Jase

No need for another thread. Merging with the 'Chelsea Youth' topic.

Just done proof-reading it. Rephrased/Tweak certain sentences but all main points obviously still remain. As for title, well, I changed it but can't think of any better one right now. Brain freeze...

We should probably just do the same with Azpi. It will be a waste of time for him to join the Spain NT when Del Bosque will end probably just playing Arbeloa at RB like always.

Think you should highlight the entire part of what Choulo said about Cahill rather than quoting him out of context with only "Gary really is a great CB". What Choulo said there is true anyway. When our game plan is being very defensive and play on the counter (e.g Barcelona & Bayern last season), Cahill will flourish mainly because he is an expert at throwing himself in to blocking shots. BUT whenever we attempt to play an attacking game especially against the better sides, his deficiencies as a defender are exposed as clear as daylight and in turn, will leave the back 4 exposed as well. Cahill is not defender to play against the top tier sides but rather against the 3rd tier or lower sides. TBF, Cahill wasn't the only one who looked shaky in that 1st half against Barcelona. The whole defence or rather the whole team did. There wasn't any real organization to our defence, midfield, attack. We were just lucky that Barcelona's finishing was hopeless and thanks to some last ditch clearances and tackles in the end.

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Was I even comparing them in terms of ability??

An article written on Luiz by @hjperdeath. Have a read.

I did that and tweaked the title a little bit, if you don't mind.

Match Report by @Barbara,

AS Roma vs Chelsea PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT Pre-Season Friendly No.7 11th August, Sunday, 2013 RFK Stadium, Washington DC 01:00 Kick Off (UK time) [Match kicks off at 8pm in US on 10th August]

AS Roma vs Chelsea POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS Pre-Season Friendly No.7 11th August, Sunday, 2013 RFK Stadium, Washington DC 01:00 Kick Off (UK time) [Match kicks off at 8pm in US on 10th August]

With passive defenders like Cahill, Ivanovic and even Terry in the team, it's hilarious to think people want us to sell Luiz at all. If anything, we should be improving on this current average state of defence rather than worsen it!

Honestly, I have hardly ever see Cahill breaking up attacks, proactively putting his foot in like Luiz does sometimes. He only knows how to be reactive, backs off attackers and then only throwing himself to block shots! It gets even worse when he plays with Ivanovic and/or Terry in defence. All 3 passive defenders equal to recipe for disaster! :banghead:

The referees in this competition have been absolutely appalling, not just in this game but also in the previous 2 matches.

If anything, this game just showed us our problems from last season are still present and not 'cured' like how some people have been making it out since Mourinho returned. We still got defensive deficiencies, as illustrated mainly for the 3rd goal (shocking, abject, abysmal defending!!!), lacking that bite in midfield and no top quality striker upfront that would make a huge difference for us.

The game has been delayed by 20 minutes!

Shevchenko is in the house...

He's off to Barcelona....

Jason Cundy then followed up with that tweet stating it's a 4-3-3 formation.

Like I said, lively in terms of just running around and doing nothing? Ba has done some good work on and off the ball in the last 2 games but of course, people just choose to ignore it conveniently because it's Ba and judge him on reputation as opposed to what he actually does on the pitch.

Jason Cundy just tweeted this...

More involved? How so apart from running like some headless chicken in the last match and hardly did anything of note so far?! That's like completely overstating it. Ba may not have shone in any game so far but to say he has been terrible in every one of them is somewhat nonsensical when he has been decent in the last 2 games. And it gets even more nonsensical that based on just 45 minutes of hardly doing anything of note so far, people say Torres has been better.

I'm sorry but Torres has looked brighter than Ba in this pre-season? How so when he has only played like 45 minutes so far?!!

Oh joy. 2 different lineups being posted. There should be a ban for posting BS from Twitter.....