Nemanja Matic

[Laugh1ngMan 393]

2 minutes ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Nainggolan who? 

He sure did dodge a bullet

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

Doesn't create a lot, not excellent defensively, but gives us balance, our problems are really faar from him ( or Oscar for that matter ). 

He's just an easy scapegoat when people don't have anyone else to blame. 

Sorry have to disagree. He is one of the worst, on par with Cahill and Ivan. He makes our midfield extremely vulnerable by jogging like a fucking zombie on the pitch, offering absolutely nothing and giving the opponents tons of counter chances.

[DDA 9,690]

2 minutes ago, Ryan Fong said:

Sorry have to disagree. He is one of the worst, on par with Cahill and Ivan. He makes our midfield extremely vulnerable by jogging like a fucking zombie on the pitch, offering absolutely nothing and giving the opponents tons of counter chances.

I have to agree. Matic is a waste of a player. He is sooo left footed he nearly never passes to the right side of the pitch. He is so immobile it's agonising to watch.

[dimmas 126]

As long as you keep matic on the field, what you have is medioker midfield.

Doesnt matter what idea or gameplan manager have in mind, that is what you have medioker midfield performance week in week out.

 

Matic is not the biggest problem like ivan-cahill. But with such a big role he play in conte setup, he extremely hold back the team so much.

FFS

 

[!Hazard! 3,394]

Useless cunt. Hopeless on the ball, hopeless without it. I'd rather see JT playing as a midfielder.

[Laugh1ngMan 393]

Just replace him with Luiz, the more i think about it, the more i like it,

Luiz-Kante-Oscar is the best midfield we have right now (sadly but true, except for maybe some youngsters), And keep Cesc for what he is good for these days, an impact sub when players are already tired and his slugishness doesnt seem out of place that much any more

[Styles 9,790]

The most pathetic Chelsea midfielder of the last 15 years.

[Fernando 6,453]

5 minutes ago, Styles said:

The most pathetic Chelsea midfielder of the last 15 years.

We sold Mata and KDB to make this happen.....

Replaced with Matic and Salah....

[Jase 43,479]

He's just so cumbersome and awkward on the ball. Often has ZERO clue what to do with it and takes ages to even make a simple pass. He's basically Mikel 2.0.

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

Both Mikel and Chalobah cannot, I repeat, cannot, be as horrendous as Matic. I refuse to believe either player has the ability to make our midfield even worse than it is, than when Matic is playing. 

Said it in the summer aswell, the club should have let Matic fuck off to Juventus.  

[robsblubot 3,502]

3 hours ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Both Mikel and Chalobah cannot, I repeat, cannot, be as horrendous as Matic. I refuse to believe either player has the ability to make our midfield even worse than it is, than when Matic is playing. 

Said it in the summer aswell, the club should have let Matic fuck off to Juventus.  

that's the problem with the grass is always greener... it's a causation that is simply not there. Same thing happened just this week with Fabregas...

Honestly, there is an ageless saying in football that when a team has bad results, the best players are always the ones who did not play. Because in the mind of the supporters, this or that player "couldn't possibly done any worse than X." Did you not see how well Oscar did against Arsenal?!

Note that "not done any worse" is also not good enough... we need players who would do VASTLY better than the ones currently playing... including Matic.

 

[LAM09 6,744]

I have no idea what his role is in the first XI. Does almost nothing on either side of the ball.

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

1 minute ago, Robguima said:

that's the problem with the grass is always greener... it's a causation that is simply not there. Same thing happened just this week with Fabregas...

Honestly, there is an ageless saying in football that when a team has bad results, the best players are always the ones who did not play. Because in the mind of the supporters, this or that player "couldn't possibly done any worse than X."

Note that "not done any worse" is also not good enough... we need players who would do VASTLY better than the ones currently playing... including Matic.

 

 

To be fair, your probably right. Every unseen/untried combination of players on the pitch ultimately becomes the solution to all our problems. 

Ivan/Cahill/Matic/Oscar/Willian.... seeing these guys play week in week out is just... it's just so depressing man. 

And seeing the board place so much trust in those players like their prime Drogba/Lampard/A. Cole/JT is just mind-boggling. 

[Beepu 1,714]

That City game where he dominated the midfield seemed like ages ago.....

[Beigl 1,387]

The thing that makes me cringe about him is his slow backtracking like he doesn´t even care. As midfielder he should have a good stamina to go up and down the pitch in a decent pace, but look at the game yesterday he basically strolled back when Arsenal hit us on the counter, leaving Kante and our horrendous defence sometimes even outnumbered against their pacey players. Even a 34 year old Lampard would look like Ramires next to him when it comes to energy. I don´t know why Conte wants him to be his number 8, because he clearly isn´t athletic enough to fill this role, not to mention his obvious lack of technique going forward. I think he could have done a job in a double pivot next to Kante, but as I said he is clearly useless at attacking and playmaking. I mean even Oscar would have been better yesterday, as the Brazilian has much more energy and atleast knows how to press opponents. 

[CHOULO19 24,332]

The problem is not in him alone neither does replacing him even with the best box-to-box midfielder in the world solve our issues.

That said, I am just SICK of watching Matic take 3 touches and a full 5 seconds in the middle of our transitioning, only to choose the wrong pass and then even misplace that! 

[The Skipper 20,593]

The only position for him is as an anchor man DM imo. 

[Topico 165]

11 hours ago, Beepu said:

That City game where he dominated the midfield seemed like ages ago.....

It was 2,5 year ago...