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No my point is how you blatantly and childishly lied about it despite the fact that YOU brought up that stat in the first place! I think at this point I should explain my point: My point simply is that Costa is a shit header of the ball. And that it annoys me. This is irrelevant of the team's style of play or even his position. Heading and aerial duels are part of the game for every player bar the keeper and for Costa's height and strength he really should be doing A LOT better. And that has nothing to do with his 'game' but something he can and should work on because it comes in hand for any team.

Dunno mate. I have next to zero knowledge about web design and building. But hopefully the trick I mentioned will get the job done for you. Did you mean 'cryptic' as in difficult or as in you still don't know what I mean? Sorry, I couldn't tell from the way you formed the sentence...

See the time and date between the text and the video? Click on it and the full tweet will open in a new window on twitter and you'll be able to see the video.

Hahahaha Why do you reply to my post and then quickly try to change the subject?! 1- If it's irrelevant and you don't care, why did you pull out that crap stat in the first place if your point isn't to prove that he's good aerially? 2- Can you please provide me with a link to that source you used that provides only the total number of won duels (10 as you claim) but not the overall attempted duels? That seems a very weird manner in which to provide the stat. Unless you're saying that you yourself have counted his won duels alone!

10 out of how many?

At the start of the season he was a starter for them while Solanke and Baker were on the bench. I watched a couple of his matches, and he was just awful. Looked like a fish out of water. Not sure how he can get back into the side..

I said it before his injury and I'll say it again: He was being scapegoated by everyone because it is much easier to pin all the blame on one player rather than think about all the factors and issues. And that's not defend him or his performances. But he just has't been as bad as people have made him out to be (or at least not as worse than the past couple of seasons...)

His inability to win even a single aerial duel really gets on my nerves sometimes!

@Robguima, I really like you as a poster on here, but mate, you're honestly starting to drift into PhillDriver territory with this Mikel obsession of yours!

Fabregas was onside. It's not debatable, he was on:

I prefer whips, tbh...

Chelsea matches this season feel like I'm being physically assaulted and I just want the whole thing to just stop!

Thanks. I really needed to read a calming level-headed post like that.

Stupid, stupid tackle when he's already booked, though it was harsh to actually send him off for that. Ref got influenced by players and crowd.

We're getting the exact opposite of that, aren't we? Sigh....

I just love when people try to rewrite history during tough times

Of course he would. But he'd also be firmly on every big team's bench with his current form and level of fitness.

I know, mate. The system HAS to change. How petty does the 'destruction' and looting that people were outraged by compared to daily tragedies like this!

I'm sorry to hear that, mate.

The way he's been playing this season, he'd be lucky to be playing in 'sunny' Sunderland!

He was great. Definitely the best player in a well organized Gladbach defense. They needed a bit of luck not concede on a couple of occasions but otherwise did very well against a Juve attack full of in-form players. I was very wrong in the past about youth players like Piazon and McEachran, but I'm very happy that RLC and Christensen seem on their way to prove that I was right to say that they two are the most promising talents we have.

That's simply not true. Mata got a lot of chances and playing time, at the expense of more deserving players like KDB, one can argue. In the four months under Jose he played in 17 matches. The only good performances he had were against Arsenal in the league cup and the second half vs Spurs when he came off the bench. And it wasn't JUST about his defensive work, either. He kept getting dispossessed and pushed over every time he got the ball on the right wing in most of the other matches. He struggled really badly with having to receive the ball with his back to a defender.

We're going to need a bit of luck here...particularly in attack.

Decent first half. Did his best Casper impression in the second. Still clearly lacking confidence and sharpness, although looking physically more fit than at the start of the season.