Nemanja Matic

[Rapkun 668]

Matic was pretty bad today...

However, I blame Mourinho for his form and personnel choice.

Probably his worst performance in a chelsea shirt, yes. but how is Jose to blame for this?

[Eligius 121]

Probably his worst performance in a chelsea shirt, yes. but how is Jose to blame for this?

Pairing him up with Oscar for a good duration of the match when we were getting outmatched psychically.

Playing 4-3-3 in the start of the game and not playing Willian to cover for Ramires's trackback ability.

[Rapkun 668]

Personally, I think we had a decent first half, in which Matic had his worst performance out of the 2. Luiz covering for him made him look less terrible.

He got paired with oscar only after we conceded, thats where Mourinho decides to focus on scoring rather than stability. Probably this wouldn't have happened if Luiz didn't get injured.

I completely agree about the 433 and Willian though.

[Jase 43,479]

Matic's worst performance for the club. Horrendous passing, taking aimless pot shots and then at times just look to be labouring around the pitch.

[robsblubot 3,502]

Had a bad game - it happens.

Thought he was the worst CM we had today (even lamps) was better despite the misplaced passes.

It was obvious to me that psg midweek did influence team selection and subs.

[didierforever 7,349]

To be honest have not seen a mikel performance which qas this bad.

Lets just hope it was a one off.

Simply over run today.

[Henrique 9,133]

To be honest have not seen a mikel performance which qas this bad.

Lets just hope it was a one off.

Simply over run today.

To other side, it was a match where we were facing a defensive side and needed to take the initiative, unlike the game against Arsenal or City, a match where we needed more than "not losing the ball" (and in fact he did many times) and more than "recovering the ball in a very clean way, with fouls in dangerous positions"...

[Blue Armour 4,278]

To be honest have not seen a mikel performance which qas this bad.

Lets just hope it was a one off.

Simply over run today.

Yeah...was begging for him to get subbed, after they went 1 up. He kept misplacing pass after pass...and provided more hindrances than any contribution.

and yes hopefully he'll come back fresh in a week's time.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

http://www.starsports.com/football/columns/columnist=117/articleid=1317956/index.html#chelsea-swallowing-pride-signing-matic-paying-dividends

Good piece on Nemanja "spider" Matic.

[Eligius 121]

You can say all you want about how crap he was the previous game, however, without the Matic signing, we would not be in the epl title race.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

Another beastly game from Matic. This guy has to be the most dynamic holding midfielder in world football. The way he burst from the left on the by-line and cut it back for Salah to score was just fantastic. Ok, Stoke were rubbish and offered little to no attacking threat but Matic has been quality in almost every game this season.

From his MOTM performance in his debut against City to, Newcastle, Tottenham, Everton and Arsenal. He has become my favourite player already and is arguably our most important player alongside Hazard. He reminds me a lot of Redondo. Absolutely world class.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Consistency must be his middle name

[Mohammed Seif 1,451]

Consistency must be his middle name

Oh man come on. You are absolutely wrong. Frankly I am disappointed. BRILLIANCE is his middle name

[CHOULO19 24,332]

His son is adorable!

[duo11bluecl 207]

You know he is a good defensive player when you found out his nationality is Serbia. That country is home of great defensive players.

[SoBlues 4]

a DM we all have been craving for.

[dee25 1,044]

oh wow his son is the spitting image of him!

A mini-matic that one.

[Special Juan 27,424]

It's a blessing seeing this bloke come back in for the league after a CL tie, huge presence.