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Swindon vs Chelsea in the Capital One Cup.

been a hard day. slowly striking up a report.

tomorrow. too late now isn't it?

haha my bad, I messed up the timezones.

UEFA did, but the mind was made up already not to. Viktor Kumykov, the Shakhter coach, had suggested the sacrifice would be repeated but a Celtic spokesman said: "Clearly this would not happen. Shakhter have spoken to the club and said this is a misunderstanding and made it clear they have no intention whatsoever of doing anything like this."

It's cancelled. was apparently a misunderstanding.

Bayern have played so far with Kroos-Mueller, Shaqiri-Mueller ,Gotze-Thiago and Shaqiri-Kroos. Neither of them play the #10 role. #10 role is meant only for one. it's a common misunderstanding that it is a name for the players in the middle. it actually means a trequartista, which can play on the wings too. All the two combinations, none of them are pure #10's except Gotze or to some extent Kroos. Shaqiri and Mueller drift to the wings, with the German having the ability to play as second striker, and Thiago , Kroos come back to defend and hold alongside Schweini. Having more than one trequartista, means having two connectors that connect the midfield to the front line. Imagine a water sink, and one drainage hole. You need only one connector, having two, either slows down the process, or leaks all the garbage out. In the same way, having two trequartista's who hog the ball and create space and exploit holes is detrimental to a team's play. No team has been retarded enough to try that. Until now atleast. Once again another common misunderstanding is that Chelsea have no width. The wide players cut inside, i.e. KDB, Hazard, or whoever is on the flanks. Ivanovic and Cole provide more than enough width by pushing forward. Moreover in a possession based strategy we don't need width to break down buses. again what Villa did is organized defending, not parking the bus. If width was needed, than Barcelona would not have had so many shots on target.

System wouldn't work. it will come crashing down. no balance.

Willian is not in the match squad and van Ginkel doesn't play an attacking role.

He is as close as it gets though. even though they don't carry out the exact same duties.

3 Chelsea players. :/

Haha, it's an insult to Messi , that Andy Gray said on live television. When everyone was talking about how Messi's the best player in the world, Andy questioned how he hasn't faced physical football like that played by Stoke City, who literally play rugby football. So it actually means, no matter how good you are, can you do it in the English Premier League?

Lampard is suffering from fatigue. If Jose really wants to play him in big games, then should have rested him against Villa. But considering that he has played all three games, he has done it to play someone else against Bayern. Maybe van Ginkel, or KDB as well in that attacking cum holding midfield role. Mata couldn't have changed anything. If the philosophy was to go out there, play beautiful football, play through balls to an actual striker, then Mata could have offered a lot. We wanted to (a) keep the ball, ( break down United's midfield, © Not allow RVP any channels to move into and (d) Improve our pressing , counter-attacking movement and defense. Everything worked, except the part were we where to keep the ball and press very high. This was needed, cause we are to face Bayern on Friday. If we have a solid defense against the current Bayern team, they'll leave holes for us to counter-attack. If we press on the same level as they do and play aggressive by flying into tackles and fighting for every ball, we have a chance of winning the game. But coming to the main point, Mata needs fitness, that was evident when he played against Villa. Hopefully he is building on it, and I can't see him as anything other than a starter against Bayern..

Haha no mate . Some haven't seen them and were surprised they couldn't when it was posted . Nothing like that . Thanks anyways !

I think what he meant is that, without pace and energy, he is still a very good striker. Intelligent, makes runs, drags defenders, brilliant movement. Back at Barcelona, he , Messi, Henry were beautiful to watch. He didn't need pace or stamina (though he did have that) . He is a very technically sound player.

That's really creepy now.

He'll probably end up as a first choice on the wing, and probably Hazard on the other with Schurrle fighting for a spot. Oscar and Mata to fight it out for #10 and KDB,Ramires,MVG,Essien,Mikel and Lampard for the CM places.

Uh, he averaged 3.2 successful dribbles per game last season, unusually high in the Bundesliga.

So I guess people haven't read it yet, cause some are surprised. anyway. *bump*

Ah, that's true.

Bosingwa-Mikel

No as in, no matter how many minute's he racks up, it'll be tough to get into a talented squad such as Brazil.

Even with moving to Spurs he would have trouble getting in to the Brazilian squad.. :/

uh-oh http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/tottenham-transfers-juan-mata-move-2233729

you underestimate his powers of by-hearting...