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Ramires should be banned forever from playing. Stupid, useless piece of shit. That's shameful. I'll be happy if he faces a very long ban.

Ramires should be banned forever from playing. Stupid, useless piece of shit. That's shameful. I'll be happy if he faces a very long ban.

still Salah (or whoever was there) didn't go because they seemingly didn't expect it. We still struggle with our 3 AM's linkup

that's a yellow!!!!!!!!!

even Mou liked Sami's celebration

and also pressure the guy completely unmarked to take a shot at the edge of the box.

our passing has been very frustrating in those 8 minutes... we need to pick it up

betting on a 3-0 here for us. Let's do it, boys Come on, Chels!!!!

OptaChelsea ‏@OptaChels 22h 30 - Willian has created a chance every 30 mins in the PL this season, more frequently than any other Chelsea player (min 15 games). Wizard. hmmm, passed Hazard on that. and now see why I hate this very inaccurate stat? It makes you believe Willian is indeed a creative wizard for us and he hasn't been such. Decent, hard worker, fast and with some very good passes and tons of flair, but there's no more misleading stat in football than chances created.

because he might be used Tuesday at some point? Or maybe he's in the bench for us today... I'd say the latter is quite possible.

nah, they've drawn against City ever since, not to feel bad for them

if there's one thing I think it's cute and I actually like about you is when you call us - Brazilians - 'The Samba Dancers' It's cute - even if not completely accurate

We don't play Madrid - at least not now. Madrid is for Real Madrid... Atletico isn't called Madrid by anyone exactly because that's how they call Real.

I meant the musical culture here... I value Brazil a lot in general but our popular music these days is as poor as it gets. what's cool is normally not too popular and what really good is nearly unknown... but I was talking about music

Flemish culture 100000 x 0 Brazilian culture

sweetie, that's the point. If you only have two and one of them is injured, you're screwed because if the guy is having a day off there's no one else to bring. If he feels something during the match - a knock - there's no one else to bring. Seriously, it makes no sense at all to have only two strikers in a 24-man squad. And what do defenders have to do with that? In a 24-man squad there are two players for each position, plus a third GK and a ST, your point being...? Also we have some versatile players such as David Luiz, Oscar, Azpilicueta, Iva - all of which who can play in more than one position decently.

Tell me which top-10 team in EPL didn't have their strikers injured this season at least once? Etoo, Torres, Daniel, Aguero, Podolski, van Persie, Lukaku, Dzeko, Rodriguez, etc... When it comes to strikers injuries aren't about if, but when... in that case having only two is suicidal imo

it makes no sense to have only 2 strikers... strikers get injured quite often imo (don't know why). So it makes no sense we have only two strikers in a 24-man squad. Regardless of the system, there should be three strikers. We don't need three top strikers (that's nearly unrealistic imo) but we could have a world class, a top striker and a squad member striker as we don't exactly have any natural strikers in our Youth that showed they can handle being part of the main team in case any of the two strikers get injured.

At his age and with the glimpses I've seen from him, Marco can become whatever Mourinho wants him to become. More defensive, more offensive, a B2B, a CM because the boy is quite dynamic and has good vision and his passing isn't bad in the same way Ramires is for example - when you see the player just can't pick a pass and has a weak vision to make matters worse. Marco's problem seems to be just him being young and therefore erratic and inconsistent. I remember his UCL match for us. He started very nervous, making Ramires-alike mistakes and then the nerves loosened and he starting picking better passes. He is no Xabi Alonso and he certainly hasn't Pirlo vision, but the boy is 21, so we can't say for sure that's not his profile. He may never be as good as those guys but any assumption about his limitations, flaws and qualities seems a bit rushed and premature imo. He seems like a boy who has a lot of potential imo. If he can be a partner to Matic or an alternative for Matic it depends on what Mourinho will mold him to be...

can't wait for both - Mourinho doing it and opposition fans hating on him. I love it when the losers hate on Mourinho. They get so pressed

so now you know how much aware I'm of 'cultural' (not to use another word) trends in Brazil. I heard people talking about some Lek lek thing, but I to this day have no idea what that is and I feel like I'm missing nothing out. Thanks for letting me know

Dude... just leave. You're such a fucking coward troller that won't even troll properly to avoid a ban.Too bad I'm not a mod here otherwise you'd already be banned a long time ago. Reason: coward troller and a cunt

unbelievable goal when the team needed him the most. I may dislike Bale as a footballer, but this guy is the final product already... he can only improve, but he's the final product, he steps up and just do it. but in other news.... reading about Mourinho's fashion and his approach/chances at titles is quite funny, lol

I think by the time we play Cardiff in the 38th they'll already be relegated and their spirit broken because of it, which is good for us. We have an impressive record at home this season, so while Sunderland and Norwich will draw their blood in those matches at the Bridge fighting against relegation, I actually believe we're nearly unbeatable (even when it comes to draws and not only defeats) at the Bridge. Mourinho made our turf a fortress again and Eto'o's been really good playing there for us. So I believe while those two matches aren't to be taken lightly, I'm quite confident we'll get the job done at home. We only had issues recently about playing SMALLER teams away. We've been pretty good playing big teams away, which could be a good scenario for us. A big team away - but one that doesn't know what it is to fight for a relevant title in a very long time, with an unexperienced manager in this stage and who may not overcome the psychological pressure and challenge of depending only on themselves to win a title 24 years later. 2 smaller teams at home - as said above, we don't vacillate in those 1 relegation team away at the last game week - when they could already be relegated mathematically and come play us with a broken spirit. In the mix of it all, just two UCL semifinal matches. Sorry if I'm being arrogant about our chances, but in situations like those that this Chelsea have been showing character in the last few seasons. When we need to give that one last breath to finish the sprint we just do it. And we have a winning spirit unlike Liverpool at the moment. Things won't be easy, but that 'Failure or Success season' thread could end up being the most idiotic thread ever opened in this forum...

that's the thing. you know where it hurts, you support till the end knowing there's a big chance they won't make it, but in the outside (and sometimes even a small part of you in the inside) keeps believing. And really, we aren't that far away from having a chance there. What he said he didn't believe would happen - City drawing a match - just happened... so it's not that he only doesn't believe Chelsea... he praises all those other teams as if they were his team instead. It's nearly gross. I've read more posts about that guy worshiping Liverpool and City than saying even half a nice word about Chelsea...