Sheva.

Great goal.

Need another goal and fast.

Willian should stop looking for fouls and pass.

YESSSS

Yeah no Luis is the only annoying thing, but no way Azpi and Ivan would be dropped for this type of game.

Very close to what I wanted. Hopefully it works.

Yeah this. Their stats can be misinterpreted when taken out of context, but they do provide good insight. About Hazard - we all know he's no defensive beast, but when he actually drops back to defend, he does a good job the majority of the time. This is what the stats will show, compared to Cesc who is always in the thick of the action; missing many tackles and getting dribbled by faster players.

Optimism on my part. With Mikel and Matic, we don't need another defensive player.

Courtois; Ivan-Cahill-JT-Luis; Mikel-Matic; Oscar-Cesc-Hazard; Costa. We need to be strong in defense and also decisive in attack, and I really don't trust Willian and Oscar (together) in such games.

Utd keep stealing points.

According to live commentary, Lukaku scored an OG for Soton.

This is painfully predictable. I might shed a tear when City finally score a jammy goal.

I like. But I don't understand black 3rd kit again - more times than none, if we can't wear blue, we can't wear black also. I wish the yellow kit from this season could be used as permanent 3rd kit lol.

He can play shit and score. Willian can play amazing and actually not contribute anything in attack. Take your pick

I thought Mikel and Matic were solid today after their collective bad performance against Hull (Cesc back obviously helped too) One thing I like is how both are able to keep the ball under pressure (sometimes Mikel overdoes it and tries to take on 3 players lol) and can complete most basic passes, unlike Ramires. I think this could be our pivot come crunch CL knockout time.

Didn't know he had that in his locker, looked like Bale for a second.

I love Fabregas up the pitch.

Fuck, why Ivanovic.

OMG

That looked horrible.

Loool Fabregas, that's a yellow card offense.

This is what I like. We need to score when we're dominating.

Very nice

OK then. Question though, we have 4 games left this month (another one first day of Jan.), do you expect Hazard, Matic, Cesc to play all these games and consistently play at a high level? I think there will likely be an off performance like against Sunderland, and with 3 of the PL games away from home, that could spell trouble. I believe clubs with good squad depth end up being the most successful. Of course it's not a fact, but it can't possibly be a bad thing to be able to rest your stars whenever necessary.

It wouldn't hurt to have more rest considering we have a spell coming up when we play on the 26th, 28th and again on the 1st. You can't tell me the (unnecessary) minutes played here, won't end up having an impact then. I would like to win this cup if possible, but we need to use our squad depth at this moment. If our bench players can't beat Derby, then I wonder how we're going to get through December playing the same 11 every game.