Oscar

[Peppen 934]

I don't think he played a bad game. Not his best, that's for sure, but one can't underestimate his work rate. His defensive contribution seems to be forgotten, but I think he played a major part in the win yesterday.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

He was awful yesterday, no doubt.But iam not dissapointed, this is real world.He will get better and stronger.

Awful? What game were you watching?

[RamiCFC9 258]

Praising offensive players for their defensive work is soo small team mentality...He lost the ball like 10 times and yes he played awful, hasn't created any chance at all and failed to contribute with keeping posession.

[nadavTKL 1,787]

Praising offensive players for their defensive work is soo small team mentality...

No its not, its called tactics. You need that in big games (unless you want our games to look like the 2nd half of Man u - Spurs game, or our 5-3 from last season).

[HRiver 1,512]

He wasn't great yesterday, but he definitely wasn't awful. Should be more careful though, that yellow was so unnecessary.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Praising offensive players for their defensive work is soo small team mentality...He lost the ball like 10 times and yes he played awful, hasn't created any chance at all and failed to contribute with keeping posession.

What a horribly misinformed opinion.

[Spike 12,049]

What a horribly misinformed opinion.

As I always say: "there is no such thing as a wrong opinion, just having the wrong reasons for an opinion".

[kellzfresh 7,226]

He was awful yesterday, no doubt.But iam not dissapointed, this is real world.He will get better and stronger.

Oscar has a more defensive work rate than mata and hazard.

At juventus dimatteo only played him because his job was to mark pirlo. Against arsenal, oscars job was to mark arteta.

Arteta had the highest touches per match before meeting chelsea and oscar limited it.

In the first half, chelsea bossed arsenal. When oscar was taken off, you could see that arsenal chances started to come.

He can't always have both a defensive and offensive good game like juve.

Because of his ability to always be available for his teammates for a pass, and his defensive attributes, his presence on the pitch is a massive bonus to chelsea.

Not his best game because he lost the ball somtimes, but you can tell they are trying to build his physical game.

His defensive work rate is the only reason that RDM can field attacking line-ups of hazard-oscar-mata and we should give credit where its due.

[diskoviolente 425]

After Pirlo he took out Arteta of the game yesterday. He pushing the deeplaying playermakers up the pitch which is a feature i didn´t see in him so far watching him at the Olympics and in his first appearances for us. And he can be a bully, very good defensively, and he still creates chances and plots moves. Good guy. Looks like a schoolboy but surely don´t take him on !!

[YouNameIt 1,511]

There is no "i" in team. Now please cut this fucking comparing bullshit, who did what, who was most important etc. Its getting really silly.

[YouNameIt 1,511]

He was awful yesterday, no doubt.But iam not dissapointed, this is real world.He will get better and stronger.

AWFUL? No doubt? Boy you must be out of your mind

[zolayes 14,489]

Praising offensive players for their defensive work is soo small team mentality...He lost the ball like 10 times and yes he played awful, hasn't created any chance at all and failed to contribute with keeping posession.

agree Cech is awful about 6years here and still hasnt scored ...Ive only once seen him in their box ....and he couldnt even score then

[Land 331]

Lost the ball 10 times?lol.He lost the ball 5 times max,hazard and mata probabably lost the ball more and no one is complaining.Everyone had a good game yesterday.

[diskoviolente 425]

we just beat arsenal away and still people complain. they did it as a team ffs. get out and play football, and you will know how it works after playing just twice.

[RamiCFC9 258]

"Chelsea bossed Arsenal first half." , "Oscar is a bully defensively"."He lost the ball only 5 times" ridiculous.

[Land 331]

"Chelsea bossed Arsenal first half." , "Oscar is a bully defensively"."He lost the ball only 5 times" ridiculous.

Prove me wrong.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

"Chelsea bossed Arsenal first half." ridiculous

Are you a child? What game did you watch? Are you sure you were even watching the right sport? We clearly bossed them in the first half.

[Tomo 21,681]

Team sports are always won by the collective. I was talking about individual contributions and I've noticed it's always Drogba when reffering to our CL win. Which isn't right imo.

Excellent post, Drogba acknowledged himself that Cech's heroics gave him the platform to sign off in the ultimate fashion, which is why he ran straight to Petr after he scored instead of the rest of the team.