Closed Schalke 0-3 Chelsea

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

It was a great 3 goals. I'm glad we can score even though we played pretty bad offensively most of the match. Schurrle was awful.

I don't know if you can call him awful... He was isolated on the left flank with no help on the overlap. He put in a decent shift defensively too.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

brilliant performance. we got an early goal, sat back and tried to counter whenever possible. brilliant tactics by jose and brilliant execution by the players. we have looked so dangerous on counters and not just against teams like norwich, cardiff , schalke but even against bayern. just goes on to show the work being put up in the team.

cech - ANOTHER brilliant performance. the operational word here is ANOTHER. i mean to rate him is a little difficult cos he is never below a 8. keep it up PETR. 9/10

iva - to be honest, after his weekend antics i was a little worried of how he ll perform against draxler and i wanted azpi to start over him. but a solid performance. probably was

at mistake at one point where he was dragged away so easily by aogo while he let draxler run directly at the defence. except for that dont remember any thing that he did wrong. 7.5/10

cahill + terry - i dont see the point of ranking the cbs individually when both were so good and solid. cahill+terry has been our BEST CB partnership this season. any1 who denies it must be blind. they complement each other brilliantly, both are solid at the back, good in the air. would definitely be my starting CBs against city on sunday. 8.5/10

azpi - got himself into some awkward position as his clearing today was poor by his left foot. but a good performance none the less. some great blocks. 7.5/10

ramires - THE BOSS!!! where does he get his reserves of running from. just brilliant. even though he has to work on his first touches a little. plenty of times in the first half he started the counter and was central to every counter that was happenin in the first half but due to his poor first touches, we lost the ball or the schalke defence/mid cleared. nonetheless, good game. 8/10

lamps - decent game. a proper CDM performance. played well but i feel in such matches when the long ball is not going to do the trick or is not required, mikel would be a better player. but we will need his vision and long balls against city. would be interesting how he copes with silva and toure. 7/10

hazard - what a PERFORMANCE!!! those 2 touches which led to the 2nd goal. ORGASMIC!!! overall play was fantastic, and his workrate was immense. covered aogo runs most of the times. (i feel he could and probably should have passed the ball to torres for his hat-trick) 9/10

oscar - good performance. solid. worked really hard in the mid. and was central to our counters. player of the season so far. 8/10

schurlle - decent performance. defensively was brilliant, offensively was too direct. if it works in a counter then its awesome, if not then u get critisized. nonetheless a good, work-man like performance. 8/10

torres - BRILLIANT!!! and any1 who knows me remotely would fall off their chairs reading this. but credit where its due. today even his holdplay was better than decent. his general play was fabulous. what a dilemma for jose for the city match. torres or etoo??? NO IDEA!!! 9.5/10 - MOTM

subs-

mikel, luiz, etoo - mere formality by the time they came in. nothing much to do or did they do.

At times... not as a rule. rotation in that position isn't a bad idea we have 3 good ones

[DJames 729]

Torres :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

Top of the group and Arsenal lost .Today was a good day

[AtlantaChelseaFan 7]

Arsenal downfall is coming, The blues are on the way boysI

I loved to see Dortmund winning . . . Dortmund is my favorite team from the Bundesliga . . . and I freaking hate Arsenal!

[AtlantaChelseaFan 7]

I don't know if you can call him awful... He was isolated on the left flank with no help on the overlap. He put in a decent shift defensively too.

He was not his normal self on the pitch. Scheme or not, I think this might have been the worst game for him.

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

So how did Draxler look?

Failed to see anything special about this lad last night, especially compares to a true genius Eden Hazard!

[Eggman 118]

I was impressed with Mourinho mostly; you can really see the team changing and improving throughout the last couple of matches. We look much more solid, and increasingly clinical. Perhaps not yet the sparkling football that one day will come, but already we show great maturity and most importantly, we get results.

So thank you, o, Happy One, for making us happy!

[kellzfresh 7,229]

I was impressed with Mourinho mostly; you can really see the team changing and improving throughout the last couple of matches. We look much more solid, and increasingly clinical. Perhaps not yet the sparkling football that one day will come, but already we show great maturity and most importantly, we get results.

So thank you, o, Happy One, for making us happy!

We have won 4-1, 3-1, 4-1 and 3-0 in the last 4 matches. Scoring 14 goals in the process. And our defence looks the best it has been in 6 years.

And most importantly our strikers have scored goals

Mourinho is a beast

[bushman 2,043]

In the first half as I was watching the game I thought, here we go again. The team sat back after Ferda scored.

Then, I realized the genial tactics of Jose. This man has shown me more geniality in the last 3 Chelsea´s games than I saw in the whole of last year´s season. Jose single handedly won games for the team by applying very shrewed tactics.

This important win will start Chelsea on much greater results, soon. Currently, Chelsea are still not playing at their best, but they are getting there. Next game, Schalke at London, once again I expect nothing but a win, as I predicted 3 zip for last night´s game.

I believe, Chelsea under Jose will go a long way in CL competition now.

[Barbara 15,149]

I loved this

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[zyzz 711]

luiz at the end

[different level 1,056]

I could barely watch the game because the picture in my stream was freezing in every 20 seconds, but obviously I'm really pleased with the outcome. Torres for MOTM!

[bushman 2,043]

Since I do not see all Chelsea games live, I am forced to use streaming. Sometimes, it works well, but still it´s too blurry. However, on Mondays I get to see all Chelsea games from the previous week on TV.

Tonight, live on TV I will watch Real vs Juventus. Looking forward to it.

Of course, I will peek at streaming to see manures getting hammered.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgydGv_IJVY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXTV2VgOFnU

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[Special Juan 28,141]

I thought Ivanovic did brilliantly to isolate Draxler last night, really impressive. Draxler did find pockets of space when he came central but in total he was shackled well and also full credit to Azpi and the job he was asked to do, very solid.

This was a fantastic victory no matter how you look at it.

[didierforever 7,349]

At times... not as a rule. rotation in that position isn't a bad idea we have 3 good ones

i feel the back 4 needs consistency. just like in 2004-05, when ferrera-carvalho-terry-gallas was our back 4 unless the rotation was needed or injury forced mou's hand.

[Hazardous Oscar 8]

So how did Draxler look?

in my opinion, he is overrated....certainly a talented kid but nowhere near of Hazard's and Oscar's quality..

[Special Juan 28,141]

The strength showed by Oscar to set up Torres was magnificent, it really was. Also, something that has been missed is the run by Torres for the third goal from Eden. That run he wouldn't of made months ago, for me that run was as important as the goal itself, the defender didn't know whether to stick or twist but what a finish from Hazard.

Absolutely perfect away night that was.

[JVL 119]

Great result against a really good opponent. Some good goals, specially the dribble from Hazard. KTBFFH

[JVL 119]

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The goals.