Tacticalpanic

the spine of cech terry lampard drogba is ledgondary , does it really matter who ranks who where. at the same time though you cant just look at stats , it was very very rare that drogba's scored goals that didn't make much of a difference to a result. he gave our entire team confidence in a big game because there was ALLWAYS a drogba moment.

i dont get why we have gone from one exstreme to the next , from a team full of over 30 players to getting rid of all of them , the best players that are 30 or over and still puting in the perforances should get there rewards regardless of age within reson. Lampards 34 and doesint really fit our new system very well , so a 1 year exstention makes sence , what doesint make sence is offering just a 1 year deal to ashely cole.

Lampard is a perfectly good choice if we are setting up for the counter attack , but i feel that his play lets us down when we are trying to play possession football , all our other midfielders are better than him with one touch pass and move. mikel + lampard is too slow for build up play generaly.

I partly agree with you , had we got a pen and scored and then aobsorbed QPR's pressure we'd have applauded the tactics , however in the 2nd half we were overrun in midfield , torres couldint hold the ball up and cech kept giving the ball back to the opposition , RDM waited far far far too long to change things that were clearly not working.

its funny how serious QPR fans get against us but we clearly dont feel the same lol

imo mata's just as good as silva , both players were great last season , silva looked better in a championship winning team. this season mata has better players around him so we'll see what happens.

not a chance , you'd have to be insane to drop torres after finaly he looks like hes regainning his confidence and form. sturrage just needs to man up and bide his time. thats what you need to do at the top clubs. he'll get his chance once the cup games come round, just not gonna risk him vs juvi.

Meireles wasn't a superstar for us , but he'll always be remembered as one of the ten warriors at camp nou.

lets not panic , remmeber in the league were it matters , we're 9 points from a possible 9. sure newcastle reading and wigan are not world beaters , but manchester united have proved over the years that beating the lesser teams is how you win the league , not the top 4 mini league. this team can break tight defences and break them well. we will solid up the defence as the season goes on.

na I think we're solid and in a much much better position than last season , I just dont like mikel and lampard being played together.

I've got Drogba 11 on the home strip , and on the champions league away top i have mata 10.

mata is on a two week holdiay , that includes trainning , so I doubt he'll play the QPR game

its not really a case of parking the bus against teams , we play 4-3-3 ususaly , that means you defend in a 4-5-1 , when barcalona have the ball most of the time , that means we're gonna have 8 guys back with two players ready to burst forward when we gain possession. with only 10 men what exactly you ment to do? lol , your forced to play 4-5-0 so many teams try to emulate the defensive game we brought and fail , too many people think its a case of sit infront of your goal with 8 players , most teams fail and drop too far deep so cant get the ball far enough away to relieve pressure. what made our defensive game so good was the likes of ramires bursting forward getting the ball away, drogba tanking up front. just few seem to appresiate that side of the game and act like it makes us shit. in any other sport 4 shots on target 3 goals = your accracy is extreme

If he went on holiday for 3 weeks theres no way he could play returning a day before a game. he'd need a weeks trainning at the minimum.

forget stats , mata playing deeper is whats made our attack much much much better allready , instead of the ball going from mikel > Lampard > mata > drogba , its going mikel >mata>hazard at a faster tempo. scholes stats would make him seem an average midfielder , but in his prime was problaby the best playmaker in english football.

thats fair enough , but is that the only reson ramires has been playing RW? , I suspect having ramires and lampard as the cm's would be much better than mikel and lampard , however its a question of wother or not lampard and ramires can cover each other when one goes forward. with mikel you've got the secruty in a safe pair of hands at the job. I just feel ramires engine is waisted on the wing when we've been having problems with the middle being overrun.

is there any reson why ramires has to play on the wing rather than as a CM?

Maby it was a triple bluff lol

Welcome , I'm both a chelsea and Penguins fan so maybe you'll be indifferent to me lol

I'm interested to see how Essien does this season with proper rest and a injury free preseason under his belt.

I think the team done well , theres alot of things we need to work on but with a bunch of new players trying to gel , fitness issues due to pre season being interupted and other factors i'll take a 2-0 comfortable win any day. i think we will improve alot after the first month or so once the players are sharper.

I agree lampard is our best penalty taker , he's proved that time and time again, reminds me when lampard took a penilty against wigan instead of drogba , when the title is on the line you pick the best guy for the job . if it was 3-0 allready thats when you can start to have some fun. My only issue with lampard is the worry that when you have both mikel and lampard in the midfield it just doesint seems to slow our attack down. but then again I cant see our other CM's doing any better in that regard. something the team have to work on anyway , impressed with the speed hazard and mata get the ball up front, something we've had trouble with for a while now.