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Man of the Match  

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  1. 1. Who is your Man of the Match?

    • Courtois
      1
    • Ivanovic
      0
    • Cahill
      1
    • Terry
      1
    • Azpilicueta
      0
    • Mikel
      11
    • Fabregas
      1
    • Oscar
      0
    • Willian
      0
    • Hazard
      16
    • Costa
      0
    • Schurrle (sub)
      0
    • Luis (sub)
      5
    • Drogba (sub)
      54

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The Chels

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Though I realised one thing has to be said. Costa form=Chelsea form. He was dragging us in first months and we did fine. Small team, big team, home or away it didnt matter. Because he scored and we won. Now, he is off form and we dont score. The bad thing is that Oscar, Cesc, Willian and most importantly Hazard cant realy step up and score when we need to. Its partly fatigue, but I have questions if we have single player in team who can score crucial goals in few games when others wont be able to do it.

There I point at Hazard, who will slowly need to take that role. City have Aguero and Toure (last year even Dzeko) who are scoring goals when THEY NEED THEM (at least in PL). Then they have Silva who is also quite consistent and crucial player. We have Costa who scores goals (but off form atm), then there are Drogba (who is 36) and Remy but they apart from finishing cant realy drag team forward. For his age, Didi is doing best he can, but he lacks that energy and you simply cant count on him scoring goals every game like Aguero. This is where Hazard needs to step up. Finishing is not his best, but he always makes double figures anyway and he needs to be more important in games where we need goals. Last season, he was more effective when we needed to score. This year with Costa arrival, he improved his dribbling and attacking play, but decreased in finishing. Oscar scores goals here and there, but Cesc is another one who I expected few more goals from. I know he wont be Lamps 2.0, but he is not even close to look like man who can score. I know he plays deep, but if he could have better finish, it would add another option to our attack. We dont have any player who can strike from distance regulary, Costa is average outside penalty area, Cesc, Hazard dont try and Willian, Schurrle were quite shit in most attempts. Matic has other key roles to work in midfield and I dont even expect him to be responsible for goals, while our AMs and Cesc should be.

There, I feel Willian will have to be cut off. We need players who can score regulary, not just Costa. Hazard still has potential, but he isnt natural scorer. This is where a player ala Reus would be appreciated because Im tired of watching Willian waste every third ball, despite his hard work.

We need goals, goals goals. Costa alone cant do it all by himself.

You raise a very good point. In games where have tried and tried to score an intricate goal with a tap-in at the end and it doesn't work, then we need a goal from somewhere else. The most important alternative methods of scoring when struggling (especially for our side) are set pieces, and then perhaps long shots.

We do score quite a lot of set pieces but I think we have the potential to score more. Yes it is difficult in the PL where there are many physical defenders but all our set piece routines are the same - lump the ball into the box and hope someone scores. Why don't we try to be more inventive with our routines like Atletico who seem to score from one every game? Then there's the shots from distance. How often do we score goals from outside the box when we're struggling like Bayern do quite often (vs. City in the CL, for example)? Hardly ever. We do try but our AMs' finishing is not very good and then again we don't really want to see everyone taking pot shots all the time.

Plan B is lump it up to Drogba. But our Plan A needs a bit more variety - we can have the intricate play but we could perhaps work more on our set pieces and shooting from just outside the box where we do get a lot of the ball. In fact I remember when Hazard scored against Hull away last year the commentators mentioned he'd been practicising his shooting that week. What's happened to that?

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Atkinson can tongue the back of my balls... What a fucking tool.

How is this not a foul on Hazard at 25secs????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp3bcGs-TWU#t=32

He then calls a foul on Cesc and books him. What a piece of work he is... Fuck you, you stupid cunt.

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My god! Gary Cahill's loss in form is alarming. If he wasn't homegrown he'd be replaced by now. Ivanovic bombs himself forward and then casually strolls back to position. These two have got to go.

It is quite surprising how poor Cahill has been as of late. If he continues to play the way he has been, Iva or Zouma will have to partner Terry. In my eyes, Iva shouldn't be playing as a RB.
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Atkinson can tongue the back of my balls... What a fucking tool.

How is this not a foul on Hazard at 25secs????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp3bcGs-TWU#t=32

He then calls a foul on Cesc and books him. What a piece of work he is... Fuck you, you stupid cunt.

Wrong. That was a brilliant tackle.

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Welcome to the 2 horse race league, when one of the horse slipped, the other will be catching up :)

No need to worry, it is pretty sure that will be happened at least once in entire race (season). What we have to do is get a grip back and keep going forward.

We're not gonna win every match for sure, so as City. who the hell starting 'unbeaten' team talk actually :rant: it's like stupid jinx waiting us to lose for sure. Glad no one will be talking about that now.

One thing I'm confident with for this season is we're gonna lose match we expected to lose. I don't think we will get an unexpected result like Palace away, Sunderland home, or WBA home draw last season in this season, with a quality in our squad.

WBA draw last season we were lucky to get so best not happen again

Seems papers etc started the undefeated crap.same way they went on about Liverpool last year.gives them headlines when it goes wrong.

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One reason for the defeat is we went there to attack from the word go.

We did not even think it worthwhile to secure the draw first.

Agree at some point. Part of me want from now on every time we play Newcastle away we have to try playing like we are facing City at Etihad. Play 433, park 3 or 4 buses, playing counter, I don't care what other fans and media will saying, I think it is greater chance for us to grab some points at those cursed place.

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Agree at some point. Part of me want from now on every time we play Newcastle away we have to try playing like we are facing City at Etihad. Play 433, park 3 or 4 buses, playing counter, I don't care what other fans and media will saying, I think it is greater chance for us to grab some points at those cursed place.

Well, it's an away match.

One of the Greek historic matches was PAOK Salonika v. Panachaiki Patras in 1973.

PAOK were going great guns for the championship but they lost 3-5 !

In Salonika there is the rumour one of their coaches was running towards the Patras bench with a bank cheque at half time but hit another bench on the way and broke both his legs. As he fainted, he could not talk to the ambulance men and say "please give the cheque to those men".

I was on a ship's deck the following day Monday and a man tossed away a copy of the Times so I open and see the Greek results. Hello, what's this, I said to myself.

But at the same time, Olympiakos -the eventual champions of 1973- drew 1-1 at Kavala, a Newcastle like quantity those days. Later when I read the press of the day they praised Olympiakos performence to get that draw.

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Have to say I am disappointed with yesterdays result, but relieved to have that "invincibles" tags removed, as it just added extra pressure to the squad. Our performances in the league have been falling a little short lately, and I feel that Willian and Oscar have gone off the boil. Hazard has carried them recently, but he did look a little jaded yesterday. I only saw the highlights, but what was glaringly obvious to me was that without Matic our defence was exposed time after time. Gary Cahill had a "mare" of a game but I will not criticize him on this one match. but I will lay a lot of the blame with Mikel as I don't think he is reaching the standard required as a defensive midfielder. I always feel we will leak goals when he plays and he does not instill a lot of confidence when he plays. I am also slightly worried that Costa too seems to be having a downturn in form. I know that teams are becoming wiser as to how he plays, but he needs to adapt a bit to counteract that.

I hope that next week all the players I have mentioned make me eat my words, and I will happily do so as long as we return to winning (in style) ways. But please.............DONT PLAY MIKEL AGAIN !!

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