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Hazard and Willian are both not in the squad for today which only leaves Schurrle for Salah the two positions on the wings, unless Jose for some reason would rather start Ramires on the wing. I think it is very likely that he starts tonight.

Happy Jose in a press conference, there's a nice change! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2c6nlf_mourinho-happy-to-give-the-kids-a-chance-hd_sport (PS: For some weird reason, the video is age restricted)

Not true. Torres is better at unintentionally missing the goal, he's better at miscontroling the ball, he's a lot better at whining to the press...etc.

Damn! Those two names...been ages since I read them..

Basel official Instagram account:

I think City will win and go through.

Regarding City's group:

Always criticizing us when he's doing punditry. Very pro-Liverpool, though.. They could really use without the dirty tricks, though. Makes it impossible to be happy for them. If CSKA lose, a 0-0 draw sends Roma through. Any other draw means City qualify. If CSKA draw, however, any draw between City and Roma, regardless of the score, and Roma go through.

What happened? Why is he so anti-Chelsea now?

Seriously, was he popular here? He's beyond annoying. Every time I hear him talk I get and urge to punch a puppy in the face!

Don't rule Liverpool out. Never underestimate those famous European nights at Anfield!

How about a chill pill instead?

Wenger in.

With JT being out of the squad tomorrow, that probably means that Gary starts. I was hoping he gets a rest, tbh. He's looked like he could use a break much more than JT. Same reason he was warned and suspended for before. Racism.

If anyone is interested:

I think he will start tomorrow and in the Derby match because Jose will need him match fit in the busy Christmas period where he is about to start in one of the matches or at least feature in a couple.

Yeah, it's kinda low from you Skip, to criticize a man's post without him being to ever reply...

To keep him match fit. If he only plays one match in more than 2 weeks then he won't be 100% physically ready for the Christmas period. It's a very delicate balance. And Eden Hazard is quite clearly our most important player. Can't believe that's even still debatable.

I'm talking about practically all the goals we've conceded this season. We haven't been conceding in the last 2-3 weeks but overall we've conceded a lot more than last season's average. We couldn't keep a clean sheet at the first few months of the season. The reason we have been conceding less this season is because Jose has turned down the the aggressive of our pressing because our CBs were getting caught wrong footed every single game. But at the start of the season we conceded a lot of goals and quite a lot of chances from positional mistakes from the midfield 3, including Matic himself. Nemanja has been nothing short of brilliant in the past few weeks, but go back 10 pages on this very thread and you'll read people calling out his positional errors.

Matic just had a game off and will have another one when we face Derby next week. I fully expect him to start.

He's deserved it, really. He's the one that I have the most hope for.

How? We've been conceding these exact same type of goals all season with Matic there. Counter attack, either Iva is out of position and the opposition exploit that with a cross from his side or someone gets beaten in midfield and we have a player running at our defenders and we're suddenly in big trouble because neither JT not Cahill can step up. Matic is more dynamic than Mikel and he likes to jump into tackles whereas John likes to contain opposition players by forcing them wide and blocking passing lanes. Matic is also slightly more 'aggressive' passer, but that's about where the differences stop. Both are very similar type of players hence why Jose said that this position is the only one we have a two "replicate" players in and that it is an area where we are very stable in.

60 out of 103 forwards. 21 square/sideways. 22 backwards. http://www.fourfourtwo.com/statszone/8-2014/matches/755447/player-stats/28495/1_PASS_15#tabs-wrapper-anchor

Oh, sorry, I miss read that. Apologies, it's past my bed-time

Sounds like he got into a fight with someone at the club or something: EDIT: Never mind, miss-read that.