cosmicway

The strange thiing is Atletico could not follow our pace in that match. Never mind what the score line was in the various stages of the game, the Atletico players could not follow our players. And Atletico are not a side known for any lack of physique. Against City and Palace Chelsea became slow motion and the negative results were inevitable - especially with City.

Bats looked like a player of a match between 1968 veterans yesterday.

This team is for 3/4 down the table. It's 2015 all over again. Yesterday I fail to remember Hazard involved in any of the few serious moves we made up front. The only times we bothered Spironi were Bakayoko's goal and the two shots fired by Fabergas (one was a free kick) and Mousonda who hit the roof of the stadium. Batch was absent - even he used to perform somewhat better than that. Willian a ghost of the past. CP outplayed us. If it was a stronger team we could have lost by 8-0.

I could n't get over the shitty performance against City. We made them look big not them, so CP was no easy affair. I proved right. We are in Mourinho 2015 situation now,

Eden was the worst of the 22. Willian is a tired men. Bakayoko-Alonso fainted in the last ten minutes. Disgraceful. Musonda too young to play.

I knew it.

PSG bid for Kante ?

CP are not on the same league but I expect a lousy performance and Palace will manage to scrape a 1-0 win.

The team was visibly tired. City too played for Europe but it was a relatively easier affair against Shakhtar and they had one more day to recover. Conte had to rotate and he did n't. Then Morata's injury and Conte's decision to replace him with Willian. Even if Willian was in his best of forms it was a daft substitution. Had n't seen us in the role of the mouse at home for donkey's years. Our chances to win the league are infinitessimal, because we are chasing the both of them.

Also I don't understand why Hazard gets subbed in every match by Conte. Hazard is 26 and 7 out of our 11 players not counting Tibot play for 90 mins. Why is n't Hazard one of them ?

When Morata was substituted the commentator said "what's he doing ? a midfielder for a centre forward ? this will only allow Pep to push his team forward and dominate the game". Exactly what happened. Pedro did not even play in Spain, Bats played for 10 minutes.

Look, we completely lost the ball, plus in the last half hour they were toying with our defense. 5-10 last hour interceptions, saves by Courtois. Their keeper was worried early on with Morata's header and on another two occasions, Hazard's shot and a cross from the right wing towards the end.

Why this match was played today then and not Monday ? I know of a few association heads who had to resign over such issues for accepting / rejecting such requests, but we did not even make the request.

Willian had no business to replace Morata. It's not even his position ! It's gotta be Bats or Pedro. At that point control was gone, Then the buildup of our counterattacks was no good. The way midfiled was lost and City had possession, only with deep balls could we do something.

True. Even Mourinho's flailing side of two years ago put up some semblance of resistance before going down.

The midfield was non existent - panic men. We can't win the league with two serious opponents like City and Utd already 6 points ahead of us. Last year Spurs were a joke of an opponent and two years ago City was also a joke.

We could even take the ball down the fcuking field.

If we draw or lose Mourinho becomes runaway champion.

Willian is poor - so far. Concentration lapses, we lost some attack opportunities for no reason.

We cannot afford to lose to them, so it is a big test. It looks like they are the strongest opposition so far.

It's harder than Atletico.

With the Luiz pen what appears to have happened is the other man (Lucas) pushes him then Luiz instinctively tries to use the other man's body as support to get back on his feet. Lucas's shirt is almost ripped in the process but it was exaggerated. The ref. could have summoned both of them for admonitions and have the corner retaken.

So he 's not happy Hazard did not score a goal. In the replay !

Bats is the hero again ! We should have won 3-0. We were decisively the better side - we could do things against them that we could n't do against Arsenal. I was always scared of Atletico because although they were the weaker side, they know what to do with the ball given the chance. The biggest European result since 2012 - puts us right in the mix.

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