“Next is what?” asks Samsung, Chelsea’s sponsors. That’s what Chelsea fans ask too. Next is what? We’ve seen the home record go. We have been beaten at home thrice, in a space of few weeks. We have been eliminated from league cup by Burnley at Stamford Bridge. In 9 home matches, we have won 3, drawn 4 and lost 2. Stoke City has won more home matches than Chelsea this season so far. Next is what?
San Siro. Earlier today. At the 47th minute, Inter are leading 2-0. Against the run of play, Chievo shocks them with two quick goals to make it 2-2 at the 65th minute. What does Jose Mourinho do? Makes three substitutions in 5 minutes. Brings on Balotelli, Crespo and Figo for Obinna, Muntari and Maxwell. Guess what happens next. Inter finish 4-2. For all this, they didn’t have to win this match to lead the table. They wer already 6 points clear off the the rest. They are now 9 points atop the table. Does JM perform this magic every match? No. If he did, he would win all the matches. But he certainly tries. He makes a valiant attempt; every single time.
Here we are, losing points at home for the for the sixth time in nine matches. We missed a glorious chances to put some daylight between us and the rest. How many times will you find all your rivals drop points in the same weekend? And how many times will this event be followed by a 24 hour-gap for you to realise and understand that a win would put you on top of the table? We had all except Essien and Carvalho. But we had very very capable back ups for these two too. We still managed to drop points? How did we achieve this?
Here is the recipe: (i) We had a fit Drogba who was left in the bench (ii) We kept a poor Deco on the pitch for all 94 minutes while he should not have seen beyond the 24th minute (iii) We substituted Joe Cole who contributed better than Deco, and brought on Belletti (iv) We subbed Mikel while his stay on the pitch would have meant no harm to our scoring chances (v) We made no visible tactical switch despite chasing just one goal for all of 40 minutes.
Match-wise, we let in a poorly defended goal, that appeared to have used a handball along its way. Chelsea had zero shots on goal in the first half. Then in the second half, we equalise when a superb movement by Drogba and Lampard put the ball to Anelka on a one-on-one situation. If it’s one-on-one, it’s Anelka. He is just a one-on-one striker, nothing more, nothing less. Then, Lampard fails to get a clear penalty late on. Compare this with Gerrard’s scandalous penalty against Atletico few weeks back at Anfield. Even Lucas Neill admitted that there was contact, he was lucky that penalty was not awarded. Then in last few seconds, Carlton Cole missed a glorious opportunity to take all three points and inflict Chelsea’s fourth defeat (oh my god, I don’t fecking believe this!) in 2 months in Stamford Bridge.
And then after the match, you get to listen to this shocking interview by Scolari:
Yes it’s difficult. When we play here it is different than when we play away. Away we have more space and we play more with the ball, maybe we are now thinking ‘this is not our home’ and we are not scoring goals, I don’t know what is happening. It was a difficult game for us. We played for much of the game with most of the ball, but we scored only one goal and had three or four good chances, while West Ham had just two chances and scored a goal. I think if we showed more quality with our final shot we would have won this game. We are dangerous on both systems. With [both Drogba and Anelka] yes, but also before because when they come on I lose my middle. We need to train with that system a lot more because when we only have two forwards and one winger like today I play a genuine 4-3-3 for the second half, but lose my middle – so it is difficult for me.
I think it’s a shame to admit that we find it difficult when we play at home! What is this new thing about not finding space at home? Always, I mean, always, smaller teams come to Stamford Bridge and park their bus. It happens at Old Trafford, it happens at Anfield, it happens at Bernabeu, it happens at Camp Nou, it happens as San Siro. What’s so new about not finding space at home matches? This has not come as a surprise. We have been struggling at home for a couple of months now and November has exposed us brutally.
All the while, Scolari has been saying that he does not have the players to play differently. Then he gets a fit in-form Drogba and puts him in the bench?! Unbelievable. Why would you put Drogba on the bench? If you love Anelka so much, at least play them together! Or play Drogba as the striker and Anelka as the centre forward / second striker. Which other team or manager would put a fit, in-form Drogba in the bench, when they’re struggling to score goals at home?
It appears that Scolari is not in favour of the 4-4-2 system at all because he does not feel comfortable about it. It almost sounds like ‘for 4-4-2 we need to train more so I play only 4-3-3 or 4-1-4-1′. Sounds strange bordering on crazy. With Drogba and Anelka, we are significantly more dangerous than otherwise. We saw that today in the second half. But for the predictable pattern of passing play, we would have made better use of possession in the second half.
The only source for Chelsea attacks is Jose Bosingwa. The only source for Chelsea’s goals is Frank Lampard. I wonder what would happen in a match without Bosingwa and Lampard. Granted, Bosingwa is delivering great crosses but oppositions have figured out that Bosingwa plays a key role in Scolari’s Chelsea. All that they need to do is to stop him somehow or be prepared for his crosses. As a West Ham centre back if I see Bosingwa with the ball in the flank, I can be 100% sure that he is gonna deliver a cross. Whenever the ball goes to Bosingwa, that’s the only thing that happens. We simply fail to do anything else on the right flank. Credit for the good part of our plump goal difference should go to Bosingwa but have you been noticing that he has been less effective of late?
For all the cosmetics of Scolari’s Chelsea, we have boringly similar pattern of play which can be easily read and undone. From defence it goes to Mikel who sprays it to the advancing wing backs. Wing back then plays a one-two or interchanges with the side midfielder. Then, if it’s the right back, he crosses it in. If he is the left back he would either crosses or again tries to play one-two or interchanges. That’s it. You won’t find our midfielders passing to striker unless that puts him one-on-one with the goalkeeper. Any team with two hard working midfielders can stop us easily. Bosingwa and Ashley Cole are after all, full backs with a decent dribble. They are not Lionel Messi. Put two men on them, they’ll have to give up. If they give up we have no other potent way to attack.
Plus, we are not allowed to play in the air. Just one juicy lob and you see the coach criss crossing his arms gesturing ‘play it on the grass’. With long shooters like Lampard and Ballack, lobs to the forwards could result in nice lay offs for a belter. Oh, don’t get me started on the long shots. We don’t try them anymore and that’s down to the ‘newly acquired style of play’. We still sacrifice the shooting opportunity for that sweet-little-clever-one-touch-short-pass that gives a momentary pleasure to the players that they’ve managed to out-think the opposition. I don’t know when was the last time we scored from a corner in the premier league. We don’t try anything new in corners. No short passing or low crossing or laying off from the corner.
What do we lack, really? We’ve got one of the best goal keepers in Europe. We have a world class back four plus a very impressive Ivanovic and Alex to step in if required. We have John Obi Mikel who is the best young player in the premier league (in my view, of course). Mikel must be in the running for the Chelsea player of the season award. We’ve got a resurgent Frank Lampard. Our midfield is fantasy football-like with Lampard, Ballack, Deco and Joe Cole. We have Anelka who is the top scorer in the premier league. We even seem to afford to keep Drogba in the bench. What else does Scolari want to get a win? I can understand if we have one of those bad days when nothing would go right for us. But we seems to have occasional good days among an unusually high number of bad days.
