Sheva.

We have played something similar to this against City before and got dominated. Better teams will make us pay for essentially having no threat on the right, but West Ham are a struggling side and we were able to just keep the ball on the side Hazard was pretty easily.

No one had a bad game, well done.

Good performance. Everything looked under control with a proper DM in there, and Lampard was able to do what he does best.

Wooooooo, well done.

Hazard is everywhere.

LOOOL Big Sam.

Another chance created by...

YESSSSS

Someone said Hazard doesn't create chances

We're pressing high for a change.

Yessssssssssss

Get Hazard the ball, always.

Rammy playing in mid, weird formation, no one on right.

Meh.

Best striker in the league.

Yep. Just like Madrid.

The question is what kind of midfield does Mourinho want. Something similar to Brazil with Paulinho and Gustavo or like Real Madrid with a DLP and a hard-worker. Going by how we have been lining up with Lampard and Ramires, it looks like the 2nd and in that case we don't need Witsel. Cabaye or Moutinho can do the job Mourinho wishes Lampard did.

In the Liverpool game we had chances to finish them off, didn't take them and we were punished. Against West brom, we had sooo many chances in the 2nd half it was ridiculous, again bad finishing cost us. Fulham was just a boring game where nothing happened, not uncommon over the course of a season. The theme of last season as a whole was bad finishing, because we did create opportunities most of the time, this season though it's no chances and wait for counter.

Witsel won't solve our scoring problems, or lack of creativity. We don't need just 1 player in 1 position, we need to improve the pivot, the striker position and LB imo. I want to say RB, but we have a RB, a CB is just deputizing there for the time being

Away at Swansea, at home to Liverpool, away at WBA, and home to Man city and Fulham. Not exactly easy games, not to mention we for some reason struggle in that month.

Yeah i thought he would have an interception, i've seen him step across and block a pass recently. And i love how we're back to talking about how many tackles a CAM makes, next thing we will only be looking for strikers who can defend also.

In 7 PL apps, he has 4 tackles. It's not great but i'm sure if you looked at his tackles from whole of last season when he played every game, he probably didn't even get more than 10. No one instantly turns into a defensive guru, it's not something he's done most of his career, but if anyone has seen him for Chelsea or even Spain this season, he's trying to adapt. We scored goals and created chances, wasn't great free-flowing football but it was good enough to get 100+ goals. I'd take that right now.

I would argue our attack has been much worse this season. And last season we played with no width which everyone all of sudden hates now. We played some great football at the start under RDM, and eventually did for Rafa also. We did struggle sometimes, but not for a long stretch like has been the case so far.

We haven't applied high pressure since the Bayern game, we sit deep and wait to counter, totally different. Mata when he has played has tracked his man, and made tackles, interceptions etc, but it doesn't seem to be good enough for some, who want him to defend like a DM. And for the point about "knitting the team together" what good is it exactly, if our attack has still been sub-par all season? Back to my original point, a CAM should have the freedom to focus more in attack than defending. It's the case with Silva and Ozil if we look at just PL players at comparable teams. Doesn't mean they don't help out, but it's not a measuring point like it is here.