Mufassir08

Keep the faith......Hazard will deliver sooner rather then later.

MATA.

So how good is this guy as compared to our musonda jr?Manu fans reckon he is their gotze in the making.

Will he feature against swindon?

Left out of the starting lineup again.......Loan not going well so far.

Hazard in top form should not be sacrificed for anybody.

Gotta feel for the guy.Last season he was brilliant in defence and very important for our attack but in the summer a new manager comes in who prefers physicality and relegates azpi to the bench .

Based on that i guess we will see something like this Cech Azpi-Brana-Luiz-Bertrand Lampard-Essien Willian-Mata-kdb BA

Does anybody know who won the corner from which mikel scored? You guessed it right it was Fernando Torres

Glad that KDB finally got to see the pitch.

We have lined up as if we are playing Barcelona or real.Schurrle is useless against teams which sit back and defend.Its for games like these you need the creativity,vision and imagination of players like Mata and KDB.

Need to bring on KDB or willian but we will most probably see lampard.

Lampard is 35 years old so he cannot play twice or thrice a week.

Because Ivanovic is clearly a favourite of Jose and Jose simply does not rotate his favourite players.

Against teams that park the bus i would start Oscar in the pivot and Mata as the CAM.That is the only way we can fit both of them in our team and i think its worth a try.Against the best teams though Oscar starts as the CAM for me.

He is young give him time.

Hopefully he has a brilliant year and returns to chelsea next season because Lord knows how badly we need a player like him in our midfield.

I agree!We pretty much wasted our window chasing Rooney and in the end signing players that we didnt need.The common thought was that even if we didnt sign rooney we would cause disruption in their dressing room and would unsettle one of their star players but by the looks of things instead of unsettling him we just fired him up even more.

I believe playing Oscar in the pivot will help us with our tempo problem imo.

I would rest him for the games against fulham and swindon and start him against spurs.I think that game would suit him a lot as there would be a lots of space for him to work his magic.

I think we have to try Oscar in the pivot with mata as the attacking midfielder and see how that goes.

My team: Cech Azpi-Terry-Luiz-bertrand Oscar-Ramires KDB-Mata-Willian Eto'o

Completely agree.He is coming from a new league to a new team and expectations are very high.He needs playing time to improve and develop and this is where the problem starts because Jose prefers Lampard to MVG and Marco is clearly 4th in the midfield pecking order.

This!I was so sure that this summer we would finally add a world class midfielder like moutinho,witsel or De Rossi to the team but nope,jose is happy with essien and 35 year's old lampard who nowadays offers us absolutely nothing except some goals here and there.

In mata's case not playing regularly is the problem.