The buck should stop with Scolari. He got us to a great start so there is no question of him having to settle down. He plays a lot of brazilian/portuguese players so language cannot be a problem. For those English players, they’re always on auto-pilot, they are top professionals who can work with little interaction too. Still, Scolari has got Ray Wilkins to help him out. There were some injuries. All teams have had. Many other teams did not have the luxury of bringing in players like Alex and Ivanovic as second choice defenders. Scolari never had to play anyone out of position. Scolari was given a champion team which was even grudgingly admired by its staunch haters. All that he had to do was to tweak here and there, oil the machine and ensure that it runs at the same level if not faster.
Deco was once again the worst Chelsea player on the pitch. Only a week back I wrote that he was the best Chelsea player on the pitch. Such has been his form in Chelsea. In many ways, Deco personifies Scolari’s Chelsea. Started his Chelsea career very brightly. Had fans and press raving about him. He can be sublime one moment, can be lovely when given space and time but can also be frustratingly wasteful. For now, he has been sadly dispensible. Deco in Chelsea sums up Scolari’s Chelsea, isn’t it?
Despite making no worthwhile contribution or even showing any promise, Deco was there start to finish. I wonder why? Is that because he was Scolari’s purchase? Is that because he promised to the boss that he would transform Chelsea with Deco? Is that because Deco is a brazilian? Scolari certainly has a soft corner towards Deco. See, I have always like Deco. I still think he can be great for us. But in matches like this, when it’s so obvious that he does more damage than help, I wouldn’t think twice about removing him from the pitch.
No matter what the situation is, Scolari always retains his back four on the pitch. He refuses to take risks with a 3-5-2 or an audacious 2-3-5 or something like that. Why can’t we just throw everything at the opposition, in the last few minutes. The only tactical change he makes to make the game more attacking is subbing Mikel. That’s what he does in every match where we’re left to chase. Watch it against West Brom, oops, I hope and wish we don’t have to chase against West Brom too. At the 80th minute, at 1-1, you have two options (i) to go for a win, plus side three points, minus side zero points (ii) just try to secur that point without outrageous risks. I did not see Scolari go for the win at all costs. Of course he went for a win, but not for ‘a win at all costs’, not even in the last 10 minutes. May be he feared losing that solitary point too. But it won’t work this way. You’d rather fight and lose than not to fight.
The next home match is on the boxing day against West Brom. And then against Southend on 3-Jan, Stoke City on 17-Jan and Middlesbrough on 28-Jan. We should need no help to beat West Brom and Southend. For Stoke and Boro, we might have Essien, Carvalho and may be a new signing. We are still in the champions league awaiting a draw against group winner. Now, it really makes me nervous when I look at the possible draws and more importantly the fact that Scolari is tactically inferior even to some of the very ordinary managers who have not won the world cup. We have the crunching second half of the league plus a tough champions league knock out phase ahead. Is Scolari up to it? Next is what?
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What a fucking chance wasted…
Time has come to take a decision . Can’t even win home games.. No strategies at all . Always plays 4-1-4-1 .. Gets probably 6 MM Pounds, but can’t plan for Plan b or Plan C . Always cries that Essien is not there. God knows what excuse he will make when Essien is back, probably title would have been lost by that time..
Has been a manager for probably 20 years,doesn’t he know that players get injured, referees make mistakes..
This victory meant a lot going to the busy christmas schedule, could have given us the momemtum, could have gone 7 points above man U .. Truly a black day for chelsea..
avram grant was much much better , may be no style, no 5-0 wins, but atleast we won home matches.. even against Man U , arsenal and Liverpool at home (CL)..
Disastrous ..
We wasted 45 mins in the first half, by not playing drogba, its just non sense not to play him. I dont understand what scolari has seen in training and says that they can’t play together. absolute non sense
So FRUSTRATED! That is all I can say. We played with such spirit and fight the second half – from the moment Drogba came on in fact – that had we had that from the start I can’t believe we wouldn’t have come away with all 3 points. Why won’t Scolari play Anelka and Drogba together?!!!!! WHY?
WE DIDNT DESERVE TO WIN , I FORGET OLD CHELSEA AND I THINK WILKINS/SCOLARI IS THE WEAKEST MANAGEMENT TEAM ON THE PLANET AND I THINK HIS CONTRACT WILL BE TERMINATED BY THE END OF THE SEASON . READY FOR ANOTHER CUPLESS SEASON GUYS , WE ARE TURNING IN TO ANOTHER ARSENAL . AND AGAIN I AM MISSING JOSE MOURINHO .
If Jose was our manager, we would be going to new year , atleast 10 points clear of Man U .. If he doesn’t want to play Drogba , atleast sell him and get some money .. if his contract is terminated by end of this year, atleast we can win FA other wise, lets fight for top three places , because next season the fourth spot in EPL plays the fourth spot in spain or italy ..
SCOLARI/WILKINS IS THE WORST CHELSEA MANAGEMENT TEAM AND HE CAN NOT WIN ANYTHING FOR US , IF WE WIN ALL OF OUR AWAY GAME WE CAN NOT EVEN FINISH SECOND , AND ONCE AGAIN I MISS JOSE MOURINHO , HE IS THE BEST . I DONT WANT 5:0 4:0 WINS ,I DONT LIKE THIS CHELSEA,
I WANT OLD CHELSEA WITH HOME POWER THAT BROKE EVERY TEAM
STAMFORD BRIDGE HAD FALLEN DOWN VERY TIME AGO AND ONLY SPECIAL ONE CAN BACK IT
FUCK SCOLARI / FUCK KENYON / AND FUCK ABRAMOVIC , THE SACK JOSE MOURINHO AND THIS IS THE RESULT:ANOTHER TROPHYLESS SEASON
Quoting tbf
Grant won because he simply followed JM, in certain things. Scolari is screwing us up so badly . . .
This is the difference between Chelsea and Manchester United… United win games like this. If you want to be champions you MUST take 3 points in games like this. And what an opportunity we had! The door was open to go back to the top and move 7 points ahead of United, shouldn’t they play with some urgency? I’m really upset at this result… this could have been an amazing weekend.
@#$%# !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quoting Anon
does it matter,there is only one special one,atleast we won home games .. . moreover when he came we were not in the top three but finished runner up .. Lets see next year, how this joker performs – our away games are Man U , LiverPool and Villa, so by first week of Feb, our season might be over ..
All we had to do in summer, was bring Rijkaard instead of Grant .. Rijkaard, Ten Cate & Steve Clarke..
Nothing more to say .. it is feeling terrible, just like May 21, 2008.. don’t seem to have any end in sight..
At last carlton cole has done something good for us. It could have been worse
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Scholari reaction after the game .. By the time he trains with two strikers, it might be too late..
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Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has admitted he is unsure why his side are struggling at home so far this season.
In the Premier League to date, the Blues have won all eight of their away matches, but picked up just three wins from nine at Stamford Bridge, including a disappointing 1-1 draw with West Ham United today.
Scolari admits he is confused as to why success is coming more regularly on the road.
“Yes it’s difficult. When we play here it is different than when we play away,” he said to Sky Sports after the match.
“Away we have more space and we play more with the ball, maybe we are now thinking ‘this is not our home’ and we are not scoring goals, I don’t know what is happening.”
The Brazilian World Cup winner reflected on the draw with the Hammers, bemoaning his side’s poor finishing, which he feels proved costly for his side.
