Chelsea Banter Archive January 21 2015

 

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21 Jan 2015 19:47:46
A few points from last night's game which I believe need addressing to move us forward. 1. Fabregas has to play deep, that's where he is at his best and that's where he wants to play. Don't move him further forward to accommodate Mikel. 2. Ivanovic is starting to make to many mistakes, passing was sloppy and not as good one on one defensively as Dave. Also, because of his poor form, Willian is having to play to defensively to cover for him 3. Our first choice CB pairing, while still good, needs shaking up with Zouma being given more games with a view to be first choice next Season.

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Jose Mourinho knows best!

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21 Jan 2015 20:09:53
I agree about Zouma he has the pace were lacking

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21 Jan 2015 18:22:55
Well, my fellow Pogba fanatics. It seems that our chances of getting him are practically non existing. When United and Madrid are involved and looking to strike a deal, I'm afraid we're not able, and probably not willing, to compete with them.
Let's hope our very own RLC can fill that Pogba shaped hole in our hearts ;-)

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21 Jan 2015 18:35:37
He should play vs Bradford IMO next to Mikel but obviously jose won't play him.

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He definitely won't start, but maybe a spot on the bench is possible and then a good 20-30 minutes as a sub. Ake should get some time as well. It's been a while since I've seen him play.

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Mikel should be nowhere near the starting XI, RLC on the other hand.

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21 Jan 2015 20:11:01
We're playing Bradford not Bayern not exactly going to need a full time are we!

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Barely beat Shrewsbury & I've seen weirder things happen so you never know! Be nice to see RLC next to matic or Ramires

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23 Jan 2015 04:27:31
Please, not next to Mikel. He will be going, not good enough for our club. If we are to start, or give playing time to, the youngsters put RLC in with Matic and see what he can do with quality next to him rather than an also ran. This, I feel, is where Jose has a delema, he probably does want to give youngsters a go but does not want to expose them and dent confidence by playing them alongside sub standard players whilst resting the correct partner eg Matic. I've watched the boy and he's good but, he must play with the best to advance to what we, and the club want/expect of him. This is no easy task when our and the clubs expectations are so high results wise. A problem that I bet many other clubs could only wish to have.

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23 Jan 2015 10:47:14
I believe that our second team should beat them quite comfortably as otherwise are they good enough to be our 2nd team?

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21 Jan 2015 18:15:03
Wonder how salah would have progressed if he had actually signed for Liverpool instead of us. Think he would definately played a lot of games, and maybe more suited to their style compared to ours. Think he might have made the wrong decision, and probably regrets it now.

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Definetely made the wrong decision. Earning way more $$$ with us though.

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21 Jan 2015 12:25:41
After watching the game last night and many others where Willian offered very little in an attacking sense, it leads me to question why we don't give salah his chance, okay Willian does offer a fantastic work rate that salah may not be able to contribute but if we want to win and not avoid defeat we should experiment a little bit and maybe play salah with azpilucueta behind him to make up for his lack of defensive capabilities, zouma or ivanovic has to start the next game at centre back over Cahill, he has lacked the form he has shown in previous seasons and leaves me to believe he has grown rather over confident in his own abilities, would be great to hear everyone else's thoughts on this.

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Have you seen Salah play trueblue, combined with his unwillingness to work as hard defensively he gives the ball away way more than Willian and he gets pushed off the ball easily because he's small and not strong.

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21 Jan 2015 09:53:45
One thing that stood out for me last night: we desperately need a class defensive midfielder next to Matic, especially in tough away games when we play 2 defensive midfielders. Mikel looked totally out of his depth - I can't believe that he is still with us - he must be Roman's lovechild!

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21 Jan 2015 13:46:23
Schneiderlin for me in. In certain games he'd be great, HG too. And I don't care if there's no interest he'd be the player i'd want to play next to Matic in big away games.

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We looked like the team of last year going back to the RDM days when we struggled to get the ball out of our own half because of not having Cesc or a better forward passer than Mikel in that deep laying mid position to start the break.

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21 Jan 2015 00:21:33
Who else thinks we should have played
Zouma, Ramires, Schurrle and remy? and destroyed them?

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21 Jan 2015 02:08:46
I agree Terry, Mikel, Willian and costa shouldn't of either been played or rested.

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21 Jan 2015 07:17:30
I can't fault Willian's work rate but he brings very little else to the team.

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I disagree about Willian - with Iva looking increasingly slow, Willian does a great job covering back.

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21 Jan 2015 12:12:02
But as a creative player he creates very little.

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