didierforever

Stopped reading after the first line. Anyone who thinks that rambo until december was "below par" simply is prejudiced. The rambo that owned toure, the rambo against arsenal, the rambo without whom we simply could not imagine our pivot.I am not giving an excuse for his touch. I said it was a poor touch. Read my last post again. But what is baffling me his slagging him off for that one instinct. Except for that one mistake, he had a good game. He did his job. He did all that was asked of him.

If you actually go through the couple more posts of discussions between me and specialjuan, then you ll know that I have said the exact same things. Rambo's role changing in the team with matic coming in, rambo playing solely cos we don't have a option etc etc. Nothing here that I disagree with

Sure dude. Whatever u say. I mean 6-0 arsenal, 4-0 spurs, 3-1 united, 2-1 and 1-0 city, 2-1 pool. All of this was cos we played crap. I mean jose's sole responsibility should have been to play attracyive football, who cares about a long term system, balance, work ethic. You know there is a team in PL, which does all u want - ARSENAL. How is that working out for them.

making excuses??? u r slagging off rambo for having ONE poor touch in all of the game and accusing me of being selective. how many times did willian lose the ball. how many times did torres try and dribble instead of passing to willian/rambo. lamps could have been sent off. cole slid in for the last corner and could have ended up costing the match on the counter. azpi let garcia run behind him a couple of times. DL's freekicks were a joke which was our ONLY real way of scoring a goal. which player dint make ONE mistake. slag all of them... rambo's primary job last night was his defensive work in which he was brilliant. he totally shut down luis. yes he is clumsy. and a little "dirty". but he generally makes up for it with his fight. and u need such players in the team. that's the difference between us and the likes of arsenal/spurs.

have to agree that people here have a point. i mean we were simply without our best DM(matic), our best Am(hazard), our best striker (etoo), we lost our no.1 GK after 15mins, but we should have gone out all guns blazing. i mean its better to get our asses kicked 6-0 like arsenal and spurs than actually do the most sensible thing to do. did these people actually see our bench last night? if we had played schurrle for rambo and oscar for mikel, our bench would have been ake, kalas, mvg, rambo, mikel, ba. a very apt bench to play away against the side that bloody well owned barcelona a couple of weeks ago. i mean the height of idioticness from some of the posters is just.........................

dude. he looked up. but torres was nowhere. torres was way behind him and the defender who was running into the box. the ball would 100% have been intercepted. he could have held onto the ball and hoped for a miracle to happen. but just on that one occasion you simply can not condemn him last night. look at the defensive job he did on luis. as soon as schurrle came on the wing, and rambo went central, luis played around azpi and almost got a shot from inside the box. and that is why he was selected last night. he will be selected for the next match cos we dont have any options. mikel and lamps are suspended. matic is cup tied. so it leaves him and ONLY him as our true midfielder. we have a lack of options and have to make up for it. rambo has been in a poor form plus his various suspensions in CL and PL would not have helped his confidence. and please dont make stuff up like been a passenger for 90% of season. he was our ENGINE until the start of the year.

until december, he was one of our most consistent players. still remember the meltdown we had before the pool game as rambo was suspended for 5 yellows. his performance against city at bridge when he owned toure all through the match. but no doubt that he has been poor (i wont even say average), he has been downright poor since the start of this year. can be cos of his new role in the team with matic coming in. he definitely does not have the skill set for a no.8 player. but to say this about his performance last night "What the fuck was he playing at when he was put in last night? His first touch was that of a school boy on the playground and there isn't anything you can say good about the ball he played." is a joke.

come on munich. hope pep does not play his bloody tiki-taka style.

i just dont get it. we are judging him on last night, when we had 10 men behind the ball, and this was no palace or sunderland but CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB, who bloody stopped barca from scoring for 90 minutes at the bridge. in that case, we probably should not buy messi if we have the chance cos he has done FUCK-ALL against us ever. suarez could not get a sight at goal in december, so he should not be considered too, right?

why mvg? wont lamps/mikel be better. plus if DL plays, he should play in the mid. GC-DL partnership is a recipe for disaster against pool.

sometimes i doubt if people watch the same match.

if we were leading 2-0 from last night, i would have disagreed. but right now CL has to be the priority. i would have disagreed cos, more than the title (which is a very long shot now), we have to give thought on th 3rd spot. losing to pool would mean just 2 points off arsenal with 2 games to play. plus the league form we are in, puts us in a bit of a bother. but right now, we have to give all our thoughts to CL.

i always "we" in english or in hindi when talking about chelsea. it might sound weird to others but the amount of time i spend, talking about chelsea, reading about chelsea, watching chelsea etc etc,,, we is the easier thing to say. still remember when i started my college and used "we" for chelsea when talking with my then-not-so-close-friends, they called me out on it. its not just other people. a while back, even "bushman" called me out on using "we". so it depends from person to person, i guess

no doubt about it. the way everyone is talking about "park the bus" is like united, city and arsenal dint. whats worse is that they sucked at it. we dint have our no.1 striker(etoo), our no.1 AM(hazard), even if we had started oscar and schurrle instead of rambo and mikel, thus playing a 4-2-3-1, we would have had NOTHING to change from the bench. zilch-nada. moreover, the injuries to cech, and JT would have spoiled any and all of jose's plans of putting in oscar and/or schurrle to go their and grap a late winner. but no one looks at the dynamics of it. but who cares, we are chelsea. let the haters hate.

why? he was decent. we had 10 men behind the ball. and those 10 men had world class defenders. any striker in the world would have struggled to make a positive impact. i mean we are a team that have conceded the least goals in PL and just 7 in CL. even then, his hold up play was decent. got players into the game continously. ATM simply dint have a chance as we dint let them create anything thru the center. balls into the box against GC-JT, even DD and ibra failed to make an impact. so, dont think we should judge him on this match, specially when he is doing brilliantly what we really want him to do, that is scoring goals on a consistent basis against opposition of all qualities. just buy him, get lukaku back, and keep ba or promote bamford as the 3rd striker and we have a MAJOR upgrade over the ones this season.

but in all honesty, it wont even be a fair fight. iva will thulp DL to a pulp.

well played.

good game. now if he can find out that pass instead of trying to dribble past everyone, it would do the team a world of good. still, did much better than i could have hoped for.

awesome. anything above 22mil pounds combined and we should not even think about it twice.

iva/cole

good game from him. amazing workrate. dint let filipe luis be effective at all. not at all suprising that luis almost got a shot on goal after rambo had to be pushed back into the mid. hope he can continue this. will have to be played in a 2 man mid cos mikel and lamps are suspended for the next match. hope he can redeem his season then.

big blow. major blow.

nope. more like "rested" for the ATM game.

sack him. oh wait!!!! the idiots wont come out of their holes for till sunday now.

hazard should play if fit, some match fitness for the ATM 2nd leg. ---------------schwarzer-------------- ---azpi/iva--- GC--- JT/IVA---- AC/azpi -------------matic------lamps------- ----schurrle------oscar--------hazard---- ----------------torres--------------- if JT is not fit, then GC-IVA partnership should be given a run in. no way should GC-DL play as CB pairing. also, torres should be given another start for his good performance. hope he can do the same against another former club. lamps is suspended for the 2nd leg, so should be starting. DL-RAMBO pivot HAS to be used against ATM so hopefully a rest for both. not hoping for much. dont think our players would be as inspired and motivated as theirs. tough game.