“It was a difficult game for us,” added Scolari.
“We played for much of the game with most of the ball, but we scored only one goal and had three or four good chances, while West Ham had just two chances and scored a goal.
“I think if we showed more quality with our final shot we would have won this game.”
The Blues’ manager is currently faced with a dilemma over what system to employ. He started with Chelsea’s traditional 4-5-1/4-3-3 formation today, which meant Nicolas Anelka started, but there was no room for Didier Drogba, who again began on the substitutes’ bench.
The Ivorian came on at half-time and played a part, along with Frank Lampard, in Anelka’s equalising goal, but Scolari admits he is still not sure on what system he will look to employ on a permanent basis.
“We are dangerous on both systems,” he stated.
“With [both Drogba and Anelka] yes, but also before because when they come on I lose my middle.
“We need to train with that system a lot more because when we only have two forwards and one winger like today I play a genuine 4-3-3 for the second half [with Joe Cole used as a striker], but lose my middle – so it is difficult for me.”
BC…im speechless with chelsea performance now……………………………..
terribly unhappy and sad, Scolari is proving to be tactically retarded to say the least, not only that but his system and team never changes, its so tiring to see ur team having the chance to go top, flip it so casually, yes atleast there was some fighting spirit later but the first half?? absolutely terrible, what the hell is Deco doing on the pitch match after match?? is he scolari’s illegitimate child or something?? i really feel for Ballack and Lamps, because of Deco they are not able to do what they want, while that fool is given the license to roam around helping the opposition them two are confused wether to sit or attack, and are unable to do either, hell dint the old man see what Ballack can do when given the free hand?? or what Lamps does when he is given the freedom to roam??
why is he not playing 4-4-2?? i mean even my dog barks four times then three times(twice)(4-3-3), before even the teamsheet is read, pathetic, i was rooting for Anelka and Drogs to have a go at WHAM’s poor defence and our beloved manager puts the same lineup that has flopped so consistently this season, this is gonna be one long sh*t drawn out season…
AVRAM GRANT WOULD HAVE HAD SENSE ENOUGH TO START DROGBA! PHIL, YOU’VE GOT A PLAN B AND YOU FAILED TO START HIM. YES, ANELKA HAS BEEN PRODUCTIVE. BUT, MORE COULD HAVE BEEN PRODUCED WITH DROGS STARTING BESIDE HIM!
If Drogs is unhappy, I can’t blame him. This is unbelieveable! How the heck do you not play a 4-4-2 at the Bridge with Drogs healthy and the other big three dropping points?
Does anyone remember a couple of years ago when Chelsea whipped the Hammers 4-1 with 10 men for about 78 minutes after being down 1-0? Does anyone remember Drogba’s contribution to the fighting spirit? Phil, didn’t someone sent you the video tape?
Granted, I like the way Phil has the backs bringing the ball forward. That is something Mourinho didn’t do. But, not playing your most complete striker is just plain stupid. Does “beautiful” football have to be stupid? If it does, I’d rather Chelsea play the smart “ugly” football that put trophies in the case.
wat the hell scolari is tryint to tell by saying “i dont know wat is happening”,he is the manager ,he has to have some backup plans,changin formation isnt always the best,and he should have subbed deco instaed of ballack,wat does deco do?absolutely nothing,just passes around the from centre to the wings..dats it nothin else,instead ballack can be a threat in the air we know..
i dont know how long is this going to continue,now even a home draw feels like a loss to me,scolari should just shut his mouth and find out the solutions which he should have done way back and he has got to lose his obssession with deco
i dont care about anything ,be it the penalty incident or watever ,as for me cech just saved our blushes or maybe it was carlton cole with the wrong choice,scolari needs to work something out and stop saying dat “it was a difficult game for us” or dat i dont know shit..
he has been the manager of chelsea since 4 months ,he should have sought out a plan way before
this draw has left me absolutely frustrated ,sorry guys im removing all my anger here
This man is too old to learn.. Jose went to Inter , tried 4-3-3, understood they were not winning , changed immediately to the old 4-4-2 formation.. Till now, the old man didn’t have the time to train 4-4-2, drogba was fit for the last one month ..
This is our away schedule now –
Everton, Fulham, Man U , Liverpool, Aston Villa, Portsmouth, Tottenham, NewCastle,West Ham, Arsenal, Sunderland..
We need atleast 25-26 wins, 9-10 draws probably to match the 85-87 points needed to win EPL. Assuming we win 8 of the 10 home games, we need to win 6 – 7 away games more from the list above ..
Quoting ravi
What is scolari saying , we did not even have a shot on target in the first half . Anelka was easily losing the ball , only after drogba came, we played well.
Well, only way that deco doesn’t play is he gets injured
.. Atleast we will have plan B ,( team with deco)
hey blue ppl
well the only comfort I can feel right now is that am not the only one pissed off
I cant believe LFS is defending his team selection by saying”… lose my middle – so it is difficult for me.” WTF, did he even se what happend witout DD in the first half? I think LFS plays not to lose then to win.
And why were ppl “sleeping” in the back, right before when they scored the first (bellemy)?
why LFS lets players play despite their lousy preformances never stops to amaze me. deco? I dont wanna accuse LFS of nepotism, but damn…
Lamps gets paid to lead the team, not much leadership there nowadays =(
if lfs dont include dd inthe starting lineup for the next game, either he is “retarded ” or he maybe hes gettin some coaching help from upstairs to bug drogs till he explode and lose is temper and put the blame on him when they sell him.-
this surely sums up the frustrations i have had before and after chelsea’s home match. we only play one style from beginning to the end…no innovation, no versatility, no seige mentallity, no confidence drive, no eagerness, no motivation, no inspiration….these are some of the things missing in the team.
for those who wanted sexy football will now see that any ugly win, ball-in-the-air goal makes a lot of difference at the end of the day. we can pass the ball over the whole field, what is most important is the goal. we need to have more than one style at home or even away.
hopeful if we can keep our away form, i have my doubts about our home form. new players will not change anything, its the sytles we need to bring in. we will not be able to get any better player in january, so we had better keep our expectations low.
while Jose Mouhino is gone, he will always be a standard to compare with. i hate to compare him with subsequent coaches, however the belief he gave the team and fans then was fantastic and massive and only wish the spirit returns….where is that never die chelsea spirit, where is that i-should-not-lose spirit, where is that dying-minute-winner spirit.
Luis Felipo Scholari –
You are paid millions to study & employ tactics, when teams park the bus .Understand if this happens once a month or so, not every home game. If don’t know any other tactics , you are not fit to earn those millions and be the manager of chelsea. Gracefully go back . Injuries are part of life .. Every other team has injuries , so injuries should not prevent you from employing different tactics ..
Now this is becoming shameful.
i feel awful doing this but i’m afraid i too must turn on scolari. Up to this point, through the narrow cl progression and the burnley cup loss and the dropped home points, i’ve felt that these were not so bad, considering how all the other teams are doing in the prem right now. We top the league in goal difference, one point behind the scouse shit and playing an “open, attacking game”. Which we now see is not so open considering its the only way we know how to play now. But it’s games like these, when we know what result we need to go top, that champions prove their worth. We should have come out and destroyed west ham in the first 20 minutes, and blitzed their goal mercilessly. It’s dissapointing to be saying this, and i hate being fickle, but scolari must go. he will NOT recieve the kind of money that JM and even avram grant got due to the credit crunch and i don’t think hell be able to make do w/ what hes got right now. It’s a depressing time for blues fans i think.
