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Cahill again leaves sahko free wtf

Cahill again leaves sahko free wtf

Hazard!!!!

Cahill just left his marker sahko free wtf

Perfect description of Oscar. Let's hope he gets his performance levels up today.

I just hope ramires isn't playing on the wing. I'll be very happy if it's a diamond with zouma Ramires fabregas Oscar Costa hazard With ivanovic bombing forward on the right Any other way would make this a defensive line-up which would be a big concern in attack.

But the thing is that unless we see Hazard - Willian - Cuardrado As a trio playing, I think the usual Hazard - oscar - Willian with fabregas behind is the most creative line-up we got unless oscar misplaces too much easy passes.

The thing about coutinho is he sometimes tries too much. He can be annoying when he tries his difficult through balls passing and it gets intercepted too much. But he's gotten better in his dribbling, and his long range shooting has now gotten better than Oscar. Because of his silky nature, when kompany and fernadinho tried to collect the ball from him, he dribbles them easily and doesn't lose the ball as oscar would in that kind of situation. He has natural offensive abilities he can depend on while oscar has natural defensive abilities.

If his touch and movement on the ball was easy on the eyes or if he could dribble I don't think people would complain about him. Apart from this he doesn't have talent to create chances so his overall ability is limited. I wish his long range shooting was better, He doesn't have a nice set of attacking ability he can depend on when he's playing bad. (for example hazard always has his dribbles when he's playing bad, fabregas can still pass well when he's playing bad, coutinho can still dribble past people when he's playing bad) For some reason he doesn't make fantastic tackles like last season when he isn't passing well so it gets frustrating during matches. We shouldn't sell him. He's still young and there's no available quality replacement.

8 wins and 3 draws will guarantee us the title. Or better yet just 9 wins 87points is the championship mark

That defeat was needed to show our tactical weakness on the right wing. Ivanovic goes forward a lot leaving the right CB with more one on one situations but cahill is terrible at it. We all knew it but we needed a defeat to show it'll cost us matches just like Mourinho won't try ramires and fabregas pivot combo unless he's taking a gamble.

That was our worst decision in the past 11 years (yes it was worse than hiring Benitez) Fantastic manager provided free flowing football and won with it and we threw him away when we didn't have a bench. Just imagine Machecren and kakuta were our regular sub players. Where are they now?

Exactly, we played a proper 4-3-3 with zouma in the Makelele role. No need for pivot in the big games, we're too open whenever we play that. The 4-3-3 allows the left cm and right cm (fab and ramires) to protect hazard and Willian when they go forward. And with ramires energy to join in the attack and still come back to defend it's a perfect fit. I just hope we didn't play that formation just because Matic didn't play, we need to continue with it until cohesion in our counters is reached.

The first half was clearly about us getting used to the tactics while surviving tottenham pressing. After the break they didn't create jack even when they attacked more and we didn't park the bus till 6mins left. This was a complete contrast to how we've been playing when we go one up against all the big teams this season. I clearly noticed how fabregas covered for Hazard when he was left high up and ramires covered for Willian. It was because of the 3 in the middle with fabregas on the left side instead of a pivot with fabregas in the centre trying to press and failing. I know it was one match but I really saw a clear tactical difference imo, Willian was sending long passes through to hazard and fabregas was spreading to ivanovic. The only problem is we need to play with it more often so that we get used some counter-attacking pattern

All of a sudden he was spreading perfect passes to hazard during our counters. It was good to see

I'm I the only one who liked the way we played with a proper 4-3-3 with zouma in front of the defense and fabregas, ramires in front of zouma. This way hazard could spring a lot of our counters and have fabregas to cover the wing when he loses the ball. We didn't get used to it in the first half but we got better at it during the 2nd half. Hope we continue the proper 4-3-3 in big games. We're too open in the big games with 4-2-3-1 when fabregas plays behind the striker (Everton, Liverpool ccup, PSG) and it looks like it'll help our counters better

He didn't attack much and rightfully so because his defensive performance became massive. No space for tottenham to exploit like last time

I was very impressed with his passing and his spreading of balls to the wings.

Bas dost!!!!I enjoy pronouncing this name for some reason

He knows how to set up counterattacks, he never lost it. Just needs to do it in more matches so our players get used to it and make our counters more fluid with better understanding.

Hey spuds, Who owns the arch now huh!!

We didn't park the bus in the 2nd half till the last 3 mins plus extra time. Thats much more like Mourinho, counter-attacking style

Costa!!!!!!!!

Fighter. Has to be included among our winners in the team. Few have a bigger heart than him