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

    • Courtois
      1
    • Azpilicueta
      1
    • Ivanovic
      0
    • Cahill
      2
    • Baba Rahman
      0
    • Matic
      0
    • Mikel
      0
    • Oscar
      0
    • Willian
      7
    • Hazard
      0
    • Traore
      17
    • Loftus-Cheek (sub)
      0
    • Remy (sub)
      1
    • Fabregas (sub)
      0


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Not going to dig Courtois out. Unlucky with the punch but saved us numerous times to keep us in the game.

Agree with criticism of Oscar once again. He's simply not good enough. Doesn't do any one thing exceptionally well. He's just decent at everything and nothing more. Shows a flash of class once every 10 matches. 

We got into so many fantastic positions around their box but failed over and over without having a focal point to score. If Diego played I think we'd have scored more.

Surely, surely we have to be in for Imbula? That was a masterful performance from him. He utterly dominated us and is a tank! Forget Nainggolan, forget Vidal. Get this kid! Only just turned 23 as well.

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3 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Not going to dig Courtois out. Unlucky with the punch but saved us numerous times to keep us in the game.

Agree with criticism of Oscar once again. He's simply not good enough. Doesn't do any one thing exceptionally well. He's just decent at everything and nothing more. Shows a flash of class once every 10 matches. 

We got into so many fantastic positions around their box but failed over and over without having a focal point to score. If Diego played I think we'd have scored more.

Surely, surely we have to be in for Imbula? That was a masterful performance from him. He utterly dominated us and is a tank! Forget Nainggolan, forget Vidal. Get this kid! Only just turned 23 as well.

Won't Happen.

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Positives:

 

  • Traore is a SERIOUS talent. Needs to be given a major run in the side. 
  • Willian was excellent, some questionable decision-making but by far our most inventive player.
  • 40 points! At least we're not getting relegated.

Negatives:

 

  • Courtois is terrible at the minute and should be dropped immediately, he is making some very, very poor mistakes on a consistent basis.
  • Matic and Oscar need to be sold in the next window, they are stealing a living.
  • Remy is ABYSMAL. If Falcao is fit, he should be ahead of him in the pecking order.
  • We look useless in the centre without Cesc.
  • Guus' substitutions were HORRIBLE and that, along with shocking officiating, has cost us two points which now means our chances of UCL qualification are officially OVER, and even finishing 5th/6th for the Europa League looks difficult - we're now 7 points behind United, who have a game in hand on us, too.
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11 minutes ago, BlueLion said:

Positives:

  • Traore is a SERIOUS talent. Needs to be given a major run in the side. 
  • Willian was excellent, some questionable decision-making but by far our most inventive player.
  • 40 points! At least we're not getting relegated.

Negatives:

 

  • Courtois is terrible at the minute and should be dropped immediately, he is making some very, very poor mistakes on a consistent basis. 1*
  • Matic and Oscar need to be sold in the next window, they are stealing a living.
  • Remy is ABYSMAL. If Falcao is fit, he should be ahead of him in the pecking order. 2*
  • We look useless in the centre without Cesc.
  • Guus' substitutions were HORRIBLE and that, along with shocking officiating, has cost us two points which now means our chances of UCL qualification are officially OVER, and even finishing 5th/6th for the Europa League looks difficult - we're now 7 points behind United, who have a game in hand on us, too.

 

1) I thought Courtois made some great saves to be honest. Regardless of his mistakes. Technically, it's not ALL his fault. The entire backline should be doing their job. Either that or there's just no presence from Terry to instruct our players.

2) I forgot Falcao was even still in the side! Also what about Pato?? What was the point in even loaning him if we're not even going to use him??

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Just for a min when we hit the goal I thought we might just get into top 7 for sure by the end of the season. And then we did what we have done till now ... Concede :( ... :rant:

I have no clue but why doesnt Begovic get a few games in between ... For me Courtois has not upped his game since coming back from Madrid, he was steady first 2 season but this season he is making too many mistakes. At this level, he is expected to save everything that is thrown his way not just make a couple of world class saves and then balance it with basis blunders. I believe Courtois is taken his place for granted now ... we let go Cech because we wanted him (long term plans) and as soon as he returned from injury he has been playing each and every game (guess there was only one start for Begovic). 

We looked jaded at times, maybe it has been too many games on the trot ... had we even these kind of performance right from start atleast would had been better off than our current position. 

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2 minutes ago, chrismada9 said:

 

1) I thought Courtois made some great saves to be honest. Regardless of his mistakes. Technically, it's not ALL his fault. The entire backline should be doing their job. Either that or there's just no presence from Terry to instruct our players.

2) I forgot Falcao was even still in the side! Also what about Pato?? What was the point in even loaning him if we're not even going to use him??

 

Courtois might make great saves, but if he is going to punch crosses he should be catching straight into his own box, those great saves are made irrelevant. No point doing the difficult thing if you can't do the simple things. 

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2 minutes ago, BlueLion said:

 

Courtois might make great saves, but if he is going to punch crosses he should be catching straight into his own box, those great saves are made irrelevant.

Hmm... like a certain someone whom we once had...

petr-cech-chelsea.jpg

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Absolutely refuse to blame Courtois for this one. If at all he helped restrict them to 1 goal

 

Stoke were continually getting behind our back four all game. If Diouf had been sharper in front of goal, it could have been a much worse result

 

Our defense has sucked since start of the season, and hasn't really improved since..clean sheets are rarer than rare at this point.

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Courtois is over-rated. Oscar should leave. Beautiful goal from Traoré. Guys is doing a very good job.

It is obvious the players had the game against PSG in their minds. It will be difficult. Fingers crossed.

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16 minutes ago, BXL70 said:

Courtois is over-rated. Oscar should leave. Beautiful goal from Traoré. Guys is doing a very good job.

It is obvious the players had the game against PSG in their minds. It will be difficult. Fingers crossed.

Courtois is young.
One of the greatest Greek keepers was Stelios Serafidis.
He became a legend and also came back at the age of 40, one year after retirement, when the new keeper was injured and again excelled.
He became that good at the age of thirty !
Before that we were saying "when will he go at last ?".
Then under the great German-Hungarian manager Jene Chaknady a complete transformation took place.

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