Credit to Willian for the ball out to Zappa yesterday before the goal. Thought he should have started and had to chance to continue the bit of form he was on. 

5 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Credit to Willian for the ball out to Zappa yesterday before the goal. Thought he should have started and had to chance to continue the bit of form he was on. 

Then played an awful ball at the end to let Arsenal back on the counter attack 

3 minutes ago, Ernie_blue said:

Then played an awful ball at the end to let Arsenal back on the counter attack 

Shh i'm trying to be nice about Willian for once, don't remind me about his downsides!! 

played okay today compared to the rest. I'd probably keep him ahead of pedro, who seems to get a bit more slack from the fans. 

A proper sub option now. No more no less.

 

3 hours ago, big blue said:

played okay today compared to the rest. I'd probably keep him ahead of pedro, who seems to get a bit more slack from the fans. 

Probably because he’s different to our other wide players like Hazard and Willian, he’s direct and wants to score goals. Not in great form at the moment but as a whole, better player than Willian IMO.

 

Having said that, Willian was the only bright spark in that second half, although that didn’t take much doing, reckon my Nan woulda had a shout in amongst that team.

I thought he was pretty terrible at the start of the season, but he has been pretty good now for the last of months. He can still be frustrating, but he has been miles better than pedro on the whole this season, and id rather see pedro go than Willian.

Congrats to big Willie for winning January goal of the month

 

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2018/2/16/17019472/willian-wins-goal-of-the-month-hudson-odoi-named-pl2-player-of-the-month

It was a class goal, probably our goal of the season so far.

2 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

It was a class goal, probably our goal of the season so far.

Yeah i love those goals, pure team goal, don't usually get GOTM with those.

Scored 2 great goals.

nice

Looks a world beater tonight!

One of his best ever perfomances. Just had one of those days where everything comes off. Deserved the hat trick.

Looks great against lesser opponents again. If only he could do this consistently against Prem teams and take the load off Eden.

Arguably played himself into the starting XI for the Barca game with his performance. 

Brutal:

“I said to him (Meyler): “You’re going to miss.” I said: “Don’t shoot in the middle because Willy won’t move, he stays,” and then when he missed I said: “I told you.”

^ Watch Karma show it's face Tuesday.

I think willian on his day can be a real handful. I just wish he would take on more defenders and shoot more just like against hull city and Brighton. The down side to him is he doesn’t score as much goals as he should 

his goals in the league are as follows 

2013-14 25app 4 goals 

2014-15 36app 2 goals 

2015-16 35app 5goals 

2016-17 34app 8goals 

2017-18 26app 4goals so far

 

 

Pretty poor numbers for an attacking midfielder. Yet I still feel he offers more to the side than Pedro.

How many goals does he have this season? Include CL, cups and league.

17 minutes ago, IliyaKrostin said:

How many goals does he have this season? Include CL, cups and league.

Ten goals and ten assists in all competitions so far this season. 

But, but, but, he only plays well against pub teams and lower-league dross

2 hours ago, yorkleyblue said:

But, but, but, he only plays well against pub teams and lower-league dross

Thanks for reminding us.

even though willian has gotten better as the season has progressed, i still don't think he's good enough for a team with our ambitions and status as a top european team. a player who was seen as not nearly good enough for us was kalou, and he had better production than willian, who i think have improved very little the 5 seasons he's been with us.

my opinion of willian is that i think he fools a lot of people. on a seasons average he will, in 4 out of 5 games, a) dribble the ball far away from oppos goal, b) lose the ball in dangerous areas (far away from oppositions goal) and c) get paralyzed and make the wrong decision when closing in on the opposing 18 yard box. in 1 out of 5 games, he will do the same, but pull it off. in that match, where everything he tries works, he will typically grab a couple of goals, maybe an assist or two as well. this makes his average production seem decent i suppose (maybe 2 goals and 2 assists during a 5 match period), and pundits and/or fans will think that he's turned a corner or that he should start permanently, but then he has his 3-4-5 matches where he does next to nothing once again.

i've attached a picture that in my opinion shows what i've been trying to write; four-five games on the spin where he does nothing, then maybe a game where he assists and/or scores 2-3 times. willian is decent i guess, but he wouldn't start in any of the top four-five teams in england, and shouldn't be for us either. if we could get the opportunity to sell him next summer, and replace him with someone younger, faster and more productive (i really like the look of leon bailey), i think we should do that. i don't think willian will improve to the level we need to compete for the biggest trophies, and the brazilian probably has a decent sell-on value.

7 minutes ago, opinionsarelike said:

even though willian has gotten better as the season has progressed, i still don't think he's good enough for a team with our ambitions and status as a top european team. a player who was seen as not nearly good enough for us was kalou, and he had better production than willian, who i think have improved very little the 5 seasons he's been with us.

my opinion of willian is that i think he fools a lot of people. on a seasons average he will, in 4 out of 5 games, a) dribble the ball far away from oppos goal, b) lose the ball in dangerous areas (far away from oppositions goal) and c) get paralyzed and make the wrong decision when closing in on the opposing 18 yard box. in 1 out of 5 games, he will do the same, but pull it off. in that match, where everything he tries works, he will typically grab a couple of goals, maybe an assist or two as well. this makes his average production seem decent i suppose (maybe 2 goals and 2 assists during a 5 match period), and pundits and/or fans will think that he's turned a corner or that he should start permanently, but then he has his 3-4-5 matches where he does next to nothing once again.

i've attached a picture that in my opinion shows what i've been trying to write; four-five games on the spin where he does nothing, then maybe a game where he assists and/or scores 2-3 times. willian is decent i guess, but he wouldn't start in any of the top four-five teams in england, and shouldn't be for us either. if we could get the opportunity to sell him next summer, and replace him with someone younger, faster and more productive (i really like the look of leon bailey), i think we should do that. i don't think willian will improve to the level we need to compete for the biggest trophies, and the brazilian probably has a decent sell-on value.

Just got to look at the games where he scores the goals, good squad player but Chelsea need another top class player to improve.