kellzfresh

azpi = boss

whoops! torres has lost his first ball

Like the lineup today, two amigos and a wide man.

How many goals have chelsea scored from open play with our feet since october??

exactly. Lets not allow our hate for the manager take away our love for chelsea

Torres has played 1733 minutes this season with the likes of Oscar; Hazard and Mata and scored 6 goals. That's a goal every 288 minutes. He is the most dispossessed striker in a top 4 club - loosing the ball or passing into an opposition player so many times in a match. He has the lowest passing completion out of any striker in our rivals 70%. He has one shot on target every 90 minutes. For comparison Sturridge has played a total of 217 minutes and scored two goals. Right now you play Turnbull up top he will offer more than Torres.

We are going away, at least the sound of our own fans booing the players will not be as bad as the last two games. They rarely got any support so its understandable that we have been playing without morale espeacily without our leader JT. And like you said, novembad is over.

We should stop playing 3 att mid if everyone knows we are only goin thru the middle and fulbacks wide. Only two of mazacar should be used with a winger like marin or moses. We havnt scored with mazacar in two games so we hav notin to lose. This is EPL, we need crosses in the box or marin to shoot from outside. I cant remember any team that uses 3 att midfielders anyways. Moses mata hazard/oscar torres OR mata oscar/hazad marin torres/moses

what a relief if we have an extra player on the pitch that can shoot from out side the box.

what a relief if we have an extra player on the pitch that can shoot from out side the box.

Seeing our recent peformances im afraid falcao wont come as easily as early in the season. Huntelaar is very good in the box, better than what we have, he scored 40+ goals last season and is available for just six million? Why not?

Hazard needs to come from the bench. He needs the rest mata got, to get his early season form back. He cant get past players into dangerous positions again and looks as average as nasri now. This worries me, he needs a rest to pick form before the media jumps on his back. Mikel's height is needed in this match. Azpi iva cahill cole mikel ramires moses oscar mata torres if we dont score then benitez tactis is shit

Another 0-0 and I think I'll faint

Chelsea no wins in 7 league games Torres no goals in 7 league games

Thank fuck that november matches end today!!

chelsea epl games without mata starting qpr, westbrom, swansea, relationship? We play shite

positive long balls from romeu

No mata!! Qpr (no mata)- terrible peformance 0-0 Swansea(no mata)- average peformance 0-0 West brom(mata as sub)- terrible till mata came on Hope there is a change today

I hope RB sees you a better player deserving of some games. Only 20mins of football is not good enough after a promising pre-season.

Hazard has the best ball control in our team, take defenders on and beat them. His talent is obvious just needs to show more hunger when we need him the most...

I made a thread about the need for a more attacking pivot against smaller teams. I knew rafa benitez will try to change the pivot because he actually likes to tinker the team to find the right balance. Maybe the wingers will be more defensive to provide the balance for a more attackin pivot. After all we are exploited in the wings much more in the premier league. Mikel is an important player, but we shouldn't build the team around him. We need to try to find the right players in the pivot instead of the right partner for mikel. Mata and hazard needing to come deep to collect balls was never a good sign, I don't see silva doing that everytime.

You can't be serious how can you turn down the special one?

Exactly!! The last three matches has proved to me that ramires is more important than mikel in the pivot. He makes more tackles, has more energy and stops counters for us. We have been trying to find the best partner for mikel in the pivot instead of the best combination in the pivot. Ramires is the one that makes mikel look better, because every other person paired with Mikel and the pivot was terrible. And I think ramires and lampard would be perfect against small teams that sit back and defend. If people watch our games more often, they would see those chances that oscar creates for ramires or mikel and they always seem to shoot off target. If lampard was there we would have scored more goals. It will even make defenders more cautious of lampard and end up freeing mata for a pass. Ramires and lampard would be more attacking, but that's the point especially against SMALLER TEAMS. They will always sit back and mark our trio and a GOAL THREAT from the pivot would be a big boost. Ramires is already a boss on stopping counters and the rest of our player will pressure high up the pitch and win the ball early. Leading to more goals... Ramires doesn't venture foward for brazil, so if paired with Lamps he will definately do the same and stick back.

Kompany may be faster than him now but the top of this table is not fast enough for torres

Every team does that to hike the price. We have KDB but I'm not really sure about his abilities in the center of the pitch. But I would love fernadinho for sure, looks like a xabialonso type player we never had in chelsea in the last few years.