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I don't think you're necessarily giving them too much credit. They're way better than the teams we've played so far and they will try to attack us - especially playing at Goddison Park. As we aren't as clinical defending as we were last year, and we haven't gelled yet, I can see them even scoring tbh, but I think we can outscore them. It's very important we win this match, so we don't face City with any additional pressure. They key will be how our midfield will cope with theirs. Clearly Oscar and Cesc are still getting to know how to play around each other. It worked fine attack wise, but we've been offering a little more than necessary space. I know with being more offensive comes more space between the midfield and the defense (we can't play with a high defense imo, we don't have fast defenders). Maybe we should take a page from van Gaal's book and play with Azpili almost as a CB (it's not like he supports the attack that much) against stronger oppositions (I'd like to see that against City, for example), but against Everton, maybe it'll suffice to one between Oscar and Cesc a bit closer to Matic.

maybe it's a case of playing both Willian and Oscar and instead of bringing Willian as a sub, bring Schurrle. I feel like there's a chance for that happening. That if Mourinho doesn't ruin my life and replace someone for Ramires in the lineup - as we'll do in the big matches (where I do think Rami is useful). Everton have been anything but brilliant so far, I'm sure they'll up their game against us, but I reckon we could face them as we face most of the teams in the league, they don't need the special tactics we have for the big challenges imo, even if the game is in their turf. We dominated them last season at Goodison Park in the first half, but we didn't have a clinical striker, our AMs weren't good in the final touch and I guess Howard had a good match. If we did that last year with a team that wasn't as good as this year's (even if by then they had more matches under their belt) I think we could do it again this year, hopefully having better luck and quality in the finish and not conceding a stupid goal.

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Let the boss have the final (literally) word about it. Asked about players coming later from holidays because of the WC José said how he's going to use them. He talked about their agreement, about how they can't exhaust Schurrle, Oscar, Ramires and Willian and then he made sure to conclude with 'Oscar again had a positive match' - something he didn't say about the others. 'Nuff said. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24f4bw_mourinho-second-half-everything-was-us-hd_sport Those are the facts I use to base my opinion in Oscar's role in the team. José keeps trusting him. With good reason imo.

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Actually in the Confed Cup Scorali used Oscar brilliantly. The best Oscar played in the last two years imo, even compared to his first months for us last season.

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to be honest I don't have much to ask to Dion. He's by far the person I've talked the most in my history in the internet LOL Love my kiddo I won't pretend I know everything about him, but I wouldn't know what to ask that I don't know already. I could ask him out!

I didn't want to use my wildcard and my changes gave me around 30 points - as I predicted they would, so it was still worth it. Now it's time to start collecting

and who in their right frame of mind would compare anyone to Hazard? Hazard is special, he's a hell of a player and one most people here know is our most talented player... we should compare Oscar's development to players his age that are around the same quality as he, like Schurrle who's 24 and other players in other teams. There are few players in the world you can compare to Hazard at age 23...

I think it may be down to him struggling to adapt and not being on his best form yet as Azpilicueta hasn't been nearly as good as last season in the two matches he's had this season. It's been a significant drop imo - which just shows how immense he was last season as despite not being even 80 or even 70% as good, he hasn't been bad. He's made a few mistakes we didn't watch and maybe he's either not in shape either or he's feeling a bit threatened by the competition... I don't know, but either way he hasn't upped his performances to create a problem to Mourinho. I think Luís has a problem in his hands to solve about himself whether it's shape or adaptation struggles, but I feel like once he becomes confident and gets used to the league, he won't leave the team. Azpili has been averaging a 6.5 so far this season whereas Iva is averaging something like 9.0 (or maybe 8.5, as I'm highly excited about Iva and I may be biased), so it's not that hard for Luís to displace Cesar if he doesn't up his game - which I hope he does. It's great to have players at the best of their qualities. I won't deny though that I'm really anxious to watch a well adapted and in form Luís linking up in our left wing and crossing. Azpili has been nearly anonymous supporting our attack in those first two matches (and something he was never widely known for imo - even last season). Also, Luís is very consistent defensively, so it doesn't make much sense to keep a RB playing in the LB without offering top performances, if we have an in form LB for the position. The key words here are 'in form' though.

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We've been talking about this guy and fapping about him (please someone teaches me some slang, fapping sounds so crude, but I don't know another word), but it's understandable when we haven't had a striker of this caliber in so long. But I wanted to dissect a bit of his instinctual and superb movement and goal awareness. Look how just after Iva cuts he two defenders (and how priceless is it that he leaves the two of them sitting on their arses? This reloaded Iva is mouthwatering) everyone keeps running forward. André - who's also a master on positioning and movement - also stops, but he's a couple of seconds later in his decision. That's why Iva can find Diego unmarked two meters away from the 6-yard (I suppose?) box. That's the awareness and the instinct of a goal scorer making him do just the right thing, at the right time and be in the best possible position to score. It's not only about being a poacher, but being smart and instinctive about how to score a goal. He's really been amazing to us.

