Pizy

I think calling him a "choker" in big games is harsh. When a side specifically goes into a match trying everything in their power to shut him down and he's got a man marker or two with every step he takes he's hardly choking when he's ineffective. We do it to almost every world class player we go against. We did it to the world's best striker last season in Suarez, we've done it for years against Messi, we've done it to Sanchez and Di Maria in recent matches this season. It's what good managers do. Identify the oppositions biggest threat and neutralize them.

Can't compare us with City at all, blue tinted specs on or not. We were a respectable club fighting near the top of the table. City were completely irrelevant. They were literally like someone giving a hobo millions of dollars overnight.As for Aguero, I don't hate him as a player. I think he's brilliant and love his actual game. He just seems like such a little shit.

City have such an unlikable squad. They all come off as such arrogant cunts. Especially Agüero and Yaya. Their manager too. They're such a nothing club that it really doesn't even bother me when they win. That goes for their titles as well. They're just a hollow, small club with unlimited money pumped in. At least we were relevant and in the mix before our takeover. That squad seems like a simple bunch of mercenaries.

United giving Arsenal a run for their money for most injury prone team in Europe.

Games over. FFS, Smalling you thick cunt!

My god I hate that club.

Usually it's the opposition keeper of one of these shit teams that has the game of their lives against us. Today it's a CB in Dunne. We absolutely need at least 1 more goal here. If we just try to coast through the second half you just know they'll knick a chance or goal out of nothing. We're in total control and dominant right now. Play exactly the same as we did first half.

No excuse not to win this one comfortably. Our strongest side.

This could become a fantastic weekend if results go our way. We're playing an absolutely shit QPR whilst a struggling City side play United with their best player Silva out injured. Handle our business and hope United win and it'll make up for our result last weekend.

Hopefully our players realize that opening a nice big gap on City is still very much on with them playing United. I fancy them to beat City so we can't afford to let this terrible QPR side take points against us. I hope we absolutely blitz them from the opening whistle with the high press and end the match by halftime. Maybe even rest Oscar here and push Cesc up field with Ramires and Matic in the middle. Also hope Luis has another fantastic match so José has a real selection headache on his hands when Azpi returns. Love watching Filipe play. So good on the ball.

Eh, still don't care. It means so little that I can't even remember who won it last year much less who's won it the last few.The FA Cup I respect and want to see us take seriously but this one just does nothing for me.

I literally couldn't care less about this match or this competition. Just a waste of our time and an unnecessary set of distractions from our pursuit of trophies that matter. I'm only thinking about QPR and worrying about Costa's injury. This is a huge trap game. They'll be buzzing after their win last night and we have no idea who's gonna be playing up front for us.

Fucking hell!

I just love the little guy.

I hope he fails at United and we buy him back in a cut price deal and he immediately reverts to his old Chelsea self. Their fans on RedCafe are already turning on him and saying that when Rooney is back next week Juan shouldn't be near their first XI.

Wow. Really starting to question whether many in here know football. Parked the bus? José getting it wrong? We totally dominated them and controlled the game for a huge portion of that second half. We're playing in one of then most difficult places to play AND combating awful refereeing and we were seconds away from taking the 3 points. Should've had a pen and Didier should've scored that chance on the edge of the box on the Oscar pullback. We protected our goal brilliantly and calmly soaked up their late pressure. Perfectly played until the free kick. As José just said in his post match, it was a great away performance. We had a 36 year old striker leading the line who has barely trained and our 2 best players in Hazard and Fábregas were quiet.

Shocking, embarrassing refereeing.

Dowd has been shocking.

No.Eto'o on the other hand...

My most concerning matchup is Ivanovic v Di Maria. The exact type of player he struggles against.

If this were at the Bridge I'd be extremely confident. You just know they'll play the game raising cunts and Fellaini will play like Yaya Toure here.

Come on, King Didier! Slay them.

Only upside to this is that if we manage to beat them without our best goal scorer it'll be not only hilarious but also a huge confidence boost. Very, very nervous about this one.

This late kickoff is so annoying.

Yeah, looking more and more likely that Costa is out. Hopefully Didier can roll back the years and torment that United defense.