Kostas

To be fair Ramires isn't really a defensive beast.

*ahem*Bosingwa isn't an African.

Said some positive things in the interview.Good news for us since that makes a move to Bayern unlikely

Ditto.Bar the pre-season games we were never the worse team by distance,even in the Community Shield.

It's Arsenal, a bunch of pathetic pretenders. We will annihilate them.

Apparently Essien was spotted limping after the Marseille game.

Unfortunately we used up our only CL penalty in a meaningless group game.

Quality photo.Don't like that armband though.

We don't have to win all games by 7 goals do we?We already hit the post twice and had a goal wrongly disallowed,they way Marseille are attacking they're won't score even if we play all night.Imho we were only once under real danger,not bad considering all the possession they had. Won't be surprised if we beat that other French team in a similar way.

Fuck you ref!!

Our counter attacks are not as good without Drogba.

Fricking goalpost.. Some very impressive passing before that though.

Think Anelka wasn't offside

Someone needs to tell Alex that we're gonna need those posts

I still maintain that they hardly create any clear cut chances,we're doing just fine at the moment.

They haven't really created anything though.We are just waiting.

Guess Kakuta saw little of the ball because our play develops on the left side.Anelka drifts from his position often for exactly that reason.

Missed the first half.Glad to see that we're back to scoring.Were Kakuta and Yuri any good?

Probable line-up Cech Ivanovic --- Alex - Terry© --- A.Cole Mikel Essien -- Ramires Kakuta -- Anelka -- Malouda Bench: Turnbull, Ferreira, Van Aanholt, Sturridge, Zhirkov, McEachran, J.Mellis/C.Clifford Those confirmed by CA are bold.

Give him a break,he has had a couple really bad games and we're already on the verge of offloading him? Everyone can have a bad game or 2.

I think Kakuta can do well in Anelka's position.Since Anelka doesn't really have a fixed position on the pitch nowadays Kakuta will have the freedom to dribble and build up play. Connor Clifford trained with the 1st team today,maybe he'll be on the bench.

McEachran will start on the bench. Either Kakuta or Sturridge will start alongside Anelka and Malouda.

Reported.Try Harder Next Time The mods might as well delete this crap.

I know he's still young and has all the time to develop into a completely different player but the current Gael Kakuta isn't much different to Arshavin,both have obvious qualities but (as many who have watched Gael can confirm) have the tendency to go missing for large parts of the game,can't really say if it's due to poor positioning or laziness. You haven't seen many then.PS:Don't get all butthurt,I like Kakuta as much as the next (TX).

Frank Lampard now out until at least mid-October, says Carlo Ancelotti.