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I don't think drogba is comfortable playing that deep and also if you watched in the 1st leg, the reason why we can stop them from penetrating our def is because we play 3 dm, taking out one dm and putting a striker instead will be dangerous. Yes with 2 striker we will be more dangerous in counter but we will be very leaky at the back.

True, but he dived and wasted time too many times in that game. I am a chelsea fan but I am also a football fan. Watching us defend tirelessly was beautiful but watching Drogba dived really bothered me.

It was good for our team but honestly I hate it. He clearly faked injury so many times in that game and it really bothered me.

My only concern about drogba is that a 33 year old striker should not be our main striker, he should be just a squad player. Torres should be our main striker, drogba as backup and lukaku as prospect. But this season show that that is not the case. I am not sure who is our main striker and lukaku does not play enough game

He actually played ok. I am actually scared whenever messi get the ball and start running you can see how's our defense collapse. 1 mistake from any defender can cost us a goal

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/146750.html I agree with RDM, our chance right now is still 50-50.

It will depend on the 2nd leg, if we go to final, the media will praise RDM, if we lose they will forget what happen tonight.

It'a perk of being messi

We have a very good chance to go through in the 2nd leg because unlike arsenal/Manu/Real Madrid we can park the bus for the whole 90 minutes. Our players is dreadful offensively, but in term of team defense we are still very strong and drogba can trouble any CB.

Good win, there is no motm for me, we defended well as a team. We semi man marked messi which has great effect, meireles I thought marked messi really2 well. Good win, they hit the post twice but now we have something to bring to camp nou = Park the BUS

I think it's more of 4-3-3 rather than 4-2-3-1

http://soccernet.esp...chelsea?cc=5901 http://www.zonalmarking.net/2012/04/16/chelseas-change-in-defensive-system-under-roberto-di-matteo/ I think that sum up why we get better result under RDM

I think david luiz is our for both legs but I don't really agree with using david luiz against messi. David Luiz is quick and mobile but his challenge is very rash. Messi thrive against player like that, you need a smart player that know when to make a challenge to stop messi. Allesandro nesta showed that in quarter final, I thought he played messi really well even though he was beaten a couple times because he was not fast enough anymore.

A very even game, 2nd half Bayern took control and Mourinho had to response by bringing marcelo and granero to play more defensive. Btw Ronaldo was invicible, yes he made an assist but the credit should belong to benzema who made a good cross and had a very good game

When I saw atkinson as goal line ref, I just cannot stop smiling

In term of result Any result that allow us to go to nou camp and park the bus is a good result. Which mean any win or 0-0.

It's important for us not to concede early goal, if we have to come out and attack barca, I'm really afraid we can lose by 3 goals in the end.

I don't think they are being arrogant, their game rely on quick ground pass and a bad pitch really hinder their game.If you watched barca vs milan. The pitch was really poor, player kept slipping and the ball moves really slow.

I really want to know who will win sprint race between bale vs ronaldo.

In term of formation diamond is the best formation but it's highly unlikely we can change our formation in the middle of a season so we should play 4-3-3. ------------Drogba------------- Ramires------------Danny-- -----Meireles-Lampard----- -------------Mikel--------------- Cole - Cahil - Terry - Iva-- Attack Use Danny speed to attack puyol and Drogba aerial ability. Lampard is licensed to go forward to pick up drogba lay off Defense Play very narrow and ramires should track back alves. Cole and Iva should stay back (no overlap). Mikel should man mark messi when he is in between our mid and defense

It's the best way to attack barcelona, if you watched milan vs barcelona in both leg, I thought allegri was brilliant. They carved open barca time and time again with only two type of attacks. Long ball to ibra and diagonal pass from left to right by seedrof/aquilani to exploit puyol on the left. We have drogba to do the 1st one, unfortunately we don't have anybody in our team that can make long diagonal pass, so we should just defend and pump long ball to drogba and ask him to hold the ball for our mid.

It's actually pretty simple. Drogba has to play because of his aerial threat

Rest mata and drogba please

Fantastic pass by mata, Tottenham does not try to man mark mata, it's a recipe for disaster for any team

It's not status that I am worried about, it's level of play. If you want to buy player for their potential and develop them, you need to wait a couple years for them to get their potential because most of them will not be at starter level for team like chelsea. The problem is that nobody know what is their potential, you need to play them regularly for them to be better. We will be in the mid table while waiting for them to become good (hopefully they will become good). Take your example, will josh,piazon,danny become world class player ? Nobody know.