didierforever

their 2nd team is not something to be scorned upon. they ll probably line up this way lindegaard rafael vermijl rio buttner nani powell scholes/cleverly young welbeck hernandez its more than just formidable.

cech azpi gary luiz ryan romeu rambo MAZACAR sturridge

bloody deja vu. 9 men, pool home defeat and then carling cup defeat. hope it does not happen the same this time around.

i just wish some1 had said "its a disgrace, its a fucking DISGRACE".... i am bloody literally seething.

PLEASE dont because most of your argument centers around torres being taller than sturridge and also the presumption that sturridge has no experience of playing as the lone CF so he should not be playing as one against united. torres is over and past his best and simply cant give us more than what sturridge can. if i remember correctly sturridge set up hazard with one of his first touches in the shakhtar game. against reading when we were 2-1 down sturridge came in and made us look far more dangerous than we had been in the previous 70 minutes. with torres we know what we are gonna get and its not going to be good enough. its going to be an open match with both countering (somethin like last season OT) and in the end how well we take those chances is goin to determine the result and with torres we know that all we would get are stupid one on one misses, ball loosing and then just one moment of magic when he ll cut 2 or 3 defenders to give us that hope that "torres is back" and then go back to his old routine. so as i see it, we can stick with torres and cry over his missed chances at the end of the match or go with sturridge and give ourselves a true chance.

good discussion.

sturridge's unknown form is a better gamble than torres' known "form"(if that is what u ll call it).

then we know the result. so lets hope this is not the case.

WHEN?????

chill dude. got your point (but it was your fault to be drawn into an argument with torres fans, we all know how that goes).

if only i had a 100 reps to give dude.

first of all this "ONE" factor is not really factor. secondly i dont have enough time to list out all the points in sturridge's favour. next i think we should buy crouch for 50mil because well he is the tallest of them all. height is the most important thing n that is the only reason for drogba to be a legend, right?

wow... new and the most important criteria of footballers these days - HEIGHT. the level of foolishness that torres fans go thru is commendable.

tbh i dont expect us to get any points out of this match but united keepong a clean sheet is a joke. i expect a goalfest with united clinching it simply because they ll be more clinical (1000 times more clinical). something like the OT match.

this is the best comment i ve read on talk chelsea.

toughest epl match. they know their defense is not working so they r playin the attacking game. their strikers are infinitely more clinical than our zombie. in the tottenham match we were at sixes and sevens whenever the ball was played into our D and that is what united strive on. for me its going to be a very similar game to the one at OT last season. open game with loads and loads of chances and the finishing and clinicality of the teams winning the match. so for me united have a big upper hand in this game.

he is over. how is it that some1 who was so awesome just 3-4 years ago has become this blue clad zombie has made people come up with theories and the best one is that he has lost his "confidence". as far i see it, he has got nothin special to give to us which sturridge and lukaku cant.

sell torres for which ever idiot club wants him for whatever money and buy falcao. buy him thru his buy-out clause so as to end any competition with city.

somebody needs to get this shit out of this club. please throw him out. end his contract, giving him any compensation he wants, recall lukaku and i guarantee you we will all be happier.

thank u for saving my time. no more discussions are necessary.

damn it. y defensive??? hopefully we are playing 4-3-3 so as not to see rambo on the wings when he has been so good thru the center. we are playing it real safe.

nothing to argue over but y would u vote NO. y would we not want to win the CWC or anythin for that matter. i think the person who started the topic wanted to know if we should prioritize CWC over everythin but ended up asking the above question.

the person who voted "no" should be banned. :readthemessage: :rant:

there are arguments and then there are discussions. i prefer the latter one and dont think there is any thing wrong in 2 people discussing their different opinions.i do remember the 3rd goal and the brilliant hazard thru ball. i think u r overplayin torres' role in that goal. gallas was covering torres because mata was a long way off and had made a run behind gallas. walker was completely out of position in trying to cover oscar who was very wide(i think) which left a big gap (between walker n gallas) for mata to run in. the obvious pass for hazard seemed to be torres and both of them (spurs cbs) were ready to pounce. so it was more of a gallas not expecting mata's run than torres pulling both cbs with him. moreover the movement i am talking about in the 4th goal is for the final ball inside the D. torres was stagnant. he dint run towards the near post despite having more space than sturridge. even though sturridge was not marked he had cauker probably a metre or 2 in front of him while torres was standing further behind sturridge. his first instinct as a striker should have been the far post but he simply stood there. and that is what troubles me. even while goin one on one with freidel the nando of old would have long buried the ball in the back of the net but he kept on delaying and then lost the ball without taking a shot(and he had ample time for that).

it is has become a myth that "sturridge does not pass the ball". he does it and moreover he does not lose as many balls as nando does. as far as respect is concerned, u can gain that only if u play and score goals and get a name for urself. sturridge has not got any chance this season because of nando and his injury. sturridge deserves a fair chance with those 3 behind him for 90 minutes. he will murder the goalie. look at sturridge's movement for the 4th goal and compare it with nando. if sturridge was not on the pitch then mata would definitely have to go for goal. and that is the kind of difference sturridge can make. atm torres's striker instincts have taken a hit for some reason and sturridge can give us the extra dimension because atm it seems we are playin with a false nine.