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Started and played 55mins fir Forest as they drew 1-1 with Charlton tonight.

Well since you said "NOPE", I guess that settles it...my bad.

Simply world-class.

That's all great as long as he doesn't start calling him "daddy"

Excellent finish for the goal. He needed that as his shooting has been a bit off lately. This is exactly the kind of games that Frank should be playing. The games where he can have the freedom to make as many forward runs as he wants and get a lot of space to find passes in midfield.

Schurrle. That is all.

We should get that Romanian defender and play him as a striker. That was a better finish than anything I've seen by our strikers so far this season

Doesn't matter, imo. They'll switch positions during the game.

Great lineup. Should be more than enough to win it. COYB!

Doesn't matter. It only means he'll start against Norwich. Your theory that Mikel won't get any playing time this season has long since been proven wrong

Yeah, the pictures looked worse than than the video, and I think a one match ban is probably fair, but had the lino not seen it, he would have gotten 4 no doubt.

He did do something wrong actually, but luckily for us, even though Mike Dean did not see the what happned and actually booked Torred for the trip (wtf! he's worse than I thought!) the lino saw the hand but not the scratch so the FA can't do anything about it.

Haha, I remember last season, we didn't win a single match I did the feed for about 3 months IIRC

I'll take what he's having and some orange juice

Exactly! Managers never go into detail about their every decision because that is what they are hired to do: make those decisions. I said this before: we are very lucky, as fans, that Jose has been so open to the media about every single thing from transfers to selection and tactics; no other manager in the world would have taken so much time to explian all this to us and the media. Bu the interfering of the press in his every single choice he makes has gotten beyond ridiculous! I mean united are in 12th and Moyes keeps playing grandpa Giggs over someone like Kagawa yet we are the ones in "crisis" and Jose gets slatted for dropping KDB for last season's PFA player of the year nominee, Barzil's number ten and arguably the highest rated young prospect in the world that was being chased by every single big club last summer!

Awww. We're very "happ" to have seen you play 100 games for Chelsea as well, Rami

Plus, what rafa has done is improve their system, especially in attack. They were a one-man team last season at times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIb_GpWwTZY Great goal. And the composure to do that in the 93rd minute with the score tied at 2-2....

Probably won't find one till tomorrow.

Give it a rest. Kevin is a good player but he has not shown nearly enough to be starting ahead of the likes of Schurrle, Oscar, Mata, Hazard and Willian. It's very simple. We have 6 AMs for 3 positions. 3 will start, 2 will be on the bench and one will be left out. After the performance he put against Swindon, he was always going to be the one to be left out in the next couple of games. Next time he gets a chance, and he will get a chance, he needs to put in a great performance if he wants to keep his place. Oh, and David Luiz is a world class player, while Kevin is not, at least yet...and this is coming from someone who has been called a KDB fan boy in the past.

I read Mourinho stormed out and expected a furious reaction from him and yelling and shouting...very disappointed. He's doesn't look angry, he looks like he's late to the start of that TV show everyone is talking about but I've never seen

Right, time for a response from Kevin in the next match he gets.

Actually I could see what Jose was going for by starting Rami on the wing. He wanted us to play deep so that Tottenham's back four would push up then play the ball behind Naughton who is much slower than Rami. And we obviously tried to do that before the goal but it did not go well at all for a few reasons: The first, is that the long balls, especially by Lampard, were not good and were either over hit or under hit. Secondly, Dawson quickly caught on after the first 5 minutes and started covering the area behind Naughton. And third and most importantly is that Jose forgot about Torres's tendency to drift to the right wing when he's not getting the ball in the middle. He did way too often in the first half and thus attracted a defender to the place behind Naughton where Rami is supposed to run into. I think it would have worked much better with Schurrle who may not be as fast as Rami, but would have the instinct and natural tendency to drift inside and exploit the gap between Vertongen and Dawson created by Torres moving to the wing like he did in the chance where he went one-on-one with Lloris. On topic, Lampard had very little to do with how deep we play, so did Mikel or even Rami. It had more to do with Tottenham than us. It's simply that AVB set up Tottenham in the second half to play and press deeper to defend the lead instead of going for a second because he knew his team could not keep up the pressure they put in the first half for 90 minutes and because he probably thought they had a better chance scoring a second by inviting us forward and playing on the counter.

Yeah, sure thing, mate. You did a good job. We always coordinate who does which game here in this thread. Speak of Rapha's article, is there any reason why it was approved but not promoted to the main site, @?

Good work, mate. But Jose already said that Hazard will miss the game with injury so it'll probably be Willian or preferably Schurrle instead of him in the starting XI.