cosmicway

Deliberate slow motion against Norwich. With Ranieri out of breath only Spurs now play a little. The others are 1/2 - 1 class below Chelsea. Pity - we shed so much tears in these boards - worse than 1978 when we were totally depleted and relegated. ps: Pato ?

Cech will win the title you mean. Both are woeful imho, but is n't the United price an attractive one ? In the first round at the Emirates as I remember Utd were totally useless and succumbed after 3-4 minutes.

Man United - Arsenal 3.50-3.40-2.25 Tottenham - Swansea 1.45-4.50-8.50 Discussion MU-Arsenal: The two rags. Looks good the MU price tho. Spurs-Swansea: 1.45 only for the Spurs (-1 at 2.20, -2 at 4.00). Looks useful for live bets only.

It's alas poor yorick if we do the same fluke against PSG. Desrver victory should have been 3-1 or 2-0.

Yeah, but ... The guys with big pockets we 've seen were quite a few and they come and go. But Real is forever. There are fashions that come and go. In the seventies there was nothing to do on a Sunday afternoon. Bayern visited once and played against a team I don't like. Someone said to me let's go and I did in the end. Nowadays impossible, only if I was a dedicated supporter - season ticket holder. So there is less money around I guess, plus people cannot afford owing to the crisis. But then again money appears again from some other source. Why is it that Madrid can do so well and we can't ? We have shops, we hace support that is not dwindling, what else is needed ?

Real were always buying everything with two legs. Where do they find the money ? I mean Spain is not even the richest country of Europe these days. The only lame duck period for RM I can recall was the late sixties-early seventies. Barcelona too of course in the last 10-15 years. But CFC is also one of the teams enjoying high levels of international support. So why are we left behind ? They talk of Hazard like as if he is a great talent that suddenly surfaced in some small village far-far away and so he is naturally theirs.

He was taking pens for Atletico. Scored against us, made a show as well because the penalty spot was not painted well enough !

So City came with many reserves, that's why they were crushed so easily. Last year was a 1-1 draw and the year before a thriller 2-1 win. Still it was a very enjoyable performence, better than Newcaslte who were a very much inferior team. Oscar's miss proves he's not a pen taker. He stopped as well to make the keeper dive and then shot straight at him rather than the other corner !

Extraordinary. The bookies were spot on. The same please against the psinakis character.

Chelsea 1.83 with the bookies. That means -as bookie prices go- Chelsea win or the lights go out. I did n't expect such a low price. The other two seem more logical. Spurs at 1.60, W. Ham at 2.30.

This one will be a test for the replay against Paris St Germain. City play the same football, albeit they are 1/2 - 1 class below the French team. They have some remote chances for the league too, but the way things are now I think we are the favourites. City are better than United, of whom I did not expect to play so well against us as they did.

As conspiracy theories go, how do you know the club itself are not instructing him to "take it easy" ? The fact is he does n't score. But he does n't shoot free kicks and even penalties not any more. When Costa was not scoring I was a lot more worried.

We could not keep them at bay. For me the best defensive performence ever was Jose's 0-0 against Atletico in the semi of 2014. Atletico might have scored with a fluke from 40 yards out, but they could not penetrate. Yesterday it was PSG v. Courtois for long spells of the game, just like it was Barcelona v Cech in 2012 (when we were down to 10 men). Under the circumstances we did have our chances but the ball favoured their efforts in the end. Because I 'm a regular live bettor, in the last twenty minutes one should have placed a bet for "PSG to score the third goal". The clue is "do they have possession and reach the keeper ?" and yes they did. But I did not even look at it and so I 'm unable to tell you the price that was offered. I don't know about the replay. Can be done but difficult. Football has changed. If we were in the sixties and if we were 2-1 behind as we are now, people would say to the French "come on guys, forget it". But sometimes it works (Napoli and PSG again). Hazard in my opinion was not useless and certainly a better option than Oscar, but maybe he was tired - maybe he even signalled to Bruce, I don't know.

W.r. transfer matters, you belong to the club of optimists when you say they plan for next season.

It's the third year in succession we play them. Granted we are having the poorest ever season at home, the two previous Paris matches were no different. We absorbed huge pressure - on the first occasion we lost 3-1 as well in the end. I like some of their players and Ibra but the fact is these two teams are level pegging.

They are not a better team. They are not in the class of entertainers like e.g. goonerteam or City but definitely not better than us. Those who are better are BFC, RM, Atletico maybe. Bayern I have n't seen this year.

Unless Hazard was tired he should n't have been replaced.

Can be turned round but PSG are good at away matches too. Oscar could have made the 1-2, instead it was Cavani who scored. Cavani is the look alike like mr. Psinakis, the funny mayor of Marathon. I expect we can do it - we knocked them out when they had 3-1 advantage, with Demba Ba. This is the real Chelsea. The team you saw against Swansea-Watford-Brighton etc is a ghost. This team is not quite there, but we were good enough to hold the runaway champions of France.

up the a**hole

The ides of March. Our cousins from France again. I don't think they are unbeatable, but having seen Barcelona yesterday, the Cruyff penalty, Neymar, biteman, nobody has a chance to land a blow.

That's the knee, not the shin. Difficult injury.

It looked awful the way he landed.

Chelsea 1 - Man. United + Michael Oliver 1 With 93% possession we could n't turn it around. I knew it was going to be CFC versus De Gea in the end. But Diego is doing a lot better now, in the post Mourinho era. One thing he should do is stop trying to take on all the opponents by himself, because he does that rather a lot. He is not even nibbly like Hazard - Willian who can dummy two or three men sometimes.

I expect MU will return home egg faced tomorrow. Is it Mourinho's first btw ?

Their keeper made some fantastic saves in the last 20 minutes. But there is no penetration, no final pass. Just like under Mou, minus the desperation of those days that lead our defenders give away some goals too. In the days of Didier-Michael-Lamps you just knew if the opponent's first defense fell it was an 80% goal situation. On countless occasions we see indecisiveness, endless passes. In the end some little pressure is applied somewhere during the endless tirade of small passes and we have to send the ball back to Courtois or Begovitch.