Quoting pandayumyum
AG got Anelka ( 15 MM) + Ivanoic ( 8MM) + Di Santo (3MM) .. No one know whose signing bosingawa was ( 16MM) and deco ( 8MM) is scholari signing. pretty much even on spending .. in Jan, who is he going to sign – Orlando Sa , ( 21 years) . In what way he is different from Franco di santos or Scott Sinclair or Miroslav Stoch , no one knows, but if he is buying Orlando sa, I would prefer him to sell one of the three , so that their career is not spoilt.. next door , arsenal would buy from us.. Other than that , every other team striker is linked with chelsea.
I like Amir Zaki but not sure, what Scholari can do because he doesn’t play 4-4-2 and Zaki will get chances only if Anelka and Drogba are injured. May be Tevez , as he can play on the wings .. but too costly 32 MM .
Easy guys, its all clear. We have just got version 1.1 of juande ramos and its been released with the brand name felipao. i think its a very good idea to ship this version to the clients in portugal or brazil. it will be a definite hit over there!
cmon guys. give him a break. it is frustraiting but the players like him so i like him. we need a striker like zlatan. when drogba be fully fit we will win. deco was a bad choice today. hope no moore selfish players join this team. the fire in the team isnt really like it was. we will get it back. its chelsea we allways manage something even if we loose.
scolari just have to take more risks to make us stronger. a 4-4-2 would have worked fine
I would have subbed mikel for kalou and deco for drogba. he is being too cautious for my taste.
you guys are right that anelka and drogba should play up front together. scolari definitely lacks experience in the premier league
I do think things will change for good in the coming year. go chelsea
So finally people are getting to the point i´ve been mentioning since a month or so……
(i´was cursing myself as I wrote that line above.)
All i would want to tell now is that, LFS should learn to gamble. Considering the fact that we have good players who can deliver when they get good instructions, LFS should learn to take risks. Atleast make people say that we tried.
Scolari is too fossilised to change his ways. Some people actually said he would be on a learning curve. At 60! This is a man who hasn’t managed club football in years, who has never managed at club level in Europe and who didn’t realise that the EPL is completely different from any other league in the world. Barcelona couldn’t believe their luck when Chelsea took Deco off their hands. The fans blamed him personally for their failings last year. Look at how they’re doing now he’s gone. From the beginning I had no faith in either Scolari or Deco and unfortunately I was right not to do so. Clarke was the obvious person to take over when Grant left. Once again the board has failed and now we are stuck with a BOF who is there to basically top up his pension fund and is dreaming of leaving the British winter and getting back to a nice warm beach in Brazil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9FFlizZuw
Quoting tbf
Quoting CFCIR
Im speechless all i can do is quote these guys….
hi,guys I agree..scolari is to old .he doesn’t seem to have ideas,why doesn’t he want to work on setpieces..that is what Alex ferguson does guys.I am getting pissed whit this guy called scolari…
guys watch this clip and tell me if any of the players have every huged scolari like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9FFlizZuw
that said… I wonder if the board are watching these EXTREMELY POOR results!! i bet a plan is being put in place to cut their loses a get a tactician… for me and many of you the only man for the job is TSO!! but he wont be back for a few years….
Scolari is not the one to lead us to the promise land!! yes it sad to say but true! iI would like to see Mancini here.. as soon as scolari starts to fuck up our season more! if he fucks up the christmas which he had already started to do .. but the end of the January tranfer window scolari should go … we shouldn’t even sack him… scolari must see for himself that that he is not tactical enough and leave.. so we don’t have to pay him for terminating his contract.
Then we Either go for Rijkaard out of his break … or my personal favorite MANCINI.. (he is young tactical… has great idea and training methods+ he did win the Italian cup back to back) remember the Italian league is one of the most tactical in the world.. so he can be successful here.
we NEED back our OLD CHELSEA!!!
I guess the team where right is training methods are just too predictable.Who wont complain after working with a manager like JM who comes up with something new each training day.the man scolari is crap..no ideas guys
Scolari said….
Fans right to boo Chelsea, says Luiz Felipe Scolari….. the fans were not booing the players u fuck.. they were booing u!!!
question why isnt scolari using Bridge in some of the games….. I am wondering if her really thinks he can use the same back 4 for every EPL game!!! ??? BRIDGE should have started today!!
Denver – normally I rate Bridge as well and enjoy his play over Cole, but I thought A.C. played a good game today. Alex however did not have his best at all. His allowed Bellamy to get away from him and both of C.Cole’s near goals were due to Alex losing the plot as well.
So what is everyone’s consensus with the 4-4-2 anyway? Do you think that Scolari feels Drogba is not fully fit to start or does he really not want to start both Anelka and Drogba from the start? I am really at a loss myself and just can’t figure out what he is thinking. Drogs was pushing back in defense and harrowing the defense with his size and strength. To have that effort for 90 minutes would have surely resulted in more goals for us. What do you all think. Why do you think he won’t play them both?
And please, no “We need Mourinho back” nonsense. While it would be lovely, it’s not going to happen.
Good there’s was a blackout where I live last night !
Quoting Wisey
Please why ?? If Kevin keagen can come back to Newcastle, Fabio Capello can go back to Real Madrid , If Lippi can come back to lead Italy, why shouldn’t we think about this ?? JM breathes chelsea, cfc fans like him, even Roman gifted JM a ferrari . So If Frank Arsen is removed, I don’t think it is impossible.
Quoting JoseHoliday
atleast you didn’t have to see the misery ..
i find it funny how the players i didn’t want at the bridge cause all the trouble, scolari is ruining us with his desire to involve deco 24/7, so far, deco has not offered much that i haven’t seen any other chelsea player do before
deco is obviously out of form
with the players we have i think we should involve malouda more, we can play mikel and ballack in defensive roles and play kalou/malouda/joey/belletti in the attacking positions
to be honest, your comment on predicatbility says it all. we have always been a team that likes high balls as our offence tends to centre around drogba.
we are missing the versatality in the left wing
malouda just doesn’t seem to give me hope anymore, kalou does not perform brilliantly on the wing, deco is off form (cant imagine smoking cigerettes helped) so we need to open up that plan b, at the moment, I could almost swear ashley covers the entire left flank on his own
if scolari uses the 4-2-2-2 properly, we can achieve all the space he could want
i think we should be concentrating on the 2 striker formation that will make us revered whether we are home or away
teams are coming to the bridge to steal points, lets get this sorted soon
I have every faith that we are taking the premiership his season, but we want to win with considerable margin, last season we lost by two points, take no notice of liverpool nor arsenal, the scary teams this season are man utd, chelsea, villa and everton, we need to pick up maximum points against all these teams in our next fixtures and the title is ours
I am not an apologist for LFS ( actually I am a JM fan ) bit I thought abt the following
The big group of teams at the bottom half of the league that are only a few points apart is also playing a part in all the big teams drawing with them !
They used to not put so much energy into battling with the big four but now every point earned is crucial to avoid a relegation battle. That maybe is why all the big four are struggling to win against them.
