The Skipper

Seriously man, go back just one page and I answered you on that but you completely blanked it. I'll quote it again for your convenience.

I seriously don't understand how you want someone who isn't the team's main playmaker (he's the third option even when Hazard and Oscar play) and who isn't in his natural position to provide even more chances than he has already... You do know he had an assist yesterday right? And should've had another had Demba Ba scored. I've explained all of this to you already in our earlier discussion a few weeks ago (which you blanked)... His role restricts him to be as creative as he can be. Why do you think Mata didn't assist anywhere near the same amount for us earlier in the season as he did last year? It's just simple pal... Hazard's role is the team's main playmaker, Willian is not, he's even behind Oscar for that.

You're completely missing the point - Willian was the only one who created quality chances in the whole game for us and he isn't our primary creator to begin with. Saying he didn't create enough is ridiculous and stupid.

Willian actually created our best chances yesterday.

Come on, it still is 50/50, it always has been. Just because we played shite against Sunderland it doesn't suddenly increase their chances. They're not like that Barca 2012 team, one of the best teams ever in football history, and we aren't like that Chelsea 2012 team either (talent wise).

I actually wouldn't mind that. Frees up a spot for another creative midfielder as well. It'd look like Matic, X, MVG, Chalobah. With Luiz out there as an option too. That's very solid. Mourinho loves Ramires too much for that though.

Lol, I'm all for an English core but this is bollocks.

I don't understand why he wasn't given any minutes yesterday, but oh well. I hope Mourinho doesn't play Luiz at RB because we really need him in midfield.

If we beat Liverpool at Anfield the title will go to City.

Cech Azpi - Cahill - Terry - Cole Luiz - Lampard Schurrle - Willian - Hazard (if fit) Eto'o

We have to beat Liverpool so City win the title.

And I've explained to you that I also believe we need a proper striker, but it runs deeper than that. Our approach needs to be more adventurous and we need a creative CM and another attacking full back so we can implement that approach.

Because we created sooo many clear cut chances today right? As I said before, from open play there were only two chances that were quality, and that's not good enough. It's been a recurring theme this season - sometimes we'll take those chances which glosses over the average performance, sometimes we won't, just like today. I don't know why you keep trying to bring up our performances against big teams either, our strategy and performances against those have been more than fine. I don't know why you can't accept that our main problem this season is the struggle to break down the smaller teams. We lost the title due to these, not due to our performances in big games.

I'm seriously starting to contemplate whether Oscar is better off playing deeper, as a number 8 rather than a number 10.

We struggle against teams that sit deep against us... You seriously can't keep denying this. It's the main reason why we haven't won the league this year. We're fine against big teams, that's pretty much obvious.Yeah we produced 23 shots today but how many of those were quality chances from open play? I can only think of Ramires' miss and Ba's chance. That's not good enough and you can't continue to be oblivious about it. Yeah because Arsenal say back and packed 11 men behind the ball against us in that game...

Only decent player out there for us attacking wise today. Had Ba slotted his chance away after he put it on a plate we would've won IMO.

Absolute shite today. Don't know why he thought he was superman today, be a real playmaker for once Oscar.

I'm always defending this lad but he was an absolute disgrace today. Very, very disappointed.

At the end of the day, regardless if we lost by a bogus penalty, we simply weren't good enough. Our inability to consistently dispatch the smaller teams have hindered us massively. As I've said time and time again, going forward we're just poor and we struggle way too much. Our over reliance on Hazard's brilliance in attack was fully exposed today. We should just focus on the CL now. Hopefully we can still end this season on a positive note. I don't think both Man City or Liverpool will slip up again. I hope we beat Liverpool at Anfield so City win the title.

Unbelievable

lol

Torres has been decent for once. Come on get a goal guys!

I can't believe we have to put on three strikers to beat Sunderland. Awful. Edit: scrap that. Eto'o off.

Wow Demba.

Have we actually created anything from open play apart from the Ramires chance?