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True. Any player who doesn't put any defensive work, uses all his energy only at attacking and looks extra better than other hardworkers who put some energy to defend because of that

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That's what I noticed too, benteke has some qualities which we lack in our teams strikers.1. Link up play 2. Ball control and first touch 3. Hold up play(sorry lukaku's first touch ruins this for him)i We should have gone for him incase we don't get rooney, but everyone just thought he is from belgium so he and lukaku must be the same type of player. Which was not true. He's the type of striker that thrives in a system against teams that park the bus. All our strikers are counter attack strikers like jose said.

thats not good for chelsea is it? His hold up play is always ruined because of that first touch. How he hasn't tried to develop it is quite strange to me

KDB has never had a more sloppy match than this. Crazilly sloppy today

Manutd are a good team, because they can put some consistency more than anyone in the league, that is a fact. Every team have some luck once in a while, But if anyone denies that manutd don't have MORE decisions go their way than any other team then thats just being ignorant. The fact that the formal Manutd chairman is the VC of FA says it all really.

He plays like iniesta sometimes, not as intelligent, but he is faster, stronger, and has a ferocious shot that is was made for screamers. His attributes are obvious. If he's not scoring 20-25+ goals a season eventually with time in chelsea, then it will seem like he didn't reach his full potential imo.

Absolutely fantastic article. I'm saving it for future references. Posts like this is why I love TC

Absolutely fantastic article. I'm saving it for future references.

Legend and future legend

I think some of us have gotten too used to fighting for champions league spots instead of challenging for the title.

Naaaaa.... i think its missing some fat

Goals

slow motion

Cahill and ivanovic against madrid reminded me why we need luiz. Passes from the back.

This is exactly why ive come around this transfer. Hes at the same level as lewandoski when it comes to link up play.

i feel like ive known the roma team for years after reading this

Moses most times depends on power and pace, but hazard has quick turns and is far more skillful

essien is our best pivot passer. I think he should play beside MVG often Tackle of the game

The only thing he is average at is his finishing, to say he has average dribbling is absolutely shocking.

Yea your right. But hazard should try to finese the shot instead of just kicking it and hoping for luck. Anyways I watched the match again so I think jose used this match to try different tactical variations. First half summary. In the first half, he tried the 4-3-3 but he used ramires, lamps and MVG. Ramires and lampard were lost on who was the more attacking player of the two so there was so much inbalance in the first half. Player analysis. Ramires lost a few balls and failed to continue following marcelo before he scored. But take nothing away from his sublime finish. Oscar was forced to play on the wings where we know he's not good, I'm sure mourinho has seen that too first hand. Ivanovic at right back was there to face the physicality of ronaldo so he didn't attack much because of that. But his passing was very bad, he and cahill reminded me of why we should not sell david luiz. Every single time they kicked the ball in the sky and couldn't pick out any pass longer than 6 yards shocking. A major reason we were horrible in the first half was because of this. Ashely cole was our best defender MVG was bad in the early minutes but he grew into the game with nice tackles. He was a little short attacking wise though. Lampard was bad, but mourinho wanted to speed up his match fitness in a high class friendly so that's that. Lukaku was bad with his runs, but he wasn't helped by the confusing midfield we tried to play. Hazard was invisible in the first half, but on closer look I thought they marked him very closely. Second half summary This was a much better half. We went back to the usual 4-2-3-1 formation. With moses and hazard in the wings and KDB in the center. We were pressing well and we became better than madrid till the 70th minute when KDB was moved to the pivot. But the goal ronaldo scored was their first chance in the half but ivanovic was found guilty of allowing isco too much room to cross as usual and JT didn't even attempt to jump for the ball. Ronaldo was too fast for any of the DM to follow him and he came from the wing to the center so the cross was actually what we failed to stop defensively Player anaysis Ivanovic was bad till he got into the center back position Cahill and cole were average with azpi. Ramires and MVG were perfect in the 2nd half Moses had an energy we lacked in the attack from oscar but his decision making in the final third was bad. Hazard came to life in this half till he got tired in the last 20mins. He dissapeared when KDB was told to sit in the pivot. KDB was magnificent at first and he provided extra intensity and spreading passes especialy when behind torres. But when jose moved him to the pivot, he was bad. Torres was actualy good. His linkup play was great, and he was making good runs actually. Maybe it was because of the improved overall midfield but he looked better than most pple thought. Essien was good with more controll in the midfield but was no where to be found when madrid countered us a couple of times, since his partner in the pivot(KDB) was a more attacking player, I expected essien to put a better defensive duty. He was bad in that aspect but his passing foward was good. So in summary Mourinho tried new things in this match and got his answers. The best formation he got was the 2nd half one. But he also learned that KDB was bad in the pivot and oscar was bad in the wings. I hope he also learned that iva is a better CB than cahill and is not a good right back. I'm happy we played this match, a lot of his tactical questions were answered.

why hazard doesnt go over to learn from him, i dont understand

Okay, i was not too keen on this transfer because i gave up when we didnt get cavani or lewandoski. But i think im coming around this transfer. We all have complained of how our attack seems blunt and out of ideas, but we may not know that it could actually be solved with a proper link up striker. All our strikers like the through pass in open space but none of them can actually keep it in tight spaces. This means we are practically playing with ten men when the opposition defends deep and blocks channels since(torres, lukaku, ba) thrive on space. This fact is evident in German national team where they looked toothless with gomez up front but far better with klose as the top striker for link up. All these years where we have complained that we are being toothless we never had a mobile, link up striker(lewandoski, aguero, rooney, tevez, suarez, benzema, mandzukic, jovetic) These are all mobile and make the attack more dangerous with link up passes with the am, wingers and runs all over the pitch. So i think we need to go all out and get rooney, even if he gives us just 3 good years. He could mould lukaku into a proper striker by then.

Okay, i was not too keen on this transfer because i gave up when we didnt get cavani or lewandoski. But i think im coming around this transfer. We all have complained of how our attack seems blunt and out of ideas, but we may not know that it could actually be solved with a proper link up striker. All our strikers like the through pass in open space but none of them can actually keep it in tight spaces. This means we are practically playing with ten men when the opposition defends deep and blocks channels since(torres, lukaku, ba) thrive on space. This fact is evident in German national team where they looked toothless with gomez up front but far better with klose as the top striker for link up. All these years where we have complained that we are being toothless we never had a mobile, link up striker(lewandoski, aguero, rooney, tevez, suarez, benzema, mandzukic, jovetic) These are all mobile and make the attack more dangerous with link up passes with the am, wingers and runs all over the pitch. So i think we need to go all out and get rooney, even if he gives us just 3 good years. He could mould lukaku into a proper striker by then.