Sheva.

Mourinho for some weird reason plays Ivanovic as the attacking fullback. Haha.

The only positive is we can't possibly play this bad forever. One day, Mourinho will change something and we will play some sexy football again. Not expecting it to be soon though, stubborn man.

That was unacceptable, instead of spending 20 minutes trying to win the game, we instead were trying to get a point. Ugh.

You're not going to blame Mata? who as you put it last week was the reason for everyone's bad performance, and leaves a huge gap in midfield

Key word here is he's playing together with Oscar. Mata started the season as 2nd choice, fair enough. Oscar was really good at the start, so Mata couldn't get a look-in, fair enough. But the job of back-ups is to come in as part of rotation or when the player in their position isn't playing well, yet 95% of the times Mata has started in meaningful games, it has been alongside Oscar. And they both share the same position and make our already average attack worse. So Mata as usual gets the blame, and back to the bench.

Mata did it last season, when he was playing every game and had the confidence of the manager. Now he's in and out of the team, can't put 1 foot wrong or else back to the bench. Like TorontoChelsea just posted on the match thread, Oscar has 0 assists in 11 games. Around 9 of those he started and played the full game. You think it would be the same if it was Mata in his place? definitely not.

Buuuut Mourinho only cares about the workrates and tackles!!

Players can come in and change games in 15 minutes, but that was a chaotic game, we had only 1 person in defence and everyone in attack. The only way we were going to score was from a mistake or set-piece.... or luck. Anyway i never said Mata was the answer, but Oscar doesn't play like a CAM which is what we need in games like today. It's why we bought Mata in the first place, and his assists so far in his Chelsea career show he does his job.

And how is that working out for us?

Because judging 75 minutes to 15 minutes and really 2 completely different games makes sense. Mata could have done something against their bus, like he has been doing for Chelsea the past 2 seasons. Edit: Quoted skipper by mistake.

Oscar should start every single big game, his work-rate is irreplaceable. But against teams like West brom, he really doesn't offer us what we need.

As usual a bad line-up. As usual we create nothing. As usual we get lucky goals. Only difference is Oscar came off for a change

Mourinho always claiming he 'smelt' that coming, surely he would have done something lol.

Nice.

Mourinho is weird. Makes so much fuss about Oscar being no 10, yet for like the last 20 minutes of that half, Oscar was nowhere near the middle. Christ.

I blame Mata for Lamaprd misplacing every other pass.

Lampard please go to the bench.

Myhill needs to hurry up and make a mistake.

Lovely stuff...

Lol Lampard.

Lol Cole. Hazard and Willian should be good, hopefully.

I think that's how UEFA do it. SKY released a statement saying BT sport paid "far in excess" of their valuation of the rights.

ITV and Sky are losing the rights. BT did say there will be "free-to-air" games involving British sides, and the finals of both competitions.

we're not getting a new manager soon.

Yes Neymar. He takes over games for club and country and delivers goals.