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Sturridge was selfish at times, but he held the ball a lot better than torres. I learnt he completed 50/56 of his passes. Its a relief to have a match where our opponents are not guaranteed a counter attack everytime the striker touches the ball. Sturridge needs to improve his decision making, maybe he can take shots and be a little stingy during build up play but should have more teamwork at counters, hazard is a perfect example. Moses was a beast Azpicueta was very good defending, it was so difficult beating him on a one on one, or even crossing from his flank. He also seems to like crossing, that's good. I like a player that the rest of the team knows what they get from him and understand well. Luiz scares me everytime he is on the ball, a tickin time bomb. (Ramires-oscar) was nice to see, oscar played like scholes for us. It would be marvelous if we can turn him into a pirlo type player. Ramires is a beast. Mata was tired. Hazard's assist was even better than the one he gave mata against tottenham. Loved his celebration. Piazon was lost, never involved. Thank goodness we won. This line up would be worth tryin against a small team Azpi cahill terry cole Oscar Ramires Moses mata hazard Torres

Cech Azpi-luiz-Cahill-betrand Mikel-romeu Mata - piazon - marin Sturridge 3-1 to us with a decent refree

What the farck is with neil warnock. Dat farkin cunt is siding with clattenberg without even knowing if its true or not. He deserves to be smacked by a zidane headbutt to the face. I wish mourinho was our coach at times like dis.... Argh the nerve of some c*nts...

Gooooal ramiresssssss, great cross from oscar

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I told pple our weak point is crosses, we are raped by man utd crosses fu(k sh)t

In my opinion, sturridge is stronger/hungrier than torres on the ball and has a far better first touch. So I know that at least he can hold up the ball better than torres. Sturridge should come in early in the second half against manchester, so that we don't waste the whole game hopin that torres comes good. I think his(sturridge) speed and the runs he makes will hurt man utd. And his style of play is perfect for mata through balls. At least he will also test the keeper even if his finishing may not be better than torres but I know he will shoot at the very least, rather than being disspossesed. I saw a post of zola saying that toress doesn't love chelsea like he did at liverpool. Maybe that's what he's lacking but he is just an average striker at the level of welbeck in my opinion.

We need to watch out for their crossing and cornerkicks. Manchester utd scored 2 corners against newcastle, 4 crosses against stoke, and in the champions league 2 crosses and a cornerkick goal. It is very clear that is their main form of attack. We have to seriously up our game in defending deadballs and crosses into the box. We will definately score two goals at least, their defence is no where safe. So if we are a little more tactically sound at the back, we can win this.

The whole team played average so similar ratings deserved unless you saw someone spectacular except cech and mikel, I wuld like u to mention pls. Oscar was supposed to be better rated but I can't get past the poor first half he had, he was the worst on the pitch in the first half along with torres. If u didn't notice his misplaced passes then I'm confused. Oscar stepped up in the 2nd half but his terrible first half brought down his rating. I understand u said that hazard didn't play for the team, but he was actually more threatning than any other person. And oscar lost more passes in the first half than hazard.

Why I blamed torres like that was because of how he fell down and lost posession. That will make any team not be able to build up play better. And he also has never bailed us out in any match this season except arsenal. Hazard took responsibility in our first few games, oscar took responsibility at juventus, mata took responsibility in 6 other games. But never torres, he should take the burden off mata once in a while that's what's frustrating.

Nope The whole team bar cech was average. Didn't just see anything. Ramires probably was the only one I misjudged but we let them have 16 shots and 10 on target and so he cannot avoid critisizm. Didn't overate any one, I gave oscar a six because he was a 3 in the first half, he misplaced so many passes. Mata was no where to be found Hazard made a mistake for the goal but he was our only threat up front the other three(torres mata oscar) were invisible at doing their jobs(attackin), except oscar in the 2nd half so they got the right ratings.

I know they played a smaller team, I'm just not confident our defence can hold out both rvp and rooney. I'm not confident torres can score the chances he gets in this match. You can see how we are bad in the air and at setpieces, guess what, that's man utd's strongest way of attack. I'm not making them look better than us, its just that our weakness is their strength much like us against barcelona last season. If we play more patiently instead of panicking and losing posession like yesterday, maybe we can win. But torres must be punished for yesterday's peformance by being dropped.

Chelsea's weaknesses so far 1. We are easily beat in the air at set pieces 2. We always have a 10mins lapse in concentration in every match 3. Crosses easily enter our 18yard box 4. We don't have wide attackers who can track back and defend frequently especially during counter attacks 5. Our striker loses the ball which stops our attack and causes a counter attck for the opposition. Man utd strengths 1. They cross all the time and score a lot from them 2. They score a lot from setpieces this season 3. They have a period in the game where they pressurize non-stop for about 10-15mins 4. They are quick on the counter. 5. They have the best strikers in the league (rvp, rooney) I'm sorry but I just can't see us winning this game. We both have bad defences but they have the better finishers. And worst of all, our weakness is their strength. RDM doesn't have the balls to tell torres to sit, after that bulshit peformance. So we r screwed. On the positive side 1. We are at the bridge, so we have home advantage 2. We have found out our weakness against shaktar, so maybe we can correct them in time. Chelsea please suprise me with a win.

