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Sorry, I agree with these guys

I must confess I'm rather confused. I fail to understand what people mean by Mata doesn't perform in the big games. Last season, he destroyed Manchester United (the 'Champions') in every game he played, I'm sorry but doesn't Chelsea-United count as a big game for you. He performed superbly against Arsenal in both fixtures and had a brilliant game vs Spurs. He scored a brilliant goal to get us 3 points at Carrow Road. Scored against Everton last season and was good in the home fixture vs Shaktar. He consistently performed incredibly. If Mata is that bad people, then why are other teams dying to get their hands on him? This work rate thing is being taken against Mata a lot, it's as though it's the only important thing. Moreover, I'm also wondering why we spent 30 mil on a #10 when we already have one like Mata. Willian doesn't possess the greatest work rate from what I know (I might be wrong so please correct me). So when this playmaker you people regard as unworthy of starting for Chelsea purely cos of work rate (i.e Mata) is bad, then why Willian? Have you not seen that Mata is the most intelligent player in the league (ofc it's Ozil now) and has brilliant passing vision. He can drift in beautiful long balls which I must say nobody in our team is currently capable of doing. So then the question is why did we waste these 30 mil on Willian when we have Mata? Should we not have brought in a winger (as Ballack pointed on Sky that we have too many of the same players). True, you could argue that these days there aren't too many genuine wingers these days, but for 30 mil I guess we could find someone who provides width.If Arsenal managed to get Ozil of RM, would it have been possible for us to get Di Maria, which would possibly have resulted in RM not selling Ozil to Arsenal? Then I hear the other thing, that these days it is the job of the full backs to provide the width for a team and not the wingers. Then the questions is why do we have Ivanovic and Cole playing at full back if it is their job to provide width? Surely we should have bought an attacking-minded full back (or maybe even let Wallace stay?). So if the full backs are supposed to provide the width then why aren't we using Azpilicueta and Bertrand since they are technically superior and have more pace. IMO Mata is still useful for us and now this Willian signing is starting to feel rather confusing to me. Very tricky. This really is a weird dilemma.

I must confess I'm rather confused. I fail to understand what people mean by Mata doesn't perform in the big games. Last season, he destroyed Manchester United (the 'Champions') in every game he played, I'm sorry but doesn't Chelsea-United count as a big game for you. He performed superbly against Arsenal in both fixtures and had a brilliant game vs Spurs. He scored a brilliant goal to get us 3 points at Carrow Road. Scored against Everton last season and was good in the home fixture vs Shaktar. He consistently performed incredibly. If Mata is that bad people, then why are other teams dying to get their hands on him? This work rate thing is being taken against Mata a lot, it's as though it's the only important thing. Moreover, I'm also wondering why we spent 30 mil on a #10 when we already have one like Mata. Willian doesn't possess the greatest work rate from what I know (I might be wrong so please correct me). So when this playmaker you people regard as unworthy of starting for Chelsea purely cos of work rate (i.e Mata) is bad, then why Willian? Have you not seen that Mata is the most intelligent player in the league (ofc it's Ozil now) and has brilliant passing vision. He can drift in beautiful long balls which I must say nobody in our team is currently capable of doing. So then the question is why did we waste these 30 mil on Willian when we have Mata? Should we not have brought in a winger (as Ballack pointed on Sky that we have too many of the same players). True, you could argue that these days there aren't too many genuine wingers these days, but for 30 mil I guess we could find someone who provides width.If Arsenal managed to get Ozil of RM, would it have been possible for us to get Di Maria, which would possibly have resulted in RM not selling Ozil to Arsenal? Then I hear the other thing, that these days it is the job of the full backs to provide the width for a team and not the wingers. Then the questions is why do we have Ivanovic and Cole playing at full back if it is their job to provide width? Surely we should have bought an attacking-minded full back (or maybe even let Wallace stay?). So if the full backs are supposed to provide the width then why aren't we using Azpilicueta and Bertrand since they are technically superior and have more pace. IMO Mata is still useful for us and now this Willian signing is starting to feel rather confusing to me. Very tricky. This really is a weird dilemma.

but aren't the rules that you should wear your home kit at home? If not, then we ought to do the same, since we usually have classy 3rd/away kits.

Great teams come back from adversity. Let's scrap all this we have a 'crisis' crap today!

Well said! Always think positive. Great teams come back from adversity. Let's scrap all this we have a 'crisis' crap!

@, Why do Bayern wear their black kit in home UCL matches?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-mourinho-says-chelsea-change-crisis-143739240--sow.html Football - Mourinho: No crisis at Chelsea Two bad results do not make a crisis but Chelsea must break with the past and change their style of play to get back on top in the Premier League and Europe, manager Jose Mourinho said on FridayThank you Mourinho for talking some sense! Just because of 2 losses (of which the Everton loss was unlucky) we're not in a crisis all of sudden! Do you people not realise that for the past 2 seasons our title challenge has been virtually non existent? We are being called title contenders till now because of our reputation, do you expect Mourinho to just walk in and make us Treble Champions with a young side that is gelling? Of course not! This team will take time to improve and the management realise that. Benitez started off poorly last season (a 3-1 loss v West Ham and some others) but in the end he did a brilliant job and mostly silenced the critics (he got us 3rd place, two wins and a draw vs the 'Champions' and a Europa League) and here Mourinho has TWO losses and people are going on about a crisis..... Seriously wtf?

True, maybe I shouldn't have written even.

Ballack is a brilliant pundit.

We just don't have much variety in the front 3. It's 3 of the same individual players, no team work, no fluidity.

Roman Abramovich has just gone into the Chelsea dressing room!

Hopefully this will be a learning curve and we are going to come back even harder now. Great teams come back from tough times.

Would never have even dreamt this. Abramovich looks disappointed. Is he going to act? Dunno, not sure. Oh and if someone posts that overreaction posts are coming up, then you are retarded! WE'VE LOST TO FUCKING BASEL AT HOME, WHAT'S MORE WORTH REACTING THAN THAT! Rubbish performance, our defence let us down and our attack let us down. Either way even if our defence let us down we should have been able to score 3 goals at least! We won here even under Rafa........

4 mins, we need 2 goals!

Extremely annoyed and frustrated. Only a miracle can save us now!

.............. Yes well done. WELL DONE! Piece of shit! FS we won this game comfortably under RAFA!

Lampard and MVG off for Mikel and Ba *fingers crossed*

Lol mind your language! I am just giving updates on the games around Europe.

What was Cole doing? I'd rather have Bertrand atm

FUCK THIS SHIT! BASEL EQUALISE! You've got to get a 2nd goal!

Let's go Juan!Arsenal lead 1-0 via Walcott (courtesy of some horror defending)

Let's go Juan!

Blascykowski makes way for Weindefeller.