Dost42:

First blame should be laporte, the same kind of clearance he did against swiss he repeated the same thing .but i will slightly agree ibime.a faster dm will sense the danger and run back, after all the ball dropped for chiesa,.replace busquets with casemiro there and he will surely unsettle that chiesa's run

popizaino:


Yes .....that is the same match I am talking about. The line up had no Sergio Busquet.

raumdeuter:


As a keeper, what do they tell you guys before penalties?

I think waiting and following the ball is more effective than gambling to dive to one side
I saw Martinez follow all the penalties yesterday and caught 3

Ibime:


Go and check the line up again, then come back and claim your L

popizaino:





I came back with L but this time around to place it on your neck

Trevor012:
When Ibime was loving Jorginho

Ibime:


Indeed. Then I realised he can only do this against Newcastle and Crystal Palace.

From 186 passes against Newcastle in 90 minutes to 29 passes against Spain in 120 minutes.

If it no be real regista, e no fit be regista

Trevor012:

How many possession did Italy have yesterday through out the entire match?

Ibime:



When a virus is in my team that I know my team will never be consistent with such a player, I will continue to expound on his weaknesses.

You never see anything. Go and ask people here about my issue with Mikel in 2012.

Mikel just like Jorginho could control possession against small teams. Mikel like Jorginho could park the bus very well and was one of our best players in 2012 UCL within that system. Yet I kept highlighting his weakness which is the exact same weakness as Jorginho, that is the minute you demand Mikel to play attacking football against any decent side, Mikel will turn your midfield into basket and start escorting everyone from 20 yards further up the pitch.

Most of the guys who were arguing for Mikel then saw it the next season and now most of those same guys are anti any escort midfielder in Chelsea.

The next season, that's how Mikel knocked Chelsea out of UCL group stage and once again was leading Chelsea to the inconsistency of struggling to make 4.

The rest is history as everyone found out Mikel cannot anchor an attacking team and became a perennial substitute before being dashed away to China.

Jorginho will play out exactly the same way when he is asked to anchor an attacking team. You should be worried about a midfielder that can't stand up to West Ham, Leicester, Villa midfield for Chelsea and gets run ragged whenever he faces these sort of teams. That is when a good controller will have these teams parking the bus, such should be his dominance of the football.


Don't worry about Hojberg who Spurs fans consider their 3rd best player behind Son and Kane and voted as such. Worry about Jorginho who cannot make top 7 Chelsea players in any of the 3 seasons he has been at Chelsea

Ibime:



You must be joking.

Check the line up


https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/match/2009609--bayern-vs-barcelona/lineups/?iv=true


If you are talking about the second leg which was 3-0, why should Barca players struggle when Busquet has already sold the first game 4-0

Ibime:


No goal is down to any single player unless he passes it directly to opposition to score. There is no goal you will score that someone won't say this and this player could have done better. But the fact is when you have an escort midfielder, you will be constantly blaming everyone when he could have stopped the problem at source. Like you said, Chiesa goal does not exist if Busquets simply runs back step for step.

Kilishihunter:

To win every tournament hard na, and you have to do it against the best so no be new thing but the way some of una dey talk like say Brazil go just enter field beat them like thief, This Brazil that play cautiously like England, 1-0 up then they lock shop, looking to hit you on the counter except you're express, Brazil are unbeaten in 13 games while Argentina are unbeaten in 19 games, In the last 9 games when argentina took the lead first, they didn't lose and they topped the tougher Copa group and they are almost similar to Spain in which they convert a minimal amount of the chances they create, Well Brazil are still favourites I won't deny, but make una no think say na walk in the park, Fans no even dey sef, Forget my shalaye

raumdeuter:


As a keeper, what do they tell you guys before penalties?

I think waiting and following the ball is more effective than gambling to dive to one side
I saw Martinez follow all the penalties yesterday and caught 3

popizaino:



The scoreline must been an oversight from but I was specific about the venue of the match nou camp .

Your bolded as no basis or whatsoever cus In 2009 Barcelona defeated Bayern Munich 4-0 at the nou camp and Bayern held them to a draw at the Allianz arena. So now give us another excuse why the scoreline was 3-0 without Busquet?

Trevor012:

Truly Chielsa is better than Havertz

popizaino:



Why didnt Lampard stop iniesta's goal in 2009 despite playing a man advantage? Could he be that he was also escorting ?

MorataFC:
Can u catch a bullet?
You need to move before the ball is kicked to have a better percentage of catching the ball, that is why some players prefer panenka knowing fully well that keepers would have dive to either side of the post before d ball is kick.
Martinez was just lucky to guess right, in 2012 UCL final Petr Cech went for all the 6 penalties also.

Expert17:


The GK coach will inform us where their usual penalty takers usually put their spot kicks. (Kane: plays to the left, Ramos: Center or left etc)
Make yourself BIG.
Watch the kickers standing feet.
For players that run and pause/stuttering (e.g Jorginho and Bruno), you wait for them to play before diving.
Eye contact is very important; timid players like Morata and Martial will give you a clue.

prefer picking a spot than waiting and following the ball.

popizaino:



The same way you called out mikel was the same you called out Drogba preferring Anelka to him but we all saw know drogba served you big L and mikel did the same you just don't want to accept. Getting knocked out of the UCL in group stage in 2013 was anomaly and it has nothing to do with mikel,Chelsea without Drogba was always going to be a setback for a while before the club gets her acts together.

odizeey:


If they win o. That is their own. They should just not lose. The trolling will be massive. Because they've been carrying agenda up and down.

No soft landing.

odizeey:


I like how Messi fans are making mouth now. Everywhere na noise.

The landing no go soft at all.

popizaino:



Dont let us go and be digging casemiro's erroneous moment for us to agree that the goal yesterday had nothing to do with Busquet.

Ibime:


Mikel career after that final, getting benched for Luiz to play midfield so that Chelsea midfield can stabilise a bit says otherwise. Mikel from that point was a bench warmer. Benitez even dropped him fully for Oriol Romeu, just that Romeu suffered a cruciate injury. After that injury, Benitez moved Luiz to midfield rather than play the snail Mikel. And few months later his handcuff to the bench was completed when Chelsea bought Matic. Mikel only took 5 months to disgrace himself after that UCL final and spent the next 4 years on the bench before being sent to China. Even when Conte came, Conte still used Chalobah as first sub instead of the escort.

Dost42:

Everyone has lapses..but but everything is not agenda.
We have seen kante or Fernandinho block opponents from running into channels.

popizaino:



When you arguing with me about Chelsea keep away points like the bolded ......I have seen Rafa starting moses whilst keeping hazard on the bench so benching mikel means nothing. Your Romeu and chalobah are both languishing in bottom clubs while chasing Mikel's career achievements.

Actman05:
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