Bimfo:

Dunce, He is having 'Fitness Issues'.. or dont you know what is called that??

dawhizkid1: By the way, Felipe Luis is one awesome player. He offers so much offensively and he is still solid in defense. I'm not sure I saw a player beat him yesterday. Azpilicueta might use some bench time, no because he isn't solid, but I just think Luis offers so much more on that left hand side than him and Ivanovic is currently beasting on that right side.

Jose Mourinho may not have enforced a major shift in his tactical style this season, but the signings he has made have enabled the team to play in the manner he has desired since returning to the club. Last season Chelsea simply didn't score enough goals, compared to their title rivals at least, but they have hit the ground running this time around. The main change that has allowed for top scorer Diego Costa to steal the headlines thus far has been the speed and incisiveness with which they move the ball in the final third.

Fabregas was the missing piece in Mourinho's puzzle last season. The Spaniard has six assists in just four games, which is just one shy of Eden Hazard's team-leading tally in the entire 2013/14 campaign. The Blues' pass accuracy in the final third has risen from 71.2% to 79.9% and they are creating more clear-cut chances. [size=18pt]Last season Chelsea created 49 clear-cut chances - as defined by Opta. That was level with Newcastle and just one ahead of bottom club Fulham.[/size] This season they've created ten already, which is second in the league to Arsenal. The Blues' at times toothless attack already seems a thing of the past.

Nihilist: I'm loathe to beat a dead horse, but like I said earlier, Chelsea's supporting cast last season is not the same as this year's.

The impact of Fabregas has been profound....The service Costa is getting is nothing like what Torres got last year.

Nihilist: I'm loathe to beat a dead horse, but like I said earlier, Chelsea's supporting cast last season is not the same as this year's.

The impact of Fabregas has been profound....The service Costa is getting is nothing like what Torres got last year.

coogar:
hahahahahaha
that's a wicked blow for the anti-torres crew. i told them cesc has created 16 key passes already, with only 4 league games. i am sure it's a premier league record.
cesc is the magician here......
costa without cesc would have had the same pathetic creators of last season that had the same numbers as newcastle & only one more than fulham that got relegated.

AirborneLacer: Snapping up Cesc wouldn't have had Nando scoring. The chances would be created and the impotent dud would still play out his profligacy on HD.

Ibime: YAWN!

I wonder why Arsenal strikers ain't topping the charts since they create most chances. Shït striker is shít striker.

Snapping up Cesc wouldn't have had Nando scoring. The chances would be created and the impotent dud would still play out his profligacy on HD.

coogar:

and yet he has 2 golden boots from international tournaments while playing with brilliant midfielders.

admit it, chelsea have paraded wack midfielders until cesc arrived - this is why you only have one league title in 8 seasons. should we blame torres for your barrenness in the league too?

torres is dud!
sheva is dud!
kezman is dud!
demba ba is dud!
pizarro is dud!
crespo is dud!
even drogba wasn't prolific throughout - there were several seasons drogba was outscored by lampard

and yet we should blame torres?

AirborneLacer:

Where's Costa on that list?

Nihilist: Airbornelacer,

Like I said before, I'm not excusing Torres at all, but at the same time, surely it is obvious that the midfield last season share some of the blame?

Suarez scored 31 league goals last season, yet for all his goal scoring heroics, Luis only had 44.7% shot accuracy and a conversion rate of only 17.1%

This tells you that the chances of scoring are low anyway, and the midfield must constantly create chances.

I remember nateevs bemoaning our over reliance on Hazard last season....Now Fab has come to relieve him of playmaker duties, and it's freed up the attack a lot more mehn...

raumdeuter:

in 2012/2013 season. Torres was the sole striker for over half the season

Mata topped the league with 12 assists, followed by Hazard with 11 assists

With these 23 assists between them,

Torres the main striker, played 36 league games total over 2500 minutes on the field and scored 8 freaking goals!!!!!!!!

Nigga I cant divide

Nihilist:

If 17.1% of all his shots = 31 goals, how many chances did Luis Suarez squander?

Be there forming Jay-Z....

Nihilist:
If 17.1% of all his shots = 31 goals, how many chances did Luis Suarez squander?

Be there forming Jay-Z....

raumdeuter:
Key question was his midfielders topped the assist charts which means they were very creative.
How did Torres end with a measly 8 goals playing behind such creative players

coogar:

dayo is an illiterate.....
all they see is suarez scoring 31 league goals, they are too lazy-minded to check the underlying factors. suarez copped 182 shots last season - 70 more shots than the nearest striker to him....this same suarez was suspended in his first 5 league games...

i wonder how many goals i would score if i had people creating chances for me to take 182 shots at my opponent's goal. how won't suarez score 31 goals? he's not even clinical enough. he should be scoring 50 league goals with that amount of shots he had.

raumdeuter: The 23 assists that Mata and Hazard created among them was from falling in the box fr penalties.

How many penalties did Chelsea score in 2012/2013

coogar:

and yet he has 2 golden boots from international tournaments while playing with brilliant midfielders.

xp17: golden boots in what game?

a group where you have Italy, Croatia and rep of Ireland, you scored 2 goals against Ireland ,which is the most susceptible team in the group.

or the goal he scored against Italy in the final? when italy where 2 goals down and one man down (tiango moral was injured when Italy already made her final changes)
even Juan Mata that played less than 11mins was able to get a ball behind the net.

confederation cup.
is it the 4goals he scored against Tahiti?
when even an half bake striker like Nnamdi oduamadi was able to get an each hatrick against or an average Uruguay Abel Hernandez was able to even tores' goals

with all the chances tores got against Tahiti, he could conveniently score more than 10 goals. I can still recall, he missed more than 5 one on one in that match.
or is it the goal he scored against Nigeria? when we were already a goal down from Jodi alba.

golden boots my a'ss!

coogar:

who assisted mata to get that goal?
then again, the issue of the quality of teams torres scored against or whatever is a weak excuse. there was ronaldo, rooney, mario gomez, mandzukic, muller, etc in that tournament - how come they couldn't score more than torres?
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xp17: let me remove the fat boy, Rooney from that list and talk about real strikers, although he managed to score a goal against Ukraine

ronaldo:

he played against Croatia, Netherland and Germany . you don't expect too much from a striker in that group, all credits would rather go to the defence. better defence always wins big matches. Ronaldo was still able to get 2 goals behind the net against the Dutch side, against all odds and one against cech rep, which makes him even with tores.


Gomez:
even in a group of death, he still scored same as tores . like CR7, he scored 2 goals against the Dutch side and one against the Portuguese. isn't that okay for a decent striker?

Muller: he is a world cup materia

Nihilist: Airbornelacer,

Like I said before, I'm not excusing Torres at all, but at the same time, surely it is obvious that the midfield last season share some of the blame?

Suarez scored 31 league goals last season, yet for all his goal scoring heroics, Luis only had 44.7% shot accuracy and a conversion rate of only 17.1%

This tells you that the chances of scoring are low anyway, and the midfield must constantly create chances.

I remember nateevs bemoaning our over reliance on Hazard last season....Now Fab has come to relieve him of playmaker duties, and it's freed up the attack a lot more mehn...