Closed Schalke 0-3 Chelsea

[Wimbledonblue 94]

Great away performance. Soaked up a lot of their pressure and limited them to half chances whilst being lethal on the counter. Well done lads, great result.

Torres my MOTM. 2 goals, nice touches and worked hard, well done lad. I really do hope he carries this form throughout the season. If he does it will be like having a new player.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Great, great result, and a little gift from Steaua as well. Beautiful European night.

Schurrle with an incredible professional performance. His work-ethic and defensive contribution were out of this world. But Hazard was simply magical at times and the clear MOTM for me. Great to see Torres bagging a brace.

Oh, and Jose Mourinho, take a bow! What a great tactical masterpiece by our special one.

[Alabama 1,992]

any video replay of the match....missed the match due to night duty in my place of work....

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Not to say Torres & Hazard weren't great today, I wanted to give my MotM award to Schurrle. Thought he put in a hell of a shift tonight, helping out Azpilicueta who at times didn't look comfortable playing LB. Having the German help him, a left-footer, worked well to attempt to nullify the threat down that flank.

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

He scores when he wants!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Not to say Torres & Hazard weren't great today, I wanted to give my MotM award to Schurrle. Thought he put in a hell of a shift tonight, helping out Azpilicueta who at times didn't look comfortable playing LB. Having the German help him, a left-footer, worked well to attempt to nullify the threat down that flank.

Our most important player tactically. And I was saying that even before the match tonight. Schurrle is a player that every manager in the world wants in his team. Ultimate team player.

[didierforever 7,349]

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.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

PS: Hazard's Drogba celebration was epic!

[Ollie 4,400]

I am so happy. Words cannot describe how happy i am right now. Chelsea win, Arsenal lose, Steaua equalise, Napoli win, fuck yes!! These are the moments i thank my parents for having me.

[Barbara 15,149]

we were tactically perfect. Perfect execution and Mourinho really killed the match without giving a chance to Schalke - this time without resorting to subs, and doing it from start.

Of course the goal under the 5min mark helped immensely, but then again Torres was unstoppable and Mourinho got it right starting him.

I don't have any complaints now, but I'll only watch the match properly later because watching it on a stream, having to write Chelsea Brasil match report in under than 10 minutes after the final whistle, I'm exhausted and I may have missed some stuff with the horrible quality stream. ESPN you suck for not having Chelsea in the website either.

Wankers. I complained with their executive director about this fuckery.

[Azpinator 2,325]

Cech was his usual self: a monstrous boss.

We played an almost perfect defensive game, gotta hand it to Azpi for giving a proper performance out of position. Eden is getting better and better.. high-five @Stingray!

But Torres was the main highlight, it was one of his best performances in our blue shirt.

[Jase 43,479]

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[guddy69 171]

Re: Arsenal vs B Dortmund | Champions League 22/10/13

by Myrmedus » 46 minutes ago

Angelito wrote:@ Myrmedus

I don't think I've seen a game with most of our players underperforming as this. It was just poor and to think, Dortmund weren't even at their best, we were really slow in passing and moving, uncreative, and our link up play didn't exist at all.

Arteta put in a spectacular performance but it was just him basically.

"That actually makes me feel MORE comfortable though, not less. Inspite of playing that poor we STILL dominated the game, lol.

Put it another way: if we played poor today then that means relatively we're going to play better most of the time, since playing "average" and "good" is better than "poor". So, if we're dominating the game albeit losing when we play poor, we should be absolutely fine when playing average or better.

I would be more concered if we played really well tonight and that result occurred." ????

[darrus 422]

Happy to see Torres playing like that

Mourinho should be giving lessons to other coaches on teaching a team to counter attack. Or better not, that should be held in secret. But that was beautiful to watch.

Some scary moments in the match though.

[Blue Traveler 256]

A faultless solid performance to night for 90 minute! really delighted by the lads.

The only thing got on my nerve was the noise and all that rasping sounds they were making with all that drums and horns shiit! really hope we get back to them and give them a hard time when they come back to bridge make'em shiit in their shorts!

[Term-X 7,891]

Mata & Willian unused subs against the best side in the group..

Just goes to show how far we've come in terms of strength in depth.

[Toli 977]

Our defense was beyond amazing. They dealt with any and everything Schalke threw at them.

We had some counter chances in the 1st half and fucked up, but took them very well in the 2nd. Deserved result in the end, and a very good one.

well to be fair, schalke was missing Huntelaar (best striker) and Farfan (probably their best winger). and boateng isnt used playing as a 9. so clearly a mistake by Keller, should have started with Szalai as a striker. hopefully the team can keep it up at home against Schalke. I think winning against Schalke and not losing to Basel and we are through.

[Barbara 15,149]

Mark my words: we'll win this in the same fashion Spain won the WC. Losing the first match, making many people doubt our quality and potential, but we'll raise the trophy at the end of the season.