didierforever

hopeless performance.awful finishing, hopeless defending. i mean u know how bad u are when u have a "A GREAT ESCAPE" feeling after a home match against palace. nonetheless, 3 points, 2 nd position and i have no doubt that we ll be top of the table come christmas (after this performance, how could it be possible!!!) cech - think he was poor today. was very nervous and should have come from his line twice or thrice to get a ball but just stood on the line. 6/10 iva - poor first half. gave the ball away so easily and sometimes in very dangerous positions but more than made it up with his 2 blocks late in the match (one O KEEFE shot and another a thru ball) 6/10 DL - u know u were poor when u get nut-megged twice by jerome. has to take his share of blame for the goal for yet again abondaning his position and trying to win the ball and in the end was hopelessly out of position. DL vs GC debate would again get red-hot but the main problem is the consistency with which the opposition is being let run at our defence with no cover from the mid. 6/10 JT - kept us in the game. saved luiz's asses both the times he got nut-megged by jerome, a brilliant on the line save and in general was brilliant. 8/10 azpi - dint he know delaney was on the pitch? twice he let delaney win a header at the far post. a similar thing happened in the start of the match though with a different player. except for that, he was good in defence and joined well in attack too. 7/10 essien - laughable first half but to give credit where its due, he imposed himself the 2nd. he is worse than mikel and the only reason he is here is cos of his affiliantion with jose. should be sold in the winter. 6/10 rambo - very poor performance from his standard. passing was wayward, challenges were poor (like the one which led to the goal). his match was summed up by the chance that he fucked up. 6/10 willian - awesome workrate, brilliant dynamism, was great on the ball but simply got lost in the 2nd half. finishing was poor and again some of his decision making almost cost us. 8/10 hazard - lost the ball about 10-15 times in the match. never tracked back, got into brilliant positions just to slow the game down and then make some awful decisions/passes. playing him and mata on the wings is a mistake for me as they play best when they combine. right now, the only way we are making chances is by hazard running and beating his man or willian running and beating his man. there is no actual play going on.7/10 mata - a couple of brilliant touches, a couple of brilliant passes, but except for that could not impose. his substitution and no shaking of hands with jose was the only eye-brow raising part of the performance. no doubt that he leaves in summer, if not in winter. 7/10 torres - got a goal but tried toooo hard. came too deep to recieve the ball and more often than not lost it. but was great when running at the defenders. some of his runs off the ball were questionable (for eg - when hazard stole the ball on the by line, torres should have made a run to the near post for a tap-in). 7/10 subs - oscar - so completely off the pace. lost the ball most of the times he touched it. absolutely uninfluential. also he does not strike me as the super-sub type. 6/10 schurrle - covered azpi well, should have scored and simply cant think of one fair reason why mata should play on the wing while he sits on the bench. 7/10 ba - held the ball well, should have scored too. dint have much else to do. jose - pathetic decision making today. starting essien? kdb not on the bench! schurrle!!! cole!!! iva!!! hopeless team selection. 3/10

WTF!!!! how??? essien on yellow continues to fuck up on the pitch but mata gets subbed. seriously poor.

we are fucking up chances!!! again!!!

precisely!!! but the way people are acting, u would think iva fucked up and let the striker go thru on the goal.

as there is no mikel , lamps and GC today plus torres has scored so iva has become the scape-goat today. torres comes deep, loses the ball rambo tries to tackle but fails. luiz comes out of position to get the ball but fails iva could not stop the cross which i would say was the least of the "mistakes" JT is ball watching and not taking his man. essien should have been covering for DL but is no where in the picture but somehow, IVA is to blame. this forum is HILARIOUS!!!!

does not the barca match come to head or almost half the season under FSW come to your mind when he was simply immense when DL was imployed as a DM. but yes, the only thing that comes to mind is the swansea match in which he made 2 personal mistakes which actually has nothing to do with playing CB/RB, it was just a bad day for him.

this goal was iva's fault!!!! seriuosly???

dont think it was willian's fault. the ball from hazard was a bit weak. but the run from torres was horrendous. make a bloody near post run and score for heaven's sake!!!

we are sending CMs like josh, romeu and nat on loans while essein is still playing!!!

COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! now get another, please... for fuck's sake... please...

out - essien in- oscar. will just come back to watch the 2nd half. this is just depressing.

stoke match deja-vu!!!

thank the mother of god!!!

laughable 11 minutes!!! essien is probably the only player who has looked good... what a shame!!!

now even mata makes a poor pass... wtf!!! dint they do their warm-up???

wtf start!!!

city will beat barca if they draw them. only thing is pelegrini should get his tactics right!!!

still feel pool vs everton was a better match but yes this match is right there too.

people expecting 4-0s and 5-0s are in for a BIG suprise,

WTF LINE-UP??? did schurrle have an affair with jose's wife or somethin... the minimum he deserved was a couple of continous starts.

that ball from toure!!!!

city are TOYING with arsenal.

ba for 12-13mil, add one of essien/mikel to that too and buy sven bender with that money... please...

now i can safely say that u r not getting my point. mikel's performances this season have been so average that that i feel even romeu/chalobah could have filled his shoes. his and lamps performances coupled with mvg's season long injury have almost made it compulsory for us to go out and buy a DM. let me try anothr way, do u think chelsea should buy a DM this winter. as u r a chelsea fan, i would guess your answer is YES. lets say we buy sven bender. now our pivot options would be sven, rambo, lamps and mikel. and i can safely assume that mikel will be the 4th option, a job which can very well be done by chalobah when he comes back from his loan spell.

double standards!!! what double standards??? agains i would simply go back to a previous point of simply having a peak at the FL thread and see how many people have critisized him and asked for lamps to simply retire and never play football again. but to be honest, i would expect a few poor performances creeping into lamps game when he is playing 3 games a week at the age of 35 years. on the other hand, mikel is 26, prime of his career, peak of his physical fitness, and yet if this is the best he can do then i am sorry, we deserve better. honestly, i cant see the difference in keeping chalobah/romeu instead of him, i am sure they would be capable of giving those 6-7/10 consistent performances too but unfortunately we need much more than that from the only recognized DM in our squad.