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Could be Arteta too with Ramsey playing further up, or even this Gnabry kid. Wouldn't mind facing Cazorla either, hasn't been on form at all this season.

Did Jack Wilshere just give City supporters the middle finger or did I imagine it? Could be a ban coming if he did... edit: Just seen pictures on Twitter, he definitely did. Now ban this cunt for the Arsenal - Chelsea match next week, if I remember correctly Suarez once received a three match ban for doing the same to Fulham fans.

Crystal Palace were the first to announce our lineup. Where's Schürrle?

Of course there's that, but City winning especially after their comeback in Munich earlier this week will be a massive moral boost for them and in the long run that's bad.

Bit of a risk as he might not play, I know, but I felt I just had to get Schürrle in. Was already planning on making a move for him as soon as he started playing more and then he went on to score two goals the first time he got any minutes... Hazard for captain this week.

Didn't he say Ryan's injured and that he has two left-backs available? Not sure though, didn't watch the press conference and only read bits and pieces of it on Twitter. Anyway, not sure if I believe he's really injured. All these rumours of us going after Shaw in January with Bertrand allowed to leave makes this injury just a little bit too convenient to be believable IMO...

@xPetrCechx, what the fuck? I live near the Arctic Circle and even here there's not that much snow at the moment...

Basel down to ten men in the other match.

A good opportunity to train attacking set pieces today, 8 corners already in less than 30 minutes.

We could potentially face Drogba in the round of 16 if Galatasray go through.

I'm well aware that we can't be drawn against an English team, I was talking about the round of 16 in general. And despite not being all that great at the moment, teams like Milan and Zenit are still much harder opponents to anyone than some of the second placed teams there have been in previous years. And despite a mediocre United team raping them a couple of weeks ago Leverkusen are a team to be taken seriously, they've been consistently great for over a year now, especially this season in the Bundesliga. They are beatable, yes, but definitely not a pushover. In my opinion the CL has been a much tougher competition these past few years than it was before, might be because some quality teams are only now making their way back to the European elite as well as some new up-and-comers and none of these are still nowhere near top seeded teams in the group stages. It's hilarious to think that clubs like Benfica and Porto are always in Pot 1 for the draw but then there are teams like PSG, City, Dortmund, Juventus and Napoli most of whom are in Pots 3 or 4.

I still stand by my opinion that he should not even have been given a new contract last year. Back then I still somewhat understood the reasons on why he was awarded the new deal but no fucking way he deserves one now based on his performances this season.

A lot of quality teams in the knockout stages even as runners up. Man City, Leverkusen, Milan, Dortmund, Juventus and Zenit just to name a few, assuming all of them even qualify. Not many easy draws this time for the ones who top their groups, although the team who draw Olympiakos will be super lucky.

Match abandoned due to heavy snowfall.

Really? You want Bayern to be one of our potential opponents in the first knockout round?

Any news on whether he's fit to face Steaua?

You mean Andy Carroll who has only 27 PL goals in his career compared to Lukaku's 25, despite being four years older and having played double the amount of Premier League games than Lukaku has? Andy Carroll, whose best season goalscoring-wise was 13 league goals and hasn't done fuck all in the three years since that? The same Andy Carroll who is not even a regular at a mediocre West Ham side and only managed seven league goals there last season?

Had Hazard as my captain, definitely not a bad round for him but nowhere near Suarez who was my VC. Still top of the table in the TC league but only nine points ahead now. @JayC, remember when I said two months ago that it's only a matter of time till Hazard hits top form again and will soon be back in everyone's teams? After that he has scored 64 points in seven games, which is actually the third highest score behind Suarez and Aguero from that period of time, and also his price has gone up by half a mil.

Stoke and Crystal Palace coming up, anything less than six points will be an utter failure. Arsenal have a four point gap on us but they'll be facing Everton and Manchester City next, not to mention the tough visit to Napoli in between those two and they need to get at least a point from that game to ensure they finish top of their group so a weakened side is out of the question. Their squad depth is not as good as ours so either they will be knackered by the time we play them in a couple of weeks or they'll rotate a little and risk losing points. Either way it will be good for us, though I wouldn't mind them snatching a draw from their game against Man City because in the long run I see City as a more threatening rival than Arsenal.

Yeah, it's ridiculous. He's got what, 12 goals in four matches against that lot?

Hazard with 99% MOTM votes.

Where has this Hazard lad been all season?

FUCK OFF TORRES

Because for this season my local service provider got too greedy, they raised the prices even though the EPL coverage is nowhere near as good as it was last year. Al Jazeera is easily available outside the MENA-region too, just need to use a DNS service and their online service works just fine.

Probably not a coincidence. Cole has been a liability at the back for a couple of years now without offering much going forward either so he has needed support from others but now with a solid defender behind Hazard he has more freedom to do what he does best.