P302Rivals Football - Chelsea FC
Sometimes....
by Famous, 01/10, 09:37

Playing from the back drove me mad in the early games last year. For all his strengths, Cahill is not a ball playing defender and Courtois never looks comfortable with it.
As you say, you can maybe get away with it against lesser sides, but when you're playing good teams and you know the personnel you've got isn't suited to doing it, why bother? There must be other ways of trying to keep the ball without either trying to slowly knock it around at the back waiting to be hassled into an error, or just lumping it long and hoping it sticks.