nono

Ivanovic brain of a peanut size

why is costa is always so unfit ?

oscar useless as usual

Don't forget the world cup either where he was really average.

Frustrating as usual.

But why doesn't Mourinho drop him ? Is he trying to give us training on how to deal with high blood pressure ?

Ivanovic the new Mikel. A player Mourinho plays despite everything suggesting he shouldn't.

Mourinho's fault imo. Should never have gone into the season with Cahill as #1 and Ivanovic should have been put out to the pastures. Whatever. I don't really think I'll be able to stomach City winning the league.

meh. I'm out.

wtf is with the Mikel love in all of a sudden here ?

Ivanovic and Cahill are both liabilities at times. Defense seems good due to Terry and Azpilicueta plus good protection from Matic.

Maybe, but I feel that at least both he and Willian should not be starting together. They are similar in their deficiencies going forward and it just combines to make the attack very poor at times. Same for Ramires. Defensively they are both good but they misplace too many passes and ruin too many counters, which is how Mourinho likes us to play. It is like when we had Ballack, Lampard and Mikel starting together which I feel had the side too unbalanced in favor of resilience vs fluidity. But who knows, maybe this is Mourinho's way ? Maybe he is happy like this and wants to play a defensive game and just plan to nick a goal and then sit back against good teams ? They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, and that is what we have with Mourinho. He is what he is. Unfortunately there are few who are better and we've already wasted too many good years in managerial circuses. Had we kept Mourinho United for sure wouldn't have won as many titles these last few years as they have. On the other hand our play is really dreadful in the last minutes of these games and I feel like we are really going to come undone against a good team in the Champions League. Sigh ...

Mikel can't pass the ball except backwards or sideways putting more pressure on his teammates. You're shitting yourself if you think he can help control the midfield.

It's like we score and instantly push the off switch. Very frustrating to watch as a fan.

City game was the worst by far because we couldn't put two passes together the last 30 minutes against a team with 10 men.

Far from it. By far our worst defender this year. He is not a beast. I respect him for his commitment but his defense is lacking this year.

Yes, it was not a question of if but when. 5 of our players were on a yellow card and Dowd seemed really frightened by the United fans.

Ivanovic is a huge liability. It's almost a given that if we concede a goal it'll be down the right hand side due to Ivanovic either going too far ahead or having a lapse of judgement and losing his man.

Ivanovic clearly clipped Di Maria. He went down easily, but it was a clear foul.

We have been good but 6 points better off at this point is due to other teams being very terrible.

Also I've come to learn to never get excited for Oscar because just when you think he's turned a corner he'll regress in the next game. There are few places our team can improve but his position is one of them. Him and William just don't have the offensive capabilities to do what the position requires of them. They put in a good shift defensively but I don't think it's enough.

Ofcourse, have you seen their team currently ? This was a big game for them and they outplayed a much better side. So no wonder they are happy.

I am very unhappy that we have so much talent on this team but he has us playing like he had at Inter. Just horrible. What is the point of assembling such a squad ? The manager has them playing inside the 18 yard box for the last 30 minutes of every game.

Time will tell if getting Mourinho back was the right choice. But worrying signs so far. This team is too talented to sit back against a pub quality team. Maybe this attitude would be good in the Champions League but here it's just two points lost in two big games.

Another terrible performance in a big game. But hey, we're top of the league !