didierforever

i have never said this but considering the comments here, is it something like the brazilians HAVE to support oscar no matter what!!! he was our worst player on the pitch in the first half. how difficult is it to accept that??? against a team like everton we need more solidity in mid and i think rambo will start. so in short its oscar/cesc/willian for CAM, i have no doubt in my mind who SHOULD NOT start.

anyone... anyone who puts azpi over iva as a RB, i go batman on their ass!!!! let not your prejudice judge the team. courtois iva GC JT azpi matic rambo schurrle cesc hazard costa oscar out without a doubt, rambo in for more cover to the defence.

pathetic first half, brilliant second half. every player played his part in the 2nd half. coutois- what a performance. brilliant saves. has totally and completely repaid jose's faith and hopefully shut the mouth off most of the idiotic journalists. dint put a foot wrong. 10/10 iva- despite courtois brilliant performance, he gets my MOTM award. brilliant in defence, amazing in attack what more do u want from your fullback. if costa had passed that ball, he would have got on the score sheet too. but somehow people will still cry and crib about iva being on the team ahead of luis. hyprcrisy and prejudice!!! has put in 2 world class performance in our 2 matches so far!!! what a player!!! GC-JT - covered well. specially after we went a goal up they were solid as usual. the worst moment was when matic gave away the ball for a 3 on 2. GC did well to hurry nugent. also, JT's tackle in the 1st half was just brilliant. 8/10 azpi - got skinned in the first half. seemed like he was chasing shadows. also no link up with hazard in the first half leading into hazard being totally isolated. made up a bit in 2nd half when both him and iva got up more. 6/10 matic - 2 massive mistakes that could have cost us dearly. other than that, he was decent. 6/10 cesc - defensively he was poor today. so many times the ball was played around him. infact oscar atleast put in a defensive shift in the first half to cover for him. exactly why rambo with matic would be much better. 6/10 oscar - pathetic performance in the first half. seemed like he was not even interested. i have no doubt that he got a jose smacking in the HT-talk. good shot and a nice ball for iva to the goal. i will be suprised if he holds his plays against everton. 6/10 hazard - what a goal!!! thats what he does best. produces moments of magic in the game. 7/10 schurrle - ran a lot, specially when it seemed that we had changed to 4-4-2 with him and costa at top. ran behind the defence but only to be played once by cesc. some decent link up play too but nothing special. 6/10 costa - in all honesty, he got owned by 2 championship defenders today. first touch was poor, hold up play was poor. but that 50-50 chance that he took changed the game on its heel. and that is what strikers are for. 7/10 subs: rambo - that run was awesome, the finish was not. deadly when we are countering and he showed why on multiple occasions today. i think he will be starting against everton. 7/10 willian - brilliant cameo. absolutely brilliant. that turn was marvelous. another wonderful option to have off the bench when countering. 8/10 DD - what an ovation. moment of the match - when roman joined in the standing ovation. absolutely loved it!!! that ball to rambo... orgasmic. the way he got that ball on the edge of the ball before hazard took it down the flag - brilliant. still seems a little off the pace. 7/10 good win. we would have dropped some points last season for sure on such a game. nice start to the season.

^^ this is coming from a torres fan. that pass to rambo should be telling off his class. if DD had needed to run and if we were 1-1 or 0-0, you would have seen a different performance.

somehow after we win a match his poor performance gets labelled as a good workrate performance!!!! lets call it as it is... he has been poor today, he has been poor for the last 8 months since this year started. anyone who cant see that must be blind or prejudiced!!! he needs to step up and show that he is worth the hype in the 2nd half. cos right now, he looks absolutely PATHETIC.

oscar!!!! does he even want to play!!!

no torres in the MATCH DAY SQUAD!!!! YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: take the hint and fuck off blondie!!!

no torres in the MATCH DAY SQUAD!!!! YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: :blue scalf: take the hint and fuck off blondie!!!

Anyone know what's the end of "then I found he'd tried old......... "Can anyone finish that!!!

Again, when u say "rediscover" form, u make it sound like cech has been out of form or in a poor form for the last 18 months. I totally agreed with your point of cech declining and that is the issue here. Cech was not poor by any stretch of imagination.

Still can't understand why you would be comparing nani's inconsistency and maria' (supposed) inconsistency. I mean then hazard is "inconsistent" too. But atleast these are players on a similar level to be actually compared. Making a statement of "just anither nani" for someone like maria is just weird

consistency and attitude are 2 very different things. if ben arfa , gael kakuta and a 1000 other people had the right attitude, they might have been great players. as for maria, he already is one of the best players in the world right now. he has been consistently good for the past 2 seasons.so its just wrong to compare nani and maria at any level. ps - still dont think we NEED him.

what???

never said anything about "tutoring". the idea itself is weird that cech "tutors" a CL finalist and LA liga winner. his form did decline since 2013 not 2012 but so has JTs. but he was still the best keeper in PL and one of the top 3 in the world last season. saying things like he has "nightmares handling crosses into the box" is unfair to a a true legend of this club and a true professional too.

Are people sure they are talking about cech??? Reading some of the comments on here, u would think cech made 2 mistakes per match plus he could never hold on to an air ball. I too wanted our future secure and thibaut chosen but some of the comments about cech on here are just hilarious.

brilliant player but dont think we would want him. we have our own set of players.

no chance... considering ac milan just want free transfers these days!!

probably cos jose has already had a stint with balo in inter and thought that balo is an idiot!!!

Shaky? We definiyely were watching a different match. I don't think they even had a half chance against us in the 2nd half. They had 2 shots on target and a goal which was from a set piece which has been our achilees heel in the recent times. Iva was brilliant in attack and defence, azpi was solid as was the GC-JT combo as usual. The fact that courtois barely had to do anything is a testimony to that.We have been set up to play in a way where our wingers and AMs in general will be helping our defence. I rememver schurlle giving away 2 cheap fks in our own area while defending. I don't think our system is going to change for benatia and what's more, it should not change. It's a sysytem where the players play as a team rather than doing an arsenal or a pool. This was the same scenario last season. We had 6 defenders which included luiz, bertrand and kalas together barely played anything more than ake and christensen will play this season. In the 2nd half of the season, we dint play luiz for more than 2 matches as a CB (city in fa cup and wba in pl). Except for that we had 5 defenders who played half a season. Simple fact is that jose simply does not want to or like to chop and change his defences. Its not his way. Zouma/iva are very good backups to JT-GC, we don't need a 30mil back up for them. And they might not but good individual defenders as benatia but as a pair, they are brilliant and that is what matters. Dont see any reason why they should be changed.

Did I miss something? Dint we concede 27 goals in the whole PL last season. I mean are we talking about a very solid and stable GC-JT partnership or a skrtel-toure one??? I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.

Did I miss something? Dint we concede 27 goals in the whole PL last season. I mean are we talking about a very solid and stable GC-JT partnership or a skrtel-toure one??? I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.

It dint??? Barelt troubled. We have iva and one of the brightest talents in zouma as our back ups. We have kalas and omerou on loan and yet we should be spending 30mil on a player who would barely make us any better than we already are. He is not HG, and we are already 1 non HG player more than the allowed limit. Buying him would mean selling /loaning 2 players. Pray tell me who those will be??? Like I said, don't want him, don't need him.

Don't need him!!!

Our FL thread is much much much worse. After we let go off lamps, he goes for a 6 month LOAN!!!! and people literally lost their minds. Some even were idiotic enough to call hin traitor. On the other hand cesc was an ex arsenal captain who will be playing week in week out for us, such reactions are kinda expected.