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Terrible football from Madrid. They created just 1 chance all game. They were just crossing and crossing with no interplay.

Exactly. Most of them including KDB and Mata were playing in positions where they don't belong not Mourinho's fault and not their fault they didn't succeed. The tactics requires the right winger to be more defensive than hazard, so all these players looking for free role will find it difficult here. That's why cuadrado should fit well like willian hopefully.

Terry and cahill didnt cover themselves in glory. David luiz could lob any ball and Ibra won it from terry. We can't afford to let them have such an easy route to goal at home.

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2015/3/5/8149935/chelsea-film-room-i-the-defensive-5-4-1 Fantastic article explaining our tactics. I had a feeling this is why ivanovic tucks in close to the centerbacks, Willian comes back like a rightback and hazard stays higher than the other winger.

Exactly. Schurlle and Salah prefer to be supporting strikers. Playing in a free role behind the striker. Mourinho never plays this system so they'll never fit in. In fact coming to think of it, Mata and KDB love this same system too.

I thought I was the only one that noticed. Where is everyone getting the 30mil price from??

You're Already too late. It's already happening

That first goal won't happen at Chelsea because I'm yet to see a team leave just 2 players at the back against us.We gave him chances against smaller teams where they defend, and he was so poor because there was no space to run. He loses the ball too much for a big team imo the only thing that has surprised me is his finishing. Remember how many times he shot to the sky or off target when he had a chance to score? It's a case of lukaku at Everton and lukaku at Chelsea. No space from opponents against Chelsea, space from opponents when you play in a smaller team. Mourinho also likes his right winger defending because hazard doesn't defend as much, so if you want the freedom of just not tracking back like willian is doing and schurlle couldn't do then you have to be better than hazard. The only player who I regret is KDB not salah. I liked him (passing, crossing, long range shooting, and freekicks) and never knew how he lost his place after one poor manutd match.

We need zouma on ibrahimovic. The two major reasons they dominated the last match was 1. Ivanovic let every cross get into the box. this is not normally too much of a problem but 2. Ibrahimovic won every single ball in the air against terry and cahill. It was a catastrophe. Even Drogba in his prime would have been proud of that aerial dominance. Zouma has the best leap in our team and needs to stop ibrahimovic from doing that again.

What we need too is zouma playing and marking ibrahimovic in the box. He won every single header against terry and cahill, it was scary.

We've already started with jokes of Mata to come back for Oscar.

Until he completes 3 games in a row, he can't get team understanding, he's getting the KDB, Mata, Schurrle and Salah treatment. Who were all shit when coming on on the 80th minutes every 2 games

One of the reasons I feel hazard isn't clinical is because he just doesn't like curling his shots.When he cuts in from the left, defenders are in front of him and the easiest way to score is to curve the ball around them like robben, coutinho. But he prefers to dribble again before shooting straight instead of curling the ball round the defenders (he did this against westham I was so pissed off )

It seems he loves space and is deadly on the counter. Most of the time we played him against smaller teams and he was shit, no strength on the ball and annoyingly used to shoot off target a lot. The only big games we gave him was against Liverpool and arsenal and he played well in both and even scored against arsenal. Luckily for him people don't park the bus against florentina so he has all that space, but his finishing is what has shocked me the most. He's even looking more clinical than almost everyone in our team.

No way city will win all their 10 matches left. They can only get 86points max imo, considering the tough matches they have left. We just need 8 wins now or 7 wins and 3 draws to seal the title.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/mar/05/sexist-chanting-chelsea-eva-carneiro http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/mar/05/abusive-chanting-chelsea-doctor-sexism-manchester-united-arsenal What's wrong with people, not Eva

He always had great movement, I'm just shocked his finishing has got even better. What a difference playing consecutive games does for players.

Those are just words for now. If we win the league and there's no pressure for a big title, he and ake should play more next season.

Those are just words for now. If we win the league and there's no pressure for a big title, he and ake should play more next season.

Played very well. He was exempted from a lot of defensive duties and he had the energy to go all out. But http://i.imgur.com/QQ7osrF.gifv http://imgur.com/QQ7osrF I'm sure I'm not the only one who was annoyed he didnt shoot there. Take the responsibility, that's a one on one.

Please Mourinho play a 4-3-3 so that ramires can bomb forward on the counter. No pivot, just Rambo and fab in front of Matic. He's better than everyone in our team on the counter

Motm

This match showed once again how our players are weak under pressure. No one except hazard could get away from pressing, without losing the ball or kicking it in the air. And combining this with what you said about us poor in 50-50 makes for lack of control.

Cahill stay with sahko ffs

Annoying sometimes. He'll have even more goals if he could curl shots more like robben