BlueLyon

Lets see how he does vs bolton first. Imo he has heigh ceiling and if Mou trusts him, he will be starter in few years, but for now i cant see him get im first 11, due to his inexperience.

This forum is amazing...the way how people change opinions is unbelievable. Last time he was best fullback in the world, but after one game, people point he should be dropped/switch position etc..Barb, this isnt pointing at you only, afterall you admited it and put on the reasons, but there are people out here who change opinon from best to worst literaly every game. And concerning set pieces, Costa and Matic should fucking work on that. They have height and it should be normal to for them to present a danger, but while Costa does it decently, Matic is missing every damn time when we could use a tall man in box.

To honour this joke, we should extend samsung deal IMO

Fun fact: How is it possible that both Hazard and Mangala weight 74kg ? I dont believe it but few sites have that number. I would say Mangala must weight at least 80+. Just impossible he has same weight as Eden.

Then its bit of problem in mentality. Stoke did it, I would expect us to do same if we are apparently best team in league. I dont think City was bad, far from that. After they scored (Lamps), we were forced to defend yes, but when we scored, we kept attacking for few more minutes (then Costa hit post) and after that, we pulled back. We dont have Ramires and Mikel in pivot anymore, we have Matic and Cesc and if they cant keep the ball for few minutes to slow tempo down and put city on sleep mode, I dunno. And you say we didnt choose to defend? Comeon, from start, Mou wanted a draw. it was clear as day. The red card changed things a bit, we took mantle, we scored, but then pulled back again, trying to keep the lead, like in many away games in past. We make 17 shots average this year and yet, couldnt put one in whole first half. And if city is all that better with player less that forces us into defending, then sorry but we will have lot of trouble then. Anyway what Im trying to say, it was our fault (Mourinhos and team's) that we didnt win, not city being all that better.

So I read Ivanovic is poor at defending, but good in attack, yet you would put him from RB into CB place? I would expect to shift him on wing then, not central defence. But yeah, hes been poor in defence in few games now.

Couldnt care less about Carling cup. The only reason I would like us to keep going here is that youngsters get more playtime. So I hope we play Baker, Ake, Zouma vs Bolton. Rest of the team should be those who dont play much (Remy, Luis, Cech, Mikel,...) IMO thats the point of carling cup. As long we get those youngsters running and evolving because thats only cup Mou will play them.

Dont know but he realy looks fucking limited in attack. I admire his work rate, but all people saying he had to play defensive etc...Every player has to track back for big teams. From Ribery to Turan etc..thing is what can you do when you have the ball in attack and Willian is average at best. He has oddly good game every once in a while, but today he was quite terrible. 3 times in first half, he got the ball, was alone in middle of pitch and he could go on counter. A simple pass to player forward would do it. But he either passed right into Toure/Fernandinho or he was sprinting and pushed ball too forward and couldnt catch it. Simple things and he fucked up those things. I can accept him as back up player, but for someone who is a starter against City, I expect to do better, then you remember he cost us 30m. I would understand, it happens once, but he did SAME mistake 3 times. He killed three counters and this is just bad. And worse he didnt realy improve much ever since comming here. I mean, he still doesnt realy click with any of our attackers.

I think everyone here would take that one point away vs city, but sometimes, things roll different and today we had perfect chance to win comfortably. Red card, we were in the lead etc. It was up to Mou what to do and he made two mistakes. Keep defending despite having more men and putting Drogba. But it happens. It was a gamble like many times before in big games for us last year. We lead and hope to not concede. If we win, its a great tactical display, if we dont (like today), we can only blame Mou for not trying to end the game. IMO Mourinho tactics in big games are kinda lottery. They attack and if things go somehow for us, we score that one goal from only attack. Then we defend and if we concede, we fall apart. Dont think we could do much after conceding, I mean, it would be foolish to go all attack for that one more goal, but after Schurrle scored, we should be all over them. If we conceded we at least had more time. But Mou though they wont score if we defend and he was wrong. Sometimes things go in your favour, sometimes against, but rarely I have feeling that we actualy control things in big games. Its more like lets try and see if things will work for us. When you have to step on the ball, you step on the ball. It seems our boys dont have that composure and tempo yet. But all in all, one point is great, considering they were all over us until that red card, however we should kill the game off but WE allowed city to get back in the game in the end and that aint right spirit.

