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Drogba. . . . should have scored!


Look how many chances we are creating on the counterattack!!!

@ Nateevs

As you can see, counterattcking football is Chelseas strength, not all that nonsense unitempo passing.

nateevs:
Yay! We are going 4-3-3. .
Ibime can you believe it?

What do you expect. . . . soon as we go direct, results come!!!  

Goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=372368.msg5202069#msg5202069 date=1262017305]U don't have the players who can play 4-3-3.
Joe Cole is wasted and there's no one to run the left channel.
4-3-3 will also make Anelka unsettled. . . . . .the formation is not an option. . . .Chelsea must buy a winger like Lennon/A.Young to make it work.[/quote]Is this not the same set of players GH used last season?  

We have Malouda/Zhirkov for the left-wing and Anelka/Kalou/Cole for the right wing, plus the best winger in Holland, Miroslav Stoch out on loan.

We are playing against a 20 year old rookie centre-back and Aaron Hughes.

If we were playing 4-3-3 with Drogba isolating those two, what do y'all think will happen.

Last week we also played against a rookie centre back, James Tomkins (who Yakubu had for breakfast once), and we again failed to infiltrate.

What will happen if we isolate Drogba against these boys in our regular 4-3-3?

This diamond formation is too easy to defend against. Just pack the midfield and defence, and it is nullified.



BTW, you could see the players body language at half-time. You can tell they hate this formation they are being forced to play.

Half-time. . . . dreadful!!!

nateevs:
Cross after cross from Ferreira absolutely ridiculous from a pro footballer.

Crosses from the byline are more effective. . . . Ferreira crossing from deep will not hurt anyone. . . . get some proper wingers to hit the byline in a 4-3-3, and you will see incisive effective crosses. . . .

Nateevs, are you hearing the commentary on Channel YES on sopcast?

Too predictable, too short, we need to mix up the play.

Im just speaking to my mate. . . . . he says sack Ancelotti or forget about the title!

Lemme guess. . . . . we're gonna pass the ball around the edge of the area with 10 Fulham players in the box. . . . . we will pass the ball around for ages without scoring cos there are simply too many men in the box. . . . diamonds are forever!

Here we go again. . . . the diamond formation allowed Konchesky the freedom of the park on our right hand side as Ferreira pushed forward. . . . . at this rate, CA will not see the end of January.

[quote author=tpia. link=topic=372380.msg5197142#msg5197142 date=1261954460]^^ so are you in Biafra now? [/quote]

Beaf:
Fu ck off.

Took the words out of my mouth.

[quote author=~Borat~ link=topic=302710.msg5195924#msg5195924 date=1261943985]Not yet. . .
Your Goals Scored will be considered
If its still tied, then goals conceeded
After which comes the virtual coin toss. . .[/quote]Am through then! The nucca only scored 1 goal through Bent.

MEND FC advances to the next round whilst most NL managers have been knocked out.

Can they go all the way?

If you're team has been knocked out, please feel free to root for MEND FC!!!

MEND need to tone down the rhetoric against Islam.

The West will not support a religious crusade. Rather, other Islamic countries will close ranks with the Nigerian Government. We remember how Islamic countries teamed up against Biafra in 66.

I drew 42 - 42 wiv my fantasy league opponent.

Who goes through?

Am so pissed off at backing Torres instead of Wayne Rooney.

I feel left behind.

Where are those Diaby haters now?

Nateevs, we were 11 points ahead of Arsenal, now they are 4 points behind with a game in hand. . . . this is unacceptable.

come back darling

red red wine

nateevs:
GH does not play the diamond. . and that's why he did not play it when he came in.
I am not down-playing GH's work. . I love him to bits but any manager last year even Mcleish would have brought some belief back to the boys. . The lost belief and that was it.

What do you know about GH's tactical formations?. . . . for Russia and Holland, he played a 3-4-2-1, with PSV he played a 4-3-3 and against Italy in the WC with South Korea he played with 4 strikers. Did he not also play a diamond formation away at Surs last season?

JM employed a diamond at Porto wiv Deco behind Carlos Alberto and Benni McCarthy, but when he came to Chelsea, he recognised that Lamps, Robben and Duff were ill-suited to a diamond, and he changed to a 4-3-3. At InterMilan, his 4-3-3 wasnt working so he changed back to a diamond.

A good manager picks the formation to suit the players abilities, a bad manager forces his players into his preferred formation!

Ancelotti can take a cue from his fellow Champions League winner Louis Van Gaal. Van Gaal refused to play anything other than a 4-4-2 at Barca and ran into severe problems with Rivaldo who hated being stuck on the left wing. Eventually, performance dipped and he had to resign. Fast forward to Bayern and Van Gaal insisted on playing a diamond. Bayern were struggling and he has now switched back to 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 and Bayern are the form team in Germany.

nateevs:
Guus is not going to come to Chelsea now. . who do you suggest we bring in ?. . since you already want a manager with common sense.

Guus is starting his Director of football role in January. . . . . CA better watch his back.

