Oscar

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

Yeah that yellow cost us so badly. We were half the team without him despite playing against 10 fucking men.

Hope the Willian fanboys are happy.

Nice to know it was Willian coming on fault that Fabregas and Ramires were strolling around the midfield like they were on a summer eve's date after half time right?

A lot of shit went wrong tonight, but putting on the one Midfielder who kept running until the end of the second extra period was not one.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Nice to know it was Willian coming on fault that Fabregas and Ramires were strolling around the midfield like they were on a summer eve's date after half time right?

A lot of shit went wrong tonight, but putting on the one Midfielder who kept running until the end of the second extra period was not one.

He made zero impact on the game. Just kept giving away silly fouls in dangerous areas and taking unnecessary extra touches on the ball. Wasn't just talking about today by the way.

[Stats 7,142]

Yeah that yellow cost us so badly. We were half the team without him despite playing against 10 fucking men.

Hope the Willian fanboys are happy.

Yes, we played worse when Oscar went off but let's not try and manipulate it and act like Oscar was anything special. He was not. He lost the ball a few times himself. If he played that good Mourinho would have kept him on regardless of the yellow card however but he was not having a huge influece on the game.

[WNDS 502]

Yeah that yellow cost us so badly. We were half the team without him despite playing against 10 fucking men.

Hope the Willian fanboys are happy.

Willian was relatively decent when he was on the pitch (as was Oscar), so I'm not sure why it has to be a case of Oscar vs Willian at this moment; Willian didn't even play centrally until extra-time, and by that point we were playing a very dodgy Zouma-Fabregas pivot behind him and Costa to his right.

I agree with the first part of your post, however, and I would suggest that the main problem (in normal time, at least) was that Fabregas, Ramires, and Matic were all well below their best for the majority of the game, meaning that we were unable to exert any control over the midfield area. Booked or not, Oscar should have remained on the pitch and Ramires (or even Fabregas) should have been taken off instead. Mourinho exacerbated our problems by not only removing Oscar from the game but also by then playing his replacement (Willian) out wide; this meant that we had a trio of off-form midfielders in the central areas of the pitch.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

He made zero impact on the game. Just kept giving away silly fouls in dangerous areas and taking unnecessary extra touches on the ball. Wasn't just talking about today by the way.

I'd take his no impact over two people in midfield walking around carefree any day though. The film room watching this match is going to be very very painful for some. I don't think I have ever seen people walking around not caring in a champions league tie that was still wide open.

[Styles 9,790]

Oscar ruined one counter-attack that most decent players would have taken advantage of. But then Oscar has poor technique and vision so it would have been a miracle for him to have made the right pass.

His biggest contribution to the game was getting a player sent off. Other than that he did his usual bit of running around aimlessly and looking out of his depth.

[hamad138 190]

De bruyne how... Just how.....

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

De bruyne how... Just how.....

Doesn't trackback, not a friend of Jose( dare standing up to him)...etc oh and cost 6m compared to 25m this guy costs

[hamad138 190]

Doesn't trackback, not a friend of Jose( dare standing up to him)...etc oh and cost 6m compared to 25m this guy costs

He dont need to track back , hes a fking attacker..

[killer1257 3,282]

Oscar played not well,but Willian was not better.Mou should have brought Cuadrado who is actually able to dribble past players.

Motta,Luiz,Veratti and Matuidi were all booked,so why not bring a player on the pitch who has good dribbling skills to maybe the red for a PSG player.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Oscar ruined one counter-attack that most decent players would have taken advantage of. But then Oscar has poor technique and vision so it would have been a miracle for him to have made the right pass.

His biggest contribution to the game was getting a player sent off. Other than that he did his usual bit of running around aimlessly and looking out of his depth.

I'm eagerly awaiting Barbara's latest spin on proceedings.

[LAB 1,030]

He didn't do exceptionally well but Oscar was at least helping us to press and get errors from PSG's passing in the first half. His energy was missed in the second half and only a blind man can't recognize that.

[Barbara 15,149]

I think it wasn't exactly his departure - although as someone said Willian didn't actually add anything and couldn't keep up the pressing Oscar had going. I think the thing was that with Willian in the RW Ramires became our CAM. What the bollocks is that? Why not move Cesc there? My Brazilian commentator was just as puzzled as I was. And then add to the fact Ramires was really bad in the second, and there goes our midfield.

So it was a bunch of factors, losing the pressing with Oscar, Ramires moving to a position he should never get near to - and then having a shocker.

At the end of the day I think lack of heart, of wanting to win at all costs made us lose and having too much of it made PSG win. Fair game to them, that fought hard til the last second. Shame on us, that showed no fighting spirit, passion and desire to win.

It's funny Cesc said just yesterday all this team missed was a killer instinct and that wasn't anywhere close in the pitch today - in addition to lack of effort. They were blood walking in the park out there!

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

I think it wasn't exactly his departure - although as someone said Willian didn't actually add anything and couldn't keep up the pressing Oscar had going. I think the thing was that with Willian in the RW Ramires became our CAM. What the bollocks is that? Why not move Cesc there? My Brazilian commentator was just as puzzled as I was. And then add to the fact Ramires was really bad in the second, and there goes our midfield.

So it was a bunch of factors, losing the pressing with Oscar, Ramires moving to a position he should never get near to - and then having a shocker.

At the end of the day I think lack of heart, of wanting to win at all costs made us lose and having too much of it made PSG win. Fair game to them, that fought hard til the last second. Shame on us, that showed no fighting spirit, passion and desire to win.

It's funny Cesc said just yesterday all this team missed was a killer instinct and that wasn't anywhere close in the pitch today - in addition to lack of effort. They were blood walking in the park out there!

Willian had no influence but it wasn't because he didn't try, the tactics changed at half time. Instead of costa and Oscar pressing up the pitch it was just Diego and everyone else sat off. The point of pressure shifted from 2 up top to 1.

We played 4-3-3 not 4-2-3-1 like how we started. Ramires was the furthest forward because he had the legs to get forward and drop back in. Cesc was completely useless today and no matter what role you gave him he got exposed. I am assuming Jose was protecting him from picking up a yellow and missing the next game(shakes head) but with him and the tactic we employed it was basically 10v10.

Cesc had no fight in the engine room and we lost the midfield battle. Oscar should've stayed on even with the yellow he was by far the most important player with how we set out to play today.

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

Sell him, hasn't showed any signs of improvement in the past three years. 99% of games he has no sense of urgency, terrible passing, weak mentality and overall poor displays. Sometimes he looks like he doesn't even want to play.