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Fuck torres shuld have made the run earlier for mata's cross

Fuck we should have scored

I seriously think proper deeplying playmakers are underestimated. If we don't have a long range passer in our central midfield, the total football roman wants us to play can never be achieved. With a regista, our ball possesion will increase drastically and he can threaten the opposition with through balls from deep. Imagine barca without xavi, or juve without pirlo. Their possesion stats will reduce drastically and make the opponents have the ball more. Chelsea never had this kind of player, that's why having mazacar seems its not enough at times (against juve and shaktar we were dominated in the center midfield). Oscar has those qualities with his play but he is too weak, if he can develop into that kind of player in the future, it will be a big bonus to us.

I just said both of them lack long passing, I didn't directly say mikel is bad, I don't like fellani in the dm too either. What we need is a regista, a ball passer beside a box to box in the pivot.

It would be criminal to let cech go. Goal keepers leave at 40. Look at vandersar and buffon, cech must stay

Peter cech saved a record equalling penalty against nordsjaelland, excluding shootouts. http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3003570/title/spot-on-petr #LEGEND CECH First ashley cole and lamps, now peter cech. Did our board smoke weed or something?

Fellani as a DM: 1. more aggresive than mikel 2. Passes foward so he misplaces more passes obviously. 3. Can score from setpieces better, and defend better 4. Can score from distance, outside the box shooter. 5. An option in AM in case of physically tough opposition Mikel- 1. Better passer, mainly because he passes to the side 2. Offers protection to the back four, no headless chiken foward runs 3. Less agressive than fellani 4. Boss at shielding the ball from people. They both don't have long range passing in their locker, which is what we lack in our DM compared to many other top teams in europe.

Dortmund- Kuba-gotze-reus Chelsea-Moses-hazard-mata Klopp will fit instantly with that high pressure football since we have similar players. Its obvious how barca are different without messi, we don't have a messi for guardiola I won't refuse any of them though

Not bad, nice style of football.

It will be sad if manchester get him. We will miss out big on his qualites, there are few defensive midfielders with great passing range like him. A yayatoure like player, unfortunately we will find out exactly how good he is against us.

I haven't felt this much better for a game in a long time. Let's smash them boys...

Someone that finally sees what I see. With mikel we would have scored less for sure, without mikel 6-1. He is only good for us in big games where we need to be conservative. But in small games like nordsjaeland, we don't need him to slow our game down and we can murder teams for sure.

And he did just that

We were in form at the beginning of the season with torres scoring 6 goals in 12 games. Now we have won once in 9 games and torres has one goal in 10games. Coincedence? This scum is the major reason we are in this mess

come on eden, put your dribling shoes on and give us a peformance

Now you have presented what he does on the defence, let's look at what he can do when in possesion of the ball. I'm afraid I can only remember passing to fullbacks as his only attacking ability on the ball. Look at the stats in the website in your post, mikel has 5 chances created from 14 matches, not even a chance created per 2 matches, look at modric vs ajax. Not only that, he has won only 54% of duels, proves he is not aggresive enough to make slide tackles and win balls like I said in my earlier post. I didn't even need to check up statistics to realise that these are mikels greatest problems. 1. No foward passing sense 2. Have rarely seen him get in takles to stop dangerous situations as the supposed defensive player. I like some of his qualities but he must add those two qualities above to become a top class DM. He can function better in a 4-3-3 with more midfielders to help him but in a pivot, his present qualities are not enough. As long as he can only do what he has so far, he isn't even going to be a starter in a liverpool squad or any top team in spain, italy, germany or england. He needs to develop because he is average at best in my opinion.

thats what i mean. No top team can start mikel but chelsea. Meaning we should aim for better, he wont even get a start at liverpool so to me he is just average.

You gave a good analysis but left something out. What are the positives mikel brings into the team except his height? Does he make sliding tackles on counters like ramires to prevent goals? Can he pass more than 10meters? Does he shoot from range? Essien vs barca, arsenal anyone remember? Is he even a threat that oponents are woried that he can do somthing on the ball? Are we satisfied with mikels role of siting in front of the defence and passing to the side? Im not. If you watched realmadrid vs ajax, they played modric and khedira, and if you saw the first two goals, it was a modric long pass from deep that opened it up. Khedira is a box to box like ramires but mikel is not a passer like modric and thats what we need to speed up our play from defence to attack in a pivot. Mikel is more suited for 4-3-3 in the same role as busquets, but in a pivot he is not creative enough in attack. Pivot = box 2 box + defensive long passer 4-3-3 = pure DM + b2b + passer i thought mikel will develop his game and become a better passer, but im dissapointed.

If only he made more sliding tackles or gives spreading passes to the flanks.

Anyone who watched the realmadrid vs ajax game and saw the first two goals will see how a deep playmaker like modric which chelsea never had will help our team in attack with long passes. We need that in our team with the sturridge money + extra. We also need some strength in our midfield(fellani), we are all of a sudden bullied in physical games. We can then swoop for cavani as a proper striker upfront. CM - fernadinho, moutinho Fellani for strength ST - Cavani or falcao

Come over and put the torres nightmare to bed

This post made me

Last season champs lge was written in the stars. Shaktar please give us a fairy tale story!

He is just like young messi at 2004-2006, obvious talent and dribling but afraid to take charge. I hope he matures like messi did and tries to use his dribling talent to win games soon.

Very underrated player. We lost after he was taken off