₦airaland Forum

dopeJemi:
Which one is all these serious analysis and comments, my fellow united fans, i'm disappointed in you guys, we suppose dey mock these guys with everything, I don't like this friendship oh


Remember how they flooded our thread when they signed pedro, mocking us with memes and the rest, kings of hijacking, make una go hijack first place from man city hand na, Lubbish, who cares what their problem is, did they care what our problem was when they were all over our thread mocking us? Una dey here dey do analysis


[size=18pt]LONG MAY YOUR WOES CONTINUE


Down is where you'll remain[/size] Lubbish

AirborneLacer:
Gary Lineker made few interesting points hours ago.

“It's the Spanish who do well because they've got a form of playing that's particularly exhausting and they keep the ball,” said Lineker.

"We completely kill ourselves in the Christmas period with the madness of our fixtures. Boxing Day, New Year’s Day, OK. Do that but why the middle Saturday as well? Get rid of that one and replays in Cup competitions. You've go to remember as well that our football is more frantic so we don't really help ourselves.

"You come to February and all the other major countries have had a little bit of a break and we've been going bang, bang, bang. You could see it with Chelsea, they are a better team than Paris St Germain but they looked shattered. We can compete but, and, it's the same with international football, we don't help ourselves.”

raumdeuter:
You see top clubs like Barca, Bayern and Madrid in the last year clearing house with players that are club icons(Xavi, Schweini and Casillas) which were not popular decisions among section of the fans and more would happen in the next 2yrs in those clubs but Chelsea still want to hold on to Ivanovic, Ramires, Mikel and Terry for sentimental reasons.

Atletico beat Chelsea next thing raid them for Costa

Pataki:
^^^ Courtois is out for the next three months.

Pataki:
Some of us are like that. We are like UN soldiers. You will find us transporting Syrian refugees across the length and breadth of Europe. Drinking other people's panadol is our energizer. We ensure world peace is everywhere. Dopejemi na area manure boy. Pataki will find a correct guy that you can place your head upon in these difficult relegation times that your beloved club is entangled in.

nitlad:


But Begovic is a good enough deputy, no?

Chestar5:
i dont even know what to say about ur problem .....than sorry

Chestar5:
@nateevs, i dont know if my opinion is needed but chelsea problem is psycological
Chelsea problem is mourinho
Chelsea problem is Ivanovic
Chelsea problem is Chelsea
We need new tactics, bench lazy iva a while and lets see if he can get his vibe back.....
Bpl teams really prepared well mentally for this season, with big money they generated they made neccessary changes...

One mistake chelsea made was against mancity, our weakness was spotted and we failed to see it instead we signed pedro, good signing but dat was not our flaws..... Oscar injury sort of messed things up a little....other teams saw this flaw, and we were punished....

I dont know d solution to the problem, all i can hope is for us to be back with a bang....i know that this season will be full of suprises, i just hope we have a positive one...

#BRINGBACKOURCHELSEA

signed by a concerned blues supporter

Chelseafan1:
After the mockeries, insults, e-fights and all, we need to be serious, have reasonable and intellectual debates, no be every time person go dey do like weyrey up and down, now is the time to be reasonable, join in the discussion and drop this for now.

No offence.

AdeLaNa1:
U funny sha! Why wont ur opinion be needed?? So long as u're a Chelsea fan on a Chelsea thread, ur opinions could even be priceless. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a bloody racist...

codedguy1:
@ Pataki,

You sef dey contribute for wetin follow make chelsea hug relegation position.

You better tell that your useless team to do the needful this wkend. The problem is Arsenal can never be trusted.

Dopejemi am with on this jare! Chelsea for relegation!!! Championship is calling.

AdeLaNa1:
Which one is all this hand holding & ass kissing?? Even Coogar sef come here dey analyse...*hisses*

Wats my own wit where Chelsea's problems lie??

Abeg! Abeg! Abeg! I'm wit Dopejemi on this one. May the woes, wailing and gnashing of teeth continue long after Arsenal deal wit u people on Saturday.

KTWFFH! Keep The Wailing Flag Flying High!!

Pataki:
Once shekpe enters fully the relegation table holders, you will never see me making comments or wearing aso-ebi on this thread again.

