Lane

No they didnt, their CM depth was, and arguably still is, piss poor

my joke rhymes checkmate

i disagree, most of the time he needlessly dwelt on the ball even though he had ample time to release it

a thread so nice, he created it twice

is this a joke?

also, di maria and cavani would play in the same position

lol no we werent

their defence is not as good as ours. Most of the time we can rely on 1 goal winning us the game

Shouldnt this thread be in the non-chelsea part of the forum?

When people say this, what do they mean by 'f**ked'? Yeah we may miss out on the title but we wont drop out of top 4 or something like that.I think its a bit dramatic

I think we're fine. Not in a great position striker-wise, compared to Utd and CIty but still miles better than last season

this big nosed vitesse guy is getting on my tits now. whenever theres a dangerous attack from chelsea he just hacks one of ours down

Are you a Chelsea fan? I think its a fair question because if you are, then you are implying Chelsea will be battling for top 6 or 5 which is ridiculous. Even finishing 2nd would be a failure

I love the way hes off as soon as we win the ball

salah is not doing himself any favours

I posted this before the freekick goal

Fabregas will be a MASSIVE improvement when it comes to set pieces. I wont be surprised if we score twice the amount of set piece goals compared to last season

R.Lukaku Bolingoli ? @RomeluLukaku9 Follow No dissrespect to Arsenal who is also a big club but i don't understand why ozil has left real madrid.... I guess will never know.. hope someone tweets lukaku with a similar question

id blame lukaku. for a 'complete striker', he has a pretty irrational fear of torres

bony would be great as the 2nd striker theres also lavezzi, but i dont think he can play as a CF

well theres a good reason why most of mikels appearances were off the bench and his defensive stats in 2012/13 arent better than rami's, at least according to whoscored

good that you mentioned someone from a team like hull, who are supposed to defend a lot more than chelsea, therefore skewing the stats in his favour. if you want to disregard players playing in a different formation/team/system, then just compare mikel to the rest of chelsea players. hes worse, both in defence and in attack, than every single one of our CMs obviously i have to resort to stats, because we have polarizing opinions that are, of course, subjective. not to mention you were the one who brought up stats first

so this guy only plays when we are defending a lead, and hes not even defending. well, maybe he makes it up with his 'great' positioning so he has a higher number of interceptions. oh wait, just checked, he doesnt. i know, its the 'intangibles' he brings to the team. the stuff only the finest football minds can see, right? poor defender that offers nothing in attack. is anyone really surprised there are no teams that are interested in signing him?

oh man i was so excited that one of torres and mikel are about to leave and now you totally piss on my parade

4-3-3 with ramires (maybe even wulfert) and sex in front of matic