Sheva.

What other option does he have with Lampard out injured?

Yeah mate, to Bein Sport. I need to get that channel

They would probably just create a new channel people will have to pay extra for Anyway i've always preferred ESPN, shame they lost CL and now will also lose PL football.

Cech made 70 apps for Rennes (wiki) enough to judge how good a keeper he is. It is also not strange to see keepers move from smaller teams to much better/bigger clubs and get games, more recent examples are Lindegaard or Courtois. While Sturridge played 12 games for Bolton, and tbf i didn't have time to watch like 8 of those games, but the few i saw he did not play as a lone striker like he'd be asked to do here. His positioning is alright, his finishing decent and pace great, but there's more to it than that. In the 1 game he started as main striker for Chelsea against Blackburn he had a tough time shaking off Samba and Torres was brought in at half time if i remember correctly. People who expect him to just step in and instantly shine could very well be wrong, but we will all see... eventually.

He is as main striker. He did well for half a season as a winger, and did well at Bolton alongside Kevin Davies and Elmander pretty much beside them. And like i've said over and over, we are just what? 8 games into the league season, and Sturridge is the only other option we have to Torres so he will start games, and more than in just cup games or whatever. Then we will all see how capable he is at the position.

Actually had me fooled for about 3 seconds lol.

Nice long post, but you said Torres doesn't have any assist this season? i'm not sure that's right but even if it is, he had shitloads last season and it didn't matter to anyone. So why does it matter now?

Lampard is out for a few weeks, RDM said in his presser. And Marin might be in the squad.

Statistics do not matter here, almost anyone that watched the game knows who the better side was, and who deserved to win. And the answer was Chelsea, if Spurs were at the Bridge with that team they would not have 26 shots, no way in hell. We were more compact at Arsenal, they did not have so many oppurtunities in our area like Spurs did, then again we had John Terry who cleared almost anything that came into our area. Arsenal only out shot us because of long rangers i can bet. Also can you tell me a couple top teams that attack and defend at the same high level? i've been going through names in my head and can't come up with many. A lot of teams are really bad defensively

We were also away in both games and went to attack not defend. You can't expect to play the type of football we have been playing and also have the defensive solidity of last season, you have to choose one, and we've chosen the former. And fyi we did dominate Spurs, they only consistently threatened for 15 minutes and on set pieces. You just need to watch when teams like BVB, Real Madrid, Man city play - top teams that use this same formation - they're not exactly great defensively, but they sure create many chances and score lots of goals. Even fucking Barcelona can't defend lol.

We can't afford to play defensive, yes United have good forwards, but their defence is very bad, so playing say, Ramires on the right only does them a favour. Attack them!

HUNTELAAAAAAAAAAAAR

Dortmund lead again.

What are City doing, looks like they want to be out of CL early again.

And Ronaldo equalizes lol.

Lewandowski just scored against Real Madrid.

Same 11 that got the job done against Arsenal and Spurs, we can win this, if Man u don't get any stupid penalties.

Definitely will not happen. He doesn't fit the new transfer policy, and it just doesn't make sense to sign him and pay him high wages, considering his age. Would have been a great signing 4 years ago. Anyway we just need someone who's got a good scoring ratio, doesn't have to cost 60m. If we can get someone who can take his chances to play ahead of our 3 attacking midfielders, things will be very promising. Someone like Hernandez even will get the job done.

I agree, Ramires was good. He made a couple dangerous runs into their half, made a good pass to Torres but he's too slow, and also won the ball back many times.

Completely ignoring the fact that Torres had been defending the corner, booted the ball forward from our own half and still was able to run all the way to join up with the counter. Don't let something as simple as that, get in the way of your point though...

Just to sum up this game, even Mata played badly, that just says it all really.

What exactly are you trying to say?

It's not all good, but it's not all bad Not even going to stress out over this game, they were better than us and won. Onto the next one!

Ref couldn't have allowed us a final attack lol.

Too little, too late.