The main problem yesterday was that after their first goal, chelsea started rushing our build up play and ended up losing the ball quickly. Ramires then had to run back and make a tackle. But because of the rushed passes foward, instead of being patient like against totenham, ramires moved forward too early at times(like how lampard usually did) which made him need to come back for the tackle. But bcos of his pace, he could cover that weakness. But the blame was really how we were rushing foward, I wish we could have been more patient in our build up and force them to leave spaces and make mistakes in their defence. An example was the barcelona winner against celtic. They passed slowly till they got the chance to score instead of risking loosing the posession.

When a player can't even trap the ball well he becomes an average player. When a striker easily falls down well.... When a striker is scared to shoot while in front of the keeper then who can score? When a striker stands in the box without making the run for the pass, expecting an inch perfect pirlo pass to where ever he is standing. Instead of making the run and creating space then it becomes indirectly 10 men in the pitch. This is what fernando torres has turned out to be, I would even take demba ba over him right now

When a player can't even trap the ball well he becomes an average player. When a striker easily falls down well.... When a striker is scared to shoot while in front of the keeper then who can score? When a striker stands in the box without making the run for the pass, expecting an inch perfect pirlo pass to where ever he is standing. Instead of making the run and creating space then it becomes indirectly 10 men in the pitch. This is what fernando torres has turned out to be, I would even take demba ba over him right now

I can't believe we were outplayed like this. Everyone except cech had a bad or average day. Cech - 9: saved 3-4 goals Ivanovic- 6: nice assist but got a 6 becos lost more of the ball Terry - 4 horrible for the 2nd goal, too slow for my liking Luiz- 5 could have slid in to prevent the 2nd goal Cole-6 average peformance Mikel - 7 our only better player, on the pitch Ramires-6 average, confused in his positioning sometimes Oscar - 6- Horrible first half, was one of the worst players on the pitch in the first half. Played better in the 2nd Mata- 6 he dissapeared, he was marked out, I didn't just see anything except a few dribbles Hazard-7 I know he caused the 2nd goal with terry but, he was our only threat in this match Sturridge-6 made better runs than torres and didn't lose the ball all the time at least. Nice pass to hazard, unlucky not to hav an assist. Torres - 3 - worst player on the pitch Anytime mata or hazard passes to torres, he falls then shaktar are on the counter. He couldn't trap any ball well though out the match. He lost possesion almost more than he kept it He can't shoot, I'm almost about to give up on him He produced his qpr peformance again Shakter out pressed us and kept possesion in our 18yard box. Like WTF I was so mad seeing them play like they were barcelona in front of our 18yard box. This just exposed the disadvantages of playing our 3 attackin mids. None of them tracked back, especially oscar. I was dissapointed dimatteo started oscar, he clearly needed a rest, he didn't track back or move around in this match at all. Bad match, horrible

Diving cunt, but he will slot into our style of play perfectly. We will keep possesion even more and his height will help us defend better in setpieces and score from setpieces. 25mil for him will be a steal. But he can't be diving like f**k in chelsea though.

Brilliant freekick. No service today and he comes up with that. One chance and he scores, what a player. He alone has kept them chasing barcelona at the top. :bow:

Tough match for sure. They were able to draw juventus away. I watched some parts of the game. They hav some good attacking midfielders. so we must watch our backs. Oscar, luiz and ivanovic need to rest for this one. They have played even in the international matches. Especially oscar, he is still adapting to his defensive role in our team. So he needs to be fresh for manchester. Cesar-cahill-terry-cole Mikel - lampard Moses/marin -mata- hazard Sturridge Sturridge needs his chance, torres has played forever he can come from the bench. I'm afraid of the mikel-lampard pivot, but we need ramires rested for man utd, and I think lampard can handle this. 3-1 to us

yea oscar pressed deep but he wasnt too influential. But we cant forget that it was his introduction that sparked out better all round team play. His defensive pressure balances out mata and hazard attacking

cech saved sirgudson shot and saved walker shot and defoe's demba cisse looking shot. He had another great game for me

this is proof that we are playing some excellent football, glad to see our midfielders getting the highest passes and not defenders. Just like barca. Does someone have the full statistics?

what a pass from hazard to mata, what a defensive shift from oscar and what a sublime day for mata. Three of them must start everygame, i dont care if its barcelona. Torres misses another two chances, he just doesnt like one on ones. Top peformance from cech again, mikel was class. Ivanovic our top diver?

Finally back on the site. International games kept me away from my lovely chelsea matches. Hope totenham momentum is spoiled by us. We should play 4-3-3 when defending and 4-2-3-1 when attacking Iva-cahill-luiz-cole Ramires - mikel Oscar Mata. Hazard Torres I think ramires should help out ivanovic since we know that mata can't be running back. Oscar should drop deeper to cover space left by ramires in the pivot to balance the team. Would have prefered us to play oscar in the arteta or pirlo role but Tottenham don't have a main style of play and play randomly really. So ramires helping cole from center when we defending and oscar covering for ramires will be wise. Avb should stick to his business, what's with him saying winning the league in portugal(benfica, lisbon, sparta) is harder than winning the champions league. Where (Madrid, barca, bayern, manutd) all play even mourinho lost only one game in the premier league but couldn't win the champions league for us so he should shut up and mind his business.