Closed West Brom 2-3 Chelsea

[Milan 17,854]

At long long last a win. There is still an awful lot to do and improve but we finally have reached a win. Hopefully it will kick off our season from now on.

[the wes 7,212]

does anybody know were i can watch the highlights of the game

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Pedro was sublime but MOTM has to go to Azpilicueta, fucking Warrior.

[nullabletype 987]

Don't think Ivan was nearly as bad as people in here are making out. He's not had a great start to the season but other than one very poor moment before their first goal I can't remember too many instances of him being overly bad. *shrug*

[Chelsea Buzz 487]

One word - Pedro

One question - what would the result have been with no Pedro today?

A lot of positives. A few disappointments.

If Willian and Falcao could have finished, how many more assists would Pedro have had? Pedro brought the spark we desperately need. Let's hope the rest of the team takes his lead and starts to resemble his play and not after several games, he starts to look like we did the past 4 matches playing in molasses.

Oscar instead of Willian improves our finishing I believe. Can't wait to see us with Pedro-chemistry. We may start to look like last year, early last year that is.

Courtois had a great game. Zouma looked solid as well. Ivana, not so much, but we survived. Thought Cesc started to play better late though lost a guy in the box late that could have resulted in a goal.

Come on Everton, at least get a draw and tighten up the table.

It's been a good day, a Blue day! All hail Pedro!

Up with the Chels!! :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

[Gappy 130]

When some winger platy against us, suddenly he became David Beckham

[Crisharo 6]

Matic in his top is a good player, but nothing impressive. He's in a bad run now.

Chelsea needs another quality CM, not Obi. About Pogba, don't know if the rumours become true, I hope so.

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Matic y sus errores, pobre hombre, pero lo de hoy lo pinto entero, pero siempre ha sido un CM muy limitado en demasiados aspectos. En Ivanovic tengo más esperanzas, en su nivel más alto es muy bueno, pero parece que sigue de vacaciones. Me parece más urgente un CM que un lateral.

Three points, a debut goal for Pedro and an opening goal for Diego Costa this season.

Pretty happy with that but there's A LOT of room for improvement, the defense is horrible at the moment and central midfield is not really working either. Terry and Ivanovic look like they're still on their summer holidays and Matic hasn't been himself either. For the first two it might be the age catching up to them and they need more rest to perform as good as we know they can, which is where Baba and the potential Stones signing come in, but what's going on with Matic?

[The Skipper 20,593]

Don't think Ivan was nearly as bad as people in here are making out. He's not had a great start to the season but other than one very poor moment before their first goal I can't remember too many instances of him being overly bad. *shrug*

Him getting spun completely for their second goal?

All of their chances came from the left as well.

[Kieran. 6,317]

Fabregas was dire. Thank god we held on though.

[LAB 1,030]

oh and black kit is gorgeous btw + a curse breaker apparetly

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

does anybody know were i can watch the highlights of the game

www.fullmatchesandshows.com

[Last Sicarius 610]

I have qestion how will look our deffense in next match without Terry? Mayby Azpi-Zaouma-Iva(?)-Baba. hmmmm?

[The Skipper 20,593]

Our CMs need to wake up, Matic and Fabregas were awful today. Absolutely awful. They're looking like Championship players at the moment. These guys were the best CM pairing in the league last season.

[dUMB 189]

3 points. Pedro. Our defensive play needs to be better, like last year.

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

I can finally watch MOTD tonight! lmaooo

[Polo7 3,496]

When some winger platy against us, suddenly he became David Beckham

Yeah, their crosses were ridiculous.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Finaly a win :blue scalf: :blue scalf:

Pedro truly the bright spot of the game. Hats off, I didnt believe he will have such an impact. But its still only one game. I wont get too excited until he performs for couple of games in row.

But overall we still have plenty of problems. Cesc and Iva have absolutely no clue how to defend. No tactical understanding, positioning and the amount of bad passes in dangerous areas from those two is shocking.

Also am I the only one who sees how average is Matic atm? He isnt bad, but far from his best. I have feeling he is the key of this team and we need him in best form to elevate us to next level. But he was average for some time now...

IMO we should just switch to 4:3:3. Our midfield is poor, we need another player there, our defense needs more protection too. Besides we dont even play with typical #10, our #10 doesnt dictate the tempo, sets chances etc, so IMO its pointless that we play with #10 when we would benefit more with another mid in centre. Just bring Pogba or someone similar and switch to 4:3:3.

[didierforever 7,349]

atlast 3 points. but the problems are for all of us to see. jose and his favouritism will be our demise.

iva and cesc. why the fuck did they start. why the fuck was cesc on the RW and not pedro when mikel came in. so many problems simply cos jose is too fucking egoisitic and arrogant to admit his mistakes.

courtois - good performance. 8/10

iva - hilarious. just LOL. and people see i am over-reacting. i am sorry but say it again. 0/10

zouma -good performance. cant understand how he is not a starter. 8/10

jt - we are blessed that berahino was not playing or he would have ripped JT to pieces. GC should be starting.GC-zouma should be our paitring. 5/10

azpi - another good azpi-ish performance. time to shift to right though. 8/10

matic - well, if u have to play alone in the mid with no support with no one what so ever, u will ;look poor. cant judge him for this match. 6/10

cesc - another lol-max performance. i am sorry but like iva, this is getting simply ridiculous. needs to be benched.

pedro - what a performance from the barca reject. 10/10

willian - needs to improve on his finishing. except for that, very good on the pitch. 7/10

hazard - glimpses of the old hazard. but still some way to go. pedro's signing will give him more space to work with. 7/10

costa - one of his decent performances but still poor link up. should have scored a couple more. but overall decent performance. 7/10

subs -

GC - should be one half of our CB partnership. end of discusiion.

falcao -very poor. needs to show some more movement. that hazard shot, he should have made that far post run. any striker with good instincts would have.

mikel -does what he does best. should start the next game. either him or rambo.