Team sheet looks good. Baba & Dave as backs. Happy with JT. Matic covering Rambo. Pedro & Hazard after a small break. Should be lot better. Costa to play only footy please.
I like the look of this team. fear for the passing from deep though, pedro, ramieres, and matic dont move the ball so well to say the least. lets see what happens.
Fab doesn't do anything, anyway.. Would take a draw now. Would have loved RLC with Matic & push Rambo up instead of Pedro.
But Baba can only get better, Ivan not so much. and he is up against few of the best Euro wingers who played for Bayern / Barca recently.
can he? I dont see anything in this guy. cant defend, got ripped by shaqri 3 times in 10 seconds. cant pass. cant cross. seriously whats good about his guy? Not saying ivanovic is a better option atm, but baba is not cfc quality
Dave on the LB is suspect with crosses from the right.. his positioning is questionable this season. It is kind of having 2 weakness on both sides tbh, when Ivan + Dave playing. I would rather have 1 defensive weakness in Baba.
I just read Bobby Campbell's passed away. Remember him from my youth coming in around Fergie iirc. RIP
Oh well. You give players the benefit of the doubt, but raman has had maybe 1.5 good games for chelsea, doesnt deserve another chance. Costa gives absolutley nothing to this team while he is playing like this. If this was torres, we'd all be fuming. he has to go, we keep on seeing remy ccoming on and troubling back lines, he almost scored/should have got a pen. He has to start in his place. apart from that...yet again, we played alright. I'd love to stop saying that but its true, we had maybe 20 shots today, none of em went in, hazard in particular was unlucky to score. apart from that, I was pleased with performances, willian was a bit quiet (maybe tiredness?), pedro seemed quite sharp, hazard was electric he seemed to be picking the ball up from deep a load and starting things all over the pitch, good signs. ramieres was good as was matic, as were 3 of our back four. I guess we ..keep on going?
You've got a triple whammy: first , your attack is misfiring and despite having chances you can't score. Second: the opposition now knows they've got a chance against you. Last season, after conceding a goal it was almost inevitable that hazard will equalise. Now people know to keep him away from the penalty area and to stick closely to him. Third, your defence just cannot keep a clean sheet. When was the last match that this happened? He may still be a very good manager but Jose's presence at the club is now counterproductive
His psychological profile would seem to indicate that this will only end one way - hard to say when the tipping point will arrive for Jose but it's getting close. The thing that I've noticed is the lack of self belief esp mental toughness which was clearly demonstrated by JT's reaction to Media criticism - it'll get a lot worse before it's better.
The Wenger obsession is a symptom not a cause. He has never had any real fear of Wenger because he knows he can beat him, even this season he managed that.
By the time Chelsea play at the Emirates Jose will be gone so Wenger won't be able to beat him for the second time this season
Everyone forgets the Charity Shield about ten minutes after the final whistle except Arsenal, in fairness.
Ofcourse, it's straight after the Emirates Cup. By the end of the summer they're on for a treble dont ya know!
