Say what you will about Baba but first clean sheet in a long time and Ivanovic was not in the lineup....
http://www.90min.com/posts/2658022-real-madrid-determined-to-land-chelsea-s-eden-hazard Mostly this (coupled with the fact that he wasn't in the starting XI on Saturday). Seems the move wouldn't be until next summer in any event, but damn, I would not be happy with that.
His dad had pretty glowing remarks about Mou only two weeks ago and he also signed a new deal this summer. Could be some fire here but whoever wants him would have to pay out the ass to get him.
Hazard is having a rough patch. Madrid need a summer marquee signing. Hazard is benched for one game. Rumor writes itself Signed him to a new contract this summer so I would expect he's worth a MINIMUM of £125m to us. Much more likely he plays one of the next few games, has a good game soon, gets back to being hazard and everyone credits mourinho with lightning a fire under his ass
Is this game on tv? I am not seeing is on fox sports Florida or FS1 or FS2 EDIT: I found it on FS2 but not until Thursday morning. I guess I will have to go with Twitter and highlights
I have been using reddit to find solid HD streams of almost every game I've wanted, but it's blocked at work. Can anyone do the digging? https://www.reddit.com/r/soccerstreams/ should have it.
Zouma at RB, Ramires/matic pivot with cesc at #10 and Willian/hazard at wing Interesting that RLC is not even on the bench and he went with mikel instead
I've been posting the tv schedule for all the CL matches in the CL thread. You aren't on tv today. Best bet is streaming or checking out FS+ and hope to catch some on the Multimatch90
Thanks for Cech Think I'd rather have Hazard but definitely not the current version, he's been ran into the ground.
That was glorious... Hammers would be running away with the league, if they replicated their form versus the top clubs against the bottom of the table
Who else? Rahman looked awful when he played We didn't improve our team at all in the offseason but we downgraded BADLY at backup fullback and striker (drogba is better than falcao and remy) and begovic has played well but he is not as good as cech Added Pedro does next to nothing because Willian and hazard are still our best wingers and we need one of Oscar/cesc to make plays. Preferably Oscar Mourinho's decision to build to team around Oscar as a #10 is looking flawed but the player personnel decisions made this summer left us without a backup plan at almost every position on the field
I used to think you guys were geniuses by somehow turning a profit on big name players you barely used but now that has gone the other way. How a team can spend so much money on players in their primes only to then loan and/or sell them before giving them a proper chance to prove themselves is mind boggling. De Bruyne, Cuadrado, Salah, etc. Craziness.
Also mourinho should just go to press conferences and answer every question with "I cannot answer without possibly violating FA rules" instead of making the same complaints over and over again. Would honesty be better received at this point
are we going to act like Cuadrado or Salah ever had a good performance in a Chelsea shirt? De Bruyne started the first match of the second Mourinho era but something happened after he played rather poorly in that match and I'm not sure what it was. Didn't seem like he thought he should have to work for a place in the team.
Cuadrado was terrible and had ample time to show something positive last year. Salah never played much, honestly not sure why we bought him. Who knows what happened with De Bruyne and Mourinho.
Are you really arguing that a couple months and a handful of appearances is ample time to settle into the premier League? LMBO
I thank yall for Mohamed Salah. He is basically what people dreamed Gervinho to be and the 2 of them together are so fast that they as basically unstoppable.
I'm not upset about getting rid of Cuadrado or Salah. You can interpret that however you want. Felipe Luis was the biggest error IMO.
I don't think that was directed at you. The post after yours said Cuadrado had ample time to show something
Performances are improving incrementally but the results are the same. Good lord do we need to sign at least one, maybe 2 full backs in January, another midfielder, and a proper back-up striker. At least it was the League Cup.... Also, Cesc shouldn't see the pitch again until the ship is righted. Bego Dave - Terry - Cahill/Zouma - Baba (i guess) Matic/Mikel - Ramires - Oscar/Cesc Willy - Diego - Hazard
Today? (Ramires and Mikel w/ Oscar at the 10). Most of last season was Cesc and Matic in the pivot w/ Oscar as a 10.
I've always been under the impression that the pivot is the 2 deep lying midfielders in a 4-2-3-1...could be mistaken though.