Juan Mata

[mac.bo 48]

If Jose wants a high pressing game, then every single attacking player is going to have to play their part, as great a player as Mata unquestionably is, Jose is not going to scrap his plan to accommodate one player. Del Bosque doesn't do it so why should Jose? speaking of Del Bosque, maybe with more pressing to his game, Mata might actually play more games for Spain, as they play with high pressing like we are intending to do.

If a few less goals and assist's for Mata coincide with the team as a whole improving and getting better results, then quite frankly that's fine. The club/team come before any one player.

[mac.bo 48]

Looking at most of these comments about Mata you would think he didnt do any pressing or tracking back the last few seasons! (Agree i'd like everybody to work harder without the ball)Come back with your negative comments when we have any better creative player in OUR team and worry about the defenders defending better and the Cm improving , the strikers scoring more!

[Sheva. 5,373]

Scores for Spain.

[Jase 43,479]

His goal vs Georgia..

[Pacquiao 1,834]

I hope Mata can bring that goal scoring touch back to Chelsea! Suddenly all of Mata, Hazard, Oscar, KdB, Willian and Schurrle have scored WIllian and Hazard v Norwich and the other 4 on international duty! I hope they can keep this up!

Who needs a prolific striker eh?

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Nice goal for mata, I'm happy all our AM's are in scoring form

[meetdoscar 335]

Its good he is in scoring form we need goals

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

Nice little poacher's finish by Juan. We now have a plethora of inform midfielders.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Good instinctive finish. Hopefully he can open his account for us this season soon.

[Special Juan 28,141]

He'll score against Cardiff

[The_Flash 1,144]

I would love him to start scoring again would really show how good he is again. This silly on off playing him by Jose must be tough but I know he has it in him to stay brilliant.

[polo 18]

He'll score against Cardiff

if he plays

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

I was secretly wishing for Mata to have a blinder today, but I thought he was a tad underwhelming in most aspects of his game, and as a result of that we lacked a little impetus and penetration, especially in the first half.

Mourinho's style so far does not seem to suit him at all.

[Jase 43,479]

I was secretly wishing for Mata to have a blinder today, but I thought he was a tad underwhelming in most aspects of his game, and as a result of that we lacked a little impetus and penetration, especially in the first half.

And yet he created the 5 chances for us today, the highest alongside Hazard.

We practically had little penetration and incisiveness in the attacking third in that first half generally anyway. Only Eto'o was making the offensive runs. The rest was dropping back and driving the attacks forward from deep areas as Cardiff was making it extremely difficult with their parking the bus approach.

[ChelseasMessiah 304]

And yet he created the 5 chances for us today, the highest alongside Hazard.

We practically had little penetration and incisiveness in the attacking third in that first half generally anyway. Only Eto'o was making the offensive runs. The rest was dropping back and driving the attacks forward from deep areas as Cardiff was making it extremely difficult with their parking the bus approa

You can't judge a player's performance solely by his stats though.

And Cardiff, like pretty much most teams we will face this season, out and out parked the bus, there was no space around their box, but we'll just have to deal with it.