Closed Basel v Chelsea

[Special Juan 27,421]

Lampard was lucky not to give away a penalty, he's been clumsy and immobile. He'd better come off or his luck is gonna run out.

Never a fucking penalty, ever.

[Wimbledonblue 94]

Crap half, it's a miracle it is still 0 - 0 but it can only get better I suppose. Has Oscar touched the ball? That's a genuine question btw.

[Phil Driver 503]

Our great players did the business at West Ham but today is the day we need our holding midfielder who protects the back four to come into play ,Maka would have loved this game ,but now we have a passenger in there ,he is awful that clumsy foul for the free kick summed him up ,he is in no mans land ,get him off Jose !!!!

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

Too many players out there from Saturday. Get some more fresh legs out there

[The only place to be 11,313]

How long before someone turns up here and say's everything was great under Benitez and we were playing like Brazil of the 70s?

Benitez might be too tactically rigid.

What we need is someone who's a little tactically rigid, but not too tactically rigid.

What would be ideal is someone tactically limp, or maybe someone a bit more tactically floppy because I've had enough of tactical rigidity yes siree.

[Jase 43,479]

At least Willian checks the 'work-rate' box.

Aye. It's the trend these days eh to be totally praising players for their work rate?

[edetarod 2,155]

the quality of this forum has went down massively lately

[Sheva. 5,373]

I wish Mata was playing, so people could conveniently pin the blame on him. What a shame.

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

He is the messiah remember after his 2 goals

Nobody said he's the messiah. He has bad games like today. just that people like that poster you quote are delirious in their hatred for Lampard that they don't see his quality. Even today, yes, Lampard has been awful but blaming him for the team's first half performance is insane. Pretty much the entire team has been bad. (And I am 100% positive that posters like him are giddy with delight when certain players fail because validating their beliefs is more important than our team actually succeeding).

[lionsden 4,689]

You believe your own hype mate, just silence your noise, read a nursery rhyme and go to bed.

The cow jumps over the moon....honest.

Sleep tight, you won't be missed.

intellectuals never resort to insult and patronising tactic. That's what people who are to mentally weak to form a counter argument do

[Starman60 1,343]

Have to say the Basel are playing very well and have closed us down once we pass half way. Although we have played poorly we are still at 0-0. So after a rocket up the ass from Jose and some tactical tweaks I feel confident we will win this one. 0-2.

Hope we are not slipping back to our old "November" ways

[Special Juan 27,421]

intellectuals never resort to insult and patronising tactic. That's what people who are to mentally weak to form a counter argument do

No, I just know an idiot when I see one.

[Las7 951]

[NishC300 1,865]

Let's hope Mourinho's Portugese swearing works at Half Time........

[haranr 485]

Just get Lampard out and Hazard or Mata in. easy.

[Phil Driver 503]

We need a sub ,but Torres has already come on , I would swap bring Rammy into the holding role and get Hazard on ,we are letting them get at us throuh the middle,nobody is breaking the play up and Mikel is the obvious player to make way ,he is not at the races,lets see what he does?

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Nobody said he's the messiah. He has bad games like today. just that people like that poster you quote are delirious in their hatred for Lampard that they don't see his quality. Even today, yes, Lampard has been awful but blaming him for the team's first half performance is insane. Pretty much the entire team has been bad. (And I am 100% positive that posters like him are giddy with delight when certain players fail because validating their beliefs is more important than our team actually succeeding).

I am not blaming him in particular, this just further proves my point that Lampard just had a good game and it is not gonna change much. Many people were expecting him to comeback to his best form or something. This should bring those people back down to Earth

[Zone 290]

Basel have played some great football. Some of the one touch counters were a joy to see. Shame it's against Chelsea but whatever at least they're not 1 or 2 up. Hopefully we'll start playing second half.