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Got a bad feeling about this one. Everyone is way too confident about us getting a win. I don't like us going into big games as the favorites.

True, the defender made a mess of it, but still, Nemanja had no right to score from that angle and to loop it over the keeper who was practically on his line. Pretty special header.

Good to see John Oliver bringing up the issues that no one wants to talk about: Speaking of, no one is even mentioning the civilian causalities from the "alliance" airstrikes, and there has been plenty. How are they any better than Assad himself?

We took the same chance in the second half of last season and I thought we were playing with fire. Hope we can get away with it again. Two injuries to defenders and we're screwed.

What a weird game. Matic probably scored from the toughest chance we had all evening!

I'll do Maribor.

I remember that Ryan started. Not 100% sure, though.

It was the last few games of his reign but he did drop Cole for Bertrand. Napoli game for example. The story about Roman is just a tall tale. Either that or we are the worst run club in professional football. It was juts something made up by the fans to justify for RDM. And Danny was injured for a week or two during Benitez's first two months. And we were playing 2 times a week every week back then but still he would not even rest Torres for Danny. AVB never started him as a striker either despite Torres' and Droba's forms. Regarding Terry, Benitez had no choice after JT had those back to back long-term injuries, plus the replacements were established players like Luiz, Caill and Iva, not some youngster like Danny or Ryan. And regardless of how they proved to be better, the politics at Real and Jose's personal issues with Pepe and Cassillas played a big part in why they were dropped.

Drogba out. Ankle injury again.

AVB did. Anyway, it's incredibly difficult for any youngster when you have such a big name in front of you. Sturridge was never given a proper chance ahead of Torres by AVB, RDM or Benitez. It's always easier to go with the established name. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that Ryan could ever become as good as prime Cole, I just think he is better than he was treated by Chelsea, especially last season.

I'd say most probably after the international break.

He should come off 'injured' in the last few minutes against Arsenal and 'have to' miss the international matches.

We should learn from the Schalke game. The way to keep our key players fresh is to start with the strongest team, build a lead and then sub them off. We can't afford to completely drop anyone except Costa.

Incorrect. He a few games as left winger for us under RDM, almost all of which were as a sub from the bench, but he played A LOT more matches as a left back. The number of matches are not even comparable!

On a different note: RAIN!!! :D

Yes, yes. And I've only googled "sexy midget whips man-slave" once...

Wow! Came on in the 86th minute and scored that stunning FK winner.

That is sooo weird to pronounce!

Stop googling "nude photos of Andre Schurrle and Thibaut Courtois" and the ad should go away

Weird. When he was here the consensus was that he wouldn't be able to make it here because he's not good enough offensively. Apart from one match against Shakhtar when RDM left him isolated against Srna and whoever their right winger was, he has never not looked solid from a defensive point of view.

I don't think he wants to return and rightly so. He's 24 already and has every right to want to be in a team where he's the nailed on starter.

I am certain that is NOT a word!

I remember that! But for some reason I thought it was someone else who had scored it.

Hahahahahaha It's a google ad. The content depends completely on you search history... Busted! So I take it he's a good guy?

Tried but couldn't find anything. If it's anything like yesterday's, it's definitely worth seeing.