23 Oct 2016 20:01:08
I always aid we are long way off being a Jose team. It won't be until December when players will get scared of losing their places and by that time Mourinho will know what players to buy.

I also feel a lot of our players should look at themselves in the mirror before stepping on the pitch again.

Players like Smalling, Blind, Fellaini need to be replaced in the next couple of windows i still don't understand what Fellaini does to be innthe starting line up.

We can't have Fellaini play for half the game and expect us to be winning the midfield battle.

Playera like Pogba and Zlatan are new so they are excused even though zlatan looked isolated today, he literally had no service at all and you vant have your striker have 1 chance a game.

Pogba will take time to adapt to Mourinhos game but players like Smalling, Blind and Fellaini have been here for a few years they should know what to expect from Chelsea and should be putting their bodies oit their on the line to get us the points.

We literally were scared to tackle and created very little going forward, a lot of players will need to watch their back as Jose won't take anything less then full commitment from these lot.

1.) 23 Oct 2016
23 Oct 2016 20:13:12
The biggest difference for me was Kante. The whole game chelsea played as if they had 1 extra player than us! They was comapact and tight and caught us out more then a few times with our Midfield nearly non existent attacking wise or defending. Our defence is poor, they cannot cope unless we have our midfield sitting back. We can't expect Bailey to do all the defending every game, because it's obvious Smalling shouldn't be no1 CB and even Vidic had Rio by his side. Blind can produce games at CB but he isn't a CB so he won't always have a good game there. For me we're a CB away from being a winning team, a top CB who can lead and not have to rely on his Midfielders all the time to come back and help.

2.) 23 Oct 2016
23 Oct 2016 22:16:20
Have said in a related post the collective love-in a lot of had with Smalling now is surely over. He is pants! How he can be a United and England regular just boggles the mind. Jose's strength is defence and counter-attack but we look like jelly in the defence and its impacting the entire performance. what's happened to Luke Shaw btw?

Its harsh on Blind who, though he looked v poor today, has been a regular throughout time he has been here and in different positions too. But our ideal back 4 would surely be:

New RB - New CB - Bailly - Shaw.

{Ed004's Note - I actually think it would be harsh to drop Valencia. I would look at bringing in an understudy with the view to replace him in the near future though}