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Hopefully he can take the same photo in london after this season

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@Andre_Schuerrle: I love this stadium:)) #london #cfc The guy doesn't hide his excitement in joining the club and it really is a dream come true for him. He's wanted this transfer over any other clu

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Absolute hero, my MOTM for stepping up and not being intimidated about replacing Hazard in the team when we needed him the most. I absolutely love his movement and his cold, cold finishing. What a ba

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The thing now is that we now have a balance and depth to reach for between players like him and Willian. Willian being red carded last week maybe some what of a blessing.

Schurlle can really kick on now.

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Starting to look like a bit of a player now, isn't he? Inconsistency is his biggest issue, but as Mourinho has said, he was always going to need a lot of time to adjust to the demands the manager is making of him. Well done Andre, well done.

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The thing now is that we now have a balance and depth to reach for between players like him and Willian. Willian being red carded last week maybe some what of a blessing.

Schurlle can really kick on now.

He deserves to keep his place. Willian and Oscar can battle for the middle spot.

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Tactical explanation of Schurrle's role on Saturday...

http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/tacticsandanalysis/id/2767?cc=4716

Three goals ahead after 17 minutes, Chelsea made a swift start against Arsenal. Fittingly, perhaps their fastest player was pivotal. Andre Schuerrle is the most direct of Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho's many wingers and he set up their opening goal and scored the second, leading the manager to say the game was over after 10 minutes. Schuerrle also played a part as Oscar made it 4-0 before halftime. Pace was crucial, particularly Chelsea’s pace on the break and the speed of the transition when they won the ball back.

Part of Mourinho's game plan was to get his wingers behind the Arsenal full-backs before they had time to recover after their side was dispossessed. The opening two goals were cases in point: Schuerrle intercepted Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's pass and sprinted away to set up Samuel Eto'o for the opener while Kieran Gibbs, the left-back, was caught upfield.

Then Nemanja Matic won the ball and fed Schuerrle, again in behind Gibbs, for the second. The German's first-half touch map is revealing about his role: He was not on the ball in the wide areas parallel to the penalty box. Instead, he came infield, looking to find the space outside Arsenal’s left-sided centre-back, Laurent Koscielny. Indeed, for the opener, he led the counter-attack centrally.

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As Chelsea were playing against 10 men for 75 minutes, the contest became very different. So did Schuerrle's personal battles. While he spent some of the second half on Chelsea's left, he faced three Arsenal left-backs: Gibbs, who started and was wrongly sent off, then substitute Thomas Vermaelen and then Bacary Sagna, who was switched from the right. Perhaps part of Arsene Wenger's thinking was to put a quick player against Schuerrle for the second half.

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I think he doesn't balance Hazard better than Willian, I think he makes up for Oscar's shy contribution in the third final. That's the main difference. Oscar is a different kind of player, the way he touches the ball, the plays he goes to, the chances he creates, they're different from what you usually see in a number 10. I think Oscar holds himself in the pitch in a different way and while Willian doesn't exactly do the same, at the end of the day his contributions are sort of the same range. With Schurrle we get something else and he's finally getting there.

When I watch the guy playing for Germany he really makes me smile. He just needs time, confidence and strength to get used to the English football. I've been a defender from him since the signing. He's had a dip of form, but who didn't? This is his first season and while Bundesliga may be the most similar to EPL in some aspects, it's still far from being sort of the same. There's no what place that plays like England as far as I know, and he's still so young, so oscillation was to be expected.

Still he's delivering everything I expect from him and next season maybe the fight for the RW will be between him and Salah. Let's see who does better first. But I see plenty of rotation in the first few months just like we had this season (except I think the rotation will be from August to October. We rotated til December this season simply because Mourinho had a hard time finding a reliable team. Then he realized the team wasn't ready for his tactics, and that's when Willian became a starting XI player, to make up for what we couldn't be, no matter how much he tried. I think next season we won't have such a problem).

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Schurle is only a mediocre player. He scored his 7 goals in 4 matches. He started 11 matches, scored goals in 4. In other 7 he was nowhere to be seen, In the other 23, where he appeared as sub, I cant remember one single time when he was able to make a good impact or to improve what we already had.

He needed 4 games (out of 23) to make people see him as good enough to start matches for a team pretending to win the EPL or UCL.

Perhaps he is the german Kalou: a player that will score some goals, which means the manager will give him more playing time, but more playing time means he will be doing more useless things.

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http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/3742869/title/schurrle-in-running-for-german-award

Andre Schurrle has been nominated for a prestigious German football award, and fans can help the Chelsea man win.

The Deutscher Fussball Botschafter recognises professionals playing abroad who transmit a positive image of Germany, with the prize including money that is put towards a public-spirited football project within the country where the individual plays.

Schurrle arrived at Chelsea from Bayer Leverkusen last summer, and in his first season in England has so far contributed seven goals in 32 appearances, including a hat-trick against Fulham at the beginning of the month. Off the field, the 23-year-old has adapted well to London, regularly posting updates of his life and reaction to games on social media.

Fans have until 20 April to vote, and can do so by clicking here.

Let's help our German to win the award. Vote vote vote!

(Mertesacker is currently leading the votes by the way)

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Schurle is only a mediocre player. He scored his 7 goals in 4 matches. He started 11 matches, scored goals in 4. In other 7 he was nowhere to be seen, In the other 23, where he appeared as sub, I cant remember one single time when he was able to make a good impact or to improve what we already had.

It's only 13 appearances as sub in the league, not 23. 15 overall in the season.

He needed 4 games (out of 23) to make people see him as good enough to start matches for a team pretending to win the EPL or UCL.

Perhaps he is the german Kalou: a player that will score some goals, which means the manager will give him more playing time, but more playing time means he will be doing more useless things.

:doh:

Just read this - http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelseas-andre-schurrle-says-jose-3199341.

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It's only 13 appearances as sub in the league, not 23. 15 overall in the season.

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Just read this - http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelseas-andre-schurrle-says-jose-3199341.

Ok. 13 useless appearences as a sub.

About the face palm, lets wait and see where he will be in 3 or 4 seasons.

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