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JM pulled a "Raul"

What I don't get is why we have only one tactic . OK so the defensive stuff works against teams that play attacking football. But when we play defensive teams (sunderland, aston villa, atletico madrid) this obviously fails. The first round with mourinho - we were solid, strong defense and strong attacks (like Real Madrid today). Now what's left is just the defense, and even that was terrible against atleti. Hope we get some attacking players (striker or 2 and holding midfielder ) and solve this

BTW you have to agree that if these were Benitez's signings last season he would have been shot

You are right about that, I was confused. But lets say he has the wrong opinion about the world's politics.

OK let me get this straight. Our beloved player of the year 2 years in a row, creator of 2 final-winning goals and more is sold to our local (and European) rivals. To replace him (and even if not) we bring Salah, a winger, although we already have Schurrle (and had De Bruyne, and the other youngsters we still have). So we steal Willian from Spurs and Salah from Liverpool just to steal them - Mata is better than both. Seems like Jose Mourinho has turned into a egomaniac which loves to piss others off , without thinking of the consequences. I worshiped this manager. Why has he become a bloody idiot?! I would like to say "until proven wrong", but even I am - A sad day for all Chelsea fans worldwide. (PS After football speaking, great message to the fans - bringing a antisemite to the team)

Thanks to Ramires ...being out

Lamps and Malouda were in bad form. Mata was dropped with no reason.

I wish I knew what happened to Jose during his last year @ Real Madrid. It's like he's become that grumpy out of date old guy that has a fight with everyone. Where is the real Mourinho?\ All these ego-fights... - Why leave our player of the year on the bench all the time, even when we're playing bad? - Why these weird lineups ? We know that Mikel-Ramires-Lamps is slow and not creative enough. The game was so boring I was thinking of subbing Luiz for Ramires or something... I've said this about Ramires many times, he has great skills but not the brain to use them. - Why sub a defender (attacking skills or not) for a striker (considering it's not a cup final)? Something's wrong here. And above all, we need a top 15-20 world class striker and not these 3 imposters

Mata can replace Hazard, but I'm not sure Etoo can replace Torres

Can someone tell me WTF Jose is doing to Mata ?!

Don't understand how our best player is on the bench... De Bruyne has not earned starting position yet. And Schurrle is not a lone striker No idea what Jose was thinking of And now with Willian, overflowing with midfielders

WTF is going on with Hazard? He hasn't given one accurate pass today, he lose each ball he gets...at least 10 of them Hazard off for Oscar plz

So it was worth firing RDM and bringing in Rafa.........NOT!

Real Madrid twice sacked managers immediately after winning the CL. Doesn't make it OK. Firing AVB and Scolari was necessary, Firing RDM was not...A month ago we were 1st and scored 4 VS Spurs, so he can't be that bad (besides he won us the CL and he's a club legend). I think that if something needs a change it's the boardroom/staff - Gourlay, Buck, Emenalo etc. When Kenyon was here it worked a lot diffidently, as I still remember what they did to Wilkins...

Roman is like a kid in a toy shop, buying whatever he likes and complaining all the time. OK I admit RDM has been doing really peculiar tactical things in the last few games but it's def not a reason to fire him... He won us the CL, he's a symbol at the club...If Roman was so pissed of he could a least let him finish the season...DAMN IT And I really hope it won't be Benitez cause with his rotations he's worse... And whoever you will be, get a striker in January

Can someone tell me WTF was that starting lineup and Whyyyyyyyy RDM thinks he invented football? You want to try a new and ridiculous lineup? Try it in the capital one cup or against some weak team...Not in the most important match of the season

WTF Mikel and Romeo together. One of them is enough...And what's the idea with 2 "strikers". Man U have 4 , we have none

MOM - Ramires. Pushed Suarez on Terry , got him injured and then completely missed Suarez on that corner. I keep saying this since he arrived - he has pace, has some good moments but no brain (yes I do remember THAT goal...still). All the rest are just a bunch of suckers...can't believe we didn't win this. L'pool were crap

The ref didn't see Chihcarito in a mile's offside like he didn't see Pedro Mendes's halfway goal was past the line in 2005... And Torres's sending off reminded me of RVP's sending off against Barcelona. Not worth a yellow, if it was 1st yellow then you could blame the ref for harshness, but 2nd yellow and sending off?! It's just admitting you want to give the game to the other team... But putting aside the ref and his ridiculous decisions , I can't help notice that Ashley is having a bad week (AKA Srna all over him vs Shakhtar) , and something else- I think that RDM made a bad decision replacing Mata with Bertrand after Torres was sent off. He already talk one holding midfielder (Oscar) off, and IMO Mata should have been left on together with Hazard to hold the ball under pressure. Instead Hazard was left alone and Bertrand was basically out of use. And after Chicharito's (disgraceful) goal, taking out Hazard for Sturridge?! Who will supply him the ball? Was totally a panic thing...if he already brought DS on to make the score even, he might as well replaced Mikel or Ramires...

As long as Scholes isn't playing we're fine

Makes sense. Stupid FA are too stubborn, started with Cappelo and now this

As I predicted...teams like Juve with a strong midfield make us disappear. Lamps just can't do the double pivot role, especially with a joke-of-midfielder like Mikel behind him. Could have been solved by buying a better DM...I think that in games like this we might need another CM instead of a winger (drop Ramires) It's also hard to decide if the fails in the offside trap are because JT isn't quick enough or Luiz goes up to quickly :\

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Juventus have extremely strong central midfield (which can help them make a joke out of ours, like against At. Madrid) but lack attacking force (which might save us in some way). Still think it will be a very hard game

Same here. Want to see him play this well against strong central midfield teams like Man C or Liverpool