On top of that maybe in the past years the Premiership’s big teams were getting a talent infusion while the so-called lesser teams hadn’t. Now we’re seeing maybe the other other teams catch up. Lot’s of national team players in the other teams ,you know, who might have gone to other countries in the past.
So sorry Anelka is a 14 goal one-on-one striker.
Playing Drogba and Anelka is tough. Everyone saw what happened when we did; it worked today, somewhat, but we became desperately thin up the middle, and the lads simply are not used to that. Practice ont he training ground needs to be tested first.
Quoting Joe
All professional teams are always ready to play in multiple formations. You never know when the need would arise. All teams always practice for the basic ones like 4-4-2 or a 4-5-1 or a 4-3-3. When Sheva was thrust upon JM, he played 4-4-2 from the start. I don’t remember his Chelsea team playing like this despite the change from his favourite 4-3-3. I have seen Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea play different formations in the same 90 minutes of a match! We have started with 4-4-2 diamond and then move on to a 4-4-2 regular, and then shift to a 4-3-3 and to a 3-4-3 and even ended up in a 2-3-5. So, please don’t tell me 4-4-2 is difficult with Anelka and Drogba. It’s an insult to those top professionals and an insult to the man who has won a world cup.
So what does Scolari mean? Drogba is his plan B and he would use him if and only we need a plan B. If things go as planned, Drogba would never be on the pitch? Or he would make a pointless presence at the 85th minute?
we don’t need this kind of manager in our team. he blame the players when we not win.eventhough they not playing their maximum, at least they outclass w h.the only reason we don’t win is green is playing his best. but the two person he should blame instead is himself and the referee who didn’t give the penalty that are ours.jm would not blame the players becos of that ref fault, no doubt.he should think why player can win game at home under previous management.
guys does it matter now who bought who??or what Jose wld have done?? Move on ppl!!
i must say one thing though Scolari’s mistakes are not even worth being solved by a master tactician, he cant even get the basics right, even fools learn from mistakes but our manager is a stubborn fool, i find it most irritating when ppl say u are not the manager so dont talk, but we fans are not dolts, we understand and love our football we pay money for it, we discuss and talk abt football so much, and yeah we dont get paid but we pay for it, but to ask this old fool getting millions to not make elementary mistakes is not too much to ask for(or is it??)!!
he has blown far too many games, he is far too lax on the players, he is very predictable and his tactics are only one sided, its almost as if he is on a determined mission to sink us, hes doing his best to fu$k up everything that was right with us, i have tried to angle for him, but he seems to be useless, he is not worthy of our love or respect and he will have to do something really special to get most of us fans back on his side…
Another barren year…. Two years of fastening… If you continue like this you will become religious fanatics!Hahahah.You think that you are going to win something with Scolari???!!! Come on! It is said that physiognomy of a man matches his character and that man has physiognomy of a rat.By the way i like Alex. He was excellent yesterday. I hope that he will play against us. We do not have Carlton Cole.
And….?? – ????????? ???????????? ???????!!!
What , you do not speak Russian, the language of your boss without whom you would be a scum? Get down to work my friends.
R.K, R.M, SAF.
Okay, this disaster is over. Everton is next. Chelsea is still a point behind Liverpool and are above Gooners and Man U. Perhaps Phil will have a revelation at Goodison Park. “I’ll start Drogba and Anelka. Since Deco sucked last week, I won’t play him today unless I need him for a sub. I can leave Obi on the pitch for the whole game unless he needs crutches. I can try these things on the road. I have nothing to lose.”
look chelsea didn’t play bad but they didn’t score the second goal we had a lot of chances. west ham had only a chance ,mistake of our defence, they score the goal and that’s it…we are creating chancesbut we must finish them..in the matches in our home that we loas points we made chances but we couldn’t score more goals..e.g. with totenham,newcastle(the ball crose the line) and now thim west ham..i hope to be more lucky in the future…i’m optimistike….(Drogba,Anelka in the front line)..!!!!!
Good thing thing I didn’t bet last night ! Would’ve lost my marbles !
Well…johnarejr@47 , I hope the old geezer gets his gall stones AND the team fixed in time for Xmas and give us fans, a good Xmas gift : a top of the league standing !
Finally. People are finally speaking up. I commented on a post by Mourofessien the other day on Deco. He said something abt Deco being a beautiful passer… Yeah he passes the ball to the opponents. seriously, the guy has been shite all season, and I dont see him getting better. He says his midfield wil get thin if he plays 2 strikers. Crap! All season 1 of the midfielders has bn a passenger- you all know who. In the last 2 games we have basically played with 9 men. Lampard and Mikel spent the whole game carrying Deco and Ballack. Ballack has not hit any sort of form all season, Deco is crap. Seriously, tell me one thing Deco is doing that Obi cannot do better. Ok, he cant give the ball to the opponents has easily. Seriously, Lampard’s present form is such that, playing him along with anybody but Deco will give us the goals we need.
On playing 2 strikers,
I really dont think drogba and Anelka can play together. Yesterday, after the goal did anybody even see Anelka on the pitch. even Kalouless was more involved. So playing Drogbs and Anelka is a waste of space.
On playing a DM,
We cant but do this, at least in the absence of RC. The thing is Alex is not playing so well these days and of course, JT just gets slower everyday. So in the absence of someone covering the defence, we will leak goals aplenty. Having said this however, maybe if Bosingwa and Cole would just stay back more maybe they would provide enough cover.
We made it clear that we didn’t like AG. We need to start doing the same for this LFS-n ener call him big phil, never- He is a tactically retarded Arsinine Wenger.
For me the to 3 worst performers on the pitch till now are ballack, deco and malouda. no one deserves a first team place.
I would give siclair a first team place, or even bridge or belleti on the left in attacking role. why are we not playing sinclari on the left, if we are fuckin struggling on the left wing. they all can do better than fuckin deco or ballack or malouda. atleast a chance should be given.
————cechc———–
–bosingwa—–Ivano/Alex/terry————-A cole
–cole/stoch——lampard—-mikel—-sinclair/bridge/belleti
———–drogba/anelka—————————
subs: kakuta, ivano/alex/terry/, ballck/deco (only one), kalou
if essien and rc return, essien will take the place on the right or the left as attacking mid fielder. essien shuld not replace mikel. mikel has been a very consistent player on the field.
Malouda doesn’t even deserve a mention.
————cech—————-
Bosingwa—Alex——terry——asley
——-Invanovic/miniero——–
Mikel————————lampard
———-Malouda/Joe/kalou———
——–droga—-Anelka/Di santos——-
————cech—————-
Bosingwa—Alex——terry——asley
——-Invanovic/miniero——–
Mikel————————lampard
———-Malouda/Joe/kalou———
——–drogba—-Anelka/Di santos——-
The only reason i’m happy today is that I am not the only angry chelsea fan on the blog.
Scolari seems determined to ruin chelsea and all the players. He might have a good managerial CV and all that but let’s look at it; who wouldn’t win the world cup with a fully fit Brazilian side? Avram Grant would do it, I could even do it. Even the old toad (Grant) didn’t lose matches in the Bridge against Looserpools, Assenal and United.
