SpecialistsInFailure

Big deal, the little magician can't defend like Oscar.

Don't even get me started on this one, Chels. Yet another laughable tactical decision from Mourinho. I wonder what he had to fear on that left side from a PSG side without the super fast Lucas Moura and Marquinhos as right back. Everybody knows Hazard is almost unstoppable when he has a fullback who makes overlapping runs to play off of. Everybody knows how good Luis is going forward and how PSG were going to try and double mark Hazard. Everybody knows Azpilicueta is right footed, so he has to check back to his stronger foot to either get a cross in or sometimes even make a forward pass. The split extra second he does that slows our tempo down. Everybody knows these things, including Mourinho, but because he's such a laughably defensively minded manager, he did nothing.
I almost burst out laughing when I saw Azpilicueta trying to make overlapping runs when we needed a goal, but then checking back on his right foot or then not driving all the way to the by-line because he is not comfortable there. Azpilicueta has no business playing on the wrong flank when Filipe Luis is in our squad.

Oscar ruined one counter-attack that most decent players would have taken advantage of. But then Oscar has poor technique and vision so it would have been a miracle for him to have made the right pass.
His biggest contribution to the game was getting a player sent off. Other than that he did his usual bit of running around aimlessly and looking out of his depth.

I think early in the second half I saw a straight backline of 6 consisting of Willian - Ivanovic - Cahill - Terry - Azpilicueta - Hazard. What's Willian doing at RB and Hazard at LB? Opposition fans don't sing 'Boring, Boring Chelsea' for no reason. I have no problem if we played like we did away to City last season when we won 1-0. That game we had the perfect balance of defending and counter-attacking football. I love Jose but he is a coward in these games, and so are some of the players which cower away from responsibility. This season we have taken the lead against the following and either drew or lost;
Schalke
City
United
Spuds
City
Bradford
Liverpool
PSG
We even made shitbox teams like Sunderland, Newcastle, Bradford and to an extent Spuds play like a world class team with 100 chemistry.

Nothing new here, Jose going to Jose vs big games and of course the latest excuse (or lie) is "5 players didn't train" to cover for his team's non-footballing performance. Mourinho's one trick pony tactics being exposed again vs a big team who we can't easily beat with just quality alone. He and his marketing team have done a (very) good job branding him as this tactical mastermind when that couldn't be further from the truth. The myth of him being a tactical genius is simply that, a myth. He's very good in defensive organisation and improving players mentally, but he's very weak in the technical aspect of football. He's achieved a lot on those qualities so far in his career, but I'm not surprised he's struggled to put impose his managerial ethos on that Madrid team and to us.
We have regressed so much technically from 4-5 years ago, despite having better players now, so much so that we can't even build attacks anymore, or a play a passing game with any purpose. Against weaker opposition, he simply tells the players to go out and express themselves, with zero technical input. Hazards said that in an interview the other day, some other players like Robben have said something similar about Mourinho's non-existent "attacking philosophy". When we can't rely on our superior players, we're nothing and barring a miracle, I don't see Mourinho being able to win the CL with these group of players. We literally play the worst football in big games of any big team in Europe.
I can't pretend and say I'm not worried about the direction this team is going. Apart from of one or two minor issues, we have all the qualities to be one of the best teams in the world for the next decade at least, but we're never going to fulfill our true potential if we continue to play football like this. That was a disgusting performance. This team is due a hammering, worse than whatever Spurs did to us. That will be a wake up call to Mourinho and to the club. It's not the first time we've gone in at half-time with a positive performance and result and we come out playing like cowards in the 2nd half, scared shitless. Whose fault is that? The players, or the instructions they were given by their manager at half-time? Don't make me laugh.
Mourinho seriously needs to humble himself and consider building up his philosophy and approach, specifically the attacking aspect of it. I was expecting him to do it last summer, but it's obvious he hasn't. If he doesn't, the game will leave him behind. We've already the rise of new managers like Simeone who can do everything Mourinho does in terms of defensive organisation and also better it by improving his team technically. Even in the eyes of his deluded followers, how can Jose advertise himself as the best when he continues to do the same things that failed so woefully at Real Madrid? If he's unwilling to develop his tactics in the summer, then I maintain he's not the right manager to take this particular "profile" of squad to the next level, irrespective of whether we win the league or not. That's a competition in which you don't have to beat the best to be the best, instead you beat the teams you're clearly superior to. In the Champions League, there's no place to hide. Vs the strongest teams, there's no place to hide. It's important to give Jose credit here. We aren't losing many of these games, but neither are we winning any and neither are we showing any evolution in our style of play.
I maintain that we play this way vs big teams because Mourinho doesn't know any other way how. Don't be deceived by the excuses. Lastly and I'll keep this one short. Jose keeps saying he wants to stay at Chelsea for the next decade. That won't happen if he doesn't evolve tactically and if we continue in this manner in the big games. That's not the way Roman assembled this team to play.
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I think it's confirmed that Gerrard is indeed a more respectable and honest person than Lard

I remember you posting that exact comment a couple of months ago.
It's still one of the best comments I've ever seen in my 7+ years on various forums.

