Jose Mourinho never expected that his second coming to Chelsea football club will become a nightmare for him that too very soon.
The Portuguese manager knows that premier league is tougher than the days he left England for Inter Milan. On the other hand, you cannot be complacent in the Champions league and last night they paid the price against Basel.
After a decent start, Chelsea have now lost two games in a row, last night at Stamford Bridge where Mourinho’s record is brilliant.
Why are Blues struggling even though they have a quality squad? The main reason why Chelsea are suffering is because they did not reinforce two major positions in the summer transfer market.
First, a world class striker. They had the funds; they should have signed Cavani or any other big name but wasted all their time looking to lure Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney. In the end, they signed 32 year old veteran Eto’o who is past his best.
Although 2 games are not enough to judge him and the Cameroonian may come good, still Chelsea should have made a statement with a top top quality striker. Drogba was the last striker to score 20 or more league goals for them in season and that happened way back in 2010. Since then, they have never been able to sign someone prolific enough. Torres, no point even discussing him and his flop record, Sturridge, they sold to Liverpool.
Chelsea are creating chances and that they should with a brilliant attacking midfield lineup but they do not have a clinical finisher. They wasted many chances against Everton and should have sealed the game versus Basel last night but were wasteful.
The second position is that of a quality central defensive midfielder. Mourinho always likes to have a top class CDM in his side. Makalele was there at Chelsea, then Essien, Cambiasso at Inter, Khedira at Madrid.
Now, he has an ever inconsistent Mikel, a veteran Essien who was not even selected for CL group stage and at times Ramires does the job while is not a natural defensive midfielder.
They were linked with the likes of Khedira and De Rossi but did not sign them and now Mourinho’s defense does not really look as solid as it has always been.
He cannot sign players until the next transfer window and will have to fix things up quickly before Chelsea fall in deep trouble.
We shall see what the Special One can do about Chelsea’s dilemma.
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Jose can never. get best. of Chelsea. with lampad in the team and Chelsea. will continue to lose if Joe Muro for. favor of England. players it look like Jose is not doing is job is looking for way to stay
Absolutely spot on comments. Lamps and Ramirez totally not disciplined enough for holding role. Also together with Mikel they can’t retain the ball or dictate play which is vital for this role. Coupled with this Mikel is just awful and slows everything down allowing the opposition to regroup Three poor striking options. Utd were never going to sell Rooney to a rival so I painfully watched the transfer window fly by and waited for the last minute Eto panic buy. Identical to Modric situation Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
Defensive midfield is not the cause of CFC’s lack of scoring problems. Sport writers are not fair with Mikel. Mikel was marvelous in the Basel Match, supplying accurate and direct passes to the front line. The issues with CFC not scoring goals is not lack of strikers either. Eto is doing a marvelous job. Get the world best striker, the problem will still be there. CFC problem is the star studded midfield. They all want to be on the score sheet. Eden, Oscar, and Mata don’t supply the front line with much passes. They do alot of dribblings. Oscar always passes to Eden, even when strikers are at advantage position. They do play together up front neglecting the striker. The midfield do starve the strikers of ball.
Some of these clowns talking shit here. Chelsea don’t score they blame it on mikel, chelsea conceeds goals they blame it on Mikel. You like or you don’t like it, Mikel is our most disciplin and most reliable DM. Lambs hardly wins any tackle just runs round d field and takes virtually all freekicks , corner kicks and penalties. Je should be used like scholes once in a while, cause his ageing.
Hazard is a great player yet he keep on making silly mistakes and easily giving the ball to the opponent.And another blame goes to the coach this selection was something else.Seriously what is he trying to prove or does champions league look like fa cup to him?
I’m a L’pool fan so I realise its far far too early to review how the season will enfold. Suffice to say that I assumed Mourinho would buy a top top striker and had you as big favourites for the title.The lack of that signing was rightly levelled at us at the start of last season and we couldn’t do anything until the Jan window.
Still think its you or Man City tho but Jose needs to smack Hazard and tell him its about the team !!! If he can keep a lid on his ego could be one of the top 5 players in the world.
