kellzfresh

He always gets chances when he plays. Still has the best movement of our strikers. That suarez cheated us last time so I'm happy Eto showed him how it feels.

In oscars shadow

After being robbed by suarez last season, I was fucking ecstatic that we won while making liverpool feel robbed.... Be irate scousers

After being robbed by suarez last season, I was fucking ecstatic that we won while making liverpool feel robbed.... Be irate scousers

I told you guys he won't go defensive in our home games. We didn't go unbeaten for so many years under him at home by doing dat

I don't need to say anything again on this matter after this post.... Fantastic :worship:

Like I've been saying, his passing creates chances. Long pass to azpi led to eto goal. He also put eto in a 1 on 1 situation which skrtel tackled brilliantly.

Mourinho has changed him. He gets inside and bloody shoots the ball. Fantastic from hazard

Arsenal with no ozil. Not looking good on chances created so far. We would be slating mourinho if this was us.

Not reus, get gundogan instead

I totally forgot he's just 23

So if we are going in for him, we'll be hoping he has maturity now

Big idiot, going to a manager that prefers a false nine

All our strikers are equal when it comes to finishing in my opinion. But eto seems to get a lot of chances anytime he plays which means his movement is better than the others. I think finishing gets better after a run of games, so eto should be the one to get this chance.

Ba's Problems- falls on his feet, slow turn, poor finisher, poor ball control, Torres problems- goes on a run of bad games too often, poor finisher, poor ball control, loses the ball with poor passing, disappears in long periods in a match, poor movement. Eto's problems- Short, slow, poor finisher. Eto has the fewest problems i complain about among our 3 strikers. What if he has a run of games? will his finishing kick in?

Thats what we get when we dont have a single Central midfielder that can do what he does. Until we fix that, then luiz is important unless we want to park the bus then you can call on cahill.

I dont really understand what you mean by the short players. Barca pass a lot from deep and their attack are shorter than ours. Im not talking of just hoofing the ball in the sky, lampard did that a lot for drogba but luiz attempts curling passes like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPQpALvnAOE&feature=player_detailpage Bernard in that video is shorter than everyone in our team. And when i'm talking about long passes, im also implying on how it helps speed up our play. It took one pass to get to bernard in that video, in chelsea, cahill passes to terry, who passes to lamps, who passes to oscar, by the time the ball gets there, the defence have marked the attacker. Long passes speed our play up, so we need as much help from luiz as we can get against defensive minded teams. What you and torontochelsea complained of is how he wastes possession at times but i said that its still better than cahill just passing between him and terry which takes us no where in terms of creating a chance. David luiz presence is still better than cahill for us. We lack creativity from our CM and luiz helps in that.

See how hard city is finding it to break down palace. Without yaya toure in their home. We need a pivot player.

Funny match. West ham score early and are in total control, miss 2-3 chances to make it 2-0 then all of a sudden, boom west brom score 2 goals in 5 mins

You fail to see the point im making. These long passing you've been underestimating is what gerrard and alonso do in their sleep. Unfortunately, we have ramires and lamps. None of them do that and we've been saying our pivot is weak and needs strengthening for 3 seasons now. What exactly do these people in the pivot lack?? Thats right, the long passing and vision from deep. Thats where luiz helps in the matter, especially against teams who sit back and let the CENTERBACKS hold the ball all day. Luiz presence in this situation is far better than a bore-fest of Terry passing to Cahill all game. Even if he hits 10 and gets 5 wrong, its still better than us aimlessly passing between our center backs and then complaining in the match day threads that we dont get the ball to our attackers quicker. That problem of luiz turning over possession dangerously was because he used to come out of the defense to try to pass the ball, but now if you notice of late, he stays deeper when distributing the pass so that if torres miss-controls it, the defensive shape is not lost and we are still safe because the opponents are all camping in their half. [notice im talking about smaller teams that sit deep] Thats why we need to sort our striker problems. Luiz passes a perfect ball to Ba against sunderland, and he missed a clear one on one chance. And another thing he is the centre back, comparing him to the left back who attacks most of the time is not a fair comparison. Luiz is better than cahill for us, no matter how you twist it. If we had thiago silva or kompany, then i'll gladly put luiz on the bench. But as long as its cahill, he is only better when we are sitting deep and defending for our lives against the big teams. I havent said luiz is the best defender in the world, but he is more important than cahill for us in my opinion.

Scouser

We all know luiz has his mistakes. We know he can make some like against cardiff. But its not like he does that in every match he plays. We have a problem of breaking down teams that sit deep. Because our central midfielders dont know how to send a long pass, we need luiz against the smaller teams Dont you notice how the movement of our attacking four gets better when luiz is on the ball since they know he can easily find them with a long pass?? These smaller teams sit deep and allow our center backs to hold the ball so if luiz doesnt play, we watch a borefest of terry and cahill pass to each other and then to ivanovic all game. The positives outweigh the negatives in my opinion, especially when we are comparing them to the other option we have which is cahill.