Closed Chelsea 1-0 Stoke

[Jype 6,398]

Lots of people moaning about Schürrle on twitter, am I the only one who though he did quite well?

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Matic is a beast, would hv loved to see him play with Mata, I hope Torres comes back sooner rather than later just to give Etoo a kick in his backside

[HD3D 1,038]

How did Matic do ?

Amazingly well.

[Barbara 15,149]

That's how you answer to a tough draw

edit: @Jim, shouldn't I only have to post the link to the tweet to have it embedded? What did I do wrong?

edit: then it worked,

nvm

[Ze Mario 638]

Lots of people moaning about Schürrle on twitter, am I the only one who though he did quite well?

average game for me. aside that bar hitting chance, nothing special from him

[Stingray 9,441]

Lots of people moaning about Schürrle on twitter, am I the only one who though he did quite well?

Well .... I think he will die on this team tbh. Just not enough, as KDB was not enough.

[yuvala 2,167]

Great game !

Created a lot of chances, should have been like 3-0 or so, but Stoke got lucky.

[Polo7 3,496]

Matic had a great debut, Hazard and Oscar were both great. We need to be more clinical though, especially against Man City who we play twice in 2 weeks.

[bushman 2,043]

Matic had a great debut, Hazard and Oscar were both great. We need to be more clinical though, especially against Man City who we play twice in 2 weeks.

Another great call, I might add.

[Ollie 4,400]

Shame we only scored the 1 but the thing that made me happy was Matic and Oscar as they are the direct replacements for Essien and Mata. Matic was absolutely superb, a true proper CDM AT LAST! Covered every blade of grass and was always in the right areas. Oscar was great too but Hazard once again was different class. The way he can go both ways means that there's nothing he can't do and there's nothing the defenders can do. Credit for Stoke a bit but this game was so one sided. Bring On the hammers on Weds and also this win means we go to City twice in 3 weeks. This season is hotting up now.

Manchester City vs Chelsea

Arsenal vs Liverpool.

There could be a potential final there, also good for the lower league sides to face each other and maybe get a Wembley Semi. Love the FA Cup.

[Barbara 15,149]

He indeed is one of us

I love the way he speaks about our players as if he was one of us here

[LAB 1,030]

Cole was indeed great today. Also Schurrle had a good second half i think and i'm desperate for him to shine a bit more as i was for Mata some time ago, because he is a nice player and fits Jose's style.

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

Lots of people moaning about Schürrle on twitter, am I the only one who though he did quite well?

Not too bad but certainly nothing special.

I'm afraid that's the furthest he can go in Chelsea, good squad player and occasionally start in Cup games.

[Barbara 15,149]

Well .... I think he will die on this team tbh. Just not enough, as KDB was not enough.

I agree in theory, but then he's exactly the kind of player Mou loves: lots of pace, strong and impeccable work-rate, things Kevin didn't exactly excel. But I don't rate him higher than Kev one sec. It was just another Mata case with Kev, he didn't fit (although it was in theory easier for him to adapt to the system than Mata). So I expect Schurrle to stay despite not being better than Kev (imo)

[Polo7 3,496]

Another great call, I might add.

I was wondering why a lot of people on here disliked you.....I think I may have found my answer.

[Stingray 9,441]

I agree in theory, but then he's exactly the kind of player Mou loves: lots of pace, strong and impeccable work-rate, things Kevin didn't exactly excel. But I don't rate him higher than Kev one sec. It's just another Mata case with Kev, didn't fit (although it was in theory easier for him to adapt to the system than Mata)

Yup, I know B. But if he doesn't deliver soon, he will be just waist, Mou will not keep giving him chances.

[Stingray 9,441]

I was wondering why a lot of people on here disliked you.....I think I may have found my answer.

I don't know .... you make it hard to make a choice. Mr. Donut .

[Barbara 15,149]

Yup, I know B. But if he doesn't deliver soon, he will be just waist, Mou will not keep giving him chances.

I don't see him further than a squad member, so for now I think he'll make it. Also I don't think there are clubs that interested on him (as they were on Kev) and he's been used fairly more than Kev, but I wouldn't be surprised if he left. Still better than Moses and Marin by far... but also inferior to Willian imo. I guess it may depend on how well Salah will settle or not. We need to rotate Oscar and Eden and in matches we're in control in the scoreline we need to spare them some final minutes because they've been playing too much and we don't want to burn them out.