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And James looks sooo out of place on that list it's not even funny.

Should be Di Maria or Neuer but will be Ronaldo

Rocchi is actually one of the better refs in Italy. Though the only half decent Italian ref now is Rizzoli. Of course, there will never be another Collina. No, I agree. The standards have been getting worse and there's a lot that needs to be improved. But I just think that foreign refs won't necessarily do better than English refs. In the EPL, I think one area that needs to be improved is the physical readiness of the refs. I'm not just saying this because of the match on Sunday, but Phill Dowd really has no business reffing in this league. He just can't keep up, especially towards the end of matches. Watch Iva's sending off again and notice he takes about 2-3 seconds just to get into the camera frame. He's so far from the incident it is no surprise at all that he got it wrong.

The thing is, the fans in all the countries moan about the refs and think they have the worst refs. English refs are not great, but they are certainly better than the refs in the Italian and French leagues. The game has just become very hard to officiate, especially so in the EPL.

Karanka seems to really like him, but he hasn't been scoring.

Well that's one hell of an understatement. He won the official MOTM for that game!

That's like saying "BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea could win, draw or lose tomorrow!" I'd play Barkley because I would have signed him if I were manager

Just f**ing awesome...

Trained fully with the group today. With Solank not available, I expect to at least be on the bench tomorrow, let alone QPR at the weekend.

He wrote that on Saturday. Really doubt Jose would have picked the team already then. Yeah, and Costa starts against united...

No Boga tomorrow. He's playing for the U21s right now. No Solanke either.

That doesn't sound legit AT ALL!

It would take major fuck ups from all of United, Liverpool, Spurs and even Everton for that to happen. Honestly, right now, they probably have as much chance of getting relegated as finishing top 4.

On a different note, Solanke and Boga start for the U21s tonight so they will most definitely not be part of the squad tomorrow. EDIT: The youngsters that have traveled with the squad, as expected, are Ake, Christensen, Brown and Baker (and Zouma if you count him as a youngster).

Is Rami fit? If he wasn't fit yesterday I don't think he'll be fit to start tomorrow. Think he'll be on the bench at most.

Forget Fellaini, old man Dowd had him in his pocket all game: https://vine.co/v/OhLZrDBbe1l !

Speaking of Dowd, I think this should have been a yellow card for deliberate blocking! https://vine.co/v/OhLZrDBbe1l It is something that we have been struggling with for 2-3 seasons now. Yesterday we were particularly poor in that department because the transition was too slow and because our midfielders all had low passing accuracy (Fabregas had 63% in the first half!).

Gone for a second? We couldn't take advantage of the massive spaces in the united defense throughout the match because of our bad decision making in the final third. What on earth makes you think we would have been more likely to score than united had we gone for the second?! All that would have done is leave us more exposed at the back like we clearly were in the first half and united would most likely not have needed the ref's aid and added time to grab the goal.

So next big game we should just have our players shoot from 40 yards at every chance and our CBs to keep passing it between each other for as long as possible so that the stats show that we controlled the match by your definition? Because that is what united did for most of the second half. Yes, you are control when you have the lead and your opponents are having zero chances to score. But any team can concede from set-pieces, especially after having a man sent off. You can never have 100% guarantees that you won't score you can only take the approach that gives you the highest likelihood of success and we did that.

Been injured for a while. He was actually back in Cobham to receive treatment for a while. Think he went back to Arnhem a few days ago.

Understatement of the month, that! I'm gonna go with he didn't know/forgot that he was supposed to be marking Fellaini after Iva went off. Free header from 8 yards out. What a stop by Thibaut!

"Matic, in the middle of our pitch, Matic..."

Below average performance yesterday just like Cesc and Oscar. What was with our central midfielders yesterday? Thankfully Matic had a great game or we would have been in serious trouble.

I reckon that no more than 2 youth players will start, namely Ake and Zouma, in addition to a couple of fringe players in Salah and Mikel. I think the suspensions at the back will mean that both JT and Cahill start. Brown, Solanke and Baker likely to be on the bench.

But they did execute that perfectly. It was just lack of defensive organization on a (non-existent) FK in 94th minute after one of our players was (wrongly) sent off. If Iva was still on we most like would have defender the FK. But since Iva was sent off, the players were still trying to work out who is to mark who. Cahill let Fellaini (who was originally Iva's man but he was covering for him) slip and young inexperienced Zouma was ball watching and let RVP to the ball first. Simple as.