CHOULO19 24,332 Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 Mark my words, he will be MOTM tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin123 530 Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 if he wriggles free from kroos and schweinsteiger which i believe both will be playing the dm position, he is going to be immense i just know itive even had a £10 bet on him scoring at anytime @ 5/1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 WTF! Nobody posted anything about Mata?!! What a debut season for him in English football. First campaign and he has already won the FA Cup and Champions League. I'm extremely pleased for the little fella but goodness me, he should never be allowed to take penalties ever again! Including that one yesterday, he has missed 3 of his 4 penalties this season!That aside, Mata now has 12 goals AND 20 assists compared to Silva's 8 and 19 respectively... Azpinator, NiclasCFC and DDA 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Guys imagine if Mata win FA Cup, CL and Euros in one season.This will be mind-blowing achievment.He's half-way there Now for the Euro's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Kostas 1,468 Posted May 20, 2012 Popular Post! Share Posted May 20, 2012 A bit off-topic but Mata's penalty miss had me thinking.I remember a topic around the middle of the season in which the topic starter expressed his fears of how we may be turning into the Arsenal of 06-10, playing the entertaining "proper" football that both the owner and the fans have been craving for. The thing that the topic starter was concerned about is how we bottled games and threw away results in the very same manner that Arsenal team did. We set new records for goals conceded in the last 10-15 minutes of the game and gave away the cheapest of goals in games that we were by far the better footballing side.Yesterday Drogba and Lampard scored their penalties while Mata failed to. AVB's Chelsea was built around Mata. Mourinho's Chelsea (and all our successful sides since he left, including Ancelotti's) was built around Drogba and Lampard. Players that had at the time, and yesterday proved once again they still do, the strength of character needed in football, the winner's strength. A strength the serial bottlers of Arsenal lacked, a strength that Mata lacked last night.Apart from the footballing side of things (tactics, footballing style, substitutions, transfers, individual performances, rotten luck) and what the media forced us to consider pivotal (manager-players relations) the thing that IMO caused the downfall of AVB's Chelsea was coming to a successful club and trying to start from almost zero with players that were largely untested and unproven at this level and under this kind of pressure.Winning sides are built around winners. CHOULO19, LDN Blue, Term-X and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santiago. 1,500 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 Mata rarely touched the ball the entire match due to our approach to the game but when he did, he moved the ball positively and led the attack. He is young, inexperienced in this kind of level, (starting wise), and missed a penalty due to inexperience of focus and fatigue. He is certainly no bottler Azpinator 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamiCFC9 258 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 YES we won and iam damn happy about it, but let's be honest i doubt we will ever do that again if we continue to play like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leif 6,006 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 My BIGGEST worry going into last nights match, was that if we failed to win and missed out on CL football next year, that Mata would leave for a team like Real Madrid or Barcelona. That was the only thing on my mind.He's instantly become one of my favourite players of all time, and he's only been here 1 season. I hope we have many successful years to come with him involved! :blue scalf: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! TacticalBlues 2,817 Posted May 20, 2012 Popular Post! Share Posted May 20, 2012 He's had a good time on Twitter too DDA, Kez, Azpinator and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rambo 1,729 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 DDA and Sheva. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Big Drog 1,110 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 I agree that he hasn't gotten the admiration he deserves, very important player over the course of the CL campaign. Less instrumental against barca and Munich but that was down to our approach and his ball retention and clever use of the ball last night were essential. Wonderful debut season at Chelsea, key player in both FA Cup and Champions League victories, the only player of his kind in the squad, he has been a joy to watch this season, I look forward to many more years of watching the mercurial spaniard in a blue jersey. BleedsBlue and sLOVEnian Blue 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrique 9,133 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 @KostasMata played a good match. Mourinho's team wasnt build around Drogba, from 04 to 06, when we won 2 PL in a row, Drogba wasnt as important as he was for the team this days.Actually Lampard lost a penalty against Portugal in WC, and Drogba was always a flop in African Nations Cup.Didier was an a avarage striker in his first years here, but he learned how to be a winner. Mata is alerady a winner, and AVB team wasnt built around Mata, since he never knew where to play the guy.And your comment was 100% uncalled for one day after our victory, and after the season Mata had with us. Sheva. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azpinator 2,325 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Still the future of Chelsea despite that penalty miss, I can't wait to see him play alongside a more flexible attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusek 2,031 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 53 games, 12 goals and 21 assists... fucking quality! Sheva. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amblève. 4,995 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Does anybody know when he'll be joining the Spanish team for the Euros? Spain will be here in Austria just a few kilometres from my hometown practicing and preparing for the big tournament and I'll be going to the first trainings session tomorrow so I just wanted to know if there's a chance to meet Juan and Torres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 53 games, 12 goals and 21 assists... fucking quality! 20 assists. Not 21. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capriccioso 2,545 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Shouldn't take penalties unless we're 3-0 up. Poor lad just doesn't have the nerve.Apart from that, there is very little to fault him. Brilliant player. Thank you for your career so far, Juan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusek 2,031 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 20 assists. Not 21.Did you count the assist in CL final? If not, looks like the wikipedia is wrong then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheva. 5,373 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 He's simply had a wonderful first season at the club.Assisted a goal in both the Fa cup and CL final. Player of the year. 20 assists for the season, and also added 12 goals.23m well spent. TomCFC 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i.am.blue 61 Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 mata should now win the euro 2012 for spain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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