The Rising Sun

anyone noticed something hilarious during the game? Every ball ivanovic tried to cross, was blocked at the spot. Every ball that an everton player tried to cross from ivanovic's side. went straight in. Pathetic.

City also had the same players from last season, pretty much. The Chelsea same players excuse doesnt exist. Jose needs to learn to play attacking football or i can see a tough season coming ahead. Make players train to play in an attacking style, and dont always set them up not to lose, thats how players lose their creativity, pace and direction. Get you shit together and man up Jose.

doesnt have class.

Oscar was phenomenal. The fact that he was taken off instead of fabregas was such a joke. Feel sorry for him. Willian does everything right except finding the assists and goals. Would be probably the bets cdm ever, who has an attacking side as well. Ivanovic has got to either learn how to cross and give assists, or sit on the bench. I would much prefer azpi on rb with lesser forward runs than ivanovic doing what he does. Jose just made him the VC if im not wrong. KDB and Schurlle sold, for salah and that other guy. we need a better attacking approach. Dont slow the game down. Dont slow it. Dont. Just Dont.

Its Mourinhos job to get players improving during training. Another training session is still another failed training exercise. This was a real world scenario training session for both teams, and we were terrible. What has he been coaching our players apart from saying " we are family" i trust you. Lets hug each other and create a loving environment. Create an attacking philosophy and it will show during games. Yes, i know it is pre season, but this is a longer thing for me. Jose needs to get his shit together.

Terrible performance from the team, but that is ok since its preseason. Just hoping we play better football than we did last season. We cant sit back and counter attack as a gameplay style against every team. We need to be quicker, more agressive and dominating this season. If Jose plans to play the same way we played last season, that will be disappointing.

i'll be surprised if even 1 of these European and domestic champions break into our first team. Maximum a few appearances in the 80th minute or so. Not with Jose in charge anyways.

probably the worst buy we have ever made. Feels exactly like the Lamela transfer where the player is fuck all. what on earth were our scouts looking at. No skill, just stand and dance, thats it. then lose the ball. No pre season is going to make this guy good. Hater alert!

Somehow he needs to get us playing at a level to compete with the Big teams of Europe toe to toe. Dont know how, but it should be the next thing in his agenda now that the PL has been won.

No drogba please! Hopefully Remy is fit by then. Love drogba, but its sadly over for him IMHO. 2-1 win.Ivanovic winner.

Above Cazorla definitely in performances over the season, and even if you were to judge via FPL points, which is a good indicator of the players performance over the season, Erikson is up there.

----------My PFA Team of the Year: -------------------de Gea------------------ -----Ivanovic- ----Terry----Bertrand------- Sanchez--Fabregas---Eriksen--Hazard- --------Costa-----Kane------Austin--------

agree with your point there, but the only thing i can say is that last year we had a team with lesser quality than this year. and we were playing vs 10 men for most of the game,

Mourinhos negative attitude lost us this tie imo. Didnt push his players to play positive and let the game and gameplan drag on hoping that we scrape through. We have done this many times in the Pl going 1-0 and then scraping through. We are deservedly out as we are not positive enough to deserve to go far amongst the elite

In the words of Jose Himself : This is a disgrace. 2-0 up, can not lose 4-2. At home. We couldnt watch the game but i simply can not imagine what went on for such a turn around to happen. The fact that there was rotation shouldnt matter. Our second team should be able to beat bradford, and in this case, hold on to a 2-0 lead at home. What the fuck happened.

Hopefully he is more productive going forward, but in general play seems no better than salah or schurrle. He will provide something different but not an upgrade IMO. This is purely based on youtube.

tries to hit the ball too hard almost every time he gets a chance at goal. He is making himself the prime candidate to be replaced in the starting 11 this summer. We need more quality and goals/assists from an attacking player on the RW, and at some point of time, his "effort", which is respected by everyone, is not enough anymore. Just to give an example of another player who makes similar effort as willian, SANCHEZ. If we had Hazard Oscar Sanchez as our front 3 with Costa. That is what will happen this summer IMO. A new RW for sure.

anyone else think shaw is average at best? very unimpressive

Disgraceful move by Lampard. While he is a legend and will always be respected at Chelsea, he will be viewed differently from now. Took fans from both CFC and New York for granted. Sad really. They even put up a few huge billboards in NY with Lampard in the image and sold some 12000 season tickets. This is jus plain wrong, and UEFA should look into it.

2-2. Spurs have become much better than people give them credit for. And Kane is on the same level as costa in terms of goal scoring this season. Unless hazard does it again, i can see a score draw.

Good Goal by Eden, but we are getting owned on the right half of the pitch, as schurrle and Mikel are doing absolutely nothing together. No vision, passing , closing down or being expansive. Willian must come on.

The moment Schurrle and Mikel were in the starting lineup, i was scared. Mikel is the Torres of his position, rarely affecting the game. Schurrle only plays for himself.

not too sure long range shooting is that much of a problem, considering we have more points and more goals than we have had at this time of the year over the past 10 seasons. However, regarding crossing, you are right. Ashley cole provided width for crossing which Azpi doesnt. Luiz cant cement a starting spot. We are great at corners though, only second in attacking corners met with headers on target behind Stoke. Considering we have this ability we should be doing that a little more, but i think its one or the other, cant have both. The possession one-two play which we do will be disrupted if we start crossing the ball too often. But against teams which park buses i think we should be tactically set up with 2 strikers and continuously put crosses in , as that will disrupt the other teams bus organisation and make it a 50-50 on which team players the cross gets to.

I thing Mikel deserves to start this one. Having good competition ahead of him have seemed to force him to make his own game more dynamic. I have been Anti Mikel for quite a long time, but his last game was a breath of fresh air, and for once i understood what people spoke about his potential. If he puts his mind to it, he can be more progressive. Mikel and Matic is an interesting combo if mikel looks ahead more often.

It took until drogba came on that i realised what was wrong with our last couple of performances. He played with passion and guts, and imposed himself upon the game. Our players have become a little too comfortable after the initial brilliant start to the season. Those bullying characteristics that every player showed early on in the season need to come back quickly. We were hunting down opposition players in packs and winning the ball, but that behavior has reduced alot and we have become slower in posession. Few things to be worked out in training. Matic is irreplaceable. and costa needs to get his movement back on trackk.