really? that is unwise, he had a blank checkbook and all the best players in the world at his disposal..why would he wanna give that up

wow. the lot of you who are going all out to criticise torres while complaining about back and sideways passes..

u do realise you're contradicting yourselves right? what do all strikers need? nevermind torres. even studge was anonymous apart from that fantastic appeal to the ref for a penalty which was given. answer : they all need GOOD SERVICE. how many times were our strikers put through on goal today? how many good crosses? u can't have one without the other. u lot can clearly see our forward passing was close to non-existent and then cry 'torres is rubbish' when nine out of ten times he has to try and create for someone else (which he did on a few good occasions) because our midfield is too rigid and slow to get the ball forward.

in the first half the best chances fell to florent bloody malouda who's SUPPOSED TO CREATE FOR OTHERS for heaven's sake. that says it all. where was he today? where was studge? where was meireles? some of u guys are beginning to let your need to 'bash' torres get in the way of your judgement and its becoming tiresome. the midfield is still the biggest problem and if u can't see that maybe u should start following another sport. i'd suggest bowling. its much slower paced and when things don't go your way, there always just ONE person to blame.


good to see there are still people here being sensible. i wonder with some posters here sometimes..why ask for mourinho to come back? he can't overcome guardiola to save his life. just go for the whole shebang and ask for pep instead. we'll start playing sexy football and win the quadruple in no time!

at least we didn't hear shebby singh comments.... but the way the lads play does not like the chelsea we known. Fast attacking seems like non existence in AVB playbook.

we din play like want to win a cup...so im not impress..

Definitely not a great performance. We're crying for creative players. It's really frustrated to see us dominating the possession but yet creating zero chances. I won't bash any players, but they definitely lack of teamwork there. Sturridge and Torres are anonymous thorough the match. I agree, Romeu is so much better in the holding role than Meireles. He free up the space for midfield.
Luiz showed his wonderful ball control ability again, would like to see where Cahill will play in.

need a real midfield talisman that will hold our team together.... looks like players of Lamps potential and quality only comes once in every 10-15 years?... it saddening to watch our team attacking play match after match post Lampsy era...

ramires injury looks pretty nasty. i think he gonna be out at least a couple of weeks. damn, our midfield department will be slow as hell. time to start with essien in midfield...

Bila nak masukkan Gary Cahill.

If we were leading 3-0, then surely AVB might sub him in. But since only 1-0, AVB opt not to take the risk of subbing out a defender.

agree. tactical discpline is very important.
this is not a football manager where u can afford to lose /draw (which will force another extra match) and then u can load the game back.

Iva played the best last night...

boring.. 1 goal and it was penalty..

the only way to play against united next week is = no penetration from midfield

before that midweek vs swansea

Club Signing - De Bruyne* Lukaku Courtois Cech
AVB Signing - Mata, Romeu and targeting William



Cech able to earn first team..so be optimistic about Lukaku and Courtois..and perhaps De Bruyne..

Satisfied with the result, happy for the revenge on QPR, but disappointed with the performance. With performance like this, i wonder how the lads are going to face man utd next week.. must at least win norwich this tuesday to boost their confidence..

Not so worried about Swansea and Man Utd game TBH, at least they will attack us.

We only have problem unlocking teams that " park the airplane " in front of the goal.

Park the airplane, I like that term
Yeah true, but I am worry about Ramires, normally he is the one who lead our counter attack.

FA Cup fifth round draw: Chelsea v Birmingham #facup

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Added on January 29, 2012, 11:53 pmLiverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion
Everton v Blackpool or Sheffield Wednesday
Chelsea v Birmingham City
Crawley Town v Stoke City
Stevenage v Tottenham Hotspur
Norwich City v Leicester City
Sunderland or Middlesbrough v Arsenal or Aston Villa
Millwall or Southampton v Bolton Wanderers

This post has been edited by bo0t: Jan 29 2012, 11:53 PM

dodged all the dangerous teams. *phew*

oh my...we're going to miss ramires. good thing essien is back, but he just doesn't have the pace anymore after those horrible injuries. are we going to see some even slower build up play after this...frightening thought but at least the bison gives us more steel in the middle? pretty sure he'll be pumped up for the utd clash

it's going to be very tough against united. The first time we played united this season, i thought we played very well, good attacking football, just that AVB just have to fine tune the defense. But now, we only could hope for a 'suprise' performance from chelsea.