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Too easy. Expected nothing less. We have looked surprisingly good in possession today though.

Fabregas is running the show.

They don't have to be mutually exclusive.

Kind of embarrassing how City are given 5 debuts and we're here with none at all.

You've got to be kidding me if you think that's the reason why Jose's name gets chanted? Because of Emenalo's interview? There were chants because we just let go of a CFC icon.

Wasn't a bad interview.

Sorry, what bad interviews has Emenalo given?

Jese is a really good player IMO.

Stay Ghanaian bro. It's the best.

Not surprising. He was vice-vice captain here after all.

Hazard being called out by a lot of people now... See how he responds.

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I actually don't look at Fabregas as our midfield general at all because he's not that sort of player. He's more of a playmaker than a general. He lacks the physicality for you to call him a lynchpin or general. A midfield general would be someone like Vidal, Ballack, etc. They all have one big thing in common - physicality. You shouldn't expect that from Cesc. We can't dominate against big teams because we don't set ourselves up to - and because we don't have the right players to. It starts from the back - our centre backs are generally not good at building from the back - the only player that can actually make plays from deep in midfield for us is Cesc too. We have a massive lack of possession-comfortable players for us to go out there and dominate against big teams.

Di Maria, Sneijder... There's quite a few.

By far his best performance for us. Originally wanted us to sell him because he just didn't seem to get any sort of playing time and whilst his value would still be relatively high we should cash him but if he can produce performances like this consistently then he can easily change my mind.

This runs much deeper than Cesc. We set up to counter attack as a team. We were never going to dominate possession and build up play from deep.

He had a decent game, all the saves he made are saves you expect him to make. Disappointed with the second goal however, got his angles all wrong. As a GK you shouldn't really get beaten at the near post like that if you do the basics right and take the right angle to come out.

He was taken off cos he was unfit IMO. He was having an okay game. I expect a lot more from him though.

Disappointed that Courtois conceded that. Shouldn't have got beaten from that angle. Okay-ish result though, we could've scored at least 1 more. I fancy our chances at the bridge against these lot.

Don't give me that, Mikel has always had a good enough first touch.

we're back.

Stupid foul from Mikel, but Cahill shouldn't have hoofed it under no pressure.

Missed the first 15-20 minutes but we seem to be looking very good so far.

Glad Guus put up a good line up. More optimistic now.

We could do Hazard - Willian - Pedro. Pedro is very good defensively too, he makes a lot recoveries. He'd help Baba out.