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Chelsea vs Schalke – Andre Schurrle & Willian Shouldn’t Return to the Bench
It seems that every week is a new lesson for Jose Mourinho about the idiosyncrasies of his team. This week’s lesson? Andre Schurrle should always start, and Willian is finally start to look like a player who cost as much as he did, with the two of them being the driving force behind Chelsea beating Schalke 3-0.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Enjoys Terrible Refereeing
Despite the impressive scoreline, Chelsea were far from it in a home match that should have gone down as a more comfortable afternoon. Instead they relied on Samuel Eto’o cheating and Eden Hazard making the most of referee Anthony Taylor not seeing clearly or simply not knowing the rule book too well.
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Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Getting Noticed For the Wrong Thing
Despite giving his finest performance of the season thanks to Jose Mourinho realizing Juan Mata should be on the field, what everyone now remembers from Fernando Torres and his match against Tottenham was his scratching and sending off, which might result in a three-match suspension, taking Chelsea another step backwards.
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Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Should be Starting at Striker
There are quite a few problems Jose Mourinho has to deal with going into the next league match with Chelsea, and one of them is at striker. The answer? Considering the limited talent pool he has at the position, there’s no doubt it should be Fernando Torres.
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Chelsea FC – Strikers (Fernando Torres, Samuel Eto’o, Demba Ba) Who Can’t Score Goals
One of the interesting facts about the current crop of strikers Chelsea currently has, consisting of Fernando Torres, Samuel Eto’o and Demba Ba, is that they’ve scored less (combined) for the club since the beginning of last season, while loaned out Romelu Lukaku or gotten rid of Daniel Sturridge have outscored them on their new teams.
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Chelsea FC – Oscar Makes Jose Mourinho Look Like a Genius
The best thing Jose Mourinho could have hoped for after explaining to everyone why Juan Mata isn’t as important to him as he was for other Chelsea managers over the last couple of years was having Oscar start, play well and score, making the ‘Special One’ seem like the man with an answer to everything.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Needs Some Stability Around Him
At some point, defeats and disappointments can’t be laughed and shrugged off arrogantly. Chelsea have a strong team, but a manager who continues to be infatuated with rotating his most important players, leaving Eden Hazard with two different sidekicks every match, and left with a lineup that struggles to create chances.
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Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres & Samuel Eto’o Need to Start Scoring
It’s hard to believe Jose Mourinho actually means it when he makes it sound like the only problems for his team are not being able to convert chances. There are more issues than scoring goals, but it does provide as a warning sign to both Fernando Torres and Samuel Eto’o that they have to do better.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Can’t Play With So Many Changes Around Him
There’s too much change, shifting and rotating in the Chelsea lineup early on in the season, as Eden Hazard seems to be the only attacking player with an unmovable stake in the first XI, as it seems Jose Mourinho has a squad that’s a bit too big for his own good at the moment, not making the right decisions with it as well.
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Chelsea FC – Samuel Eto’o Might Not Have Been the Wisest of Signings
Even if Samuel Eto’o still has plenty of goalscoring talent to help Chelsea, it’s not certain that adding him into the mix of strikers was the smartest decision made by the club this summer, and might regret their decision to add the player.