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Nice, now get Azpilicueta sorted out asap and we're done.

Essien should play imo.

Why the plural winning goals? Yesterday was Fernando's first winning goal in the league in his Chelsea career and it was his 48th Premier League match. Hopefully we don't have to wait that long for the next one. Yep, it's ridiculous. Best example is from last season against Sunderland when Torres' bicycle kick hit the post and Lampard tapped it in from the six yard box. Everyone thought it was Torres who scored and the crowd went nuts, but when the announcer told it was Frank's goal the atmosphere soon changed like someone had just died. IMO that's just sad, especially considering what Lampard has done to the club compared to Torres.

90 points from the first round and seventh place in the TC league, not a bad start. Captain choice obviously fucked up when I had Hazard as my captain all along and close to the deadline made the brilliant move of switching to Torres who didn't even score half the amount as Eden with his five assists. Also, David Silva not scoring the penalty cost me a lot of points because I'd have got the assist from Tevez as well. Now I had the most expensive man in my team scoring 0 points.

They did in the second half when they were leading. No point parking the bus when you're 1-0 down but after they got ahead, they didn't even want to attack. Nothing wrong with that of course, I wouldn't expect them to continue playing like Barcelona when they're 2-1 up against the European Champions.

Overall a very mediocre performance but at this point of the season, all that matters are the three points and I'm glad we got that today. Plenty of time to improve the performances later on when all the new players have had time to settle in and everyone is 100% fit.

Spot on. It amazes me how Torres has to be treated like he's a fucking child. Oh no, do not criticize the mighty Torres or he will lose his confidence again (like he ever had it during his time at Chelsea). I was fully behind him for a year and got ridiculously happy every time he scored one of those rare goals and always thought that maybe the old Torres is finally back. Every time it turned out he was nowhere to be seen and in the next match we saw that same old uninterested and lazy Torres again. If someone dares to criticize the lad, it's always because they are 'haters' who never liked Torres and never because he's been nothing but a huge expensive pile of shit since moving to Chelsea. I was a fan of his for the first 12 months of his Chelsea career, but after that I simply lost faith in him. I didn't start to hate him or anything and because he is still a Chelsea player I always get happy to see him do well, but the amount of praise he gets after such a mediocre performance is unbelievable and that's what makes me want to put some facts to the table. It's not a way to undermine him or anything, but it irritates me to see people celebrating him scoring an offside tap-in like we won the Champions League again. Why not support every other Chelsea player like that? If any other one of our players comes up with a usual Torres-like utter shit performance, they will get an unreasonable amount of abuse thrown at them but with Torres it's always someone else's fault and the man simply can't do anything wrong. If everyone were to treat all of our players like they do Torres, I wouldn't have any problem here but I hate double standards.

What a surprise, again it's someone else's fault Torres didn't perform (this time Ramires). Sure, he scored a goal but apart from that a shameful performance and a player like that has absolutely no right to be the main striker for the Champions of Europe. Just my two cents.

Loving the support at the Bridge so far.

In case you haven't noticed, the man is fucking exhausted and has been for months. He should be given some time off from football and that's something we now can do when we also have Oscar. If he keeps playing game after game, he will burn out soon and not be in 100% condition when the more important games are around the corner. Nothing against the man, just the opposite. Me and pretty much everyone else just want what's best for him.

A decent lineup, although I would've preferred Oscar starting over Mata so Juan would get some rest before Newcastle. Hopefully we'll smash them in the first half and Oscar could come in at half time. Looking forward to seeing Ramires on the wing against their 35-year-old left-back Ian Harte.

Holy fuck, that's bad. Oh well, watching EPL is about the only thing that is cheap here and in everything else Finland is probably among the five most expensive countries in the world.

How much exactly? More than me, that's for sure because I only pay 49 euros for the whole Premier League season and get five HD channels which broadcast over 90% of all PL games. An amazing deal that one, considering I paid 30 euros a month last season and the coverage was shit.

Not entirely true because here I can watch it in HD quality on two or three different channels and I think it's just the English that get the shit options for this one.

Ok, fair enough. Maybe it's just that I want to believe it's true and because of that I consider it to be a better source than it actually is. I guess you as a Frenchman know better.

Sure, it was known all along that we wanted him (who didn't?) but with all the speculation on which Manchester club he'll end up at, I found the sudden u-turn that he was on his way to Chelsea hard to believe and just disregarded it as another bullshit rumour like the rest of them. Luckily for us, they got it right that time and hopefully they're right this time too.

Looks comfy as fuck. Let's hope the lazy bastards don't get too comfortable sitting on the bench now.

They did get Hazard's transfer right, even though most of us didn't believe it at the time.

Yep, I think he's decent there. When (rather than if) we are to park the bus again sometime in a big game, having Bertrand and Ramires on the wings would be great. However, I don't think he will be playing LW a lot. Plenty of playing time for him at LB because I just can't see Cole playing every game anymore and Ryan is more than capable of stepping up when needed. Also, when we get Marin back from injury we will have more options for LW and then there's also the possibility of adding yet another winger in Moses or Hulk so we wouldn't need Hazard / Mata to play RW ever, allowing them to make that LW position their own and limiting Bertrand's playing time there even further. Nonetheless, Bertrand makes for an interesting alternative if we want to try something else or if there are a lot of injuries. Hopefully Ryan gets the nod ahead of Cole today. Reading are not the strongest of opponents so I think he's capable of handling it just as good as Cole. Playing God knows how many competitive games in a row would do great things to his confidence. Also he should be know Reading well enough, having spent the 09/10 season there on loan.

AVB strikes again! Now he's loaned out Huddlestone to Stoke and they're stuck with Livermore and Jenas in midfield.

I hate Twitter.

That's because he knows fuck all and the signings are done by Emenalo and Roman.

Surprised to see him in the starting lineup tonight against Burnley, having only moved to Middlesbrough yesterday. Good luck Josh!

If it's true that a club from London is after Llorente, I believe it's Tottenham. As much as I'd like it to be Chelsea rather than Spurs, I just can't see it. Reckon he'll go to Juventus though, no reason to choose a shit Europa League club over the best team in Italy who can offer higher wages and also Champions League football to him.

I've always rated him highly but a couple months ago I still thought we'd have no use for him. Seeing our midfield during pre-season and the first two competitive games, I've changed my mind and I think one new midfielder could be needed to complete the whole package. Fellaini is of course one of the possibilities if we were to buy someone, but sadly I can't see Everton selling him anymore, having sold Rodwell only a week ago. Or even if they did want to sell, the fee would have to be something out of this world and I think we'd be better off going after another target. Wouldn't hurt to try though, maybe we could get lucky in the negotiations.