What changes do you want to see for next season?

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Warning! Warning! Pedant alert!

Trying to nick a 1-0 result would still be trying to win the game

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[Mattshark]

Mattshark- Chelsea played 2 upfront alot this season.
Barcelona played 3 strikers and id say thats alot better than 1.
Real Madrid played Ronaldo and Higuain together upfront as a duo
I bet if Berbatov was any good then fergie would not have been forced to play Rooney alone

I never mentioned one striker, that is you jumping to conlcusions.

Ronaldo is not a real striker.

[Kenneth]

Remember saying at the time that I thought the Keane signing would make or break Rafa. Although not directly in the end, I think it was a major issue that undermined his reputation/credibility with the squad and fans to a degree.

Where's my chuffy badge?

[Ryan_Derrick]

Chelsea played them as two strikers fairly often.

If you create chances, it stands to reason that if you have two good finishers/strikers in the box, you'll probably convert more chances than if you've got just one.

But if you don't have anyone deeper/wider to put the ball in the box you'll have 2 strikers in there doing nothing.
There is on problem with the 4-2-3-1 system as long as the 3 are creative and support the one (something only SG has done on a regular basis).

Our problem has been as much the lack of service than lack of bodies in the box.

[Craig_H]

No
My point is that having a striker and an attacking mid would also be 2 players in there or even 1 striker, 1 attacking mid and the player from the other player

To be fair, if rafa had played a system with 8 strikers, or a system with no strikers at all, either way, you'd be on here arguing its merits.

You remind me of tompkins

[Craig_H]

But if you don't have anyone deeper/wider to put the ball in the box you'll have 2 strikers in there doing nothing.
There is on problem with the 4-2-3-1 system as long as the 3 are creative and support the one (something only SG has done on a regular basis).

Our problem has been as much the lack of service than lack of bodies in the box.

Hence why i included the caveat of 'if you create chances'.

[Mattshark]

To be fair, if rafa had played a system with 8 strikers, or a system with no strikers at all, either way, you'd be on here arguing its merits.

You remind me of tompkins

This is nothing to do with Rafa.

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I never mentioned one striker, that is you jumping to conlcusions.

Ronaldo is not a real striker.

Yes he is. He is striker because he played upfront for Real Madrid alongside Higuain and he scores 30-35 goals a season. All sorts of goals. Every type of goal.

[Rich]

I'm not a Chelsea expert but I bet you'll find that the majority of Chelsea's formations this year were a kind of 4-5-1/4-3-3 hybrid. Where Malouda, Drogba, and Anelka played as a forward 3. So not dissimilar (on paper) to our system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310_Chelsea_F.C._season#Start_formations

[Ryan_Derrick]

Hence why i included the caveat of 'if you create chances'.

I think you posted that while was still typing my post

[Mattshark]

I'm not a Chelsea expert but I bet you'll find that the majority of Chelsea's formations this year were a kind of 4-5-1/4-3-3 hybrid. Where Malouda, Drogba, and Anelka played as a forward 3. So not dissimilar (on paper) to our system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2...art_formations

[Craig_H]

This is nothing to do with Rafa.

The point being that whatever the manager chooses to do, you'll toe the party line and say it's the best option.

[Pablo]

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FFS!! When I read your edited post I thought you meant I had typo'd in my post and you had corrected it I then re-read my post about five times without spotting anything before I realised what you meant in the first place

[wiw]

Less injuries

[Craig_H]

Top players not sulking and actually playing as if it means something to them.