Dion

Sometimes I feel some journalists don't really watch european games. Seriously. I know some would do as you said, to keep the general public enthusiastic about the game, but sometimes I'm not certain - for example - globoesporte.com was broadcasting Chelsea vs. Nord online and the guys kept saying Romeu when Hazard got the ball and commiting other minor mistakes like that, as if they had never watched a Chelsea game before.

But would you find it so hard to believe there could be one or two players who were close to Chelsea level in top portuguese/russian teams?

Brazilian league is stronger than Dutch league, for instance. It's not as bad as you make it sound.

Shameful comparison from globoesporte. This would be somewhat more accurate: Cassio <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Cech Alessandro <<<< Ivanovic Chicao << Cahill Paulo Andre <<<< David Luiz Fabio Santos <<<<<<<< Ashley Cole Ralf < Mikel Paulinho >> Ramires Danilo <<<< Juan Mata Jorge Henrique <<<<< Oscar Sheik <<<<< Hazard Paolo Guerrero < Torres. The only thing they can compare to us is double pivot and striker, and the last is only true because I gave up on believing Torres will regain his form.

Giving up brazilian championship to prepare to CWC is bullshit. I have no clue why would a manager do that, it always end up with the team playing badly. Corinthians is displaying way worse form now than back then when they won Libertadores or Brazilian Champ 2011. The same happened to Santos in the last CWC. I just don't get it.

Now we're screwed.

I'm 22. So what? I'm not bashing anyone. I'm just saying their chances were not equivalent as someone was implying.

No, that's not it. Hazard received the ball in the box and there was no defender on him when he received the ball. It was a much better chance, that's not hard to understand.

Damn, Mata. Gotta score that!

Hazard had a much clearer opportunity.

Fuck!

Zidane watching the game in the stadium, hahaha. Amazing.

Nord 2-1. Crazy game.

Shakhtar losing? I didn't see that coming.

It looked like a foul to me. But damn...

Why can't Cech pass the ball to our defenders?

Mata is playing poorly today. C'mon, Mata, we need you.

This is looking bad.

Great play from Oscar <3

I noticed that too. Hazard receive some degree of return passes aswell. But nowhere near Mata. And Oscar attempts a few runs every game, but rarely does he receive the ball back.

I think he wants more speed in the middle. Weird sub, though.

Oscar likes to score in UCL games.

I would have wet dreams if we signed Neymar. We wouldn't be playing football anymore, we would produce magic in the pitch. The bets wouldn't be about number of goals anymore, but of how many superb dribbles and memorable plays would we create.

YES! PENALTY!

I find much of the bashing on Luiz really unfair tbh. He was not THAT poor yesterday. And even if he were, A. Cole had an awful start, Cahill wasn't much better either, nor was Ivanovic, who's even received a red card (it wasn't a foul imho, but he could have avoided it). Neither I think we can get a better cb than him or cahill easily or for cheap. The best thing we can expect for now is for RDM to find the best defensive system with the players we've got and hope things come together. Maybe then we won't even demand another cb.