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Brilliant saves yesterday. Couldn't do anything about those 2 goals, they were hit perfectly and nobody would have got close to them, but the saves he did make saved us a point.

He flew under the radar, but he put in another monster performance against Arsenal. Such a smart defender. And that pass at the end to Morata... our best ball-playing defender by far imo, I dare anybody to find another CB who can play such accurate passes and crosses.

How would that help? Shooting's not the problem, a striker at this level knows how to shoot technically... the mind is the problem here.

What driving runs are you talking about? Whenever he gets the ball he gets rid of it with the safest pass, then goes back into hiding and tries to avoid the play. He never does anything progressive. The Bakayoko I'm watching is scared, so out of his depth, slow and weak. Today he reminded me of an amateur among pros wondering what the fuck he was doing there.

What good did his movement do to us today? He wasn't involved in our goals as far as I can remember and the chances he got he choked making all this movement pointless.

Stop using his "positioning and movement" as some kind of excuse or a way to justify him, he was SHIT. I could maybe overlook this if it was a freak occurence, but he does it almost every fucking game! That's not good enough! His artsy-fartsy fancy-pants link-up and movement mean fuck all if he's not on the end to put them in. Depressing stuff really.

Called it You are right.. predictable.

What the fuck Conte?? Piss poor subs.. Fabregas off, who was having a good game, and the useless shitstick Bakayoko still on. Zappacosta for Moses? Playing for the draw, fucking cowardly imo.

Give Courtois everything he wants

Say no more, I now comprehend the magnitude of his miss.

Exactly, it's so clear he's a big fucking liability. Why can't Conte see that? For a ruthless winner he sure does his life more difficult with this choice.

I didn't see Morata's miss. How bad was it on a scale of 0-Torres?

Brilliant I started watching the game from about 30th minute, and by 33rd minute I was thinking to myself why is Bakayoko playing? He's so scared, so out of his depth. He brings absolutely nothing to this team, if anything we're struggling largely because of him. He needs to go on loan or whatever, but BRING ON DRINKWATER! I would be more confident with him, Bakayoko is late to every situation, the game passes him by, at least Drinkwater is more proactive and affects the game.

Lmao it sounds like Real want to buy half of our team, at least the better ones Tbh it's kinda good, shows we have some really good players on our books.

The fact he was PFA POTY, French player of the year & 8th in the Ballon d'or list would suggest otherwise. And all that while being the one doing the unglamorous work in the team, playing a role that normally goes unnoticed. Usually such awards or high places fall to goalscoring prodigies, but he is just so outstandingly good it doesn't go unnoticed. How long before big teams come asking about him?

Don't know this player at all. What would he bring to the table?

Yeah And then imagine if we added Sandro and Mahrez, the ones we are linked with the strongest, suddenly we'd look a proper world class team. One can dream...

He'd be an ideal stop-gap until Baka develops to the standards we expect, or doesn't and we can ship him out without damage done to our results. Vidal, Kante, Cesc would be a very formidable midfield. Imagine going against Vidal and Kante, even if you get past them somehow you still have to face 3 CBs looking to take you down. And in attack he would offer something our other midfielders cannot offer.

Marca is basically Real's newspaper, right? So this should be legit then, fingers crossed.

Tbh, one thing that has bothered me for years, is that he never said he was THE special one. He said he was A special one. In English that makes quite a difference.

Now he's ripping into club legends. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/11192549/manchester-uniteds-jose-mourinho-hits-back-at-paul-scholes-criticism "I think the only thing Paul Scholes does is to criticise. I don't think he comments, I think he criticises, which is a different thing, but not every one of us has to be phenomenal, like he was as a player. "He was a phenomenal player, that doesn't mean that we all have to be phenomenal. Paul (Pogba) tries to do his best all the time. Sometimes he plays very well, sometimes he plays well, and sometimes he does not play so well. "It is not Paul's fault that he made much more money than Paul Scholes. It is not Paul Pogba's fault, it's just the way football is. "But I think Scholesy will be in the history like a phenomenal player, not as a pundit. So I prefer to look at him as a phenomenal player who gave so much to the club I am proud to represent and every day I try to do my best. "If Paul one day decides to be a manager, I wish that he can be 25 per cent as successful as myself, because 50 per cent is 12 and a half silverware, 25 per cent is around six. If he is 25 per cent, he will be quite happy. "In my mind, Paul Scholes a phenomenal player, one of the best players I have ever seen playing in midfield and he gives so much to my club, I only can thank him for that, because the prestige of this club is based on people like him, so successful here." The bolded parts, I can't believe how far stuck he is up in his ass. I remember him bringing up the money argument before against somebody, might have been at Chelsea and also aimed at one of club legends. It's just ridiculous how he randomly brings it up as if that somehow invalidates their criticism, as if they are just jealous. And then the standard megalomaniac comment about his trophies, this doesn't surprise me anymore.

City dropped points, title race back on.

Yup this is the team I would put out (except Hazard for Kante's twin of course). But I'm afraid it will be Bakayoko in for Drinks and Cahill for Rüdi (though I don't mind GC so much, he's been solid). But I really hope Drinks retains his place, he brings just so much more than Bakayoko, doesn't look scared and knows what he's doing.

Better than Bakayoko at everything. Should be a starter with Baka the stand-in.

Willian's been outstanding, doing justice to Hazard's role.