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I think he can. Hazard makes a lot of mazing dribbles like messi but if you also put costa through on goal like how messi does with Neymar, people will be afraid of crowding you knowing you can just pass dangerously

Messi is just too good. My goodness. He uses body movement and faking his body to dribble. Incredible player. See how many through passes he puts in for Neymar??? Only if hazard does that too

Exactly. If the movement was practiced, everyone would know what to do when we attack and the attacking play would be more fluid and quick. Even if it's just a simple move, once its done at a high tempo, you'll confuse defenders easily.

How's that bellarabi?? Is he a good player??

Accepting draws now eh

Not shocked if we buy him. Only a physically strong defensive winger can fit that right wing with Mourinho's tactics, especially if he's left footed on top of that. Hopefully he knows how to hold possession in tight spaces and not loose the ball to the first player that attacks him

It's simple. We never practice our movement inside the box. There's freedom of movement for Oscar, hazard, costa and fabregas but it's not practiced so it's still the same thing as throwing players in the box and hope they're intelligent enough to create more

It's been long since I saw this argument Peace where have you been, it's been a while since you posted.

Exactly, that's the right word for it. "outfought" Fighting is our identity if we ever had one. We're loosing too much 50-50 challenges and aerial challenges which is strange. That's why we should start fighting back like that 2nd half whenever a team pressured us. But if we sit back a little, we should do it like last season where Liverpool couldn't create a chance all game at home. Cech never had as much motm performances last season like courtois has already.

Maybe this days I've been complaining more than I used to. I love Mourinho and have followed him since he stepped into our club over 10 years ago. Mourinho is a coach who doesn't care how the game goes to win, but one thing he never depended on was too much luck. He normally can easily make a match boring but no team ever really dominated or created so much chances against a Mourinho team unless he wants to make it an open game with him creating the same amount back like against westham. The first half also followed the same performance against PSG in our home when we were expecting a reaction so fans were visibly frustrated. I'm not used to this from Mourinho so I'm concerned, doesn't mean I know better than Mourinho.

To some extent I pity him because teams have picked up on him compared to the beginning of the season where he had more space. I noticed now that when he has the ball costa is properly marked to prevent that splitting pass in the beginning of the season. Oscar is left free and fabregas is pressured to pass back or lose the ball. But that's his weakness, how I wish he knew how to protect the ball with his body in the way and fall on the ball if pushed from behind. I play football and I think I'm better than Fabregas in protecting my ball, I use my ass push them back and use my arms to prevent anyone from coming from the sides. You'll have to push me or kick me to collect the ball unless 2 players press me. Fabregas can't hold the ball even if my little sister chased him.

When I say sitting back, I don't mean parking the bus, I mean not pressing. But standing off is the right word like we did against Liverpool in the first leg of the carling cup.

I know we went forward when we had the ball but we defend by not pressing and sitting back. That's a terrible tactics, against a good team, we give them all that space to do what they want. I agree the passing was rubbish but it's because they showed us how pressing is done. You have to be Barcelona to escape proper pressing so we should have pressed them back instead of giving up a fight and conceding chances anyways. It's frustrating me

I think this is a better place to post this: That first half was the reason why we stood no chance in the Champions League. We tried to defend after scoring one goal and they still got so many chances. There are a lot of things we have to do to get better next season. 1. I think we shouldn't sign anymore Brazilians. Most of them have the worst decision making in any team. We're looking for energy from them but when they get fatigued, where's the little bit of quality? 2. We need to find a Spanish midfielder, people with good decision making/keypasses /assist record and can still press. (Koke) We need to buy schneiderlin from Southampton to play besides Matic in the big games next season, Fabregas should stay away from the pivot or benched against any team that does pressing. 3. I think Mourinho is ruining everybody on the right wing with his tactics. The right wingers first job is to cover for ivanovic instead of attacking. Then the subs play 10 mins every 2-3 games. What is annoying me is the amount of money and time we have spent on that wing (KDB, schurlle, Salah, Mata, Willian, cuadrado) and no one seems to get a grip, it means the fault is in the tactics. Either Mourinho gets a player who suits his tactics both offensively and defensively or he should do some rotation. In fact he shouldn't buy any player who doesn't have body strength for the right wing again, because from 2 years of watching the movement of the right winger I think the player Mourinho is looking for is James Milner. I'm confident if we buy reus for the right wing he'll look like salah was here. 4. And lastly wtf has happened to our pressing and intensity?? Since when can Southampton, Liverpool and tottenham press better than us??? If our players are weak under pressure, why don't we press the opponent back?? What is this sitting back, giving up and letting them create as much chances as they want and hope courtois has a great game?? Courtois has had too much motm performances and has made far too many saves with this our slow style of play. We need to attack faster, press faster like the 2nd half and stop this firsthalf slow, sluggish and turgid play that is not an identity of a Mourinho team.

