The Skipper

Yeah, spot on. Our best patch of play came when Cesc was in his true element, dictating the pace of the game and showcasing his vision again. If we ever want to see the CFC of early last season again he needs to continue like this. Very good from Cesc today.

Future captain. Well done Happy.

Congratulations on becoming one of the most hated players in premier league history Diego.

I'll take the win but we're still a long way off to top form. We did well in bits today though (even before the red card).

Can't score vs. 9 men. Nice.

Mourinho never really urges his team to get that secured 2nd after a team goes down to 10 unfortunately.

I think Ramires on confirms it for me that Mourinho sees RLC as Matic's understudy.

He's been awful today tbh.

I would take Costa off. Bit disgraceful tbh. Love him to bits but that was not nice.

Can we not insult someone for having a different opinion.

Is that a long ball from Fabregas?!

Strangely, we never used to start Oscar in big games much last year. Would still like Oscar to improve the accuracy of his passes though, misplaces too many simple ones.

Fabregas is having a good (big) game. Finally.

We would've rested him against Maccabi if that was the case then.

I would love it if they were out high up in The West Stand tbh.

Hazard really isn't suffering from burn out, he's low on confidence. When your best player is low on confidence you play him into form. Can't believe people want him dropped.

I really like how he's ambidextrous but I personally thought he was quite poor, perhaps a bit too nervous. He showed a couple of encouraging things but he didn't do much to definitely displace Ivanovic unfortunately.

He's built on his performance/cameo against Crystal Palace where myself and quite a few around me at the Bridge thought he did great. Keep it going Ruben.

FM 2015.

Really good game from him.

Inverted wing backs ftw.

Time to shine Bab(y)a. (I'll get my coat)

Well Ivanovic made the wrong decision to pass to Costa in the first place. It was very poor from Ivanovic. Ivanovic has been the poorest performers in the team, of course he'll get slack for that. Most of our goals conceded this season - he's played a huge part in them.

Laughed.

Sigh.