Popular Post! lionsden 4,689 Posted January 12, 2014 Popular Post! Share Posted January 12, 2014 Pairing luiz and ramires in midfield needs to stop, it's painful to watch. actually the whole Luiz in midfield idea should be scrapped. Peace., laura90, happy_juan and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robsblubot 3,595 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 lolFor the stats inclined: according to whoscored, Luiz was MotM with 10 aerial clearances... the entire hull side had 17.http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/720693/LiveStatistics/England-Premier-League-2013-2014-Hull-Chelseaterrible game indeed... didierforever, kellzfresh and Barbara 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barbara 15,149 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 lolFor the stats inclined: according to whoscored, Luiz was MotM with 10 aerial clearances... the entire hull side had 17.http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/720693/LiveStatistics/England-Premier-League-2013-2014-Hull-Chelseaterrible game indeed... actually Squawka (which is one I like the best because I can see the time when the play happened when I click on it and evaluate if I agree with them or not) gave him 16 clearances out of 16 (10 of which aerial duels), in addition to 4 interceptions. 16 clearances is just insane. 78% passing isn't that bad either. He had 8 long passes completed and missed 6 which is rather good considering the risk of a long pass. Two of those completed long passes were from the defensive half into the box. I remember the pass to Eden, but there was another at 49' and another one was from the defensive half right into the edge side of the box. If he doesn't play for us we don't have that kind of pass.I wouldn't call that bad at all. Far from it.http://epl.squawka.com/hull-city-vs-chelsea/11-01-2014/english-barclays-premier-league/matches robsblubot and kellzfresh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 seriously cant understand how DL had a bad game. he did start slow, gave away the ball a couple of times in the start but later, he was running the show. literally. and all those clearances, and interceptions aside, his passing was simply fabulous. every1 would remember AC's flick to EH for the goal, but DL's ball to AC was as important and impressive. Barbara, kellzfresh and BleedsBlue 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHOULO19 24,332 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Excellent game defensively. He absolutely worked his butt off and kept running for 90 mins. Broke up so many attacks. On the ball he was rather bad. His passing was terrible at times, especially the start of the first half and his insistence on playing long balls gets very frustrating when the team is looking for a goal and he keeps playing long balls at a 10% accuracy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucio 5,418 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Excellent game defensively. He absolutely worked his butt off and kept running for 90 mins. Broke up so many attacks. On the ball he was rather bad. His passing was terrible at times, especially the start of the first half and his insistence on playing long balls gets very frustrating when the team is looking for a goal and he keeps playing long balls at a 10% accuracy. to be fair everyones passing was awful in the first half. even terry did his best to set up aluko on the half volley. BlueLyon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happy_juan 64 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Why is David Luiz now playing as DM?I thought Mourinho did not like this before? What changed?Because the other option is loads of sideways passing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellzfresh 7,229 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 seriously cant understand how DL had a bad game. he did start slow, gave away the ball a couple of times in the start but later, he was running the show. literally. and all those clearances, and interceptions aside, his passing was simply fabulous. every1 would remember AC's flick to EH for the goal, but DL's ball to AC was as important and impressive.Exactly. He had a bad 30mins in the first half when he misplaced every pass. Like everyone was doing in the first half But after that he was very good. His energy was immense, so many interceptions and tackles. It really reminded me of the brazilian NT pivot. didierforever 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Driver 503 Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Gives us so much more than Mikel in that role ,we are told Mikel protects the back four,did Terry and Cahill need the mythical extra protection yesterday? I think they were comfortable and Luiz was a big reason why we dominated the game and did not sit back and invite pressure. Luiz must be in pole position to start v Utd I see an unchanged team and us taking the game to Utd ,not sitting back inviting pressure ,the sideways /backwards passes behind the full back can put you under more pressure than a misplaced long pass ,especially if the opposition know that is all you can do. Luiz just needs to mix it up a bit more ,dont have a clue how the stats have him as MOTM over Hazard though ,but he had a very good game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,139 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Have we really seen what Luiz is capable of since we signed him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korea 734 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Have we really seen what Luiz is capable of since we signed him?Yea....For brazil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! The Skipper 20,609 Posted January 14, 2014 Popular Post! Share Posted January 14, 2014 Have we really seen what Luiz is capable of since we signed him?Not aimed at you mate but people are completely forgetting how good he was in the second half of last season... Short term memory at it's finest. People are acting like Luiz has been playing like he has this season for his entire CFC career when that's not true whatsoever. Blue Armour, Henrique, Barbara and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,139 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Not aimed at you mateShort term memory at it's finest.I'm merely trying to find out and raise debate on how they think Luiz has done. The Skipper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiclasCFC 2,582 Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Magical in Munich, so was Cahill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! zolayes 14,489 Posted January 14, 2014 Popular Post! Share Posted January 14, 2014 Seems David is now a scapegoat for anything that goes wrong ...Just my opinion but he is STILL CLASS and a future Chelsea captain . DJames, Ainsley Harriott, The Skipper and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,448 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Not aimed at you mate but people are completely forgetting how good he was in the second half of last season...Short term memory at it's finest. People are acting like Luiz has been playing like he has this season for his entire CFC career when that's not true whatsoever.Not disagreeing with you, but I think we saw the best of Luiz as CENTRE-BACK those first couple of weeks right after we had signed him. He was spectacular, especially against City at home with his aggressive pressing and tackling, taking the ball out of defense to help with the build up play. Those performances made him into a sort of cult hero The Skipper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosnian Blue 2,471 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 He can hit a great long ball, the only little problem is he needs to waste 10 balls before that, which is quite frustrating actually. CHOULO19 and Peace. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Skipper 20,609 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Not disagreeing with you, but I think we saw the best of Luiz as CENTRE-BACK those first couple of weeks right after we had signed him. He was spectacular, especially against City at home with his aggressive pressing and tackling, taking the ball out of defense to help with the build up play. Those performances made him into a sort of cult hero Remember this very well. What great performances those were. Shame many have forgotten that he's capable of this. Blue Armour 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YouNameIt 1,511 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Have we really seen what Luiz is capable of since we signed him?When people talk like you do, you make it sound like he's capable of turning water into vine.He's been more than good enough for us. We bought him for who and what he is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLyon 9,359 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 He adopted to us as soon as he put on a blue shirt, but didnt realy improved ever since. Consistancy is main problem, but I dont see why Jose doesnt teach him how to be better defender and more consistent. He motivated Terry brilliantly, why cant he do the same with Luiz. I hope he stays here for long time though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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