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Top 50 is a solid start, something to be built on. I should still be in for another 12 points or so after substitutions and Mata's second game; which could take me into the top 30 and that would be a pretty good start.

I dunno, I just worry sometimes . But if he keeps going straight and high he has a pretty good chance of scoring every time- it takes a huge amount of guts on the keepers part to just stand still when facing a PK, because he'll look a massive tit if the ball goes anywhere else. I'd rather see Cole take them than David Luiz... he just strikes me as the type of PK taker that'll hit the top corner or row Z. If only we still had Ballack, there was a superb alternative to Lampard as a PK taker...

I'd rather Arsenal get him than the dippers.

It's complacent, though. With an approach like that he's never far from getting a penalty saved. He should try putting it somewhere else next time he takes a penalty.

Torres taking penalties? There's a very, very good reason why he wasn't chosen to take one in Munich. He has all the mental strength of a walnut.

Quite obviously. The greatest strikers the league has seen in recent years; Drogba, Henry, van Nistelrooy, have between them only broken the 40 goal margin once (RvN got to 44). Sturridge would be the best striker to grace the league, and the world in general, in decades if he regularly scores 40 a season. Which he obviously isn't; we're talking about Sturridge's potential as good, not all time great.

The real tell will be when we run into October/November, traditionally where we plunge into 4-5 months of viciously shit form.

We got the job done at the end, but we shouldn't get complacent though. There is a lot of room for improvement. If we had been up against a competent strike force and not useless wankers like Di Santo and Gomez we could have conceded 4 or 5.

I don't know what you've done different today but great work in keeping the site up during the game!

Mikel should be our backup striker!

I have said this before, but Gomez is tripe. Probably Huerlho Gomes in disguise... I've not seen a worse performance from a striker since the CL final, where his namesake Mario ran the show.

Damn it, Nando.

Unlucky. I start uni at 3, so I can have a nice 12 hour sleep after this if I fancy it

Looks like the luck from the CL is still running strong today.

Thanks for the update

I can't decide whose worse. Wigan's Gomez or Mario Gomez. I'll go with Mario.

Good fucking God, Oscar is fast.

What the fuck did Torres do? I lagged. My stream, as I have said before, is so offensively shit.

My stream is utterly fucking despicable.

I'm loving Mikel at the moment. What commitment he's showing.

Paulo

Di Santo is bilge.

Any right backs on the bench? Ivanovic should be dropped.

Moses :| Not sure if that was a great move or Ivanovic is wank. More likely the latter.

Nice jink by Bertrand.