Hazardous Oscar

Surprisingly Shakhtar Donetsk are being raped by Leverkusen....3-0

exactly...

Drogba scored for Gala....3-0

ya I know....I would laugh as well..

no time and desire to prove obvious things..

He is just 23 years old...integral part of the current Roma side. Discuss please.

In all Atletico formations I have seen and in his transfermarkt page he is an AM.

Koke is an attacking midfielder, not a central one.

that's your opinion and it's wrong..... all of Mourinho's previous teams were counter-attacking teams.

Disagree...it's like saying "attack can beat any team, as long as you attack well". Mathematically, a team which has more possession of the ball has more probability to win the game. What's the point of defending for your lives and trying to catch your opponent on counter? It makes sense if you don't have players who can keep possession. A team like Chelsea should be playing possessional football and creating chances from normal play. A good manager is the one who adopts his tactics to skills of his players, not the other way around. And whose fault is that Lampard and Ramires are in the pivot?

LOL...all of Mourinho's teams were counter-attacking teams...even AVB recently said that Jose's 2004-2007 Chelsea side (where AVB was one of Jose's assistants) was a deadly counter-attacking machine.

Cech Azpilicueta Luiz Terry Bertrand Mikel Ramires Oscar Mata Ba Hazard

Jose will be a fool if he plays Lampard and leaves Mikel on the bench for this one...

if we buy him, we can wave good-bye forever to Lukaku...

in my opinion, he is overrated....certainly a talented kid but nowhere near of Hazard's and Oscar's quality..

Sorry to spoil your party but I know everything about Mourinho the manager. I have been following him since his Porto days and I am well aware that he is only capable of playing a counter-attacking football, I mean successfully. Yet, I am sure that Roman Abramovich didn't buy so many creative players and hired Jose back for him to build a counter-attacking team. Jose himself told on numerous occasions that he came back to build a team that plays different football than that which he had at Stamford Bridge during his first reign. Mourinho is certainly not an Einstein of counter-attacking footbal as Jurgen Klopp's Borussia Dortmund have been showing to us for the last 2 years. Counter-attack works best when you are capable of successfully playing both attacking and counter-attacking football as Borussia Dotmund is showing to us. Do I need to remind you what happened to Mourinho's multi-talented Real Madrid side against Dortmund when they played 4 times last year? My prediction is Mourinho will not last long at Chelsea if he doesn't learn how to play creative attacking football as his current style doesn't stand a chance against the likes of Dortmund, Bayern and even Atletico Madrid.

no need to get carried away by this result.....this depleted Schalke team is even weaker than Tottenham, and yet we managed to beat them by playing a counter-attacking football....this won't work against Europe's elite....the likes of Borussia and Atletico Madrid will simply rape us if we play like this against them....we need to master passing to keep possession for long periods of time...

yet they are losing at the moment...that group really is a group of death with 3 teams having 6 points if Arsenal fails to equalize...

Arsenal are playing play-station football....

I understand that this is a long-term project but how long Jose is going to play this kind of football?....we have all the players capable of playing fast creative attacking football yet we are nowhere near of Bayern, Borussia, Barcelona and even Arsenal in terms of football......Roman must be furious...

we refuse to play football...

does anyone know why Schalke are not in blue at home?

would love it if Mata comes on to score the winning goal in a highly contested goal-fest......3-4 anyone?

why dilemma?....Hazard and Oscar are obvious choices....the third one will either be Schürrle (though he's not that good on the right) or Mata....KDB can be a surprise selection as well...

we need to start fast and attack them from the first minute....score two goals and try to catch then on counter.....hopefully we'll see Mikel-Ramires pivot as it's crucial to dominate the center of the park....