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I was really pleased with his movement. He now has eye contact with his teammates before making his runs behind the defence. Making them understand the kind of pass he is looking for. I was really glad on how he was determined to get ahead of the defender and head the ball in the net. Previous games he will be outside the box or in the wings, but he attacked it this time. His hold up play was even better as he didn't lose the ball too much today like most games this season. He didn't dribble stupidly so I was so glad, he even passed quickly to hazard and ran foward for the return but the keeper saved. All that was left is his finishing, he needs to finish one on ones. He may not get 3 chances against the big teams so he must score when put through with the keeper. David villa will teach him during the international break :smile:

You're right. We've gotten better. And I think it was since the juve game when oscar came into the mix. Chelsea changed. His high pressing and energy is just a major plus in balancing the attack and defence. He makes hazard and especially mata a far better player. Taking the defensive pressure off mata. Remember at the 70th minute was around when oscar got of injured. His pressing was missed and we couldn't take the ball off them quickly again. The same with arsenal, oscar pressed arteta into losing possesion. Since he started playing our possesion has greatly improved even the chances we give away are lower.

You have to train with david villa and soldaldo on how to finish one on one chances with the keeper. your next missed chance against manutd or tottenham might be the only clear chance we get. Please beg david villa to teach u how to finish keepers in this international break

Great game today, could have had four assists today if torres and mata scored their one on ones, or the ref gave our penalties. Had a few quiet games and i'm glad he's exploded again especially in the 2nd half. Brilliant peformance

2-0 win

Finally having good movement, its about time. He still loses the ball but its reduced in his last few games. But his one on one finishing is just horrible, he's missed 4 one on ones in the last 3 games. if he can't finish those who does he expect to finish them. I'm only glad with his movement and better positioning in the center.

We have to win this, we don't want AVB having one over us. This will be the perfect match to finally win at the white heart lane. Its been so long. We have to put them in their place- (europa league team)

Ratings Cech: 6- had nothing to do Cole: 7 Terry: 6 Luiz: 7 Ivanovic: 7 terrific volley Mikel: 7.5 one of his best peformances Lampard: 7 well taken goal Hazard: 7 terrific 2nd half, linked up with mata well Oscar: 9- what a player chelsea have. Long passes, tracking back, linking up and even crossing perfectly. The missing link for mata and hazard in the begining of the season. What a player!! Mata: 10- man of the match. Was involved with every link up play. Torres- 7 the only reason he isn't getting a 9 is because of his finishing. Ramires: 7 chelsea started playing some barca football when he came on Romeu- nice shooting reminded me of essien. Cesar- perfect crossing REFREE- FLOP OF THE MATCH what the hell is wrong with him? 3 pens? OVERALL- Good game by chelsea today, oscar mata hazard will win us the league. There are so many small clubs to bully

Lovely long pass from oscar to mata, another energetic peformance... What a player

Torres is reading my threads, lovely movement. Passing and making the run foward for the return pass. Its just left with his finishing, I swear he can't score a one on one again, its getting ridiculous. GOAL ivanovic Another mata assist

Lovely pass from mata, oscar both of them are killing norwich

That's a penalty for sure, what's wrong wit the ref

Torres movement is getting better.... Just left with him to shoot when he sees the farking keeper

