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Conceding early just might have been what we needed becase that first half was brilliant. We took the foot off the gas in the second but I never felt worried at any stage. Very good game and great win over those clowns.

I can't believe how good this guy is.

Also Drogba was a big game player. Henry played in about 15 finals and never scored a single goal. Henry was a great player though and one of the best strikers of all time. If he led the line now we'd be leading the league by 10+ points.

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Sometimes I feel like the board have the same mentality. They sign players for the sake of it, and the result is the unbalanced team with no identity that we have now.

Whisper it quietly but Oscar, Mata and Willian would look better playing for Everton than they do for Chelsea.

Guarin is averaging 35 passes a game at 73% accuracy this season in the Serie A. Not good really.

...and Lampard, Terry etc.

Then I hope we go out there, take the game to them and show them we're the better side. I have a sneaky suspicion that won't happen and that we'll defend with a low block, concede possession and play on the counter at home against a team we're significantly better than.

Parking the bus at home against Liverpool. Oh dear oh dear.

Happy holidays guys, have a good one.

This, this, this, this, this! And to make it worse, Torres is the one that cost 50m yet he has less demanded of him for some reason. He just needs to turn up and people will be falling over themselves telling you 'how hard he worked'. Ba does the same and he's a donkey who isn't Chelsea material. You couldn't make it up.

Agreed 100% and this is what I was getting at by making the thread. It's so frstrating having some genuinely good attacking players that we're not fully taking advantage of because of both tactics and the technical skill of the players arouund them. I can't tell you just how frustrated Ivanovic makes me for instance. Mourinho seemgingly doesn't care about that so I don't see it changing any time soon.

Oh I know that. He's actually one of the most happy-go-lucky players I've ever seen. He would never be portrayed the way he has been had he been signed by one of the media darlings, but people are desperate to continue the narrative of the arrogant/cocky Chelsea player. I thought his Madrid ambition was more serious by the way, thanks for clearing that up.

Agreed. Willian, who is a diligent worker and a very good player, doesn't seem to have the final ball in his locker. I counted at least 3 occasions when a pass was on and he either didn't see it or played a poor ball. I like him though and he put in another quality shift.

I believe we would have won if tried to take the intitiative. We did well containing and breaking, we could have done a lot more by being proactive.

We achieved what we set out to do so from that perspective it's a good result. Arsenal did look clueless.

Hazard has long had an ambition to play for Real Madrid and if he continues to get better I can see him moving there. You're an absolutely tiresome cunt by the way and the manner in which you try to police the forum is laughable.

It is what it is. I don't think the likes of Hazard will be sticking around for long anyway.

He won't. I think Roman has given up on playing good football and he just wants to be more competitive again. Mourinho meets the criteria. Whether or not they want to admit it, I think most people have already given up any notion of being a proactive, attractive team by now and are just content with being competitive again.

I don' think he ever had one. His big game mentality is more 'dont lose' rather than 'try to win'. He is what he is, this is the manager we have. We have to learn to live with it.

Do we? I'd be more than happy for Azpilicueta to have the RB position. He's a quality player and should be our RB right now. Then we have Wallace/Kane etc to try work their way into the team/squad.

Agreed. We've spent an absolute fortune and still have an unbalanced, underperforming squad that mostly plays rubbish football.

Nah, I think Mourinho should just try and develop a better team which can help it's creative players to be more decisive.

Clearly someone trying to troll and make excuses for their fanboy crush Torres.