Chelsea FC's Sweet 16 of 2011 - The Final Showdown

I have to feel that we’re being pretty easy on both Mata AND Danny. There’s no way, in a normal season, that they’d get the level of praise from us that they have.

Sure, they’re both class but they’re both really patchy and in and out players who you just cannot rely on to perform yet-though I realise they both need time to fully settle into the side and their places in it. My point is, though, they shine because we’ve been awful most of the season and I struggle to think of more than a couple of games where we’ve really played that well-even Valencia at home we didn’t dominate, you know?

Anyway, someone playing as well as Mata or Danny at, say, Spurs or City wouldn’t get the praise they have with us. I just hope they don’t, as individuals, believe all the hpe because, for me, neither has even cemented their place in our league let alone in our hearts as Chelsea stalwarts just yet. I like them both but there needs to be a lot more consistency before we should be claiming either are World class genius types.

For instance, Danny was terrible when given his way at Blackburn and played through the centre while Mata is all too easily cut out of games these days-increasingly so and while AVB won;t risk playing Josh for whatever reason they’re stuck as the only two likely to do anything much!! Zero creativity outside of these two and, the unfairly hated, Luiz. I made DL MOTM against Villa for us despite the press hating on him again-he AND JT failed on the second goal FFS not just him and apart from that he was our best player.

If we sign Cahill to get Dave out of the team I might just have a bit of a break down!! Why play JT alongside a poor version of, well, JT?