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Demba ba has been taking his drogba pills.

Get in there my son. Great work Demba. Great work oscar.

Switch round. That's good.

Let's do this Chelsea.

Random 2am story. One of my dogs was barking like crazy. I went to investigate and found a ferret which I assume is someone's pet hiding under our shed. My dad caught it and has put it in a rabbit hutch with food and milk. So we now seem to have a b and b service for ferrets. I have called it frank. Could be a girl though... Who knows. Hopefully we will find franks owner tommorrow. /random 2am story.

I haven't dropped oscar. And i disagree about Ivanovic being one of our 3 best performers. Azpi is arguably as good, if not better at right back. And 2 changes is hardly extreme, given the depth we have. Ofc thats not the team that will start. Rambo and ivan will definitely start. Thats the team i would like to see. Especially trying to accomodate Oscar deeper as we all know the pivot is where a lot of pur problem lies. Azpi for ivan for me is purely because he was very good last season but hasn't really been given a chance this season. It's not like chucking in someone on debut. And I dropped ramires purely because i don't think Oscar Ramires will work, without one player sitting. And Schurrle deserves a start because of his performance in the week.

Should win. But it will be tough. Like most games. We need a striker to step up. Hopefully torres will be that man in the future. But for this game Eto'o needs to make a mark. I Would go Azpi Luiz Terry Cole Oscar mikel Willian mata Schurrle Eto'o

Here you go.

The debate was about who should play the no.10 role, not who should play. As i think everyone would agree that they are both great players and should play in the team. I was simply refering to your point about not comparing stats (bolded part) from last season to make my own point, which was that atm we have very little to go on from this season. To which i said "that is why i would play Mata in the No.10". That was the bit i was responding to. Because, i think Mata's performance (more so than stats) over the last 2 years are what imo should give him the no.10 spot. After that, It was my own point that i was making, fairly unrelated to your post, it just came after i responded to your stats point. Perhaps i should have responded to you. Then added my extra input underneath to avoid the confusion. I'll summarise my point on this matter (Again, not a direct response to you, but to make it clear). Mata has done well in the No.10 postion for 2 years. Been our best player. I haven't seen anything to suggest a rapid decline, or a rapid increase in oscar that would warrant him playing in that central role over Mata. Though it is very forseeable that very soon Oscar may be the no.10, if he surpasses Mata, yet as of RIGHT NOW i would play Mata over Oscar in the No.10 role. That was all.

Gundogan is amazing. Would love it to happen so much.

I'm saying that comparing the 2 or even allowing for the fact that Oscar is younger and has a potentially higher ceiling is irrelevant. You said: "I said it once, and I'll repeat... comparing a 21yo Brazilian first season in Europe - in England nonetheless - with a guy well established there for two season is unfair. we should compare their stats this season... (ignoring the age gap between them)." To which i am saying that right now we can only go off what we know and not potential. Which is why i would play Mata over Oscar at the CAM positon. I never said you explicitly said you would pick one over the other. But that it is irrelevant right now. Oscar will get better over time and improve, as will his stats, though IMO, right now mata should be the one to play there. We are debating this because it is a chelsea forum. Everyone is happy they both play for us. People are having a debate about who should start in the no.10 role. Just because people say they want Mata in there doesn't mean they don't like Oscar etc or Vice-versa.

Mata's passing and creatitvity are what make me want to put Mata over oscar in there. Mata isn't very fast, which isn't a big deal as the CAM, wheras we have 0 width with him on the right because he cuts in on his left always and hasn't really got the pace to beat them on the outside. If we were playing 4-3-3 then oscar would probably be the better more balanced player. Which is why in absense of a proper DLP. It could we worth it to try Oscar in there, as he offers more defensively and can link up centrally with Mata without meaning one of them is out of position. No one is saying that Oscar should never play there. But right now many people (me included) think that Mata is the better player in there. Next season he could well surpass mata but right now he isn't imo. If he wants that no.10 role then he can earn it. And if he does it will be great to watch.

LOL. All our stikers are exceptional except the ones we still have.

Well done lads. Great effort. Got the job done. Schurrle was very good especially in the first half.

Yeah boi. Get in there you legend.

Has someone not told Jose he is a right back not a right winger.

Great reaction from Jose. Well done Schurrle and rambo.

Rambo... Boom.

Why?

We would be even better if we could attack on both wings... So I would definitely unleash Willian and take of oscar. Schurrle on the left doing exactly what he has been doing, mata dictating everything and then Willian giving us some width on the right should work quite well.

Lol. Cheapest player to score a goal for us this year. Eto'o is really slow.

I think we should take oscar off and chuck Willian on for some width. Schurrle has been motm so far imo.

For the last 5 Mins we haven't had 1 player on the right side of the pitch. Mata and Oscar are playing in virtually the same place.

Eto didn't really set it up. He miss kicked it really. But great work Schurrle.

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