If Football was mathematics then i have some calculations. If Grant’s chelsea (who never lost a match at home) managed to hold Ramos’s Tottenham 4-4 at the bridge, what would Redknapp’s new tottenham do? I don’t think I wanna watch chelsea tottenham match in stamford bridge this season because it will be a total demolition of the already crumbled stamford bridge.
from a true blue.
oh my blue…..oh my gosh
im not sure how you can say ballack is a bad performer, im in fact offended by your opinion, but i’ll get over it
kickin scolari out is not the answer, what we are seeing is a managers refusal to stick to an older system, scolari has always used two defensive midfielders and either 2 or three strikers
i think the problem is we are in the transition of not buying players to fill the void. Remember, even with our dire play, we have scored the most and conceeded the least, stats matter and we will come through this, scolari knows this and him being arrogant, will not change for that reason. I think the return of essien will help scolari truly unleash what he wants from chelsea
Quoting trueplatinum
He is very poor this season and thats the fact.He is just a waste presence in the midfield. I dont care about players history, if he does not play well he gotta be out of the team. simple.
i dont understand what you intend to say. one moment you say that kickin scolari is not the answer and then you say that the manager is inadaptable. isn’t that a paradox. what do you take from this guy? he is 60, managed national teams, cant speak english, and i dont remember if he was under any kind of pressure he faces at the likes of chelsea in all his life. Still he is respectable, we brought him to the bridge, given chances and now we are on the verge of admitting that he did not turn out well. i am only saying that he should be kicked out at end of season, but some of the chelsitos are calling his head before january. you can see the frustration.
Lol, you want to buy players, i say, fuck! we are in this position bcos of buying players. we won two seasons with more or less the same squad sans ballacks, decos and malouldas. then we bought ballacks, shevchenkos and troubles along with them. any player we bring is kind of 50-50 chance for us, he may perform or he may not. it applies to manager as well. If essien returns, if we buy robinhos or kaka’s , he will unleash the magic, sure, then why the heck do we need scolari as manager. May be the coach of Dempo FC is good enough to win the league and roman can save better.
fair point ballack isn’t at his best but he brings something to the midfield that lampard and mikel don’t, mikel should aim to be ballack in the sense of a defensive playmaker who can provide a prescence in the box
ballack is coming to the end of his career, i would imagine 1 or 2 more seasons but I don’t think you can truly deny he has nothing to offer, his passing is still smart although very basic, he challenges for the ball and is good on all kinds of set pieces.
what i mean from the scolari comment, is that with brazil, he coached a very effective 4-2-2-2 where he had no wingers, just alot of wing backs and midfielders with some quality strikers. He coached portugal which has an abundance of midfielders and nothing else and played a 4-3-3, compensating for no dominant strikers by playing overactive wingers like ronaldo nani and simao.
he comes to chelsea, not being fully prepared for the premiership to a team with an abundance of defensive players, alot of central midfielders and few strikers.
I like the 4-2-2-2 formation but expected scolari to opt for a 5-3-2. we dont have the wingers to play 4-4-2 properly but we do have internationally recognised talents. Im not saying scolari cannot adapt, after all, he has played deco on the left wing in some matches, I think he refuses, he obviously wants deco to shine and is trying to build a formation to allow that.
i didnt say that we should buy players although i would love to see messi or podolski at the bridge, but rather the days of buying ourselves out of trouble are over, with that in light, people are calling for scolari’s head thinking he cannot cope, but look where we are, we are two points better off this season than last, look at man td, look at liverpools freak results. I have never wanted scolari out, i welcome him and have faith in him, if the team is to grow, he needs to be kept for several seasons. I don’t care about pressure, neither does lfs it seems, stability has always been our boardroom issue.
look at man utd and fergie, they took on a young manager who started making decisions that didn’t produce instant results, when he brought in players like scholes, giggs, keane, he got criticised, he was told he couldn’t do it, 22 years later and look at machester united, that didn’t come from an instant injection, fergie took time to form a team he knows through and through. Now I could cry over the loss of mourinho or i could say to you, patience is key, yes we lost to burnley, yes our record is gone, but we’re still doing it.
Do you honestly have no faith in scolari?
wow, that is a riduclously long comment
Ok – I admit I was a bit depressed yesterday. I watched the game in disbelief like everyone else. I actually was fairly confident we would come back after how I saw us playing the first 15 mins of the 2nd half. It seemed we started to pour it on but then pulled our foot off the pedal once we scored. Like BC, I had similar points of discussion with the Chelsea fans surrounding me at the bar I was in. Why the hell do you take Joe Cole off instead of Deco?? – and why not take off a defender and keep Mikel on / take a bigger risk and show you won’t except a draw.
When the whistle blew I was a a bit down – Everyone (the big 4) dropped points this weekend and Saturday night I was beaming with anticipation knowing this could be a turning point of the season.
It didn’t happen..
That being said I’m not as doom and gloom as most of you here thinking that this will be a sh!t year w/o trophies. Hell I remember when a year w/o trophies was expected. It is easy to watched edited compilation youtube videos and remember the “golden JM days of 04-07″. meh.. I also remember some pretty f’ing boring football from those days as well. Not to mention the constant whipping boy of money jokes and “buying the title when the other 2 (Man U and Arse) do the same damn thing.
And I wouldn’t trade the the 04-07 years for the 97-00 years (winning the FA cup in 97 was by far the happiest time I have been as a Chelsea fan). You guys can miss JM all you want, many days I miss Vialli (the ultimate player-manager).
What I’m trying to say here is yea it is a bit concerning but look at the days when we are on.
The 5-0 Thumping of Sunderland and Middlesbrough – the 4-0 beating of Pompey on two separate occasions already this year! Man – I am still on a high on the walks I woudl take after those games thinking we have now both winning and sexy football! So true.. other than a solid game at Bolton we have been a bit off form since our 0-0 draw with Newcastle.
But we are in the knockout 16 – and still only 1 point off a just as unstable Liverpool. We still not near as bad off as people here are posting. Personally I don’t want the coaching turnstile approach like they have at the Bernabéu – I like LPS and still think he can lead us to trophies. It will take a completely failed year for me to think otherwise, and we are far from that. I’m not defending his starting and subbing choices but I’m not calling for his head either.
Secondly and more importantly look at our remaing 9 home matches (and I’m pulling from a 606 BBC article here):
WBA
STOKE
MIDDLESBOROUGH
HULL
MAN CITY
BOLTON
EVERTON
FULHAM
BLACKBURN
There is a very solid chance looking at these teams that we can win everyone one of these games (oddly enough Hull being the one I worry most about) even in current form.
Maybe because I remember where we have been it is easier for me to keep the faith on where we are going.
Regardless – It makes these X-mas games that much more gripping!!
Quoting trueplatinum
heh – w/o even thinking about it. It looks like I have surpassed trueplatinum’s comment length~!
About Deco, he is not in his 20′s anymore, getting older. Premier league’s pace and intensity certainly make it more difficult for him to play at highest level all the time. At the start of the season, he was simply outstanding. His performances are now getting a bit slower as the season approaches its half way down to the end. But I think he still should be on the pitch. I don’t mean he should play every single minutes of a match. Since our mid-field is fully available, he does not need to start week in and week out. He was not as bad as people say he was yesterday. Yes, he was losing the ball too easily sometimes. I just think he needs a bit rest and can see him playing in some crucial matches. He is certainly someone who is capable of making a difference anytime when he is on the pitch.
