Sheva.

No you're wrong, people were writing "Take Ramires off" because he was playing badly as usual. This is something stats do not tell you, Oscar could have created that chance and still for the rest of the game looked lively, linked up well with others etc. But Ramires, nah. He looked more like himself when we switched to 4-3-3 as many admitted after the game. The reason we didn't beat QPR was because we started with a very negative team. Sure we could still have scored and won 1-0 or something, but with a different lineup there's every possibility we could have created more chances than we did. And avoided that dreadful 20 minutes at the beginning of the 2nd half when we couldn't get into their half.

Sturridge as CF will be even worse than Torres... in terms of dealing with Cech's ridiculous hoof balls lol.

Alright Ramires made one good pass in the 2nd minute, what else did he do for the remainder of the time he played on the right? nothing. The most annoying thing (apart from the fact that, that wing is basically useless when we attack) about Ramires playing on the right is he doesn't even help out as much defensively as Bertrand does on the left. When Bertrand starts ahead of Cole you can be almost sure they won't get beat more than once. Totally different case on the right side.

The main problem is the double pivot, against any decent team a midfield 2 of Lampard and Mikel will always come up second best and thus mean we can't get the ball to the attackers enough. I've said for a while now RDM needs to change it up and try different options there, but doesn't look like he cares.

Johnson really does have terrible luck with injuries.

Videos are now on the Official site instead of Youtube.

Now i know how TX felt lol. Dominated Blue bulls in terms of possession and chances, and ended up losing, fuck sake.

I don't know what has been said, not bothered to read all the pages i missed but it's unacceptable the way he reacted to being subbed off. He has fucking played every game this season and has finished most, one time he gets subbed - in a game where nothing was going his way - and he throws a fit. Just terrible, and he owes the manager an apology.

The only fucking person whose opinion matters

Playing a team like that is only asking for trouble. We will be pinned back a lot and also do not have enough quality in attack.

The big games are coming thick and fast now with Juve, Arsenal, Spurs, Man utd and Liverpool soon. Then we will have a clear indication of RDM, his tactics and the squad in general.

RDM won't make so many changes for this one, if he even makes any at all. Good chance it will be the same team that started against City and Atletico....and lost.

Genoa take the lead.

Only criticism i can have of him - during his time at Chelsea - is his shooting. Everything else he's been great at.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFBPQrELyfQ Cicinho does stupid step overs while Ronaldo was marking him, then went to ground in Ronaldo-esque fashion

Possibility of happening = 99.9%

I'd agree with that.

Really? even though you have/had "major" concerns about him, i wouldn't call any concerns major if he can deliver the league I hope so.

And this is exactly why many people don't agree with his squad selection. Last season it was understandable, now it's simply ridiculous.

If they keep playing like this, then probably. They really struggled in the first half, conceded a very stupid goal and couldn't take their chances in the 2nd half. Very very bad start for them, but they have the players to turn it around.

Sevilla 1-0 Real Madrid. That's 4 point out of 4 games for Real, 8 points behind Barcelona. They play each other next month.

I actually do not think people are over reacting, i did a couple weeks ago - but he keeps playing Ramires out wide, to many fans disapproval and made it 100 times worse today. I normally try not to complain when i see the starting lineup because there's every chance players can play better than you expected. But today i just knew there was no way we could consistently put pressure on them with Ramires and Bertrand out wide. Now i don't think he should be sacked, but he needs to have a more positive approach - a team like this is not that bad against Man city for example, but surely not QPR. As for the second part, sometimes players need to be dropped to make them know they won't play every game if they don't perform. Just look at Fergie, a couple weeks ago he dropped De gea because of one mistake in a game they won. He dropped Rooney after a bad game against Everton and also dropped Evra today.

1. It's not about using tactics or players people want, it's about just making better decisions. Why in fucks name will anyone start a game with Bertrand AND Ramires against QPR? normally we struggle enough with Ramires rarely producing on the right, but when you now add Bertrand then it's obvious we will have problems attacking wise. 2. Only player people want to drop after 1 game is Torres, everyone else is after multiple bad games.

-----------Cech--------- Ivanovic--Luiz--Terry--Cole Ramires--Mikel---Oscar Moses---Sturridge--Hazard This would be my team, but we all know what RDM will do - just hope we can somehow steal a win.

Liverpool will get at least a draw in that one for sure lol, so we have to beat Stoke.