CurlyHairLikeLuiz

Mourinho loves this club, I trust him to knuckle down and get through it. If he does not then he is a weaker character than I thought. Also, smh, so many players here now have said having Mourinho here swayed their decision in our favour (most recent example is Pedro) over a rival, say, MU or Arsenal. The board will know this. He himself will know this. We gave him a 4 year contract, he is going nowhere.

VVardy is like a Willian that isn't afraid to run onto passes and can shoot. With all the attacking talent in England's line up (Ox-Chamb, Wilshere, Carrick, Sterling, etc etc) he would be a perfect number 9 for England, obviously he is no Drogba but he was a once in a generation striker.

Afaik only if Matic does not improve. In which case I would use Dave as a false CB to sit just in front and start play and tuck in when under pressure. RLC-Oscar-Cesc, a dm in front of a 5 man defense would be negative even for Jose.

I always admire your optimism when time gets tough my friend. As for the match, i expect a response from the players and if it doesn't materialise I expect mass droppings for the Arsenal game (which I'm looking forward to, i'm going) By the way, this weekend was very bad for the big teams in general. MU beaten by Swans, Liverpool beaten by WHU, Arsenal just scraping a win with a lucky deflected goal against 10 man Newcastle who were without Mitrovic for 80 minutes. Only City look convincing at the moment really. In fact all the big teams have beenwinning/drawing unconvincingly, if at all. Arsenal's form is only slightly better than ours. Maybe this may end up a good cup season. I might go to the walsall away game actually. Who's going?

Dave and then Gazza for me, followed closely by Courtois.

Afaik Fabregas must be either dropped or put in a Pirlo role. Form had nothing to do with it, opposition coaches have simply figured out how to stop us from playing (as well as Oscar missing) So either RLC here: -----------Courtois Azpi Cahill Terry Baba ------------CESC ------RLC--------Matic ------------Oscar -------Costa---Hazard (in a free role) Or at the expense of Cesc completely: RLC---Matic---Oscar Pedro-Costa-Hazard

We need him to come back badly.

He was directly at failt for both goals imo. Could have blocked one and let a cross in from his flank. I think I read that Azpi's flank has only let one cross in and nobody has scored from his flank this season so far.

I thought he was good yesterday. Had he scored you would all be shitting rainbows again about how quality he is smh.

---------Courtois Azpi Cahill Terry Baba - - Matic - Willian Oscar --Pedro Costa Hazard

I think a lot of people ignored this.

He was put as LB to attack attack attack as we were throwing everything at them in that last 10 mins and azpi can't do that. What's wrong with that?

I feel ashamed that the greatest (and most decorated) manager in Chelsea's history is being subjected to this because of a poor start to the season. I just can't get my head around that.

Yeah I was quite impressed.

There has been no problems on his side, smartsrse and he certainly would not have allowed our defence to slide over opening the goal for Sako.

And that, ladies and gents, is why Terry is going nowhere.

Haha, well it's quite obvious why. He's not even a bench boy, they prefer Sergio Ramos in midfield over him, sort of their Mikel kinda thing

lol he loves this club, these rumours are bollocks

No.

Not surprised, on last year's shirt I've had to superglue the ucl starball back on because it fell off.

I still don't think we need him. Terry, Cahill, Zouma, Iva, Azpi (ICE) for 2 positions is plenty. There will be another up and coming defender this time next season anyways.

Yeah, that Terry-Azpi-Matic triangle is formidable.

Blimey, what a statistic.

Remy deserves his chance. As for Ramires... I just can't stand to watch him play. Such a frustrating player to watch - he knows where to be, just that he can't shoot for shit apart from 1-2 times a season where he pulls off a rocket. Plus it seems that his pace is dropping off, he was getting outrun by Sterling on that right flank on Sunday. If you added football intelligence to Ramires you would call him Arturo Vidal. I'll be on holiday for this game anyway, haha. @supporter, which channels show EPL in Spain?

That's how it works around here - Oscar was fantastic pre Swansea away last season, but that was all forgotten nice and quickly the moment he slowed down and started looking sluggish. I actually thought Willian was good today - but I'd still prefer Oscar there. Well, actually atm I'd play Oscar and Willian over Cesc in his current form, who just can't seem to weight the ball right at this point in time.