FUCK DALLAS WHAT THE FUCK <| sep |> Haha is anyone even on it ? <| sep |> Thought I ' d expand on my Chelsea preview from my debut on this week ' s Fight Cock Extra Inch podcastextrainchtactics 1 . We tried to keep that bit brief as we didn ' t want to date the episode which was meant to be more of a general tactical overview of Poch ' s time at Spurs . Chelsea ' s current setup is all about separating the opposition ' s defensive lines with an overload in deep midfield . Sometimes when building from the back their shape can resemble an Ossie Ardilesesque 505 . 3431 . png This worked brilliantly against Manchester United as explored in this video . Mourinho ' s 631 defensive shape was easily exploited . The wingers were pinned back by the wingbacks and the centremids were dragged away from shielding roles in front of the defence . 3432 . pngChelsea could then move the ball across the deep midfield area which the wide centrebacks pushed in to . This created space in midfield which the wingerforwards of Pedro and Hazard could drop into to make passing combinations with the centrebacks to drag United all over the pitch . 3433 . pngEverton also suffered against Conte ' s shiny new system . They tried to match Chelsea ' s shape with their own back 3 . Once again Moses and Alonso pushed back and stretched Everton ' s giving them more of a back 5 and left Everton with only 3 lines of defence . 3434 . pngChelsea were once again able to draw Everton ' s midfield out into a place where the were numerically inferior before finding combinations into the wingers feet . 3435 . pngThis is why I think it ' s very important we return to a 4231 shape against Chelsea . The 4231 is narrow which leaves Chelsea ' s wingbacks unmarked but it in place it returns us 4 lines of defence . This means we can press Chelsea ' s back line without leaving pockets of space for the wingers to drop in to . 3436 . pngChelsea will instead play out to their unmarked wingbacks which may cause us some problems . We will have to be very quick in shifting our pressing shape from one side of the pitch to the other without letting one of Chelsea ' s 3 forwards escape . 3437 . png