After a convincing win against West Ham United, Chelsea suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Swiss side Basel in the Champions League.
Mourinho’s men will look to bounce back on Sunday in another tough fixture vs Southampton.
The Saints lost their last game at the Emirates Stadium and surely Stamford Bridge is not going to be any easy as well.
Chelsea played a different 4-3-3 formation versus the Hammers that worked brilliantly, however with tired players, it back fired against Basel.
Fans are of the view that Mourinho must not start Lampard each and every game as against quality oppositions he has been awful.
Other than that, they also want last year’s player of the season Mata back into the starting lineup but will Mourinho pay any heed to their advice. Highly unlikely as that will be very unlike Jose.
Here is Chelsea’s likely starting XI vs Southamtpon.
Torres Starts – Chelsea's Likely Starting XI vs Southampton
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Having Willian on the pitch and Mata on the bench is a symptom that something obscure happens in Mourinhos mind.
In my opinion he’s a “can’t publish”. There is no name for what he is doing to Mata.
Mourinho go home, take your bad vibe with you.
Never come back to Chelsea.
I am mad also to all Chelsea fans who give a blank card to Mourinho to do whatever stupidity he wants. These fans want titles no matter what ,even selling his soul to the caprices of Mourinho. What a shame.
Do you think in rotation of players? Do you think Mata and Luis are useless? Do you think Willian deserves to be on the pitch? Do you think Willian cost 32 Million? Well Mourinho thinks all the contrary to you. There is only one way to describe him “The Stupid One”.
Before I used to record all Chelsea games and enjoy watching them later, now I can’t hardly see a complete game, today by example I am writing this instead of watching the game against Basel. Since the beginning of the game only to know the formation was enough to know it will be a boring game.
Now I understand why Abramovich fired Mourinho years ago.
Please Mr Abramovich fire this succer again.
But willian deserved to be on the pitch
why shld Willian be on the bench, Mourhino go home, re employ AVB, strange how u pple think
Morinho is a kind of person who always believe that no one knows than him talking about coaching and football formation, i cant see the reaso why Matta has been benched for so long! But lets wait, i m sure he will prove nothing to fans by benching Mata and palying Lampard.
Yes this true Mata deserve to play and we
fan of Chelsea we lose our money and
time to support our team and u Morino if u
Don’t satisfy us pls don’t kill our time and
Leave chelsea in peace pls we want our
especial player like Luise Mata we want to
See them thanks
Mourinho, i think its high time you change your silly selection of the team. whats with you and Mata?????
and Lampard’s legs are getting tired by the day, better use him as a sub not as a starter.
we soccer fans are waiting for better results come sunday. Coz we dont have time for dropping
any more points. if you are really the special one, then a word is enough for you.
Mourinho is an example of a pure negative influence on Chelsea,he got no idea concerning game of football anymore he is jst being sentimental n foolish in his football tactics,i think he shld jst resign n try his luck in farming
Mourinho is a good coach yes yes but the kind of players at Chelsea do not suit his playing style…..Oscar and hazard will fed with time, Luiz should better try else where and Mata should leave in January…..
Tacticall having many defenders on a pitch is useless in modern times, but however the simple approach is to
cover Mata, Oscar and Hazard with Mikel and Ramires……Lampard should leave Chelsea and go else where
Anyway, if people are praising you, not that you are better than others, not that others do no know anything, not that others are useless. pls Mr special one, its better you maintain your dignity by calling u such name. make use of Mata, Luis, even its a mistake to loan Moses. but what of those that are still with d team. these ppl are d one who won champions league and europa league for CFC. pls we still d chance, our winning strategy is in our hands. pls enough is enough
t them bt remember,Abramovich is losing patience.We don’t want Mou to go that’s y we are criticizing.This Benitez squad was best last season.Id like to see Luiz back in Mid alongside Ramirez.Marzacar infront led by Torres.t them bt remember,Abramovich is losing patience.We don’t want Mou to go that’s y we are criticizing.This Benitez squad was best last season.Id like to see Luiz back in Mid alongside Ramirez.Marzacar infront led by Torres. t them bt remember,Abramovich is losing patience.We don’t want Mou to go that’s y we are criticizing.This Benitez squad was best last season.Id like to see Luiz back in Mid alongside Ramirez.Marzacar infront led by Torres.t them bt remember,Abramovich is losing patience.We don’t want Mou to go that’s y we are criticizing.This Benitez squad was best last season.Id like to see Luiz back in Mid alongside Ramirez.Marzacar infront led by Torres. t them bt remember,Abramovich is losing patience.We don’t want Mou to go that’s y we are criticizing.This Benitez squad was best last season.Id like to see Luiz back in Mid alongside Ramirez.Marzacar infront led by Torres.t them bt remember,Abramovich is losing patience.We don’t want Mou to go that’s y we are criticizing.This Benitez squad was best last season.Id like to see Luiz back in Mid alongside Ramirez.Marzacar infront led by Torres. t them bt remember,Abramovich is losing patience.We don’t want Mou to go that’s y we are criticizing.This Benitez squad was best last season.Id like to see Luiz back in Mid alongside Ramirez.Marzacar infront led by Torres.t them bt remember,Abramovich is losing patience.We don’t want Mou to go that’s y we are criticizing.This Benitez squad was best last season.Id like to see Luiz back in Mid alongside Ramirez.Marzacar infront led by Torres. Cech,Azpilicueta,cahill,Terry,Cole,Luiz,Ramirez,Oscar,Mata,Harzad,Torres.I always pray for this squad.
