calculatingInfinity

I'm calling Luis to start over Ivan, who has been underperforming quite a bit recently both in defense and attack.

I thought Luis was quite alright. He looks suspect a few times in the defense, and even with the few misplaced crosses, I think he adds more offensively than Azpilicueta on the left back. Ivan looked quite a bit worse, all his crosses seemed bad and he let them way too easily through when defending a few times. Would really like to see both Luis and Azpilicueta start.

Didn't actually lose.

Not sure if serious

I'm so fucking sick of this team trying to pass the ball into the goal. The first fucking shot after 45 minutes, and it was a goal. Mikel is a good player and I have defended him before, but you can't keep both him and Matic on for so long when chasing a win. Hopefully this is also the last starting place for Schurrle in a long time. The team needs to be more direct and when the team did try and be that in the last 10 minutes, there was lots and lots of huge chances. Of course it doesn't help the ref missed a penalty, but fuck me, should really be able to score more than one here.

I'm sick of players taking it out of play, like Hazard did when Bardsley that cunt was up the pitch hurt. Stoke played on, so why the fuck should Chelsea put it out?

Well... That's embarrassing

That Mikel pass. The Nigerian Pirlo.

I'm not trying to blame it all on Fabregas, but he really needs to learn how to play these matches like Newcastle today and Sunderland a weeks time back. He wants to look for the killer through ball and that's great, but ffs, when you are against a team with 10 men behind the ball you can't do that. It's all about moving it around quickly then, not having 10 touches before passing it sideways as you realize there's no options in front of you. Mourinho also needs to wake the fuck up here. Willian is not nearly as useful against these teams as he can be in the big matches. Schurrle got his long shot and is a lot more direct, why not have him on some earlier? Same goes for Drogba who just wins all headers in the box. I love Costa as much as anyone else, but when there's as little movement from Chelsea around him as today, and the opponent have a lot of strong guys in the box, there isn't much he can do.

Terrible match from Matic and Fabregas. When the opponent doesn't give you any space and you are forced to constantly play it sideways, the least you can do is not take 10 touches and allow them to adjust every single time you got the ball. Also bad from the wings, Willian at least almost created something a few times, while it lacked a lot from Hazard. Azplicueta also truly shows he's right footed playing on the left back today, limits the play quite a bit for him, and when Ivanovic doesn't do more than today it could be nice to see Luis on the left and Azpilicueta on the right. Oh well, this is what that lead on points is for isn't it? Sunderland did well and Chelsea couldn't do shit, good thing it's just Spurs next week.

He just said it in tv lol, it's real.

Lambert : "we've answered some of the critics about Sunday night - we wanted the win and we almost got it"

Well he's still at Sunderland, but hardly still playing. He's pretty much the complete player though Strenght Good attitude, always tries to keep in balance despite brutal body checks and hacked down Good technique Fighting spirit and the mentality to overcome dark times What a player. He's ready to take it to the next level, to score more than 1 goal in a real league

Not even on the bench lol.

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I don't really believe it, at least not for the price. But Cech wanting to stay in London makes sense. Would think some better clubs would be ready to give him a contract though, I'm looking at you PSG.