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which is what a professional player should fucking do. Hazard might still want to leave and rightly so. He is not at fault for the shit that is going on. a board not supplying quality players for him to play around (Costa, Ramires my ass) and a manager incapable to catalyze his ability. Not demanding any heads rolling but we really should change something about club and team is run otherwise we will never see him fulfill his potential.

the ref could just be replaced by a cone

Costa is so poor in the air just because of his bad timing. he has the height, strength and leap to be a monster in the air but just can't get his timing right. frustrating

the ref is such a moron again. why do we keep getting such ridiculously bad refs? ah right, all refs are shit

so so unlucky

somehow identical procedure to the cup game. fuck it. that is what you call a lucky and undeserved goal. will be even more of an uphill struggle now. playing stoke is not easy for a predictable team like us.

costa needs to stop diving for nothing. he is too theatrical when getting a knock even when it actualy should be a foul. just fall naturally not this raise-the-arms stuff

Jack Butland is quickly becoming one of the best goalies in the European top flight. Despite there is no output, we are playing with decent pace and intensity tho. btw Charlie Adam is an absolute tool. He is so out of shape, his beer belly is bigger than that of my 78 y.o. grandpa. No wonder he comes into a challenge with a week delay. And when he does he compensates his lack of sharpeness with completely unnecessary and brutal fouls. oh no pls not Willian. injured himself without contact, that is always nasty

scored a hattrick vs hannover tonight. one classic kalou goal where his shot is so badly placed that it somehow creeps under the goalkeeper, one decent solo goal and one penalty, 10 goals for Hertha BSC already this season, leading man of their resurgence into 5th place. http://www.footytube.com/video/hannover-96-hertha-bsc-nov06-383299?ref=hp_latestvideos

I think he is 179cm, which is a bit more than 5'10 + he has a good leap. He dealt with Yarmolenko who is almost 6'3 so he should do so with 5'5 Shaqiri when considering height only.

This. I think this is one of the few matches were Ramires in the pivot is an absolute must. When facing techncially limited teams but we still have to defend esp physically, he is the perfect option. ----------Bego------- Azpi--JT--Cahill-Baba -------Rami--Matic----- Pedro---Willian---Hazard -----------Costa------------ should be the lineup IMO. Fabregas will be overrun so i would not even start him. Costa gets the benefit of the doubt. We need him on fire soon, he will get chances in this game if he gets in the right positions and he will relish the physical battle with their defenders. Baba should keep his place as he kept Yarmolenko in his pocket in midweek so I trust him against Bojan, Arnautovic, Shaqiri whatever 2009 whizkid will come his way.

sublime free kick technique for a ten year old. not dissimilar to Willian's. I remember at 10 years i did not even remotedly knew what i was doing when taking a free kick, just hoofing it with full power in a somewhat reasonable direction no matter the distance haha. I hope your lad enjoys practicing set pieces, you seldom find good corner and free kick takers until u 13 level

Mourinho often bumps his chest as a gesture of some exuberantly arrogant self-belief and to rouse the supporters like he did when we won 2-0 at Liverpool but today I think he was genuinely touched by the awesome support by these loyal fans and showed where his gratitude came from: right from his heart. IMO this should show us that he is neither our saviour nor some deluded egomaniac. Somewhere in between - he is a person like you and me. I think he does everything he can do get us ticking again. If this will be enough, I don't know but whether he will get sacked or not, I think he deserved some respect for what he has done here. It is not easy to get on such good terms with the crowd as a Chelsea manager. Let us remember this moment as a sign of benevolence in this cruel football world.

should have made runs into the 6 yard box more often. willian made like 6 crosses into the area where costa simply has to stand. lack of rhythm here

Ofc they were, at home after Arsenal beat them in the reverse fixture.... Bayern would plunder their bank accounts to bribe whoever in charge to win..... Arsenal literally gifted them the match like they always do. But it will be fun seeing them in europa league.

strange game. in one moment we combined with swagger like it was 2014 in the other moment we completely lacked communication defensively and offensively, were wasteful, made unnecessary mistakes and looked shit like always. In the end, we won deservedly, by far the better team but that doesn't count for much as Kiew are a shit team, mind a shit team who really played for their lives. Our two main problems remain: We have to many tactical, individual and communicational errors in defense and just lack the killer instinct in attack. But Willian papered over this for one. We still have to solve these problems. Diego, Hazard, Fabregas, Matic still look out of form but they were better today, just low on confidence.

anyone a decent strem please?

Having Gullit is rather a disadvantage though. Brilliant player but one of the worst pundits out there. His prepared analysis at MOTD are ok but whenever he has something to say that is no scripted he sounds like a legasthenic on ketamine. Also he is - unfortunately for us - not half as biased as people like Souness, thompson, hoddle. We could definitely use a more competent, eloquent pundit with a great affinity for the club just to balance out the vultures that are circling over us at the tiniest sign of weakness.

how can we be soo unlucky for such an elongated period of time. i just don't get it. against wham we got a man sent off for less than what lucas or can did today and had 2 goals disallowed. today we lose after one goal over time and without lucas getting sent off for 2 obvious yellows.

if only willian was as good a shooter as coutinho, he would be one of the best players in the world. we are so damn unlucky. we concede every time coutinho shoots.

shit now comes benteke.

Actually to that point we have defended awesome. our counter attacks were poor but until we fell asleep we restricted them to half chances.

clattenburg does not whistle as long as coutinho scores. horrible mentality from our team. u have to play until the whislte.

IMO Defence and midfield should be our main priorities. We need at least 1 better 2 more options for both fullback and centre backs. My suggestions would be someone who fits the bill for this position, tall and with some kind of pace like Fabinho, mario Fernandes in CB i am not sure, all young prospects are expensive but one of Stones/Laporte/Gimenez with Höwedes as wild card should be possible In midfield we need at least one better 2 options for the pivot, too. My main wish would be Krychowiak who IMO is the most complete DM out there. has strength, pace, height, passing ability, insane tackler. He could play next to Matic in big games and instead of him in most others. Maybe he can also be paired with someone like Pogba or rather an affordable option Andre Gomes but the jury is still out on him. Anyway we need someone to actually replace fabregas in the pivot. If no one suitable out htere we actually should give RLC a run instead of wasting our time with Cesc and Ramires. In all other position, we are fine as of now IMO. But we should get better quality cover in the ST position maybe. But there are many decent options out there. Pablo Alcacer, Lacazette, Doumbia. some ok striker to play 2nd fiddle but could also lead our line in a CL final, which IMO Remy can not. Fresh blood is IMO the only solution to get an impetus. We don't play as a team anyway, so signings can not disrupt any rhythm. But they would push the current players even more + would be unpredictable for a few weeks again due to new players. Our tactics are shit too, so individual brilliance is all we have left to win games.

Park the bus, let them bring their pressing and counter them once they are tired. won't be a pretty match but i can see us getting a draw there. ----------------Bego---------- Azpi-Zouma-JT-Cahill-Baba --------Matic----Rami---------- Willian------------------Hazard --------------Costa--------------