David Luiz

[CHOULO19 24,332]

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.

[lucio 5,418]

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.

[happy_juan 64]

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

[kellzfresh 7,229]

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.

[Phil Driver 503]

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.

[Special Juan 27,439]

Have we really seen what Luiz is capable of since we signed him?

[Korea 734]

Have we really seen what Luiz is capable of since we signed him?

Yea....

For brazil

[The Skipper 20,593]

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.

[Special Juan 27,439]

Not aimed at you mate

Short term memory at it's finest.

I'm merely trying to find out and raise debate on how they think Luiz has done.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Magical in Munich, so was Cahill.

[zolayes 14,489]

Seems David is now a scapegoat for anything that goes wrong ...Just my opinion but he is STILL CLASS and a future Chelsea captain .

[Blue Armour 4,312]

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

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

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.

[The Skipper 20,593]

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.

[YouNameIt 1,511]

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.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

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.

[pachman40 357]

I ususally avoid this thread as it's depressing to read some of the things written about our very own sideshow bob. It seems a lot of people want him to be this robotic perfect defender who makes the "right" decisions and avoids those horrendous "rushes of blood". That is not who he is, that is not who Chelsea bought, and that is not what he should become. He's lost that spontaneity, that exuberance, that amazing ability to make things harder than they need to be but make something special out of nothing. He is not Gary Cahill, he is not John Terry, he is not a "British" CB. I know people will come back with a defender's first job is to defend, but that's too easy, that's a copout. David Luiz is at his best, at his most influential when he can be creative, dangerous, and unorthodox. I'm sorry, but when you watch videos of his first season here you saw jubilation in his eyes, you saw excitement, and you saw passion. It was infectious among the team. Players lifted their games, the pace of our attacks improved, the team was exciting.

Now, he's the scapegoat, everyone has their magnifying glass out and some Chelsea fans rub their hands and become gleeful when that inevitable "rush of blood" happens. Gone are the regular forays upfield to overload the midfield, the dribbles that had bus-parking teams scratching their heads, and the frequent moments of genious that were discussed regularly at the water-cooler the next day. David Luiz has become a shell of the player that arrived. He is obviously being told to be more mechanical, more "traditional", more "British" in his positioning and risk-avoidance. But that isn't good enough for the traditionalists. "A defender's first job is to defend". To hell with that! We're driving a world-class, special, talented player out of Chelsea and it really makes me sad. No player is above the team, and obviously Chelsea's best interests are my best interests. Unfortunately, as a David Luiz fan, a fan with Luiz's name on the back of my jersey, I almost wish he would leave so that we can maintain that fantastically boring first pairing of Cahill/Terry where everyone will be happy that we won't be subject to Luiz's "deficiencies". Make no mistake, if he leaves and joins Barca or Bayern, they will exploit the very characteristics that some Chelsea fans love to hate. Those very characteristics that will make him a top 3 DEFENDER in the world. And then we'll be here sucking our thumbs wondering aloud "Why do we let the good ones get away?". Sorry for the rant, just felt like getting that off my chest. I know there are Luiz fans here who feel the same way, but I get sick of reading the other stuff.

[robsblubot 3,529]

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my post was garbage compared to the one above.