The Skipper

Looked like a dive to me.

How is that a foul?

Why should we take off one attacking player for another when we need to score? I say take off one of Romeu or Ramires!

Can't believe we've played so defensive till now, Fulham are there for the taking. Ridiculous.

Food for thought. Love the pun haha. Excellent read as always SeB.

When I say classy, I mean technique wise, how comfortable they are on the ball... Think Ibra, RVP... Not saying Berbatov is as good as them, no chance, but he is a lot more classy than Damaio, their first touch and control of the ball are miles apart. Damaio is more of a poacher whilst Berbatov can get involved in the build up and provide assists and goals.

All defenders do this, people are just bringing it up because the analysis team couldn't really find their usual "lets criticise Luiz" stuff so they brought up that incident like Luiz is the only one that does it.

I can do that too, it's not too hard to pull off a rainbow flick... And it's not something he does normally. Berbatov is a lot more naturally talented, one of the classiest strikers going, while Damiao reminds me a bit of a donkey, frustrating player.

I've followed Huntelaar's career since his early days at Ajax since that's sort of my hometown club but honestly he's not a bad player, apart from his finish he's absolutely useless, would not fit in well here at all. Would be a step backwards given all the other striking talent available ATM.

He would ruin his career by coming here right now.

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.