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Future Chelsea captain, not to mention that with a proper manager and proper midfield his performances will only get better. So happy to have him in our club.

What a way to mark your 100th cap:

Anyone who defends the ballboy is a wanker far as im concerned,
Defence of a scumbag is never a good thing,
Look at the state of the ballboy, he's clearly a scumbag who planned to act the bollix, if i seen him on a night out i'd of kicked him around the place to nevermind what he did on the pitch.
Good on hazard, kick scumbags out of football one cunt at a time!

@CHOULO19
With respect, you make it sound so simple and straightforward.
Hazard's not exactly a vastly experienced footballer. He turned 22 literally last week. This "kids" 17, soon to be 18 according to his twitter. Sure Hazard should've known better but in the heat of the moment, with a few minutes left - and with footage showing us that our players complained to the ref about the ballboys time wasting throughout the game - I really empathize with him. Hazard certainly didn't go out there to kick the boy, he just wanted the ball.
He didn't let the team down, he just wanted to play football and needed the ball for that... I am 100% sure the players won't feel let down, all professional footballers ala Owen have symphathised with Hazard and I'd like to think our players will feel the same. (they certainly will)

Nice guy, but when Torres leaves this MUST be played at the bridge:

The last three managers had Torres on the bench before they got sacked. You can read that in two ways but I'd say it shows that all three managers benched him too late.

Our defense needs good we can't have same problems as Brasil!


Cech



Ivanovic - Luiz - Terry - Cole



Mikel



Hazard Oscar Mata



Cavani - Torres

Is Mikel good nowadays to hold our midfield down?


Cech



Ivanovic - Luiz - Terry - Cole



Witsel/Fellaini



Hazard Oscar Mata



Cavani - Torres

@Eviltwinz93 brought up Witsel for midfield versatile and i agree he can be all midfield options either midfield, cam winger hes a very good player. Fellaini seems like a good option to we need a giant to give us strength. Now that team would give opponents nightmares

Our defense needs good we can't have same problems as Brasil!


Cech



Ivanovic - Luiz - Terry - Cole



Mikel



Hazard Oscar Mata



Cavani - Torres

Is Mikel good nowadays to hold our midfield down?


Cech



Ivanovic - Luiz - Terry - Cole



Witsel/Fellaini



Hazard Oscar Mata



Cavani - Torres

@Eviltwinz93 brought up Witsel for midfield versatile and i agree he can be all midfield options either midfield, cam winger hes a very good player. Fellaini seems like a good option to we need a giant to give us strength. Now that team would give opponents nightmares

Yes Oscar will be down for a little while but who wouldn't? I'd be more worried if he wasn't. The whole Brasil team will be down and he is one of the players who can leave with his head held high from the tournament (unlike Rafael who has left in disgrace).

guys lamps was our leading scorer with 16 goals, if anyone watched our games it was a shitshow of the modern game, just side to side play, no creativity, therefore none of our forwards scored. That being said nando didnt help his cause, hopefully this year will be different.

Again, he'll be fine. You'll see.

Agree, the main problem with Torres though was his confidence. It affected important factors of his game. As a striker he should be mobile and try not to drop deep into flanks. A few games where he was even the lone striker he had the tendancy to drop deep. His service was terrible though so I can understand that aspect, and when your low on confidence it doesn't help. But recently, and the last two games in Spain you could see the confidence in his play. I'm hoping he has a good tournament, he has the service in Spain and coming back to Chelsea he may have it here too.



Although there were large parts of the season where he was getting incredibly poor service and not scoring as a result of that. That still doesn't cover up for the fact that Torres himself did deserve some blame, not to the scale he received but definitely some. You can look as early as the WC to prove that, he had some of the best service available; but still couldn't score or even look close to scoring (he may have been recovering from an injury, but thats no excuse imo, recovering from injuries is part of being a professional footballer). The latter end of the season further highlights that he was his own enemy at times, the players didn't change from Jan' to the end of the season. But he started performing well and scoring goals, he gained confidence (RDM definitely deserves credit here) and looked a little more like the player we'd last seen in 09-10.





Not going to happen. Abramovich clearly wants him to be the No.1 and signing the likes of Falcao will definitely prevent that from happening. I like Falcao a lot as a player and imo he's the best striker in the world right now. But we can't turn into Man City and just buy players irrationally. We have Torres, thats not exactly a bad thing; I can guarantee you most fans would love to have him in their team (even now). Not to mention the fact the we have some great talents like Sturridge & Lukaku. So I don't think we should go for Falcao at this stage, anyhow the futures bright!

Drogba waves goodbye to become a Chelsea legend

Arguable and I understand, but Ivanovic had genuine grievances. Not to mention the situation and it's intensity.

The referee should understand the pressure, take them out and tell them about the risk their taking. We should appeal both bookings and the players should write letter's of apologies to the ref and send him a fruit basket.

Looked good today again but still pulls wide too often. I know he's lacking a good source of service but he needs to try and be more effective in his work rate and maybe a little more static. If he tries a game where he restrains himself from going wide, maybe he'll find our ineffective providers actually being able to give him the service a striker needs. If he's constantly on the wings he's only going to be watching the balls fly into the box.

Fullest it'll go unfortunately. It's letting me do it individually now.