Tag: Juan Mata

  • Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Hates Being Asked About Kevin de Bruyne

    Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Hates Being Asked About Kevin de Bruyne

    Now that Juan Mata is back in the lineup, Jose Mourinho is being questioned for another player that’s on the bench – Kevin de Bruyne. However, the Chelsea manager doesn’t like being asked questions that don’t fit his agenda, giving him the trigger needed to get up and leave in the middle of a press conference.

  • Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Getting Noticed For the Wrong Thing

    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.

  • Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Needs to Have Juan Mata With Him

    Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Needs to Have Juan Mata With Him

    The way Jose Mourinho has been selecting lineups, it’s as if he didn’t watch Chelsea play last season for a single second. Anyone who has would have told him that playing Fernando Torres without having Juan Mata lined up behind him is pretty much useless, as the Spaniard is the only one of the attacking midfield trio capable of creating opportunities for strikers.

  • Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Should be Starting at Striker

    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.

  • Chelsea FC – Juan Mata Has No Chance With Jose Mourinho

    Chelsea FC – Juan Mata Has No Chance With Jose Mourinho

    Some minds can’t be changed, and Jose Mourinho has shown more than once during his career that his treatment of the Juan Mata situation isn’t new, and isn’t going to suddenly change just because there’s an obvious push from the media to give the Spanish player his place in the lineup again.

  • Chelsea FC – Juan Mata Succeeds in Helping Fernando Torres

    Chelsea FC – Juan Mata Succeeds in Helping Fernando Torres

    The entire lineup Chelsea used for their League cup match screamed second string, or ‘Jose Mourinho doesn’t believe in you,’ although with enough quality to probably do quite well against better rivals, a strong performance from current misfits Fernando Torres and Juan Mata was enough to qualify into the next round and prove their manager he needs to take them more seriously.

  • Chelsea FC – Oscar Makes Jose Mourinho Look Like a Genius

    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.

  • Chelsea FC – Juan Mata Deserves to Play For a Manager That Wants Him

    Chelsea FC – Juan Mata Deserves to Play For a Manager That Wants Him

    A month into the new season, and it seems like the alleged rumors of Jose Mourinho not wanting Juan Mata on his team weren’t that far off the truth, as recent headlines indicate of the manager giving the Spaniard some sort of ultimatum to change his playing style or risk more time on the bench or worse.

  • Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Needs Some Stability Around Him

    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.

  • Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Can’t Play With So Many Changes Around Him

    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.