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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.

Haha But it's not that bad. Look at Arabic, I can't understand a word that someone Saudi or Moroccan says, for example. And the original language which has been preserved and is taught in schools is rusty and impractical. Basically we can't write how we talk nor can when we talk how we write.

Yes, I asked you about it last time. But my iPad keeps changing it to "offense". If you want people to spell it your way, you should invent something that rivals Apple products!

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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.

*bump*

Watford at home in the third round.

It's obvious, isn't it? We played our best team against Schalke, so if we don't play our best against Sporting, it wouldn't be fair to Schalke. Hence, UEFA whose job is to protect the fairness of the competition would obviously take issue with that. One more point about this that hasn't been brought up is that the difference between a loss and a win in this match is over a million Euros IIRC (depending on how many goals we score). That is also a factor, no doubt.

Yeah, I was not upset when Demba said in an interview that names play a role in who gets picked at Chelsea because that was clearly true in his case.

Was he really sacked? Does that mean he's no longer at Chelsea TV either? Shame if true, but I won't miss his interviews if I'm completely honest.

If I'm not mistake, that's actually consistent with the mins per goal he had here last season. No regrets about letting him go, though. It was the right decision once it was decided that Didier would come back.

No, I think Barnett was the one who publically made fun of AVB getting sacked IIRC.

Read it again.

Unless you're a cop in the US. Then you get cleared by a jury and get tens of thousands of dollars in donations from racist idiots around the country.

3/3 successful takeons. Second most on the pitch behind only Hazard. But if you're so intent on viewing him as bad player, please don't let facts stand in your way...

I REALLY hope so. His leadership is unmatched and unlikely to ever be replaced.

I'm a little depressed that it's his birthday to be completely honest. 34 already, it's a bitter reminder that "the captain of captains" might not be on the pitch much longer. I'm not ready for that at ALL!

Bashing Mikel is like a fetish on this forum. It makes absolutely no senae but some people are irresistibly attracted to it to the point of obsession.