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i thought the defence bar Ashley Cole was excellent. although i would have loved to see us win the ball back rather than line up behind the ball and hope for a misplaced pass

poor performance as expected. cant afford to let this snowball into a bad run of games that usually ruins the season

walcott on the bench. not happy

you have to consider all factors. in 2005 there was that diving storm and he was almost anonymous under Scolari. Banned at the end of 3 CL exits. he was unplayable, that's true but not the greatest ever

Remind them about the 1970 FA Cup Final

For one day only, Come On Arsenal! Pump Manure today!

Drogba single-handedly won us a lot of trophies but is he the greatest Chelsea player Ever? No.

we have 2. but i wish we had one that would score. not that i'm complaining. our defence has more goals than tevez, aguero and balotelli combined

i usually don't care about the league cup but i just f*****g wish we pummel leeds this time! btw, my garbage dump looks better than their forum

should do the job for us and keeps bodies fresh for that important game against Shakhtar next week

a bit of context might help here. that was for vilifying cahill for his performance yesterday where cahill was solid through out and luiz made mistakes aplenty. cahill gets his positioning wrong and usually backs away from an opponent but yesterday he was steady throughout the game and made few excellent tackles (the one on nani stands out) while luiz gave away a lot of fouls getting a yellow as well and contributed to a united goal

my point is that we can't vilify cahill and defend luiz, especially not after a game where cahill was solid throughout and luiz made quite a few errors

best moment of the game, Oscar getting in Nani's face i bet Nani was stunned about that

i hope rdm tells hazard and mata to track back because swansea is a classic counter-attacking team and will look to exploit our lack of width

nah. i am not saying cahill is very good either. but there is no excuse to criticising cahill AND defending luiz. and just to clarify, decision making is pretty obvious but tackling - my basic criteria is the large number of mistimed tackles by luiz. also, if u looked at the game last night, cahill was excellent in tackling while luiz conceded lot of fouls and got a yellow card as well late on. "Not the first time you try to make your opinion look like a fact" - let's just say its the kettle calling the pot black. anyway, agree to disagree. edit - Fouls this season - Luiz - 10; Cahill - 2 no. of times dribbled by opposing player - Luiz - 5; Cahill - 1 but luiz interceptions are much higher - 16 to cahill's 5. that shows the difference b/w the two Luiz has played 8 games while Cahill has played 6

true. agree abt the positioning part. cahill gets his positioning wrong here and other times in the match but this is just 2 stills in the game. luiz was equally palpable in the weekend defeat. notice luiz's position here for example. he is standing wider than cahill is. and when the midfield is bypassed we are cut open. cahill should have marked rvp no doubt but there is another instance in the game in the weekend AND yesterday where Luiz goes into a very deep "shot-Blocking" position. that is just nonsense imo. we are not in the Nou Camp anymore to make a line and block the shots. sorry, but i find your criticism of Cahill and your defense of Luiz lacking in reason

your argument lacks substance. your criticism of cahill is his positioning and he does nothing "special". ridiculous. cahill was not to blame in the 2nd united goal or any of united's goals yesterday while luiz was clearly to blame for the 2nd and 3rd goals. you accuse us of branding luiz when you do the same to Cahill. you are ignoring the many aspects where cahill is better than Luiz - decision making, tackling etc and focussing on few points and calling luiz a better defender than cahill. makes no sense to me

thank you. was quite surprised by that. hence the skepticism

no way. we had 4 cleansheets but against Wigan (where we were battered for 75 minutes), QPR, Stoke and Newcastle (only performance to take credit for) apart from that we have been shocking but i agree with the other part. its a team-issue. we are not recovering our defensive shape quickly enough. Notice how the fullbacks are rushing to get back to the defensive line and how the midfield is distorted leaving wide empty spaces http://www.carefreec...uiz-og-and.html - credit to carefree chronicles

agree.. he was bashed on twitter as far as i know but i don't think it was deserved criticism. true, he was up against a bunch of schoolboys but fletcher and anderson were basically playing as CB's and he had virtually no support in the first half. held the ball well and spread the play around better than torres. 50/56 passes completed is brilliant (citation needed) and latched onto more than 1 long ball.

while conveniently ignoring the fact that luiz was sidetracked like a headless chicken in the build-up to that goal... yes, cahill has made basic errors too but no excuse to vilify cahill and defend Luiz. Luiz has been MUCH worse than Cahill any way you look at it. "Despite Luiz mistakes" - how many more mistakes can we watch him make? almost 2 years since he signed now. he's regarded as first-choice by RDM. no where near being a top defender

that makes no sense. cahill was left for dead. he's not a super human to judge where chicharito is gonna run, cover him and cut out the pass. Luiz had a stinker. Period. People need to stop excusing Luiz for his mistakes. 2 years after signing on, you can't excuse elementary errors. classic example - rushing out from his defence line at the attacker - he did that 4-5 times during the game and won the ball just once - when Welbeck showed too much of the ball to Luiz. also, the nani goal was too easy for united. luiz and bertrand exploited with luiz chasing shadows again.he made 4-5 long passes yesterday and as far as i remember 1 went out for a throw in, 2 of them went to a red shirt with no chelsea player in sight. don't think any of the passes were completed. on top of that, he rushed out of defence again and got caught out. it has happened in 3 games this season. can't ignore the fact that luiz is ticking time bomb cahill was solid yesterday. the best performer in defence hands down. Excellent tackle on Nani towards the end reminiscent of his tackle on Bale last season. capped his performance

we're gonna win it 9-8 against Arsenal. League cup love!

just the 9 goals tonight then.

No point discussing how good he is defensively if he keeps making silly mistakes. 2 freakin years have passed and he's still committing school-boy errors. absolutely ridiculous