Fab oh fab.

What is wrong with this team? They are just giving their fans false hopes lately.

I'm just seeing the first half highlight and southampton missed some good chances while chelsea can't even create any chance for themselves. Smh

Mancity lost 6points and these boys are supposed to be in this pitch brimming with confidence. They already know the massive opportunity they have to seal the title very early. Smh

Mourinho comot Fabregas

ElFenomeno1:



I agree with Oscar.
He doesn't have any business in this Chelsea team.

Lee Dixon is finishing Oscar in commentary.

Top 5 Under-23 player in the world, need I remind y'all. Brazilian hype.

nateevs:
Matic needs to be careful.

so it's matic's fault?
didn't you see ivanovic aiding southampton attack? without that cynical foul, it would have been 2-1.

Better.

Ball bouncing off Oscars foot like Trampoline. Touch of a ràpist.

nateevs:
There is no excuse jare. Did we have a single shot on goal in the first half? You cannot play against 10 men and be that lethargic. I thought you guys were saying Cuadrado was some massive talent? JM considered even Oscar to play ahead of him even when folks like me will tell you Oscar was not meant for the game.

But as always, JM is only thinking about the defensive side of the game. Pray to score one and get defensive. Rubbish tactics. Seasoned manger like JM cannot coach decent attacking football.

I get where you're coming from, especially after his ultra conservative tactics flopped during the week - with Zouma. He should have kept his mouth shut, and focus on this game, without the loose talks. And I also agree with you that he needs to ease some of the youngsters into the first team. However, that's his personality, and it comes with the territory. Love him, or loathe him - he has overachieved within a short span - with a culture and system he personally created. Evidently, he has a right to talk the way he does. Unlike a Guardiola who was gifted a system/structure to operate in. And he's in the Mount Rushmore of the greatest football coaches ever.

Furthermore, most of the greats/geniuses who excelled exceedingly in sports were/are also like that. It comes with having a chip on ya shoulder. Being able to talk big and back it up. Michael Jordan was like that - and he hasn't even changed, long after he retired - his hall of fame speech a few years ago adds credence to that. Muhammed Ali was like that. Floyd Mayweather is the same. When Tiger Woods was blowing people away in golf, he was like that. Kobe Bryant used to run around like that, hence nobody wanted to play with him. When Roger Federer was smacking everyone during a weak tennis era, he was like that. Ditto Serena Williams before the new PR campaign. Etc. Once you can back-up the big talks, no one can question what you have to say apart from haters.

I think most of us Chelsea fans don't really understand the greatness Mourinho brought to the club. Especially the structure/system, winning culture, and mentality. Even after he left - Avram Grant, Ancelloti, and Di Matteo left the struture/system intact, with the nucleus of Mourinho's players (the ones he influenced into greatness) - albeit with tweaks on the peripheral. Hence they were able achieve something. We all saw what happened to Scolari when he tried to create his own. Mourinho is Chelsea and Chelsea is Mourinho - and we just need to respect the guy despite his imperfections and overbearing attitude sometimes. The same media folks trying to critique him now were the ones begging him to return to the EPL when he was away. Big Mou is the greatest, even if he never wins anything again. We Chelsea lifers adore him - you need to hit CIF to see how old Chelsea fans in their 50s, 60s, and 70s worship him. And these are folks who have supported Chelsea for decades with loads of stories to tell - with permanent seats at Stanford Bridge lol. Some of them are expats now, but every time they're in the country, it's always a ritual to visit the stadium.

Darn! Never knew a thread like one with regular updates was in here. Back to FP news - bad news like Michael Vick's VA.

coogar:


so it's matic's fault?
didn't you see ivanovic aiding southampton attack? without that cynical foul, it would have been 2-1.

Of course it was Ivanovic's madness. I was just stating the fact that he is on a yellow and I would rather have the scores 2-1 with 11 men. If we go down one man in this game, we are done.

Yep. I can see that spark in our play. Intense.

nateevs:


Of course it was Ivanovic's madness. I was just stating the fact that he is on a yellow and I would rather have the scores 2-1 with 11 men. If we go down one man in this game, we are done.

dean first reached for his pocket and then thought about it & ignored booking him. he's in the last chance saloon......hopefully, ramires would help matic out.

Costa na mumu sef. Why not give the ball to hazard?

Boy. Tadic wickid.

tadic just cleaned out all chelsea defenders - he should have shot straight on target!

coogar:
tadic just cleaned out all chelsea defenders - he should have shot straight on target!

That was genius.

Mane MOTM.

Hazard. What. ?

useless brazilians

Oscar. Is he a Brazilian ?

Oscar. . . WTF?

Oscar don suffer

Oscar should not stay beyond this season.

coogar:


ivanovic is the problem.
he's a gift & a curse. he provides an attacking outlet but the holes he leaves behind is a big problem to the defence.

southampton have given up even trying azpili's zone of the pitch - it's the ivanovic zone they are trying to exploit time and time again.

chelsea need a good RB....ivanovic should return back to his CB position. mourinho also needs an extra DM. matic cannot marshal that midfield alone. cesc should be in the hole - oscar should be sold to west brom!

well spoken

Oscar = New Mikel Obi
Fab is too slow and cant make tackles
Ramirez is a headless cow

Move Fab up midfield, sell oscar, Ramirez gets benched

Smh

Oscar, get off the pitch you wasteman.

Better than Sterling they said. Jokers!

Cuadrado for willian

So JM does not play Remy for 90% of the season. He needs a goal now and hopes Remy will get one?

i cannot understand how some players lack a first touch. a decent touch from mane there and he would have scored!

What, no more shoulder to shoulder? Na tehn teh we dey play?

WTF is Cuadrado playing?

Those old hit and run style of dribbling died out with SWP.

Lol @ Juan C.