Stingray

You didn't notice her face at first! Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Beautiful face huh?

Lol. What triggered this outburst, because I fail to see the link with some of the previous posts, Barbara. Nobody is claiming our issues shouldn't be tackled. Quite the contrary when I look back at @torontochelsea , @theonlyplacetobe (and mine as well) posts. What the hell are you all agreeing to disagree about? Anyone still know exactly

That was soooooo unintentional it made my sphincter cramp up Women ......

Lurking the forum while on vacation .... :blue scalf:

Nah ... it s just big aureola's. Google that, fellows :-)

Plz .... no death row, bioethical stuff in here .... even to serve an argument.

Corrected that for you, mate.

not really, no.

I just saw the game for the second time and I am breaking the Omerta on here. It is not the youngsters that cost us dearly. The lack of decent transition, the nervousness (resulting in fouls leading to goals) and the lack of footbal from defense going forward did. MVG did very well, Hazard started slow but he had danger in him by the end of the first half and the second half, KDB was reported to suck on this thread but every cross (and corner) was dagerous - just look at Iva's header Casillas only saved by a reflex. I saw too much respect for Real in the beginning and they took us a bit cold with that shot through Iva's legs .... just bad luck. We had a counter by Hazard and in a bounce with Lukaku the ball got through. We scored and started to play ball. Then an unnecessary intervention gave them the free kick and R7 fired it in .... We came on the second half and our shape looked much better. We played ball - look at the 60-75 minute and see how Hazard is asking for and playing the ball - even having a one on one chance with Casillas. We seemed to get back into the game because we had options on the wings! On the 68 minute Ashley in a one to one situation with the goalie. I think there is WAY to much emotion when analyzing this game and a bias because we were talking cold the first 25 minutes. I will make a prediction - you can quote me on that when I am wrong - our team doesn't need 'years'. It needs a few week (some of the guys joined the team days ago and played what? 2 halves?). We need to work on something we have been struggling with for a while: the transition. Also, Luiz was sorely missed. He is our footballing option in defense. Instead of selling him I would rather have another ball playing defender to drive that midfield and the AM's. Keep trucking boys.

Spot on .... if the Real game showed anything it is this.

Let's hope he did!!

This. If there is anything that is clear while I am watching the game now, it is that we have shown WAAYYYYY to much respect for the opponent and our opponent seemed very eager to grab us by the throath like it was a CL final. We got bluffed of the ball at times and that costed us. A typical thing young players do when playing a reputable opponent (The belgian must remember - we had the same problem in the NT with all the young ones). This also translated into not daring to take initiative and hiding a bit. Add a pivot option - and work on the mindset. Step by step. Carefree!

http://livefootballvideo.com/fullmatch/world/international-champions-cup/real-madrid-vs-chelsea#.UgNCQRYgov0

Completely agree ! Also, some of the posts don't seem to know what they want. Either you play to gain fitness and automatisms and you discard the result or you play for result. We simply took the first option. So not fazed at all here. Patience .... The hysteria on here (regarding future CL, EPL, ...) is reaching epic proportions.

Sorry for the rerun :-) this IS appropriate!

Eto'o .... is prolific. Stats wise, wow. Born 81, almos as old as me :-) I don't know ..... I just don't know. 32 ... Torres and Ba here. It doesn't sound like the project/philosophy we have here now.

We still need to establish if he is an innie or an outie!

Banhammer ..... Ow yeah!

Meh, he is quite allright to me :-) Ow comon, we have @JayC and stuff. Cicero a ManU fan? That is ok, you know :-)

Now this is interesting :-)

I agree ... Luiz is a fundamental piece of this team.