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@ for me. But @Leif and @Muzchap very very close.

That's when, IMHO, his movement (and other's movement, like Hazard) can help it the most. Off the ball movement can open spaces to the rest of the team and for himself. Constantly swapping positions confuses the oposition. The games I've seen him doing worse were the games he was limited to a small part of the pitch. Like when he was apparently ordered to fill Hazard role on the left wing. He was woeful in that game.

I have no idea if it has been posted before but I really like this analysis on Oscar: http://brazil.worldcupblog.org/world-cup-2010/the-playmakers-oscar.html

I think Oscar's problem is beyond adaptation to EPL. I mean, he's massive for Brazil even against strong opposition. I feel that he's been misused a bit. He has way less freedom in Chelsea, he drifts a lot across the field for Brazil and that's when he shines. Besides that, I've seen Oscar creating a lot of chances which have gone to waste because we lack a proper finisher. I feel his assists should be way higher than they are right now.

TBH I think this is going to be easy. If I recall correctly, when we drew with QPR, their GK, Julio Cesar, had a great performance, otherwise we would have taken the 3 points. But he's injured or something, isn't he?

I've got chances to win the lotteries aswell.

I can't wait for this game. I've been traveling lately and couldn't watch the last ones. Has Luiz improved in DM since?

THIS! This, sir, made my day. HAHAHAHA

My night was shit because things didn't work out with some belgian girl I have a crush on. Now I'm gonna join my fellow brazilians in the Hazard hate spreading. Just kidding folks (about the last part).

I know how you're feeling.

I was talking about Luiz, haha. But I guess it fits Terry aswell. As I said, it's not uncommon for those kind of players to become great leaders.

I thought he was performing quite well against Corinthians till the moments he started losing his opportunities. A striker of his caliber has to score goals. As simple as that. I thought he improved his positioning from the beggining of the season to now. I thought he won a lot of aerial balls. But missing golden chances like that one in the last minutes of the match is just unforgivable for any decent striker. He had the ball on his feet, he had plenty of space, he had more than enough time to think what to do, however, his shot went directly to their GK. WTF, I would have scored that. It doesn't matter what he does on the pitch if he doesn't score when he's had plenty of chances. Look at Corinthians' player Danilo moments before their goal. That's the kind of cold calmness I want from a striker. Had it been Torres there, he would have shot directly in the legs of our first defender. More so than a lack of physical form, Torres is in an horrendous mental state. When he's facing opposing GKs he gets nervous as hell and blows most opportunities.

I don't know. Sometimes players like Luiz can become great leaders. If they're able to transmit all that passion and energy to the other players, that is. Luiz lacks some calmness, though. IMHO a leader has to be able to keep his head clear when difficult times come, and I feel Luiz tends to lose control when things are going off, commiting stupid fouls, becoming agressive etc.

We gotta be patient with the lad. It's his first season and he's young. He's had his ups and downs but all in all he's doing great considering everything. Nonetheless, we shouldn't expect a 21-year-old to be winning games for us all by himself, no matter how good prospect Hazard is. That's specially true when the rest of the team is doing so so and you have a shitty striker.

I think ppl criticize Hazard because they have high expectations of him. Higher than those for our other players. He's not playing bad by any means. Maybe not up to his normal standards lately, but not bad at all. Also, I don't know where did this brazilian vs. belgian shit talk come from, but that's just not true. I mean, one guy says something and suddenly it's: "brazilians" dislike Hazard/Belgians, wtf?

I've managed to do that once. It's not as easy as it looks, you gotta miss it by a large margin Btw, impossible to get mad at Mata, such a great person. It's a bliss to read his thoughts on the matches.

And it has costed them about half Torres

For me it's Rafa, hands down. He's spoken shit about Chelsea before. Was Loserpool's manager. He's clueless. He believes and defends Torres. I guess that summarizes it well enough.

I like that. But I'd like to see some quality players sitting on the bench too. I'm not sure, but Sturridge is leaving, isn't he? Torres is worth shit. Is Lukaku coming back?

When government chooses one team to help, that's not good sign. They should mess with none of them. But in doing so, why the second biggest crowd? Why not the first, Flamengo? Why now? When you are already linked with BNDES for loan? When you already got tax cut. When you already got so much from the government, there comes a public bank with the highest sponsorship of the entire country for you club. Yeah, that doens't sound bad at all. Money has no relation with the players you can buy. Ok. And FIFA didn't have so much problem with Morumbi. Our local commité had. And who was in charge of those things? Ricardo Teixeira, our local Don Corleone in regards of football. And who is his best pal? Our fellow Andres Sanchez, Corinthians ex-president. But ok, I still believe in Santa and stuff. There's nothing wrong going on.

Gotta win this, after the shameful defeat on CWC we need to get back on track.

But let's not derail this thread.

Their mistakes are 90% in favor of Corinthians. But well, those things happen, right?

And it surpasses football. You guys mess with my money aswell. Yeah, why would anyone dislike Corinthians? You are sponsored by a public company. The stadium you're building had the taxes cut, you got a loan from public money. Morumbi's reform would cost 300 million from Sao Paulo's account. But now you guys will get this 1 billion stadium with something like 700 million coming indirectly from my pocket. What's not to love about it?

Come on. Refs are always helping you guys out. It's outrageous.