Chelsea FC – The astonishing Andre Schurrle and other demons at international stage

Continuing on the same vein, Mata’s performance against Georgia reminded everyone that unless you have Xavi or Iniesta on your team, Juan should be in the starting lineup.

He gave the World Cup Champions an extra gear while also securing the victory that allows Spain to defend its title in Brazil next year. Mata’s ability to split defenses and find the open teammate goes hand and hand with anybody noted for executing precise runs (Cesc,Schurrle). The Andre-Juan tandem should start together for the foreseeable future with Chelsea.

On the other hand, from the Chelsea players representing England -Lampard, Cahill- we did not learn anything new. Lampard showed that he can still contribute but only for a limited time, so he should be used from the bench in any team, and Cahill was as solid as he has been for his club, yet nothing spectacular.

The remaining Chelsea players that saw action on this international break performed as expected with the only notable points being De Bruyne’s and Lukaku’s goals for Belgium.

On top of all that, leaving the good news for Chelsea aside (no injuries, players playing as expected), the international break was full of entertaining twists and turns. From the surprising fact of having Belgium, Switzerland and Colombia seeded for Brazil 2014; the last time Colombia was at the world cup was so long ago that a one legged player known as Beckham scored his first goal for England, not surprisingly from a free kick (1998).

To the heart stopping ending of the Concacaf’s qualifier, where Mexico was eliminated from the World Cup at two different times during its match with Costa Rica, and finally got the chance to face New Zealand in a playoff for a spot at the World Cup thanks to injury time goals by the United States in its game versus Panama.

Still if the football gods are to be fair, Mexico should not qualify for the World Cup since it is only getting an extra chance by virtue of playing on the Concacaf, any other team in any other confederation would have been eliminated after winning only 2 out of 10 games as Mexico did.

But if Uruguay can use its savings the last four years to be seeded, if qualified, over the Netherlands, the Mexican people deserve to have all its Univision machine making noise in Brazil.

So, this break was a period for confirming our observations plus giving us unexpected entertainment in the process. Let us hope the World Cup itself is as entertaining as its prelude.

PS: Once Fernando Torres is fit again Mourinho should have regular meetings with Vicente Del Bosque on a regular basis, because even though Negredo performed well for Spain, “el niño”s higher level compared to Negredo’s, when at the top of his game,will make both “La Furia Roja” and Chelsea better.

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