Sheva.

Good support. Azpi pretty much made Hazard's goal with his run.

Wow, get in

Hazard is the man. Well done Lamps.

The injury didn't help, but if we had the same manager he would still be considered as part of the squad, as will be the case with MvG next season.

Change of managers fucked him like it did McEachran. A good and efficient player with a bright future, here or wherever.

Lol Barca. Nice joke.

Not the first sitter he has missed for them. Keep up the good work Vic!

Midfield is indeed where he can have the most chances to play. He will need to improve defensively, but the Lampard role is there for the taking.

I've seen a lot of Barca fans talk about this, so no thanks.

2 tackles and running all over the pitch more important than the chances he created

So? Mata doesn't have to be our star player, but we sign too many inexperienced kids that he automatically is.

Mata did well, was everywhere and got another assist. And a couple tackles which is important to some lol. The 2 strikers worked wonderfully well, really good response to a ridiculous So'ton goal.

No excuses tomorrow please, Mr Mourinho. Leave whoever is tired on the bench and play whatever our best available team is. Tough game, but if we want to remain around the top of the league, these are games we should be finding a way to win - no matter how.

Funny thing to say when you pick the team

Ozil not playing well they said, drops another 2 assists. As much as any Chelsea AM got in the league this entire season

Fucking hell. 7 point lead, despite having only 1 good striker and playing a weird system with 4 CM's and a CAM. Very impressive stuff, but also very worrying.

OTT reaction to say the least. Rafa didn't personally insult you he said something stupid about Chelsea flags, but something not uncommon for other rival fans. He got more than enough shit for it during his time here, to even compare him to Mourinho is ridiculous. Everyone knows Mourinho is one of the best managers in the world and not only that, they both worked/working in completely different situations. Mourinho doesn't get booed every time at home like its an away game, neither does he have to rely on Marin and fucking Benayoun when he wants to change the team.

Probably. I think we have too many good players to have a defined best team; we have players that are suitable for different kinds of opposition, but Mourinho is having none of that atm.

Belgian players sure come with a lot of drama.

Off topic, but that quote is epic

Decent points, until this. We weren't already in the last season, we needed a draw at least, and we got dominated all game. Fortunately, Schalke fucked up. Also i agree the league is more important, but Mourinho played 9 of his usual starters against Basel. If it really wasn't that important then surely more changes would have been made.

He's not even here and already got Mourinho angry, well done. His agent should start preparing where he'll play next season..

Not many will disagree with that. But his weaknesses aren't so massive that he can't play 1 minute against Basel or West ham. Or comes on as a sub against teams like West brom etc etc.

Agree. I thought that's how Mourinho would share game time between Oscar and Mata, with the former playing games where we adopt a counter attacking system, and Mata playing against teams who come to SB and don't leave their half. But i guess he had other plans...

It favoured the team against a bad side like West Ham. Tbf it was a good call that game, they dominated our 4-2-3-1 last season and their long ball tactics et al were all well contained. But otherwise we still need that 3rd attacking midfielder, we can't be parking the bus all over the place against average teams. We stand a better chance of scoring with 4 attacking players on the pitch, not with 2 + Oscar fucking around out wide like against Basel.