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I thought benfica played ok, decent offensively but super leaky at the back. Just wondering how in the heck can you can get a draw against MU ? Your defense was so leaky especially on the left (your left back cannot cope with ramires, how can you cope with Valencia ?)

If you saw in last few games, he was being man marked, Our mid+wing need to find him in better position and also free him from his marker

Actually JT handball could be given as a penalty albeit a harsh one because his hand was not down.

Garry is british and sky sport is an english tv so he will be bias just forget about that. I thought benfica played ok but benfica is not really a super team and for that kind of team to come and attack chelsea, benfica played exatly into RDM hand. Defend and counter is our best offense this season furthermore our biggest problem is handling pacey player, cardozo is a pure targetman, he was dangerous but not enough to scares jt and luiz.

Mata has not been playing well for us last few games because he was being man-marked. Our mid and wing really need to really help him

- Luiz is defnitely the motm - Ramires has outstanding game both sides of the field but We are lucky to have one of the best GK in europe and Peter Cech for me is player of the year for chelsea this season.

Our two ex benfica players: david luiz and Ramires played outstanding games for us

Great play torres =))

Mata has played ok for us when he get the ball, the problem is that he is being man marked. Our team need to help to free him.

Both teams played really shitty football

Ferreira has been playing well, which really surprised me

Selling players like essien,cole, bosingwa is not easy. Essien = a player who have just recovered from major injuries and lost his best skill (athleticism), it's going to be difficult to find a buyer Bosingwa = I think we can get 1-3 million from team in portugal A. Cole = As England no 1 left back, many English team will be attracted but his wage is too high

Actually I don't mind Chelsea singing marquee players, but for some reason we are just suck at it. Currently we are really lack of super players,arguably our best player is mata and as much as like mata, I am not sure I want him as my best player. IMO the key for this summer is to find a good manager that know what he want to do and get players that fit in his system. If there is any positive that we can take from this season is that it show flaws (lots of them) of our players which will help our future manager in term of assessing who should stay and who should go.

I am surprised that we are talking about Barcelona. We are in a very bad form right now and we simply cannot create enough chances to beat anybody. I rate our chance to beat benfica to be 50:50. For any of you who have seen benfica play, how's their defense ?

With one striker system your striker should not be selfish. Danny should stay on the wing, I don't think he will ever get his wish playing central because his game is based on pace and running unless we get a new coach that play different system

I missed today game and I heard that danny played on the left wing. Was he effective on the left ?

Now teams understand that mata is the only guy that can create chances for us, he is still not used to the physicality of epl and he kept being bullied. The sad thing is that he is not a direct player and he like to play one-two football but nobody in our squad can play that way

Cech Iva-Cahil-Terry-Cole Essien-Mikel Mata-Lamps-Danny Torres A very offensive lineup. I want us to try to play mata on the right and a ask him to cut in and put through ball for torres and danny

Excellent analysis, but I don't think we can get 15 mill for Essien. He has just recovered from major injuries and everybody can see that he has lost his athleticism. With 4-2-3-1, we have young core in josh+romeu in midfield but are they good enough at this point to not only give protection to the back 4 but also to support our front 4. I also don't think ramires is a dm, he is more suited playing on the wing as our defensive wing like park ji sung or a cm when we play 4-3-3. With josh back, next season in mid we have : Lamp,Essien,Mikel,Romeu,Josh,Ramires (I expect meireles to be sold) That's six players competing for 2 spots in mid, unless we decide to sell one/two of them which I don't think will happen, we are not going to buy another mid.

IMO Di matteo selected the correct starting 11. Clichy was quiet all game long because ramires tracked him back really well. If he started sturridge over there Iva or even worse bosingwa would have major problem defending city attack. He had to bring essien to bring more protection to midfield (meireles was awful) and Drogba to hold the ball for us (Torress played well but he is not a target man who can hold the ball) to give our defense a break. We were just unlucky that he had to made a early sub, because I am sure he would definitely bring Danny in after the goal if he had one more sub.

Nope, Torres always want a through ball not on his feet. You should search for Xavi video in youtube where he explained that his role in spain team is as a organizer and every player want the ball at different place. Iniesta and Silva want the ball in his feet but Torres always want through ball.

Like I said,RDM had to do something to give us a little bit more time on the ball because we were being attacked like crazy by city. In the end it did not work but I understand that he had to do something. Btw I am pretty sure that if we had one more sub, he will bring danny in after we concede the 2nd goal not before because it is too risky to bring danny when you are being pinched in your own half like that.

He tried to run forward a couple of times but the ball never came, our mid for some reason simply cannot do a lob through pass. Torres always2 want a through ball but our players always pass the ball to his feet. There is no point complaining about this, this has bee a problem for our mid and torres all season.

I agree with what you said. In our system a striker has to play as a target man and Torres is simply not a target man type player

It's easy to complain about RDM sub mistake after the game. At that point we simply could not hold the ball at all. We need somebody up top to hold the ball for us so that our defender can have time to rest and Drogba is better at holding the ball compare to torres.