didierforever

again with the "deserved" to win thing... that does not work in football dude. if united had been just 1-0 down at OT, and desperate for a goal to almost confirm them the PL, would you have bet against it... decisions go both ways. in the end, it all gets nullified. u get some, u dont get some. as for that game, we thulped the 1st half. united were still having a hangover from their munich first leg defeat but united came back strong in the 2nd half. as for 4/5-0... LOL...

its porto, 40 mil at the least. might as well not have bought willian and just given napoli there 50 million. :sigh: what could have been...

that was taking it a bit too far, but i seriously dont see the point of playing hazard for this game. specially if moses is in jose's plans then a front 3 of moses-mata-willian should start so as to get playing time. i feel what jose is doing is that he is trying to make hazard more of a ribery than a ronaldo. instilling in him the importance of one's defensive contribution to the team.

dude, we as chelsea fans won a LEAGUE because of a 2 yard offside goal by DD at OT. sometimes decisions go your way, sometimes, they dont. just like yesterday, lamps should have conceded a pen. but thats football. at the end of the day or rather at the end of that 1-3 match day, we dint deserve to win anyway. our finishing was awful, our defense was at sevens and sixes and our mid was non-existent. so i seriously doubt if we deserved anything of that match.

united missed a pen, berba missed an open goal, ramires' tap in got saved from 1 yard out, torres missed open goal. but in the end, united had deserved to win on that day. if the finishing was good in that match it would have ended something like 3-5 against arsenal at SB. jose dint want that.

i seriously dont care about the result. i would be more upset if any 1 player got injured in this game rather than us losing this one. that should tell u exactly how much i rate it. so non-fit mata, mikel, moses and lukaku (not ba) would be good for me.

no one is doubting that he ll get better. he ll be our main man. but right now their are people on the bench who deserve some game time. this is an inconsequential match. also other deserve a chance. hazard might become ronaldo, he is not one yet.

no idea. probably etoo. who knows what the board is gonna do next.

over-reaction to a couple of bad performances? by the way whats your take on hazard's performances so far this season. instead of replying sarcastically i would like a head on discussion.

this match should be a clear indication of who will be there after the transfer window and who wont. will be interesting to see about mikel, moses, ba in this match.

we miss out on a world class striker - and have a striker force of torres/ba/lukaku, who mou thinks are simply not good enough to have a starting place against a team like united. so, ok , i see your point of celebrating...

nope. he has been below average/poor in the first 3 games. got owned by valencia last night. defensively he left cole open against jones and valencia a number of times when lampard had to come in and cover for him. time for others to get a real chance/shot to show what they can do.

his last 3 performances dont guarantee a place on the bench. moreover i just want moses/mata to get 90 minutes, even if it means losing 3-1/2-0

cech azpi luiz cahill bertrand mikel essien willian??(schurlle) mata moses lukaku subs - schwarzer, iva, cole, torres, rambo, oscar, schurlle.

a reason to celebrate??? seriousy?

rafa had 2 points in his first 3 matches while we have 7 (5 more) which includes a trip to the champions.

we are playing without our most influential player for the past 2 years, who was clearly lacking match fitness and fitness in general during his last match, and after watching hazard play all the 3 matches, u have to say he is out of form. considering the fact how shit we were without mata and hazard last season, i would say 7 points out of a possible 9 with an away fixture to united included is a BRILLAINT start.

u will get that on 18th jan 2014.

no idea how much longer of this. but as i said the worst thing is his willingness to work for the team. he dint fall back and try to get the ball for the last move of the game, whereas i still remember that lukaku sliding challenge in the villa game. just shows exactly what the difference between the 2 is.

united vs chelsea 3-1 chelsea vs united 3-3 chelsea vs united 2-3 chelsea vs united (coc) 5-4 united vs chelsea (fa cup) 2-2 the no. of goals we had conceded against united in the past 2 years left little to the imagination as to how our defenders would have dealt with their counter. we would have out-scored them, who knows, but jose dint want to take that risk. and as i said before, it was the right decision.

are u that ignorant? yes i want chelsea to be the champions again, and these type of RESULTS are what make you champions. that is what united have done for the past years and that is what we used to do in 2004-05. this is what an away game is like. would u have wanted us to fall back 2 goals to united AGAIN, because that is exactly how well our defence could deal with them. let me refresh your memory united vs chelsea 3-1 chelsea vs united 3-3 chelsea vs united 2-3 chelsea vs united (coc) 5-4 united vs chelsea (fa cup) 2-2 the last 2 fixtures that we played against united should barely count because the SB FA cup fixture was played immediately afte united lost their CL match to RM and even during the match it was obvious that they dint give a shit. and the last match was a dead rubber which dint mean anything to them. these scorelines tell how exactly how adept our defence is to play against the united counters. everton dont have a better side than any of chelsea, arsenal, tot, manchesters and yet the goodison park trip is considered to be one of the worst ones. why? because that is what an away fixture can do to you. and this was the champions for heaven's sake. as for mata man-marking carrick argument goes, who are we kidding? do you remember toure's run against us where mata just let him pass. even i love mata but his defensive frivolities simply dint make him a starter for me. (also dont forget that the majority of us dint put mata in our starting 11 before the match started, we just wanted a sub role for him, which would have been silly considering, the way we were playing and were setup to play). so jose made the right decision by not letting in mata (not saying the same about lukaku, though), and yes I am very happy with a point because even at the start of the match, i would have predicted a draw for us. more so, i am happy that united dint win last night and now they have to play pool away and city in 2 weeks' time, still totally unsure of themselves.

we could have, but then united would have countered (like the last move of the match), and we simply dont have a defence that is pacy enough to deal with it. it would have been something of the fa cup OT game, or even worse something like last year's SB game. jose could have fought fire with fire and ended up getting burned instead he got a point. plus united face pool at anfield, and city at etihad still unsure of themselves. imagine if they had got a win last night. if we have to curb/sacrifice our attacking prowess for one match for a much greater good, i ll accept it within a hearbeat.

then i feel arsenal is the team for u,because i feel jose got his tactics right. 0-0 draw at the home os champions is a GREAT RESULT. also jose would want chelsea to win trophies rather than play offensive football. he has his priorities right,can not say the same about the fans though.

punch him in the face, heh?? tell me how he got his tactics wrong??? we were playing the CHAMPIONS of england in their own backyard. OLD TRAFFORD. and this team would have put their heart and soul in, to get a good result. he got a couple of players wrong, but his tactics were right. mata could not have been brought on. there was no point of bringing him on. with mata we would have controlled the game and let united counter us, this was EXACTLY the type of thing jose dint want to do last night. the way oscar played in the center, man -marking carrick thru out the game, do u actually think mata could have done that? NO, not evn one-tenth of it. with the tactics that we used yesterday, mata would have been as useful to us as he was against bayern or barca. so no one is blinded. people accept that jose made a mistake by not playing lukaku, but mata (specially the one that played against villa, the same one who every1 said was pathetic on that day), was no option for today. we have a big squad we very different types of players. and jose used that versatility of the squad to gain us a point.

take it easy dude. its not at all hard to understand but what IS hard to understand is, why would any1 be crying over the game when we got a good result. we did what was REQUIRED off us. if it means playing defensive - shitty football then so be it. such results are the one which lead a team to PL, how u get it then becomes secondary.