Styles

Taking the lead away from home early is sometimes the worst thing that can happen to us. We completely stop playing.

We should get Hilario's take on this:

Andreas Christensen.

Because we have better players than most of the teams we play.

He will. Come on, we all know Mourinho's entire tactical approach at this point: overwhelm the rubbish teams and defend deep / counter-attack against anybody half-decent. His tactics are very basic (the most basic of all the top managers) so there will be no surprises at all. We have to hope that PSG leave space on the counter which we can exploit and get some away goals.

Unfortunately it's some of our own supporters too.

Zouma was great again. Lukaku got practically nothing out of him besides that one turn and even then Zouma recorved well and won the tackle. The kid is magnificent and the sky is the limit. Even his passing which was widely derided is nowhere near as bad people said it was. And in that game we played most of game with 11 men behind the ball and were camped inside our own defensive third. Not to take anything away from Kalas but he didn't really have to do much. It's the same tactics that have fooled people into thinking Cahill is a world-class defender.

This. Is. Excellent. I was genuinely worried that we'd lose him. Hazard Chelsea

Sell Courtois for 50m in the summer?

Willian the gawd :worship:

I came in to post this word for word. Drogba's my guy but what a rubbish sub.

He's doing OK. He hasn't really done anything special and besides one odd moment where he was caught between whether to pass or shoot (he ended up doing neither) he has done everything well. One decent pass for Remy on a counter-attack which resulted in an effort on goal. He's done OK. I personally think he's showing enough to indicate that when he does settle down we have a serious player on our hands.

I believe everything I read that suits my agenda.

Too late. You should have realised what you had before you left. Now he's stuck playing second fiddle to a right-back in an arguably worse team than the one he left.

Koke is a genuine world-class talent already.

So a little bit of tape has now been used to cover Oscar's latest shit performance. He's never gonna run out of excuses, is he?

I've seen him play a few times - and perhaps it's because I'm paying special attention to him and therefore judging him more harshly - but I'm never blown away. His passing isn't all that great but he's athletic and shoots well. Is that really worth 60-80m?

If Willian's play yesterday wasn't first team quality (and I disagree with that statement) I'd love to hear your thoughts on Oscar's performance.

I will admit I haven't.

Agreed. And tot think so many people made so many excuses about Schurrle being played out of position on the right etc but don't do the same for Willian.

I've never been entirely convinced by Pogba if I'm honest. He is clearly a good young player but I think he is wildly overrated.

Zouma vs Lukaku

Hopefully he keeps this form going until the end of the season.