That first half was the reason why we stood no chance in the Champions League. We tried to defend after scoring one goal and they still got so many chances. There are a lot of things we have to do to get better next season. 1. I think we shouldn't sign anymore Brazilians. Most of them have the worst decision making in any team. We're looking for energy from them but when they get fatigued, where's the little bit of quality? 2. We need to find a Spanish midfielder, people with good decision making/keypasses /assist record and can still press. (Koke) We need to buy schneiderlin from Southampton to play besides Matic in the big games next season, Fabregas should stay away from the pivot or benched against any team that does pressing. 3. I think Mourinho is ruining everybody on the right wing with his tactics. The right wingers first job is to cover for ivanovic instead of attacking. Then the subs play 10 mins every 2-3 games. What is annoying me is the amount of money and time we have spent on that wing (KDB, schurlle, Salah, Mata, Willian, cuadrado) and no one seems to get a grip, it means the fault is in the tactics. Either Mourinho gets a player who suits his tactics both offensively and defensively or he should do some rotation. In fact he shouldn't buy any player who doesn't have body strength for the right wing again, because from 2 years of watching the movement of the right winger I think the player Mourinho is looking for is James Milner. I'm confident if we buy reus for the right wing he'll look like salah was here. 4. And lastly wtf has happened to our pressing and intensity?? Since when can Southampton, Liverpool and tottenham press better than us??? If our players are weak under pressure, why don't we press the opponent back?? What is this sitting back, giving up and letting them create as much chances as they want and hope courtois has a great game?? Courtois has had far too many motm performances this season and thats what teams like Burnley should be hoping on, not Chelsea. We need to attack faster, press faster like the 2nd half and stop this firsthalf slow, sluggish and turgid play that is not an identity of a Mourinho team.

Scared of players running at him, scared of shooting. Scared

The matches we led and then being equalised. Schalke - from 1-0 to 1-1 City - from 1-0 to 1-1 Bolton - from 1-0 to 1-1(win 2-1) United - from 1-0 to 1-1 Shrewsbury - from 1-0 to 1-1 (win 2-1) QPr - from 1-0 to 1-1 (win 2-1) Maribor - from 1-0 to 1-1 Scums - from 1-0 to 1-1 (defeat 5-3) Liverpool/ Capital one cup - from 1-0 to 1-1 Bradford - from 2-0 to 2-2 (defeat 2-4) City again - from 1-0 to 1-1 Aston Villa - from 1-0 to 1-1 (win 2-1) PSG - from 1-0 to 1-1 Burnley - from 1-0 to 1-1 PSG again - from 1-0 to 1-1; from 2-1 to 2-2 Southampton - from 1-0 to 1-1 Scary, I think buying defenders have become the top priority this summer

He played well in the 2nd half. But he doesn't shoot more, likes waiting for the perfect chance and he doesn't give through passes to people making the runs during possession. I know his weaknessin his game play, it doesn't mean he didn't play well today.

We just wasted the whole first half. I accept everyone of our players are shit and weak when they are pressing us, what i dont accept is us not pressing them back and playing so slow like that first half.

Should give more through passes, should shoot more and should look out for when costa and others are making runs. 3 things keeping him below his potential there

I apologize to KDB, Salah, and Mata. The reason why our right wingers look so terrible is because they play 10 mins once every 3 matches. Impossible to be hazard with that type of game time.

We just wasted the whole first half. I accept everyone of our players are shit and weak when they are pressing us, what i dont accept is us not pressing them back and playing so slow like that first half.

We just wasted the whole first half. I accept everyone of our players are shit and weak when they are pressing us, what i dont accept is us not pressing them back and playing so slow like that first half.

Wtf terry, wtf