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Kinda agree with this. Even though Hazard and Schurrle are different type of players, Hazard can certainly learn from the latter on how to be a tad more direct offensively and avoid coming into the middle too much to provide us some width out wide. However, it would probably help Hazard if he's played higher up the pitch more often similar to how Schurrle was used last night and get the ball to him out wide quickly to get him into a 1 v 1 situation with the opposition RB. Would actually have been interesting to see how would Hazard fare against Steaua's RB yesterday after seeing Schurrle took him to the cleaners..

If only we have a goalscorer to bang in 30 goals a season..

Agree but it's Spurs, you can maybe understand why Mourinho played Ramires on the RW to stifle them up. However, this is Norwich. Playing Ramires there to be defensive against a team that is likely to be defensive against us is even more ridiculous than having him there at WHL last Saturday.

We are definitely capable of beating Schalke home and away but the performances are yet to fully convince. We played well in the 2nd half against Spurs and the whole 90 against Steaua. Will be more confident if we can keep this going in the upcoming matches but right now, just not yet. And as for Steaua being able to get a draw against Basel, looking at the way they played yesterday...not getting my hopes up at all. They were rubbish going forward and arguably even more rubbish defensively..

From 2:10 onwards...like what the heck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug-2Rrtz1oI

There's just no win-win situation with Mikel with some people at times. If he plays badly and get criticized, then fair enough. But when Mikel plays well or does nothing wrong in matches, people will still find reasons to blame him, one way or another. Even if Mikel had played yesterday against Steaua Bucharest and the result as well as performance went the same way, some will likely then use the excuse of how shit, poor or rubbish etc Steaua were..

Chelsea's Fernando Torres out of Spain qualifiers after injuring knee in Bucharest Could be out for around 2 weeks it seems..

For anyone that missed it...

Mourinho on Schurrle.. http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3477977/title/final-whistle-verdict-growing-confident

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3477977/title/final-whistle-verdict-growing-confident

This is more of a LOL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Im74qUQA2Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uFLw0-JU6Q

The 4-0 win in Bucharest was definitely most welcome but on the other hand, am rather worried at the group standings and upcoming fixtures. 1. Schalke - P2 6pts 2. Basel - P2 3pts 3. Chelsea - P2 3pts 4. Steaua - P2 0pts Matchday 3 fixtures - Schalke v Chelsea; Steaua Bucharest v Basel We are behind Basel on H2H record and one would imagine them to get 6 points against Steaua, judging by the way they play tonight. Can't afford to screw up against Schalke. Need at least 4 points. Otherwise, we could be in for another nervy scenario like last season or even the one under Scolari where it went down to the wire and needed help from others.

Danijel Georgievski the MOTM. Easily.

Juan Mata has covered the most distance in that first half - 6.46km - more than any other player. Second highest for Chelsea, Oscar - 5.79km.

After all these years, Warnock is still bitter about Benitez..

Piazon is not a striker...

Err, no. Lewandowski is now earning about 85k p/w wages after Dortmund handed him a pay rise during the summer.

And he posted this on his Instagram..

One of Lewandowski's 2 goals against Freiburg his past weekend..

OK, I know it is a cheesy photoshopped image but that is just :lol:!

José Mourinho's mood darkens as Chelsea arrive for Steaua Bucharest test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPsZK9BE_9o&feature=c4-overview&list=UUQSYCbnu_Ji3SaF3zR93Vgg

By the way, don't forget your match preview for Norwich this Sunday!