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But honestly, if we would have kept mata we would not have fared any better for the time being IMO. Put mata in our current team and we would be as bad off. still it was maybe a mistake to sell him to ManUtd a direct rival.

He was crap but that statistics is wrong. he won 2 easy headers early on against some 5'5 porto player early in the game. anyway. i did never expect to say that but i want bosingwa back.

wtf. he did not say you were a twat. he said people would think of the manager who doesn't play 16 y.o. players are twats. he has a point. ofc zouma and kenedy are youth. they are 19 and 20 years old. how young do they have to be. IMO mou is spot on with the introduction of youth this season. just bad timing to it as our senior players are sho shit atm and do not really take the pressure off the young guns.

Sacking Mou will not solve the problem. We would still be left with a disjointed team with far graver problems than a stubborn manager. Apart from incredibly shitty individual performances we have almost no communication and organization in defense. Cahill-Zouma is horrible in terms of communication because both are better as junior partners to jt than on their own. matic and cesc just look tired after a season full of running. both need rest to sharpen their minds again. Hazard too. This team has to grow together again and practise some tactics to get going. especially mentally they have to find that cohesion again. but that will take time and until then just built on our current strengths. we got willian, ramires and mikel on form. Rlc and kenedy look promising. azpi is strong as always. begovic has been an amazing stand in. costa also is combative as always.

Play on the counter and set the defence deep that is the only way i see us conceding less than twice. A high line would see us raped by their pace (sane, long etc). i think they Bego Azpi Cahill JT Baba Mikel Ramires RLC Kenedy Willian Remy Set up to counter and frustrate. plenty of pace in there, azpi, willian and kenedy on their strong sides each. jt back to organize the defense. i am convinced we can at least get a draw with that lineup.

it is not even that he just plays ivanovic all the time. admittedly baba can't possible be as shit as iva, but even if he was, why the heck didn't we be sign a fucking fullback jose would actually trust? there are dozens of fbs better and more reliable than ivanovic ffs.

i think we should sign him to play as rightback

for sure he is not alone at fault that our defense looks disorganized as a chicken cage. But he is by far the weakest link in our team and i wonder when Mourinho will accept that. he is so bad, not even aina or baba could do a worse job as fullback. i honestly believe that having played rb myself i could do better than him right now.

why even play football. this uefa traitors league is just some corrupted piece of shit. every game every ref huge bias. should as well call it refball and let them give the results before the game so we need not even bother.

if iva does not get dropped after this game i will lose faith in anything at last.

we are lacking what chelsea has always been about. physical strength and defensive solidity. ivanovic, cahill might look strong but lack the determination to impose themselves on opponents with their strength and size.

the players look completely out of shape. no idea what they are doing atm. no team effort, no cohesion just some primitive hoofing the ball around.

last season iva would have scored that one.we are just so wasteful in attack and unorganized in defense.

it is not that we are not trying, it just does not come off. lack of confidence. but i still believe we can nick a draw here

what is this with porto players carressing the ref all the fucking time? gay pick up routine?

hazard must dive there ffs. far tooo sincere

willian is a class above the rest today. if we cap this with a good result, it will be an all-time great performance from him

conceding from a corner again....great

symptomatically the ref hugs porto's coach

horrible lineup, horrible game, horrible refereeing. just an awful display, unlucky goal conceded. need to get the big boy on. ooops what a nice fk by willian. serial scorer he is. already 3 goals this season for him. more than he scored last season iirc. once again the ref is atrociously intrusive

when has pedro become so fukin wasteful. even willian would have scored from one of the 6 one on one opportunities pedro got in the last 2 games

well, tbh i would be ok with either option. him as a captain negatively affects our team. the captain has to stand out by example but ivanovic is the weakest link on the team and that can only have bad effects. wouldn't be as bad if he wasn't captain. the time i write this has already won 2 headers. well but i guess anyone over 6ft would win headers against such a short porto team

My doctor even attested that watching Chelsea gives me physical pain. Because I worry so much after we lost a match, I subconsciously bite my teeths together all the time which spreads to my head. I am still gonna watch every game.

yup. he should be a no.8 in a 4-3-3 put Ramires/RLC and Matic besides him and he will be fine. But Oscar right in front of Cesc will only work conditionally. But against a hard-working and pressing medium block both are not good enough at shielding the ball physically when there are norruns for creating space for their passes.

Harry Kane can follow the path of Thomas Müller as a player with no significant weaknesses who compensates his lack of significant strengths with goal instincts and hard work. But for that scenario to occur he has to move to a club where he has better players to learn from around him. It pains me to say but he would be perfect for ManU. Spurs love to sell to them, too. They would never sell him to us ofc which is a shame cos an unspectacular player who works hard and scores goals is exactly what complements the FAbregas/Willian/Hazard/Oscar gang with their all fancy skill/no output