I also think the buying policy has been wrong as players appear to be selected by committee and Jose has to choose in future windows.
God knows why you bought Willian. Great player but not needed.
So pleased you sold Daniel though. Madness. I remember Owen Coyle saying that he was fantastic at Wigan when given a run of games and played down the middle.
Correction……Bolton not Wigan Ooops
I beg 2 differ completely with the writer. Chelsea problem is none of the above. It is simply that of ill-luck. We have not just started well. But we’ll definitely end well beginning with the next game. Believe me.
I totally believe in what you said, the end of the matter is what matters alot.
Chelsea fans always remind me of why Benitez called them plastic fans. When Mikel plays a minute of football and chelsea lose, it’s all his fault. I still remember chelsea have conceded the first goal yestaday before he (Mikel) was brought in. Also, the second goal can only be blame on Cahill and to a lesser degree Peter Cech. For God’s shake, why was Mourinho allowed Hazard to waste the entire 90mins? Give him competion with Willian and Schurrly, Hazard kept on, trying to dribble 2, 3 players why Eto’o was there waiting a cross. Must our midfilders dribble? They really need discipline. Lampard too does not help, yet I still don’t understand why a 35yrs old player gets 90mins always at the expense of more energetic De Bruyne, the guy I have more confidence in when looking for goal than Hazard himself. This second coming of Mourinho is looking like a nightmare already as we have lost understanding of the game against any opposition despite a crate full of cracken eggs.
I do not agree that Chelsea has a problem. The squad this season is better than the one we had last season. The team will bounce back very well, just wait and see.
Mourinho will build a good team . i am happy the team is having challenges this early. The team will recover on time and will soon gel.
I agree with u completely
I think the problem is from the midfield,the midfielders do not create clear cut chances for the strikers, mourinho just have to seriously talk to Hazard he does more harm than good to the team what is he (Hazard)trying to prove and again what in God’s name is Lampard doing in cfc shirt he should go n sit down if this cfc team must succeed this season
As for me lampard is one of out major problem can any body tell me d marking lampard made&won d ball yestday?he also kill us in super cup too d work was too much 4 ramires why won’t he collect red card he doesn’t mark always looking for free ball to score one marker is better Dan 2 score me i am not seeing mourinho meritocracy here iu said lampard is not 25 he can not play every and not even 90mins but he play all matches mourinho is bias only lampard on d pitch is short to us we don’t need lampard anymore we accept his a legend and we respect dat so he shud respect himself too now i begin to understand why mourinho said he shud not leave chelsea to MLS and secondly mourinho talk big too much some of dose tins he say put pressure on dose player sychologically he shud know and learn how to talk less he shud do his talking on pitch blues till i die one luv 4 all chelsea fans
Please for Christ sake chelsea management shud ask mourinho Mata do to him last 2 season Mata was d only creative midfielder we have and we went ahead and won d CL b4 we bought d likes of Oscar hazard last season they where called d three muscateer there is no defence they can not unluck instead of mourinho to follow d trend he want to show d world his d best by scattering them which is pride and wat kill man faster Dan a bullet is pride! Incase u don’t know fine we love u mourinho no doubt but we invited u to help us wit what we have on ground and not to scatter them and start afresh we started our young players buying policy b4 u came and it was working fine that even pple where already calling us barca on blue bcos of our beautiful pattern of play pls mourinho my knees are on d ground my love 4 u is still d same but sit down and have a rethink of this whole thing pls no more lampard maybe carling cup or he shud join d coaching crow and let d young boys do their thing on d pitch! We Chelsea fans bear the pains wen u loose i could not eat yestday but u lampard eat and crush ur expensive car and get the alert on ur phone wit d fat money on ur account! Pls i take God beg una if i die b4 my time God will ask u pple question ooooooooooo so pls play gud football 4 me and always win i know u can not win all but at list make we fans happy luv u all Chelsea 4 life .
