Rupert 130 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Don't forget telly tubby's fucked up rotation plan. I thought you people said rafadyce was a good tactician. So far I haven't seen it.Can you sort out your hate priorities, please. You can't say that Torres missed many good chances and then say that Rafa's tactics didn't work. Rafa tactics are to produce chances. The players responsibilities are to execute them. Also Rafa has scope to make substitutions. His substitution of Hazard for Oscar was greeted boos by the usual ignorant boo-boys, yet it produced the winning goal. Kudos to Rafa. As for Torres - goalscorers need confidence. He has been the object of the yobo boo boys for months . In Japan the "loyal" supporters booed him and Rafa as they did in Sparta and various other grounds. This must be a first for a leading club. You and some of the other haters on here are obsessed with Rafa's appearance. Is it because you are yourself fat and merely expressing a form of self-hatred. Or is there some other deep-seated reason you don't want to tell us about. I notice a lot of the Rafa haters are also fascinated with Mourinho's appearance .....hmmmmmAs for the substitution. I wanted Rafa to take Oscar off long before he did. I know some of you thought he played a good game. I thought he reverted back to the bad form he showed before Rafa started dropping him from the starting 11. Time and again he lost possession of the ball through bad passes or inability to keep the ball under control - a kick forward two feet too far right into the feet of a defender. And because he did this in their third he left us open to counter attack time and again. When Rafa took him off I felt that the midfield would relate better to the attack and it would be more penetrative. Mikel was not physically fit or up for this game. The back line continued to be brittle and Terry better attend to his defensive duties and cease giving his opinion to the media about things that are not his business. When he said that the manager must take the responsibility because he picks the team he was obviously referring to DeMatteo and his former boss. He couldn't have been referring to Rafa because he had no say in the formation of the squad or its pre-season and tactical training. Terry's remarks are self-serving. The responsibility for bad play, failure to execute a managers plan and lack of commitment is the players responsibility despite the tradition that has developed at Chelsea of blaming the manager. But if the manager is to be blamed then he, and not the players, should also get the credit for any success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelseawise 115 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 In all honesty we palyed well, expect for the final touch we were OK. On a good day we could have converted a few of those chances. My main concern how badly we defended. Perhaps we we need to revert back to JT and Luiz partnership. Cahil has been caught off guard too many times of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndersonBLUE 819 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Look at Torres scampering away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLyon 9,359 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 I was realy hoping we will face Ajax...at least a decent challenge where we would show either that we woke up or just gtfo out of EL. Instead another two more uninteresting games vs Steaua... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azpinator 2,325 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Despite that shithouse game I still think our worst RB game was the final against Corinthians.I don't understand Mikel, I hate the fact that he can't score. We're already stuck with a player who can't score so why add another one? I have nothing against him but since day 1 he hasn't convinced me. Lamps, Luiz and Ramires can score, Mikel can't. I know that that doesn't make him a bad player but we needed the goals to secure a spot in the next round early on in the game.Eden Hazard keeps proving that he's exactly what we needed for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Look at Torres scampering awayHis best contribution of the match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Freak 456 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Rubbish performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nachikethas 1,154 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 don't eat the beef burgersdont u mean horse burgers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetsajCFC 1,255 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Look at Torres scampering awayWhat's wrong with that? He gets out of the way into the more central aera in case of keeper's parry or cross into the box Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Skipper 20,609 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 You can't say that Torres missed many good chances. What fucking game did you watch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike 12,049 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Hazard is going to be soooooo brilliant. He is brilliant now for sure, but if he keeps improving... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Lantern18 54 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Look at Torres scampering awayHe was probably just moving out of the way so the ball didn't hit him again. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinineUltra 1,170 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 All in all a good result. I liked the resilience and the desire to actually win it in the end, it would have been very easy to quit even trying in the first place. Brilliant goal by Hazard, a proper cannon ball. To be fair, we were unlucky not to score earlier due to their GK's brilliant performance. But that has been story of our life. (read: luck)Looking forward to meeting Steaua Bucaresti, who should be -on paper- a match against a far inferior side. That said, it doesn't mean anything, teamwork and motivation beat any superstar on the pitch. We have had it easy considering the teams still running in this competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Awful, awful game from start to finish bar the Hazard goal. Our finishing is truly tragic, it really is. The more I watch Torres the more I think he is actually missing on purposes because he's that bad. How anyone can defend the bloke is beyond, this team needs a top class striker come the summer, quickly.One point I want to make and I don't think it will go down well is how much of limited footballer Ramires is. His passing is atrocious and his first touch is abysmal. I fail to see what he brings to this team apart from his pace on counter attacks.Nice to be through but we stumbled once again, finishing like this will see us well beaten by City I'm afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted February 22, 2013 Author Share Posted February 22, 2013 Thought we played OK, not good or poor but just OK and this game summed up the season we're having. Offensively, we played decently. Looking dangerous, creating chances and good ones too but just not taking them, again. Defensively, we are in a mess, again. We are making it so easy for opponents to score against us these days and they hardly ever have to work hard for their goal! Take Sparta's goal for example. They played a quick free kick and our defence went to sleep completely especially in the case of Cahill and suddenly, bam goal! It's getting utterly ridiculous these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Chelsea played decent game last night. Chances were created but not converted, mainly by Ramirez, Torres. However Sparta played much better than in Prague.Perhaps, EL trophy could be a stepping stone for a lot of young Chelsea players, Hazard, Oscar...If top four places in PL are secured, winning EL trophy could be some sort of satisfaction for this unsuccessful season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 our getting the equalizing goal has put a very very important issue out of every1's mind. what the hell kind of tactics were we playing to?under normal conditions , a 1-1 aggregate with a chance of being eliminated if we let in another, i would have thought we would have played a little more sensibly. instead we had 8 men upfront and then the blonde whore or mata lose the ball and we came under to counter attacks which could have been fatal. at that point of time i would have guessed that we would have played it simple with trying to get a goal but also try to be safe and push the game to extra time rather than pushing for the goal like it was an eliminater. strange tactics by the fat incompetent one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZOS 580 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 give city half the chance the Spartans were having all night long, we'll be up for a very long afternoon on Sunday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. 2,742 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 the amount of times i have read or heard that people were planing trips or eve book trips to Holland in the 14th makes me laugh why would you do that? surely wait until the game is done? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Why is it that most of you blame Rafa for the incompetence of Chelsea players not being able to convert those clear chances ?Was it another lucky escape or was it another tactical switch of masterful proportions by Rafa ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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