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bigkesh:
Gather a team of amateurs from anywhere in the world,teach them the basics of tiki-taka or possession footy and watch them play an equal or slightly better team after 2 years of training

2 things will happen
1-They will lose
2-They will end up losing possession and looking so disorganized that they will start packing the bus by default


Take another team of amateurs and give them weed without any tactical training, tell them they must not conceed and throw them into the bus mode.. ...As long as their opponents aren't marginally better, they will thrive


Months ago when we played the Provost cup, my class was the only one repping Pre clinicals,after destroying our first two opponents with attacking footy we were paired against the Clinicals team that encompasses level4-7,they were stronger, faster, had more depth of course.. ...

We started with the attacking plan,we couldn't play from the back because our defenders are the agidi type with zero technique, we couldn't play long balls because they were taller and stronger, without a word from our coach we went into bus parking,equalized and forced them to a shoot out


There is a reason why we didn't win the league in the first season of Jose's return,breaking down a well drilled defence isn't easy bro
Ask Someone how far, baba tried to play expansive feeling like Barca, no one had to tell him to go back to bus parking and fighting.

Bus parking is what you do when you admit your opponent is better, you only use your teeth(the easy way) when you are fighting someone stronger

do you know how it feels when an attacker or midfielder is asked to defend? Compare that to how the player is allowed to go forward and express himself. Even defenders will enjoy going forward and expressing themselves.
How does it feel when you have the ball and playing around the way you like? Compare it to when you chase the ball around and only having to pull it out whenever you touch it.
If defending was easy, PSG wouldn't have lost. The thing is that they tried to defend, but they don't know the act.

For the records, mou only parks the bus when he feels it is necessary. There is no time he has failed to park the bus when he was supposed to.

If you don't know that tactics is used in defending, you should go and make more research about defending. Reading mourinho's history will help.

airmark:
May be man city will take him away. I am not sure pep is comfortable with aguero.

i pray so

raumdeuter:
Everything hazard na league league league. Never Europe because he's a local champion whose only relevance is in local league.

Are you forgetting to tell us hazard joined European champions and ensured they crashed out of the groups in his first season with his failed false 9 performance in Turin
Ensured they crashed out in his 2nd season to atletico with his lazy performance

Ensured they crashed out to 10 man psg in his 3rd and 4th with another hopeless performance

Ensured they didn't qualify for cl in his 5th year

if it were to be another person that did what you did by naming kante, Costa, and the courtious you would have been on it for two weeks; using it to divert the argument. But, for Chelsea fans being the intelligent people they are, you were let off the hook.

Now, in 2014 when Chelsea reached the semi final of ucl, Hazard was the only reasonable player Chelsea had in their attack. No reasonable player in the midfield. Chelsea then was seen as a one man team.

bigkesh:
I don't think Stoke, Sunderland and other low teams are stupid enough to always adopt the most difficult style to play against the most difficult opponents

it is has proven to be efficient to a level. It is one the reasons smaller teams in the epl get results against the bigger teams.
The style demands a high level of concentration to execute and those who are not defenders will have to learn the art of defending.

airmark:
Everyone is aware of Baba ogbomosho's tricks.



I tell you. But i believe he has grown and could hold his own in big teams now. Some players are like that. We cant have ronaldo , messi and hazard kind of players everywhere. At 19, hazard dragged lille to win the french league, he was everywhere in france for 2 consecutive years. Some pick up late and blossom.

he made it worse at the European championship.
Well, I don already hate am. It will require a great deal before i rate him

homesteady:
Against PSG in 2015? Did we watch the same match? Hazard was In Verratti's pocket all through the match! When they met the next year, he was still in his pocket, so I don't really understand the hope you guys are talking of!

You guys should just cut this crap, rest and wait for another day when Hazard shines against Swansea to bring up this argument! Everybody is praising Neymar for his performance and you lots are trying devalue it by comparing it to what Hazard has done!
For this his performance alone, if Barcelona should Win the UCL, he is guaranteed of at least a 2nd place finish on the Balon d'or podium!

maybe you are the one who made the scores 2 - 1 for Chelsea.