infact,u have said it all,i only want to lay emphasy on a word there,pride,mou always believes im himself and anything he does,to build on the mateo cum benitez team becomes thing of shame to him that is why he wants to disorganise and brings out his own built team that he can proud of in the nearest future even if he quits the team like d one of 2004 to 2010,he is depressing and affecting we fans psychologically.talk to him to do what is right now,mata matters in the team,he should start using him nw
This is the only forum I have visited and everyone is staying calm which is pretty good. We all wanted Mou though some minority would deny they never wanted him but he was the best we all know and believe can do the job.. Now he’s here and things are going pretty bad, we all need to stand by this team now because we have no excuse, we have the coach we all cried for so no complains.
Mou’s Midfielders in the past
Chelsea days —– Makelele, Essien & Lampard
Inter milian—– Thiago Motta, Cambiasso & Sneidjer
Madrid: Alonso, Khidera & Ozil (Modric)
Not signing a good defensive midfielder was a big mistake.. More so, if Chelsea even got Falcao or Cavani, they will also struggle the way all our strikers are struggling. Limited chances are always been created.
A typical Mou’s player is not only gona be skillful but also be able to do the marking for him with excellent work rate. This is just the reason why he snubs Mata.
Now he needs to recall Mata to the starting 11. Give him 90mins in consecutive games to pick up his best form. For him to be successful with this, the formation needs to go back to 4-3-3. Since we’ve been trying all things and none is working, I feel it’s time we recall the Ghanian powerhouse, Essien to the middle of the pack and lets see how we can still utilise him. For me, I do like Mou to try something like this
Cech
Apz——–Terry——Ivan———Cole
Essien—-Willian(box to box)—Luiz (Ramires)
Oscar——-Eto’o or any—— Mata
This formation would allow more flexibility and even provide cover for overlapping wing defenders.. Mata, Oscar and Willian can alternate while Essien stays deep and Luiz a bit offensive as he’s still got some nice passes. We all know what Willian is capable of and he also has excellent work rate and can also assist with the necessary markings in the middle. Even if Mata doesn’t do much marking, the rest would do it and for now, Hazard needs to be dropped.
Just a suggestion..
The midfielders are too similar. There is only one way of moving forward and attacking, Chelsea cant counter attack their opponent again. Counter attack was used as the best option with the last two managers. There must be fast wingers.,improvising hazard and oscar as wingers wont solve the problem. Counter attacking really helped Benitez as it suits Torres perfectly.
Addition of two many players sometimes create imbalance in the team. Oh my God why loan out Lukaku, Etoo is not premier League-ready, it will take some time for him to adapt. This is a problem created by the orgy of just buying quality and not minding how they will fit in and how the younger players will develop. Sorry Mou, the premier League has changed. >Bnitez was smart not changing the way the previous manager had set up the team.
Noo. I don’t believe our Midfielders are similar as people have been saying neither is Mou changing any formation. We are still using the same 4-2-3-1. Don’t let us forget that this same team was knocked out of the Champions league last season and we all cried that we lacked depth and all. Now we have depth, we complaining about similarities.
The only difference is the dropping of Mata. He has been our best player in the past 2seasons but let us be frank, he hasn’t been at his best so far. Oscar has been our best player so far this season. However, Playing Mata regularly can help return him to that form and that is what Mou needs to do now.
One thing we need to know as Chelsea Fans is that;
This so called Sexy football we are dreaming of will only bring us fourth in the Epl and nowhere in Europe, Yes. And chelsea started declining as a tough club since our obsession with Sexy football. We won the premier league then all because of our own kinda football and style. We built a fortress at the bridge and destroyed teams with our style and even created records for fewer numbers of goals conceded. This same style also won us the Champions league.
Not saying we need to keep defending now but for we to become the invincible chelsea, with the right mind set, will and zeal to win and kill off games, we need to play our own kind of football. We lost the real chelsea a long time ago. This present Chelsea is not the same Chelsea we all knew then.
