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What's so silly in that line-up?

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It's probably a Chromium thing. I'm using Brave which also has this problem.

I wish the hype train would slow down a bit. Yes he's put up some good numbers, but watching him play, he still has a long way to go. Don't want him to start thinking he's good enough already, other than scoring and assisting he needs to become more aggressive off the ball, which I feel is exactly why Willian and Pedro are preferred in crunch games. He could have been used more this season, agree with that, but he's nowhere near frozen out of the team like Cahill or Drinkwater (or even Ampadu to extent, which irritates me a bit).

Maybe I played too much footie games in my younger days, but Eintracht Frankfurt has always been a kinda mainstay in Bundersliga. I mean I know they're no world-beaters but they have been there for so long that you at least should have heard of them. Anyway, on their day, anybody can beat us, and on our day we can beat anybody. However I like the chances of beating Slavia Prague.

Ronaldo is a mutant. How is he still so good at 34 I don't know, he must be doping! With his jump he could participate in the NBA dunk contest. I didn't use to like him and don't particularly still do, but there is no denying his skill and achievements. One of the greatest for sure. Oh and how I wish we had somebody like Chiellini in our defence.

Juve have fucked us too many times in the transfer market for me to prefer them over Atletico, who on the other hand have saved us from Torres, Morata and Costa (they paid a good price for him considering the circumstances). I've always been for AM when we haven't been participating, they deserve it and it's about time they win it.

CHO needs to start and RLC too (later replaced by Barkley). Rest Kante and play Kovacic there. Even though that line-up is risky, we need to be fresh for Everton and we have a 3 goal lead, they should be able to hold it. Caballero Zap - Rüdiger - AC - Alonso Kovacic - Jorginho - RLC CHO - Giroud - Willian

So there is an agenda against Chelsea, confirmed. Treated differently from other clubs. Maybe we just refused to bribe the crooked fat cats at the top? I still don't understand how this would work legally if our appeal is successful in the end, they would need to compensate us outrageously.

Let's hope it'll be a cracking game with us coming out on top!

You can't expect a player, who's been rusting for the good part of last 2 years, to always be at the top of his game. It's not like his competitor Alonso always has above OK games. People need to have realistic expectations and give evaluations accordingly. Alonso has already proven to be crap, Emerson has yet to start 3 games in a row for us afaik, he can't gain and maintain any momentum to prove anything like this.

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It has built-in Tor, that's even better.

We can still go over FIFA's head to some sports arbitration court, no? Can't trust FIFA to be unbiased in their decision making.

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I don't understand the logic. How can they enforce the punishment when the appeal hasn't been processed? The result could be that we are found innocent, but we would have then already served one transfer window punishment for nothing...

No, just no mate. We need to get rid of shit, not keep or take more in.

Why was he being booed against spurs?

What makes you think it would be ideal? I don't. It's his first year as a manager, I cringe at the suggestions to bring Lampard in so soon. Hasn't even managed a club in any first league yet. Far more experienced, better and decorated managers have come in and struggled or outright failed with us. I laugh at the suggestions of JT even more, he hasn't even managed any team yet. Plus with our board's "backing", they are even more bound to fail. But I do dream of one day both coaching us, one as manager and the other assistant.

We pressed lower and tried to move quicker with the ball. There was not much needless lingering on the ball and somebody always made themselves available for the pass, which is something that had been a problem before the last three games. I've definitely seen some tactical adjustments past few games to suit the opponent and our players' conditions (e.g. pressing lower due to fatigue).

A lot has been said and criticized about him, but he has been by far our best and most consistent midfielder this season. The B2B role suits him very well, having him sitting only deep in DM would be a waste of his energy. It's also quite funny that Kante is our biggest threat from midfield lol.

How was your sleep? Hope you enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed the game?

Very pleased with his performance. Didn't miss Kepa at all other than his distribution perhaps, but the main thing with Willy is that he had no trademark WTF moments and kept it simple. Feel Willy deserves to play a bit more than he has this season. Happy with both our GK options.

What the actual fuck lol