MrExcalibur100

RABONA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAZARD!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah, they were better. Schurrle didn't even look like a footballer. Sort of like Southampton away, remember that? Schurrle's attributes as a footballer are rooted to counter attacking

Superb pass from Hazard by the way. Finally, someone scores from one of his passes :blue scalf:

Really unforgivable comment this. And it shows how ignorant you are of football in general. Just plain terrible

Get IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely insane comment. You should be ashamed of yourself for typing that rubbish. If you think this is down to a game changer, then I don't know what to tell you. Bale, Rooney, RVP, Suarez. Jesus Christ. Wow, just wow.

Hazard is not a god. When the team is shit, most players are shit. He's saved us too many times this season. Blame the conservative tactics and the passengers this team has been carrying all season.

Azpilicueta and Brana have hardly crossed the halfway line. Ramires offers little attack wise, Torres might not even be playing today. He had a great chance to pass it to Oscar when he robbed their keeper, but he went for glory. Silly boy. The tempo is also very slow too. So: Nothing from fullbacks, slow tempo, Ramires not being good enough in possession and slow tempo. That means we struggle to build attacking plays. That's how I feel and have felt all season. As for Schurrle. It's not the first time he's proving to be nothing more than an 18 million pound super-sub. Has he shown anything so far to suggest he's better than Moses, no. Honestly, I never wanted us to sign him in the first place, because I knew the sort of player he was from his Leverkusen days.

Next game against Tottenham. Cole = LB Azpi = RB All the opposition has to do is stop the 3 behind the striker from playing by sitting deep and we look clueless. Where is the width from fullbacks? Cole should have started against West Brom and today against Fulham. This is how you open up these sort of teams. Add to the fact we have Torres up front and a CM in Ramires who can't pass or hold on to the ball. It's not rocket science. Cole has been blacked out since he attended to the Arsenal party. It's sad to see

Moses is a better player than Schurrle and should not have been loaned out in the first place. More stupidity from the Chelsea board. Schurrle is physically weak. He gets bullied in this league. Plus he's not that talented of a footballer.

Schurrle (he really is not that good of a footballer in general) is poor, Ramires can't hold on the to the ball. NOTHING, nothing from our fullbacks means we can't open up their defensive formation. Last season, we had Cole/Bertrand on the left and Azpi on the right, with Luiz is midfield and our attacking play looked so much better. Am I the only one seeing that Iva and Azpi RB, give us very little in these sort of games? We are struggling to create anything against the worst defense in the league because the set-up is so freaking disjointed. Azpi has had his run at LB. Time to play players in their natural position. notice that anytime Hazard, Oscar or Schurrle receive the ball in wide positions, NOBODY supports them. Why can't Jose see this? Ok, it might make us more solid defensively, but we create fuck all.

Who is supporting them though. You can't expect those 3 to create spaces on their own, when Fulham are happy to sit back. That's why we need fullbacks attacking. That's what City do with Kolarov and Zabaleta. Our attacking build up has been poor all season.

No width, and Fulham happy to park the bus. Schurrle has been awful. Ramires can't hold the ball and pick up a pass. Nothing from Brana on the right. Nothing from Azpi on the left. It's easy for them to defend against us. Poor stuff so far. I fear they might score against us.

I disagree. Any time Azpi gets it, he always checks back to his weaker foot. I'm not buying that Cole is finished. He was having problems with his rib, but he's ok now. He played well against Stoke in the FA cup and should be playing more. Azpilicueta and Ivanovic offer little to our attacking play. The best solution against smaller teams is Cole LB and Azpi RB. Small things such as this can really make a difference in our attacking play. We don't look threatening at all. We haven't looked threatening in a while. Only making suggestions

We have to be patient, but again the fullbacks giving us nothing attack wise. Nothing from Azpi or Ivanovic so far. Compare to what Kolarov, Zabaleta, Clichy, Sagna and so on give their teams.

He's impressive and very solid, I like him a lot. But please don't tell me he gets forward better than Cole. There's a clear imbalance there. Especially against teams we are expected to dominate. He hasn't overlapped and offered decent support so far. Waiting to be proven wrong.

Which game was that? Hull? He only got beat once. Certainly not every time. Cole needs to play more, it's that simple. Azpi is not a LB and it shows.

The sun is definitely a factor. It's making it hard to pick out passes.

It's a catchy song, and it declares our undying hatred for Spurs

The Azpilicueta thing doesn't really help our attacking play anymore. He keeps checking back to his stronger foot. Why has Cole been exiled from the squad?

Shocking play from Torres there. Should have been 1-0.

I don't know why Schurrle keeps taking set-pieces. Torres wtf are you doing???

Sun in our defender's eyes = not good

I think Jose knows what he wants. People say he's a Mourinho type of player, but Mourinho's Madrid team didn't have a Ramires. Mourinho has proven that he can win with different types of players. If he doesn't have a Drogba, he can work with a Higuain. If he doesn't have a Makalele, he can work with a Xabi Alonso. He has his systems and ideas, but you don't win what he has won by buying clones. Don't forget about van Ginkel. The kid was our best player in pre-season. I was surprised by how quick and strong he was, and how many interceptions he was making, how many plays he broke up. His passing range is also impressive, and he scores goals too (ok, he didn't show that in pre-season, but his goal-scoring record is impressive). He is that 8 we were talking about the other day. I know Mourinho rates him highly, as evidenced by the way he talks about him. I have very high hopes for Marco and his style of play supplements Matic's perfectly. The kid is a "crack". Either that or splash the cash on a world-class CM, but that cash needs to be spent on a CF. I didn't like the way we played against Galatasaray. I didn't like it because that's not how big teams play against teams like that. It angered me far more than the City FA cup result and I don't believe for a second that Jose sent us out to play that way for 90 mins. We just didn't have the quality in the midfield to retain possession and have any sort of tempo. Iman (who?) and a washed up Melo dominated us. Only God knows what will happen against {Modric/Xabi/Di Maria} or {Fabregas, Iniesta, Busquets} or {Kroos, Thiago, Lahm/Martinez}. Cech probably also didn't trust that pivot, because he kept on thumping it, and thumping it to oblivion. Oscar as a CM, I don't like the idea, tbh. Oscar is a 10 and Mourinho has already declared him to be HIS 10. He also said 4-2-3-1 is his favourite formation, and that formation suits a high pressing game the best. It's difficult to press the opposition high up the pitch with a 4-3-3. Plus see what happened to Anderson at Man United when Ferguson changed him from an AM to a CM. Oscar's playmaking will develop, I'm confident about that. He just struggles to create his own space, but has no problems playing with space. He looks so much better when he has space on the wing. But these things come with experience. It's not easy to be a number 10 in this league because those are the players that suffer most from teams that park the bus/plane.

The only thing they have in common is that they're black. Matuidi can actually pass a ball and he is very composed in the final third.