Closed Chelsea v Maccabi Tel-Aviv

[didierforever 7,349]

RLC is bossing.

baba has made some mistakes, but looks decent. hopefully we can pass him more. his overlaps have been totally disregarded so far.

cesc is still doing his houdini act.

with the pressure off, hopefully, we can now really get into it.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Also that GK Rajkovic, how many more fouls he needs to make to get booked? First on Willian, then RLC.

[Yeboii 1,844]

Loftus-Cheek has been great with nice passing and dribbling. However, the defending is not his forté.

Baba has been good. Maybe a few bad passes, one which was very dangerous for us.

Oscar has been good as well.

[Sir Mikel OBE 4,920]

Oscraque back and we start to resemble a football team again...but but Maccabi are awful yet we got smashed by Red Bulls Youth team this season and our best player has been woeful against the same team.

Jose must be seriously considering dropping Matic for RLC by the way. Ridiculously good performance. Cahill also impressive.

Loftus Cheek-Matic is the way to go.

Fabregas has done NOTHING to deserve not being dropped.

[The Mak 4,459]

Haha I was being sarcastic. His hiding today like usual.

Not so sure about hiding...he's giving the ball away in plain sight! Seems like he doesn't give a shit.

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

Best game of Ivanovic's season so far.

[BlueStorm1003 539]

Finaly something positive. Baba bit rash at times, but very promising. RLC and Oscar did great job so far. Remy added pace in attack and Willian was great before injury. Defense was solid, but maccabi didnt test us much anyway.

Hazard and moreso Cesc poor again. Need to get benched sooner or later to get their bite back.

Come on, one more goal in second and Ill be happy.

I think that set piece in which their striker took the header alone was more than enough to see we still have some things to work on, but we´ve been more solid than before.

[MefiX19 1,092]

So is Cahill worth Captains armband today?

[Stingray 9,441]

Best game of Ivanovic's season so far.

truest post in ages!

[Pizy 18,415]

Oscraque back and we start to resemble a football team again...but but Maccabi are awful yet we got smashed by Red Bulls Youth team this season and our best player has been woeful against the same team.

Jose must be seriously considering dropping Matic for RLC by the way. Ridiculously good performance. Cahill also impressive.

RLC should play in place of Cesc if anything, not Matic. Matic has been one of our few good players thus far this season's for the most part.

[didierforever 7,349]

So is Cahill worth Captains armband today?

definitely.

[Stingray 9,441]

So is Cahill worth Captains armband today?

I think so, he did really well I think. :-)

[Muzchap 8,966]

Look we have been poor - but you can only beat what's in front of ya

We're the first English club to score 2 in Europe this season

Second half the nerves will have settled, pressure eased and I do genuinely feel we can get a 5-0 here

[Thendo 1,088]

RLC has been very good imo, shame he got that yellow card so early, can see him beeing subbed for Matic eventually. Hazard really is out of form and needs to shape up, wouldn't mind seeing Traore getting a run in if we're still comfortably in the lead.

[BlueStorm1003 539]

RLC is bossing.

baba has made some mistakes, but looks decent. hopefully we can pass him more. his overlaps have been totally disregarded so far.

cesc is still doing his houdini act.

with the pressure off, hopefully, we can now really get into it.

I feel that without that yellow card, RLC would be playing even better. Not saying he´s been passive, but I imagine he has been careful, even if just a little.

[Muzchap 8,966]

I feel that without that yellow card, RLC would be playing even better. Not saying he´s been passive, but I imagine he has been careful, even if just a little.

Yeah very mature approach by him

[BlueStorm1003 539]

Okay guys, back to the pitch. COME ON BLUES!

[Stingray 9,441]

OMG that goal from Roma against Barca