Cesc Fabregas

April 30, 201511 yr

Someone bring this guy back.

Seriously, where has Eggy been does anyone know?

April 30, 201511 yr

When we took the lead last night it lit a fire in Cesc he was just trying to create more goals. You can see this guy loves to play attacking football.

While some players would try shooting from anywhere from the rush of blood. This guy is so composed he seems to play the right pass more often than not.

April 30, 201511 yr

While some players would try shooting from anywhere from the rush of blood. This guy is so composed he seems to play the right pass more often than not.

I was watching back out 2-2 game at Highbury back in the 04-05 season and he was the same then. Just an intelligent, calm, composed player.

April 30, 201511 yr

Hahaha!

Not really my day today on the shedend, is it ?

April 30, 201511 yr

Seriously, where has Eggy been does anyone know?

Somebody made him into an omelette.

Zola
1

April 30, 201511 yr

Not really my day today on the shedend, is it ?

All we need is for you to praise the FSW and it's a hattrick of shocks.

Davey Baby
1

April 30, 201511 yr

Interesting last night.

First-half, woeful, we deserved to be behind, their keeper didn't touch the ball once, whereas Leicester were threatening.

Once again, for me, the problem was midfield, and that's the reason we have changed tactics since the new year.

Simply put, we are lightweight. Fabregas alongside Matic was great until we got worked out a little bit, now it doesn't work as well. Maybe at home it does, against the weaker sides, but in the tougher games it's basically asking Matic to do the work of two men, which may explain why Matic went off the boil for a spell, he was basically having to work too hard. He was the key player, for a long time.

Fabregas shone alongside Matic largely because of Matic, let's not mess about. Fabregas could show all his class in the deeper position because Matic was doing the business.

Last night Jose did what he has seldom done in away games lately and that was to play Fabregas in the deeper role alongside Matic, and an old problem resurfaced. The problem we were having when we went through a dodgy spell away from home from the end of November to the beginning of Jan.

Second-half Jose changed it, put Ramires alongside Matic and pushed Fabregas further forward, closer to the attackers. He played his best half for ages IMO, and that second-half performance from us is the best we've played in a long time, in a difficult fixture, away from home, coming from behind.

The question now is what happens next season?

April 30, 201511 yr

Interesting last night.

First-half, woeful, we deserved to be behind, their keeper didn't touch the ball once, whereas Leicester were threatening.

Once again, for me, the problem was midfield, and that's the reason we have changed tactics since the new year.

Simply put, we are lightweight. Fabregas alongside Matic was great until we got worked out a little bit, now it doesn't work as well. Maybe at home it does, against the weaker sides, but in the tougher games it's basically asking Matic to do the work of two men, which may explain why Matic went off the boil for a spell, he was basically having to work too hard. He was the key player, for a long time.

Fabregas shone alongside Matic largely because of Matic, let's not mess about. Fabregas could show all his class in the deeper position because Matic was doing the business.

Last night Jose did what he has seldom done in away games lately and that was to play Fabregas in the deeper role alongside Matic, and an old problem resurfaced. The problem we were having when we went through a dodgy spell away from home from the end of November to the beginning of Jan.

Second-half Jose changed it, put Ramires alongside Matic and pushed Fabregas further forward, closer to the attackers. He played his best half for ages IMO, and that second-half performance from us is the best we've played in a long time, in a difficult fixture, away from home, coming from behind.

The question now is what happens next season?

Bring in a more suited player to play deep with Matic, move Cesc further up but then that would effect Oscar...

We can't drop Cesc because out with Hazard he's our most creative player but then that means who comes in to replace him in the deeper role?

April 30, 201511 yr

Bring in a more suited player to play deep with Matic, move Cesc further up but then that would effect Oscar...

We can't drop Cesc because out with Hazard he's our most creative player but then that means who comes in to replace him in the deeper role?

Oscar has actually added some bite to that midfield which is why is was so nicely balanced when that trio were together. With him out of the team and Ramires on the right-wing for some reason we looked horrendously unbalanced in the first-half.

If you want to move Fabregas further forward and bringing someone in who is more solid then we do have options. Ramires can be used there, but you lose a bit of nous. Zouma can come in and he's inproving all the time, and then there's this English wonderkid we have called Ruben Loftus-Cheek.

Personally I don't think it's an issue next season. I expect Oscar, Fabregas and Matic to return to form but I'd hope that we would rotate them more with these other options so that they're not playing an insane number of minutes and can keep the good form going.

The other problem with playing Fabregas deep last night was that he had no-one to hit the ball to behind Leicester's defence.

April 30, 201511 yr

I've not seen much of RLC so I've no idea where he is best but hopefully he's the answer.

We do need to rotate more as BD points out.

Edited April 30, 201511 yr by Chelsbear

April 30, 201511 yr

Cesc moved to number 10 in the second half and was involved in two of our 3 goals. Great player! After Mata left we had Oscar to create but he is not the kind of midfielder whose passing is as accurate and as well-timed as Cesc's or Mata's. He really made a difference this season. Glad he's ours!!