The Chelsea F.C. Thread IV

tbf to Newcastle they really deserved that result. We played horrendously and they defended really well and took their chances when they came. Just need to take it on the chin and bring on the next game.

It looks like we have failed/lost the first test. A few more to go. Get it together Chelsea.

Not good enough for a title winning side, more like a top 4 challenging side we have been in recent years.

Heads need to roll Jose, don't be afraid to drop the big names that are not performing for you. Betrand and Azpi played well in midweek, Brana and Ash did not today. Time to give the former 2 a go in midweek?

Cahill is streets ahead of Luiz in form, pick the guy who is performing, their second best is not acceptable. That is the mantra you had that won us titles, bring it back.

Frank is not evergreen, accept it. Use him when we need him most, you have other options to save the ounces of greatness he has left in him.

Hazards form is in and out, time for that to cost him his place for a few games. Lets see what Willan can do. And please, cut Mata the same degree of slack that is given to Hazard, he will reward us more for it.

Just as I was starting to believe we could overcome this it turns out we couldn't (yet).

Frustrating because we can do so much better. Let us hope we get the kick up the butt needed from this and come back in style.

Better hope we beat west brom a draw would be awful.

I've noticed one thing

-Hazard plays much better if Mata is beside him

I think Mourinho does want to play Mata, but the problem is that Mourinho doesn't trust any of his his central midfield options enough so that we can go all out attack in a game and play Mata each and every time. I'm guessing we're looking at a defensive/central midfielder in January, who can pass the ball forward confidently and quickly with bags of stamina. We don't have that in one player and if Mourinho can find that type of player in January, we may well see Mata play more so that Mata doesn't have to track back,

Mourinho's concern is that our central midfield doesn't protect the back 4 well enough like Makelele used to do, or Ballack after Makelele left so he's asking other midfield players to do this dirty work to compensate, which will consequently mean our attacking players are a little less sharp going forward IMO

It's because every time you come on this thread, it's to troll when chelsea have lost a game. Pathetic really, lack of any insight and pretty much clatter the thread with nonsensical posts in order to wind people up.
You title contenders are pretty far from the people who are first.
I didn't see you saying this when we beat city too. **** off back to your bridge.
Now wrt eto'o. If you actually watched or followed him in russia, he had been largely poor or average for anzhi. So to say that he's been ruined by us when he was doing poor in a **** league by his standards is a ridiculous statement to make.

Except Arsenal, who has shown they are good enough to win the title as of yet?Not many, plus Liverpool should have scored at least once yesterday but Suarez seemed off for some reason. Arsenal weren't that impressive, and in general play I thought a draw was probably fair.
We're second (3rd at worst by the end of the week) while Arsenal have got to go to United next week.. Liverpool play at Everton next week, while in 3 weeks time Spurs go to City. Teams around us are going to be dropping points

We're dropping points to teams we shouldn't be -- the midtables but in this case the lower table! Combined with the fact that this period is always one where we struggle it's annoying and needs to be eliminated. I don't recall us doing this during Mourinho's first time here. The other teams will drop points fair enough (and have done so to the likes of Villa, Cardiff, etc.) but it seems to be a repeated thing with us here, which really could hinder us if we want to challenge for the title. Always this lacklustre attitude.

He's probably a 606 orphan. I mean, people still use chavski as a wind up? And it has always been football fans from areas that enjoy throwing stones from glass houses.

You guys still haven't grasp the concept that football isn't played on paper.


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Does this even make sense?

i think he's referring to situations where a team which has cost £150 million to assemble, can be beaten by a team which has cost £10 million to assemble (in the most extreme form)

So yes it does make partial sense.

Does this even make sense?

If you haven't grasp the concept, of course it won't make sense.


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I get the concept. But you're being ridiculously inane here.
All I said was that we've generally had hard away games bar norwich and newcastle(who have a good team just with an inept manager in charge), which is why we've struggled so far away this season. Are you just trying to be a windup? Or can you direct us to what post you're referring to, so at least I get what you're saying.
We've won every game at home, it's a fact, we've been struggling away from home, that's a fact.

Well here's the thing, I wasn't directly it solely as you- me not quoting you or referring to you was probably a big clue for this.

I don't really know how I can make myself clearer. The attitude on here is clear to see- Chelsea have a 'easy' run till January so, will waltz through all those games plus everyone else will drop point = Chelsea been in top in January. I mean, it's already written and set in stone right?

Only that Newcastle had other ideas and the way the league had been going this season, the league has other ideas. I actually thought I was stating the obvious.

Thought the Newcastle result would've humbled you guys but that lasted all of 5 seconds.


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