I have no further business with Championship contenders.

codedguy1:
Just make sure you guys do the business this wkend abeg.

WHEN Chelsea finally starts playing in the championship, party go dey shele for here every wkend wether they win or lose.


As per Aso-ebi, na baba suwe tailor we go give the contract.

Bimffo:
Actually, I love all the comments and posts so far.


As Nihilist pointed out, Fab has always been a liability defensively, but his output offensively covered for that..

Also Ibime pointed out 2 years ago, that Ivanovic has always been raped by any fast attacking left midfielder like Montero.

So the right side of our defence/Midfield has been shitty since last season and only few knew this because we were getting good results.



My 'main' problem does not lie in the defence, it lies in our attack. The same defensive problems were present last season, and we still coped..

(We tried and strengthen the defence by bringing Baba into the fray. So that should settle it. Though we should have gotten another good midfielder, but we didn't, so we have to cope with the situation)


The solution??

I think Hazard needs to step Up. In every team, there is always a star player. Hazard is our star player no matter how Dayo hates. We need that urgency from him.

2ndly, Costa needs to drop all these dogs' fight and face his primary assignment on the pitch. We need him to be focused.

Fab should try and help us offensively. He does nothing on the pitch these days, and he is a target for Opponents these days. Actually to me, he is our weakest link.


If Hazard, Costa and Fab can get back to their very best ASAP, it would have been better.


Lastly, Mou should give RLC a chance! and giving Ivanovic a seat belt on the bench shouldn't be a problem.


In Mou's Press conference today. He pointed out that Baba is available for tomorrow's game, so we should expect Apzi, Cahill, Terry and Baba in defence tomorrow.



[size=30pt] PS: We dont have to Panic. Its just 5 matches! When we beat Arsenal on Saturday we will just be 3 points behind them. We need all the fans behind the team. At home and Abroad! [/size]

dopeJemi:
Never, una don come our thread come have "reasonable and intellectual" debate before?

Leave am, I wan do like weyrey left and right sef


Anything that will make shell-sea escape relegation this season, I cast, bind and destroy


[size=18pt]LONG MAY YOUR WOES CONTINUE


KTBFFL[/size]

Chestar5:
okay have heard, but dis ur comment shock me until i saw ur next comment after this.....

Nihilist:
Thank you Dayo,

You've spoken well.

Again I refer you to Man City. Bar Sterling, they are playing the same 1st team squad as last season.

Yet when in their last game of last season, they conceded seven shots on target, they've now conceded the same number of shots in total over the last five games.

The same backline.

Mangala and Kompany that were one of the most useless CB pairing in the league have now improved so much since May that 35 million pound Otamendi that was brought to improve the team can't even make the bench.

So it's not a case of 'buying to improve' that was necessarily needed in City's case.


Attacking wise, Silva and Sterling were out of last game, Aguero was taken out after 25 minutes. The guy that got the goal was Kelechi Iheanocho....not a 74 million pound striker....but Kelechi Iheanacho. That's another nail in the 'buy to improve argument'

If you must be realistic, the reason why Madrid and Barca dominate so much in World Football is that they simply have the best players. It is that simple.

No amount of players you buy for now will equal the output of Ronaldo or Messi.

For all your talk about Bayern's scouting....you guys only have 1 UCL win in the last 10 years....same as Chelsea. So in absolute terms, you have not fared better in Europe even with your so called 'Better Scouting'

Now what's the problem with Chelsea? I think it's 3 fold:

1. Teams have done their homework. My BiL plays pro Rugby for a team that just got promoted the the Aviva premiership. Despite their small size and the comparative lack of money in Rugby, his club employs two match analysts who film and analyse their opposition for weeks, edit the films into little clips, and send it to their iPads.

Now imagine what EPL teams with their riches are doing. Why is every single team attacking our right flank?

Chelsea have conceded more chances from the right flank than any other team in the league. In fact I think, we've conceded over 10 more than the team in second place.
Teams have analysed CFC and seen that Ivanovic tollgate is the surest route to the box.

