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Technique, strength, speed, and finishing. Sounds good, I don't know why I feel we have traore who has similar qualities bar strength can do the same.

He is the box to box midfielder I've been screaming for since the summer transfer period. He reminds me of Essien, kante can pass, can shoot, can dribble past his marker, can tackle and is very mobile. We need to sign him and ighalo to get back to what Chelsea knows how to do. I'm tired of a striker who is bullied by defenders and complaining to the ref. Ighalo has scored so many goals out of nowhere, with hopefully passes. He'll get even better passes here. I'm tired of our slow midfield pivot, fabregas-Matic is too slow for my liking. We need mobility without losing technical quality. Once we get this done, we'll see a different team.

True, but we need to make sure the attacking players are technically sound instead of focusing so much on physical quality

Crazy inconsistent

How we moved from physically gifted midfielders like ballack, lampard and essien to slow pivot still baffles me. We're so slow....

Costa hates making near post runs in the box. Weird striker

Merry Christmas everyone

What I'll give to see hazard given 10 straight matches behind the striker.....

Exactly this... Technical quality over any other attribute for attackers any day. Realmadrid, Barcelona and bayern prove this.

That would be far better than him going to manutd. It's unfortunate he lost the dressing room here but what's happened has happened. He had to go for the losses to stop, hopefully he's heading far away from England.

Damn. I don't believe it lol

Hazard is how we start our attacks. But the final pass is where ozil and many others beat him. Those vertical passes are crucial to this play. I remember sometime on Hazard thread where I showed a lot of clips of how messi combined his dribbling with vertical passes to Neymar and hoped hazard does it, and people told me only messi can do it, but we can see mahrez this season doing exactly what I said. Supplying vardy with goals with Messi style of passing has made mahrez the best player in the league currently.

Ozil won't have as much assists as in arsenal, but he'll have far more than hazard. Fabregas proved last season to beat hazard in assists from deep in midfield too. Hazard just creates problems for defences with his dribbles, but he doesn't actually have huge number of assists with creative passing.

Walcott's goal just now and mahrez goal against us is what hazard needs to do more. You don't need to dribble again in the box all the time, just bend it like Beckham into the corner. Infact all our wingers are guilty of this, just cut in and curl the ball.

This

Lol, how did he know? Won't be surprised though. They seemed like they were quarreling, anytime I saw hazard was subbed off he'll walk past Mourinho. That eva stuff came back to haunt Chelsea. I think she was pretty close with some players than I thought.

Please....

I'm not buying this. We are screaming for attacking football in Chelsea and Ancelloti is the most experienced attacking manager who knows our club and the league. Even RealMadrid players are not scoring as much as they used to do under Ancelloti, shows how he'll improve our goalscoring.

Get Ancelloti, we'll score some goals at the very least

We'll be below newcastle and bornemorth with a loss here... Unreal

Going through the Neymar transformation.

I knew manutd will eventually start to pay for the slow turgid football they play. Can't seem to create chances, so when the opponent scores first, they are forced to score so they become a disorganized and scattered team on the pitch. 10 goals in their last 12 games is incredible lol. That's why they've won only 3 matches in that spell, lack of goals.

Exactly. It's high time we start practicing it. Get our fullbacks forward to provide crosses, increase the tempo of our gameplay in the final third of the pitch and we'll create many chances like a normal big team does.

Better today. Still doesn't dribble well as before but he offered passing and created chances which is what I've wanted for him.

He doesn't create chances for us anyway and he is a huge defensive liability. We can't seem to defend with him on the pitch. That's why we were so good defensively in Mourinho's first season two years ago, then the next year fabregas comes and we lose all sense of defensive stability, conceding chances left, right and center.