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OH MY ******* GOD
lol nope
Nothing personal but I was cheering for Corinthians, I wanted the cup to come back to South America. Also, although I only watched the second half, I believe the better team won, they created their chances, took one of them, and it was pretty clear to me that Benitez didn't do his homework on Corinthians.
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ahahahaha
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Get a ******* striker in January, I can't stand him anymore. Any other player on the pitch would have scored that.
EDIT: Except for Cahill.
EDIT: Except for Cahill.
Torres contrived to muck up 3 chances. Sigh.
And no I am not blaming our loss on him solely but we could have won if we had a clinical striker on the pitch. tbh I though we were quite unlucky to concede like that anyways.
And no I am not blaming our loss on him solely but we could have won if we had a clinical striker on the pitch. tbh I though we were quite unlucky to concede like that anyways.
Great insight, good to have you in the thread...
We lost because we had no control over the game. Why did we have no control? Because they pressed us mercilessly from the first minute to the last. This is when having Torres upfront, Ramires and Lampard in the pivot, Brana at right back etc just doesn't work. Those are players that can just about manage a short passing game, but if you put pressure on them they crumble. It's no use having a row of 3 creators (who didn't have that great a game in possession either...) but if you can't link them to the others, it's pointless.
The backline also got pulled out of shape way too much. They mercilessly exploited our channels for pretty much every chance they got.
Honestly speaking though, while I understand that its very easy to blame Torres solely for every loss and its unfair too...I honestly think we can win games such as this if we have a clinical striker such as Falcao would have taken either one of those 3 chances that Torres ****** up.
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Well exactly.
No, I don't blame him for every loss, the team was poor today, but missing those chances, and especially that 8 yarder, is ridiculous.
I wouldn't say unlucky, it was a good move by Corinthians, and after the block your defence just stared at the ball, they made no effort whatsoever to challenge for it.
Looks as if i was correct for once.
Did you even think he had changed then?
It's quite obvious why you come on this thread so much and it is to cause arguments. It's obviously something you find sexual that gives you thrills, bless.
First real test we leave Mikel out and we lose the midfield battle, funny that? The main question is why leave him out, he cannot play for another 2 games for us so fitness is not an issue. Fully deserved Corinthians win, they stopped us playing excellently and we didn't have a plan B and that is where the manager earns his money but today he did not. Even if he has been out the game for 2 years it was obvious our plan A was not working so he had to change system but no, instead he made like for like subs.
Truth. Now we all know about Torres. But people seem to overlook the rest of the issues in the side.
4-2-3-1: Shape is the the single most important aspect. You must have the box (CMs and CBs), and ideally the triangle (CMs and AMC). Chelsea seriously lacked this under Di matteo (And thus got opened up by pretty much every single decent team they met.)
Rafa talked about balance when he came and he must stick with it, regardless of whether the Chelsea boo boys think its boring.
Also whoever made the decision to loan out Essien needs a slap.
Shape means **** all when you pick the wrong players to play it surely?