kellzfresh

Could this door still be open?

Yes our quality has to be better I was supporting what you said that's why I gave examples of our poor quality in the final moments of attack. Ronaldo needs two touches to get the ball down and shoot, hazard needs 3, the rest of our team needs 5. It looks like a small difference but one less touch can lead to a goal.

Exactly. We pass the ball to willian, people run forward instead of passing quickly and going for the return, he holds onto it and tries to beat 2 players... Torres is through on goal, chased by a defender, refuses to lay a simple pass for schurrle to score a tap in and he shoots from a tight angle. Against everton, ivanovic lays a perfect cross to schurrle, he has time to trap but decides to volley it and misses ruining the chance, ramires gets into dangerous position and goes for a solo instead of squaring to a free player for a shot. Just poor decision making all over our team, and terrible finishing. Comparing individually to madrid is like heaven and earth

Both tiredness and tactics. We create chances, don't score as much as we should, coach gets scared we could lose this bcos of finishing even if the game plan is good and brings on mikel to close the game off.

Mostly because of stupid decision making in the final third, and we all know that if a chance doesn't fall to hazard or our strikers we don't score. If you watched liverpool vs swansea, you will see that lpool scored almost all their chances in the match. We won't even score 2 even if we create 6 clear chances like against galatasaray. You can't be comfortable as a coach knowing a 1-0 lead can become 1-1 even though the game plan is perfect. So Jose closes games out most of the time. If we are as good as his formal team madrid in terms of finishing, he won't be needing to bring mikel on and play conserved to close games out and reduce both teams chances of scoring. If we are clinical Jose can trust them, and we will be playing with high energy in every match knowing we will be 2-3 goals up. That's why I said we need more finishers in our starting 11 than just the striker imo. Right now just prevent hazard and striker shooting and no goal.

We need more finishers in our team. We are not finishing chances from all over. If opportunity doesn't fall to our strikers or hazard we won't score. Its pissing me off of late. I was against getting him but if we expect only our strikers to score while the rest of our player keep throwing their chances we won't advance that much.

Exactly, since the newcastle hattrick, he has slept off back into his early season form. This is what I said some days back And we are seeing it on a game by game basis now

If we buy players now, I think it should be people who are good finishers as well. We had about 6 chances to score in the first half and scored 1. Ramires and willian missing the best of the lot. We need goal scoring player all over the pitch. That's why mourinho is so insecure about us. I was angry he took off schurrle for mikel yesterday and killed our attack but if you look from another angle, he was afraid we could miss more chances and lose the match in the end after everything. (Infact torres failed to square a ball for a schurrle tap in just before he was subbed) We are terrible finishers and are poor in making decisions in the box. We need another high scoring player behind the striker and to replace lamps in the pivot imo. Griezmann/reus are better finishers than everyone in our team bar eto. Kroos/gundogan will not sky chances like ramires/mikel does. Then we need strikers that can create for teammates as well as create a goal for himself by sheer skill. We need a LB so that azpi will move to the right If we get all these players, mourinho will be comfortable letting us attack because we will score more of our chances even if the opponent scores like he did at madrid. But as you can see yesterday mourinho realised we were missing a lot, then he killed off the tempo of match by telling mikel to sit deep. So that we draw instead of losing. If we continued attacking, we miss our opportunities and gala have drogba and sneider(chance scorers) to score theirs.

Poor in the 2nd half yesterday. He kept on holding the ball for too long instead of releasing his teamates and go for a quick 1-2 pass to get away from markers.

I saw torres through on goal 3 times. He scored one, the keeper saved one, and he should have squared shurrle for a tap in.

That explains a lot. I was so dumbfounded when it was shurrle off and not willian

Exactly what I wanted to say. Tbh mou made a mistake removing schurrle. He was better than willian and hazard today. They were both useless.

This guy is the most consistent player in our team. To me so far, he is a clear contender for chelsea's player of the season

Hazard scoring a hattrick has changed his form to ordinary. I don't know whether it has to do with missing the hard work oscar does for him. But except for the mancity league match/everton 2nd half, we've not played well in any match this year that oscar didn't play well. We need oscar on form again.

Luiz for lamps and that's exactly what I wanted

Was just jokin lol. Obviously won't happen. Jose is an Eto fan

Eto to score today, run over to Mou, rip off his shirt to reveal the following message: "Don't know about you, but I'm feeling thirty-two"

Very good point about the strikers not having as much chances as others. But first of all, our strikers finishing/dribbling/movement is still worse than all of them. You also forgot that the aguero's, suarez, messi and even drogba create chances on their own with sheer skill on a daily basis. I have lost count the number of times those strikers turned a nothing situation into goal scoring chances. Our strikers can NEVER do this. The last time I saw it was torres against mancity and it hit the bar. If I start mentioning the amount of goals drogba, suarez or aguero create for themselves we won't finish talking today. We need our strikers to come up with wonder strikes and bail us out for once in their lives.

I'm just gutted that all other english teams are out. We would have been better off facing an english team in the quaterfinals

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I forgot about their league closing earlier than others. Maybe that's why.

Witsel was bad in that match, the team being poor was no excuse for not a single moment of quality from him for 90mins. Unless he was carrying an injury, because even hulk had some moments of quality

Frustrating that all English teams lost 2-0, now there is added pressure on us to somewhat redeem English clubs once again.

Italy will suit him perfectly. No speed to contend with except against roma/napoli. The game is slow possession based football there and is perfect for him.