Strike

A quality CM if available - Witsel, Gundogan...

The England National team is funny. Players like Smalling, Cahill, Milner, Welbeck sit on the bench at their clubs but start for country.

It'll make a difference in the big games. Ofcourse, chance-creation is important but with Oscar as our main goal outlet, we won't win much. Against tough opposition, the team creates very few chances to begin with and our strikers pass them up. Maybe a world class forward was not needed but atleast someone like Mandzukic, Negredo, who can be a handful and take chances up front was enough.

Oh. So, the sequence also matters Simply for the heck of it I assume

Norwich 1-0 Southampton. Norwich take the crown Norwich 1-3 Chelsea. Chelsea take the crown.

Pat Nevin is heavily biased towards Chelsea and yeah, the Garth Crooks guy has been writing every week on BBC about how Luiz is useless and Cahill should start over him. Clueless

Lack of options really. Lampard will be a passenger against Yaya/Fernandinho. Essien has barely got any gametime. Mikel is the next best option.

Weird seeing Essien make the bench against Norwich over Mikel But he will play in the tougher games. Lampard is easily overrun now. Not his fault but against Man City later in the month for example, starting Lampard would be suicidal. Mikel-Ramires is the way to go then

Lampard can't be starting as many games as he has so far. One quality midfielder is needed

Didn't break Norwich down though. Won through a counter

Lucky Lucky Chelsea

Lucky Lucky Chelsea

although tbf, that was the 4th or 5th goal in a Old Trafford thrashing this was a come-from-behind away game

Atleast the changes have worked. Lot more pressure

invisible in the 2nd half

Lampard is playing?!

oh fuck off. we've been such shite in the 2nd half

It's questionable whether he was ready to be the #1 striker but with the current options, there is a sense of regret in letting him leave

Deco vs Portsmouth on his Chelsea debut. Too bad his form didn't last longer than a month though

Drogba vs Arsenal. Pretty much every time

^ It involves signing up on opposition club forums and asking questions to their members. You will get your fair share of hate, better ignore that and try to get hold of a few of the polite fans

He looked more like his Leverkusen self. Drifting in from the left and linking up with Mata/Oscar Kalou comparisons have gone dead and rightly so

Wow. Steaua Bucharest is a team full of divers Good performance. Schurrle and Ramires were immense

Luke Shaw situation seems similar to Joe Cole in 2004. Chelsea fans, talented. Worth a shout

Yeah.. That's true.