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you just said last page that his performance yesterday was the nail in the coffin when he was the player that was mostly involved in the best chances we created in the second as I broke down. You started attacking people for acknowledging he was good, that was your second post in the thread if you want to be literal about it. You worded in a way as if there was anyone trying to say that 20 minutes erased the second part of the season - which nobody did. Just because people didn't single him out in a stretch of time seemingly nobody played well - according to José our whole midfield was weak - and praised him for playing well in the second - which he clearly did given how he took part of the first goal and in two other clear chances - as if US, CHELSEA FANS were WRONG for praising OUR player for turning a bad presentation around and being instrumental coming back from half time. My main instance on this thread yesterday was how people chose to focus on 45 minutes of bad football - when it had been collective bad football - and not even recognize how he was one of the players that helped us to turn things around in the second. For me he's tied with Ivanovic in the second half performance. Both were our brightest players. that was the initial discussion here. Then you gave the argument that the only reason he started against Burnley was because Ramires was suspended (and I do wonder whose fault was that in the first place...), but you didn't offer anything as to why Ramires didn't start the second then, only saying Mourinho wanted to keep the winning side. So in one hand Oscar is part of the starting eleven because he's part of what's considered the winning side, but on the other hand he was so awful against Burnley and then again against Leicester saved 20 minutes that he should be dropped promptly for Ramires... There's no logic that can conceive that he's kept because he was part of a winning side, but at the same time is horrible, unless you're calling Mourinho stupid or biased. that was my point, Mourinho gave Oscar a second chance in the first match of the season after terrible months, then he probably thought Oscar did well and gave him yet another start. If he doesn't start against Everton it might have nothing to do with Mourinho being happy or unhappy with his performances (I doubt he's unhappy though) and more with the tactical plan for that match. There isn't a reason for Mourinho to be unhappy about him exclusively about the first half and Mourinho himself said the team was bad, Cesc said the team was bad, Cahill said the team was bad. Everyone agrees the team was bad in the first ahlf, so why should Mourinho or anyone else single out Oscar? Then in the second half Oscar was one of our best players, why would Mourinho be unhappy and see that performance as the nail in the coffin? Sorry if from my angle it makes no sense at all.

I still haven't watched the first half yet - my internet has been acting up until now, and I was posting through my phone basically... I plan to catch up with the match soon, but based on the vid posted last page, I don't know how could someone call his first half bad. People go from one extreme to another with Hazard so often... He seemed quite good and tried to create something. Maybe he wasn't flashy enough and that's why people labeled him bad in the first... I swear I don't understand it.

He's simply doing what he does best - trying to save face from an initial weak or nonsensical point by turning the attention to something else as if that has been what he's been talking all along. Once his point is greatly refuted by others (or proved wrong) he starts to stray from it post by post and makes it about something else. Everyone - including himself - was talking about Oscar's match yesterday, but while it was only the biased Brazilian against him he was adamant about how Oscar had been terrible in the first half, how there hadn't been a worse player and how people were overrating his second half and talking positively about it when his first half wasn't being held accountable. Then others started to disagree with him and he tried to avert the attention towards my supposedly unfair treatment of Ramires, then more people joined disagreeing with him and people who normally talk a lot of sense and he started to stray every time his opinion was confronted and turned it to a direction not many would disagree, which was Oscar's form in the second half of last season. He does it every single time a lot of people disagrees with him or proves him wrong or points he's talking nonsense. Once he runs out of arguments from his initial point, he starts bringing attention to something else as if that has been his point all along as well as him being right. The last few pages are a testament to that.

Did you just put Oscar and Torres in the sentence/bracket or whatever? I rest my case then if Oscar's poorness is only second to Torres for you...

so let me be really precise about it. We had 5/6 collective really good chances in the second half (as Hazard's goal was a genius individual goal). Oscar assisted one (the pass to Schurrle in a through ball from defense), Oscar's own shot on the wood (from which came a second chance a few seconds later, but I'm counting them separately), Iva's header and Costa goal - that started with a through ball by Oscar and Cesc's curler - that I don't remember if Oscar was involved or not before Iva's assist. That's him being involved directly in 3 out of our 5/6 best chances created... DIRECTLY. Yep, I see your point just fine... As someone said, if the ball to Schurrle and the ball to Ivanovic had been done by Cesc or Willian or whoever, people would be fapping about it, but it was little uncreative and average Oscar, they're brushed off as nothing.

I did explain I haven't watched the first half and he was involved in some of our most dangerous chances... the pass to Schurrle who was selfish and didn't pass to Hazard, his own shot that hit the wood, the pass to Ivanovic in the Costa goal. And if the info in tumblr is correct, he was rewarded the official competition MOTM... I guess I'm not that off mark and in the same post you refer to, I said I could have given the vote to Iva who had just as a good match as Oscar. What @pgleo meant and any child could understand is that I've criticized Oscar (a lot btw) in the past when he was shit. That wasn't the case yesterday in the second and in the first I just read Cesc even own-tackled Oscar and that Schurrle took the ball away from Costa, etc... either way, I don't have anything else to say to you about this... and that still makes him only 22... he could be here for 5 already, it doesn't change his age and the fact he's still a talent under development.

you can only have three players in the official fantasy game...

I'm having a slow start with this thing. I have two players to still play and not even 50 points and I made a couple of additional transfers so I'll have points discounted from my total. But I'm happy with the team, so I think that's what matters. Still another 36 match-days to go.