Closed Milan vs Chelsea

[Chelsea? 892]

Final pass, final pass, final pass. We need to really get this right.

I think we have a problem with goal scorers. Danny on the right or Moses might be our best option at this point.

[oman43 45]

Pre-season is useful for the team to bond and from the information coming out of the camp that is happening. It isn't completely over yet and although we lost two games in America it not time to become drastic. I mean people claiming we need so many MORE new players is stupid, we have the squad, give it time and we will be ready!

[Nedy08 27]

No need to rush Torres if he wasn't quite ready, even if Lukaku was pretty bad.

Torres wasn't fit for more than 30 minutes. Can't risk injuring your best striker two weeks before money time.

I think Torres could have handled it ,but I guess you're right about injuries.

[Hutcho 8,443]

I hope Lukaku fucks right off on loan. Can't believe we payed something like 18 million for him. Meireles shouldn't be anywhere near the First 11.

Meireles won't be anywhere near the first 11 most probably with several players above him in the pecking order.

[Cz4rny1337 24]

Where all of you see "new style"? It was that awful 4-4-1-1. What a shit.

I really wanted to have "Chelsea Guardiola" in RDM, but if he will be play deep every game, and without any style or tactic change we will have Guardiola in Chelsea. :|.

[shellpick 13]

Even we have bought 19-year-old drogba he could not offer more than lukaku did these days. 'cause this kind of centre forwards need time to develop and few are starring at that very young age. lukaku is not for now but for the future. let's ignore him and focus on the rw. it is a waste of talent for ramirez to play rw and it is also a bad choice for the team. nearly no threatenning opportunities were created from the right side. we need a top class rw. though hulk may be too costy, we still need to find another one like him if we give up targeting him.

[termninja 5,290]

Too tired to put my thoughts on the game, been putting them on twitter for 2 hours...disappointed but we can still make changes and bring some players...

I'm of to bed, good night lads.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

We played really well in about the first 10 or so minutes of the 2nd half. The rest was shit. How on earth can we expect to beat Citeh in the Community Shield with shit performances like this. Especially with no Mata or Oscar.

[OneMoSalah 8,778]

Why have Branna and Ramires especially not looked to run at people with the ball the last 4 games? I seriously hope Moses gets signed, he will fucking run at people no bother at all, also get Hazard on the wing so he can run at people too and put Mata in the center where he can play passes to Torres. We simply can't always break teams down passing them to death, we need some individuals to do something like a trick or a turn or run at people to try and stretch the opponents and open space up for others. If we can get that penetration then we won't do what we did last season, which was struggle against teams who play a low defensive block and counter attack us off of a loose pass/shit touch.

[Cz4rny1337 24]

Today:

Meireles sux behind striker.

Ramires sux on right wing [RDM + all that people working with him dont see that HE IS NOT FCKN WINGER?]

Lukaku still too young, and just sux

Lampard + Mikel - that was toooo sloooooooooooooooow. I love Frank, but if he want to play that all season, he can start to cry now and moan about his place in squad.

Ivanovic it's not RB, and that wasnt his day

Luiz should focus on the game

I hope we find some idiot to buy Malouda.

Why Hazard want so badly to play as "10" when IMO he is better at wing?

I hope RDM will play Hazard-OScar-Mata trio behind striker, and sometimes [when we will need wide] Moses and put Ramires into CM role.

BTW, Today again Josh wasnt on bench, maybe loan? [Yossi and KDB were out too].

IMO RDM plan for "chelsea style" is "play deep and counter counter counter, maybe Ramiers will run and put some goal" : |. To play like that u need alot of luuuck.

BTW, sorry for my horrible eng in writing :x. I hope You will understand

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Please HULK!

[Zone 290]

Hazard had an impressive performance but the rest were below average. Marin added some spark but that lasted about 10 minutes.

[francozola 2,040]

After these 4 games the (potential first XI) player I'm most worried about is Ivanovic

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Play like that again and I can assure you Citeh will win by at least 3 goals..........

[blu35_army 551]

take it easy dude!!! I'm Convinced Mata & Oscar will fix this,,they have different quality to control the game....

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Mata & Oscar won't be playing in the Community Shield....

[The Skipper 20,593]

(Bare in mind I missed most of the first half) Interesting game I thought. People should stop looking at the result and actually analyse the game.

I'll start with our defence. We were very solid with our regular back four, and this was promising. As soon as we tinkered with it we obviously lost that edge, as evident with the goal conceded where Luiz was out of position and the rest of the defence were quite amateurish with covering the mistake. I'm not worried about it though as it's clear that these lads didn't take the game serious, but I do hope we start our next friendly with a bit more tenacity in the defence area, I want to see bits of that never-say-die attitude our defence is well known for return. Hutch gave us a good committed performance, I'd rather him as our 3rd choice RB than Paulo. Paulo just makes the defence look rather leaky than solid.

Now onto the double pivot. I thought Lampard played well, recycled possession pretty well and linked up well with the rest of the team. Lamps still has a huge role to play next season IMO. I thought Mikel was very sluggish, wasn't his usual self, he doesn't look on form at all ATM, I hope he catches on soon. RDM needs to start ramming to these lads that the season is almost here officially, and they need to start taking games more seriously. Essien again looked decent when he came on, I hope he carries on the steady improvement. He seems like a reliable squad player ATM, no need to sell him.

Our forwards were dissapointing today, apart from a certain Hazard. Hazard showed today why he'll be a key player for us next season. The way he drove through the Milan defence with the ball was quite refreshing to see. It's why I want him in the hole rather than Mata, as Mata doesn't seem to have the ability to penetrate through defences like Hazard does. I'd give Mata a free roaming role on the left, that would probably be the best for our team. Marin, Lukaku and Ramires were distinctly average today I thought. Regarding Rambo, I hope this pre season has re-enlightened people as to why we can't really go into the season with Rambo as our starting RW. To me he'd be a lot more useful in the pivot as we seemed to lack a genuine ball winner there today.

Torres' first game back was very indifferent, which is understandable obviously as he's just joined the squad.

I want to see the intensity being picked up against our next friendly against Brighton and the game against City, which will be our ultimate test. Hopefully we'll have close to a full squad then, it's such a shame Mata and Oscar aren't here as they would give us that cutting edge we're lacking which would also automatically mean that we'd keep possession a lot better.

Milan didn't play well at all, I felt we performed slightly better but we're lacking that cutting edge up front. That will change once we get a system between a front 6 of Mikel, Mata, Hazard, Oscar Ramires and Torres (my preferred front 6) working. RDM has a difficult job of marrying all these players together to play fluent, cohesive football but we'll see. If he pulls it off he'll fully justify his appointment even more.

What I just want to reiterate is that I really do hope that RDM will start to tell these guys to pick up the pace, as we're not performing to a 100% at all yet.

MOTM: Hazard.

Edit:

Spelling mistakes etc. (on the iPhone).

[Sheva. 5,373]

After these 4 games the (potential first XI) player I'm most worried about is Ivanovic

He's been shocking, but i will buy the "it's just preseason" excuse.

Play like that again and I can assure you Citeh will win by at least 3 goals..........

Our Double pivot won't be that high up against them, i'm sure.

Really i'm just hoping we start creating more chances, some nice play but we never get the final pass right.