The greatest mistake that mourinho does is starting lampard ahead of mikel at all the time because he(lampard) lacks the strength, and so, he can’t charge the midfield, he can’t block opponent’s passes, of which is our main source of error. And also, he has no reason for benching mata. So these are the problems we have.
Funny how shallow some so called Chelsea fans are. But more worrying is their forgetfulness, Lack of facts And biased comments like the guy who said he has never seen Chelsea play as poorly as they played against basel before.
Go look for the tapes of games under Rafa Benitez, with Benayoun and co in the midfield And you would be in tears in few mins. Go look for the games against city, Liverpool and any other top team we played.
Personally, I don’t agree with Mou benching Mata he deserves to play, just like every one else, but I also don’t agree with him deserving τo play simply because he was Chelsea’s best player in one of our worst recent seasons in the EPL. At a point last year, we were 3 points behind the league leaders. Months later, we were so far away that even if the leaders had lost 5 matches, they still won’t be looking over tђeir shoulders.
We played terribly against Newcastle and Basel and lost, but this same team with Mata couldn’t qualify from the group stage of the champions league last season and 2 sessions ago, couldn’t even finish 4th on the league.
What does that mean, it means Mata is No Drogba so less fuzz about him playing or Not, the team is well on track and the coach definitely knows best.
You might have forgotten that Chelsea squad was very thin and there was no depht. On the other hand, with the squad this team has now, plus the qualities available, it looks very sad that Chelsea still has no answer. The problems are to be found in Mourino and his Lampard whether you like it or not.
Rest Lampard and play Essien or David Luiz is well.
The problem is that #Mou is too proud and pride comes before a man fails. Put things in perspective, Lampard doesn’t deserve to start a single match for us again. Iva is a total disgrace while playing right back. If #mou Is playing Ashley Cole for his performance Vs Newcastle,can we please remind that retard of a coach that the two goals came from Iva’s position not Cole’s. Lampard,Iva and Eto’o should start from the bench. Mata should play as No_10 and Oscar can play Lampard’s role while Rami and Mikel can play box-box and Holding mid-field respectively. Torres is the man to strike,its always Luiz and anybody to partner him while Cole takes back his place and Azpi comes in for Iva. Hazard and Schurrle can share the left wing while KDB and Can share the AM role while Willian will share with Mata,period. #Mou is just being stubborn.
Dear Mr mourinho, we chelsea fans in nigeria love and respect you a lot. To some of us here you are a mini god, to some you are a hero and to me especially I see you as my mentor, I wanna be you. But we have seen your best and we believe in your abilities as a coach and we know you have blue blood in you, so with that we plead with you to start playing juan mata in our games. We love seeing him on the pitch and we hate seeing him on the bench. All we are saying pls play mata 4us…
all the people who criticized mourinho don’t act stupidly wait and watch players like hazard and others need a little more time his thoughts are superb he sent moses and lukaku because he does not want to bench them .example for what mourinho has done is look at Torres he has transformed him .I can assure that Torres will be amongst goals by end of the season and even though if Chelsea do not win the league they will definitely do in the following years.people compare mourinho to Rafa but premier league teams have become devils since Rafa left the special one is the reason we are 3rd in the table wait andwatch
Thank you Ben,Mata wont change the team dat much as pple may think.Willian is even better upfront,i back Mou but he should not play Lampard now.
i have nothing to say but, Jose is retarded in dexterity in handling a big team like chelsea,my advice for him is that he should go back home and play on play station.let di mateo come back abramovic
Mourinho is still special whether you pple like it or not,and dats why we are in top 4 right now.The league is tough guyz.
Thank you Ben,Mata wont change the team dat much as pple may think.Willian is even better upfront,i back Mou but he should not play Lampard now.
I like mourinho a lot but sometime he makes me scream with anger.
Lots of time i don’t like his team selection n i feel like we play huff n puff football n keep running after ball n have no control on the game. Most of the time he is geting his team selection wrong. I thing against southampton we should play with torries upfront n then hazard schrle bahind n mickle oscar rameris as 3 man midfield with normal back 4.use mata for any tacticle change.
Mouriho is the right man for Chelsea. Because the premier league for now is the hottest in the world. Pls Mouriho use your Tactical & Psychological exploits to move Blues forward, i dont want us to loose matches any more. Basel match should be last game to loose. Choose your players, but make sure we win games & carry the league.
I am indeed disappointed at Mou’s selection.It’s clear that Lampard is no longer d Lampd we knew 4 seasons ago,he (lamp) is not creative in d hrt of d midfield therefore there is a need for some technical readjustments ie, d likes of mata n mikel should be deployed instead d weak service of lamp.Pls Mou, learn from ur mistakes n also seek advice from your subordinates because nobody is perfect when it comes for the game of football n a big vlub like chel.Thanks.
I wish Rafa got diz squad, He would have done much better dan Mou, coz each n evry player would have enjoyed da life at the bridge. We won europa league with da likez of Benayun, Fereira,Bertrand,even Ross Turnbull enjoyed hiz last moments at da bridge, wat if Rafa heard diz current squad dat Mou, iz wasting, Mou, rem, too much benching results 2 out of form, so Mou, rem, Mata wont do bext nw coz u already rotted him. Last c-son by dec, Mata heard 10 premier league goalz by hiz name 4get about assist, so stp foolling uz with Oscar, Rem, Mata wont defend da team älone, b,coz he iz not a defender, n sh’ld do wat iz meant of him in da pitch, Mou, rotation iz allowed to avoid rotting playerz in da bench.
All what you guys are saying about MATA make no sense. Mata was good, what about now. How many games has he played and how many have we won. Forget Mata, Mou is what Chelsea needs. Has anybody talked about how tired is Ivanovic?