Closed Spurs v Chelsea

[Hutcho 8,443]

Pay 32 mil for an uneccessary player to play RW. Leave best player on the bench.

Play a DM at right wing instead...

I love you Mourinho. But seriously wtf.

[English Freak 456]

Mata on. Lampard off.

Schurrle on. Mikel off.

Drop oscar deep. Put rambo where he belongs. Schurrle wide right.

Yeh, let's take off our only DM and give Eriksen, Gilfy more space to own us.

[FabHazard 655]

too much emphasis on defensive duties actually made the players forget how to attack

[Las7 951]

Mata needs to come on for Lamps and Eto'o for Torres

[Weckerz 3,781]

I'm getting fed up with Mourinho and his stubborn / weird decisions. Wtf is going on with him? Does he want to prove so badly he can do it his way regardless of the type of players at his disposal?

Play Azpi and Mata for christ sake, and Ramires should never play on the wings in his life. Stupid stuff

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,770]

Mata on. Lampard off.

Schurrle on. Mikel off.

Drop oscar deep. Put rambo where he belongs. Schurrle wide right.

That would be suicide.

Take Lampard off is the only logical choice.

[bushman 2,043]

Oh dear, play him, play anybody...Chelsea are not playing well here, It´s simple as that.

[Henrique 9,133]

Think there is just way too much emphasis on defending. Not saying it isn't important but seems that under Mourinho so far, we are more concern with defending than attacking..

Mourinho has been like that since 2004. That was expected.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Last 15 mins were much better, but Rami is not working on the wing because Torres keeps drifting to where Rami is supposed to run into behind Naughton. Need to continue how we ended the half but put Schurrle on for Lamps or Rami. Oscar has been very disappointing today.

[Pizy 17,861]

It seems every game this season there has been a goal due to Ivanovic making some mistake or being beat for pace.

Yeah, it really is becoming a serious problem. He also loses his head a lot and looks an accident waiting to happen all the time. I'd really prefer Azpi to be first choice RB.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Yeh, let's take off our only DM and give Eriksen, Gilfy more space to own us.

Lol. Well. That hasn't stopped them doing anything for the whole first half. And we are a goal down. Mikel has been bad. Oscar contributes defensively and so does rambo.

Also Spurs will start to sit back with their lead. If we don't score it won't matter anyway. 1-0 2-0 or whatever.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Who are we blaming today?

[Yeboii 1,844]

On a brighter note... Hazard has been pretty good when he gets the ball. Trying to make something.

[diskoviolente 425]

Agree.

Too much of emphasis on counter-attack?

if we wanna play flair kind of football, counter-attack does not seem to be the right approach isnt it?

To me it seems that Mourinho wants to play a style of football that doesn't fit the team he inherited and he doesn't really know what to do with it.

No offense to Oscar, but he lacks vision. He shouldn't be our 10, it should be Mata. Oscar is a midfield grafter, creating the space for Mata.

What I don't understand is that Mourinho in his first press conferences stated that he likes the creative ways of our three amigos and that he wants to build on that. Now what? It looks to me that we bought all these players to suit a certain Pep, and now we got Mourinho who brings different qualities.

Sub Lamps, bring on Mata, Ramires dropping alongside Mikel, please.

[JDY 1,290]

Mikel + Lampard are too static for a game as fast paced as this. Should really be more than 1 goal down. Cole getting caught upfield (again), Lampard nowhere to be seen, and Mikel ball watching again.

They really need to get it together or Spurs could end up getting a few more on the counter.

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Ashley Cole needs to be dropped for the next couple of games. Age has finally caught up to him.

Townsend giving him the run around, can't believe my eyes. Lampard has been just as bad as well.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Thank Fuck for that.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Mata ON..Mikel off

Putting Rambo in his place