didierforever

is bertrand still injured? whats the latest on him?

did mata spit on mourinho??? i mean the way people are "ridiculing" him here, thats what u would think have happened and not just that mata was upset over being subbed and shaked his head with an exasperated look.

we have 7 "regular" defenders out of which iva is injured. JT, GC, azpi have played 90 mins of 4 matches in 9 days. cole has played 2 and a half matches. so that leaves us with DL and bertrand only. dont think we can play just 2/3 defenders.

i think kalas will have to play. gc, jt and azpi have literally started every game in the christmas period. with iva out until end of jan, we need to rest some players.

we have hull (a), united (h) and whu (h). 3 must win games in which i would not even think about playing essien or youngsters. so we have mikel, rambo and luiz. not that bad a situation. but we simply cant afford another injury to the defence or defensive mids.

so we now have 2 midfielders to play with for 2 positions.

the team probably selects itself for this game. after the busy christmas period i would be shocked to see cech, azpi, gc, jt, cole, mikel, hazard get any game time. also we have atlast found our magic trio in hazard-oscar-willian. no use in playing them for cup games. schwarzer kalas ake DL bertrand essien rambo kdb mata schurrle BA. this team should be able to get a result. time to prioritize the league and let our big squad take a little heat off the starting eleven.

pathetic??? really!!! he showed dismay on being subbed. has he given a public statement. has he gone to the press saying "i am disappointed at my game time and the position i am playing in". NO. stop overreacting on every little thing. just cos u love oscar does not give u the right to critisize everything on mata. he was a professional yesterday. can professionals not get disappointed on their performances, on the decisions been made by their managers or the refs? or would u have robots playing for us. mata's reaction showed that he wants to be out their and be a part of this club's success. their was another guy who threw tantrums like this, today he is the fucking LEGEND of this club - DIDIER DROGBA. so please stop this childish character assassination of mata.

awesome result. should have won the match in the first half itself. too many missed oppurtunities. but we have atlast got our best team and combination of AMs at exactly the half way point. hazard-oscar-willian ROCK!!!the balance that these 3 bring to the team is AMAZING!!! cahill in the past 2-3 weeks (after the sunderland game) has been a new player. ramires bossed the mid and was given good support by mikel, torres made some brilliant runs with ball in the first half but somehow scored thru sheer luck. thats what luck can do. mata was FOOLISHLY played on the wing despite having 2 wingers on the pitch. something is definitely not right between mata and jose, cech - atlast a match where he got to earn hi living, southamtpton had some decent oppurtunities and cech made some decent saves. his handling of crosses was good too, 7/10 azpi - was fabulous. that block off lallana was just brilliant. would have been a big blow to us if he had went off injured. everything that is required off a RB is provided better by him than iva. the only problem is that we simply dont have an outlet from goalkicks without iva. 8/10 GC- another brilliant performance. he has been a revelation. simply amazing. his reading off the game has somehow improved or he has jut gained some confidence. hope this contunues. 9/10 JT - another solid performance. 8/10 cole - good performance. thi back 4 is definitely our best. cole's prowess on the ball is awesme too.brilliant block off lallana. 8/10 bodies on the line stuff from our back 4. mikel - good shield. another "did his job performance". the best moment was when he held the ball even when surrounded by 3/4 soton player. 7/10 ramires - another like a boss performance!!! totally bossed the mid. should have scored atleast one. 9/10 mata - very poor performance. dint understand why he dint play as a CAM.the only time he was in the center, his 1-2-1 with hazard was amazing. 5/10 schurrle - uninfluential. and why did he take corner and freekicks which were hopelessly poor. 5/10 hazard - awesome. livewire. what a form he is in!!! hope this continues for ever and ever!!! 9/10 torres- brilliant runs, hold up play, link up play but he gets a goal thru sheer luck. thats football.he needs to make his fabulous runs count 7/10 subs - oscar - game changer. pathetic decision to card him. flawless performance. simply took the game away from the soton. 10/10 willian - another dynamic performance. brilliantly taken goal to ettle the nerves. good perfrmance. 8/10 essien - meh!!! when is he leaving??? jose - as much as i adore him and love him, his decision to play mata on the wing while playing hazard in the center that too against shaw and lallana was PATHETIC and smacked off desperation and his probably dislike for mata. he did change the match with his subs but it was his formations and player management that made us go in that position. 6/10

line ups??

