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Put Willian in this Bayern team and he will look at least as good. Costa always shifts the ball to his left and runs after it. literally every time he gets the ball. no idea why defenders have not figuered that out yet. he is good but not as good as KDB. The only time he faced a decent defender - which are nowhere to be found in bundesliga - this season, which was vs Arsenal, he was in Bellerin's pocket all game.

maybe. but that doesn't count for much. overall he has been average this season. would you pay 100m for an average player?

We did not even play badly. Rather average. But in this kind of bad moment, you will always lose. What is most frustrating is that we show signs of improvement once and then are shot for confidence, wasteful and sloppy again. The players try, even though they could try harder, we are not even in the top 10 of distance covered in the league. Unless something changes dramtically, it will continue this way. NOt that i care for the shit coc. rather go out early than late. maybe until the fa cup starts we have recovered and give it a shot.

Maybe Hazard should not even play. But if he continues to perform the way he has, i doubt Real will even go for him. Can't complain of lack of attacking play today. If we play like we did in extra time vs liverpool, we can at least get a draw, provided that liverpool play with 10 men ofc.

this happens when the confidence is low. chin up hazard

at least we are taking shots in this game, even though most of them are over the bar.

I am still dumbstruck how free kick taking players don't take advantage of misplaced goalkeepers and take the free kick early. the goalie was in the fucking wall. willian could have easily passed it into the net.

this is so depressing. we did not even play bad with 10 men but everything is against us. can't even blame anyone. just bad luck

ref= corrupted piece of shit.

well, our board which is in charge of transfer dealings has been pretty shit for some time now. NOt only this horrible transfer summer so it is well imaginable that they gave in for KDB to leave. IMO he needed the time at Wolfsburg to become the player he is now. Not technically, but mentally. It gave him confidence and resilience he lacked when he was here even though the ability was always there. So IMO a loan would have been the better option. I hope we somehow get some rotation in so we can keep bench players happy. Our mistakes in many cases have been to sell players too early just because we had a prefered choice over them: Robben, KDB, Sturridge maybe even Mata and Lukaku . IMO there is no sense in selling a clearly sufficiently talented player before he has reached his peak or more development can be expected. Even if the players we prefered to them turned out shite, the manager has the right make his pick. Though he should also be able keep the 2nd choice happy. Too often in football have those inital second choice become the better players in the long term.

i doubt that he decides leaving chelsea after one game on the bench midway through the season. We could still win the CL theoretically and he would look pretty silly having decided to leave in this case. But IMO Real would have to get rid of both, Ronaldo and Benitez for Hazard to move there. If he'd really have decided to move now we could just let him rot on the bench. Wonder if Real would still shed out 100+m for him.

performance decent, result ok. 2 points dropped because of wasteful finishing but defensively solid against a side that threw everything at us but we restricted them to a couple of half-chances. it is great to see we are defensively solid again but we really should do score more. It will take weeks until we click again but our play is just poor, we still look like a collection of individuals not a team. this is surely not down to team spirit but tactics. I sometimes feel Mourinho is too consvervative. Everyone has to track back to the byline but we really should defend more by cohesive team movement instead of one-on-one. We niether defend nor attack as a team.

Neither. i am talking about Fabregas but mistakenly wrote hazard. Who else than cesc takes an hour to turn?

Starting Baba is probably without any alternative. Aina has no experience in top flight and Zouma is no fullback. But given Baba is yet an average player and suspect defensively, we should better not stick Hazard in front of him. But he should still play. IMO the solution is putting him at no. 10 and drop Fabregas. I can see Dynamo playing really aggressive at their home and Fabregas needs like an hectar of space when collecting a ball before taking 2 mins, a cup of tea and 3 short bread fingers for turning. I have no idea why at 28 he is already declining so rapdily. i remmeber like it was yesterday hwen he scored that sprinting solo goal against tottenham for arsneal from the kick off. It is probably because he started playing pro football so early he now is only a shadow like Rooney. Anyway, I don't see him as a long-term starter anyway. There is no place for someone like him in modern football unless he finds himself a niche like Pirlo, but i fear he lacks the character and intelligence to do so. Yesterday he only performed ok because rlc, matic and ramires ran their lungs out for him. Against Dynamo it will be a whole different game. Bego Azpi Zoum JT Baba RLC Matic Pedro Hazard Willian Diego would be my lineup. We will surely concede, but IMO with a bit of luck we can still salvage a draw here. KTBFFH

Hazard sits one game out and people already know he is off in summer....that is TC for you People should stop overreacting. Hazard needs us as much as we need him. If he continues the way he plays atm, no club in the world not even PSG will pay the 100m+ we will demand from him in summer with FOUR years on his contract. If Hazard forces a move after being benched for ONE game, no club will need him anyway. To become a top top player, you need to show some resilience and bounce back from that and I am sure he will as he is not as fickle as the guys who already have him out of the club. On a different note he surely is tired after a hectic international break + he looks out of shape physically, sporting a belly once again. But he will certainly get his act together and peform as last leason.

rlc and ramires both can't tackle to save their lives but they are pressurizing people with their pace and forcing errors in villa's passing. like that. now we know why iva has been playing instead of baba. The latter is just as error prone. but at least he gives a shit.

thank god for Charlie Runkel

what i don't get in modern football is why players don't take free kicks early when the goalie is placing the wall. freekicks are allowed be executed quickly before the whistle. willian could have simply passed it into the empty net there.

Has been on form this year almost throughout. Never thought a player at this age could still make such a leap in development but he is slowly becoming a top winger and the best player in Brazil and Chelsea which does not mean much atm tho. I liked both of his goals vs venezuela. His first one was a saveable shot but the direction, aggressiveness and pace he showed to work that shot and take it on was exceptional. The second goal was brilliant for the way he ghosted into the box with a late, unmarked run Lampard-style. His subsequent finish was clincial which is something he has not showed often so if he continues his brilliant goalscoring form, he can finally become the player we paid 35m for.

The last point I am not sure about. Our play has always been centred on a big, athletic striker who can shield and distribute balls aka the striker lukaku was always going to become. Sure he has always had technical deficiencies. IMO the last 3 seasons he has performed on the same decent level but this season he made a leap. However, neither we nor him would have had the patience to let him develop here. His talent or that he might eventually become the player we need has never been in question not even by Mou. But the last few seasons showed we are reliant on a consistent striker and hence we were in no position to take the time for him to become just that.

But plays decent overall.never been a fan of his penalty taking anyway. But our midfield general really should be a strong character than him.

Can't be worse than blackman and won t probably ever play so no complaints. Italy had a bunch of good keepers but he still made their squad at times so he can't be that bad

Err about the same. Klopp is defo better in counterattacking, pressing and developing young players whilst mourinho is better at bus parking, mind games and winning finals. They are both excellent motivators but don't know shit about how to get a team out of the slump. Also they both have deficiencies in buying players. Mourinho has more experience but who knows how much that counts for.

If mourinho had won the Cl last year he still should not get a 4 year deal BC of that. Never been stable in the managerial position. Mourinho will get fired within the next 9 months and it will be damn expensive. And who would buy a soon to be 29 y.o. Ramirez out of a 4 year contract on these outrageous wages? Suarez was a WC player on the peak of his powers, Ramirez is an average cm that has been declining for 3 years now and we want to spend 70k per week on another 4 years of decline? He would be crazy to leave now.

no players in summer, overpaying 4 year contracts for mourinho and Ramires. The board is getting us deeper and deeper in the shit. Embarrasing display. No wonder we are currently the laughing stock of European football with this bunch of full time dumbasses at the helm taking a great club right back to mediocrity.