César Azpilicueta

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Very true. The art of crossing is a dying one unfortunately. The only world-class crosser in the entire league is Larsson, imo.

That's incredibly harsh; some absolutely magnificent crossers in the Premier League, such as Baines, Kolarov, Bale, Pilkington (very under-rated player in my opinion, brilliant from set-plays) for instance. Agreed that the amount of true crossers has declined though. Football is about the through-ball nowadays!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

That's incredibly harsh; some absolutely magnificent crossers in the Premier League, such as Baines, Kolarov, Bale, Pilkington (very under-rated player in my opinion, brilliant from set-plays) for instance. Agreed that the amount of true crossers has declined though. Football is about the through-ball nowadays!

I would not call Bale a "magnificent crosser" at all! Pilkington is great, yeah, but I'd still say Larsson is on a different level to all of them which is why I set him apart.

On a side note, Torres has amazing crossing technique. Ironic for a man who never seems to be able to get on the end of crosses!

[Mufassir08 2,400]

The mexican U20 team has a player that sounds like azpi.

His name is Jonathan Espericueta.

[Yeboii 1,844]

The mexican U20 team has a player that sounds like azpi.

His name is Jonathan Espericueta.

Bought that guy on fifa lol

[Jase 43,479]

The mexican U20 team has a player that sounds like azpi.

His name is Jonathan Espericueta.

That will be another tongue twister for some people to pronounce if we buy him.

[Mr_President 404]

I know this shouldn't be taken too seriously but I have seen quite a few comments recently from, supposedly, Chelsea fans who are suggesting that we need a new first choice RB in order to strengthen our team. Now, unless Philip Lahm is willing to come here and Bayern Munich want to sell us their captain, I can't really see the point (There is no chance of that...). Azpi is extremely young and with defenders they take time to develop into great players, experience matters a lot in his position. This was also his first season in the PL so hopefully he will push on. Does anyone on here think that we need an upgrade on him for next season (whilst suggesting reasonable targets?). I don't think RB is an issue for us and am confident in his potential.

[Styles 9,790]

I know this shouldn't be taken too seriously but I have seen quite a few comments recently from, supposedly, Chelsea fans who are suggesting that we need a new first choice RB in order to strengthen our team. Now, unless Philip Lahm is willing to come here and Bayern Munich want to sell us their captain, I can't really see the point (There is no chance of that...). Azpi is extremely young and with defenders they take time to develop into great players, experience matters a lot in his position. This was also his first season in the PL so hopefully he will push on. Does anyone on here think that we need an upgrade on him for next season (whilst suggesting reasonable targets?). I don't think RB is an issue for us and am confident in his potential.

RB is really only an issue for the people who think we should also sign Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar and Falcao.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

He'll be a club legend, he'll never be Cole dominant, but he'll be Cole reliable for a good decade.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

he'll never be Cole dominant,

Azpi says(With his rape smile) challenge accepted.

[Spike 12,049]

I'm still chuckling from when Azpilicueta was signed. There was a certain banned Australian member that was very adamant and very aggressive that Maicon should be signed over Azpilicueta. Maicon made 11 appearances for ManCity and is now being shipped off to AS Roma and no longer plays for Brazil. Whereas Cesar made 48 appearances for Chelsea and has finally broken into the Spanish national team. Talk about a season of opposites.

Sorry buddy, if you are reading this you were dead wrong about Douglas and Dave.

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Success rate of crossers in Premier league

Not bad given Chelsea's lack of aerial challengers

[Jase 43,479]

Success rate of crossers in Premier league

Not bad given Chelsea's lack of aerial challengers

Would like to know it in numbers rather than percentages as it can be a little bit deceiving.

And surprised to see Baines is not there.

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Would like to know it in numbers rather than percentages as it can be a little bit deceiving.

And surprised to see Baines is not there.

Source: Opta but not up-to-date with full season. Published in April

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Did not have a good preseason. I firmly believe that Iva is now Jose's first choice RB. Hopefully he can get some rest at the start of the season and find his way back into the starting XI.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

Yeah, he barely played in preseason so no way he gets a start. It'll take a few of them a couple more weeks to get match fit. He was absolutely shattered at half-time against Roma.

[Jase 43,479]

Yeah, he barely played in preseason so no way he gets a start. It'll take a few of them a couple more weeks to get match fit. He was absolutely shattered at half-time against Roma.

And the idiotic thing now is Azpi will join up with the Spain NT and travel to Ecuador for a mid-week friendly.

[hjperdeath 2,226]

Source: Opta but not up-to-date with full season. Published in April

Those are stats from April 2013, so it's a complete season right?

anyway for club wise stats, from the same source.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Great, Iwannabitch at right-back. That means no-one fucking closing anyone down for another season.

The one thing Rafa did right was play Azpilicueta with regularity. Mainly because Ivanovic-Luiz is by distance our best centre-back pairing.