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Oscar has been our best player this season, Scurrle has been excellent and tactically very important for Jose, Mata has been very good since Swindon and now Willian goes and does what he did today. I do NOT want to be Jose and make the selection decisions after the international break!

I read somewhere that since the turn of the year, no player playing in Europe's top 5 leagues has played more matches for club and country than Oscar has.

By far, as well. I was afraid he was getting a bit tired after his performances against Fulham and Steaua but he was the MOTM again today. I wish he didn't have to play with Brasil and took a break instead.

I actually wanted Ba to start because Norwich are a bit too physical for Eto'o. I had a moan when the goal went in and I, along with everyone on my TL, had been begging for changes for more than ten minutes because the change in momentum was so obvious. But credit to Jose, he took a chance by bringing on Hazard and playing Schurrle as a LB and it paid off (even though we got incredibly lucky with the second goal).

3rd place and just two points off the top! :cfc:

Agree, but I'm pretty sure the cross came from the right, meaning Iva and not Ashley.

Nope, I don't think even he can make any sense of that..

Jose said that he did not know about the injury when he took him off, so he did not ask to be subbed off which probably means it's not as bad as we thought. On the game, he was good in the second half, but in the first he got caught out so many times by the ball over his head.

Excellent in the first 15 minutes, pretty poor in the remaining 75. Misplaced way too many simple passes and went missing for ages in the second half. Our formation just doesn't suite him.

Ramires and Lampard attracted out of position too easily leaving a lot of spaces behind which is why Norwich managed to create something almost every time they went forward in the second half. Our fullback's positioning, especially Cole, was very bad at times. It was weird today, because we weren't exactly committing a lot of men forward, yet we always looked short at the back! Not our best performance at all. Probably because Tettey got the assist

The plan was to play long balls over the top for Demba Ba, at least in the first half. So Frank was by far the best option as was evident by the first goal which was created by Frank's first time long ball. But still, his passing was in excusable at times. And someone who can miss the first man needs to start taking those corners.

Yes, because we were just brilliant today, weren't we? And Lampard played very well for the first 15 minutes, then was pretty poor for the rest 75. Misplaced some short passes that my Mom would make!

I thought he did well today. From Twitter: Juan Mata created the most chances (3) and completed 94% of his 53 passes against Norwich

Norwich probably deserved at least a point, but a vital win for us. Get in :cfc:

There will be a winner here, I just fear it will be Norwich scoring it.

Of course he is...surely you've seen one of his 1000 misplaced passes!

This.

Everyone in the world saw that coming except for Jose obviously.

We NEED to get a second because Norwich will most likely score.

Sun in his eyes. Hope Cech doesn't suffer the same way in the second half.

Kevin Keagan (no idea how it's spelled ) just said that Torres has not been good for us because he never got a run of games because he was a signing made by the owner, not the manager I don't want to watch football anymore...

Simple. Term comes up with some hilarious crap when he loses, as I'm sure you've seen on many times, and so he gets crap back. It's not abuse, it's just banter and mind games. It's part of the fun of XP11.

Luckily his team was already 3-1 up. IIRC, he also got sent off last season at the start of his time with Watford as well. Something silly like arguing with the ref or time wasting..

Ba last season was our best player in the away game against City. He was a handful throughout the game and won us a pen when it was 0-0 that Frank missed even though we went there just to park the bus. It has nothing to do with the opposition, his first touch and passing were very poor, that has nothing to do with who he was playing against. Are you saying that his performance today was good enough for a striker who should be starting at a club like Chelsea? If you do, then I completely disagree. He obviously still has loads to work on and improve and those weaknesses were highlighted today. He went on loan so he can have a chance to start almost every game even when he puts in bad performances. Because, had he stayed here and he put in a performance like he did today or the second half against Newcastle, then Jose will have to bench him the following game.

Apparently missed an excellent chance to score as well. It sounds like Zola has given him a role such that he's pretty much involved in everything which is perfect for Josh.