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Fletcher wrote Yes but try not to reply in a fashion where you are just slamming Utd.. Was it completely down to Spurs' uselessness that United won, or were they looking like a top 4 team, or both?


We played very well. Pundits and fans included lauded it our best performence of the last 2 years. Was so exciting to see!

Fellaini, Rooney, Carrick, Blind, Herrera, Young, Smalling all played exceptionally. My top 3 from the game would be Fellaini, Smalling and Carrick.

Smalling didnt let Kane get a sniff until he managed a shot on target in the 89th minute. No wonder people were joking that Kane was last seen getting off te Spurs coach and entering Old Trafford, it appears he went missing!


Lets be honest though , Your best performance in 2 years isnt really saying much is it? xD.Youve been awefull for 2 years.


I'm sorry but please put some effort into your spelling. I've let it slide long enough but the inner spelling freak is coming out, it is not "awefull", it is not a capital for "your". I won't bother with punctuation as that is debatable, people get te gist without correct punctuation. Also, the striker we have on loan is Radamel Falcao, I don't recall you ever spelling his name correctly, merely "Falcoa"!

And FYI, 2 years ago we won the league. Says a lot really doesn't it!


Its "The" not te.

You won the leauge , But that was because everyone else at the time was SHIT , Rather than you just being good..


Actually it would be "the" not "The" but good effort

Funnily enough we won the league in April, somehow don't see that happening this year with the greatest side you've had in years...

And "they may aswell give us the trophy now". Oh how funny it would be to see you slip, akin to Liverpool last season


As i said the teams were shit , You were consistent.

Not exactly a great team though.

We wont slip like liverpool.


Actually you were top for a while! We won anyway

I'm sorry, do you wish to contradict you're previous posts? You said previously your team is up there with Bayern, Madrid and Barca. You said you find it likely you could beat them all especially at Stamford Bridge?

You're telling me that you don' think that you have a great team? Changed your tune haven't you, Complete.


We didnt have Jose when you last won the leuage?....
Also we didnt have this time in 2013...
Your whole point is invalid xD

I didnt say it was "Likely" we wold beat Barca / Bayern / Madrid. I said on OUR DAY we could beat any team in the world.

We have the best team in the england.Easy.


United were the better team then, fact. So spouting nonsense about not having Jose is the same as me saying we don't have Fergie now, as if it would make any difference to our league position. I don't know what goes through your head sometimes, you're either doing it to purposely come across as silly or your genuienly are. Neither makes you look good (FYI).

Also, yes, you do. Even on "YOUR DAY", if you were to beat any of the top 3 in the world it would suggest you have a great team.
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Brad- wrote Sad to see Gus Poyet sacked after the miracle he performed at Sunderland last season


Really annoyed me. Di Canio has an article in the DM at the mo', give it a read. Sheds light upon the owners meddling with the club, not nice stuff.
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Brad- wrote Sad to see Gus Poyet sacked after the miracle he performed at Sunderland last season


Really annoyed me. Di Canio has an article in the DM at the mo', give it a read. Sheds light upon the owners meddling with the club, not nice stuff.


dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/ar...fight.html
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Miss the days when Chelsea had midfielders that could strike the ball from outside the box. Lampard, Essien and Ballack. Now we either play the fancy stuff and comfortably win or if the fancy stuff fails we go into defence mode and don't kill the game. Really should try and go for Pogba in the summer as he shoots from outside the box. I mean Matic defo has the power but never tries it and Oscar should start shooting more often, I mean Coutinho does it successfully sometimes

Edit: Matic could do it if didn't have to stay so close to Terry and Cahill, if he had faster centre backs behind him then I'm sure he'd shoot for often, an example say we had Zouma and if we had him, Varane as our CB pairing , they're younger and quicker so would be able to track back quicker. Really think we should have kept Lampard, even though he's not a 15-20 goal a season guy anymore we could have still used him like City have done this season, bringing him on as a sub and I'm sure he would have given us a good amount of goals from outside the box, but then again Mourinho said he would disrupt the future development of the midfielders in the team so whatever. De Bruyne should have been given more time, now is scoring plenty for Wolfsburg and with outside the box goals as wel, I mean Schurrle done it a lot but just never seemed that successful with it
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BigRedMachine wrote Miss the days when Chelsea had midfielders that could strike the ball from outside the box. Lampard, Essien and Ballack. Now we either play the fancy stuff and comfortably win or if the fancy stuff fails we go into defence mode and don't kill the game. Really should try and go for Pogba in the summer as he shoots from outside the box. I mean Matic defo has the power but never tries it and Oscar should start shooting more often, I mean Coutinho does it successfully sometimes

