BLionheart

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So has Ivanovic , Branislav had an enormously negative effect on our season , starting from the red card against city which cost us the 1st trophy which would have been a great push for the team to win their 1st trophy so early and against city Abysmal performance against Atletico madrid , costing us our second trophy ( but fair enough he wasn't our only bad player but he was one of the worst) His really stupid red card against United which hadn't happened we would have been 7 points clear of united and the winning mentality and spirit would have been up to the sky but instead this game was the start of our downfall. Both shakhtar games where he was destroyed by willian and their RB i think named Rat time and time again Against Juventes where we lost 3-0 , got out of the UCL and most of Juventes success were thanks to him And now against swansea in the carling where he conducts his worst display of all time gifting them the match.Ivanovic&Cahill are both good players who are valuable to our team squad but how they are being praised and their errors are overlooked while Luiz is getting blamed all the time is beyond me.

I am only comparing the reactions to a Luiz and an Ivanovic's fault , i remember Luiz being slaughtered when he lost possession with 3 players behind him because that resulted in a goal but with Ivanovic or Cahill it's "uncharacteristic" so no problem !! I don't want to get into the discussion of who's better , but Luiz is twice the defender Ivanovic or Cahill will ever be in terms of awareness , reading the game , tackling and abilities , his main problem is that in England , if you are a defender , you better be the typical big , tall , strong defender who will just baloon the ball into the stands if it ever comes near his penalty box , and all you have to do when in possession is pass the ball to the nearest midfielder other wise you are being too casual and not stress free to watch!

TYPICAL !!! I can only imagine the meltdown in the english media and our own fans had David Luiz made those mistakes !!! i am not here to attack Ivanovic , i really like the lad but this bias in opinions is exactly the response you'd expect from the british media which as a result affects our fans.

Just when i was starting to like what Rafa has been doing with the team !! In the 1st half-big game he proves his instincts of defense at all costs will always get the better of him .

Eachtime i watch this lad play , i see everything we are looking for , would be a real shame if captured by another club specially United.

Tomo-91 is correct , i too think CB is his best position and he is our best CB. However , he is still an upgrade over Mikel in midfield .

That's not panicking my friend , since the start of our negotiations with Lukaku it was pretty obvious that the lad's set of skills and footballing abilities are very limited , he is physically unbelievable for a 19 yrs old kid but the football talent is not there , I never wanted us to proceed with this signing and I am really surprised the club didn't notice how limited the guy is ! At his best , he will be a Keweyne Jones or If we are really really lucky he may be as good as Adebayor but he will never be as good as players mentioned above like Drogba , Aguero , Van persie , he is just not gifted with the enough skills.

We really had a major fuck-up when we signed this lad for 18m !! that for me was a worse piece of business than 50m for Torres .

What are you people even discussing !!! with 5 very capable wingers/play-makers (Moses - Oscar - Marin - Hazard - Mata) 3 very decent emergency back-ups (Lampard - Bertrand - Ramires) , some promising players coming back from loans soon (De-bruyne - Kakuta - Hazard 2) , Piazon will never be getting enough minutes in here . YES , we are short in numbers and our squad is very thin but that applies to almost every position except the AM/Winger 3 spots , worst case scenario 4 of the above mentioned players gets injured !! we either change the formation or call back one of our loans. We made a huge mistake not loaning out Kakuta to the right clubs earlier , preventing him vital minutes and experience for his progress , he wasn't getting any minutes in the 1st team and back than we had only the Anelkalouda !! We clearly need to learn something from the last few years with youth and it's choose carefully where are they heading for a loan.

If there is one player in our current squad capable of running for the great ballon d'or one day then it's Eden Hazard , if we fail to turn him into one of the top ten players in the world then he has definitely made the wrong move when chosen us. The lad has too much natural talent and a huge set of skills to develop into an exceptional player , now it's our task as a club to coach/assist him fulfilling this potential.

The worst thing that has happened to Chelsea FC

If i had to choose one player to blame after Torres for our drop in form , it will be Branislav !! His two stupid red cards definitely had huge effect on the shape of our season , Had we won those two games as we should ve had he not been dismissed , our season would have definitely taken a different route. Azplicueta is a better RB for me and Luiz,Terry are 1st choice CBs.

On another note , Chelsea has kept ZERO!! clean sheets without Luiz as a CB .

El-Ahly may lack the sharpness and match fitness due to the league suspension after the Egyptian revolution , but they can usually make up for that by playing their hearts out when representing club and country. Btw very rarely has an Egyptian team or national team lost in a final , so they may lose against Corinthians but if they get to the final , they are playing the match of their lives and they will be triple as good as their best.