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Don't really understand how a player that played here for more than 10 years can play for our biggest rival in the title race. That's not class, I'm sorry. About the goal he did what he had to do for the club he is playing. The problem is not the goal,,, is the fact that he is playing for Manchester City.

Oscar is from the players that usually start for us clearly the weakest link. He plays badly in this team for more than 6 months. The last game was not a graet game, that's how he should play every game.

Choosing to make the run that Matic did in the image above rather than cover the area where Naismith (who he was originally tracking) is in and in which McGeady eventually runs into, has absolutely nothing to do with tactics or anyone. It's just a poor decision. If he has a "pressing instinct" then the run should have been towards the ball where he would have been able to fill the gap and stop the goal, not away from it. I can forgive mistakes from being too aggressive in pressing, but more often so far this season, the mistakes from Matic has been that he has been too eager to cover and hence being too late to press. Again, I'm sounding too harsh on Matic, but that's only because we're analyzing his mistakes alone. On a lot of occasions his pressing has been excellent, but it's the mistakes we remember. But I get what you are trying to say. We don't have the CBs to compliment our style of pressing. Neither JT nor Cahill are able to push up and cover any gaps that appear and play 1vs1 (Azpi for CB? ). Now THAT, for me, is an issue much more likely to persist in the future than pressing mistakes from Cesc and Matic. I genuinely believe it is something that we can solve, or at least improve, on the training ground. I guess time will tell. There are 2 more Chelsea players near the area and Willian is also near Naismith. The team in that moment is balanced, Even when Ramires fails to stop the Everton player, the team is balanced and in the moment of the goal there are 3 players near Naismith but none of them try to stop him (I think Lukaku is offside in that moment). But the team and also Matic are well positioned.

I think this kid is different. I hope in the cups he can play some games. And next season maybe he can be in the team. It would be great.

I don't think Cech will play Cahmpions League, maybe in the last games in the group stage when everything is done... I think Cech will play in the cups. I would rest Costa, play Luis and Oscar for sure because I wouldn't play them against City, and maybe rest Cesc. Something like this: Tibo, Iva, Terry, Cahill, Luis, Matic, Ramires, Oscar, Hazard, Willian, Remy

Salah for sure will play some games from the begining in Champions, the cups, and some games in the League. It will also depend on how we are in the competitions... but if we win the first or first and second games in the CHampions (specially the first one away) we will rotate the players. Salah like all the others will start at least 10-15 games in the season (more the games he will play from the bench) and if he plays well he will play more. That's really good for a young kid in a great team. And what we need for the cups, for Champions, and for some games in the League to rotate players. Costa has no substitute in the ST position he can't start in the wing, and Ramires maybe will play there against Man City or during a game when it's needed. But they won't start as a winger.

Ramires can play there like he did for 6 months really well in the last season. We have no problem with this position, and also we have Mikel.

Don't really understand why. In 2 minutes we were winning 2-0. Ater that we had to defend and did it well. In the first time Everton made something they scored. We were defending well, and the first goal it's absolutely normal and has nothing to do with the work of Fabregas. or any central midfielder. The third one is a set piece, again no responsability for the center midfielders and Oscar would do nothing in there. The only goal that was really poor defending as a whole was the second one. We scored 6. The team played exactly the way we should play a game like this, after the 2-0 shut the game and we did it. They had a lot of luck in the 1-2 and the 3-4. They did nothing special to score 3 goals in this game, and 2 of the 3 goals conceded were individual errors more than the team defending badly. By the way, this is a game against Everton at their stadium, when they are losing 0-2 in the second minute, it would be expected a reaction from Everton in the 90 minutes they had to react.

It's really important to win today so we can start putting pressure on the other teams that already dropped points. Luis will start playing really soon, and will start at home, unless something wrong happens with Iva or Azpi. This would be my starting eleven. I think it's perfect.

A great group to focus on the League until February. We had luck again.

A player that did nothing in football (and he won't play in Chelsea) saying no to ACMilan... This guy has some real issues.

Thanks a lot. I'm watching Real Madrid also and this way I can see both.

The only kid with quality in the future to be a really good player for Chelsea is Boga, the other ones are not good enough. I'm liking the game, Luis is paying really well, also Fabregas give us a lot. Costa is doing what he has to do, finish the chances he had and he is doing ok. It's not good to start losing every game, we need to start improving in this game with the new players.

Real MAdrid has 50% of the image rights of their players (the new ones after the player sign for them). Every new contract Ronaldo or any other player do... 50% goes to Real Madrid. That's one of the reasons why Real Madrid is so strong financially and Barcelona in 2 or 3 years will have a great financial crises.