Why the fuck are people talking about this game as title deciding? Atm we are still 3 points clear from second place and 5pts clear from City. Right now we would be champions. If we will lose title its because of dropping points in next games, not drawing against City. It all depends on how we will play now on. After cooling my head, the result is more than fair. We didnt take one single shot before Zabaleta red and even after that, we only did it about what 3 times? In whole game from so called best attack in league, that is bit shocking. The way we answered after conceding was another proof we still have a lot to work on in next games. Mourinho was confused, bringing Drogba?!? on the pitch and our midfield couldnt contain possesion for 1 minute. We completely fell apart despite having one more player on pitch and Mourinho, honestly speaking was kinda shocked that Lamps scored and left in shock till end of the game. Stop bitching, it was fair result and we are still 5 pts clear from IMO our only real contender for title this year. BTW Mangala was outstanding today, but I have seen him play before, he can be amazing one game and very bad in next one.

Why would fans hate lamps? After all he did for us... And if they had to score, Im glad its Lamps and not Aguero or Milner or any other cunt because Lamps deserves another pl goal more than those duchebags. This win is quite fair, but we should keep the lead with more men though. I hope Mou learns from this, I think the way he goes in such gsmes is partly mastermind but also big lottery gamble because one goal alone can make you go from master to fool. Dont ever bring Didi on in such big game. Did Remy die or what...ffs

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Chelsea lads please grow some fucking balls. Cesc again in big match doing Ramires kind passes with zero composure and Willian ended basicaly EVERY damn counter in first half with his stupid passing. And it had to be Frank scoring...cant say how pissed I am. I would take that 0:0 but when you have 1:0 against 10 MEN OPPONENT, and YOU CANT KEEP THE DAMN BALL FOR 10 SECONDS, I dont think you deserve to win. When we conceded we pissed in pants and played like we have 10 men, not city. Why the fuck didnt Costa score that goal that ended in post...We could destroy them but Mourinho brings DROGBA on FFS...cant believe he is so sentimental about Didier. Before game I would take 0:0, but after them getting red card and us leading, you have to fucking win in such game. After they scored we were like 4th division side with no response.

Why does it matter if he scores or not...whoever does the job and we win; Ill be happy. I prefer 1:0 win with Mikel the scorer than 3:2 defeat with Costa scoring two screamers...

I thought all is included...

Would new stadium realy bring us that more money? I mean, we would have to spend big time on construction first and still, we probably wouldnt have more than 60k seater, which is not THAT much more than we have now... And obvious question where to build new stadium... Wouldn be better if we just sign a realy good sponsor contract or maybe even several new contracts like Manu did with Dhl, aon and chevrolet?

Well Luiz was great presence in midfield, big character too. Some sort of motivational leader. That was one of reasons for last years wins against City and Pool. But hopefuly we can still do the work in middle and not let city to overpower us.

Matic was amazing last season vs City, but didnt start that well this season though...however Yaya is a joke too in city this year. Cant see why Matic couldnt contain Yaya. I think Aguero, Silva and Navas/Nasri will cause more trouble to Matic and our defence than Yaya.

Bartra IMO is bit too weak to be top CB in PL

Inigo is overrated and Bartra would never cut it in PL. If there is good young CB in spain, its Laporte. But he would be realy expensive...

Only thing Hazard is equal is dribbling. And even there, some might question. But in about anything else from vision, passing, shooting, FKs,...Zola was few times better. But Hazard has time and plays in different time, football is much more tactical nowdays.

Last year we got blocked in decisive games, while its just september, this game is actualy first indicator of how serious and well prepared we are this season. If we win I'll be much more confident that we can win league. Not because of bigger point gap, but simply because we will get our shit together when it will be required.

There will be meltdown here if we lose, but hopefuly we win this one.

Im talking about that one more clean sheet he might make. I know he pulled some quality saves, but sometimes a gk just doesnt let anything in, no matter what. Cech saved several shots in certain games and that gave us clean sheet, no matter how difficult and impossible it was. Courtois was usualy half protected by defence, this time he was not and conceded. Cech was also unprotected in defence in certain games, but still saved those games. Im not saying Courtois wasnt good enough, but he will have to get some games when he will keep anything despite a shitty defence. Even if you call them miracle saves. This is what truly world class gks do and Im sure Tibo will do it at one point.

Think he should stop at least one goal he conceded. Those goals werent his fault, and look impossible to keep on the eye, but then again certain keepers still kept impossible, saving their team even if defence was shit.