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Cech was never going to get to that ball ahead of Anichibe unless Anichibe stopped. The cross is a great one becasue it was bent away from Petr, his step forward was in case Anichibe missed it. There is absolutely nothing Petr could have done to prevent that.

But this isn't La Liga or Ligue 1, there are no shit teams. Every single team in the EPL has players that can defend and keep their discipline for 90 minutes and have the quality to hurt you on the attack. We have at times blown teams away like Newcastle last week and Westham away, but we just don't have the consistency yet to do that every week. Tonight, WBA were very disciplined and kept their shape in the fist half. We were lucky that they lost their concentration in the final seconds. In the second half we had much more space and got into the right areas to create chances and score goals but we just weren't clinical enough. Then around the 75 minutes, we made a few mistakes at the back with tiredness playing a role and Iva prefering to argue with the ref rather than actually defende playing a role as well and we gave them a few chances in a row and they got the belief and momentum and put us under pressure. Our players lacked the experience and the leadership in defense to hold on and we were always going to concede.

It was not a miss-communication, Cech had to take a step forward in case everyone misses the ball, but he could not do anything about that. It was a great cross which is no surprise considering that the crosser had all the time and space in the world, and Anichibe just beat Luiz to it. Petr couldn't do anything.

All you need to think about when you post are forum rules which clearly state that you can express any football opinion you want as long it does not include swears and offensive language towards other posters. If you post your opinion respectfully and someone feels insulted, then it's their problem, if they swear at you then it becomes my and the moderating team's problem and we'll deal with it. You just worry about getting your point across without swearing at anyone for disagreeing with you.

Honestly, this draw and performance will do good for us. Might stop everyone from expecting us to play like City every game and tear everyone apart and remind our fans that inconsistency with our current squad is only normal. Every time there are comments like "easy three points" in the prematch thread, we go on to drop points.

Reasoning to insult people? :doh: I was trying to reason with you but that obviously was pointless, so let me put this in a different manner: Stop cursing and insulting people or get a warning. Alright?

Title is gone! Everyone was shit and we're all going to die!

I usually don't do it all at once. I just open a few links like some tactical analysis and the stats sheet of each team and write a paragraph when I get a few minutes every couple of hours.

I am not debating anything related to Mata. You're randomly cursing and swearing at people who are disagreeing with and you and I'm saying stop it. Too much to ask? If you can't debate respectfully, then don't debate at all. Thanks.

Yeah, no problem sweetie. I'll probably be doing the feed for TalkChelsea so I'll send you a tweet when something happens.

Liverpool and united tactics

Not sure he has much more to learn from the Belgian League. Best to have him in England, or at worse France, imo.

How about you stop cursing at everyone who disagrees with you for a change?

No offense mate, but does your GF know that she's out of your league?! :P

Yeah, but this cup game means more than that PL game because our hope of getting 4th place was already gone and our only realistic chance of making the CL was by actually winning it. The Arsenal game was more of a meaningless friendly than anything else.

Well if Lukaku can't make it here then normally you can't really give much hope for someone like Bamford. But I can never write this boy off because I've seen him over-achieve in every single challenge he's had, from scoring 5 against us with Forest at youth level, to outshining Feruz who was supposed to be the next big thing, to tearing up League One and now forcing his way into the starting XI of the best attack in the championship. Honestly, I wouldn't put anything beyond Patrick.

That's some excellent work considering you did it all in about an hour. Well done @Barbara

Your accent is pretty awesome!

Think they'll want to stay in the cup a bit more than to do that. I hope they do, though.

City don't exactly have many options for rotation at CM atm, though.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1bost7_mourinho-press-conference-before-the-match-west-brom_sport

He should have just lobed it first time. but as you said he wanted to finish with his left.

He gains nothing by making up a story like this, only by coming up with BS stories about the likes of Cavani and Falcao.

Not confirmed by the club, no, but the media reported it. I think it was Di Marzio that broke the story. Plus, his wikipedia page says he's on loan from us, so it has to be true!

Played 82 mins. Did well overall. His movement off the ball is way ahead championship level, but he really should have scored that chance early on.