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Turnbull will be in goal for this one. Oh dear.

You have obviously jinxed it!!

That would just put unnecessary pressure on him. If other players are getting consistent chances to start games, then why can't Marin get the same? The amount of game time he'll get should not be dependent on what he does in just 1-2 opportunities.

If you want to blame Mata, Hazard and Ramires for us losing possession, then I think the whole team should be blamed instead. For the first 25-30 minutes, the whole team was practically awful, not just those 3 you mentioned. The team wasn't calm and composed enough on the ball and that wasn't helped with the fact that Everton pressurized us all over the pitch, forcing us into making mistakes and just lumping the ball forward. After the half hour mark, we began to settle down and Mata as well as Ramires arguably looked our two most dangerous attacking players going forward. They ran with the ball into the space in front of them and drove the team forward. Some of the chances that we had in the first half was because of those attacking runs.

Seems that Marin has become the forgotten man at the club already... http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1283306/marin-keen-fight-chelsea-place?cc=4716 Really do feel sorry for him. Has recovered from his injury but yet to be given much chance to play. Hopefully, he'll get more of those in 2013.

For the record, we are not paying Hazard 170k p/w. It's only about 110k p/w! EDIT: Just saw your post with the link saying Hazard earns 170k p/w here. While the English media reported that, the French and Belgian media said he's only earning about 110k p/w. Given the English media's agenda against us, I wouldn't believe what they report and better to believe what the French and Belgian said in this case. The English media will try to make it as if Hazard chose us because of the money. Furthermore, we can't be that idiotic to be paying a 21 y/o, however talented Hazard is, 170k p/w. Maybe in the future, but definitely not now!

Post moved to here since it's reactions about this game.

He was. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac-SRh5vn9w Skip to 1:37 for the second goal.

This will probably drag on and on a little bit like the Cahill transfer saga last January.

Oh dear.

It's one thing to have passion, determination and hard work but it's also equally important to have the tactical understanding, discipline and being able to stay calm and composed in the field and not being rash. As much as Luiz has the former aspects, it's still obvious that he lacks in the latter aspects. If every player only have passion, hardwork and determination as you said and doesn't understand the tactical side of the game, then those players will just be nothing more than headless chickens! You need to have a balance of both.

Best Moments: 1. Champions League Final 2. Drawing 2-2 against Barcelona at the Camp Nou after going down to 10 men 3. Beating Napoli 4-1 in the second leg 4. Thrashing Spurs 5-1 in the FA Cup 5. Beating Liverpool to win the FA Cup 6. Whack Spurs 4-2 at White Hart Lane 7. Beating Man United 5-4 in the League Cup 8. Smashing Aston Villa 8-0 9. Beating Everton 2-1 at Goodison 10. Buying the likes of Hazard, Oscar etc Worst Moments: 1. Throwing away that 3-0 lead against Man United 2. Getting thrashed by Atletico Madrid 3. Getting thrashed by Juventus 4. Losing to Man United, unjustly! 5. Losing to Corinthians 6. RDM sacked and Benitez being appointed

I would avoid resting any players if possible and leave it for the cup tie at the weekend if we want to do it. We need the 3 points here. Can't afford to drop any!

Just realized this. In those fixtures last season, it was - P9 D4 L5. This season, it's - P9 W7 D2.

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QPR's next 4 league games - Chelsea(A), Tottenham(H), West Ham(A) and Manchester City(H).

I don't care how crap QPR have been recently or this season but we cannot underestimate them. Need to be professional and put in a proper performance here to get the 3 points. Otherwise, all the good work that we have done recently would be wasted especially after winning 2 tough away games during the Christmas period.

Chelsea vs QPR PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT Barclays Premier League 2nd January, Wednesday 2013 Stamford Bridge 19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

Chelsea vs QPR POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS Barclays Premier League 2nd January, Wednesday 2013 Stamford Bridge 19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

Yes but had Torres run wider, the ball would have played in nicely which will likely result in him being 1-on-1 against Howard and he would probably score with his first touch on the ball.

Still need to find a way to cope with their physical and aerial threat. Suffered that against West Ham and then Everton today.

TBF, he wasn't the only who did that today.

Some was generally not fit and a disaster to manage us anyway. No point of bringing someone in like Guardiola to implement a certain playing style on us if Roman doesn't change his ways of being impatient. Ultimately, all he cares is about results, despite all this talk about him wanting us to play attacking football. The obsession with trying to play attacking football has led to Roman hiring managers and then sacking them the minute something goes wrong. We will soon run out of finding a top quality manager to manage us.

Given what happened, yes, it was good tackle but from our perspective, the reason why Distin got the tackle in was because Torres ran too close to Distin. Torres did not run wider and create that space between himself and Distin. Had he done so, the ball would have been played perfectly to Torres's path, taking Distin out of the picture and he would have scored. Distin then wouldn't be able to put that tackle in! If that was the chance to win the game 2-1 OR had Everton equalized, would you really be saying it's an excellent tackle from Distin? I don't think so. The old Torres would have ran wider or heck, any striker would have done that. It's a basic and common thing!