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tbh it was the same old 4-2-3-1 with Zouma + Rami and Cesc playing #10 or at most as a more advanced midfielder in a 4-3-3 (still think it was a 4231) So it was better. Too bad you didn't quote the two posts I said I'd support the team and hoped I was proved wrong. But hey, at least got you some likes

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LOL

Ramires can be so dumb sometimes... good thing Spurs is even more stupid and made a quick short FK instead of getting it done properly

they're combative and have tons of stamina and are workhorses, Mourinho will NEVER get rid of them

unlucky Eden but that's the finishing I want to see more from him

while we were passing it around I was just imagining that. First time we put the ball on the pitch and passed in their half. Yes, Cesc hasn't been having a great match, but he can hardly play well and be involved if we keep bypassing him roofing the ball to Costa every time. The one time he had it on his feet and we actually played football, he, Wilian, Hazard showed how to play and we scored... It's not that hard... especially with the quality we have

Fabregas-Costa but wait, Fab can't play in the second half of the season, much less in big games

They just showed the Coutinho goal here and it reminded of when Hazard had a ball in the same position. People compare so much Coutinho and Oscar saying Oscar needed to be more like Coutinho - which he could offensively wise, but this team's star is Hazard and if someone could take a page or two from Coutinho's clear improvement on finishing is Hazard. Coutinho used to be so weak on that and he's been improving quite well on that matter. The kind of improvement I'd like to see Hazard have as well. Just to be clear, I'm talking exclusively about finishing progression.

Zouma would have had a better chance if Cahill didn't anticipate him not blaming Cahill though, just saying he had better vision and was better positioned to finish

I knew we were going to score while playing shit That's how it always works with us that was a terrible fk by willian anyway. he hit where there were only spurs players, but it worked somehow

We're bad... but I don't think it's Mourinho's fault. We're playing the same old 4-2-3-1. Cesc is playing #10, it's just that our players are so damn poor. Ramires can't pass, Willian only has a head to hold that amazing hair, Hazard has been dribbling in the wrong places. The only player we have doing well is Costa (from the midfield up)

FUCK SAKE WILLIAN, PASS THE DAMN BALL TO CESC WHO'S RUNNING YOU WERE LOOKING STRAIGHT TO HIM, USELESS

Willian has been TERRIBLE every time he touched the ball except that long pass to Hazard a couple of minutes ago

why are we wasting good free kicks with Willian ffs? It's not enough to waste our every attacking chance with him but now he wastes our FK as well? I'll give it to José, playing Zouma despite being only 20 in a new position for him was a risky move, but the kid has been impressive so far imo

maybe it'll be a 5-4-1 (or 5-2-3) instead of a 3-5-2... I still have problems with it if Costa is going to play isolated again. We need Cesc and Hazard near our striker, otherwise, when and how will we score?

you've got the reasoning backwards imo. If not even a defensive #10 makes the lineup when Mou plays big teams, there's no way in hell we'll be getting a more creative (and therefore less defensive) #10. It's not only about Oscar's shortcomings - which he has - but it's mainly Mourinho's fear of deploying a more offensive lineup in big games. In some of our big games at home in the last two seasons he played Oscar... not many, but still some.

I will support it, no doubts... but getting a guy who can't do proactive defending, who always has a problem when the defense plays higher and who is known for backing off from opponents royally really bugs me. I don't mind the system, but he should have used Luís there. Damn, even Willian would have been better than Cahill.

My lineup for the match didn't even need to have Ake. I know Mou wouldn't play him and I don't have a problem with that. If he wants to deploy a defender in the pivot the man for the job was Filipe Luís, not Gary Back-Off-Till-There's-No-Tomorrow Cahill. If he's bad in a high defense, how could he be good in the midfield? He's the kind of the defender that has to play with the GK breath on his neck, he's made for the protected defense, not to protect defense. That's the biggest BS I've seen Mourinho try.

Come on, Blues... and come on, Cahill, do yourself a favor and shut all of us up. God help us indeed, but well, we'll be cheering for the team, expecting the worse but waiting for the better

if that was the case Luis would be in the LB, he isn't. I think people are fooling themselves. One of our CBs is going to be a pivot player, the question is who.

Mourinho has been feeling some absurd pressure to win even a mickey mouse cup (sorry, I've got little respect to the COC - all my domestic cup respect goes to FA Cup) if he feels e needs to resort to this joke of a lineup.

ok, now it all makes sense. Cech Cahill Zouma Terry Azpi Rami Cesc Willian Iva Hazard Costa thanks for bringing light to this mess

which team lineup including Cahill as a midfielder could end up being a masterstroke? I can't fathom it.

not only usual Spurs, but a tired as fuck Spurs in a pitch as wide as Wembley. This is the worst lineup I've ever witnessed José Mourinho come up with. It'll backfire completely. There goes our chance of winning this match. Then when we're losing we'll get all attackers he left in the bench in mark 80 and we'll look even a worse mess. Sorry, I can't back Mou up with this one