Zazard

Sad to see how things went, but I look forward to see youth players getting serious chances for the remainder of the season. Best youth team worldwide and a manager that refused to give them fair chances was painful to watch.

You're right to be speechless but let's not forget it's Jose Mourinho after all.
Let's all take a moment to remember just how poor the likes of Matic, Fabregas and Costa were when they initially signed for us. Just how terrible they were in their first few months at the football club and how Mourinho then transformed them to world-beaters.
It's a shame we fail to appreciate how truly amazing they've played after they got to properly work with Mourinho and absorb his tactics. Clearly, the amazing difference Mourinho made in these 3 players is there for all to see, right?

C'mon you are better than this post suggests.
Luck is nothing to do with it - we cannot create chances from open play
The team do not know how to attack and defend together as a unit
I think the problems run deeper than 'luck'

it must be him ,, he is a Belgium and talented

He's a mess, like everything else, there isn't anything you can point to that's positive.
In previous times he would chuck the toys out of the pram and the players would pick them up, now, the mess is scattered and nobody is doing it. There is no hiding from the fact that right now we are a complete car crash of a football club, the constant FA fines, the constant mouthing off to officials, being sent from the technical area and general shite conduct is embarrassing to say the least.
I'm absolutely gutted what is going on right now, fucking kills me.

Just like Cuadrado situation. Usually the player is introduced when there is 15 or 10 minutes left, then if he start one or two games and doesn't have the game of his life he will be discarded after 6 months.

No one is talking about balls or lack of ball (actually the balls talk was a excuse Mourinho introduced seasons ago to explaing why his team was playing a poor football).
There is no problem at all when a player is droppes, the problem is the reason why.
Hazard was dropped bacause the team was conceding too many goals. Its like dropping Terry because the team is not scoring enough goals.

Brana is our best right back!?

He has to go.
Mourinho just isn't your long-term manager, as much as I'd love him to be one. He comes in your club when it's in bad position, crates "us against them" mentality, motivates players and wins trophies by playing defensive football. Then he loses it. The players are tired after playing all the matches in the previous season, motivation drops because trophies were won, there is no rotation - the same players play every match, players that don't play feel alienated. Young players (besides few) feel like they have no future at the club. Bad results come and some players (usually leaders - Casillas, JT) express their disappointment just to receive harsh treatment and isolation from the manager. Some players that are Mourinho's favorite stand by his side and this causes even more drama in the club.
Mourinho is like a match, he lights brightly and burns quickly. We need a candle.

Exactly
Nevermind about Mourinho wanting to scapegoat Oscar as well for some reason. He hasn't played well, but fucking hell he has played nowhere near as bad a Fabregas.

ordinary>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.shit

What I find hilarious is Mourinho leaving Matic and Hazard out to apparently 'send a message' but leaves Ivanovic and Fabregas in the starting 11...

Klopp and Emery. Two excellent options. Trophies, attacking football, trust in youth.

I am one of the guys that have defended Mourinho the most over the course of his career, why ? Because I always found sense in his choices and decisions.
I don't feel that now, he is a shadow of the real Mourinho, the one that one us the league last season, the one that would BENCH A FUCKING PLAYER WHEN HE'S THAT BAD.
I also thinks he is losing the dressing room, what he did to Hazard today and Matic Saturday and today while playing Ivanovic and Cesc is totally unacceptable,
And I also think that the real pressure from the board starts against Southampton...

Sack him. No improvements after 10+ games. He is clearly done. That huge pay check the clowns offered him when they gave him a new contract was the biggest mistake in recent history.

Off target? It was heading into the top corner

Finally watched it and I sort of I stand by my previous words, he wasn't impressive at all going forward.
I mean, he was pressing and he tackled the heck out of Arsenal, but he had a Ramires performance with his passing, it was very sloppy and most times he tackled successfully and recovered the possession, he gave it back following the tackle with bad passing.
In the second he was neater and he actually improved his passing considerably, but he still has a long way to go in terms of passing and going forward to his own standards.
And I also feel the same way I did before about his impact in the team - although I was just being a smartass and now I can say from knowing, he does improve our midfield and we look way more solid with him there. He played with Matic and Fabregas, with RLC and all of them had an easier match to play helped by how Oscar plays. He's a facilitator for them and he makes us more compact and solid in the midfield and that's a wonder in itself as our main problem in midfield is lack of physicality and speed and Oscar as small as he is, makes a difference.
I really hope he improves the sharpness - as I said it's expected to look like that when he got injured just after the season started, it'll take him a couple of weeks - and then there's another international break - for my complete dismay... but I think he brings a very positive impact to our midfield.
He might not be the answer many people would like or prefer to have, but we play better with him, even when he's been sloppy as he's been today. I just hope he can improve his consistency levels this season...

Its ridiculous isn't it. Whats the point of having a squad at all if we are only going to use it in the case of injury or suspension.
We haven't even consider the demoralising effect lack of rotation has on players who are bursting their assess on the training ground but never get a look in even when the regular starters are grossly out of form and the senior players have no motivation to fight for their places either in the absence of healthy competition.

All hazard needs to do for me is to develop finesse shots, curl his shots more at the angle instead of kicking the ball straight at the keeper or defenders.
And he should dribble with the aim of getting into the box where they can't tackle him carelessly, it would cause far more panic to defenses if he just stopped slowing down and allowing defenders to recover.
His talent is so amazing that he dribbles people when he desires, he just has to get more dangerous(by driving into the box not dribbling sideways) and be more consistent with it.

No idea how anyone can judge Falcao yet, we have barely seen him, he cant be match fit yet as he has barely played, Walsall will probably be his first start and where we can judge him better, hopefully he will start that game with some creative players like Hazard, Fabregas and Pedro, which will give him a better chance to get his first goal, if he starts that game with Moses and Remy on the wings then it could be a long night

First he deflects from the team's performance against Swansea with the whole Eva situation.
Then he deflects from the Eva situation with the performance against City.

I don't mind finishing 3rd or 4th as long as Loftus Cheek, Zouma, Stones(?) become regulars at the club.
What I would mind is finishing 3rd, 4th while sticking with Ivanovic and Cahill.

He was at the heart of our two best chances (the wrongly disallowed Ramires goal & the chance he obviously should've scored from). Ridiculous to kneejerk because of one missed chance as if the MoTM didn't miss about 4/5 better ones. Football fans are so fickle.

Hazard was playing in a team where he was surrounded by players who were playing as if they had not kicked a ball before. When that happens against another similar quality team, do you know difficult that is? If he was in that City team he would have been standout. He can't do everything on his own. He was the only one who was actually trying but this is not Hazard FC, it is Chelsea FC. He is not to blame at all.

I'm 100 percent convinced that every single poster defending Jose and trying to make light of the situation are doing so out of bias. From a neutral perspective, I'm willing to bet my mortgage on the fact that the tune will be different if José wasn't involved in the incident and it was Rafa or manager of some random/rival club.
No rational and non bias human being will view Jose's behaviour as anything but negative, aggressive and completely out of odrder and be held as the culprit in this situation.
This sets a very dangerous precedent from now on and backs Jose and the club into a very awkward corner. I.e "all physios will be required permission from Jose (the medical expert himself before doing their job or get demoted"