to prove they have the “character” to end the dismal run that has plunged their season into turmoil. He was rewarded with a start at Burnley in our next league outing and responded in style, scoring a perfect hat-trick. But once the nervous final minutes had been negotiated, once they could puff out their cheeks and dry their brows, Chelsea could savour a job circuitously well done. Pulisic was named the Young Player of the Tournament. … A USA international who also holds a Croatian passport, Pulisic was voted his country’s Player of the Year in 2017, and was their star player in the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the summer of 2019 shortly before he joined up with the Chelsea squad. Pulisic was plenty involved in the game's first 15 minutes, when Chelsea were rampant and Mason Mount scored in the seventh minute. Pulisic also admits that Chelsea’s players failed to grasp City’s gameplan in the first 45 minutes. He joined Chelsea on a five-and-a-half year contract and became the third American player in our history after his international team-mate, Matt Miazga, and Roy Wegerle. Following the October international break, he played decisive passes in tight wins over Newcastle and Ajax having been brought off the bench. A simple Pulisic run will often see him change speed two or three times. For all their ordeals and imperfections, this is a team who sit fourth in the Premier League table and now have a Champions League last-16 tie awaiting them in the new year. Even when he picks up the ball, he is still trying to disappear: weaving through wormholes, drifting rather than waltzing past players with a snowy paddle of the feet. Pulisic made his Chelsea debut as a sub in the defeat to Manchester United, and his first start followed a few days later as we were beaten by Liverpool on penalties in the Super Cup. He wafts and he hovers. Pulisic endured a rollercoaster of a game in the FA Cup final in his last appearance against Arsenal. Perhaps his most telling contribution here was the spectral run he made for Tammy Abraham’s goal, appearing in the left channel to gather N’Golo Kanté’s flick, spiriting the ball to the edge of the penalty area, laying it off to Willian with a simple economy of movement. Or perhaps he was simply appealing to their expressive side: an entreaty to keep inventing, even with the stakes at their highest. On American TV they made Christian Pulisic set to return to Chelsea squad for midweek clash by SuperFrank ( @ ) on Dec 14, 2020, 1:38pm Christian Pulisic was a last minute absentee on Saturday against Everton, but he will be back in action – at the very least off the bench – for tomorrow’s game. Pulisic has taken in 47 appearances for Chelsea since leaving Dortmund in the summer of 2019, with 13 goals and 10 assists delivered across those outings. Chelsea are the Premier League’s equal third-highest scorers (together with Leicester and Tottenham) with 33 goals, four fewer than Liverpool and one fewer than Man Utd. ‘We conceded goals with a lot of counter situations and … All rights reserved. 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