im with u on this bro.

btw, watching makelele's video makes me shiver. tirelessly run here and there to close in.
we really need a good DM.

lets say if we're in the january market. who would you pick? first 11 type of player, and to give competition to mikel

Overall I think we lacked commitment for the total duration of 90 mins, vs juve. Our goals were down to individual brilliance from Oscar, nothing else. I’m quite annoyed with the lack of pressing from us, especially after watching real and city go head to head, with both teams pressuring each other like crazy in both halves of the pitch. When we tried to close down juve’s players I feel we did it somewhat half heartedly, oft-times it was them who managed to pressure us into an aimless clearance from our back four and cech. Admittedly, it doesn’t take much effort for them to do so.

Mikel was very poor with his distribution and that final giveaway was punished instantly by juve. Lampsy made a carbon copy mistake closer to goal earlier, but wasn’t capitalized on by marchisio. However I think terry was too hasty in trying to play the offside trap and our midfield was also in dreamland prior to the killer pass for their striker. Ashley did well, but iva couldn’t support that right flank. I think rami strayed more to the middle this time, but again when he’s out on the right he looks lost. Vidal’s goal shouldn’t have went in, he was hobbling for God’s sake. This highlights the lack of commitment I mentioned earlier.

RDM didn’t help our cause by bringing in Bertrand at the 70th minute mark. Made no sense to me at all that one, trying to defend for 20 mins against the best side in serie A. Last but not least I was disappointed with nando. Although there wasn’t much service, I wasn’t impressed with how he didn’t really hassle their defenders and just be a general nuisance in their penalty box. He wasn’t really fighting for the ball, compared to late last season when he closed down opposition players into hurried clearances / mistakes, etc. Could use some work on his positioning as well, although he was open when mata got through and shot into the side netting. Clearly needs to show more aggressiveness in his game. If studge was fit, I’m pretty sure he would’ve been given a go.

wanna ask chelsea fans....

which one more important.... league cup or premier league?