BlueLion.

Equally as bad as Lampard last night. Both need to buy some new studs, the amount of time they slipped was embarrassing.

Magnificent last night. A performance worthy of the occasion. Happy 450 games, Pete!

When Cech makes a mistake, all hell breaks loose. No-one even cares to mention a Courtois cock-up.

Mikel was good against West Ham and by some distance the best of the midfield three yesterday. Ramires and Lampard were abysmally bad.

If José is worried about tiredness, he shouldn't be picking a 35 year old to start, in truth.

Remember remember, we're utterly diabolical, inconsistent, and generally wank in November.

AAAAAAAND back to how he was before the West Ham game. I don't think you can be mad at Frank, he's getting on now; it's impossible to expect him to perform in every game. I think he's being poorly-managed, in truth. Mourinho is playing him far, far too often. But you can see why; we're not exactly inundated with central midfield players. Poor tonight, but then again the entire team were, bar Cech, JT and Cahill.

I hope Serie Die falls over in a barbers as he's getting his twatting hair cut, and slits his neck open on a razor. Utter cunt.

Exactly. Win this and make the last game a non-event. Especially important as throughout December we seem to be ceaselessly playing in cycles of Saturday/Sunday-Tuesday/Wednesday-Saturday/Sunday until mid-January. In that game you can give the likes of Schwarzer, Bertrand, Ba, de Bruyne minutes on the pitch. Win this game with a fair few days' rest between the Southampton game, and then we don't have a thing to worry about.

I think we should be very happy in the knowledge that everyone was fantastic yesterday. Best team display of the season, save Bayern.

Agreed that most have been sub-par. Frank seems to have copped most of the blame, which is a shame, but as much as it pains me to say he has stood out as one of the worst performers over the last few weeks. Hopefully yesterday's performance will arrest the slump, and as he is a man who scores his goals in clusters, you can imagine him netting another 3 or 4 by the end of 2014. As you say he still does have a defensive function, but he was definitely the more advanced of he and Mikel, which meant there was a little more licence to roam and less defensive responsibility (slightly). Gave him the chance to impose himself more on the game and he was one of our best players alongside Azpi and Oscar last night.

^ good post, but Lampard has been pony recently. Granted he had a good game last night, though. He plays far better when he has less work to do defensively.

Cech Azpi - Luiz - Terry - Cole Ramires - Mikel Schurrle - Mata - Willian Torres.

Azpi was the clear MOTM tonight, but it was a wonderful team effort. Lovely to see.

Outstanding tonight. MOTM.

Not happy with the line-up, in truth, unless José is playing 4-3-3?

Disgusting. As a manager and coach I see how bad many young "referees" are in England, but this is a fully-grown man, ffs!

I love this place! Happy birthday TalkChelsea!

If people are referring to him being beaten at his near post by Benteke and Aguero this season as "mistakes", they clearly don't know the first thing about goalkeeping. You try saving those shots, I know I wouldn't, even if I was expecting them.

I would like him to go to Turkey as well. He is a good striker and it saddens me that his career is stagnating here.

The sooner we sign him, the better.

My only qualm with Azpi at left-back is his positioning. At times, it is horrific. I don't know if it is as noticeable on the television, but I was at the Schalke game last week and I lost count of how many times Schurrle had to run back in fill in at left-back - what Dave does is he plays so tight and narrow to the left-CB, leaving a lot of space down the flank. Now, he is very quick to close down wingers, but it does leave a lot of space to exploit. I guess it's because he isn't as comfortable, but there are some big gaps often left uncovered as he naturally drifts quite central, following the play. A switch of passes and teams can get in behind us with ease.

He has all the attributes of a right-back, to me....

He isn't suited to playing upfield, now, either. He hasn't the legs for it. When you come to think about it, he really is a square peg in a round hole.

How things have changed... I think we all secretly wished he was injured at times prior to last season! He is the striker most suited to our style of play, but with Eto'o showing his skills as a bit of a poacher, it's nice to have two strikers who are competing for places by trying to outscore each other.