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TheLequte:
Jerome Boateng won the Ballon d’beasted World Cup final, 2014.

Add that to the list if you don’t want any problem

airmark:
See midfielders jostling for Uefa best. Thunder fire anyone that brings spineless Busquets near these guys.

swiz123:
He was led astray by his friend. They blamed Jorginho for Lampard's foolishness

popizaino:
Who are you comparing with Sergio Busquet let me know .

airmark:
Nobody

popizaino:
Better

BlueAngel444:
N'Golo Kante and Jorginho are the first teammates for an English club to finish among the top 3 finalists for the UEFA Player of the Year award.


We are witnessing history, not like some fans that life off the tales from their fore fathers who were fans

Ibime:
Whose foolishness caused Bournemouth and Man City to be flogging us 4-0 and 6-0 in Sarris tenure as our midfield turned to highway?

Nobody on this thread that was around in Sarris time.did not criticize Jorginho. We only started seeing Jorginho fans this season

swiz123:
I wake up everyday thanking God for my physique cos I can't imagine myself looking as Lin and weak as Jorginho.

when we had Fabregas, he compensated for his sluggishness with his precision passes which accounted for his many assists. Jorginho is an all round disaster whose presence does not only undermine, but also displaces Kante.

BlueAngel444:
Tuchel vs Mancini who deserves it more, I would say Mancini but Tuchel really did the 'impossible' with Chelsea winning the UCL and finishing fourth, making FA cup finals.

Would love one of Kante of Jorginho to win UEFA award and the other Ballon d'or

airmark:
You dey mind that one?

This was him thanking God for not making him a weakling like Jorginho. He even called Jorginho, an all round DISASTER.

Shameless poster.

swiz123:
He can't fit in at Chelsea due to our style of play which isn't unconnected to the physicality of the league.
However, the argument was between Jorginho and Bousquet, and the later will obviously do better at Chelsea than the former...

I wake up everyday thanking God for my physique cos I can't imagine myself looking as Lin and weak as Jorginho.

when we had Fabregas, he compensated for his sluggishness with his precision passes which accounted for his many assists. Jorginho is an all round disaster whose presence does not only undermine, but also displaces Kante.

BlueAngel444:
Tuchel vs Mancini who deserves it more, I would say Mancini but Tuchel really did the 'impossible' with Chelsea winning the UCL and finishing fourth, making FA cup finals.

Would love one of Kante of Jorginho to win UEFA award and the other Ballon d'or

popizaino:
#tbt#



"...the [2008 UEFA Champions League Final] eventually all came down to penalty kicks. And while a decade or so earlier it was customary to refer to this as the ‘lottery of a penalty shoot-out’, research and opposition scouting had improved considerably, to the point that it was no longer a lottery and more about complex game theory. In a tactical sense the shoot-out was arguably more intriguing than the previous 120 minutes.

As revealed in Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski’s Soccernomics, Chelsea’s penalty strategy appears to have been influenced by the work of Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, a Basque economist who had been recording penalty patterns for 13 years. An academic colleague of his happened to be friends with Chelsea manager Grant, and he put them in touch. Palacios-Huerta then sent Grant a report about United’s penalty habits.

Along with the revelation that the team taking the first penalty in a shoot-out triumphs 60 per cent of the time, there were two crucial points concerning United. First, goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar anticipated penalty takers would shoot across their body – he usually dived to his right against right-footed takers and to his left against left-footed takers. Shooting the other way, therefore, made sense. Second, Cristiano Ronaldo tended to pause in his run-up, hoping the goalkeeper would dive early, and after his pause he kicked left 85 per cent of the time. This information nearly worked a treat.

United won both tosses before the shoot-out. It meant that the penalties took place in front of their own supporters and that Rio Ferdinand, as captain, had the choice of whether to kick first or second. Ferdinand, however, was unsure about what to do and turned towards United’s coaching staff, taking some time to make his decision. At this point Chelsea captain John Terry grabbed Ferdinand’s shirt and then pulled at his arm, offering to shoot first. Ferdinand ignored him and, having taken instructions, correctly chose to kick first. The odds were already in United’s favour.

Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Čech, whose poor penalty-saving record is his only weakness, made only one save in the shoot-out – from Ronaldo. Sure enough, as he approached the penalty, Ronaldo suddenly froze. Čech froze too. There was a momentary stand-off before Ronaldo, as predicted, went left – and Čech dived correctly, beating away the shot.

More fascinating, however, was the direction of Chelsea’s kicks. Four of the initial five penalty takers – Michael Ballack, Juliano Belletti, Frank Lampard and John Terry – were right-footers and seemingly followed Palacios-Huerta’s advice, going right rather than shooting across their body. The only player who did shoot across his body was also the only left-footer, Ashley Cole. That’s what Van der Sar expected and he nearly saved the shot, the wet ball squirming under his body. It meant all five of Chelsea’s penalties were kicked to the same corner.

One of these penalties, however, was off-target. After Ronaldo’s failure, Chelsea would have triumphed had Terry converted Chelsea’s fifth penalty. He approached the kick confidently and chose the correct side, as Van der Sar anticipated him shooting across his body and dived the wrong way. But Terry’s standing foot slipped, he toppled to the floor and his kick bounced back off the post. This was considered nothing more than an unfortunate moment, but the truth was entirely different – Terry had a fatal tendency to slip...