Edit: Matic could do it if didn't have to stay so close to Terry and Cahill, if he had faster centre backs behind him then I'm sure he'd shoot for often, an example say we had Zouma and if we had him, Varane as our CB pairing , they're younger and quicker so would be able to track back quicker. Really think we should have kept Lampard, even though he's not a 15-20 goal a season guy anymore we could have still used him like City have done this season, bringing him on as a sub and I'm sure he would have given us a good amount of goals from outside the box, but then again Mourinho said he would disrupt the future development of the midfielders in the team so whatever. De Bruyne should have been given more time, now is scoring plenty for Wolfsburg and with outside the box goals as wel, I mean Schurrle done it a lot but just never seemed that successful with it


I said months ago on a CFC forum (While i love the three midfielders) they need to score and provide more.It seems if Costa isnt on form - Who is going to get us the goals? - Alot of goals recently coming from the defence but we cant rely on that - The three should be scoring more (Oscar and willian really - Hazard does it fine but can still add more)

Got absoletly hounded for it "They will step up when costa goes off form" "It doesent matter who gets the goals"

Results like yesterday proved it - Costa scored - No one else did and the 3 wasted some chances too.
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So apperently the reason Costa reacted to Cabye was Cabye come on the pitch and said "You cant stop crying but you dish it out" or something like that xD,


What is with french people talking shite when there not in a position to do so?

Nasri - "Chelsea arent special and we can beat barca" while being beat by chelsea and barca xD

Cabye moaning about Costa - Its basically "I wasent playing so im going to try make myself relevant by talking shite to someone who is actually relevant"
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BigRedMachine wrote Miss the days when Chelsea had midfielders that could strike the ball from outside the box. Lampard, Essien and Ballack. Now we either play the fancy stuff and comfortably win or if the fancy stuff fails we go into defence mode and don't kill the game. Really should try and go for Pogba in the summer as he shoots from outside the box. I mean Matic defo has the power but never tries it and Oscar should start shooting more often, I mean Coutinho does it successfully sometimes

Edit: Matic could do it if didn't have to stay so close to Terry and Cahill, if he had faster centre backs behind him then I'm sure he'd shoot for often, an example say we had Zouma and if we had him, Varane as our CB pairing , they're younger and quicker so would be able to track back quicker. Really think we should have kept Lampard, even though he's not a 15-20 goal a season guy anymore we could have still used him like City have done this season, bringing him on as a sub and I'm sure he would have given us a good amount of goals from outside the box, but then again Mourinho said he would disrupt the future development of the midfielders in the team so whatever. De Bruyne should have been given more time, now is scoring plenty for Wolfsburg and with outside the box goals as wel, I mean Schurrle done it a lot but just never seemed that successful with it


I said months ago on a CFC forum (While i love the three midfielders) they need to score and provide more.It seems if Costa isnt on form - Who is going to get us the goals? - Alot of goals recently coming from the defence but we cant rely on that - The three should be scoring more (Oscar and willian really - Hazard does it fine but can still add more)

Got absoletly hounded for it "They will step up when costa goes off form" "It doesent matter who gets the goals"

Results like yesterday proved it - Costa scored - No one else did and the 3 wasted some chances too.


Yeah I agree with that they need to score or provide more. I mean notoriously Chelsea have never had that many different players score goals in a single season, we usually have 1-2 strikers with 10-20 goals and then 2-3 midfielders who can score 10-15 goals overall, the exception being Lampard. But it seems over last couple of seasons we have say a striker and Hazard as our top 2 highest scorers with 10+ goals! but then a huge drop with our next highest May be only having 7 or 8 at most. Now I love Mourinho and all that and I can understand why he uses defensive tactics when he does but it sometimes even annoys me , I mean you can easily tell Mou hates to concede goals (I mean in the words of SAF "Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles") but sometimes I wish he would give our attacking players complete 100% freedom to go out and run riot against teams! yes we might concede 2 goals but we could reply with 4 or 5 of our own, example being 6-3 vs Everton earlier this season, he let our attacking talents go for it and we scored 6 but in his interview he said he didn't enjoy it because we conceded 3 goals. I suppose taking risks with conceding would make it more tough to win the league and obviously Mou wants to win it in the easiest way possible, prime example his 09/10 under Ancelotti, so much attacking talent used and scored 103 goals but only won the league by a point ahead of Man United.
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BigRedMachine wrote Miss the days when Chelsea had midfielders that could strike the ball from outside the box. Lampard, Essien and Ballack. Now we either play the fancy stuff and comfortably win or if the fancy stuff fails we go into defence mode and don't kill the game. Really should try and go for Pogba in the summer as he shoots from outside the box. I mean Matic defo has the power but never tries it and Oscar should start shooting more often, I mean Coutinho does it successfully sometimes

