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So he knows our pressing has been shit and was better last night. Especially as the team was pressing together and not disjointed. So he knows our possession play has been very slow because of a slow midfield. Hopefully we reduce how much we play in the middle and play through the wings. Good, let's keep up our pressing, increase our speed in possession play and keep ivanovic out of the team so that we don't concede on every attack on our right wing. Our attacking with hazard is a problem we can solve in time but we need pressing to stop leaking goals.

He has the energy of a proper full-back. Bombing up and down the pitch with stamina and speed is what we haven't had since cole. He just needs to have better deliveries. But I was concerned that Hazard ignored lots of his runs and passed to the tight middle or passed back. I guess hazard isn't used to that much overlapping yet, hopefully they play more together to have a better understanding.

He could be the technical box to box midfielder we've been looking for in big games. If he has long range shooting he'll hit jackpot

The rate at which the Spanish teams have surpassed us in England is alarming. We are ants in the level of our tactics compared to laliga. Every top laliga team press, have lots of dribblers in the starting line-up and have technical midfilders that can hold the ball under pressure. I hope we adopt this trend of their pressing and stop fielding players who are either not technically sound or not mobile. Both traits are required especially technical aspect.

He has excellent movement. He makes himself available for a pass to teammates, hopefully he plays more because I know he's a good finisher

He gave Mourinho an excuse to start ivanovic again, he didn't blow away everyone like RLC did

This And we should play more direct and send costa more passes when he's making a run instead of hopeless short passing in the middle.

Has totally forgotten how to dribble, his acceleration is gone. But aside from that, when he isn't dribbling well, he isn't offering anything else which bothers me. Just attempt to send more vertical passes to costa and become more unpredictable, till his dribbling comes back.

Best player on the pitch for me. Showed desire and our defending actually got worse when he was subbed

Surprise, fabregas does something in attack when oscar is on the pitch. Fabregas should pray he stays on.

He has been reading my posts, he started sending so many passes to the running players today and reduced his sideways passing. Keep passing straight to costa and he'll eventually get you an assist. His defending is still poo

That's why he should be looking to improve and not be satisfied and remain at his peak of last season. Finishing, passing and making off the ball runs are what are remaining to put him on the ballon'd'or best 3 podium

He needs to practice his passing and develop his vision. He has costa and pedro on the other wing who makes runs, he needs to put through passes to him like messi does for Neymar. It just feels like if his dribbling isn't working, he has nothing else to offer in attack which isn't true. His technique is too good for this.

When Mourinho said he'll trust our players who won the title last season during the summer, I never knew he'll take it so far to the detriment of the team. Tbh Ivanovic is not our only problem, but our team's biggest problem is the number of goals we are conceding and Ivanovic is the huge source. Hopefully he gives fabregas an earful for forgetting how to create chances with passes straight to costa.

Jose just needs to go back to being unpredictable. I know every move he'll make, I know the starting line-up, I know the type of subs he'll make when he's losing (Falcao on), I know the pattern of attacking his team will play(slow passing in the middle with ivanovic crossing aimlessly), and recently people now know his weak side in the defense. He's making it too easy for everyone to prepare for him. He needs that unpredictable aura about him he used to have in his first spell. The surprising subs, the different tactics against different opponents, taking out underperfoming players even in the first half. And he needs to let our fullbacks provide width and stop being so narrow, deliver balls to costa from midfield (like pogba to mandzukic today, I don't know why fabregas stopped doing this, he's turning into mikel with all this sideway passing) and more passing interplay from wings and we'll score more.

First day I'm happy regarding football this season Hopefully in 24hrs I'll still keep this smile...

Excellent analysis on how terrible our teamwork has been. Like the players are lazing about and don't care to watch each others backs. The number of times Matic or Terry are left alone without any teammates in sight is so unlike Mourinho. We don't press and defend together as a team, it's too disjointed.

Even watching hazard recent performances, he'll be wondering what all the fuss is all about

Only one successful pass in the Everton box out of only 3 attempted. And he played behind the striker Why doesn't he try to send early passes to costa again??? Is he afraid of creating chances???

Dp

Ivanovic can handle maccabi small team. But if he starts against arsenal however, one on one with Sanchez and we concede again from his wing, I'll lose all my remaining hope in Mourinho and turn to MrBlueGuy.

But Mourinho is a manager who is characterized for not letting people lose focus. What has happened?? Too many players losing motivation like this is unheard of. Are the players quarreling with him? Or are they tired of how we play???

This part is what bothers me. We all know if Mourinho is really caring about our results, he'll go back to his style, park the bus and grind out results. He did this last season after we lost badly to tottenham, he did it the previous season after we lost to sunderland in the carling cup.I can't believe he hasn't done this yet. It was unexpected like he doesn't care, "the refugees are really the ones under pressure".

I read somewhere that Mourinho doesn't want to play anyone he didn't authorize the board to sign. That's why we're hearing all these supposed injuries for baba and he didn't even put our deadline day centerback in the champions League squad.Hopefully it's all rumours, if not it doesn't look good for baba

In my opinion he'll come good, at least I hope. I'm just shocked at the way things are going. Mourinho plays boring football compared to other managers but he always guaranteed victories, desire, passion from the players. And he did whatever he could to win even if he got rid of players who have fought for him. But he seems to fear ivanovic who has cost us so many goals this season (we're the worst in the league) I don't see any signs of these positives he brings this season. I actually thought we'd come out against Everton, shut up shop with a low block and set out to not concede so that we can go from there. But Mourinho is looking different, almost as if he doesn't care about results because if he cares he'll make us defend deep so that we can salvage some points. The football we played in the 2nd part of last season was acceptable because we were winning. But to play without creating proper chances, without any passing combinations that looks like we practiced attacking movement and we're loosing on top of it is unacceptable. As a Chelsea fan he has my respect because of what he has done for us so he can be afforded more patience. But he has to either start winning with this boring football or get entertaining while playing youth.