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Filipe morphed into Ivanovic of last season. His crosses were awful today as they have been all season bar one or two decent ones

Not very often then. Which is the point TX was making. Fergie's UTD were the masters of scoring late goals.

He got it wrong today with the line up. I understand that we had to freshen up the team due to the hectic schedule but soto have the best/2nd best defensive record in the league and we usually struggle against defensively resilient teams. this was not the game to play Schurle and Mikel. Heck those two would have been better off playing against westham instead. Tactically and logically it was not the right thing to do. It was too little too late in the end. I also felt Remy should have been introduced much earlier instead of Drogba and Costa should ahve been taken off as he was having a poor game and adding nothing to the attack. The momentum is firmly in City's court now and they show no signs of stopping.

He's absolutely and utterly useless when he's not scoring. Hold up play nonexistent, link up play abysmally poor etc etc. it has reached a point that I expect him to lose the ball whenever he's in possession with someone marking him. Remy should have been introduced much earlier.

He's not even the best goalkeeper in the premier league nevermind the world. Nueur and De gea are ahead of him.

I meant league games only.

I just observed a worrysome pattern. Bar the first 4 game of the season, we have not exceeded 3 wins in a row. If this pattern continues then we will definitely drop poonts today as we are currently on a 3 game winning strea. Hope we break that pattern today.

Who's the donkey. just to give it some balance. I nominate salah

I never thought this day would come. The longest 3.5 years ever but goodluck to him.

Precisely. The funny thing is those who label him an average player are the same people that consider Ivanovic world class whe in reality Bertrand is more consistent (defensively) and makes far less defensive mistakes.

Mock kalou all you want, he was actually a great squad player. The amount of vital goals he scored for us as a squad player is incredible.

He's still needed here. all we have to do is switch azpi back to his natural position and let him be back up to filipe. The funny thing is that what he's doing this season at Southampton, He was also doing with us but people always see the grass as greener on the otherside. I promise you he hasn't just started performing like a very competent and accomplished leftback this season. he's been doing that since he was prmoted to the Chelsea first team but people see what they want to see. Some of us recognmised this but others chose to label him average and midtable level talent.

After the diving controversy of recent week against Hull that put us in a negative spotlight, he goes on and does that further reinforcing the sterotype that most footballs IQ is in the double digits. If I was Jose I would be having some very harsh words with him and would implement a policy to fine any Chelsea player that dives from this point forward.

Calm down. He's not even in the same class as bobby moore nevermind greater than. Some will argue he's not greater than tony adams either. Bobby is without question the greatest english defender ever and the only english defender that is talked about in the same breathe as beckenbauer,baresi et al

Ivanovic is pissing me off honestly. His positioning defensively has been awful all season.

This is easily the best half we have had this season and the scoreline flatter westham greatly. The combination passing has been outstanding.

Why does Ivanovic keep diving. he can be such a cunt sometimes. embarrassing.

Remy must be injured. That's the only logical reason why he can't make the team.

And why would that be a bad thing in this case? If Mandzukic gets injured and we have to face Torres, I had be over the moon because we had be playing against 10 men literally.

Technically our players can shoot. it just never goes anywhere close to the direction of the goal or intended target This problem started when we adopted the Arsenal post invincible strategy of going after more nimble attacking players instead of the physically imposing and well rounded ones. we went from Essien,Ballack,prime lampard et al to Mata,oscar,hazard. . . . Even our centreback, Alex, was an expert at long range shooting back then. You always sacrifice something when you ditch robbustness for nimbleness and creativity.

If there ever was a clear case for unanimous MOTM award, Matic's performance deserves one.

They are just playing up to their stereotype as the dirty cunts of English/European football. That's the only thing they have going for them anyway. You could see they were trying so hard to retain their prestigious crown and their fans are equally vile and horrible.

Phildriver is that you

Zouma not 100 percent match fit should be the only justification for starting Cahill. He's been terrible all season and hope he doesn't cost us points tonight . I would have gone with Azpi Ivanovic JT and Filipe. Other than that, it's a very decent line up although the Mikel Matic combo lacks mobility.

So far this season aguero and sanchez have been the two best and most consistent players in the league that it's not even debatable. Where would arsenal be without thw chilean and the amount of pts and games sergio has almost singlehandedly won for city is quite impressive and despite being injury prone, he has the best minute per goal rate in premier league history. Let that fact sink in for a minute.