MrExcalibur100

Looks like another muscle/groin injury for Hazard. Very worrying stuff.

Everything breaks down with Willian. Besides the assist, he has been underwhelming. A lot of hustle and intensity, but a lack of quality.

Have to consider bringing on Matic. Both Fabregas and Mikel are on yellows. That's very risky.

Hazard playing with much more fire in his belly this half. Costa should have been onside for that backpass!

I'm one of his biggest supporters here, and I'm obviously a fan of the player, but Hazard's effort has been nothing short of pathetic this 1st half.

Mikel has been no better than Matic this season. Both have played about as many good and bad games. This myth that Mikel has been better is just a myth. At least Matic would have helped with the high press and would have been more ambitious on the ball. Matic has already proven to be a much better footballer for Chelsea. You don't turn bad overnight and you don't get any better or worse on the bench. If you can't see how Mikel's presence is non-existent and counter-intuitive out there, then I think you need to pay more attention.

Mikel having a very poor game. Getting beat too easily leaving the centre exposed, too slow footed and can't help with the high press. How this mediocre player continues to start ahead of Matic is beyond me.

I warned that this duo of Fabregas and Mikel in midfield will get crushed in the Champions league. The most slow-footed pivot ever.

Not true.

Can you imagine a situation were Neymar has a bad campaign, then gets injured after the primary reason for that bad campaign get's sacked, comes back from said injury, then gets shafted out of position on the right in favour of fucking Pedro and Oscar. Only at Chelsea. This club is just so weird sometimes.

Hazard on the right. - Hasn't played there consistently in over 6 years. Willian on the left - Hasn't played there consistently since his Shaktar Donetsk days. What won us the league was Hazard on the left, Willian on the right. Hiddink ignores all these facts and continues to persist with this silliness, playing our best players out of position. Anyone who watched the 1st half saw how much that blunted our attacking fluidity. But Hiddink refuses to see it, despite getting paid hundreds of thousands to be a fucking interim. Give me strength. Can't wait till Conte comes and ends the buffoonery.

This clueless old clown continues to play Hazard and Willian on the wrong wing. How daft do you have to be not to realize that Hazard is much better on the left. Ditto Willian. Play Hazard on the left and Willian on the right. Fucksake, you old shite.

And that's the end of Rahman's season under Hiddink .

Why does Hiddink continue to play Hazard on the right when he is clearly more limited in what he can do there. Why does he continue to play Willian on the left when he is clearly more limited there? This season continues to be unbearable.

60 million Brazilian superstar, Oscar ladies and gentlemen. We should have taken the money and ran. Another dumb decision by the CFC board. Just like the inane decision to carry on with Mourinho, even after he clearly lost his mind.

Why the fuck is Oscar even taking penalties? Was it Mourinho that took Hazard off of penalties out of spite? One of the best PK takers in the world. This club sometimes.

Fabregas doesn't even look like a pro footballer out there. Just a disgusting and gutless performance today. It's why he'll never be considered a big time player.

Midfield is a sieve. How we miss Matic.

When we're attacking, they've been very poor. I don't expect anything from Fabregas without the ball, so that's preaching to the choir.

Fabregas and Costa have been our worst players by some distance.

Pedro passed back to CB, forgetting he's playing with Cahill and not Pique.

And Mikel does what Mikel does. Mikel and Fabregas have been a joke so far.

Another wasted game which we most likely would have won if fucking managers just make fucking simple, straightforward selections. 16th place to 13th place in almost 2 months. Any average manager can do that with this squad. 1 home win in 2 months vs the worst team in the league. Certainly a cause for celebration and excitement......NOT. Hiddink is a huge let down. A disastrous season just got more boring, stale and moribund. Mikel and Matic together at home vs this United team is a slap in the face to all our fans worldwide.

Hiddink is completely out of sync with Chelsea. We drew at home vs United. He nearly lost us the game with his horrendous selection. If he just made the obvious selections, we most likely would have beaten what was an incredibly average United side on the the day. We dropped points vs Watford when we shouldn't have. Against Brom. Against Everton when they were murdering us. Any improvements we've made is mostly due to the Cancer being sacked. Let's face it, you don't have to be a tactical mastermind to get this team from 16th to 13th in almost 2 months. You don't leave Hazard on the bench. EVER. He's by far our best player and is a game changer. Mourinho understood that perfectly. Mikel is not better than Matic. Matic is still one of our best players and has shown his ability in the past, despite the constant digging from some people. Matic is a much better player and I don't give a shit what anybody thinks about that. Mikel and Matic is too negative and to slow. Hiddink has proven too gutless to change the fullback situation or play RLC, so I've given up on that. But he's given nothing back as compensation. One win against Arsenal, a very predictable team we generally beat doesn't mean it's some miracle elixir. The fact he repeated it vs Watford, a team that plays completely different football from Arsenal shows he isn't sure what he's doing. Mikel and Matic with Oscar on the LW was never going to work vs Watford. They battered us for 90 mins. Even Mourinho never picked Mikel and Matic against teams like Watford. The improvements so far have been very underwhelming, considering the players at his disposal. All very "meh" ish. Fucking hate his negativity and he's fucking pissing me off mightily. He's making an already unbearable season even more miserable.

Cahill has only been on for a few seconds and you blame him for Lingaard scoring THAT goal. I know you have your narrative and certain strong biases that you post by, but that's just outrageous.