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A LB not a CB. And no, it was foolish not to buy another defender after David Luiz. One in and one out is the rule. The signs was there for everyone to see but not many wanted to see it till now.....

When we sold David luiz he had to buy a defender. To me this is nothing surprising about our defense as is something I been saying for a while. I'm just surprised that mourinho thought that was good enough.....

Needs to get a better a defender. He screwed up by selling David luiz and not buying a defender. Cahill was always average and relying on him is his mistake. Now if he plans to use zouma then why use cahill? And our subs are horrible, schurrle and Salah need to be sold and get some better players.

Why put this guy when we are losing? He hasn't even play in ages

I'm still pissed we never gave him the third season instead of wasting money for avb.....

This is a good beating and right on time for the January transfer window. Let's see if it gives some food for thought. I remember mourinho being the master of January transfer window and I want to see if he will dip in. We need a better defender then poor cahill. If it's like this against Spurs then against the like of Bayern it will be a blood bath!

^Knee jerk reaction. But there's nothing new though, been saying he's our weakest link since the beginning.

What the board has to do anything with this? Mourinho preferred azpi over him, so nothing more to say.

Let's wait to see how the home fans act. And now we know how Arsenal fans must feel when some of their loved legends join a direct rival.

So then what was the excuse that the reason mourinho don't play much youth right now is because we have to win something?

Awesome experience to go for the holidays over there. But I was curious, how come you have the new years break? I thought in Israel they follow a different calendar? Like the Hebrew calendar?

Yeah I'm disappointed with Lampard as well. But I'm at least thankful for the many years he gave us. Not legend okay fine move on. But still thankful for his time.

Well that's true. A mid of Hazard, Matic, Sanchez and Fabregas would not be of great balance. That's why you don't play with 2 strikers, and I would choose Aguero over Costa. And put Fabregas in for Costa. Now that would be a well balanced and build team.

Moussa Sissoko the poor man's Pogba?

hehehe I remember how many hated him because of his personality. He was like a Mourinho talking nonsense against us. To be fair I was in the same camp with some players until I was humiliated by Torres. Since then I don't care how jerk the guy is. Even if he bites players like Suarez. As long as they good they are alright in my book. Especially the passion is what counts more.

Definitely would be a great buy for our mid. We can even try to buy this January as he can play in the CL!

I thought Pardew was doing good for Newcastle despite the slow start. What a baffling decision.

Exactly, as the one poster put it on the long range shooting post we have lost that. That is one great way tool for parking the bus team. To shoot from outside the area.

as @lionsden, mentioned we have adopted the Arsenal approach of trying to make a million passes to get that amazing goal. Sometimes the most simple stuff is the most efficient. Yesterday against the Saints more long range shooting would have maybe helped us against that tight defense. I mean really, how do you beat a parking bus? The 3 best solutions have always been a set play. Like corners, free kicks and such. Stretching out the game via the wings. And long range shots. We are lacking on the last one because as mentioned we are going the Arsenal way of making 30 extra passes to get to the goal....

After having the watch the game after a second time I have to say the draw was the correct result. The Saints where awesome at the back that it cut of our shots on target. Now I will say that this is concerned for us though. How can a team with that much possession have one 1 shot on target? To me it's simple, we are doing the same mistake of Arsenal of trying to make a million passes in making the perfect goal then taking a clear shot.

Genius about not standing up from the beginning and cutting the problem to the root? He should have criticized Ivan and Cahill for the dive and said something like "that's something we don't tolerate". Instead he acted ignorant saying that he didn't see it.... Now when we get screw he decides to talk.... Like I said before a bunch of nonsense that frankly I don't care anymore from him. He's an awesome coach, but most stuff he says is nothing of greatness. The problem was there from the beginning for us to see, clearly it was something some of us had anticipated. Now on to the real problem besides the diving and that's our rotation. We do very little rotation, and the players we have to rotate are not as good. Schurrle, Salah cannot give us a good game. And those are the areas that continue to be overworked in Oscar, Hazard and Wililian. The replacements are just very woeful at this moment.

Last year we had no chance. This year we can beat them, as we got a more complete team and of course mourinho can outfox carlo. The one team I don't want to face is Bayern. Pep just like mourinho are hurt after last year and this year are like a hurting animal. Don't want to to take on that animal till the final or someone else eliminates them.

Well it's funny I mentioned a couple of days ago that because Ivanovic diving shenanigans we will get a true penalty call and not get it due to the perception we have at this instance. And just like that we got it here. Mourinho can say whatever he wants but he's just deflecting from the real problem. He needs to rotate more, or the players he have for rotation are not as good to fill in, and he needs to have a word with Ivanovic to stop the diving. Everything else is sensationalism and some of you guys buy into it like shepo. Mourinho always do this to stop people talking about the team.

Good stuff what I been saying. People here are just ridiculous and like to complain and make up conspiracy theories out of their own heads. Now I would like to add another thought to your 3 points. And that's that these fixtures are hard for the whole league. You saw how in the boxing day there was more energy. Here by second half a lot of teams was dropping like flies. The energy level was low that it was better to sit back and defend. And you can notice that by the amount of goals scored on Boxing Day vs today.

If today's tie is to go by then no. They have easy fixture now. Later their harder fixture comes by. I say going into March we are looking much better as gotten all the hard fixtures out of the way.