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Once you chase him and pressure he and the rest of our team become shit

Matic has been terrible and Terry and cahill have been playing like kids

Please don't sit back, please it's too early

And a counterattack goal

Costa has finally been given proper service

Azpi lol

We played 120 mins with a lot of these players. On another hand they were walking in that match so...

I feel like if PSG beat us in their home we would have come out with nothing to lose and beat them.

The only reason I'm pointing this out is because it happened last season too. After new years day last season we rarely scored 3 goals again. I think only three times from January till may.We're following the same pattern again, after new years day we've scored 3 goals once. I'm not complaining when we're winning but we have so many points ahead of mancity so we can afford to attack just a little bit more.

For a while, once we score, we then defend, keep it tight and stop pressing. We need to keep on pressing till we are 2 goals up before we sit back and counter.

We have enough points ahead to risk taking the shackles off hazard and fabregas and dominate teams as we did in the beginning of the season... Score some goals, even arsenal have now scored more than us by now if I'm not mistaken

If ivanovic knew how to block a cross, he'll be world class. He's as bad as bosingwa in this aspect, luckily he is a threat in attack

He is a right winger but his vision is very good so he can easily play behind the striker. If we sell him without even giving him a chance here, no attacking teenager will make it in our club. You won't find better talent than this at this age.

I just had a feeling he's too good. I've never been this impressed about our youth team player not even KDB impressed me this much. I'm so confident in his abilities that if he's given 5 straight games in front of Oscar or Willian he'll relegate them to the bench like zouma.

I hope the talk with the players was about how our attacking football has left us since the beginning of the year. And how we've been not been dominating matches for too long. Clear lack of goals

The thing is, because we're not a possession style team, hazard touches the ball less than other teams.For example, Ronaldo can afford to try to shoot from distance everytime because he knows he'll get the ball again very soon. But since we average 55% possession and even 43% against big teams, it means hazard sees the ball 20-30 times less than other attacking players so he has more chances to miss, more chances to dribble, more chances to assist. Edit: I don't know if you understood what I meant

Exactly. I have this feeling too that he's going to dump anyone who doesn't fit his style. No look at Liverpool, all their attackers shoot from outside the box, but we've become worse than arsenal at looking for the perfect goal instead of laying the ball off for a long shot. We have no risk takers, especially since fabregas stopped attempting through passes, and no one can shoot from distance, even hazard dribbles too safe, stops, doesn't want to take the shot. Mourinho hasn't had this profile of players who are weak physically and weak aerial before and he's trying to adjust his tactics but it isn't perfect so far especially defensively. We need an essien in midfield who can carry the ball into the box when the pretty passes aren't working. We have no proper shooters in our team, even arsenal have more players that can score from outside the box than us.

Most of the time, defenders improve under Mourinho. Far more than attackers hazard, Ronaldo, ozil, Milito, Sneijder are the only attackers I can remember who IMPROVED since he left us in 2008

The passion and energy luiz showed was exactly what we used to have in the big games last season. Sad to see us lose it

In the first half of the season, our attacking movement was there for everyone to see. The movement, chance creation and pressing energy was high. Now for the 2nd season in a row, the 2nd half of the season we are scared to attack, we don't press for more than 10 mins in a match and I think its becoming evident that we don't practice attacking movement any more, very frustrating because not many can beat us attack for attack Everton experienced this earlier in the season.

Lol Wish willian could be more ambitious with the ability he has

If he was at Chelsea, he'll probably be defending and we'll all complain of his lack of ability

But compared to a lot of our former CMs, he's physically weak

Spot on. I too get this feeling that this isn't his team yet. He is used to having physical players in the middle. This is the first time he has Fabregas Oscar Willian Hazard Ramires Even Azpilicueta All these players in the starting line-up can't win aerial duels or physically dominate people like ballack essien and lampard used to. Mourinho can't physically be dominant again, so if any team puts us under pressure and our passes are not going, we can't make powerful drives like essien and ballack used to do, we can't even score a goal from a cross and header from openplay. We are not direct, we hate taking shots unless we're infront of the keeper, We can't defend and prevent teams from getting chances again. So this type of team have not been used by Mourinho before, he must be worried.

On the match yesterday, I knew it was a disaster the moment i saw a red card. This meant our players didn't know whether to stick to the original plan of defence and counter or attack because the opponent had red card. Mourinho should have told them to stick with the pressing, stick with the quick play but he clearly told them to slow down. I don't know why, but that's what it is. If Mourinho's only tactics is to soak pressure and hit people on the break, then fabregas is useless to him. He can't defend and can't run on the counter so he should have been subbed off and not oscar. This is one of the reasons we've become worse than last season in the big games, we're playing with one less defensive player instead of the huge luiz - Matic pivot, we now use fabregas and ramires who are far smaller for midfield battle. PSG were big players and instead of having luiz or mikel to defend setpieces we now have fabregas or Ramires. Mourinho should get more physical players if he wants his current big game tactics to work. This team is the weakest team in defending, height and jump he's ever managed imo. As for the reaction, If we lose while playing well, the fans can have something to hold onto. But if we lose while playing terrible the coach has to take whatever comes to him so Mourinho deserves every criticism he gets.