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We can press well, Mourinho just played out the match exactly as he wanted. Conserving energy and nicking a draw away and wait for the return leg. The difference was last season the midfield was faster with ramires and David luiz in it. This season we're easily turned by chadlii, cabella, sissoko, and now sterling. No recovery speed in our midfield especially since we have the worst 1 on 1 centerbacks for a top team.

Poor, not helped by everyone skipping past his partner mikel

Today hazard couldn't dribble past markovic and our attack is completely gone. The right wing offers no help in this matter of course. Cuadrado can help

Mourinho's style of attacking is to press the ball high with intensity and force the opponent to submission. This takes too much energy. We have Liverpool, Bradford and Liverpool again, just before mancity. Mancity have just 1 match in this same period. So Mourinho picks mikel and we sit back and conserve as much energy as possible and hopes mikel and Matic can shield the back from being too open. Taking a draw and going for high intensity with Oscar in the 2nd leg. He should learn how to hold possession, even if it's aimlessly to conserve energy, this our team can't sit back, unless we bench fabregas and mikel for ramires and oscar. That way everyone in the midfield is mobile and can tackle properly. Mikel is no David luiz and fabregas is no oscar.

Terrible in the first half, but better than all our attackers in the 2nd half

This

The number of times he lost possession because he couldn't control the ball was bad. They showed it on the analysis how he ruined Evertons buildups

midfielders get better with age and just like Matic, modric, xavi were nobodies at 23, Oscar can easily improve his concentration so that he doesn't misplace easy passes when we are starting a move. His tactical abilities to know when Hazard and fabregas don't go back to defend and go to fill in for them is already fantastic. He just needs more time and maturity to iron out those small deficiencies.

Jeez, calm down. Even if frank gets injured, he's already accomplished everything at his late age now.

A breath of fresh air to be honest

It feels like a sin supporting arsenal but 1-0

People forget oscar is just 23. Interesting stat from Jake Cohen on twitter. Jake Cohen @JakeFCohen In Lampard's age 23 season, he had 7 PL goals + assists (5G 2A). In Oscar's age 23 season, he already has 13 PL goals + assists (6G 7A).

Chances created in the penalty area this season (up or down on last season). Man City 11.8 (up 0.1) Arsenal 9.2 (up 0.5) Chelsea 9.2 (down 0.7) West Ham 8.7 (up 2.0) Southampton 8.4 (up 0.5) Liverpool 8.3 (down 1.5) Man Utd 7.5 (down 1.4) QPR 7.4 (promoted) Stoke 7.3 (up 1.4) Newcastle 7.0 (down 0.1) Credit to fabregas for making our chances more clear-cut, and Costa for providing finishing of the highest level.

Sanchez 12goals 7assists - 19 Costa. 17goals 2assists - 19 Fabregas 2goals 15assists -17 Aguero. 14goals 1assist. - 15 Austin. 12goals 2assists - 14 Oscar. 6goals 7assists - 13 Loving this oscar. Even when playing poorly he can still score. Something we used to praise Mata for.

He makes a lot of poor decisions and is scared to lose the ball so he doesn't use his natural skill to dribble people. This is a normal visible trait about willian. This match he dared to take some dribbling risks and getting into the box and it paid off. The 2nd oscar goal came because he dribbles 2 players and passed to costa.

Good positioning like cronaldo does to be honest

Today was his best ever Chelsea performance after mancity last season. He dribbled successfully finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck me, costa and fabregas are incredible. Their direct goals contribution is fantastic

How many times have we seen this statement this season

We are not wasting any time to shoot from distance. Exactly what I've been begging for, we were almost turning to Arsenal with all playing and no shots.

His performance against tottenham was terrible because he was made to man-mark erikson. I watched parts of the game again and he was practically made to follow him all round the pitch when we were defending. Big mistake Eriksson took him out of the middle to ivanovics side and the whole center of our midfield was wide open. Even oscar had to come back to the middle to mark Kane to no avail.

This guy will get Zidane level technique in the future. Unreal talent

Lmao

You made a point which is part of what I mean. He's scared to lose the ball like mikel. So 95% of the time he'll be scared of trying to dribble past one player or will try stepovers and push the ball forward but still fail to actually beat the player and then end up passing back to Matic or ivanovic. Its not his fault sometimes, he just can't dribble as well as even ordinary navas, so he makes the right choice according to his limited abilities to be safe and pass back instead of losing the ball. Mikel too can't pass as well or dribble like Matic, so rather than losing the ball because of his limited abilities he'll pass back to terry. But like we found Matic for mikel, there are players that are better and don't have the poor dribbling weakness willian has. We can afford to have a good dribbler but poor decision because at least something can happen out of nothing once in a while. But Having poor decision making and poor dribbling combined for a winger in an aspiring champions League winning team is unacceptable imo.