Varane was bad in the first games for Madrid also. He started playing well in his second season, in the first season was really dificult for him. Maybe this kid can't do it, but I don't think we should worry about some problems in a CB at the age of 19.No one plays in big teams with that age in the CB (there are some exceptions but normally they don't)

We are playing against really bad teams. I was expecting to see much more quality from the young players when Chelsea buys players all over the world. Real Madrid Castilla played in the 2nd division of Spain, the same for Barcelona, and many other teams in Europe. The kids should play better against this kind of teams.

He impressed me. He was born really in France or in other country? He is really young but when our international players arrive I would continue to give him the chance to play against stronger oponents. I hope this season we can see a little bit of him.

I don't know if Gary Neville really said this... but if he did it's absolutely correct: "David Luiz seemed like he was being controlled by a 10-year-old on a PlayStation" Every player does some errors, David Luiz does a lot of them but the worse part is that he thinks he is a midfielder or a ST:

He won't play here for sure without signing the new contract, we have another world class keaper so no problem. If he doesn't sign we sell him, or he will be on the bench. After two years you can be sure no big team will want him.

Well.... Neymar is 10 times better than Oscar, Pedro I don't know where you saw him playing poorly for 6 months (if you are talking about Pedrito of Barcelona), the same for Isco... Isco doesn´t play in Madrid because with Di Maria, ROnaldo and Bale even Hazard would be on the bench. The same reason why Gotze has some problems in Bayern. Coutinho is another Oscar, but even worst. About Oscar and his future in Chelsea. Maybe is better to sell one of the wingers like Salah and buy a number 10. Someone like Ozil.

Hazard is another one with bad attitude. In the field and outside the field. CHelsea manager also said it, obviously not with that words... but... everyone can understand what Mourinho said. You need to open your eyes and really see the players committed with the team and the ones more worried with themselves. And that 4 or 5 have big problems to understand how a team should work. With Hazard we can stand it because he is really good and we expect him to be a world class player. All the others need to change a lot and for Lukaku in my opinion is too late. EDIT: EDIT2: Cole was out of the starting eleven for almost all the season and every time he played he did it with professionalism, he didn't say one single word and I don't remember one single word of him about it since he is out of here. And he gave a lot of years to this team, playeing always in a great way, and won everything in here. We need more men in this team and less kids (in terms of football).

A player that defines a season like the last one as "shit"... I wouldn't call him a player with the right attitude. And we watch over the seasons his behavior and guy is not a responsible player and far from being an example. That's clear. Another one that was out too late. About COurtois... Cech did 6 0r 7 or 8 seasons as good or better than the one Courtois had, Cech is maybe the best GK in the history of this club. The new players (specially the ones that didn't dress our shirt one single time) need to show some respect. I would like to see the reaction if Costa says something like this... and the players Costa has as competition are useless and did nothing at CHelsea. The competition of Courtois is Petr Cech a great GK in the past and a great GK today. A player that know how to play and how to behave.. It's not Courtois the one making the decisions in here. It's not Lukaku also, or any other player. But specially the ones that did nothing or are not good enough should shut their mouth more often.

And add Courtois, the one that thinks it's not a good idea to have him and Cech in the same team. On other words he is saying: I don't want to play for CHelsea unless you give a kick in the butt of Petr Cech. Lukaku is the new Ronaldo and COurtois is the reincarnation of Yashin.

As I said about a former player, here we have another spoiled kid. It's really cool to laugh at Manchester City because of Yaya, but he is a CM and scores 20 goals, or about ROnney but he plays every game really well and has more than 10 years of performances in the greatist level. We have a bigger problem. We have a bunch of normal players that think they are Ronaldo Fenomeno but they did nothing for this team, and in football in general. We can have one prima donna if he is really great, all the rest sell them. THey only will give us problems. And please don't buy more players from Belgium. At least ours are a little strange.

What do you call amazing? Hazard was at the level of Messi or Cristiano? THis season he played better than Neymar, Bale, Robben or Ribvery? Was Suarez a lot better than him? And Yaya? Was he better than Reus? That's not an amazing season, what he did was ok but far from being a superstar like other teams have. Amazing... amazing is Messi or Ronaldo, or Yaya that is a CM and scores 20 goals.That's amazing. He is our best player, buut if he wants to the a real star he needs to do a lot more tahn he did, And with 21 or 22 or 23 years ol he is young, with more than that he is not.