Blue Armour

Agree, Pressing was meant to be one of the foremost requirements for our new style of play, and neither our front line or midfield did anything in this regard. This was the main reason why we conceded so many goals at the start of the season. As for Mikel, I always wanted Carlo to use him in the hole of the diamond formation (during the start of 09). He can hold the ball well, and play quick passes to the strikers in front...Sad it never happened.

I see they spared no expense, except maybe common sense.

Its a fake. The article itself says so.

I remember a time when Essien got pissed off and shouted at Bosingwa for making a mess of the build-up play....how times have changed since then...

True, a draw would have been nice...Not too upset that we didn't win.

Good news is its only a niggling injury that's preventing him from starting..he'll be back soon.

True. Its the same kind of penalty awarded to us when Lescott raised his hands in the reverse fixture.

True, Silva was very quiet ...It was Nasri running the show for them today..And of course that Tevez..I just knew he would be back in time to face us...Him, Van Persie (and previously Torres) always sting us when we go up against them

Cavani's awesome....might be out of our price range though.

I hate it when we play other teams in blue...

It always stems from the fact that people start dissing the other players when thing's don't work out for Torres..I'm not going to judge him on todays performance, but I expected more after his good showings in the last two fixtures.

Well, then I guess we need to make more arrangements till the team's ready to play with him again. Still hope he can do better in his next match.

Of course there's always a "chance". But a chance is nothing more than that. And please don't reply...There's a "chance" your next post will be more annoying.

When he first started playing the argument used was that we never passed to his feet often enough, and that we always used the Drogba air-balls. Yes.

Agree with the highlighted part of your post. As for the rest, wait till we've played Benfica....

lol... Not while we still have a CL fixture to take care of...

Yes, but even poachers run forward, rather than wait by the side for a pass.

We took the lead through a fluke goal, and survived with a clean sheet till that point even with our best defenders Terry and Ivanovic absent. If you were dead sure of a win before the match, then I can't console you.

Yes but in the scheme of things, this was the match with the least amount of expectancy. Stop throwing insults.

Agreed. Torres' positioning was piss poor today and was the main reason why our attacks looked clueless in the first half. Don't get me wrong, he had a lot of good touches on the ball but he just doesn't get into the box often enough.

Seriously F *** off Tevez!!! (JUST KNEW he would be back to face us) And...Bring on Spurs!!! We'll have a REAL captain on the pitch by then.

Not impressed with Torres positioning...Ramires seems to get into the box more than him. Need to close down on Nasri and Silva a lot better than this.

Nah...Drogba can bulldoze Spurs on his own...I think RDM is going to exploit Nino's pace on the counter here.

Its the university's call really..some places call it aeronautical/aerospace and might have an additional course for astronautics..Generally, aeronautical refers to flights within the atmosphere and astronautical refers to flights outside of it...In aerospace you're allowed to take courses related to both..

Lol...I certainly wouldn't mind