Lets Face It Folks…Its Obvious We Still Have Problem In Our D.Midfield And Thats One Of Our Major Problems, Ramires Does All The Dirty Work There, Meaning Whenever He’s Injured,Not Fit,Or Suspended We’re Going To Be Woeful And The Only Way 4ward Is 2 Bring In Someone Like De Rossi Come January As He’s Not Cup Tied In Ucl.
Lot of people are getting confused, the players Chelsea signed are not bought to play mourinho’s kind of football. A very good coach will make use of these players without going to the transfer market. Eg Rafael Benitez came and turned things round, he understands the players he knows where David Luiz can exhibit his full potential. Let’s just admit it, mourinho is not a good coach. Forget the past.
What do you mean by ” past “? Winning champs lge with a certain Porto? Breaking the man Utd dominance back to back? Winning Italian treble? Being “able” to break Barca dominance by winning the la liga? How can one forget this? Jesus Christ!!! Not even an amnesiac would….. My God!!!
And what did Rafa turn around? Winning one cup out of a possible 5? Turn-around indeed!
The writer was spot on. Chelsea lack a classy defensive midfielder. Mikel plays too far forward so much that when we lose possession of the ball there will be too much for opponents to run into. The sooner Mourinho solve this problem the better
hahahahahhahahhaha. What all are saying is ok from their own point of view; but to me what I have to say, is that what happened or happening to CFC now is normal thing. It happened to L.pool and Arsenal last season. But I strongly belive that as from next match CFC will pick up. All the CFC player are ok ie active just little problem the club need to fix back. The proverb says; the end justified the mean. Champion League and EPL just started and the is open wide enough that anything can happen. Cheer Chelsea 4 live.
Chelsea didn’t buy Victor Moses to be send on loan, lukaku has come of age, jaun Mata kept on the bench. What’s mourinho thinking, Ok he wants to come and build his own team”oh mourinho’s boys not Di matteo or Rafael Benitez boys, the truth is that he’s too proud. The problem of Chelsea fc is the board. When Rogers left swamsea they hired Michael Laudrup continuity, Barcelona did the same thing and other big clubs . Mourinho only comes to destroy the good work Di matteo and Benitez did
I hate when people condem lampard. for Christ sake lampard has been one of our main player.his atributes is attacking midfield, he was the one dat gave oscare a subline assist he scored at basel,he initiate counter attack.watch chelsea goal video clips.Chelsea main problem is formation, let d coach use 4 3 3 formation wit mikel lampard and mata or mikel mata ramires, wit torres up front. Torres understanding wit our attacking midfield is more coherrent dan eto and ba.
I don’t know wot Mikel has done to sport writers! Mikel is the only midfielder in Chelsea that makes us keep possesion, jst like Makelele……they keep on saying his not fast, t, he can’t detect game , can’t score and so on. Pls ow fast was makelele, ow many goals did he score for chelsea. Cos all I cud remembere is Claudio sitting infront of back 4. when we played super cup, man u, and Basel mikel wasn’tt part of the team. How many clear cut chances did we create? Compared to Eveton game?he gives room for others to go forward wit confidence. Chelsea midfied shd be Mikel / Ramires and Lamp shdn’t be getting the nud always…. And Hazard shdn’t always start. I believe so much in this squad and Mou, let’s keep the faith on……chelsea 4 life.
Facts abt our losses so far
1) MOU is a good coach
2) Hazard is fat, selfish, and tired. He needs to stay on the bench for some games. He cant dazzle thru defenses for now, as he is begining to lack ideas.. Watching from the bench wld open up his creative mind once again
3) The team shld be built around our best player for the past 2 seasons MATA. He might not be in form, but we all know wat an inform MATA can do. He needs games to get back into shape.
4) Mikel is the best holding midfielder in the team and one of the best in that position in europe. Positional play and passing is top notch. Defensive ability is very good. Is reading of the game is excellent. But he isnt a mechanical machine. Neither is Van Ginkel. If u per these DMF with Lampard and Ramires who are not positionally disciplined u put alot of pressure on the main DMF. Play Mikel as a regular alongside ramires/ Oscar or Van Ginkel. The center circle should be there boundary when moving forward. Our wing backs can always assist the AMF.
