didierforever

for me bastian is the best and the most complete CM in the world. maybe vidal can compete for that but except for that NONE. why wont CR start barca? if ribery and robben can co-exist, so can CR and robben.

i miss PL. bloody international break.

the FACT that our manager is playing a RB in the LB position ahead of a player who supposedly is the best LB in the world should tell people something. also, when you talk about the best players in the world, you have it as a GIVEN that they would WALK into any team. CR messi suarez ADM lahm robben neuer t silva yaya bastian kompany vidal bale iniesta these guys will be a part of their first 11 irrespective of whichever club they are playing for

makes sense blackman, GC, ake, 4th CB, zouma/JT, cesc, 6th AM (boga), 5th CM (baker). but still think costa, remy, benteke is overkill. in an ideal world, costa, benteke and bamford will be perfect.

Agree with almost everything except for the striker. Costa, remy and mr. X is overkill. Someone like bamford will be a good 3rd option and most importantly HG. We will be losing JT next year (probably) and gwtting someone who is not HG since I can't think of any WC HG option. Also, if we sell cech, we might have to buy a back up GK too. Mark will be 42 next year. Ins - reus, pogba, CB, GK OUTS- salah, mikel, cech, moses, marin, bertrand, romeu, kakuta.

was not his book supposed to release today? its still not on AMAZON.

true. but sometimes u have to look at the bigger picture. he might improve us next season, but would become a "problem" in 2/3 seasons' time. also, in our "system", a top defender becomes a WC defender.

another stop gap. we would have a 31 year old chiellini, 31 year old iva, 29 year old GC, 30 year old luis if we buy chiellini (i can only think that we would buy him to replace JT). which means a defensive overhaul in a couple of season which is never good. i would rather that we get a long time solution.

i heard that there will be no action against wenger!!! seriously???

Did people actually say thay cesc dint do anything except for the pass? the guy BOSSED the first half. Personally have never seen him so good defensively as he was in the first half. He was EVERYWHERE. The cribbers will always find a way to crib. We were very complete. Saying that we DOMINATED the game would be wrong but we definitely CONTROLLED the game throughout. Defended and soaked up the pressure when necessary, attacked and counter attacked as needed. Also credit where its due, arsenal were decent defensively. I really thought that they would capitulate after conceding the first but they held on.

The clean sheet goes to cech? What's the criteria for the CS going to one or the other GK.

So where are thw people who wanted us to play attacking football in a big game? Are they not entertained?

WILL be tougher than today. Specially with watnock crying for everything.

Cesc's vision is so good that he probably could have found ozil today. (If u know what I mean)

MOTM. WHAT A BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE. how many clearances, tackles and interceptions did he have in our own 3rd. Unreal. Just fabulous from oscar. Linked up well in attack but the sheer running, will and workrate was a beauty to watch.

Has a role in the squad, and he plays tjat role to perfection. Brilliant squad player to have to close down the ganes.

0 shots on target. 0. Nil. Zilch. Nada. Still don't understand what people were worried about. What a performance. Most importantly we attacked when needed, we defended solidly when needed. Barely troubled defensively. Hustle and harried the arsenal mid and forwards. A Complete performance. Courtois- except for a cross and coming off his line to gather tje ball, he dint have anything to do. Hope he is well Iva- defensively, a wonderful performance. Stuck with sanchez through out the match. Never let him settlr on the ball. In offense his decision making let hin down twice specially when he could have freed oscar on the wing, rather ended up loosing the ball and taking a yellow. Gc- flawless though i still don't know why he lunged into sanchez the way he did. Except for that solid. Jt- CLL. enough said. Azpi- brilliant performance. Maybe luis is better but if someone reads then pre- match thread after seeing the teams, u would think that we were playing bloody gibbs as a LB. Matic - BEAST. his positional play is just brilliant. Bullied cazorla and was always there to provide cover incasr of a mistake Cesc - ran the game in the first half. Was everwhere.tackling, pressing, winning the ball. And what a ball for the goal. Hazard - the exact moment of magic that was required to turn the game on its head. What a run. Simply brilliant. Had chambers in his pocket .owned the young guy. Oscar - MOTM. WHAT A BRILLIANT PERFORMANCE. how many clearances, tackles and interceptions did he have in our own 3rd. Unreal. Just fabulous from oscar. Linked up well in attack but the sheer running, will and workrate was a beauty to watch. Schurrle- poor decision making. Losing the ball (to his credit he usually got it back). He was in the team as a goal scorer but arsenal dint give us much spave to run in. Willian would have been perfect. Costa- seemed subdued. Not tired but just was not hos best day and still he got a goal. Subs- Cech- comfortable but can someone tell me what exactly he was doing when he let welbeck close hin down!!! Anyways a good performance. Mikel- does what he does best. I would have loved to asl TOPTB if mikel is still in the team simply cos he needs to get his passport or something. Like the commentator said, if ww are 1-0/2-0 up, its a mandatory substitution to have nikel to close the game. Lastly, still can't believe people said that koslolny was WC. I mean the 2nd goal was a normal long ball with 2v1 against costa. That turning into a goal is poor defending.

line ups? come on chelsea!!! lets smash them!!!

hopeless pen... never understood why people dont go the lamps way rather than try to out think the keeper.

if he does not get on the score sheet against united... i ll be shocked. should be bullying mcnair and rojo and everton's mid should be dominating a mid of blind, ADM, valencia and mata.

we as fans are over-confident but i am sure jose will be jose and the players will be anything but over-confident. like any big match, we will be setup not to lose (which is the most essential thing for jose). we will be cautious in our approach for the first 15mins. if arsenal make the BLUNDER of coming all guns blazing and give us the chance to counter, that will set the tone for the match. infact, was not this exactly what happened last season too.

Hahahhahah... I know that feel bro.Munich, bvb, hull, sunderland, valencia, barca, RM, chelsea, whu, benfica, soton (w/d). I put an acc on them.

agree to some extent, but we wont be having 114 points in 38 games. 87 points normally wins the league unless there is another team that has been even better. moreover, city are our only true title rivals, the more points they drop, the better for us.

hopeless weekend... hopefully we can win..

fucking cleverly... literally let yaya run into the D. unchecked!!! cunt!!