Closed Milan vs Chelsea

[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 8,886]

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 13,571]

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 20,609]

(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.

[Kojo 4,676]

Ivanovic has been the most dissapointing player of the pre season definitely. Hope this doesn't effect him in the premier league.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Ivanovic has been the most dissapointing player of the pre season definitely. Hope this doesn't effect him in the premier league.

How'd you like Hazard?

[Kojo 4,676]

How'd you like Hazard?

I don't understand?.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

I don't understand?.

He was our best player on the pitch. Good passes, turns, dribbles and runs...He is totally average right? No Creativity...

[HRiver 1,512]

Boring game with very few chances..

Gotta admit, I'm a little worried about the Community Shield and the European Super Cup final, we're fucked if we continue to play like this.

[Kojo 4,676]

He was our best player on the pitch. Good passes, turns, dribbles and runs...He is totally average right? No Creativity...

Obviously you don't know what creativity means, it could be used as another word for vision, to pick out that pass or cross. He made a very good pass to Marin and that's what i like to see but in terms of creativity that's nothing great, and it happened once.

Chris Brunt once made a great through ball to Shane Long, one of the best I've ever seen, does that make him Modric?. You're an idiotic poster, ignorant also, claiming i hate Hazard when I've never said that, one of the few I'd love to smack.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Obviously you don't know what creativity means, it could be used as another word for vision, to pick out that pass or cross. He made a very good pass to Marin and that's what i like to see but in terms of creativity that's nothing great, and it happened once.

Chris Brunt once made a great through ball to Shane Long, one of the best I've ever seen, does that make him Modric?. You're an idiotic poster, ignorant also, claiming i hate Hazard when I've never said that, one of the few I'd love to smack.

The longer you keep saying Hazard has no creativity, the longer you make yourself out to be an idiot Sloth.........

[Kojo 4,676]

The longer you keep saying Hazard has no creativity, the longer you make yourself out to be an idiot Sloth.........

No creativity?, he has creativity just not as much as he should have. With the hype he has you would expect him to be better all round, rather than just someone who can dribble. Ronaldo isn't the best when it comes to creativity but he is really good at most other things. Hazard seems to be only special at one thing.