King Didier

Neither are good enough, Alonso is an excellent standing tackler, but poor crosser and the slowest player in the squad, neither can shield the ball. Palmieri hasn’t shown anything worth taking note either. Imagine we had Ashley Cole there, over whole of his career neither Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel messi got the better of him.

Our problem is once the midfield 2 are pressed, back line isn’t good enough to effectly start an attack. Luiz used to bring the ball out of defence, Christiansen is young and hot prospect but his ball playing skills have lot of room to be improved, as seen in the second leg in barca.

Just keep the the wing backs pinned back into our half, with no central attacking midfielder in this formation to create from middle of the pitch, unless hazard does magic we are easy to deal with. Also in a 3-4-3 the wing backs needs to be super fast to bomb up and down, Alonso as good as he has been, cannot do both attacking and defending at the same time, and is a poor crosser of the ball.

So we rotated squad last 2 matches. We kept the squad fresh at the cost of Champions League qualification

Since Oscar left, Luiz is probably the only one who can

Banging in goals isn’t the main goal of the striker at this club, leading the line is. Hence the reason many top strikers failed here. we need drogba or costa esque who holds up the ball, knocks down balls, do one twos with wingers, keep the Center backs worried and occupied preventing them from doubling up on hazards and willians of this world. last year there went a period mid season costa wasn’t scoring for extended periods, yet his line leading play allowed rest of the team to perform off him and score plenty. Giroud does this a bit, morata cannot do this to save his life. Hence the reason I’m so pissed off we let costa go without an ample replacement lined up

Like Wenger has never seen a referee decision that had favored him wrongly

he has serious issues, he alienates players, can’t get over mistakes, maintains poor relationships with them. Why do you think no juve player followed him into Chelsea? Probably he benched giroud tonight for celebrating with Luiz last weekend. I wouldn’t rule out.

Our ball playing Center back is frozen out by the moody manager, getting the ball out of defense for a quick attack before the opposing defense settles down isn’t really an option these days. They pass it around themselves and with keep until fabregas comes back into our own half to get it and start the play.

Why he brought them on in the second half? he could have started them, smashed 3 goals by HAlf time, then taken them off. Probably less strain on their body too than they put chasing this game in the second half.

Successor for Didier is now main man at atletico

Sounds like Difference is due to our good form, we had a chance of winning this game. Many of those games we were really struggling for confidence or form

Football is a team game, if morata isn’t holding the ball up for him to do a quick one two, or if Willian is not in the team to take advantage of the space he created by drawing defenders at him, it really isn’t Hazards fault now, is it?

He has been let dOwn by board big time yes, but he didn’t use his squad at his disposal well. Starting with the poor handling of the Costa saga to his inebity to solve David Luiz fiasco!

So in essence, he sacrificed the semi final to play in the final full strength?

He won it on an squad that had been assembled by previous management. He got rid of the best striker in the team, alienated David Luiz, now probably hazard and courtois will be f**king off to Madrid. He couldn’t raid Juvé for ONE player! He didn’t rotate the team once during mid season when clearly it wasn’t working out, choses of all nights tonight to do that, benches the two best players for the must win game. I seriously hope he gets sacked and never win another trophy his life for sabotaging this team to entertain his power struggle with the board. Childish guy no professional ethics at all!

Day light sabotage by the moody Italian. Roman where are u?

Her low balling is the reason why lots of transfer negotiations broke down, trying to impress Roman with saved pennies. Football transfer window is not fuking Sephora lady!

marina granoskaia needs to take a good hard look at herself.

His goal scoring wasn’t the best, but still he held up the ball well allowing us to win games narrowly. The reason why our players look like headless chickens in the final third is we don’t have a reference point (center forward) they trust to do a one two or finish what they provide.

Costa was an issue through out, important is he performs on the pitch. Who the Fuk cares what happens off it?

Buy before sell. Why bin costa if there is no chance of signing equivalent? This is what I don’t understand

At Chelsea fc scoring goals isn’t the primary function of the center forward. The reasons likes of sheva and kezman failed. It’s leading the line and holding up play for the likes hazards and Willians that’s important. Drog and costa keeps the center backs occupied preventing them doubling up the wingers.

I’m not. His lack of conviction, remember the deflections he gave during Barca game? Amount of times their wingers left him eating dust while sprinting past him? God I miss Ashley Fuking Cole.

For players like hazard to excel, you need a good hold up player to play around, like Costa had done for couple of years, and giroud when he had started. Hazard would not be effective when he is played at false 9 or with morata because defenders double him up. Conte is fuking paid to fix this.