Jase 43,479 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Why do we become so shit when he is not on the pitch? Talk about carrying the team.Errr, we threw away the 2-0 lead against Southampton when he was on the pitch, IIRC... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 On top of Hazard news, Mata seems positive about the knock he picked up.Yeah...we'll make it worse by flogging him to death on Saturday.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubber bullets 1,183 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Errr, we threw away the 2-0 lead against Southampton when he was on the pitch, IIRC...But generally we always seem to struggle when he is not on the pitch. I mean against Brentford it wasn't until he came on in the second half that we were able to even string two consecutive decent passes and manage to make some sort of threat to the opposition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeboii 1,844 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 But generally we always seem to struggle when he is not on the pitch. I mean against Brentford it wasn't until he came on in the second half that we were able to even string two consecutive decent passes and manage to make some sort of threat to the oppositionBa came on and made the last pass, the other was a header so it wasn't Mata who made the goals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif 6,006 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 He's more important to us than Messi is to Barcelona, RVP is to United, probably more important to us than Silva is to Man City, even Pirlo to Juventus. It's really quite sad. No player is bigger than the club, but he really deserves to be playing with better players. By 'better' I mean players who show half the grit he's been showing for a while now. It'll be tragic if he never wins a PL title with us.Edit: Just remembered he's a Champions League winner which RVP, Silva, Aguero etc. aren't This makes me happy. kellzfresh, ChelseaFSee and Rubber bullets 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellzfresh 7,229 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 How did we become so much dependent on one player Our starting line up yesterday only lampard and mata are recognized goal threats. The rest miss chances and we suffer from this, the importance of a goal scorer is so massive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Even if his ankle injury is not too serious, he should be rested. Otherwise, it might get much worse & then Chelsea might as well pack it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 But generally we always seem to struggle when he is not on the pitch. I mean against Brentford it wasn't until he came on in the second half that we were able to even string two consecutive decent passes and manage to make some sort of threat to the oppositionYes, we seem to get lost whenever he's not playing but last night's collapse had nothing to do with him being on the pitch or not. Two piss poor defensive moment cost us the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jase 43,479 Posted February 1, 2013 Share Posted February 1, 2013 He has been called up to the Spain NT for their match next week against Uruguay. Stingray 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Term-X 7,891 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 If only he had been part of a better era though, considering he wasn't exactly 'instrumental' in our now historic 2012 CL win. I wonder how greater his legacy can be if we get our act together, the club moves forward, we appoint the right manager and go on a trophy run. JT, Drogba & Lamps are fortunate in that sense.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary gordon 1,777 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 If only he had been part of a better era though, considering he wasn't exactly 'instrumental' in our now historic 2012 CL win. I wonder how greater his legacy can be if we get our act together, the club moves forward, we appoint the right manager and go on a trophy run. JT, Drogba & Lamps are fortunate in that sense..So were the managers though.. These 3 blokes could win trophies in any team.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 If only he had been part of a better era though, considering he wasn't exactly 'instrumental' in our now historic 2012 CL win. I wonder how greater his legacy can be if we get our act together, the club moves forward, we appoint the right manager and go on a trophy run. JT, Drogba & Lamps are fortunate in that sense..He's forgiven for not being "instrumental" as you put it for us playing extremely defensively and y'know...assisting Drogba's equalizer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term-X 7,891 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 He's forgiven for not being "instrumental" as you put it for us playing extremely defensively and y'know...assisting Drogba's equalizer. It was a corner, so the word 'assist' should be used loosely. Yes, we were playing defensively, that was my point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieran. 6,317 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 It was a corner, so the word 'assist' can only be used loosely as it's against the run of play.Okay so he "loosely" assisted that Drogba equalizer. Does it really make a difference? Heisenberg 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blu4Lyf 46 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Okay so he "loosely" assisted that Drogba equalizer. Does it really make a difference?No, one could say it's harder to assist from a corner rather than open play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheva. 5,373 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 Mata assists a lot of goals from corners, his delivery is sexy and on point most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,448 Posted February 2, 2013 Share Posted February 2, 2013 He has been called up to the Spain NT for their match next week against Uruguay. Imagine if this'll be the time when del Bosque decides to give him a rare start... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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