why? let him win the youth CL with us.

out - essien (3m), ba (10mil) in - reality (guarin 15mil), ideal (witsel 35mil/sven bender 20mil)

is he really leaving? any concrete news...

i dont get it. we lost 49.4mil this year. had a profit of 1.4m the last year. for the 2 years combined its a loss of 48mil which is 3mil more than the FFP regulated. anyone who can clear the air?

de gea coleman mertesacker JT shaw yaya hazard rooney lallana aguero suarez subs - krul, zabaleta, lovren, sturridge, ramsey, rodriguez,lukaku,

people here think mata would go for less than 30mil, hahahaha LOL-MAX. mata is 25 right now. yet to hit his peak. still chelsea POTY twice in a row. all u need to do is talk to a united/pool fan to know what they truly think of him and how much they value him at. PSG themselves were willing to shell out 35mil in the summer.

But makelele has retired.

pool are 3 points off us. So at best it puts them on the sane level as ours. Plus I expect a draw at anfield.

First thing first, Dd's penalty against barca was a dive from cesc. Also it was a tackle dd had to make for the team not one like etoo where he simply and stupidly just held his foot and tripped a known diver and actor in suarez. So if whoscored rated etoo 7.2 that means he must have plaued well? Watch a match once in a while. His hold up play- pathetic. His link up play - pathetic, infact he just got in between our 3AMs most of the time. I still remember that counter started by Wizard, then the ball went to oscar who passed it to etoo who doodled so long off the ball that pool ckeared easily. Etoo had a poor match and anyone who actually saw it would agree. All he did was give mignolet a chance to fuck up!!! And mignolet dibt disappoint. Compare this to the performances put in by nando this season against big clubs like spurs and city and u woukd know tge difference. Even more reasin to start nando woukd have been his will to perform well against his okd ckub which he showed in his 3-4minutes. As far as etoo's cramps are concerned, they must have been cos he is a 34 yr old striker , probably out of his depth and was starting his 2nd match in 3 days.

yup. specially when u have a 7mil worth luis alberto and a 8mil aspas on the bench. but pool's lack of depth is absolutely SHOCKING.

a very interesting stat this one. we are the best placed club right now when it comes to home and away fixtures in comparision with any other top 8 PL club (since southamton are 9th and 6 points adrift of 8th placed newcastle). arsenal (4-3) home - chelsea, everton, pool, spurs away - united, city, newcastle city (6-1) home - arsenal,everton, pool, united, spurs,newcastle away- chelsea chelsea(2-5) home - city, pool away - arsenal, everton, united, spurs, newcaslte everton (4-3) home- chelsea, newcaslte,spurs, pool away - arsenal, city, united, pool (1-6) home - united away - arsenal, city, chelsea, everton, newcaslte, spurs united (4-3) home- arsenal, chelsea, everton, newcaslte away - city, pool, spurs spurs (4-3) home - chelsea,pool, united, newcastle away - arsenal, city, everton newcastle (3-4) home - arsenal, chelsea, pool away - city, everton, united, spurs

hahahahahah... trolololol

cos except for that one goal, he was PATHETIC in every sense of the word. could have even given away a penalty.

another brilliant performance. keep it up gary lad!!!

southampton are very good at home. would be a difficult match. cech azpi cahill JT(hope he does not fall down on the pitch) cole mikel rambo willian oscar hazard torres. we need some consistency in the AM department and atleast i feel we have got our best combo. willian-oscar-hazard is our best. torres will get a lot of space to run into.