Carling Cup Quarter Final: November 29, 2011 - Chelsea FC v. Liverpool FC [R]

One thing I remember from Essien though was that at his top he could offer s threat from passing and from range. He could stamp his game even when we in possession. Ramires for me is an excellent piece of a counterattacking team. If we had 2 forwards an mid of his speed you see him trully shine. In this slow buildup he just doesn't function the same.

 

This team is even more decidedly average without Mata and Sturridge. Some of those players out there tonight should be ashamed of themselves.

 

I don't like the idea of buying ANOTHER striker in January.

Either Torres mans up, or play Sturridge as a lone striker and just buy players that support him.

 

cant say i have seen enough of him, but i would guess its going to take more than Farfan to get us out of our hole. We need a CF and a RW. Someone that can get 20 goals a season

 

Yep. Positioning players forward, doesn't make us more attacking. Its the movement while we are in possession of the ball and the last movements in the final third that puts the opposition defense on their heels You can have synchronized movements in attack that can also can also catch teams by surprise. When have you ever seen our fullbacks consistently run onto a pass from a winger and hit a cross in? Its a rare occurrence. Instead the players a pushed far forward and bunched in a tight space, The movements far more predictable and unless their is a key advantage in skill or speed the players rarely win out on the 1 v 1 battles, more often than not losing the ball, and find themselves rushing back like mad men as the opposition plays two or three quick passes to get into threatening positions. Simply because there is so much SPACE in our defensive third with all of those players gone forward.

 

This times ∞

 

Well we've got 3 of those players already. . Honestly, I think that Sturridge is on course of 20 this season. If Farfan comes in and is pushed as a RW, Sturridge central, and Mata on the left I think we'd function much. Unless Chelsea is going to panic and spend 40+ million on Hulk or Neymar and hope that they take off running, I'm afraid we may end up with another Torres problem.

 

That's thanks to Clarke. What pisses me off more is that Liverpool wont even be in the top 6 come the end of the season. They are a team that shows up against the bigger teams, then lays down against the rest of the league.

Well if we want to save the season, we must. DD aint doing the job, not is Torres.

And Sturridge wont work as a lone striker. And even if it did, you would still have to fill the hole of the RW/RF position.

 

I agree. And as much as I hate losing, I would be ok with that if AVB is given time and the money to buy the players he wants, because in the end it will be worth it.

 

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Josh McEachran has just hobbled past with his foot in a Becker-like boot-cast #CFC

 

kid can't catch a break...or maybe he did?

 

Poor lad.

I wonder if Atletico will take Torres + Cash for Falcao. He just is not looking any better , and I hate to jump on a bandwagon on a underperforming CFC player (apart from Bosingwa and Kalou) but Torres is just not there at the moment.

 

AVB's post game comments:

 

Agreed. The players AVB has specifically brought in himself , Mata and Oriol , are turning out to be great buys. Mata is probably our best player , and Oriol is developing really well . A couple more like this and we might get something going.

 

It was bound to happen , you're right. We went all those years without adding to the squad. At some point we had to rebuild with the aging squad we have. And I would guess Roman sees this now and its why AVB was hired.
Sometimes you have to tear things down and build it up again.