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‘I like to play with both of them. I play more with Fabregas because we are in the midfield together. Sometimes he plays number 10 and I play number eight, sometimes the other way round – we can change.' if only more people understood. Holding a grudge against him only cause he was responsible for ousting two players who would never really fit the system.

>Went awol. >Responsible for first goal. >bad performance.

Trying to protect civilians, right? http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/starve-or-surrender-cut-all-food-and-water-gaza-says-israeli-general

I would take a player like that in a heartbeat !

They want him to play like Hazard or end up winning games . The lack of Mikel and Torres means, the blame has to fall on someone even after a 2-0 win. That's how the clock ticks.

Definitely need's a lock.

Comparing Oscar to Torres. We have found our RAWK thread.

Bring back Kalou, play him as our #10. Problem solved. He's consistent ffs.

Need someone to counter McGeady. Hopefully he's fit enough to deal with him.

I can tell you that this is what every single goalkeeping coach tells their players. They make them train this particular scenario again and again and again. More and more strikers are being thought not just 1v1 composure, but to also target the weakest part. In the 1990's, making yourself bigger was the best self defense when you're all alone against an oncoming forward. Sadly a training situation is much different than a real-life situation. 80% of goalkeepers choke, Thibaut showing such tremendous confidence at a young age is a very good sign. If I'm not wrong, it was a similar situation with Messi in the World Cup. He is arrogant in the right way and its fucking brilliant.

Not the primary one but. Oscar has a wider channel to grow into, and not remain limited. That's more like the secondary reason, with the primary being that Mata couldn't fit into the plan.

1. Talking about first half. 2. Sometimes it really helps, because others hesitate too. It's the timing that he's getting wrong. 3. I was only talking about the first half actually. The ratio for players decreases with the number of passes they make, mostly because all three were largely pinned back as the opposition blocked the lanes. That's what Burnley failed to do. Still a lot of work to do.

I never said he's just a super sub... I don't see him as a definite starter. He will start. Until we're tactically astute, mostly the important games as well. Cesc and Matic don't need pace. They need someone who can help out in ball retention and distribution. If we need a 10 or a defensive winger, Willian plays. Until now we haven't had the need of them both.

4 successful tackles, Matic had 5, considering how badly we were being gunned down with Hazard isolated and Schurrle not exactly making runs that could be picked out. Fabregas didn't make one successfully . He'll obviously be more assertive as the season progresses on though. That will eventually happen. Schurrle was pretty wasteful in front of goal. In situations where we could have kept the ball flowing. Hazard didn't feel like coming in centrally too much too, that probably hurt us more as both Cesc and Oscar didn't have much to keep the ball rotate around. Azpi looked a bit nervous too at the start, which I think is mostly cause Leicester know to push him on to his weaker foot. Edit : Not to mention Fabregas made 13 backward passes.

A very good sub to bring on when the opposition are tired. I see him win many games coming off the bench like that.

Same lineup as yesterday. Willian for Schurrle.

Easy not to forget how bad he was, but its easy to forget how good he was in the second. Also was easy to forget how 10 other players were bad in the first half...

Writing a 10 page long post on 11 players is going to be hard.

If Oscar was bad, then Matic was bad. Fabregas was poor. Schurrle was atrocious. Torres is better at hold up play than Costa. Azpilicueta can't mark a winger from a club that will probably be relegated.

Apologies. Adrenaline rush. Iva and Courtois are up there for me.

Easily MOTM. Thank you for the memories Cech.

Really hope the injury isn't bad. Put him in instead of Schurrle. Would directly help us against their wingers that excel 1v1.

I prefer being called Cesc tbh.

Weaklink made a pass that lead to the goal.