No one here is blaming him for scoring goals lmao

Now you understand the struggle lmao, when people like this guy BURST! into threads.. don't read anything, have no idea what's going on.. yet still post.
We end up going around in circles.

I remember you posting that exact comment a couple of months ago.
It's still one of the best comments I've ever seen in my 7+ years on various forums.

Everytime I see or hear 'Lampard' I instantly get sick to the core of my stomach.

Everytime I see or hear 'Lampard' I instantly get sick to the core of my stomach.

Everytime I see or hear 'Lampard' I instantly get sick to the core of my stomach.

Ramires is an integral part of this squad and the people who want him sold are crazy. His pace, intensity and stamina will be key in many games this season and offers something no one else in this team can. He is coming back fresh and will have something to prove. I, for one, welcome him back.

Ramires is an integral part of this squad and the people who want him sold are crazy. His pace, intensity and stamina will be key in many games this season and offers something no one else in this team can. He is coming back fresh and will have something to prove. I, for one, welcome him back.

Ramires is an integral part of this squad and the people who want him sold are crazy. His pace, intensity and stamina will be key in many games this season and offers something no one else in this team can. He is coming back fresh and will have something to prove. I, for one, welcome him back.

Fat frank is diving and winning points for our main title rivals.. This guy is a cretin

I can't stop laughing how the defender clattered into Costa and it was he that got stretchered off with an injury

I can't stop laughing how the defender clattered into Costa and it was he that got stretchered off with an injury

I can't stop laughing how the defender clattered into Costa and it was he that got stretchered off with an injury

I can't stop laughing how the defender clattered into Costa and it was he that got stretchered off with an injury

I can't stop laughing how the defender clattered into Costa and it was he that got stretchered off with an injury

You go off some assumptions and some of them do not make sense.
Let's see.
Fact 1 - Lampard says he wasn't offered a contract, Mourinho says he was. Word against word, someone is lying, we can't know who is or if both are lying/telling truth from their point of view..
Fact 2 - Lampard is quoted saying he won't be playing for another PL club.
Fact 3 - of all MLS clubs Lampard chose to sign with a club that is affilated with Manchester City.
Fact 4 - Lampard is either completely stupid or he knew that this club won't start playing before Jan/Feb 2015, therefore if he wants to keep himself in condition he will have to go on loan.
Fact 5 - Lampard chose to go on loan to ManCity (or, as some assume, he was forced into it by contract obligations - but it's a contract he signed by his own will).
Fact 6 - "playing high level football to keep fit for National Team" was cited as main excuse of moving back to PL.
Fact 7 - Lampard is unlikely to play much in the National Team, especially being a bench warmer for MC.
And now we can have a situation where he stays at ManCity when the club he signed for goes into pre-season, if rumor about extending his loan becomes reality.
From my point of view it all looks like a bunch of cheap excuses. If Lampard came out and said "ok, Chelsea didn't want me anymore, so I'm continuing my PL career elsewhere, thanks for all and good luck" it would have been more acceptable than this "poor Frankie, he is so stupid he got manipulated into playing for Chelsea's title rival and it makes him so sad" we are hearing. It's all his choices, however you try to get around it.
He could have moved to another MLS club, he could have not gone on loan to City, he could have negotiated not playing against us. But most important - he could have come and explain how he ended up being a City player a week after promissing he won't be playing for any PL club other than Chelsea, and do it without "i didn't know, I didn't think, I didn't want" routine. If he did only the latter, I would still have my utmost respect for him as a man and as a professional. But not now.

I'm literally in tears over that comment

It's not just the fact that he scored against us, ffs. It's the fact that he always talked about being a true blue (light blue it seems) and contradicted everything he has ever said by joining our direct rivals for 6 months and in the process taking points off us and possibly winning city a few points in the future as well which could have an impact in the title race. As I've said before, King Didier rejected multiple offers from England because he loves the club. He left Chelsea and when he came back to England he joined...Chelsea.