Terry’s miss forced the shoot-out into sudden death. Anderson and Ryan Giggs scored for Manchester United, as did Chelsea’s Salomon Kalou, who followed instructions and kicked right. This meant all six of Chelsea’s penalties were struck into the same corner – five by right-footers following the plan, one by the left-footed Cole disobeying instructions and only just squeezing the ball home.

Next came Nicolas Anelka, another right-footer. By this stage, Manchester United thought they’d deduced Chelsea’s approach – kicking right every time. That wasn’t quite correct, but Cole’s decision to go against the plan gave that impression. On the halfway line, captain Ferdinand was frantically pointing and screaming for Van der Sar to dive that way. The Dutchman, meanwhile, seemed to have deduced the pattern too, and as Anelka waited for the whistle, Van der Sar made a crucial gesture.

For the previous six kicks he’d spread both arms high and wide, as if he was about to start the ‘YMCA’ dance, but this time he pointed towards the corner where Chelsea had sent their previous six kicks, the direction Anelka was meant to be choosing. Did this cause Anelka to change his mind, suspecting Van der Sar had worked out his intentions? He unconvincingly shot across his body and Van der Sar dived that way, making his first save of the shoot-out. United were European champions.

Anelka, inevitably, was made the villain of the piece, but blame should be shared. Terry’s miss was about technique rather than misfortune. Cole going against the supposed plan may have unwittingly caused United to suspect a pattern, even if not quite correctly, enabling Van der Sar to psych out Anelka.

Meanwhile, Didier Drogba’s dismissal five minutes from the end of extra-time for slapping Vidić meant Chelsea were without a key penalty taker. Had he remained on the pitch then Terry would have been spared from taking one of the first five penalties. Indeed, four years later Drogba took the fifth, triumphant kick when Chelsea finally won the Champions League on penalties against Bayern Munich.

Somehow everything about this Moscow shoot-out encapsulated football tactics: research, planning, devising a strategy, players not quite sticking to the strategy, a bit of technique, a bit of luck, a bit of psychology. Chelsea’s tactics were fascinating and entirely logical, yet they still lost."

~Michael Cox's "The Mixer - The Story of Premier League Tactics, from Route One to False Nines"

Ibime:
Airmark, you are a wicked soul.

BlueAngel444, who does this L belong to?

Exonerate, come and see your boy

nihilistjnr:
cc Nateevs.

Another game, another coach or player name dropping akpuruka



Imagine Mata of all people, being tasked with man marking Jorginho...and being successful at it.

Same 'passenger' Mata as he used to be called here.

TLona1:
No trespassing.

BlueAngel444:
I don't know who that is o but you wan talk say you no be Jorginho fan his first few months in Chelsea, especially when Sarri was winning

Ibime:
Airmark, you are a wicked soul.

BlueAngel444, who does this L belong to?

Exonerate, come and see your boy

BlueAngel444:
Is it just me, but why does it feel like Ibime doesn't want to go down alone on this one


Anyway hope we do sign Tchouameni

BlueAngel444:
Is it just me, but why does it feel like Ibime doesn't want to go down alone on this one


Anyway hope we do sign Tchouameni

airmark:
Your hands too are not clean on Jorginho, so slow your roll.

airmark:
Your hands too are not clean on Jorginho, so slow your roll.

Ibime:
Incase we forgot who Jogginhoe was under Sarri

Ibime:
Nothing to go down on. Jogginghoe is still a liability until proven different. Kovacic and Mount POTY says so while Jorginho was nowhere. I don't care if he is lucky enough to be carried along to two trophies this year, he is still useless, Lin and weak and an all-around disaster like Swiz123 would say.

nihilistjnr:
Omo I remember being at the emirates in 2017 or was it 18, when they beat us 2-0 and Ramsey man marked Jorginho out of the game.

Anyway, you're going to have to face this battle alone bro. I feel for you, and I understand your message, but Omo it's your blood the lions want...not mine

BlueAngel444:
I have always had the nurses gloves on

Hope you have a search light while digging

BlueAngel444:
Just a reminded, we will be having both Jorginho and Bakayoko in Chelsea next season.











oh nooooo

Ibime:
Nothing to go down on. Jogginghoe is still a liability until proven different. Kovacic and Mount POTY says so while Jorginho was nowhere. I don't care if he is lucky enough to be carried along to two trophies this year, he is still useless, Lin and weak and an all-around disaster like Swiz123 would say.

swiz123:
I have taken my time to make an unbiased research or Jorginho's strength and I seem to find weakness instead of strength. Jorginho's uselessness is truly a mystery.

The decision to replace Fabregas with this clown must be the most foolish decision taken by a club.

swiz123:
Sarri left us with two calamities in Kepa and Jorginho. Now we are stuck with finding a way to offload them.

The problem is, which benevolent club would be magnanimous enough to spare some paltry funds on those two players.

Sarri!!!! you shall remain jobless even in the banking sector.