DYC.

We should definitely play to our own strengths. Simply tell Ash and Brana to keep it old-school and mainly focus on defending as we can't allow Bale and Lennon too much space. With Ramires next to Mikel, he'll be key in dealing with their counter-attacks. Defoe's record against big teams is awful so that's already a positive. David Luiz can handle him. Their defence (both individually and in terms of organisation) isn't great so we can definitely hurt them through the middle. If AVB opts for the high line even better, Torres will like that. The same goes for Juan. And just like against Norwich, Mata and Hazard will simply need to switch it up and also occupy wide positions. If we struggle, we have Sturridge, Moses (think you can add Marin to that) who can change the team. It's time for a win at White Hart Lane, think it's been a while.

Haha 25 mil (or 19, whatever) was a absolute steal.

This is what I was waiting for, a goal from open play. And it was a classic Frank Lampard goal. Fine overall performance as well.

Off topic Haha that was back in the 80s right? I knew Snake was among the original cast yeah. He was a teacher at Degrassi in The Next Generation. I loved that show and Cech always makes me think of him. The show was quite popular here yeah, among young people of course. It was a good show, though I mostly liked the cute girls haha.

Chelsea is very disliked/hated here because we bought succes and despite all the money never played offensive football under Abramovic. Holland is all about attacking football. Italian and French teams are perceived as boring and Holland and Germany aren't exactly the best of friends so not much love for German clubs here. The country's filled with Barca lovers. Utd and Arsenal are quite popular as well.

He really reminds of a character named Archie 'Snake' Simpson from a TV show I used to watch back in the day (Degrassi: The Next Generation). Most probably have no idea what I'm talking about but maybe the Canadians here do. Agree with BluesMaster about people always overreacting when he makes a mistake. There's no such thing as a flawless GK. Cech is simply world-class and he's actually our best player.

His dribbling? He's a excellent dribbler. The control is incredibly tight and he knows exactly how to go past a man, that's something you can't teach someone. And he draws a ridiculous amount of fouls because of it. And he did provide 17 assists for Lille last season (18 in total including NT performances) and he's provided 7 assists so far. So you could say he has a uncanny ability of delivering the final ball.

Midfield? When has Ramos ever played in midfield?

I think it's the fact defending is appreciated a lot more in those countries, which leads to a bigger focus on teaching players the art of defending when growing up (youth football). Though Germany hasn't been producing world-class CBs for a long time. Anyway Ramos is good but he's error-prone. He was very good at the Euros though, I'll give him that. But he needs too many fouls and he's a hot head, leading to silly and reckless challenges. And he's not the type of CB we should be looking for imo, we've been in desperate need of a tactician ever since Riccy left. I'd rather go for Hummels, who fits that bill a lot better. He's a better CB than Ramos as well imo.

Fair enough on the first part. Agree with the second. We could've had a much easier time today and made them look better than they truly are. Moses was shocking though I won't blame him too much as he didn't look comfortable at all on the left.

Mehh make that two. Mata's second goal was lucky. And their organisation was all messed up for the first goal due to Adu's mistake. So still a area we really need to improve on. And I believe we will with time.

Petr Cech is Iron Man.

Poor performance yet 4 goals and none conceded, can't complain. Torres is my MOTM. Great all-round performance. Loved Frankie's assist and our 4th goal. Oscar also scored a incredible goal actually but the ref didn't allow play to go on. A shame.

Juninho would've been proud.

'FK specialist' Cristiano Ronaldo has a similar ratio to be fair.

True. A experiment gone wrong I guess. Ramires has put in another solid display btw. Encouraging signs really.

He's certainly making a name for himself, what a performance. I really don't like Moses on the left.

I thought we were pretty poor actually. Sloppy plays and failed to keep the ball well. Our opponent lacks the quality to cause us much problems defensively. Agree with the parts about Moses and especially Luiz. His passing is so unnecessarily sloppy..

Come on Torres, need to finish chances like that.

What a ball by Frankie!

Ash is Legend

Oscar is going to be HUGE. You just wait and see.

He did well in his time at Chelsea though I expected him to do better and make a bigger impact on the team. Though the fact he couldn't play in his most natural role because of Lampard's presence played a part in that. But he did do extremely well in the second half of 09/10 as our anchor man and played a crucial role in winning the Double so at least he went out with a bang. His attitude, leadership and professionalism were highly admirable and that's what I miss the most when thinking about his time here.

Replace Lamps and Mata with Ramires and Marin and I agree. Think this is the ideal to start MnM. He was pretty good in pre-season and needs to gain some rythm now. No Lamps, not from the start that is, because I'd play him against Norwich. And they will probably sit back and hit us on the break so Ramires will come in handy to deal with their counter-attacks.