Ballack, I like him, I think he should have won the Chelsea’s player of the year award last season. The man was truly outstanding since he was back from the injury that kept him out of the game for too long. This season, he didn’t get enough rest. Playing in big matches with Chelsea until the end of the last season and leading Germany’s national team in Euro 08 until last day of the tournament were ,of course, not easy. In personal matter, he got married and I think he was busy enough to ignore the rest. He didn’t start the season pretty well, got an injury in the opening game. I think he would be as important as Lampard has been for Chelsea in the second half of the season. But I can’t see him playing every single match as well.
There are some rumors questioning Scolari’s training methods and Chelsea’s medical staff. It must be questioned. I can’t remember when was last time we are suffering such a lot of injuries at the start of the season. I can’t remember how many times Carvalho was out of the game for 2 months. Essien could have been playing right now if Scolari and his buddies did not rush him to play when he was feeling a pain. In a club like Chelsea, there we have 2 or 3 top-class players in every single position you don’t need to rush a player. If it happened at Liverpool or Arsenal I can surely understand.
Recently, some rumors coming out of Chelsea camp questioning Scolari’s training method. Some say it is too old fashioned and a lot of physical work and running which put a lot of pressure on the players. I am not an expert or something. But I doubt those would help us break the organized defenses. I can understand now why Steve Clarke desperately wanted to leave the club which he loves and had worked for over 20 years. Scolari did not give him the job he deserves/had been doing over the years. I can also understand why we are conceding such cheap goals lately and not scoring any from set-pieces or corners. It was Steve Clarke, unsung hero, who did all the training, made it work, and gave the players instruction they needed. Even Grant said how important it is to keep Clarke at the club. Mourinho always gave credit to Clarke.
This season, I am becoming one of the biggest Mikel fans. I can say he has been the most consistent Chelsea player so far this season. He delivers such high-class display every match and can’t understand the manager who takes off his best player when there are still minutes to go. I can’t imagine Mikelles Chelsea even when Essien returns.
Finally, I want the Chelsea spirit back. Seems like our winning mentality and fight-until-last-second spirit are gone. The man who won the World Cup outsmarting all the managers is in charge. Sounds like we have no need to worry. But everyone is worrying.
I think you made a very pertinent comment by saying that other teams have realised that our game comes all from the right side of midfield. With the very good Biswinga and Cole teams close the space very well on their left side (our right). This closes the game completely out for us because we have opted to stop the long ball direct approach strategy. The only problem with Chelsea at the moment is not whether we play 433 or 442 or 4141. (All though i Drogba should allways start unless rested). The problem is that we are to predictable because we have a very bad horizontal balance in this team, we dont have a left sided midfielder like joe cole on the right. Malouda is very poor and couldnt beat myself one on one. Cant dribble and has little speed.
Now Imagine a (ribery/Ashley Young) creating this horizontal balance to our left side of midfield? Thats what we need!!!
Our team balance vertically through defence -midfield-attack is very good but its this left side of midfield that is lacking.
I hope if Scolari buys a player it is a left sided player. If he doesnt do that we can definatly say i would have been a better Strategist than he his, not a better manager of course i dont have the know how. But come one if one doesn’t realise that our downfall is not having a speedy left sided player, who can beat players one on one and put crosses in, is not someone who understands the football game.
Drogba is fit for sure… but to call him in-form is a little bit ridiculous
Here we go again with fans wanting to buy players with MONEY WE DON’T HAVE ANYMORE. If you read BC’s post he was comparing Scolari to Mourinho. And rightly so. The core of our team is pretty much unchanged. You can’t blame it on the players anymore. It’s down to management. Scolari’s incompetence to make GOOD substitutions is partly the reason. When Mourinho had players out. He did not whine about not getting a Robinho or kaka. He simply went out and made a plan with the in form men he had. It also comes down to the players hunger to win. And nobody better then Mourinho could rally the boys at half time. I feel that LFS lacks all that is to be a top manager.
Quoting Vinton Lindo
70 mins against Burnley – scores the only goal
25 mins against Cluj – scores the winning goal
45 mins against West Ham – sets up the goal
Both the goals were not tap-ins or simple finishes. They were brilliant goals. I don’t know how you can call him not in-form?!
Only GOD knows what would happen at Old Trafford – Emirartes – Villa Park and Anfield !!!
Scolari have to be boot asap , Deco is old and slow , no midfield ie Ballack is going to leave his last efford in the pitch is there other player which does not contribute in the recovering, dont run , only walk the field and is in favor of this stupid manager. The day we had our first lose at home i didnt watch any chelsea game for amonth or so, now I found we have three loses at home , stupid scolari and stupid idea Deco is destroying the winner morale of the group
bye
if we play joe cole ballack deco and lamps in medfield, drogba and anelka in attack with the same defenders then we are unstopaple if we dont do that then we will keep losing most of are big games
if we play joe cole ballack deco and lamps in medfield, drogba and anelka in attack with the same defenders then we are unstopaple if we dont do that then we will keep losing most of are big games
Quoting TIMS
thats the worst line up for chelsea i have ever saw
[...] when the team is booed off the pitch, as they were after Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Ham, it is surely fair to ask if it’s time for a change of [...]
everyone says Deco is old and blah blah….
but i personally cant remember his scissor-kick against bolton which talk for it self about his form !
Quoting GamingTheSystem
We have 10 home games, I think you are missing Wigan . Of the ones in the list, last season we dropped points against Wigan, Everton and Bolton. In fact, we have not won against Bolton in last 2 seasons . So lets take nothing for granted..
Quoting Mahyar
I would be happy if we draw at Old Trafford and Anfield. The next 5 away games are crucial because we play , Everton, Fulham, Man U , Liverpool and Villa.. Everton is not playing good at home, so that and Fulham are managable, but the next three, we need Drogba .. Simple as that..
As Scholari Says , we are facing A or B or C team in England now, so it will reveal our true away form..
chelsea not going to buy any one
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It seems that Chelsea really are no longer the Premier League’s money men, after owner Roman Abramovich told manager Luiz Felipe Scolari he will not be given funds to sign players in January.
According to a report in the British tabloid The Sun, the World Cup-winning Brazilian had hoped to sign Newcastle United’s Michael Owen & Orlando Sa from Braga in a bid to install more competition in attack.
Apparently, Sa, a Portugal under-21 international, had been on trial at Stamford Bridge and looked all set to remain with the Blues, until Braga demanded a fee of €6.1 million.
It seems that ‘Big Phil’ may be content to settle with what he already has at his disposal for this season, after declaring: “I don’t think the club will buy, I don’t think they’ll sell. This is my squad, these are my players.”
When reminded of the club’s less prosperous home-form this season, Scolari replied: “I need to work harder and I need to find the solution for this situation.
“I need to look at putting one player in a different position or making a special position for one player in some games.
“But I know I need to think about my squad only, not new players.”
When asked what he feels is letting Chelsea down at Stamford Bridge, the 60-year-old remarked: “I need a good connection between the middle and front of the team.
“Sometimes I have the connection but I don’t have the players there to score a goal.
“Sometimes I have the players to score but I don’t have the connection from behind.”
