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No, I'm Zoscalus. Yes, I agree some of them were as slow as a mummy. I want all of our players to increase their work rate. One thing I liked about Torres last season was his drive to win back the ball (remember swansea city at home and arsenal away? He overdone it against swansea and got sent off. He was gaining momentum up until that match, it was a massive blow to )

oops! sorry! you're right I got carried away. I was just saying we should change the way we defend. Rather than assigning a specific player (like mikel) to help the full backs, the midfield as a whole should be running around pressing the opposition and minimizing their option in passing and win the ball back (barca are great not because they are a good passer of the ball but because they can repossess it within seconds from the opposition). We need every player on the field to recognize a good passing opportunity when he sees one. Mikel (or essien, or malouda ....) can't do that anymore. I said our midfield was one of the laziest in a sense that they don't react quickly enough when they loose the ball, they were great in zonal defending, blocking and to some extent in intercepting but they were never good in pressing and forcing errors. That's a big concern right now because of the kind of players we have and are being linked with. In my opinion Torres suffered because of this and our new, expensive signings will suffer too.

Has it ever occurred to you that we needed a solid DM and defend our back to the wall for our lives because we never had a hard working midfield? In my opinion, our midfield players of the past are among the laziest in the league, rarely press the opposition giving them too much time on the ball. Now, look at the teams we struggle against in the league l, e.g. liverpool, they know that if they press our front we don't have a choice but to pass the ball back to cech so that he can smash it all the way to drogba (we don't have him anymore, who do you expect us to throw the ball to, torres?, Hazard?). Believe me, sir, we need someone with a good footballing brain otherwise our front three of mata, hazard and torres will suffer.

I believe Ramires should play behind the RW and The CAM since Hulk (if we get him) is an inverted winger, therefore, likes to cut in to the middle hence the opposition DM and LB would try to track him effectively creating a space enough for ramires to exploit with his pace. In addition ivanovic isn't much going forward therefore we can use ramires there. The right wing has been a problem (defensively) for chelsea for the last 5 years or so, I believe this formation solves it. By the way ramires isn't a good back to the wall defender (I never want us to park the bus as often as we did last season) but he can intercept passes, press opposition and he is a decent tackler.

Torres Hazard------ Mata------------ Hulk --------------Ramires Modric------------------ A.Cole-------Cahil----------D.Luiz---------Ivanovic Cech

Why do we worry about defending all the time? Everybody here wants the CAM, RW, LW even the CF to track back and defend. We have defenders for that.I get the idea of total football but I say we've become cowards talking about defending all the time. Now the media is associating us with the ultra defensive tactic calling it "the chelsea way". We need to change this set of mind.

How do i post pictures that is on my hard drive locally?

The Legendary Drog Leaves Chelsea. http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2785353,00.html FAREWELL DROGBA. We Will Always Love You.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4328632/Fernando-Torres-I-cant-go-on-like-this-at-Chelsea.html How dare you Fernando Torres, After CFC gave you your best achievement in club football. I'm so pissed!

I've seen your comment when all was going against us (when muller scored, 85') you were one of the few who believed. Hats off to you Sir. RESPECT, LOR' FAYA. oh and........SPUDS :lol2:

I wish all of you the best. Believe!

No matter what they tell us No matter what they do No matter what thery teach Us what we belive is True! I love this song....BELIVE!!!

longest week of my life......sick feeling in my stomach! ......I'm shaking with fear.... Can some one post a pre battle speech from a movie or some shit like that please

"Frank knows there`s no love lost. My allegiance is only to Tottenham. He understands that." "I want Tottenham in the Champions League next year. We`ve done all we can." uncle Harry. now lads, how would you like your spuds,...........I like mine roasted.

at home and I'll have the sleeping pills ready in case it gets to a penlty shoot out.

-------> :banghead: ----------> -----------> --------> ----------> -----------> ---------> :cfc: :cfc: all is not lost, lads! BELIVE!!