Rowan_Osborn

Yes i accept it will take a while to develop into a quick passing team, its just i don't think we can do this still playing Lampard and therefore he should be used as an impact sub. I thought we would of brought in a CM to suit our new style this window, it would of made sense.

It wasn't exactly a good goal, i could of saved

Yes they worked in the FA cup and Champions League, but we basically sat back and defended in both and counter attacked. Lampard was good last year because we played in a way that suited him. However when we are trying to play quick passing football, him and Mikel slow down the play allowing other teams to fall back and defend. Im not writing him off due to a bad game, just saying he needs to improve his distribution and to learn to sit back a bit more, as we are getting exposed at the back and he does not have the pace to get back.. He faced the same criticism when we tried to play attacking football last year and was only good when we played in a counter-attacking style. Yes they have 6 points from 2 games, but they were not hard games and we were often exposed in defence.

I dunno i reckon he could do a job there, I'm just trying to think of a way of putting all these creative talents to work, got to think that we will also have Piazon to fit in in a couple of years time, as well as maybe Thorgan Hazard. The future looks good attack wise. Hopefully Chalobah will progress well this year and he can take up the DM role. I wasn't thinking of Oscar as a CDM more of a role like Modric had at Spurs. We turned Mikel into a DM as well, he used to be attack minded

I disagree that Lampard and Mikel can work together well. They are good as individual players but as a partnership they just don't work. RDM definitely needs to try another pair to try and find our best pairing as we cannot progress with these two as our starters.

Azpicuelta should of definitely played last night. As for Ivan, when I've seen him play at CB he has been very poor, I wouldn't replace Cahill or Luiz with him to be honest. Thats a good shout about Ramires playing to compensate Ramires, he is clearly a better CM than a RW so theres no other reason to play him there, especially when our CMs haven't been up to scratch. Oscar did well last night, I reckon he could do well at the holding CM role. Ivan has popped up with some good goals for us, but his attacking play is otherwise quite poor and he does make mistakes quite often in defence, the city game was a good example, he always shows good determination though.

Since when did Dempsey become a sought after player. He was good last year but previous seasons he has been mediocre at best.

We can't defend against pace, as our defence is very slow. We need a faster CM in either Lampard or Mikel's position to help us counteract this.

Ivan was the best RB in the league a couple of seasons ago. He is a better RB than he is a CB. Being a player down clearly effected our ability to defend. I agree Tevez shouldn't of been given that much space. He run across the whole edge of the box and not one player put in a challenge. No DMs helped but the defence should of been able to cope. We will take a while to settle in defence as our new AMS offer little cover and we played last year with a lot of cover in these positions, this is why Ivan is getting exposed. We play better with Bertrand because our fullbacks are used to the cover. When we gel as a team we will be able to defend more effectively. I still think we need a quick CM to play alongside a more defence minded one, Ramires would be perfect for this, as this would prevent us being exposed by speed.

It depends how we set up and the tactics we intend to use. Against Bayern and Barca we set out to defend and counter attack. All four of our games this season we have expected to be on the front foot and score first then defend, last night it didn't work. Against Man City we were unlucky with Ivan's sending off as it restricted our ability to defend and gave City space to play with. We will develop balance, this is still a new, young side and we can't expect it to be perfect from the outset.

Sturridge is clearly a better right winger than Ramires and playing him there would allow Ramires to play in his natural CM role.

I reckon it was BS too. A loan would of been pointless as he can leave for free next summer. We need to play him as a CF to show that the club rates him and hopefully he will sign a new deal. He has potential to be a great player.

We would of been in the dog house if we hadn't bought Cahill in January last year.

I don't think so. We can defend when we need to, as we did against Bayern and Barca. What we need to develop is a balance between the two.

Reading's goals were not really defensive errors but goalkeeping mistakes, we were on the front foot for most of that game and did well. Wigan and Newcastle were made to look poor by our play and the defence and holding mids prevented Newcastle from attacking, Ben Arfa was hardly mentioned due to the good job Bertrand and Cole did. I agree we need a balance and it will take a while to come, but i don't think people should be so negative this early on, even if we hadn't won our first three games.

Yes i don't think we can judge our defence on last season, as basically we sat the whole team back with Drogba up top. Remember how long it took for us to adapt to AVB's defensive tactics ( we never really did), hopefully it won't take that long but it won't be the immediate success people seem to be predicting.

We are still trying to adapt to a new system. Before the start of the season most Chelsea fans were expecting us to take a while to settle, as we have performed well in our opening three games people seem to have forgotten this. Luiz will come good, he has the qualities to be a good player and if he can iron out his mistakes then he will be a top player.

We have improved, we are much better in attack and our defence is as good as it was last year. Wigan are a good side and we have struggled at the DW recently, it was a good result. Against Reading we showed great determination to come back and the goals scored against us were a strange mistake form Cech and then some great attacking work.

I can't think of many better CBs that are available. Cahill and Luiz could be world class and Terry is, as he as shown at the Euros. Cahill and Luiz were amazing against Bayern and on that form i couldn't think of many better CBs. Last night was bad all round but it was a blip rather than the norm.

He looks very good and at 18years old he has still got 3 years at least until he would be wanting a first team place, in that time i reckon IVan would of moved on.

I was surprised by this as Malouda still gets in France's national team. You would of thought that he would of taken this into consideration and looked for first team action elsewhere.

Luiz was poor, but you blamed the whole defence. for the 3rd goal the speed of the break didn't allow for Luiz to get back from the corner, but if you watch Lampard he is around the box but is casually jogging. the 1st goal was Luiz's fault, the second was a great finish but could have been prevented. Our main issue was a lack of pace in defence, Ivan was too easily exposed by Adrian Lopez.

I don't think you can put yesterdays defeat on the defence. They were left exposed by the CMs and lack of support from the wingers. Its almost impossible to defend against quick breaks, especially when the opposition has someone of Falcao's class up top.

He should get some game time though, especially i cup games. The kid has huge potential we should try and develop it.

We might of got Marin, Moses and Azpicuelta. We would of had to of watched City get Hazard and Spurs probably get moutiniho or Hulk ( we basically didn't get him because Porto don't like us). Would of been one of the worst transfer windows and now its been probably the best i can remember.