The Skipper

Compare Torres' movement to Sturridge - how come we seem to create a lot more when the latter plays?

The club thought Oscar's twitter was real...

The JT Instagram is fake IMO. Most pictures have been publicised at other places before.

Wrong. People are booing Rafa because they care a lot, they're just showing it in a different way.

People do realise that Benitez has mostly used 4-2-3-1 throughout his career? Spanning back to his Valencia days...

He could already speak English before he came iirc.

Then Brazil and Chelsea must be normal average teams because he obviously starts for both week in week out.

I don't know... Luiz gets criticised if he just boots it upfield but he also gets criticised for trying to keep possession. What we need in midfield is an orchestrator which we don't currently have, so the onus falls on our CB's to make the forward passes - and the responsibility of that is put on Luiz. If we had someone in midfield to start out attacks for us we'd see a lot less long passes from Luiz.

Geoff Shreeves is such an idiot.

Azpilicueta was great but Ivanovic & A. Cole was absolutely brilliant. Gave the latter my MOTM. Decent game considering we've been a mess defensively. Luiz/Cahill & Ivanovic looks a lot stronger than Luiz & Cahill - whole team defended well today, pretty typical Benitez tbh, what I hope Rafa does though is improve our offensive play with this new defensive organization because I can see a lot of these frustrating results ahead if we don't.

What's he meant to do? Dribble the ball out? You can't win either way with Luiz can you. Bloody hell.

Still, doesn't mean you can prove that Marin would've made a bigger difference. The sub of Moses instead of Marin is understandable.

Torres is finished.

Considering he hasn't played all season and considering we're playing City, no, I don't want to see Marin on instead of Moses.

He's not match fit.

This isn't the right game to being Marin on, he hasn't played at all this season why bring him on against City?

Tevez on. Christ.

Decent shot by Torres considering that was his left... Still at this level you need to take those chances.

Good pressure. Have to be wary on counter attacks though.

It happens in every box, don't know why they're trying to single out Kompany and Luiz.

Swansea have been doing it for half a decade now though but we haven't. If we want to develop a philosophy like that it'll take time and patience, something our fans and our owner clearly don't have.

Mata usually comes alive in the last 30 minutes, we need him. He hasn't performed yet but it's still early times.

Torres' acceleration over the 10 yards has frantically decreased, we really can't play this counter attacking system with him up front.

Cesar is having a good game.

We can't really play a counter attacking system with this version of Torres upfront sorry.