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I bet if Willian was on Tottenham as the Bale replacement, everyone on this board would of been saying "why didn't we sign Willian when he wanted to come to Chelsea and is a Chelsea fan."

Oscar made a statement last season that when he came to England, he adapted to the way they play and instead of going for homerun passes, he goes for easy ones and keeps the ball moving.

Jallet was better than hazard last night. The weakest link in PSG. Hazard allowed him to get behind him so many times. Imagine had Van der weil played how many times he would of been exposed. It was similar to when Ozil played and got subbed off because the fullbacks kept attacking Ozil side.

Disagree. The counter was messed up from Ramires positioning. Eto is better than Torres, but Eto wasn't an option.

Well, I said PSG were favorites. Yet, people on this board kept berating me for it. PSG let us go at them. Did you watch Verrati, he was letting ramires and willian attack him yesterday and we managed 1 pk. Had our best moments, when they misplaced passes..... Second half, PSG adapted and the whole team was invisible. Say what you want to say about the French league, however, next week we are going in without Ramires and potentially without Eto... We will need 4 goals to win the game (because PSG will score)...

You don't understand the way our team plays. We don't need an Am. we need a cm to spray balls faster to the team. We need some young legs at the fullback position since Ivan will lose in a footrace to most wingers.. We need a CF, that going to win longballs, hold the ball up and be a physical presence for the three small ams.

it's sad how fans have turn on him... Similar to how Madrid fans turned on Khedira. Mourinho team's need players like Ramires and Willian. Next week, when we have lampard/mikel as cms, let us see how well they do...

Have you seen Di Maria this year vs last year. Or Argentina Di Maria vs last year... Huge difference. Willian does what he is told as does Oscar, ramires, hazard, etc. It's not their fault entirely the offense is stagnant.

This is where your wrong. He is our #10. The offense revolves around Hazard. Just because you are not in the middle doesn't make you not the n10. When hazard has to start in the middle, it is a lot more difficult for him. He's not strong to muscle guys in the middle and he doesn't move well without the ball. He hold's onto the ball so long, which allows the defense to get in shape and to surround him. He get's more freedom on the wings and is allowed to cutback in all the times. this is the best scenario for him atm. Hazard is lucky that Oscar has tactical precision knowing where to be and giving everyone enough space... Guess what when schurrle went to get the ball from the midfield, guess where Oscar was. Playing CF, since Schurrle doesn't know wtf he's doing as a CF and Oscar had to be there to cover him. Yesterday Hazard, when he slotted in the middle, he had one touch/pass. Willian's role is different than Hazard. Willian role is to cover and run his lungs out for the team. No Willian? Ok, lose to CP again.

cech should of saved those shots yesterday. Thibaut backline is better than ours, however, thibaut is more active than cech and better... Maybe we can give them sell Cech to Atletico, since they will need a gk Cech situation is kind of like if we had Thiago coming in and he was going to replace JT.

What is Cristiano better than Suarez at? I give him free kicks. Cristiano was a JT pk slip from never winning a CL, so what exactly makes Cristiano on a different level? Does he play out of position so his teammates can shine? Does he work hard to get the ball back for his team? Does he run all day long to press the back4? Is he a team player or an individual?

it is so obvious. We should read your posts on how Chelsea is on a different level apparently and lost 1-3 though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrAR84eF6pw Sorry, if Oscar gets a pk, than Cavani should of gotten a pk as well.

Agree, however, Matudi is faster than most cms, its just Ramires is in the top 1 percentile. I would think we play mikel and luiz and lamps. However, I don't know how we plan to score goals with that lineup.

I heard rumors of the theory that Roman has told Vitesse to lose the dutch league so they don't qualify for champs league and break the rule that 2 clubs under the same ownership cannot play in the same competition.

I'm more scard of Cavani with Lavezzi and Moura vs Zlatan with Cavani and Lavezzi. I was surprised how Verrati sucked today. Motta and Matudi were fantastic. Jallet, the weakest link was in better offensive position than Hazard. Oscar dived to get the pk. Hazard and Willian were not good. Schurrle was invisible. Luiz could be the scapegoat, but I thought he played fairly well for the most part. LAvezzi had multiple chances to increase the lead...... Sirigu was barely tested.... I don't expect to progress with our offensive deficiencies.

Why would you substitute Ramires when he is going to be suspended the next match. Matudi is the better version of Ramires.

Don't think Luiz was that bad tonite. Luiz was the best player in the first half and everyone sucked in the second half. Anyone know what happen with Luiz and Cavani towards the end of the match.

I love Cavani. Plays with fire and doesn't back down from anyone... I fear Cavani leading the charge, moreso than Zlatan.

Don't think so. Gary Neville kept saying how Jose Mourinho kept yelling at Schurrle to stay in his position and stop going midfield to retrieve the ball.

Oscar dived for the PK..

I was close, I called 3-0.

Hazard touch the ball once when he slotted in Oscar's central position. Granted, Oscar was irrelevant the whole game (minus the dive), Hazard was irrelevant in the second half.

The biggest mismatch to me is the midfield. Verrati-cabaye-matudi-motta vs luiz-lampard-ramires (whoever starts). I feel that Willian needs to start to press them to death.

Barcelona doesn't really have to worry too much. I think the German gk deal is already done, so that will go through and they already have enough youngsters coming through the forward and cm positions (Rafina, dos santos, roberto, defelou, cuenca, tello, traore, patri etc). The only concern would be CB, which isn't that big of a deal in domestic play, but their continual reliance on barthra will be there downfall.