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Are you kidding me, Mourinho? Two subs I hated... I would have had Willian for Schurrle and I would have kept OScar. He's been immense offensively and defensively here. Mourinho having a shocker...

what a save x

Ivanovic simply can't leave this team... he's been immense shutting up everyone about his offensive contribution. Cheers

PQP Mourinho, Ramires for Schurrle? fml

I swear the best feeling in the world is having a striker. I swear

and they said Oscar was shit PORRA!!!!! DIEGO COSTA

I predict 2-0 based in the 10 minutes I've been watching.

Come on, Chels!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it!!!!!!!!

Oscar

arrived at home 5 minutes ago... How was the first? The second is intense...

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if that's the premise of the article above, it proves why it's a very poor one... I didn't know - as good as he was - that Willian was one of the Chelsea's player of the season - maybe except in nomination. He wasn't at all.

better than Mikel... he has a lot of potential and long term replacement for Matic if he continues to develop well. I don't mind Mikel staying, but if it's at the expense of van Ginkel leaving, I think it's stupid. If it's not related, then okay... Matic won't play all games even in the EPL... if last year Mourinho used Marco in a UCL match, why this year couldn't he use whenever Matic is unavailable or rested?

if we do that we're stupid... we shouldn't make any definitive deal with a 21-yo with tons of potential...

yeah, we seem to be willing to ship away one of our potential good young players because a guy wants a passport. I didn't know we became a charity institution. I mean, if it doesn't come as a sacrifice for the club, okay, keep Mikel there so he can get his English passport, but now we're sacrificing a young talent because of a damn passport? They play the same position, Mikel wasn't that much used last season, with Cesc in the team, Ramires could be a direct substitute to Matic as well. The obvious player to leave in the midfield - for loan or offloaded - was Mikel but it seems we won't make it because of a passport...

Did you transcript the lyrics?

awww it's so cute! Thanks for sharing this time The Karaoke part lol, it reminded me of me and then of you, hahahahahaha. Will I really have to go to JP to fix it or you'll get your friends to finally go?

hopefully he'll grow back to that hair, his new haircut is terrible.

posting here instead of Oscar's or Cesc's because he's center and front Oscar looks like a Bale hybrid, Cesc is perfect true to his real self though

that match was completely atypical. We can't take anything from that. Iva was on spoiled drugs that day...

Sorry to be the bearer of such bad news Fernando Torres and Mattia Destro will not be in Chelsea and Roma swap deal, says agent

you fooled me! I thought I'd come here to see Eva's ice bucket challenge posted. Now I'm heartbroken.

people fail to recognize/understand that it's better to have two hybrids players than a pure #10 and a pure #8: we have better coverage with a #10 that can play like a #8 and we have the surprise/dangerous element with a #8 that can play #10. In an unexpected situation, Oscar can recover the ball for us as he did for Costa's goal and Cesc can come and give passes like the ones he gave to Schurrle and Iva. The chemistry, the complementing and complimenting makes it harder for the opposition to figure us out. We have a morphing midfield - just the way I love - where players have more than one role and responsibility. It feels like instead of a line of players simply moving forward or backward we have a bunch of players that move circularly up and down, I don't know how to explain in English properly but imagine a fixed lined moving up and down the pitch, you identify the position each player plays and you move your own to mark, attack, stop them. Now if those players are exchanging not only positions but roles all the time the movement isn't only vertical, but horizontal and circular as well so instead of the same targets being in their expected positions you have them interchanging and moving towards you as if a triangle had come to life. That's much harder to mark and pass by than a fixed line. Oscar can and hopefully will improve his offensive contribution and passing in general. Cesc hasn't disappointed me at all with his tackling, quite the opposite, he's working his socks off on and off the ball, Matic is a very complete #6 with technical quality to come ahead and contribute too. If they were ever so fixed as the traditional #6, #8 and #10 - given that none of them is that fast (all of them lack some relevant amount of pace, although they can sprint sometimes), the exchanging is not only a differential, but nearly a need. If they're isolated in their initial position, being a bit slower than we would have wanted, we'd have problems when we're dispossessed, as they're covering one another all the time, one will always be somewhere he wasn't two seconds ago to confuse the opposition. I do think we need to drill those exchanges better (as I said, I thought Iva was a bit exposed against Burnley), but chemistry comes with time, I'm not worried at all.

even technically he wasn't as bad as he had been the last four months of last season. He isn't on top of his game yet, far from it, but he wasn't a disgrace either. It's been considerable improvement individually from him compared to last season, partially because of Cesc's presence and his new role in the team and partially because he seemed to be 100% into the match, which isn't something we could say about many of his matches in the second half of the season...