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This part sounds like you are more of a benitez fan than a chelsea fan

Perfect analysis of the match. You watched the match and didn't just pull out statistics. To be fair on oscar, he didn't train with ramires before the match so he was basically thrown in there. He can only develop his defensive positioning with experience.

The midfielders who sit and protect the back four are perfect in a 4-3-3 system, where they are actually in the middle protecting the back four. But in a 4-2-3-1 system, they are on one side of the pitch, meaning when we attack from the left, the left pivot person should support and when we attack from the right, the right pivot man should support and the left should sit back. That is when the person that sits deep and protects the back four becomes overatted. I can't remember any team with a 4-2-3-1 system, with a player who just sits in front of the defence. But in a 4-3-3, they are a vital part of the team.

True. I was carried away by their passing at times, but their striker can hold up play and link up very well. He has strength too, cahill will have some work to do on thursday.

Just watched the 60mins of their last match and I have to say that they are a pretty decent team. They play 4-3-3. Their strengths 1. They are VERY GOOD in possesion, lots of movement from the players. 2. They are very good at maintaining high pressure all over the pitch and win back possesion very fast. 3. They do A LOT of one twos around the 18box which can be dangerous when they execute it perfectly. Their weakness 1. They are slow to defend counters. 2. They pass too much near the box at times instead of shooting. I hope we don't give away any cheap goals, and stay compact. We will win them.

Just wow... His chelsea carrer may be ruined bcos we might go get a new DM this january. Best of luck romeu.

Sadly some people don't actually watch the match and go and pick 90% pass completed stats and comment mikel is good. Forgetting that 89% where to ashley cole or ivanovic. That's why most websites get the post match player ratings wrong, bcos they just collect stats and don't watch the match.

He said maybe we can get our own messi, and I listed things he needs to add to get there... Nothing to get too serious about

I was comparing to messi lol

Dont chant his name, dont boo him. Use the passion to support the team.

if he can get some strength so that he doesnt fall easily on the ball from every small push, get some shot power, and stop being afraid to take on players when he easily can. Then we will have a mini messi

Interesting statistics for top league goalscorers Messi 22goals of 47teamgoals 45% Falcao 17goals of 30team goals 56% Ibrahimovic 14goals of 28team goals 50% Elsharawy 13goals of 24team goals 70% C-ronaldo 13goals of 36team goals 36% They are all carrying the team almost single handedly

True, a calm defensive passer will do for us nicely:)

Strikers who score winners and win matches for teams are priceless... Falcao :worship: falcao

5 goals in a game lol, has c.ronaldo scored 5 goals in spain before??

True. Some similarities in strength, the way they move with the ball foward, ball control. I'm not sure of his passing compared to yayatoure though.

Just see how effective diame was for westham with his foward runs, immediately he is taken off, liverpool take full control and score two. Looool

True. Ramires misplaced so many passes that made me scream. Romeu seemed to pass foward quickly, even in the build up to our goal, we intercepted the ball and romeu QUICKLY PASSED FOWARD TO MOSES who passed to hazard to cross. I think many DM's will spoil the counter and PASS TO THE SIDE which is annoying.

Torres has started making runs in the box, remember how static he used to be against totenham when sturridge moved in front of torres and scored mata's cross. Two of his recent goals have come from runs in the box, one against nordsjaelland and one against sunderland. I hope he keeps doing that for chelsea's sake.

i wouldnt say he has taken over the role but, i really liked his mentality of foward passes. And he seems to know how to spray a few long passes too. He always wants to pass foward before checkin other options and thats what i like. In the buildup to torres first goal, we intercepted the ball and he imediately passed foward to moses who layed it for hazard to cross. Most other DM think negative and pass to the side and spoil the counter attack. Hope he gets back soon.

@ChelseaStatto Fernando Torres under Rafa Benitez for Chelsea: 5 appearances, 4 Goals, 1 Assist, 22 shots [16 on target], a goal every 112.5minutes #CFC

The first man of the match peformance from torres this season. I forgot how it feels to have a proper striker in a match.

Great win finally!!! Its just annoying that Anytime moses comes off we play shit, against westham and now sunderland. I hope romeu is not seriously hurt cos we are light in midfield. Fans should stop these ridiculous chants ffs.

As usual, take moses off and opponents score

As usual, take moses off and opponents score