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He's not good enough. Come Sunday, rambo, willian, oscar, cesc, matic will all eat him alive and he will be the first one benched..

Seems like yaya is really leaving CIty and Ozil potentially leaving arsenal.. Will be interesting to see where they land... Ozil to munich and yaya to ? I would say PSG, but PSG have good cms already and are already limited in funds... Maybe, replacement at Juve?

TBH, I would drop cahill and put ivan at cb and allow dave to play his natural position.

United sucks... They have 2 attacking fullbacks, so Hazard should have a field day and neither rvp or falcao are in form... Their cms are slow and bad, Mata will be eaten up, and luke shaw will have to learn in his place the hard way. Only thing I worry about is random fellaini goals from set peices... Dont see di maria coming back at 100 percent from a thigh injury so soon. I do. Matic-rambo-oscar Schurrle-cesc-hazard Bring willian on for later... vs Carrick-blind-mata-herrara RVP-Mata

who can dribble like that is near 6ft? Landrup? Ronaldo? Ronaldinho? Also, hazard would have a cr7 body if he was 6ft and that would make him a totally different player... His massive lower body strength, combined with his low center of gravity allows him to be one of the best dribblers in the world...

FALSE NINE IT... CESC or Oscar and bring ramires in the lineup.

Felipe Luis was outstanding....

Ake should replace mikel...

Hazard should of scored 5 goals today..... Fantastic match though!

Roma vs Munich going to be a good game....

UNLEASH AKE.

When did mikel become matic? Most important player is Costa, than JT.

Pogba is a future superstar for club and country... I take pogba or a fit gundogan over anyone else.... However, chelsea going to need to adress the cb situation because neither kalas, zouma, cahill are adequate.

http://www.insidespanishfootball.com/129965/aymeric-laporte-hints-he-could-represent-spain-if-france-doesnt-call-him-up/ Doesnt matter where you play for your unders.... ANd no to inigo martinez.

I love how sterling is the next messiah and berahino is not useful.....

There was a stupid mod that said a lot of dumb shit to me than as well (not you spike) about mata not being a striker and how dumb I was.

yet, people on this board killed me for saying he was a striker... Because on paper he was listed as a "midfielder." people look at stats and paper too much and not watch the games... FIFA killed it for everyone...

not the portuguese teams, barcelona and probably the spanish teams.... TO some extent the germans.. Italy as well. EPL would be affected the most.

That's what he did at Chelsea. Somehow everyone thought he was a dictator/number 10. Probably because he's small and Spanish, I guess. He was always a second striker. He played best under Di Matteo who allowed his 'amigos' the freedom to not defend. It was a team that had poor shape in the league, and moved the the ball forward really quickly from front to back. This minimised the physical side of the game. Most of his good work came as Chelsea broke. He'd receive it in his half, spin, pass it wide, sprint forward and score from a cut back. It was 4 on 4 counter attacking. Lots of space to run/pass into. You put Mata in a part of the pitch where he's closely marked, and needs to hold the ball - and you'll get the Mata we see today. I remember having a huge argument that Mata was a striker, moreso than a midfielder, but than again this board kept saying the latter. United fans are seeing what I already knew from mata in his younger days at madrid.

http://www.redcafe.net/threads/juan-mata-2014-2015-performances.394002/page-45 Pu£&y. All I can say about him. He won't be here for long playing like that. Just awful. Get rid as soon as possible. It's like playing with one man down. He really isn't the player I imagined he would be. Looks scared when put under pressure and even when he has space, he isn't particularly creative. Most of the time, he will play a simple pass. I do think he worked harder tonight than usual so I'll give him that. Was shite today tbh. He needs to man the feck up and take some responsibility. Pretty sideways passes are nice and all, but he's in the team to try and create some goals. Was missing all game. People on here (rightly/wrongly whatever) slating Januzaj and Van Persie but Mata was actually the worst player thinking about it. I considered Blind our worst till the goal but that's only cos I forgot all about Mata Simply can't dictate play or hold the ball where you want him to. Added to his lack of defensive nous, it's hard to see where he'll fit in. For me, our worse player tonight. His touch, control and passing are poor. He just does not look the classy player on the ball that he was. Completely anonymous again. At this point I might start thinking Fellaini should play ahead of him. Reminds me of the Torres thread after every chelsea game....

Chelsea/any epl team without their foreign players would be shit....

O yea, people forget the bs in the awards now... Where everyone votes for them friends/buddies, so PRESTIGIOUS! My name is vincent kompany and I voted for ribery, yaya and eden hazard. My name is buffon and I chose pirlo My name is RVP and I chose Robben... My name is Cristiano and I give bruno alves the captaincy so he can vote for me......

Messi so versatile, thats why aguero did so well for argentina in the world cup.....

butttttt, Shaw is 19 and a starter!

United is playing like a liverpool/england team. I fully expect to spank them 5-0. If Chelsea loses, it will be the most disappointing loss in a while...