Sheva.

Because Rafa played him pretty much as a 2nd striker. No other top CAM in the world has to deal with bullshit about defensive production like Mata has to, because they all play for top teams who give them license to do their business in attack, and have good players in the pivot to protect the defence. Chelsea though consistently play a 35 year old in there. Totally Mata's fault.

"No offense" doesn't make that any less offensive lol.

This is not the first time Niclas has attacked someone in the past couple days lol. There's nothing stupid about starting with 3-5-2, we probably need to try a new formation at home to teams who sit deep since 4-2-3-1 and whatever the fuck system we play doesn't work. 2 strikers might work, but that will leave even more AM's on the bench.

That Hazard is our most creative player when not playing well says it all really.

Got this. Ivory Coast in group of death again and 4 decent teams in Group E. Otherwise meh. Belgians will be happy with that kind of group!

We didn't need to sign both, 1 would have been enough, but i certainly i'm not complaining. They both offer something different and are very suited to Mourinho's style.

He's no longer considered an important player. The last 2 friendlies indicate as much - he played in the 'weaker' game along with a lot of other England reserves, while Woy used most of his starters against the Germans. Also if i remember correctly he only came on as a sub in the important qualifier against Poland?

Back to the stress and frustration of club football, yay!

He can't even play regularly for England anymore, and if he goes to Brazil it will be because of his name since he won't be playing any meaningful game there. I can accept him starting for us for now because tbf to Mourinho he is the closest we have to a DLP. But things have to change in January.

He'll be back in the team soon enough, after that shambolic defending against WBA.

Suarez is one of a kind, i'll agree with that. As for the others, there's a difference between being clinical with not depending on others. Because a lot of the times i see Rooney, RVP and Aguero score, it's from good passes/crosses from their team-mates. It's like saying CR7 doesn't depend on anyone to get goals. We do lack creativity and play slow football, and everyone you mentioned there minus Suarez won't score the same amount of goals for us, as they are for their current teams.

Name a striker that doesn't need this. Falcao can score world class goals on his own like every other top striker, but the majority of the time, you still have to get the ball to them.

Lukaku has shown at WBA and now Everton what he can do on the counter, but for Chelsea he won't have many of those opportunities and needs to be better with his back towards goal. Eto'o for example has a really sure touch and the ball sticks with him and he gets it to someone else, Lukaku previously will just lose possession.

Hulk has been playing well, he'll surely start over Willian who's new to the setup. But Willian was good again, in his short time on the pitch, he created 2 chances and was lively.

Lampard will start for sure, hopefully he does bettet than his previous performances.

Best in the world lol.

King Ibra

Give Ronaldo ballon d'or already.

He didn't start against Cardiff, not a fair game to judge. 5 goals and 2 assists this season is decent, Eto'o has 4 goals and 2 assists in 7 minutes less, so at least we're getting some production from strikers for a change.

Crazy how Italy didn't score a winner, Nigeria having played on Saturday looked jaded in the 2nd half and couldn't string more than 2 passes together. Balotelli had a night to forget, but overall it was indeed a good game.

Cameroon on their way to Brazil. Up 3-1.

English media. He said Rooney is a great player but Germany have 2 good players every position, and Rooney might not play for them. And they turned it into some big deal about how ze Germans don't rate their best player.

Playing down the middle atm, a position i already said we should try him in. His vision, close control and acceleration will be a bitch to deal with, and he's not a bad finisher either.

This is football