Closed Corinthians 1-0 Chelsea

[Dion 2,476]

Disgusting loss. Now I'll have to read things like Emerson > Hazard all week long on my facebook. Or Guerrero vs. CR7? Who's better?

Shameful. Disgraceful.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Only thing i blame Rafa for is his poor team selection.His selection was aimed at pacifying the fan boiis who cannot digest their food without Lampard and Cole.TBH and i hope the board has the same view and the two mentioned are not offered a new contract.Not because they are no longer useful but because they and british media puts too much pressure on the manager to start them every important match which they do not deserve.

WTF? Cole is the best Left back we have... You cannot say bertrand is any better. As for lamps he played in torres a few times and was ok. not great but better than a lot of others in that team. I would have played lampard in that game as well. even though its clear a 4-2-3-1 doesn't exactly suit him. For me it comes down to rafa not doing anything til the 72nd min when the world and his wife saw a problem since the start of the second half. Also no oscar til late. Then rb for rb and marin is given just 6 mins? He is a 7 mil bench warmer.

JT AND DROGBA!!! LEGENDS. OH HOW I WISH THEY WERE IN THIS TEAM.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Seems Fucking New Year`s Eve,

[The Rising Sun 711]

To be honest, We had the chances in the First half and we did not take them.

They decided to start pressing and playing in the second half, and we did not have a plan B.

David Luiz should have played DM like last game, we needed him there.

Ramires on his own cant do the DM job, he is the attacking side of that dual midfield role. Lampard made a few good passes but did not run enough and close people down.

Actually, he was useless. He should never be a first choice player for us anymore.

When it wasnt working, the subs should have come earlier. Benitez was too late with Subs.

We did not deserve to win it, and the players deserve this.

A good kick in the backside and a fall down to earth reminds every player of the effort that is required to win things.

Their talent gets them into Big teams, but winning only comes with 110% effort, which our players often do not make.

Thats the difference between us and Manchester United.

i hope this is a learning experience for our team and it encourages a more passionate style of play in our forthcoming fixtures.

[Leif 6,006]

Our fans are going to be so quiet in the PL now.

Nothing to chant. The "Champions Of Europe" chant fit well in our stadium, but now it'll sound idiotic.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

MOTM? TORRES.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Refuse to vote for MOTM. In the first half had some good candidates (Luiz would have been it for me) but the second half, we were awful. Our attackers had many chances to get into space and score but did nothing. Moses was terrible, Torres was wasteful, but Mata and Hazard were also mostly useless. Rafa's substitutions were too late, but I am not going to blame managers for what is clearly a fundamentally imbalanced and squad, lacking in talent. This is the board being obsessed over individual players and ignoring massive holes in the roster and in the squad balance in order to spend insane amounts of money on the players they want.

I think most people have it in reverse. We tend to look at weak spots and want to improve those (which we do need to do) and look at those as the reason why we don't perform well. For me, the biggest problem Chelsea have is that our best players aren't good enough. Mata is our best player but I've seen him completely taken out of way too many games on the offensive end and he never offers much on the defensive end. How far will you go as a team with Mata as your best player? And after that...who is our second best player? I don't even want to think about that. I have no idea how we can spend so much money year after year and still have such a weak squad.

[robsblubot 3,595]

Dont understand why he didnt play the same team that played thursday???

Anyway the match was a complete waste of my time. They showed nothing, I feel sorry for the supporters that went all that way.

Another pathetic display.

Luiz at fault for the goal, charging forward like a bellend. And Torres........I hope a horrific injury finishes your career.

Interesting how we see football so differently as I thought Luiz was prob, along with Mata the best Chelsea player on the pitch (Cole had a good game too BTW). On the goal, it's difficult to know who's fault it was because we don't know what they should be doing in that situation, but one could question Cech too.

I saw Corinthians players avoiding Luiz and going for Cahill every time. There have been articles in Brazil comparing the players which mentioned how simple Cahill's game was and even Tite (Corinthians coach) has been saying he wanted to stop David's runs somehow. Which BTW Guerrero was doing in the second half.

[Dion 2,476]

And now it's for real. There's no way Torres can play the striker role for us. If he can't score a 4-yard sitter he's as useful as shit. Out. Now.

[DONI. 1,291]

[Waterfall 893]

Can't believe I woke up at 5 in the morning to see Torres fuck up another chance, but that's watching Drogbaless Chelsea I guess.....

[The only place to be 11,313]

WTF? Cole is the best Left back we have... You cannot say bertrand is any better. As for lamps he played in torres a few times and was ok. not great but better than a lot of others in that team. I would have played lampard in that game as well.. For me it comes down to rafa not doing anything til the 72nd min when the world and his wife saw a problem since the start of the second half. Also no oscar til late. Then rb for rb and marin is given just 6 mins? He is a 7 mil bench warmer.

Cole is not the same player he was. He's simply not consistant and really had a shocker today. You can put some of that on Hazard but it's becoming a recurring thing.

And Lamps - love the guy but he really doesn't seem to offer anything to this team now. Where was the leadership? A lot of our problems stemmed from midfield linking attack and defence and he simply wasn't very good today. Sad to say but every player has to move on eventually.

[didierforever 7,349]

i want a rafa-torres statue outside the bridge. with the blonde whore sucking the fat old waiter...

[nullabletype 987]

Pathetic performance all round. Not going to pick on anybody in particular because not one of them showed a real ounce of interest. Played with zero desire.

I held off buying our shirt in the hope we'd win this and I could get the CWC and UCL winners patches. But alas... All you can do is speak with your wallet. So I wont be buying anything off the club this year. Sure it's a pointless protest, but it's all you can do. They won't be getting my money until they start putting in consistent performances and playing with some heart.

[DYC. 7,542]

Guess the previous manager couldn't do much about some of the poor results under his tenure. Who knew..

This has been a season filled with embarrasments and it's only December. I expected a bumpy ride but I didn't expect the bumps to be this big.

I can only hope the men in charge have their eyes open and recognize our faults. Haha who am I kidding. They'll probably buy Falcao and think all our problems are solved.

This is not good.