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Boy did we need that one! Could talk about all the negatives, and trust me I can think of A LOT, but we all need to take some positivity and try to build some momentum.

Prime example of what confidence can do to players: Matic completely anonymous before the goal, absolutely brilliant since. Now a couple more goals to bring that confidence back to the attackers. We were well due a bit of luck and frankly we needed it to score today!

No, of course, we choose it according to what's best for the team and right now the added pressure to Jose and the players from the media by benching Eden is arguably many folds worse for the spirit of the team and the confidence of the players than Hazard's performances.

It's not even that. You can definitely argue that he deserves to be benched going by his performances, but, given the current situation, benching him will just add even more pressure and will only increase the stories and speculation in the media. Sometimes it feels like we are extending the crisis with our own hands...

Apart from Azpi and Baba, that does NOT look promising at all. My prediction is that we're going to be too narrow and will struggle badly to break down Kiev who will have 10 men behind the ball and will likely threaten on the break. Could really use a bit of luck in this one...

Eden benched apparently. Sigh...

That's incredibly weird. Where did this info come from that the channel is refusing to air it?

So? Was the interview aired on CTV yesterday?

Not that he hasn't been sub-par this season, but without even looking or checking I'd bet that Remi still has the best minute to goal ratio of our strikers.

It's normal, he's Italian! (That dose of casual racism is brought to you by CHOULO19!)

Frank Lampard telling the players to play for the club when he did A LOT worse under AVB just epitomises the untruthful bullshit commentary about the situation from all the 'experts' and pundits. They've all had PR trainings and they all make those claims about the need to support the manager and play for the badge according to those trained ngs. They mean absolutely nothing.

He's actually been one of Juve's better players this season. Still, 22m is an incredible deal given how badly he did here. Great job by the board to minimize our losses on this one.

Not to be too pedantic about it, but Cesc and dynamism don't go too well together. But yes, there are certain systems where he would do very well. But we just don't have the players for such systems, imo.

Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like the quote has been made up. In which case, the player who said it needs to go regardless of the Jose situation. We just can't have those ego-maniac sorts in a blue shirt.

Was having a discussion with someone and I just couldn't for the life of me remember his name so I had to come here to find out what it was!

The number you should be comparing is the difference between the cost of sacking Jose now vs the sacking him at the end of the season.

Last season I was praising his performances while saying that he is incredibly overrated by our fans. This season I can't praise his performances, but the second part still stands true.

Honestly, him and Christensen are what's restoring my hope in football lately.

True, but that one performance has been erased from my memory by the atrociousness of the West Ham and Soton performances.

Absolutely. Lucas at his best is MILES better than both Mikel and Matic for me. On the positioning, he can't have just left that space there even with no one there as it would have been very easy for Milner or even Coutinho himself to run into it had he not stepped in. But yes, I agree that obviously Ramires was the biggest culprit.

Even agreeing with all of this, surely he is better than Djibolodji! For me, having watched Kenneth A LOT with both Nigeria and Boro, he's at worst slightly behind Cahill.

I've long given up debating Mikel with you as we both no one will change the opinion of the other. Regardless, at the bare minimum Mikel did not let players just walk past him nor did he give the ball away more often than not which is an improvement on Matic this season. PS: For the goal, his positioning was correct because he was in JT's place who was out of position covering for Oscar who had left Azpi isolated against two.

A real-life Chelsea dementor. Whenever he comes on I just feel the last glimmer of hope leaving me and I just lose all will to live. He's basically the Grim Reaper of our chances of winning a match.

Of course he's not the only nor the biggest problem. That said, Mikel in the past couple of games put in much better performance than anything Matic has shown this season, despite being a more limited and much less dynamic player.