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Just scored a great tricycle kick against Portugal! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8gxcre_QR8

1 month loan, ridiculous... At least he'll play I guess. He's kinda doomed tbh. Knew it from the moment BOTH Mikel and Matic were unavailable and he didn't get a single minute... It's a shame because I have (had?) really high hopes on him, one of my favourite prospects. José really has to improve on his youngster development.

Ex-Chelsea goal festival lol Studge.

Lmao imagine the scenes when he'd get subbed off at halftime on his PL day-view for not tracking back.

You have got to be joking.

Their midfield isn't as good as people on here seem to think.

Lol wtf..

Don't think you watched at the beginning of the year, did you? José can play attacking football. We did it this year already. Problem is he didn't like the way we were leaking goals, and when he tried to balance things out, he failed. We look more more like the team from last year against the smaller sides but worse against tougher opponents. A couple of posters have beaten this to death (The Chels I think was the first one that started bringing this up) - we can't transition from defese to offense as well as we did before and we're bad handling pressure. The fact that our centre backs aren't as high up the pitch makes our midfielders slide back which is leading to poor attacks (how many times do we see the front trio alone?), and with Hazard being our only world-class decision maker further up the pitch we're struggling to create. We look stagnent. Short of ideas. The lack of rotation is killing us too. Most players have dropped form because of it. Fabregas and Oscar mainly (the latter to a lesser extent, he's been more rotated lately - in comes the question of whether Oscar is good enough for what we're trying to achieve - that's another topic)... Another reason why we don't create as well. I do think Mourinho needs to take a look at the mirror and try to implement other ideas into his managing philosophy. He's obviously a great coach but as someone said earlier: he's outdated. Football is evolving and he's sticking to the same tactics he had 10 years ago. I'm sure he doesn't want to become another Wenger who seems to not know what he's doing. He has to find the right balance between attacking and defending, experiment new tactics, rotate the XI (Luís and Remy are begging for a shot as starters - the two most flagrant examples for me). He also has to start trusting youngsters more often. It only helps us. Gives us a heck of a lot more depth, easier to fill the HG quotas, and I'm sure a lot of them are good enough to fill the roles some first team players don't seem up to. With the PL being the only competition we're left in, I'd say it's mandatory to win it. No excuses. Bar a massive, out of his hands, disaster. I still trust this man to be the one that takes us forward, maybe he needs to get that PL trophy to rejuvenate himself? We'll be here to answer that next year. But I sure hope he changes his mindset for everyone's good. Onwards to the title!

I meant it as in José plays Azpi because he trusts him more for defensive duties than Luís, who imo is more than good enough defending, but much better than the spaniard going forward. I want Hazard and Luís down the left too, will help us a bit with our offensive struggles. Or so I hope, lol.

Lmao your trolling is awful dawg. Kill yourself please.

I don't understand the need to splash 20M or so in a 28/9 year old in his peak if you're not going to play him. I understand the imprtance of Azpi denfending, kind of releases Hazard from defending as much (which I don't agree, he's basically a 2nd left back at times) but if he's going to be a full time starter, might as well have a cheaper option to back him up, no? I'm still hoping to see him and Hazard connecting down that left flank...

I absolutely hate this clown. After his WC antics I changed my views of him, after today it got worse. Scum trash.

This was horrible, how we couldn't see it out against 10 men I won't understand. I don't know what has happened to his tactics, last year we were far better in big matched than this year despite having a much better team. We got the players we needed... The maestro we were lacking, the strikers (both Diego and Remy would be starters last year), the left-back, a better bench... I mean, with all these improvements, why the negative approach to every bigger match? I just can't defend this anymore. We were horrible from the second half onwards. Unacceptable. We should've dominated them, especially the midfield... Once again, we couldn't just hang on the ball for our lives and it obviously catched up to us. I'm a huge fan of Mourinho but he needs to get a grip. If he doesn't see oout the league he's fucked.

Costa should've been off by now and they were better for the majority of the game.

Take Costa off or we're even more fucked. We shouldn't even be on to extra-time ffs. WAKE UP MOURINHO.

I know the red is beneficial to us, I just don't like it when players flop. No matter what club they play for.

I might get crucified for this... But I hated Oscar's reaction to tackle. I just hate players that fake it. Matic nearly got a broken leg and stood up like a maniac.

OP's mad because Costa's crushing fuckboy Torres' numbers.

Classy one you are. Smfh. Happy for Salah. Proving me and a lot people wrong. Hope he keeps this up.

I want Arsenal to make it, so that Wenger keeps his job.

We came out of the Matic suspension with best outcome possible: a trophy and 3 points. Props for that, after so much insecurity between us fans, it's nice to have these two wins under the belt. However we really need improvements in the defence-to-attack transition. Whenever the opponent presses us we start to lose the midfield, can't hold on to the ball for more than 5 seconds and just look shaky overall. If we don't want to drop points against weaker opposition, that really has to be worked on. We also seem to have trouble finishing again. Costa has to be given a wake-up call, he's been poor outside the game vs Spuds... Rémy also deserves a chance. Hazard has to gain more goal-sense. Other than that he's been terrific. Fantastic to see him flourish with a Chelsea shirt. Would also like to see Ramires get a little run of games besides Matic and Cesc. Oscar hasn't been convincing. Willian in the hole would do too. Zouma back in defense - he did ok considering the circumstances, but I definitely hope this is the last I see of him as CDM. Hoping to see more of Cuadrado too, he hasn't shown a lot so far but hasn't had much of a chance. And that's all I had to say... Keep it up José. The PL is on huge step closer after today.

This dude needs to be way more selfish, like way more. Could've had a hat-trick if he had more confidence in his finishing.

Criticising the line-up isn't a problem, 90% of us (me included) did it. Critics to Mourinho happen quite often. The problem is the way you did it, you went over the top... You're in your right to dislike him, but do it in a respectful way. He's the manager of our club afterall. Cheer up, we won and you had trolling coming to you after the stuff you said. Friendly banter never hurt anyone, did it?

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