Official Chelsea Thread II

[cubfan23]

I'm just glad Torres keeps scoring.

[Pete Dahh Sneak]

Really discouraged Luiz's passing has gone to **** for the last 8 months or so. The first 11 months he was here he looked like he could play as a deep lying playmaker he was so accurate and now it's just... turnover after turnover.

[cubfan23]

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/blog/_/.../id/47?cc=5901

haha I loved this article, I thought it was really funny!

[Pete Dahh Sneak]

Eden Hazard scored his first Chelsea goal from the penalty spot against Newcastle, but it was outside the box that the 21-year-old did some of his most important work...

Hazard completed only two successful dribbles at the weekend, three less than against Wigan last week, and four less than Newcastle's Hatem Ben Arfa, who impressed his manager Alan Pardew with a strong performance.

Instead Hazard showed variety in his play, and was impressive in passing combinations, and he and Fernando Torres linked up successfully on11 occasions, including for the Spaniard's goal.

Hazard actually found a team-mate 21 times from 25 attempts in the final third.

Torres scored with his only attempted shot.

The centre-forward's link-up play was noted by Di Matteo after the game, and Petr Cech found him on eight occasions with long balls into the Newcastle half.

Cech was busy with the ball at his feet, Chelsea making 20 backpasses compared to Newcastle's seven. This shows we were in no rush, comfy and content with a two-goal lead and happy to keep possession while in control of a game that was our third in six days.

Branislav Ivanovic to Juan Mata was our most frequent pass, completed 12 times. This highlights Mata's constant ability to make himself available for passes, and his tendency to play on the right-hand side of the pitch more than usual when combined with Hazard and Bertrand in midfield.

John Mikel Obi completed 60 of 63 passes he attempted, a 95 per cent success rate. The defensive midfielder also made five successful clearances.

http://www.chelseafc.com/news-articl...ea-v-newcastle

[Pete Dahh Sneak]

Little Hazard, Kakuta and Chalobah have gone out on loan. Benayoun should follow suit some time soon.

[Pete Dahh Sneak]

0/1... 5 trophies left

[cubfan23]

damn they got embarrassed tonight

[Pete Dahh Sneak]

Looks like Meireles is on his way to Turkey.

[cubfan23]

why? I know we brought in some midfielders but do we have enough Cm's? I liked him and with us losing Essien, I'm not the biggest fan of this move.

[cubfan23]

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...rbahce?cc=5901

official, Meireles is gone to Fenerbache.

[TO Rapz]

Hate losing Meireles so much..

[Pete Dahh Sneak]

Why? He was butt more times than not.

[TO Rapz]

I really liked him in the holding role..and he's a strong tackler. He wasn't playing his best football, but as a player in general I really like Mereiles more then others do I guess.

[cubfan23]

Torres scored again, but from what i noticed the last 25mins the only part of the game I saw it was too congested in the middle, he'd try and make runs but other players would be in his area or make the runs before him so I don't know what was going on there. good win though for the boys

[NJ Raven]

I guess tweeting about the FA is worse than intentionally elbowing players.