@spike spiegel i understand the type of player you are talking about. More like an ibrahimovic that can pass well and link up. But remember that we have something those teams dont have, which is 3 serious assist kings behind the striker. He doesnt need to be involved with the play at all, he will only block space for mata and oscar to operate. He just needs to make runs to take away the center backs so that mata can penetrate there or find him with a pass to finish. Falcao shows no mercy to keepers on a one on one, but torres seems to be less confident of shooting (except in the last match) Falcao has a better ball control than torres, i think you underestimate what it means for the striker not to lose the ball. Look at drogba, you must foul him instead of taking the ball from him first. This helps the other attacker to make runs for the pass and brings the whole team into play (I think this is torres worst problem) Falcao cant dribble like torres but torres still ends up losing the ball, which is worse than passing and moving like falcao The reason why it seems the whole team plays for him is he runs towards scoring positions anytime the team is on the attack and i mean everytime. This will make the midfielder know that you will be in the box everytime he wants to attack, making it easy to read his position. (Another popular example of this is ronaldo. He runs aggresively and is in the box even ahead of benzema) Falcao takes the responsibility of scoring for his team, which means attempting more shots. Torres prefers to pass sometimes which is strange comparing him to his fellow striker david villa (another person i admire) He is also energetic like most south americans (aguero, tevez, higuain, suarez) Watch the video on page 31 from RamiCFC9 and you will see some of falcao's abilities.

Yea, we have more teamwork and movement than ever. Hopefully torres continues playing without losing the ball And he starts shooting more like the last match

e] Yea i understand you. Its his confidence in shooting that prevents him from taking shots, making him to want to dribble first before shooting instead of just shifting the ball to one side and curling the ball in the net. The newcastle was just a sublime confident torres, he passed quickly to hazard instead of dribbling, and then ran foward for a return and fired the ball at once without over thinking it. Wish we could see more of that

He has a serious confidence problem and that kills him. But his peformance is now improving and i feel like he has talked with dimatteo about his mistakes. This is the first time he has peformed well for two straight matches for a while. His next game will really show me if he has changed loosing the ball and falling, which was his biggest problem. As you can see, he passed to lampard for the first goal in the last match instead of dribbling and loosing the ball. And in the last goal he held his ground with pressure from the defender and oscar took the ball and assisted ramires. We score more goals when he doesnt fall down and lose the ball, and then oscar is understanding him better by putting him on goal a few times now so he just needs his finishing in check. Our other player are scoring for us, so im willing to wait for torres to develop understanding with our attackin three of hazard-oscar-mata.

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I believe oscar will understand his style of play soon enough, i really believe in that boy. See how he created two one on one chances for moses and torres. Thats the thing we need the most from open play. Torres will benefit from that as long as he doesnt lose the ball.

your right, he tries to get the ball too much. But with our new possesion based players, he wont have that problem soon enough i hope. The main issue is him losing possesion and falling down which spoils our play and makes our players reduce passing to him. If he can fix dat, then he's good. I really like how he takes the shot these days instead of just trying to dribble into the post

I know torres has been bad. But i cant say i dont want him to do well and improve. I truly have a soft spot for him as a chelsea fan and naturally want all our players to be good.

I know torres has been bad. But i cant say i dont want him to do well and improve. I truly have a soft spot for him as a chelsea fan and naturally want all our players to be good.

We should start with our strongest squad, no doubt. Premier league is our priority before other competitions. No games required, we must win. Dimatteo is right, mata-oscar-hazard will develop understanding and be devastating. Im just afraid that oscar's presence is reducing hazards influence in matches but helping mata more. ivanovic-Cahill-luiz-cole mikel-ramires mata- oscar - hazard Torres Cech is on top form so i predict a clean sheet We should start training cahill-luiz partnership since terry wont play for a while

In our last champions league game, i was impressed with torres 1. Got behind the defence and how he started his runs from deeper(making his team mates to see his runs in time) instead of starting runs beside the defender and getting offside. Maybe its because of a better understanding with oscar too as well as mata. 2. He also got better with holding the ball without loosing it. (example was ramires goal, former torres will lose the ball before oscar can get it) 3. He also reduced dribbling stupidly and loosing possesion I have a feeling dimatteo has recognised this and told him because dimatteo recognised the problem in the double pivot too and put ramires there. I just pray he doesnt take another confidence fall again and loses form for 10 matches before recovering because i cant take anymore of that. Overall im happier with his movement now, its just left with better finishing, confidence to shoot and staying away from the wings. What do you think

Yea he was actually the man of the match to me, bt mata got two goals so maybe the stats put it in his favor.