Juan Mata

[Sheva. 5,373]

Just play him every home game vs the 'lower sides'. Criminal he did not get an assist today with the passes to Eto'o, and the dangerous corners.

[Milan 17,955]

He created several good chances, either for Eto'o or for Hazard. If we had a decent striker, Juan would be praised for his assists.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Just magical at times. My MOTM.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

He was immense I think his our only natural playmaker which is why we should keep him, he is really differnt from all the other trio but in a special kind of way.

[Mustafa 885]

Just play him every home game vs the 'lower sides'. Criminal he did not get an assist today with the passes to Eto'o, and the dangerous corners.

So that means he'll play only 10 games throughout the season.... Sad isn't it

[The Skipper 20,609]

Should've had a couple of assists yesterday, decent game from Juan.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Hate to see him leave when he is still at his prime. Sad he is not getting the deserved recognition from Mourinho.

[Mustafa 885]

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Will be dropped for the Liverpool game because he doesn't track back enough and isn't suited to the parking midfield plan.

[Tomo 21,751]

Unlike the Torres fanboyism (which quite frankly has me banging my head against a brick wall) i can understand why Chelsea fans are so defensive with Mata and to be honest don't really blame them.

We were just off the back off an dreadful season in 10/11 and a frustrating transfer window up until the end of August, all off a sudden we finally get that creative midfielder we have been fantasizing about to the point of obsession and he really did stand out like a star in a stale, stagnant Chelsea team that have hit father time. Then go further into the season (for example, Naples), our club was in such a mess it actually got the point where Mata was the only shining light in a dark, dark tunnel, literally the only aspect of our club at the time we could talk about without cringing, let alone brag about.

Mata was our hope, the one player that was on form and we could enjoy watching during a horrible run of form and the club in a crisis, Mata was their to make everything that little bit less painful, like a young child's mum when the child is poorly, or your best friend when you are on a job on the other side off the world, living in a tent with complete strangers (apart from your best friend), getting 4 hours sleep only every night and waking up to Porridge.

I will always love and be grateful to him for single handedly getting me through most of that season, and the sentimental part of me is a little bit sad we are unlikely to see him in that sort of form under Mourinho, but my happiness that we had a great player on top form like Mata back then, that feeling was overpowered with the sadness of the state the club was in on a whole, just like now my sentimental sadness that Mata is looking a shadow of what he was back then, is overpowered by the fact i am really happy we are still in the title race and look to be making an effort to sort out problem position's in January.

To cut a long story short, i will always love Mata, but club comes before anyone.

[mac.bo 48]

Will be dropped for the Liverpool game because he doesn't track back enough and isn't suited to the parking midfield plan.

I think he tracks back enough for our most creative player,if we had better/more cm/dm then we could have better turnover of the ball/possesion and give all of our am more ball in the last 1/3 of the pitch to do what they do best !

[yuvala 2,167]

Will be dropped for the Liverpool game because he doesn't track back enough and isn't suited to the parking midfield plan.

guess u were right

[Mouri_Matic 560]

guess u were right

It is just so easy to predict Mou these days

[Rom2013 446]

He doesn´'t play this games because he doesn't play defensively as well as Oscar, and only one of them will play in our best starting eleven.

[The only place to be 11,313]

So you have a player who is worth maybe £40 million but you don't have as first-choice in your big games. You have needs in other areas....what do you do?