Mikel John Obi

[The Skipper 20,593]

By the time a coach realizes Mikel's true value or lack there of, he will be fired and we go throuhh the entire painful process again.

So it's Mikel's fault our managers get sacked? Haha... Amazing.

[happy_juan 64]

So it's Mikel's fault our managers get sacked? Haha... Amazing.

Must commend you on your amazing reading comprehension skills.

[Phil Driver 503]

Man of the match for sideways passing once again ,but our counters are oh so slow ,he plays we lose ,again. The theme is continuing.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Utterly dire performance from him tonight. Well done on completing 792 sideways/backwards passes, though.

[Korea 734]

How was Mikel when he came to Chelsea??? (first came)

Was he always this static of a player or are those the managers direct instructions?

[Phil Driver 503]

Utterly dire performance from him tonight. Well done on completing 792 sideways/backwards passes, though.

That is the issue ,how does the above help us to win a game? Anyone can play there and play 90% pass success rate in any game slow, sideways and backwards and that is all he can do. In that role you need quick one and two touch and a very good defender whe reads the game ,Mikel does neither.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Yes, yes, blame Mikel whatever happens...

He was actually very good yesterday. A bit of different role given to him by Jose as he would join the front four's pressing at the moment that the Sunderland defense gets into trouble and he did it excellently and won the back in the opposition half many times especially in the first half. Our pressing was so good, Sunderland barely completed a few passes in our half. But in the last 10 minutes the front four (bar Willian, tbf) just stopped doing their job and stopped pressing and our whole defense looked clueless because we were practically defending 8vs11.

[Phil Driver 503]

Jose did try and get him pressing and running more ,sadly his stamina gave up and in the second half and especially in extra time he was shot, when he plays we do give games away in the second half,the quick one ,two touch passing and the ability to defend and read a game will never be there which a true DM needs,no doubt there was a 90% pass completion again though,but where does that take us?

[Clevemayer 764]

Mikel was very very good Till ET frank did nothin but scored and really ppl cetiticise him? Whazz up with you he die what I expect from him Intercepted countless Times in The OPPOSITES half, much quicker passing quick one twos some very nice high Balls if just Drogba was there not the cunt Eto'o but not enough stamnia for ET thats what he should be blamed for but sideway passing? Seriously can some one get his stats from yesterday? He was NEARLY Perfect and I'm honestly surprised After his Last three outimgs when he was soooo Bad and back to old standards

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

Was Mikel "very good" compared to his usual terrible performances? I didn't think he was very good at all, he played ok at best.

[Clevemayer 764]

Was Mikel "very good" compared to his usual terrible performances? I didn't think he was very good at all, he played ok at best.

No very good because he played better then 75% of our Team and did EXACTLY what I wanted him to do more. Quicker passing some one twos one touch a few Times (Look at he Goals Build up). He was much much more pressing high up, intercepted at least FIVE Passes in The OPPOSITES half and gave it straight back to our attack. Made two nice Luizesque runs, his Main Problem was stamnia, again, would really like to See The followong stats by him from yesterday, interceptions, interceptions opposites half, passes completed, forward longer 7 m, Time on Ball before release, dribbles one v one and sideway Backway passes

[Clevemayer 764]

Still I think Lamps shouldn't Play That much and we should've bought Witsel, capoue, KPB, pobably Pjanic two of them. not all to compete,

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Was Mikel "very good" compared to his usual terrible performances? I didn't think he was very good at all, he played ok at best.

He was very good because he pressed very well and won the ball back in the opposition half many times, he never gave the ball away cheaply, always offered himself as an outlet when one of our players got pressed, played a few long balls straight to the striker, always covered for the fullbacks and Luiz when they made runs forward and defended well inside the box and made a couple of clearances when we got pinned back. What else do you want from a defensive midfielder? He can't do the job of the front four for them when they can't score.

[The only place to be 11,313]

It says something when an average performance where Mikel does the bare minimum is lauded as 'very good' by a very tiny minority.

I imagine his performance last night will be trumpeted by this tiny minority in much the same way Hazard's performance against Sunderland a few weeks was. When Mikel does leave, it would be mighty nice of him to take this minority with him.

[happy_juan 64]

He was completely useless with the ball. And lazy without it.

That's a standard Mikel performance.

[happy_juan 64]

Mikel was very very good Till ET frank did nothin but scored and really ppl cetiticise him? Whazz up with you he die what I expect from him Intercepted countless Times in The OPPOSITES half, much quicker passing quick one twos some very nice high Balls if just Drogba was there not the cunt Eto'o but not enough stamnia for ET thats what he should be blamed for but sideway passing? Seriously can some one get his stats from yesterday? He was NEARLY Perfect and I'm honestly surprised After his Last three outimgs when he was soooo Bad and back to old standards

In the entire match, mikel had 2 interceptions. Not sure how you can claim that to be "countless".

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

[Phil Driver 503]

His midfield partner always seems to suffer when paired with Mikel ,Frank was not at his best last night and Rammy was awful at Stoke and against Fulham when paired with Mikel ,the theory is while Mikel is sitting back not running,tackling and playing sideways/backwards passes his partner in midfield is isolated and without help in the midfield battle,the defence is forced to sit far too deep due to Mikel's starting position and there is plenty of space for the opposition to work in,instead of our two DM's working together and engaging the opposition higher up the pitch,

Makelele was superb at winning the ball as high up the pitch as possible remember Lampard's goal v Bayern Munich in London when Makelele won posession deep in Bayern's half before playing the ball to Lampard who scored that brilliant goal? has Mikel ever done this?, this is what we need from our DM at the same time as being able to defend and win tackles when we are forced to defend.