Jase

The media are already going OTT...

http://www.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marca.com%2F2013%2F09%2F30%2Ffutbol%2Fequipos%2Fsevilla%2F1380529796.html (Google Translated Article) http://www.marca.com/2013/09/30/futbol/equipos/sevilla/1380529796.html (Original Article in Spanish) Apparently, Sevilla aren't happy with Marin due to his excessive selfish play & lack of defensive workrate..

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1568644/galatasaray-names-roberto-mancini-3-year-deal-manager Mancini has been appointed the new manager of Galatasaray..

I see your point but think it's stretching it to say it's make or break for Mata based on 1 game against Steaua. And it's not like the others are exactly doing that well at the moment.

Right! Cheers for pointing out the typos.

I really apologize for that Raphael. Didn't mean to take away any credibility from your work. Still retained your points but I just tweak it to be a bit more formal and added some missing info that are usually there in our previous match previews. Got it from UEFA site.

I did not change it. I retained the points you made. Just tweak some wrong things (like getting the Steaua's manager name wrong!) and added more info in. Hope you don't mind.

Steaua Bucharest v Chelsea Match Preview by @Rmpr. Have a read.

The more, the merrier! You did alright. Just hope you don't mind me expand the preview a little bit more. I did not approve the article. Somebody else in the morning did. Only saw the article just now and was editing it.

Care to expand further?

OR suspect that achilles injury he picked up with Belgium has been troubling him..

There's hardly the point here. We had options like Schurrle or even Willian who can give us the same defensive workrate as Ramires on the RW against Spurs and also provide offensive threat that we don't get from Ramires but instead, Mourinho chose to play Ramires on the right side with the sole intention of only stifling Spurs.

And yet you go around and saying if Mata doesn't do this, doesn't do that, he will basically be back to square 1 situation with Mourinho... Never said your points are wrong but going by what you just said there, it's not necessarily objectively right either. What I find more laughable is for someone playing in the No.10 role where his main role should be on attacking and creating, Mourinho seem to be putting so much emphasis on Oscar to do the defensive work, all because of the supposedly failure of the players behind him, and then in turn making us less potent in attack due to the lack of creativity coming from the middle. This situation is probably made worse by the fact that even when Oscar gets forward, he doesn't really create much and provide that cutting edge factor in the final third. And if Mata is slight, then what is Oscar? The only issue now with Mata is his defensive workrate but in the last two games, he has shown the willingness and desire to track back. If he can get that to a consistent level and to the required standards of Mourinho, then I don't see how Mata would not be able to match Oscar's workrate, or at least near it, and also, be able to give more going forward. Can't agree with that at all. Just because Mourinho has said so, doesn't mean he's right and that we shouldn't be allowed to argue/debate/discuss about his decision(s). It's just like saying when a government prefers a certain policy and choose to implement it, the citizens of the country should just passively accept the decision and don't voice out their thoughts and disagreement..

Although we got a positive result in the end on Saturday and Mourinho changed things around HT albeit because we were trailing, am surprised to see that there is hardly any outrage or criticism towards Mourinho for playing Ramires at RW especially when RDM and even Benitez got stick in the past for doing that..

Just throwing in this for fun.... No Mikel... Shock.......

Can understand De Bruyne being dropped out of the Spurs and now the game against Steaua after his poor performance against Swindon (even then it might have been unfair given he played his 1st game in a month!) but what I don't get is, why after he started the season reasonably alright - played very well against Hull and then OK against United - he wasn't used at all by Mourinho till last Wednesday?!

Oh sorry. Erm, you could try Reddit..

Eh? You mean like live streams??

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2438017/Kevin-Bruyne-axed-Chelsea-squad.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed De Bruyne out of CL squad for this match apparently. Such a shame..

Merged it with this thread and moved to here. Was in the wrong place to begin with that new thread..

Torres possibly facing a 4-match ban because of 'that' scratch... For larger image, click this link - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BVXB4irCAAALyyE.jpg:large

I know Oscar is your preferred No.10 and that you have provided reasons for it, which are not wrong but judging by your posts in this thread today, seems that you suddenly feel insecure that suddenly Mata did more, as a No.10, than your Oscar yesterday....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Tk9zg_4tY

Can we just get back to talking things related to Mourinho here? It's getting a bit off right now..