timbros: What do you mean by the bolded? E be like say you dey forget say Mata miss him own PK for shootout. If not for Lampard, Luiz, Cole, Drogba who had balls of steel, Mata's corner kick would have meant nothing.
Who still remembers Muller goal? Because they lost.
Ibime: Mata didn't body nothing. I always hated Mata, he was a tactical liability that have Chelsea midfield overrun in any mid to big game. I advocated vociferously for his selling, while Chelsea fans thought we were giving Manure a steal, I argued he would weaken them massively, and I was right as fúck. You can ask Nihilistjnr and Nateevs how we argued it in those days.
Two players whose stats will never impress me are Mata and Ozil, their stats come at great expense that render their teams completely uncompetitive in midfield. That's why Mata was hauled off for Kalou often in our UCL run.
This was Mata contribution from our comeback win against Napoli till the end, only floating one corner and causing massive overload on his wing
If you don’t rate players, you turn blind to every good thing about them.
Ibime: A Mata that made Chelsea midfield weak. Ozil-lite
Tell me you no know ball without telling me you no know ball. Lampard was 34 at that time. While Mata was taking Chelsea toward Europa League with his useless statpadding GA, Lampard had to return from injury to shoot Chelsea into TOP 4 by scoring in a run of games from double pivot to save Chelsea season. Below is how 34 year old Lampard came back from injury to save Chelsea season from the double pivot while 12 year old femboy Mata was statpadding in Europa league against Belarusian farmers like Torres. Receive sense.
Mata’s first season for Chelsea had him hit 32G/A with Chelsea winning their first UCL.
Ibime: Everybody wey dey cuss Gallagher go swallow their words before the next 5 years, especi6if he leaves Chelsea. They absolutely do not know the profile of the player, expecting a Modric from a Steven Gerrard
He’s going nowhere. We watched that guy play for Crystal Palace, mis-profiled him and now blaming him. He’s good.
Ibime: A40 once said this about Dele Alli, we know how that ended
Lampard always had a superb shot and first time assist vision from his debut that Mount may never have. The difference is he played CM in a 4-4-2 at West Ham. Back then 4-4-2 midfielders hardly go into the box
You hardly fail to use this point to control damage. Even in that 4-4-2, he was free, very very free. We’ve seen stats that confirmed that Mount produced better G/A at 23, and should I talk about UCL win?
I rate Lampard, but anyone trying to discredit Mount just to hype Lampard that couldn’t hit what Mount hit both in National and club level is inviting Lampard dragging and I’ll gladly do that.
Me no dey for nostalgia bias stuff. Lampard that got dusted and retired by a fragile escort like Mata?
Nateevs2: Don't mind them. Shey na Havertz for £70m be value for money?
I never really even get their time.
Imagine if it was an English player dropping stinking performances like Jorginho and Kovacic in that midfield. Fraudvertz, Pulisic and Hakim nko? I go get their time soon and they’ll explain how Chelsea under lampard with transfer ban managed to make top4 with English academy players, whereas our non-academy big signings have been flopping back to back now.
There is no other midfielder as good as him except casemiro
Lampard signed most of those flop sissies you mentioned
English players and English coaches are full of shit
I can list lots of English and non-English academy players that got sold after our Ucl win, what and what have Chelsea achieved with your unhealthy Kpante and non-academy players since then?
Kantebets: leave those academy guys especially English guys
Look at how Gallagher is flopping despite shining for Palace last season
What of your crush Kante? When will you talk about his inability to get fit?
Sterling, Pulisic, Fraudvertz, Kuli, Cucu, Silva, Jorginho and Ziyech. Are all these hums from our Academy?
Una don sell almost all of our academy players, yet Una dey flop for league. We’ll discuss this one day, just one day we’ll talk about how English academy players carried this Chelsea.
A001: If we get our acts right, we can still make top 4. We need to win our next 10 EPL games. It's clear the clueless Boli no go sack Potter this season
8 wins from our next 10 games and we’ll be back in that top4.
But that can only happen if Silva retire this night and set us free.
hensben: We have ball possession manager who are not good with centre forward, and we have counter attacking manager who are good with CF. When a ball possessing manager decide to use a CF it will result to two things, it is either the CF suffers while the manager decide to 100 percent stick to his tactics or build the team around the CF while the team experience inconsistency.
But why didn’t you use this point to defend Lukaku?