didierforever

but the mould of experience and youth is amazing in that team. moreover the no. of matchwinners are the real reason these guys give me the hibbie jibbies... can turn the game around in a second. i for one dont want them in the group , infact atleast until quarters.

no PSG??? jallet, alex, silva, maxwell, matuidi, verrati, moura, pastore/lavezii, cavani , ibra. their 1st team is good enough to give nightmares to any1.

lets not include ba in our discussion. he is a goner. no point in including him just to make torres' stats look good. sturridge's movement was off the ball, not on it, and that was what i was talking about. torres has 0 movement and even if he makes space for our mids, he does not make any space for himself to score. lukaku on the other hand gives us a far more direct approach. instead of playing on the wings, he likes to stay central, play on the cbs shoulders and run the channels. that way lukaku proves to be far more of a goal threat than torres does and that is what we want from our strikers. its not jut that one individual event. tell me the no. of times torres was dispossessed in the united game. its not a one-off. u just said that @las7 's stats are useless because they are not of lukaku playing for chelsea and yet the whole of your articles seems to be based on his time in wba. i am sorry but u cant have it both ways. i am baising my opinion on what i have seen in 7 pre-season matches and 3 PL matches. so i simply cant find a good reason to accept torres as chelsea's best striker at the moment.

i seriously think these stats are kind towards torres. if somehow u can get the stats of no. of touches torres takes in one match, and the no. of touches leading to dispossesion, that might show exaclty his involvement (or rather lack of it) in our link up play.

ok then. take out willian and play,,, ummm... Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers, let him go, Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.... KDB IT IS.

first of all, torres' link up play is abysmal. this myth of torres having a good link up play needs to end. how do u have a good link up play when you lose the ball at least 50% of the time it touches your feet. man united match was the prime example of it. his MOVEMENT? he has no movement. watch sturridge's goal against villa. that is MOVEMENT.torres simply makes the most obvious runs and takes defenders with him. i ll give him that but what i saw of lukaku, he does that too (i am not including ba in the discussion because its looking more and more obvious that he is going). torres' decision making is better??? seriously, dude??? did you see what he did against man united. last 40 seconds to go on the clock, iva makes a run on the line. a simple straight forward pass to iva, would have either won us a corner kick or iva would have put in a cross. but what does torres do, he loses the ball, leaves us open to a counter which could have so easily ended up as a goal. whats worse, he dint track back and try to win the ball off his own mistake. also as u said, lukaku has better pace, dribbling, better hold up play, his 2 sub performance showed that he can link up with our mid better than torres did in the hull match or the united match. lukaku can act as a much better target man. and his work rate is a 1000 times better than torres. sometimes lukaku's runs are not what is expected, and he fails to engage defenders, but in overall play LUKAKU IS A BETTER STRIKER THAN TORRES AT THE MOMENT. PS - u know sometimes our hate/love of a certain player can cloud our judgement and maybe that is the case with me and i am absolutely wrong. but the fact that ALL of my united fan friends were HAPPY that jose brought on torres and not lukaku, goes on to say a lot about this issue. and it was not just them. united fans took a sigh of relief where as there was a collective groan from the anti-united contingent (pool, city and some arsenal fans).

the team for me is simple... need to play mata, mvg, azpi, luiz,mikel, bert,lukaku to give them some much needed game time. cech azpi luiz JT bertrand mvg mikel willian mata hazard lukaku subs - schwarzer, iva, cahill, rambo, torres, schurlle, oscar. hazard needs to step up and show some of his magic. mata needs to show every1 who still is the no.1 no.10 in town.

how?

vidic looks like he is about to pop one...

will be one hell of a tough task though... hopefully we get some suprises in group stages itself.

atleast??? i think if we make it to semis, it will be one big acheivement. i mean barca, RM, bayern, dortmund, psg, juve, with a maybe of united, city all have better/equally good team compared to us. will be very tough getting into the semis.

this guy just keeps pouring salt over my wounds... anyways gonna make him my captain for this weekend's match against united in FPL. will defo score atleast one.

definitely and probably dont go well together.

25.5 + 4.6 (bonus)

seems like messi cant even score against chelsea youth keepers... hahahahaha...

will it be confirmed today?

i thought that was courtois. thats why i used blocked rather than save... my bad...

i feel it would have been worse than his swansea loan. would not have got any chance in sociedad.

the 2nd shot in the 2nd chance? because it was just him and messi when he blocked it.

2 one on one with messi and was on him in a flash.

he is injured. got a knock against tottenham in the 2-4 defeat. but i hope he stays and plays for the under-21.

nope. we ll just move for him AFTER he has his medical.

if we do play youth players, then mceachran should have dibs on it.

brilliant so far in the match against barca...

i seriously doubt that can even happen. at this moment we have got 3 strikers - 1 position 7 attacking midfielders/wingers - 3 positions. 5 pivot positions - 2 positions 8 defenders - 4 positions. so it would simply be squad rotation day, otherwise expect some pissed off people in dressing room.