5) Luiz can play DMF alongside Mikel/Van Ginkel.
6) Alternate often Cahil/Terry to play alongside Ivanovic as CB. Let cesar play the RB.
7) De bruyne shld play more often cos of his energy and Dynamism.
SQUAD for next game
CECH
CESAR IVANOVIC CAHILL COLE
OSCAR MIKEL
De BRUYNE MATA Willian
BA
I agree with the article. Striker and defensive midfielder are the two areas of weakness and this has been the case for the last 2-3 seasons. I actually think a world class defensive midfielder (not too many around) would help the strikers and may negate the need to sign another. Due to our struggles to get and hold the ball in the middle of the pitch, our talented attacking midfielders cannot impose themselves on the game. Gone are the days when our sheer physical strength together with skill in the middle of the park gave us the upper hand against teams like Barcelona and Arsenal. Maybe people are now appreciating what players like Makalele, Ballack and Essien brought to the team even when they weren’t doing the spectacular. Unlike many, I feel for Torres. He largely fed on scraps in his first season and a half. Drogba was able to do that but Torres is different type of player. It is no surprise that when a genuine chances come his way now, he struggles. Self doubt must have entered his mind and at that level if that happens, you’re finished.
I think I agree with wot everybody ve said concerning d problem of chelsea n I still support d fact dat our problem is nt all about buying a world class striker coz b4 dose player were rating world best dey raise under one club den we go dere n bring dem after all it bring disaster to our club, luk at beteke who knws him b4 bt when it start scoring chelsea want to buy which is a shame to us, even if we use a dead striker n get d ball very well I think e will score bt at chelsea everybody want to score no pass noting.pls morhino bring bk Mata to d full 90min u can use hazard as a susbstitute to oder players an leave torress
As for me, I don’t even know if Mouriho has come to build or destroy,,, What the hell is JUAN MATA siting on the bench doing??? Please If there’s any way MATA offended Jose Mourinho, i suggest jose Mou. should forgive we the Chelsea Fans Pleazz…. We really missed JUAN MATA.. No MATA No Passing, No MATA No HAPPINESS, NO MATA NO ROMAN, WITHOUT MATA THERE WILL BE NO GOAL, WITH NO MATA THERE WILL BE NO CHELSEA… WITHOUT SOME ONE LIKE MATA CONTROLING THE MIDFIED, ALL OF THE PLAYERS ARE PLAYING RUBISH… JUAN MATA is the very BEST… Mourinho should get it, He is too proud of himself… Please ROMAN ABRAMOVICH should talk some sences into mourinho’s head before it’s to let… Jose Mourinho is hurting we the Fans too much in his opinion by droping MATA on the bench!!!!!
For Mou to succeed he must stop the Favoritism! Lampard is the major cause of our problem this season! Benitez, di matteo detected this problem last 2 season and lampard-terry were only used for less crucial games! Without lampard and terry last season we did not only defeated manU but took possesion as well unlike this season were lampard -terry presence mounts unnecessary pressure on the team! He is good at scoring goals but please in that position we need people who can tackle as well as link the defence to attack! All lampard does is to run forward in search of goals and can’t link the defence to the attacking midfielders which inturn forces luiz,cole,iva to run out of there positions just to do lampard’s job therefore making us vulnerable at the back when countered! Mou watch our last season games please
Team selection and discipline is what is eating us.why could the defenders be competing with midfielders and strikers at the dying moments of the games?Most of the time Iva,Luiz and Cahill were caught offguards.Lampard could be seen running around waiting for free kicks and penalties to take.Hazzard could be displaying his trickery while looking for Oscar and not who best placed to score.Etoo too engrossed to score a debut goal putting himself under pressure unnecessarily.What we need is our players to stay calm,discipline and ofcourse luck.
All the chelsea fans know our problem. our last 2 season the team would build on juan mata and now see the midfield, the more problem u course, u re the 1 blame.