happy_juan

Or, Luiz had seen Ross Barkley's goal vs Norwich and felt it was important to not let him a free shot at goal. He never had any intention to win the ball.

That is very very harsh on Juan Mata. He played in 31 league games last year in which we got 69 points. Most of our disappointing results in the Premier League came when Mata was rested. QPR draw, QPR defeat, West Brom defeat, fulham draw, Southampton defeat. Infact if you extrapolate those 69 points in 31 games to 38 games, we could have ended up with 85 odd points in the league, 6 more than 2nd placed City and just 4 behind United.