^^^Nah mate, we need a manager with common sense. . . . common sense to keep winning whilst making changes. . . . evolution is what we need, not revolution. . . . GH is a manager with common sense. . . . everyone knows him for his attacking football, but when he came to Chelsea, he saw that these players were bought for a specific purpose. . . . to fit JM's 4-3-3. . . . and he had the common sense to utilise the players to their maximum. . . . not by playing Lampard on the left-wing and Malouda in central midfield!!!

I think I understand where Vieira is coming from now. . . . prostitution is legal, but pimping is illegal. . . . there are loads of one-woman LovePeddler houses in Soho. . . . I guess if you have more than one-woman in the same house (ie a brothel), someone must be pimping, and the other(s) must be hoing. . . . 


This climate is not favourable to pimps!  

So much ado about nothing.

Most people see it for what it is - a loner acting out his fantasies.

Even the boys popsie reported the boy to the US authorities 6 months ago.

This shows that terrorism is not supported in Nigeria, and everyone gets the message. There have been no reports of sweltering muslim extremism in Nigeria on CNN. They didnt even bring up the Boko Haram story to paint a picture about extremism in Naija.

This shows that the authorities take it for what it is - a lone fantasist influenced by foreign extremists whilst living in London.

Vieira:
Prostution is not illegal in the UK, brothels are illegal and so is Kerb Crawling.
You are allowed to have a license for a room and one person to offer sex but no more.

You sound like you know a lot about this here game. . . so prostitution is legal, but brothels and kerb crawling arent?. . . . what gives? 

[quote author=Aloy.Emeka link=topic=371471.msg5182039#msg5182039 date=1261710022]A dimma.[/quote]

saintneo:
Obere Igbo I maghi ede. - O di mma.

Na so so English you sabi, local language u no sabi. LMAO!

Further evidence that Aloy Emeka is Fumi masquerading as an Igbo man.

nateevs:
(1.) This is what happens when you want to blame the manager for everything. .
What's a formation supposed to do? Create chances and prevent goals. .

What did we achieve today?
27 attempts. . 12 shots on target. .No goals. .

What else do you expect from a 4-3-3 that the diamond has not given?
A 4-3-3 cannot put the ball into the net. . Players will. .

Lampard missed a sitter, Danny and Malouda as well.

(2.) Maybe should sack the manager. . ?

(1.) Of course they would miss chances when there are 20 men packed in the box and you only have a split second to take a shot. . . . 5 chances in a 4-3-3 formation are better than 20 chances in a diamond. . . . most of the chances in the 4-3-3 come on the counterattack, and you have all the time in the world to score the goal. . . . if your memory escapes you, in all the matches we used to draw 0-0 or 1-1 under Scolari, we used to have 20+ shots as well. . . . and back then, you also blamed the players! 

(2.) If he continues to be stubborn. Lets see what the next few games holds for him. He will either implode or escape victoriously. . . . soon as he falls behind Man Utd or Arsenal, I am advocating the sack, otherwise he will definitely throw the league away! 

debosky:
Lamps was poor today, Malouda was even worse before he got sent off. . . .it's getting more and more precarious for Ancelotti.

I have an idea. . . .lets take a winger (Malouda) and play him in central midfield. . . and take a central midfielder (Lampard) and play him as a pseudo-winger. . . . all in the name of playing the diamond.

Scolari Ancelotti's problem is that having a world class playmaker is sine qua non for playing the diamond formation. . . we dont have that, yet he is so stuck to the idea of his diamond, he will do anything to play that diamond. . . . no plan B!

I have said before that Chelsea should forget about employing a playmaker system whilst Lampard is still at the club. . . . you cannot fit a rigid central attacking midfielder and a playmaker in the same team. . . .

Its all so compact in our attacking third right now. . . . . reminds me of Scolari.

Diamonds are forever?

Its looking very Scolariish at this moment.

Maybe Lampard is the new scapegoat?

All I have to say at this time is that Ibime Tamuno is incorruptible. . . . in the spirit of Christmas, I wish well to all my traducers. . . . Merry Christmas to all. . . . off to see ma fam. . . . will be back on boxing day to deal with these corruption allegations!

Merry Christmas y'all!!!

^^^ Onye oshi. . . . did Mikel start the game? 

4-3-1-2 is a diamond.

Anything with one playmaker behind 2 strikers na diamond. The 3 midfielders must be narrow to cover the playmaker.

[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=200489.msg5175257#msg5175257 date=1261598640]I'll let the club hammer splatter-your-face, have it shattered-in-eights
Your death was so predictable your momma had your casket-arranged[/quote]I splatter ya face/ . . . like ya girl, when I handle her case/
And I dont use a rubber. . . but Ill have her erased/

Im exposing this gay/ cos he's known for rolling in drag/
You see him holding his bag. . . when he's patrolling the ave/

You toting a mag?/ You better tuck it away/
Im nothing to play/ so please have a wonderful day/

otherwise Ill cut with a blade/ and make ya stomach decay/
Im Top Drog. . . and this nucca is a[i] f**king disgrace[/i]!/