Edit: Matic could do it if didn't have to stay so close to Terry and Cahill, if he had faster centre backs behind him then I'm sure he'd shoot for often, an example say we had Zouma and if we had him, Varane as our CB pairing , they're younger and quicker so would be able to track back quicker. Really think we should have kept Lampard, even though he's not a 15-20 goal a season guy anymore we could have still used him like City have done this season, bringing him on as a sub and I'm sure he would have given us a good amount of goals from outside the box, but then again Mourinho said he would disrupt the future development of the midfielders in the team so whatever. De Bruyne should have been given more time, now is scoring plenty for Wolfsburg and with outside the box goals as wel, I mean Schurrle done it a lot but just never seemed that successful with it


You really hit the nail on the head with this, we don't have a single player comfortable of shooting outside of the box. All we need is that Lampard/Ballack type of player to come in and score in those tight games like yesterday and work the keeper. They don't even have to score them, with poachers like Costa in the team we are bound to score goals from the rebounds.

The De Bruyne situation however is a little decision because we didn't really have a choice but to let him go... it was either him or Courtois
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BigRedMachine wrote Miss the days when Chelsea had midfielders that could strike the ball from outside the box. Lampard, Essien and Ballack. Now we either play the fancy stuff and comfortably win or if the fancy stuff fails we go into defence mode and don't kill the game. Really should try and go for Pogba in the summer as he shoots from outside the box. I mean Matic defo has the power but never tries it and Oscar should start shooting more often, I mean Coutinho does it successfully sometimes

Edit: Matic could do it if didn't have to stay so close to Terry and Cahill, if he had faster centre backs behind him then I'm sure he'd shoot for often, an example say we had Zouma and if we had him, Varane as our CB pairing , they're younger and quicker so would be able to track back quicker. Really think we should have kept Lampard, even though he's not a 15-20 goal a season guy anymore we could have still used him like City have done this season, bringing him on as a sub and I'm sure he would have given us a good amount of goals from outside the box, but then again Mourinho said he would disrupt the future development of the midfielders in the team so whatever. De Bruyne should have been given more time, now is scoring plenty for Wolfsburg and with outside the box goals as wel, I mean Schurrle done it a lot but just never seemed that successful with it


You really hit the nail on the head with this, we don't have a single player comfortable of shooting outside of the box. All we need is that Lampard/Ballack type of player to come in and score in those tight games like yesterday and work the keeper. They don't even have to score them, with poachers like Costa in the team we are bound to score goals from the rebounds.

The De Bruyne situation however is a little decision because we didn't really have a choice but to let him go... it was either him or Courtois


It seems the only way we try to break down "park the bus" teams is by trying to use the fancy quick pass movement style to get beyond opposition defenders and if after 60-70 minutes that doesn't work, we will just end up playing for the draw and try and hit them on the counter-attack. We should just try out shooting from outside the box more often especially in the last 20 mins of a game and see what happens, I'm sure if the player are accurate and the opposition defenders aren't that tall we could sneak in a goal or perhaps two, and instead of going away with a 1-1, we'll end up leaving with a 2-1 or 3-1 win.

Like you said no one seems to want to shoot from outside the box. Hazard to me seems to do it the most but even then I don't feel it's enough. Don't get me wrong I love Hazard but I feel with him that if after 3-4 shots at goal don't go in he just reverts back to doing the fancy try and get past 4 players by dribbling to possibly get a goal. He should just keep on shooting at the goal, I mean even if it takes near 10 shots before he scores it's still a goal, you see Ronaldo do it a lot, he will keep on shooting until he gets a goal which he does get a lot of the time. Then again Hazard may not like playing for himself and that he wants to involve others but I believe sometimes you've just go to play for yourself and hope you get a few goals to try and win games.
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Swansea never deserved to lose that, They dominated the first half and should of been up 3-0. Liverpools goal was 100% luck. Oh well, We need to beat them at anfield next week.
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