Mourinholic:
Who hacked this account and what you done to DAYO?
But more seriously, while all your points are very right.....It can't be the reason why we have lost 3 out of 4.
Take a look at Dortmund, last season and now...
The City of last season is not too different from this current team ....
Its psychological

coogar:
the drive and the desire are seriously lacking this time.
it's not a question of quality or fatigue. wetin be fatigue?
the average age of man city squad is 28.1, that of chelsea is 26.1
in a nutshell, city players are much older across the board and yet they have maintained 100% without conceding a goal.

Ibime:
We all know the issue in midfield and the issue with Ivanovic.

However, I will add that 3 weeks preseason is partly to blame due to the lucrative trip to the far-east at the end of last season. The club expected to gain fitness by playing over the first few weeks but we were handed a difficult fixture list.

The other problem is Mourinho has become an oppressive presence on the training ground. Since the board did not back him through the summer with signings, he has been short-tempered, neurotic and acting erratically. This is creating an oppressive presence on the training ground. Players and staff are said to run and hid behind doors when he is walking through the corridor.

Jose performed a miracle to get that team to win the EPL last season. The board thought it would easily be replicated and refused to back him. He has been brooding over it all summer (I could see it from all his press conferences) and it has created a poisonous atmosphere in the club.

Pataki:
Could it be that the players are tired after hard fought games from the last season? No I doubt it. Did Chelsea really put up an outstanding performance last season? NO! Every other team were caught napping and Chelsea seized the moment and capitalized on it. Before we knew it, they were points ahead and remained focused to the end of last season.

So what has really changed? Where did it all go wrong for this team? My personal opinion is that the buck starts and ends with Mourinho. He is solely responsible for the outcome and poor results Chelsea has so far churned out. He seems to be living in a different reality to what the modern game of football is now dictating. His thoughts seems scattered and all over the place. His pride and stubborness seems to have gotten a better hold of him.

For examples, when Chelsea were displaying poor preseason games, he termed preseason to be a fake. Seriously? Those were the early warning signs that something is wrong somewhere. Those saying he should go and beg Eva; that is absolute bumkum! Chelsea started losing way before the Eva issue started.

When Chelsea played against Arsenal, the poor form of Ivanovic was not even visible and known at that time. Tactically, Mourinho lost it. Rather than Mourinho living up to the reality of the loss for the first time against Wenger, he came up with an excuse: Community Shield is for losers, Arsenal were playing with 11 men behind the ball, bla bla bla.

Moving into the EPL proper, Chelsea began their game against Swansea. Ended in a draw, and a red card if I remember correctly now. Mourinho decided to scapegoat Eva. Labelling her as naive due to theatric from Eden Hazard. Made a public show of shame of that lady. Trust the English press, they made so much noise and issue out of this. Chelsea players are not oblivious to this kind of internal wranglings and distractions which will surely have an effect on their game.

Moving on further, Chelsea faced ManCity. This was the height of delusion from Mourinho. I remember during his press conference when asked a question about coaches staying in the club even when they are not productive as such, he had to in anecdote refer and insult Wenger. Yet again, the English press made a spectacle out of it. Mourinho has suddenly developed this atmosphere of making everything about Chelsea all about him. When Chelsea lost against ManCity, this was the height of delusion by coming out to say, the better team in the second half lost! Seriously?! The same so-called better team that gulped in two goals in the second half? Did we all watch the same game or Mourinho watched a different game entirely?

For those probably thinking Jose is naive, I don't think he is. This is the same Jose who without any fear or reservations, pulled out a John Terry immediately it became clear that the dude was not up to the game against ManCity. Ivanovic might be the weakest link in the team, but I think in the mind of Jose, he is considering who can effectively replace Ivanovic within this team? Jose's area of strength has always been in the defence. However, I don't think he is living in the reality of what every other Chelsea fan is seeing of Ivanovic at the moment.

Or maybe he is actually seeing the plot but he is clueless about the effective solution. Against Crystal Palace, after the match he came up with the excuse that he needed four substitutions in the game. This however indicates that Jose Mourinho is confused tactically about the present squad.

Lastly, buying players he himself admitted was not his own making but from someone he trusts 100% smacks of someone who is excuse ready for the exit should the ruthless Russian lose his marbles about Jose's continued poor performance.......