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Superb game by Garry.

If anyone is looking for Ozil, he's still in Mikel's pocket He was superb today, especially in the first 60 mins.

Brilliant again. My MOTM.

His best game this season after Westham. Funny that his best two games came in 4-3-3, right?

I think we just lacked a bit of luck and a decent final ball. I think we got in enough dangerous positions to score at least a couple.

I think if anyone deserved to win it it would have been us.

Not disagreeing there, just saying that it wasn't only the subs as in the last 15 mins the players seemed like they had in the back of their minds that a draw would not be bad for us.

The master has done it again

Some of the constant moaning and complaining is getting beyond annoying... JT was my MOTM. Cahill and Azpi were immense. Lamaprd put in a great shift. Ozil is still deep in Mikel's pocket. Overall I'm content with the result and happy with the performance.

Yeah but the draw was a better result for us and it started to show in the players attitude regardless of the sub, imo.

Ooops! I knew I was forgetting something!

Draw is not bad at all although had the final ball been better we should have won. I definitely felt we deserved to score in the first half.

Al Jazeera? I feel your pain! Yeah but had he not tried to dive, he would have got a pen. As weird as that sounds.

Well they should have...Had Walcott not gone down too early and waited for the actual contact (which was there) he probably would have gotten a pen.

Well on top so far and unlucky not be in front but lucky not to have conceded a pen. Arsenal didn't have a single attempt! Mike Dean has been bloody awful. And Ozil has been invisible.

At least wait till after the match to complain about our performance in the match!

Had a feeling Jose might go with 4-3-3: Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry ©, Azpilicueta; Mikel, Lampard; Ramires, Willian, Hazard; Torres

The shitty firstrow streams usually uses up at least 500MB for me.

Honestly we only have ourselves to blame for the pressure we go into this game in. Had we beaten Stoke like we should have we would be top of the league and playing comfortably for the draw tonight.

Match Preview Here by @Barbara.

Can you two drop it please? I think it goes without saying, but this "discussion" is beyond pointless.

Hazard has more acceleration than raw pace. But I get what you're saying

Great work, Barbara. Very refreshing from the boring crap that @ has been writing for the past couple of weeks!

He had a great game yesterday, especially in the second half. Thanks for the reply. I follow the Serie A very closely and I agree with most of what you said (though I wouldn't say Fredy is one of the best in the league in his position). But the issue is that people here expect him to play as a central midfielder in a 4-2-3-1 formation. Practically a defensive midfielder. He has never played that role (maybe a few times under Strama when he was switching between 3 and 4 at the back every other game). I don't think he can fit that position. Like you said, he is more physical than technical and in this position, the player can't make bad passes or try to dribble and lose the ball because the defense will be in trouble. Anyway, I'm glad he wants to stay at Inter because Chelsea are better off looking for other options in the market.

Kompany had a rather inconsistent season last year and was part of City's defensive issues. The general consensus was that Luiz was the better of the two last season especially in the second half.