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Chelsea FC – Juan Mata & Eden Hazard to Bring Trophies the Right Way
No one remembers, or wants to at least, ugly champions. Chelsea won the Champions League last season, but it was through uninspiring, painful to watch football, “robbing” more worthy teams of their just due. Juan Mata was part of that team, but that victorious ending isn’t attributed to him, or the style his presence on the pitch is usually for. This season, with a lesser trophy up for grabs, and as a foundation for the future, the Spanish international wants to win playing attractive football.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard, Juan Mata & Oscar Make Frank Lampard Look Good
Scoring goals through penalty kicks doesn’t make you a brilliant scorer, but compliments have always been easily showered on Frank Lampard, even when he doesn’t deserve them, and most of the credit in his “better” performances this season for Chelsea have come thanks to the creative trio in front of him, consisting of Eden Hazard, Oscar and Juan Mata.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard & Juan Mata are the Present & Future
They talk of a magical trio, but in the truth it’s just two players – Eden Hazard and Juan Mata that are truly special. Oscar still has some consistency and physicality issued to tend to before he can be considered as good, giving Chelsea a truly unique threesome that plays behind a striker, Fernando Torres, that can’t seem to provide the right kind of outlet to his talented teammates.
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Chelsea FC – David Luiz & John Terry Take Over the Scoring
When your strikers, Fernando Torres in this case, can only score when there’s a full moon outside, you have to rely on other players to deliver the good. While Chelsea usually rely on Frank Lampard or the creativity of Juan Mata and Eden Hazard to provide goals, for once it was about the centre backs, as David Luiz and John Terry came through with the finishing touch.
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Chelsea FC – Juan Mata & Eden Hazard Need Better Midfielders
If it wasn’t for Petr Cech, Chelsea wouldn’t have just left Wembley as the losing team but also as a humiliated one. All the talent in the world, mostly presented with the likes of Juan Mata and Eden Hazard, can’t make up for the shambles of a defensive midfield currently deployed at Chelsea, giving them less than the chance they deserve when they’re up against a quality side.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Playing Like He’s Just Arrived
When the season had just begun, Eden Hazard looked like the next great thing for Chelsea and the English Premier League, but a few things went wrong along the way. Now, months later, with the goals of the team slightly different, the Belgian star is playing the kind of football that earned him so many compliments in the early goings.
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Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Can’t Have a Perfect Day
Every time you feel Fernando Torres is going to have a special day to bring him out of the doom & gloom he’s been experiencing since becoming a Chelsea player, he finds a way to f$%^ it up. Every goal he scores is cause for celebration, but even Eden Hazard winning a penalty for him seemed to have the opposite effect.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Turns The Ship Around
It’s hard to imagine how gloomy the situation would have been if Rafa Benitez wouldn’t have made the changed that he did early in the second half, and Chelsea wouldn’t have forced a replay. But Eden Hazard did come on, and Juan Mata did play wonderful football, and eventually, there were a few centimeters away from a huge win.
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Chelsea FC – Demba Ba Rises Above Managerial Hate
There’s nothing Rafa Benitez can do to end the hate and protest directed at him (for fear of the owner) but win a league title or the Champions League, but that won’t happen this season. All he can do is win matches and finish in the top 4, and with Demba Ba scoring again, that shouldn’t be too difficult of a task to accomplish.
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Chelsea FC – Fernando Torres Isn’t the Only Problem
There are a few reasons to Chelsea not really living up to the preseason expectations, that go beyond the fact that this was in less than perfect thinking by Roman Abramovich and others when building the squad, but Fernando Torres and strikers in general not scoring goals seems to be the main one.