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i will only be watching away matches only. anyway, chelsea fans lets keep talking and put more pressure on LFS that we demand more from him. the board is listening and not deaf. xmas break period is a new one for LFS and i hope he his prepared for it.
for God sake, even if we lose, LFS should be able to explain the result and console us not telling us he doesn’t know why we don’t perform well at home………..just foor for thoughts.
someone said
“OK ive just had A vision guys!Abromovich wants us too play atacking football.We should go out and get a coach and pay him a fortune who can bring this to the club! Then when he askes for only 2 cirtain players we provide him with the much older and much less important one and totally stuff up the transfer for the player to bring exactly what we need.Then when it is painfully obvious that things arent working the powers that be who make all the desissions decide that they cant spend any more money to fix the mess that they have created?O wait a second that has already happend!”
…. its majority kenyon’s fault guys!! his philosophies are wrong for chelsea.
Ill say it again we NEED a TACTICIAN !! we say we have no plan B… a good manager knows how to change a game, make the right subs change the formation; The old man does not know how to do this. we look like shit on set pieces and corners!!! we miss CLARKE
guys if our away form goes bad we are FUCKED, I speak the truth, and if it does, The old man should go even sooner,
He is the manager and he is saying I DON’T… fuck that…. he should not have allowed it to reach a point were we can win a game at home….. champions are able to nic a goal in the dying moments!!!
BC i seriously think something is wrong with Drogs, either he is poised to leave or there is some activity happening behind SW6 doors, the thing is that even when he is scoring Scolari does not put him in the starting 11, there is a reason that he does not want Drogs to become a major part of the team and he is trying to make the team play without him, just give it a thought, i dont know what it is but something is wrong with DD for sure…
we will still support the blues forever to win all cups of season
possible Adriano loan move being mooted
http://www.fansfc.com/frontpage/frontpagenews.asp?newsid=194509
What i feel is that there is a psychological war going inside the Chelsea team and coach. I think the players are divided in three groups. Specically players like Anelka, deco and Bosingwa are in LFS side. These guys are new to Chelsea, and they don´t know how it was like under JM.
The other players are basically the same as under JM. Players like DD, lampard and Mikel know how it was like under JM. And they can sense the difference in tactical quality between the two coaches. Now drogba is a big-mouthed player, i don´t think he would simply do that what his coach tells him. He plays mostly the way he feels right. He questions manager if he finds his role stupid. So DD and LFS must have fallen apart, coz´LFS is arrogant, and so is DD (+ intelligent). In recent few games i noticed frustrations in face of Lampard and Mikel, which shows they are clearly unhappy with the way they are playing.
the last group of players are JT, A. Cole, Ballack, J. Cole, Kalou, Belleti, and co. They don´t care about what type of coach they are playing under. JT is a captain, so he has pressure of his own, can´t talk publicly anything. Ballack is too busy proving himself and trying to earn himself a trophy coz´he´d soon retire. A. cole gets a place anyway coz´he´s the best in england. J. Cole and Kalou are ok with everything coz´they know they can´t achieve anything special in comparison with what JT, Lampard and DD has achieved.
So, there is a disbalance in team itself and then there is a lack of faith with the coach as well. Its clear the LFS cannot deliver when we really need it, and few players know that, that has affected the selection. So some players are getting places regulary even if they are playing bad, and the others who have doubts are actually not surprised that they are not getting the place they deserve.
I wish LFS good luck, coz its sure, if he continues this way, we´ll be going for new manager rather than a new player.
we need to change some things around …
REMEMBER THERE WAS ONLY TWO MINUTES TO GO IT WAS WAYNE BRIDGES GOAL THAT SENT US OUT OF CONTROL (AT THEIR HIGHBURY ***** HOLE) AND KNOCKED THE ARSENAL OUT OF EURO!
scolari should play Bridge on the left .. he would do well!!
what do you guys think??
I dont think he will he isnt that inventive as a manager
@83. IwasMissingJose I think they(chelsea board) are secretly shopping or a manager indeed….
joeblue, my thoughts exactly
when drogba got upset last season and said he wanted to leave, grant stopped using him as much so i wonder if something is happening
someone else mentioned about the left side of midfield
WHAT HAVE I BEEN MOANING ABOUT?
I have craved a left winger for so long, I had prayed for ronaldinho or messi over the summer but maybe we should be promoting some youth more, what about ryan bertrand?
the whole deco situation is frustrating, because although he does have talents, he isn’t the answer, he is good for set pieces but he has his own weaknesses, slow, weak and often ahead of himself
Scolari’s methods, Letting Clarke go, bad move, get him back, he will help scolari understand his team better
i can only say, brazil and portugal are both highly technical teams with alot of spped and dribbling ability in the midfield, joey is probably scolari’s favourite player right now. We aren’t quite ready to lose drogba although his injury proneness makes me wonder, are we getting our moneys worth? put di santo on a huge training program, sell drogs, bring in another talent, sukuta-pasu? karadeniz? dembele?
Quoting denver
That was my favorite Chelsea goal of all time!!! – (Mostly because I hate Arsenal so much) but man was I through the roof on that one. I can still taste that goal!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/photo_galleries/3605297.stm
**Pics 7 and 8**
Quoting denver
God knows what masterstroke it is or wasting money paying his bills also .. He is not even playing drogba so adriano would be behind him.. Poor Franco Di Santo back to reserves and Scott Sinclair will be send on loan..
Another paper reports we will pay 20 MM, In which case, I would sell of Kaluo and one youngster and probably get Tevez , who can play as striker or on the wings..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/chelsea/3777391/Chelsea-will-not-buy-in-January-says-Luiz-Felipe-Scolari.html
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Deco has urged Scolari to find a way of playing both Drogba and Nicolas Anelka.
“With Didier we have more presence in the box, we are stronger, for us it is important in the midfield to have one player like Didier,” he said. “I think we play better with Didier and Anelka.”
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With Deco asking, probably he may start with both drogba and anelka…
scolari is nw asking for an ‘organiser’ after asking for a striker….he says chelsea needs a playmaker who can dribble….i really hope abramovich can give scolari some funds..
Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has admitted that a lack of creativity and imagination in midfield could cost the Blues’ the title.
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/8953232/Blues-boss-bemoans-creative-void
this man has no confidence in himself or his players!!
jose had confidence in both himself and the players!
grant had confidence the players!
so he is trying to say if we win nothing he is not to be blamed…..?
Scolari is just fucking overrated!!
I TELL YOU IF OR FUCKING AWAY FOR (WHICH IS KEEPING US ALIVE IN THIS RACE ) DIPS SCOLARI IS FUCKED SOONER RATHER THAN LATER!!!!! I PROMISE YOU THAT MY FRIENDS!!
WTF is this; “”Deco, Michael Ballack and Frank Lampard can all shoot but I don’t have a player who can dribble.
“When we are at home our opponents close up at the back, with lots of men behind the ball.
LFS lost it,
now are midfielders aint good enought=)))))))))))))))))
I wonder what is gonna blame after we draw our next game? maybe he gonna say JT isnt good enought to play CB and Cech is average?????????????
am shocked ppl
=(
/go blue
if he does that he better know he will be out the door the next day !!
for the record West Ham never parked the bus they came at us !!
this guy has too many excuses!
I tell u any team that any quality what so every or comes to concentrate for 90 mins is gonna get the better of u !! that is what we have turned into !!
@ BC did newcastle prevent us from scoring (0-0) a few weeks ago???