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Watched the whole game earlier. Was very disappointed with Luiz's overall performance to be honest. Lucky he didn't end up sent off, he was reckless and all over the place. He made the mistake but everyone makes mistakes and plays bad at some points, needs to get himself sorted out for the Schalke game though. Eto'o was superb. His link up play, running of the channels, work off the ball and goal was great. When he's out wide he has a good eye for a pass, he played some great passes; one into Mata that Juan took a total airshot at, two different passes into Hazard that lead to two chances. Hes starting to look close to 75-80% match fit, hes obviously still got a bit to do but hes starting to look better in our team. Hazards performance in my eyes was still quite average for him but probably his best of the season, he still looks a bit reluctant to take players on a times but his passing is much better, still needs to do more work on his shooting. Got into a few good positions and took tame shots, especially the second goal he scored which went in due to terrible goalkeeping, 9 times out of 10 would have been saved and there was another good chance he had where he produced a tame effort straight at David Marshall. Hopefully he can continue to build on that though and get much better. Mata was also disappointing but still I suppose hes still adapting to playing out on the right, hes working off the ball though but hes not influencing the game as much, think he will come through it still. The airshot he had from Eto'o's pass is just showing the sort of season he's had so far, not much has gone his way. Suppose Oscar's rise playing in that number 10 role has took some of the attention of Mata though.

Goalkeeper bounced the ball as opposed to dropping it, if he'd dropped it wouldn't have been a foul.

His role in Hazard's goal was cheeky, referee got it wrong though, it should have been given as a foul. His goal was great though, typical Samuel Eto'o, great first touch and great finish.

Against Basel though he set up a 4-5-1/4-1-4-1/4-3-3 whatever you want to call it haha. Could do the same against Schalke but you never know.

Jesus he made a fucking mistake, get over it, we still won, for fuck sake............. this thread is comical at times.

Needs to play like this more often, 2 goals and a assist IIRC, need to see this sort of performance more often.

And Julain Draxler will be playing..... so good Anyway I can honestly see Mou going 4-3-3 or 4-1-4-1 whatever you want to call it, in this one and playing on the counter but I don't know because from what I've read Oscar was superb today.... still who knows. Cech ---------- Iva - Cahill/Luiz - Terry - Bertrand/Cole ---------- Mikel Ramires - Lampard ---------- Andre/Mata - Eto'o - Hazard

I am very lazy. I woke up about an hour and a half ago..... I was up until about 8

Goal was ok, very poor goalkeeping from David Marshall though. Gonna have to download the game and watch it, slept in and missed it!

Gomez is so overrated, hence why Germany have been playing with a false 9 recently. He'd not be a good fit for Chelsea. Maybe if we played to his strengths to provide him with a lot of scoring chances then sure he'd be good for us but we play around Oscar, Mata and Hazard so someone who can link up play and run the channels is vital for playing in tandem with those 3. Anyway I'm glad it didn't take Eto'o 19 games or whatever to score his first goal for us

Read he scored and got a controversial assist today hahaha, not seen the goals yet though... good that hes scored his first for us though, time to kick on.

How is that his choice? Does he think hes going to just waltz in and play every game? He will have to sit on the bench at some point. Players don't have as much of a say as their managers do.

Just noticed the tags, what a cock you are Jake.

Slow starter? He started last season on fire for us.... wasn't he not directly involved in all our goals after 4 or 5 games last season...

Sign him up on a big ass new contract... keep him as for next season to compete with Petr then re-evaluate, he won't walk into the Chelsea team, if he thinks that hes stupid.

Its a hard decision but I'm glad Jose will be the one making it in the summer. He can keep Cech and have Thibaut stay as well to compete with him, at least he gets a season to see Courtois himself in person and make a judgement if he feels he's ready to move Cech on or whatever. Jose won't back down from making a decision, look at what he did to Casillas, just because Jose was here before and Cech was his number 1 then it doesn't mean when Thibaut comes back, he won't drop Petr if he reckons hes not the best GK at the club.

Napoli really looked shit in the first half... Roma albeit having to make 2 earlyish changes with Totti (their best player) and Gervinho whos been good, still looked comfortable except for 15 minutes in the second half. Wouldn't say Roma are title contenders but you never know if they keep this run up... Also Pjanic's freekick was great

Its Juve I bet they will get away with it... they seem to get away with most things

Kalou was released!

Does anyone else think he could perhaps be reverted into a striker like player? or used as a false 9? Can't see him playing as a #10 or winger for us tbh. He says his style is like a midfielder upfront, likes to pass and then make runs as opposed to hog the ball and do flashy moves. I don't know though...

Since when did Chelsea use release clauses? When has any other Chelsea player been reported to have a release clause? Its just bullshit media reports I reckon, many clubs in Englands don't include such a clause in contracts, its more a continental thing as we've seen in Spain, France, Portugal and Italy in the last 10 years. Plus Chelsea aren't a selling club as well, we've seen that. Bar Robben who was the last good player we sold?

He never did much off the ball anyway, at Inter, Madrid and Ajax it was the same

Third goal was a beauty, just looked so easy, touched the ball inside and let rip.. great goal

On another forum they posted this video in a thread entitled 'I love chinese food' .... the title was misleading to say the least, thought it was just a thread in tribute to Chinese food.... I was very sad and then I listened to the song and wanted to rip my insides out

Work rate? Sneidjer has always been a lazy bastard...