Parking the bus is the most difficult style of football to play. Quote me anywhere.

airmark:
Same here bro. Mou also was so pained that he hurriedly fired lukaku that night. We played brilliant soccer and hazard convinced me of his talent. Bayern nearly suffocated.

that match is one of the reasons that I don't rate lukaku. He showed in that match that he lacks the character to play for a club like Chelsea with the way he took the pk.

Eden Hazard wants to stay at Chelsea for years and join football’s elite by leading the club to Champions League glory.

The Belgium midfielder swept the board in the end-of-season awards after starring in Chelsea’s first Premier League title success since he joined from Lille in 2012.

Hazard’s arrival was announced shortly after Roberto Di Matteo had led the club to a first Champions League, and the double footballer of the year is desperate to match that achievement to be considered among the world’s greats.

The good news for Chelsea supporters is he wants to fulfil that aim at Stamford Bridge and is happy to stay beyond the end of his current contract, which runs until 2020.

"Why change? If you’re happy and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change," Hazard told the London Evening Standard.

"Obviously, these things don’t just depend on me but whenever you’re enjoying your football and having the chance to win trophies, it would be silly to change."

"The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many it is why they have been regarded as top players.

"So if I want to be considered in that upper, upper level of top players I need to win the Champions League at some point. Obviously it is not easy, it is a tough tournament to go all the way to win. But it is something as a club I think we can do and we have to always dream of.

raumdeuter:
Every tree needs to contribute his own and Hazard has not been contributing in the Cl

you know that is not true.

airmark:
Na stvpid cavani and dimaria cause all this nonsense. In the super cup against bayern (that destroyed barcelona 7-0 agg) hazard pummeled bayern's defence, destroying their 3 legends in 3 secs but bayern won and the memory of his superb performance on that night evaporated. Assuming dimaria scored the goal and barca crashed, all these hypes of neymar's performance wouldn't have been there. Prior to those superb moments of his , a barca fan with me was abusing neymar for losing possession and wasting a lot of time on the ball. One of such moments almost led to a goal that psg failed to bury. Neymar performed well , no doubt . However, he did it against the worst psg team in 5 years according to barca fans, so why the noise?

True. That super cup still dey pain me reach tomorrow. If nothing, I was happy how we the underdog blues managed by master mou were on course to beat pep's bayern.

hensben:
Youre been carried away by emotion which I understand. That's football for you(passion).

exactly

bigkesh:
Hazard na my player Anyday anytime

But if we need 3 goals can Hazard produce 3 goals in the last 7 minutes ?

What Neymar pulled today is the kinda performance that separates the good players from the spectacular ones

Neymar was just dope.. . he did all the madness from that wing

how many times have messi produced 3 goals in 7 minutes?

In 2013, Chelsea needed an exceptional intervention to win the Super cup. Hazard gave us the hope. But, what happened. In that match, Hazard was our only hope going fowad.
In 2015 ucl, Hazard gave us hope against PSG, with his goal, but he was let down again

raumdeuter:
What is your question

can a tree make a forest?

chic2pimp:
Nah Him being average had nothing to do with His teammates that day. He simply was "Average". And yh Neymar was average in the away leg.

Not hate for Hazard from my side. Still amongst the top6-8 players in the world currently

that is exactly what I am saying. Had it been that Messi and co scored from one of Neymar's passes and they kept a clean sheet and won the match, you would have not said he was average.

raumdeuter:
He is one of those trees tha Chelsea depended on and he failed them miserably

you have not answered the question

raumdeuter:
Is he not one of the players that is supposed to make Chelsea play well

can a tree make a forest?

chic2pimp:
He was distinctively average in that game.

