Dion

To me it looks like this was blown out of proportion. It wasn't even worth a red card for me. If I was the ref, I'd have given Hazard a yellow and sent of the ball boy, that would have done the deal.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. YEAH, RIGHT! I mean, why haven't anyone thought about that yet? All you gotta do is never defend and you'll be the next Messi. We've gotta find Torres' number asap, finally we've found the solution.

I thought Oscar defended really well today, he won the ball back at least two or three times. But when he is on the wings he's clearly worse. The best plays from him came when he was more centralized today.

HAHAHA. WOW, that's just how I feel. Perfect analogy.

Our first half was a delight to see, really brilliant. Does anyone have the possession statistics for the 1st half? It looked like I was watching Barcelona playing, the team held possession and worked to create chances really well.

To be honest, today there were split seconds when I thought old Torres was back, but when the time comes, he always misses the pass, the shoot or whatever he tries.

Really good 1st half. Quiet in the 2nd. All in all, a good match from Hazard. I wouldn't say he was bad at all - created chances, took on players, shot to goal. One of the best in the pitch, even if he looked tired in the end.

Never thought about it that way.

I agree with that, but I think he's being misused and that contributes to the feeling you get.

Dude, Oscar had many judicial/legal problems during that period. He was disallowed to play several matches. It was a tough year for him. Besides, he was playing for Internacional. You know brazilian media tends to 'forget' clubs that are not from São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. You know if he was playing for SPFC, Corinthians or Flamengo he'd be a major player in the news.

I've watched it once. I was away from home so I didn't have much of a choice, but I'm never ever doing it again ps: my teacher is talking about her personal life so I might aswell take care of mine.

You should see brazilian media! HAHAHAHAHA. Romper can explain it to you for now, I'm late for class. See you guys later.

The same commentators that were saying Romeu everytime Hazard got the ball on globoesporte.com.

Lucas wasn't. Paulinho was about on par, so was Ronaldinho and Bernard. Danilo was close but below. Barcos wasn't by that time. Vagner Love wasn't. Zé Roberto wasn't. Seedorf wasn't. Ralf wasn't. I won't comment on Fred because I dislike him very much so I'm biased about him. The ones who were above him FOR SURE were only Neymar and Cavalieri. Few people knew Oscar because São Paulo was benching him for no reason. I'm a Sao Paulo fan and we were pissed because Oscar would be played only in the last 20 minutes of the games even though he always made an impact.

Let's agree to disagree. I mean, not everyone can follow closely every league in the planet, so you've gotta trust the opinion of somebody. Most people would believe those news are written/produced by pros, by people who know what they're talking about and have some criteria, unfortunately that's not always the case.

I believe our formation is hindering the talent of the trio. Not only Oscar, but Mata and Hazard too. I don't like them playing the 4-2-3-1 together at all.

List those 10 players who were better than him. I've seen many Internacional fans agreeing he was their best player, for instance. And he was definitely top 3 u21 players.

I think he has played a few. I remember I've seen him there at least one or two times.

Why am I not surprised by this?

Well, most brazilians think Oscar is the best player in Chelsea squad because the press makes them believe so. If you don't follow english football closely and listen to brazilian media you would be led to think Oscar is the best player we've got. They aren't stupid, they're misinformed.

I think he meant your comparison with Mata is invalid because, despite Mata's best position being AM, his set of skills allow him to do well on the wings. That's not the case for Oscar. I'm a bit disappointed with Oscar aswell. But he's playing out of position, his season started in the beginning of 2012 (because brazilian league's schedule is different), he has played a lot of games, including Olympics and friendlies with NT and he is in his first season in EPL. So I think I'm not being biased here when I say his drops of performance are somewhat understandable.

I expected more from him today. But playing against Barça is hard because you have little possession.

This was embarassing and yet funny to read

It's unbelievable how much better than Torres he is.

I think Courtois is already a great player.