Who was even worthy of wearing Blue today?

[LDN Blue 7,903]

How is Drogba egotistical? I don't understand.

Indeed.

Heard everyone saying it but come on now. It's not ego, it's just how he's been used to playing. He's been the lone striker for 4/5 season for us and now things are changing. But he's never stopped creating & shooting. Today even he looked to link up with Torres and co. He was a bright spark today in all honesty, because he creates something out of nothing.

Okay we moan when those somethings go wide or over. But he's only shooting because there's no movement from anyone else! The one thing people love about Hernandez (and rightly so) is he's never still. He'll always be moving around looking for space. Some player we don't have. Anelka, Kalou & Torres don't do that enough so what can Drogba do except try long-range shooting and hope to get lucky!

[Madmax 9,219]

We underrate Mikel like Fiorentino Perez underrated Makelele lmao.

[eldo 868]

...Alex

[Ollie 4,400]

In a match where we HAVE TO WIN there's no point playing Essien and Mikel in the same team. Ramires had to start today. Mikel shows his worth against teams like Bolton and Stoke when we're in for a battle. not today against them. Mikel is a decent player but not in these kinds of game.

[Sparkie 27]

Half the people on here spent their time whinging that Mikel didn't start against United in the UCL 2nd leg. So what changed?

[Rambo 1,729]

to be fair I thought Malouda was decent today.

[Waterfall 893]

to be fair I thought Malouda was decent today.

He was. It's just that people....hate

[GodZola 630]

In a match where we HAVE TO WIN there's no point playing Essien and Mikel in the same team. Ramires had to start today. Mikel shows his worth against teams like Bolton and Stoke when we're in for a battle. not today against them. Mikel is a decent player but not in these kinds of game.

Good post, and this was the first thing I said yesterday when I saw the team. I mentioned this before especially when we are at home against teams that park the bus. This was an entirely different scenario though were we had to go for the jugular so why start with 2 holding mids, I can just about understand starting with 1 but 2 just didn't make sense to me, if we were winning the game & we were trying to preserve that lead then I would agree. Ramires should of started without question & come off at later point if he wasn't fit.

Only JT & Cech were worthy of any praise the rest had shockers including Ancelotti, however I will agree with him on one thing & that was that he only had up to 3 changes to make at half time when he could of taken more than half the team off, & he still fucked that up!

[GodZola 630]

to be fair I thought Malouda was decent today.

At which point during yesterdays game did Maloulda do anything to back up you're post? I must of missed that bit.............

[bluephoenix 1,131]

Bad luck yesterday thats all !

More than trying to put the blame if we had played more as a team we should have reduced the 2 goal deficit.

Kalou IMO is unhappy for not getting the starts but never proves when he gets one on the other hand when you expect nothing out of him when he comes in as sub, he throws a surprise.

IMO CA's tactics were wrong. I would have gone with PF as RB and in his previous match(if my memory serves right) he played as a winger. CA got the subs wrong as well. Players who should have come on IMO were: Ben 10, Anelka and Torres for Kalou, Essien and Malouda.

I feel sorry for Zhirkov though, we are literally wasting him, he has potential and we aren't exploiting it !

Nothing short of complacency that attributed to the loss. We have to go for the killer from the first minute and in the recent past I haven't seen us do that. Our passing hasn't been the best this season that explains alot.

[spuz 143]

I feel sorry for Zhirkov though, we are literally wasting him, he has potential and we are exploiting it !

Totally forgot about him. Seems like Carlo has too, ah well he only cost us £18m. Why can't he play one wing and Malouda the other?

Bit too radical for Carlo I know.The word squad or rotate doesn't exist in Carlo's vocab.

[bluephoenix 1,131]

Totally forgot about him. Seems like Carlo has too, ah well he only cost us £18m. Why can't he play one wing and Malouda the other?

Bit too radical for Carlo I know.The word squad or rotate doesn't exist in Carlo's vocab.

Agree with you there, CA simply isn't rotating our squad ! Something he ought to learn from SAF !

CA is afraid to come out of his shell. He could have started with Alex,PF instead of Luiz and Ivanovic but like you said he is very reserved and not willing to take the drastic measures. Ben 10 and Anelka could have started for Essien and Kalou.

[Rambo 1,729]

At which point during yesterdays game did Maloulda do anything to back up you're post? I must of missed that bit.............

He was fighting pretty hard down that left flank, he didn't pose much of a threat but considering the shocking display our team put out as a unit he was one of the few who stood out.

[Clevemayer 764]

Mikel,

Drogs,

Cech

Malouda

and above all ALEX

these four has been our best players

Lamps and terry where kinda strange...

ramires should've started instead of Kalou in a 4-4-2 with malouda "in the hole"

thats it...

[neel 257]

Dont forget Howard Webb .