The Skipper

No shame in getting beat by Dembele who's one of the best dribblers already.

Powerful. All gone. New era has fully announced itself...

Cool. Looks like we're polar opposites then when it comes to what we look for in players. If you think Matic has charisma and presence on the field then I don't think it's worth having a discussion tbh.

Did you just compare Matic to Zidane? I actually don't know what to say. Must be a troll?

Perfect for the RWB spot eh?

Soton are a top team imo, just lacking a few players here and there to be a real threat. Also have a very good manager. It'll be a difficult game. We need to earn our title.

Pogba Kante midfield in Conte's system would be awesome.

To be honest, tactical masterclass from him, even if the conditions did favour him with the injuries we got. Best I've seen United play in ages. He deserves credit for that. It's good - hopefully they can do us a favour against Spurs now.

Just a hunch. Going by his body language and how he doesn't seem to be playing with that usual fire he does. I remember when Willian was famed for his work ethic - you never see that anymore. But yeah, I'd definitely accept him going to be honest. He's a decent squad player but there's always better out there.

You genuinely think a winner like Conte is raising the white flag despite being top by 4 points with 6 remaining? He was probably just shell shocked as to how terrible we looked.

Well, the boys have usually responded excellently after defeats so far this season. It's time to do the same again, and deliver a blow to Spurs, to slow down their momentum. That's what we need to do. It's a must win not only because it increases our chances of winning the cup, but it's also an opportunity to stop the Spurs train, or at least slow it down. COYB.

Think he might be off in the summer. Doesn't look too happy on the bench.

Who ever's authorising these sort of activities during crunch time needs a bollocking, honestly.

I don't know, both goals were really soft in my opinion. Courtois saves the first one against Rashford and it could've been a wake up call.

Conte has been shocking in his management with Batshuayi. Costa has been gash since January, would love to know how many minutes Michy has seen since then too. Ridiculous really. Batshuayi isn't so bad that you have to essentially play with 10 men. What a joke.

Christensen and Ake are homegrown, that's more than enough for me tbh. And we'll probably keep Cahill next season. So that's 3 HG CBS.

I think he's clearly injured. Luiz is physically very good but it looks like he's playing with one leg sometimes.

He looks a completely different player at the moment. Costa on form is a great striker but history has shown that he often goes missing in the second half of the season. Now, it's never been as bad as it has been this season, even last season he was much better than this in the second half of the season, but that's not the main problem for me. He is clearly playing like he doesn't have a future here. He doesn't want to be here. He's way too unreliable. Because of this, our title challenge can potentially be sabotaged. His performance against Crystal Palace sums it up perfectly - the team created chances at will for him but he was almost just like a black hole. I don't want a player with all these issues to be the undisputed #9 at this club. We deserve much better. My problem with Costa isn't that he is a bad player, his form at different parts of his Chelsea career clearly state otherwise. My problem is that he doesn't want to be here. It's very evident to me that he doesn't. Costa is a 'heart on his sleeve' type of person, you can quite clearly see his emotions/state of mind. We can't continue to rely on a volatile player like this, especially if there's a £90m offer waiting in the wings. We'd be absolutely idiotic not to take it. Honestly, wish we sold him in January now.

Did you see Azpi in that Moses role today?

That is atrocious.

Why can't Batshuayi start over this guy? This is a joke. Can't believe some are still trying to defend a man that doesn't even want to be here himself.

He doesn't even provide real defensive solidity anymore, just start Fabregas for the rest of the season please Conte.

We had aims for top 4 at the start of the season. Have you seen the team Conte is working with? We shouldn't even be top with this squad.

We should've won that Palace game, none of that was on Conte tbh. Who else is he going to start in that Moses role please?

Can't agree with the Anelka slander. Anelka was much better on the ball than Costa. You do remember him playing out wide for almost a whole season with Drogba and Malouda right? Now imagine Costa playing on the right for the whole season.