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It would be polite to quote or link what you're talking about, but nevermind, I'll look it up myself.

Starting line-up is highly unlikely, and probably for sound reasons. I expect him to play more prominent backup/rotation role in the following seasons until (if) he claims that starting spot.

Don't remember him doing much with the ball, but I don't think it was his purpose anyway. He put in 3-4 amazing tackles like he used to do on regular basis.

Chelsea still involved in a decisive title race role. Never boring with this club. A season to forget has all of a sudden become a season to remember, for different reasons.

Hmm. Granted I saw only the second half, but in my opinion Matic did well. Harassed, tackled, contributed to attack, in general looked much more solid and involved than when he was really shit. Was surprised (not really) to see him subbed instead of Mikel. Thought Mikel was a bit crap, didn't contribute much to our bid to equalize. While, for me, Matic clearly tried to contribute on both ends.

Play the yoof!

Best performance of the season by him, because he hates Tottenham! Nobody could take the ball away from him. And that goal, WOW! Eden proving the "sell him" camp wrong.

EDEN HATES TOTTENHAM!! What a brilliant performance by everyone in the 2nd half, well done boys.. THIS IS FOR LEICESTER!

Going for the draw at best with that line-up. Gonna be embarrassing, probably will not bother watching it.

Willian is not a scorer. He's only 3 behind Costa, it's more of a testament to Costa's shit season. In the early parts of the season when we were at our lowest, he played better than anyone else.. it doesn't reflect in numbers, because he's a workhorse and his main contribution is what he does on the field, not in numbers, but for him those numbers are very good. Barbara's post is spot on, in a normal season he's a supporting player and nowhere near our main star player, but this season he has given his all and didn't sulk like everybody else.

So now it is our chance to win Leicester the title. Must win for Spurs tomorrow, but must win for us too. Hopefully the players will be up for it, especially Hazard (he hates tottenham!)

So Costa, Traore and Pato. Not so sure in the quality, Pato hasn't played enough to form any kind of opinion nor is Traore good enough to challenge Costa.

Exactly my thoughts lol. They probably want everybody sold, because Willy is at the bottom of the list.

Lol @ Wenger. The guy has lost it, he's probably asking for the sack.

Seen spuds win the league.

Stop being so pessimistic. Leicester have beaten far better teams this season than United or Everton or even us. Can't see them stopping now.

Just recently realized it's Medhi not Mehdi Fix the title!

If Arsenal sign him it must mean he is not that good, so we better stay clear.

Agreed. This obsession with age needs to stop. Our academy is destroying cup competitions and some of our loanees are setting the world alight, we don't need to look to other clubs for talented youth just for the sake of it. Let's not go down the Arsenal route of living in the future, never in the present. The only benefit of getting Stones is that he is home-grown and English, we will desperately need them once Cahill and JT are deemed surplus to requirements. For the time being, I'd much rather we let Ivanovic go and replace him with an established defender between age ~25-30. Ivanovic's departure would open up space to sign a truly good non-HG player. Cahill or Terry can eventually be replaced by Christensen, another boy, so we don't need anymore in a position that requires maturity the most.

That midfield still lacks quality. Radja alone will solve only a part of our problems, we need quality in depth like every other top team has. An injury/suspension to Radja and all of a sudden we're back to the dross of this season. Mikel, Oscar and possibly Matic need to go and open up those foreign spots to better quality players.

Where can I see full member list? I know it was possible prior the update, but now I can't find.

On the subject of Fabregas and Lampard (I know it is rudely off-topic and may offend Nemanja if he ever reads this thread), but I remember how Frank used to completely bully Cesc every time we played Arsenal or Barca. It was like they had something personal between them. Btw, look at these This is what I mean by us being a battering ram, and Franky was one of the softer guys.

They didn't have to be, we weren't a creative team, we were a battering ram with incredibly all-round players with specific world class traits (no jacks of all trades but master of none bullshit). The partnership between Lampsy-Drogba and Lampard's consistent 20 goals per season meant we didn't need anymore goal providers in our midfield. Essien provided his fair share of goals as well. None of the three you mentioned will be able to reach such heights in terms of offensive contribution I'm afraid.

It was a clash of completely opposite philosophies. Possession attack vs. countering defense. Atletico are so good at what they do it's unbelievable. I agree with the guy who said that this is what we should have become. In this state we are closer to Aston Villa than any of the two.

Can we call it Chelsea Youth Cup now?