nateevs: I cannot wait for when this boy Hazard finally settles in. Immense talent.

nateevs: Finally, someone else believes David Luiz should be played in mid-field. Let's see how it turns out.

Yeah am Always of the Idea Bruv.

Commentators were getting even more excited, drawing comparisons to Xabi Alonso and Yaya Toure, two veterans of the role, and although it may too early to say that, the core abilities are there for all to see. With the midfield role, you give the opportunity for the player to create attacks, and with our attacking quartet of Hazard, Mata, Oscar, and Torres, a quick ball, and you could easily stretch a team into a 4v4 or 4v5 situation, and with them four playing at their prime, you’d back them against anyone.

Luiz could well play the 'Yaya Toure' role at the Bridge. We saw flashes of brilliance against Monterrey, one particularly great 40 yard through ball to Hazard nearly bringing the opening goal, while several times we saw him beat one or two players in the middle, via a one-two, or sheer skill, putting Chelsea in great positions. He has the defensive nous to back that up aswell, of course being primarily a central-defender, gives him an advantage there. Of course, should he try something that doesn’t come off, he has one of the best back fours in England behind him to help out, whilst normally he would’ve just put Cech into shot-stopping practice.

Luiz certainly isn’t the type to crawl into his shell after making a mistake too, brushing himself down, and trying it again a minute later, is how he deals with things.

The move may well reap rewards off the pitch for Rafa as well. A Chelsea crowd who are notoriously hard to please, have been calling for this move for a while now, so should Benitez listen to them, he may well start to turn the crowd into ‘content’ mode rather than ‘disorderly’ Not forgetting Oriel Romeu’s injury, Roman Abramovich may well also be content he doesn’t have to reach for another midfielder [Paulinho], although no doubt he could conjure up a spare £20m by searching down the back of one of his unicorn skinned sofas that he owns.

Ibime: What wont we hear from these troglodytes.

"We spent two years telling you Torres is an extremely limited player who only thrive on vertical passes"

Clap for yourself. Exactly why that guy is rubbish.

Although he wasn't so limited last year, they were busy telling us he's a better SHAPE KEEPER.

BTW, what happens in the tight matches where the opposition sit in their half giving you no space for "vertical passes"

Please get me striker than take short passes, long passes, passes in behind, in the air, that can control the ball with his back to defenders, and that can outmuscle niggas to score. Not these vertical niggas that these emotional guys who love the peroxide blond weakling more than their club are yarning shyte about.

So far as one is concerned, Nordsjaelland and Sunderland are as open as Ireland. It's the same way the weakling took golden boot without contributing anything substantial to Spain at Euros. He'll soon be flopping again when there's no space to play and these emotional ninjas will abandon him again, only to resurface when he scores hattrick against Blackpool or some other open side in FA Cup.

OMO IBO: im sorry, im not convinced.
ninja, like ibime would say had the ball all to himself in the box but chose to play kpakpangolo till a defender took the ball off him.

he'd have to try again. . . .this time, against a decent team.

goodluck torres!

Ibime: I was hoping the weakling had done his ACL when he went down in the second half.