Spyker

I read that and then looked at your signature.

Pictures from after the game..

the formula keep working
I swear I'll post this every time it happens. I'm not even embarrassed.

Well, Mourinho, myself and the FA (or whoever decides official MOTM) must have watched other football match if we chose him the best in the match and the most common opinion in this thread is that he wasn't impressive except for that pass.
I'm not going to be a broken record for the 100000th time and go on about how his dedication, pressing, marking and running is overlooked and underrated in this forum. You'd think this is Arsenal Mania based on how downgraded he constantly is (although ofc, a lot of people praise him for his offensive contributions).
I'll leave his words about us though.
“I am with this fantastic football club, with great coach, great players, great fans. I want to win everything, I'm hungry. I really want to do well for this club and I hope I can make it in the future.”
- Cesc Fàbregas

Ramires was involved in 4 of our 6 games. He is Mourinho favorite for tough games for a reason. Matic, Ramires and Costa were men of the match. But the haters (a.k.a as Barbara and only place to be) will never give up.
1 goal and 2 assists = BOSS.

£50mil !!!

Fuck Platini and Fuck he FFP

Every time Matic scores a Goal he goes "Ooooooooh" ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e92YGnbcKpk

cant belive he already has 5 goal and 4 assists in 12 games , you just cant ignore those numbers.....

come on man he did well but calling that performance outstanding is silly i would call cahill, mikel, or terry (before inj) outstandings as not only they defended well & had so many clearance they wer composed with the ball also..

In other words ... he's a footballer who's better when he doesn't have a ball at his feet.

this is a wake up call really. 2 years from 2012. over 150 million spent on players and still resorting to park the bus tactics. needs to change that soon imo. not that i condemn chelsea for playing it yesterday, 0-0 is a decent result away from home given injuries etc but approach needs to change soon

masterclass? nope!
great defensive performance but absolutely no plan or clue going forward

Being playmaker to me takes a great deal of concentration and reading of the game, reading of movements around you off the ball,reading of your opponents shape,and loop holes, making defence splitting passes, vision and consistency.
I don't see those qualities in Oscar game, not as often as I expect from main playmaker anyway.
His main strenght, even in the first part of the season was his defensive contribution, running, hussling, tackles, interceptions.
He was solid offensively( not many assists for my liking, at least to Hazard or Eto) and defensively some months back, but isn't the same now.
Whether it's fatique or just lack of cosistency or even ability remains to be seen next season.

To me, Oscar's game is his work ethic. He was never as creative as Mata and was never as defensive as Essien. His strengths has always been his ability to hassle opposition upfront and then benefit from balls won.
The problem is, when we play teams that park the bus, there is not much hussling/defending to do.
And teams park the bus against us more often than in the first part of the season.

I just wish he would make our attack more efficient. Show our players how to play as team, how to create and score by following certain patern.
Lack of striker is big problem, but Oscar, Willian, Schurrle,...are here to play and yet they dont realy impress.
There are many factors for bad attacking like lack of striker, no support from fullbacks (width), no support from DLP etc, but finishing and decision making of Oscar, Schurrle, Willian,...actualy whole team is realy average. We defend like a team, but we dont attack like one. Today, we couldnt make three straight passes in attack, because we lack plan, patern or sth...
I hope Mou will make us counter attacking team based on Chelsea from 2009/10 or Borussia. But for that, you need realy complete team, great understanding, no selfish players, intelligent players who can play fast and efficient football with lots of one-two passes or long crosses. And most importantly, you need DEADLY ATTACKERS WHO SCORE EVERY CHANCE GIVEN. Anelka, Drogba, Malouda, Lamps, even Essien, Ballack, Cole could score stunners. I remember Smeltzer scoring that goal vs Real last season. Goal from full back. You dont see that in Chelsea. Azpi scoring such goal? Even attackers like Willian or Oscar cant finish. They have great workrate, thats why we re good in defense, but lack efficiency in attack. Next year we will improve; but for counterfootball, you need 3/4 attackers who can naturaly score goals when chance given. Oscar or Willian arent that. Hazard is still learning. Midifeld has no players who can score goals, we need CM who can take shots aswell.

What I expect to see next season are
A shift in philosophy from a counter attacking team to a creative passing team that's capable of breaking down opponents defensive resistance.we have been so pathetic on that front this season that most times, the teams that have employed such tactics haven't even had to work too hard for the result they have had against us. To change this a couple of thing must/should happen.
playing attacking fullbacks and encouraging them to join the attack to provide extra width more often whether that means ivanovic drops back to his natural position as a centre back which allows azpilicueta to flourish offensively and get a new left back to replace Cole and azpi or alternatively buy an offensive right back and keep azpi on the left but with tactical instructions that gives the fullbacks license to bomb forward.
Buy a deep lying playmaker to partner Matic. promote RLC and have him and van Ginkel as back ups. part of our problems this season has been the lack of creativity and cutting edge from deep and we saw the marked improvement the signing of matic made in that regard. less brainless, headless chickens and more quality, technically gifted and intelligent midfielders please.
And the last piece of the puzzle is a striker that's versatile enough to not only act as a focal point in attack but also possess the movement and technical ability to open up tight defences and create chances and link up play brilliantly with the midfield.
All of this becomes pointless without a total commitment which I have always said starts from the training ground. practice makes perfection.
The other thing I had like to see is some commitment to developing and promoting youngsters (on loan or from the academy) into the first team. sterling and pogba are perfect examples of the reward a little faith in youth can yield. There's no reason why some players on loan/academy cannot be used as squad players instead of relying on crap and/or ageing players that have past their prime and splashing the cash on players that do not necessarily improve us as a team.
And last but not the least clearing out of the deadwoods.

Why wasn't the patience and age argument used for kdb who wasn't given enough opportunities btw. Where is the fairness is all im saying

This is getting boring really.
Even with the half ass strikers we had the last season we scored a lot.
Somewhere the idea and philosophy of two seasons clash.
One season of attacking team but faults in defense to another season of well defense minded team to faults in attack.

The bizarre part about that Mata situation was how some on here kept blaming him for our poor league form in the past two seasons much in the same way people are now blaming our strikers for losses against Sunderland, Villa, Crystal Palace etc. Such simplistic thinking, it's unreal. Mata scored 12 goals and 12 assists in an under-performing team, sad how people just dis-valued that.