What thing of note has He done in those few games?

he will look average to you because his team mates didn't make anything out of his efforts. Just like the same way it will look to you in the case and Neymar in the away leg against PSG

raumdeuter:
Since he came Chelsea have been playing CL every season except this one

oga, read the question well before you rush to answer.

raumdeuter:
If a coach who turned around a 2 goal deficit gets the credit why not one who turned a 4 goal deficit

because one has already made the name as a master tactician while the other has not.

chic2pimp:
How were they frustrating His efforts? He had a good tournament alright but was quite mediocre against the Welsh. Moving on maybe we should talk about His CL performances? No?

you sure say you watch the Welsh game? Cos, he was the only Belgian playing like who wants to win.
How many champions league have Chelsea as a team played well since he came.

lordfalcao:
Today's game just showed me the shit we were last season for a team like PSG to win us back to back..

we were poo yet they couldn't beat us, 4 - 0. No matter how poo Chelsea become, they can never be beaten like their London neighbor. Since I became a blues fan, i have never watched a match where we were beaten 4 - 0

raumdeuter:
3 seasons ago

PSG led Chelsea 3-1 first leg

Chelsea won 2-0 2nd leg and Mourinho was hailed the best ever, We heard nothing about the foolishness of PSG

Now PSG led the first eg 4-0, Barcelona won the return leg 6-1, Now we are hearing its PSG fault

As much as PSG was at fault, they needed a team ready to punish them and Barca did

is 3 1 difficult to overturn for a team like Chelsea against psg?

chic2pimp:
No hyperventilation here hombre. Let Hazard keep doing His thing on the domestic scene whilst His contemporaries are shinning like a million dollars on the international stage.

oga don't be ridiculous. That was how Hazard was playing his hearts out at the European championship and the lukaku Brothers were frustrating his efforts. The same thing with the Super cup he would have won for us.
Did Neymar not play well in the away match, yet his work were frustrated by his teammates. There is nothing he can do Hazard cannot do.

I just dey imagine how Chelsea go play any team in this world, 4 0 and still no qualify.

bigkesh:
Neymar>Hazard

Make we just agree

What that boy did today is beyond anything Hazard can do
Breathtaking

na lie

Sergio Ramos has more career goals than Busquets and Iniesta combined

bykebyke:
Sane at 21 has more big game performances than Hazard in the UCL.

does it make him better than hazard?

bykebyke:
If that is what you wanna take from that post.

Be my guest.

I am not taking anything from it. I just want to know what you are all about

bykebyke:
Sane already has more big UCL game performances than Hazard.


LOL.

so, he is a better player than hazard.

raumdeuter:
Yes the signing of backroom staff but they can't sign pep players when another coach was still in control

we both know that this is not true. Man city had already decided not to keep Pellegrini even before the beginning of last season. There is no way that the backroom staff of man city wouldn't have started to sign players in preparation of the coming of pep regardless of who was at the helm of affairs then. Pep is their long term plan, and they can't afford to use the short term plan to make the long term plan difficult to actualize.

raumdeuter:
Before Pep came to City, Mangalas fate was already decided and even Pellergin who bought him,i gave up on him,

The point is before Conte Chelseas buys were useful buys which is why they can line up an 11 with 10 of them under 30. Of the current Chelsea 11 only 3 were Conte buys. That means the team was already stacked with good players.

While Citys buys before Pep were mostly useless thats why no matter how you try the team will always be filled with retirees. 4 full backs all over 30 in a position that requires a lot of mobility. Thats poor squad planning from City and Pep isnt going to fix that in a window

When City in the past 3 yrs was blowing money on Bony Negredo, Mangala Lampard Demichelis etc. Looks like there are even more Mancini(who left 4yrs ago) buys left in City than Pellegrini(who left less than a year ago) buys.

WHoever conducted transfers in the days of Pellegrini just wasted money and didnt give the team a chance

. were u not the same person that told us that man city prepared for the signing of pep by signing almost all of formal Barcelona technical crew and back room staff?