With Spanish play maker Juan Mata out with a hamstring injury, Chelsea struggled to create the chances that we normally create these days and in a lackluster performance, allowed Swansea to share the spoils at the Liberty stadium. With the draw, Chelsea's reign at the top of the EPL also came to an end with Manchester United's victory over Arsenal earlier in the day.
With Luiz out with injury, Chelsea started with Ivanovic and Cahill at the center of the defense with Cole and Azpilicueta at the full back positions. Romeu was given a start along side Mikel at the center of the midfield, with Moses coming in for Mata. Hazard,Oscar and Torres completed the attacking four. Chelsea still had the attacking threat,but the lack of creativity in the absence of Mata was very evident right from the start. Chelsea somehow got the lead through Moses, after he deflected a Cahill header towards goal. Chelsea seemed to be happy with a 1-0 victory as RDM sent out Bertrand in place of Oscar, only to see the Swans hit back through Hernandez to make it 1-1. Overall a very disappointing performance to say the least. So what went wrong? Here are my thoughts.
Romeu and Mikel shouldn't have started together:
Romeu and Mikel are very similar kind of players and are a bit slow in passing the ball. This meant that the attacking midfield trio did not get the balls quickly enough.Ramires should have started the game along with either Mikel or Romeu. Ramires eventually came on at half time.
Why is Marin not playing:
One player who must be kicking himself for joining Chelsea would be German winger Marko Marin. The pre-season saw the German coming up with some really good performances on the left. At the start of the season,Marin was injured and after a frustrating period on the sidelines,Marin is now fit but it does seem that RDM is simply not prepared to put the German on the pitch. Today was a perfect opportunity to give him at least 10 minutes, if RDM was prepared to sent in Marin instead of substituting Oscar with Bertrand. At 1-0,we should have tried to score one more instead of the defensive option of Bertrand. Also it would have given some time on the pitch for Marin.
Hazard and Oscar were disappointing today:
There were too many loose passes from Hazard and Oscar today and this contributed to Chelsea lacking the punch going forward. All the more reason why Marin should have come on for either of them . Torres too was disappointing in the final third as another goal drought seem to have hit the Spaniard. Hopefully it won't run for a long time.
Next up is Shakthar Donetsk at the Bridge in what is a very important game for us to qualify to the knock out stages of the Champions League. In the must win game, Chelsea will have to up their tempo and hopefully Mata will be back for the game. A performance like today, and Shakthar will punish us.
With Luiz out with injury, Chelsea started with Ivanovic and Cahill at the center of the defense with Cole and Azpilicueta at the full back positions. Romeu was given a start along side Mikel at the center of the midfield, with Moses coming in for Mata. Hazard,Oscar and Torres completed the attacking four. Chelsea still had the attacking threat,but the lack of creativity in the absence of Mata was very evident right from the start. Chelsea somehow got the lead through Moses, after he deflected a Cahill header towards goal. Chelsea seemed to be happy with a 1-0 victory as RDM sent out Bertrand in place of Oscar, only to see the Swans hit back through Hernandez to make it 1-1. Overall a very disappointing performance to say the least. So what went wrong? Here are my thoughts.
Romeu and Mikel shouldn't have started together:
Romeu and Mikel are very similar kind of players and are a bit slow in passing the ball. This meant that the attacking midfield trio did not get the balls quickly enough.Ramires should have started the game along with either Mikel or Romeu. Ramires eventually came on at half time.
Why is Marin not playing:
One player who must be kicking himself for joining Chelsea would be German winger Marko Marin. The pre-season saw the German coming up with some really good performances on the left. At the start of the season,Marin was injured and after a frustrating period on the sidelines,Marin is now fit but it does seem that RDM is simply not prepared to put the German on the pitch. Today was a perfect opportunity to give him at least 10 minutes, if RDM was prepared to sent in Marin instead of substituting Oscar with Bertrand. At 1-0,we should have tried to score one more instead of the defensive option of Bertrand. Also it would have given some time on the pitch for Marin.
Hazard and Oscar were disappointing today:
There were too many loose passes from Hazard and Oscar today and this contributed to Chelsea lacking the punch going forward. All the more reason why Marin should have come on for either of them . Torres too was disappointing in the final third as another goal drought seem to have hit the Spaniard. Hopefully it won't run for a long time.
Next up is Shakthar Donetsk at the Bridge in what is a very important game for us to qualify to the knock out stages of the Champions League. In the must win game, Chelsea will have to up their tempo and hopefully Mata will be back for the game. A performance like today, and Shakthar will punish us.
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