The Roberto Di Matteo Thread

[Fulham Broadway 16,855]

Anyone read the crap in The Sun about RDM being hated more by the players than AVB? Embarrassingly desperate for a story

Is that the original Misschief ? Wecome back young lady

[misschief 24]

Is that the original Misschief ? Wecome back young lady

Thanks.....the wanderer returned

[Henrique 9,133]

This guy will do better than AVB, no doubt about that.

[Justin_3d 1,140]

This guy will do better than AVB, no doubt about that.

I believe so as well.

The players like him unlike AVB. You could see it when they play in the FA Cup game.

I rather keep RDM then getting Mourinho.

Only managers to replace him would be Moyes or Bielsa! :blue scalf:

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Di Matteo: Chelsea squad is united

http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ap-chelsea-dimatteo

Chelsea v Stoke City: Roberto Di Matteo confident of dealing with pressure of owner Roman Abramovich

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9133936/Chelsea-v-Stoke-City-Roberto-Di-Matteo-confident-of-dealing-with-pressure-of-owner-Roman-Abramovich.html

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Di Matteo tells Szczesny to butt out

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/140223.html?CMP=OTC-RSS

Thank you Roberto.

[Tomo 21,733]

What i find bemusing is we have given the job to Di Matteo until the end of the season (which is great, true blue blood is needed right now) but why didn't we do the same with Steve Clarke when Jose left? but then again he was the manager that year in everything but name.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I am starting to love his press conferences, he handles the media brilliantly.

[Tomo 21,733]

Regardless of what happens in the summer manager wise, i hope RDM is still here atleast as an assistant.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Di Matteo has shown he can cut the mustard at West Brom by getting them promoted and then doing fairly well in the Premier League. I think he was very unfairly treated there. If he gets us into the top four and wins us the FA Cup, he should be given the job. Because by that token he'll have done exactly what Hiddink did, except in more difficult circumstances, as the EPL is far more competitive now, and he has a much weaker squad to deal with.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Post match:

For the record, I thought he did very well with his subs today, especially the first. And his plan plan of resting our key players for Napoli worked, because we got the three points and a clean sheet. Really don't get what everyone is moaning about.

[Blue Armour 4,289]

Rotato-De-Matteo...wielding his substitutions like a toy gun, unafraid to put out any starting 11 he wants

[5354 204]

Post match:

For the record, I thought he did very well with his subs today, especially the first. And his plan plan of resting our key players for Napoli worked, because we got the three points and a clean sheet. Really don't get what everyone is moaning about.

I don't get why he send on Mata so early on instead....Mata needs the rest imo.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

I don't get why he send on Mata so early on instead....Mata needs the rest imo.

Because Stoke had 10 men behind the ball and Mata can find spaces as he demonstarted in the assist for the goal.

[Madmax 9,219]

Because Stoke had 10 men behind the ball and Mata can find spaces as he demonstarted in the assist for the goal.

Which only serves as an admission that he got it wrong initially.

I can understand taking him off after we're comfortable, but to leave him out when breaking Stoke down was always going to be the biggest issue didn't smack of ingenuity.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

The team we had on should have been good enough to beat Stoke.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Which only serves as an admission that he got it wrong initially.

I can understand taking him off after we're comfortable, but to leave him out when breaking Stoke down was always going to be the biggest issue didn't smack of ingenuity.

I definitely understand where you're coming from, but the way I see it is that we got the three points and Mata was rested for 35mins. I really don't like to critisize the manager when he gets the result the team wanted.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Which only serves as an admission that he got it wrong initially.

I can understand taking him off after we're comfortable, but to leave him out when breaking Stoke down was always going to be the biggest issue didn't smack of ingenuity.

The team we had on should have been good enough to beat Stoke.

What BL said basically. The team on paper was still stronger than Stoke, even when the latter had 11-men. The need to throw on Mata demonstrates Lampard's noticeable decline because in past season we could rely on him for the clean, crisp, defence splitting pass to Drogba.

Even disregarding Napoli, Mata deserved the rest. It's something André did well when he used to take Mata off early in 2nd halves (and we'd all subsequently complain)