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If it weren't for the goalkeeper and some last ditched blocks, he would have scored a few and people wouldn't even be complaining.

Wonder what was going on here...

Can't see Cahill being dropped either. If Ivanovic hasn't been dropped after making so many defensive errors, then I doubt Cahill will be spending time of the bench.

To be honest, I can never understand why do people feel the need to compare who is the better fan. At the end of the day, we support and love the same club regardless of who we are, where we live, or even our life commitments (some may just be more busy than others but still love the club). Why should one be better than the other? It's almost when people get into such debates, they want to claim a moral victory and boost their bloody ego.

Hit the nail on the head there mate. One thing I'm proud of this team is that we are tactically flexible and adaptable. If you want us to play on the offensive, we can do that. If you want us to play on the break, we can also do that. It's like what Gary Neville alluded to the other day, we see who is our next opponent and adjust our approach to it, we pay respect to the opposition. If you just want to have a team who plays the same way home or away, big games or not big games, then those Red lots in North London and Merseyside will provide the entertainment. Our versatility in this has been one of the reasons why we have been able to win so many trophies down the years, more so than those said teams.

After just 1 start...

If anyone is interested, you can watch our next Champions League opponent Sporting Lisbon face Porto tomorrow at 8.30pm UK time.

Having to play 2 games in 3 days is just plain ridiculous. Doubt they are gonna bring the United fixture forward, so expect Mourinho to make some noise about it again and rightly so. Suffered the same thing last season and now we get it again. Thankfully it's only Shrewsbury (no offence) but since we managed to beat City and Arsenal within 3 days, we should survive this.

Good idea but not sure what good would it really do anyway. The MOTM poll works just fine.

That's your opinion then but you can't conclusively say we parked the bus just because we had 0 shots on goal in the first half and that we showed no urgency to win back the ball. There are other factors that may have made us looked like we park the bus when we don't. Considering we have almost been a shambles with our pressing this season, it's understandable why Mourinho didn't instruct the players to press and try to win the ball back immediately, but rather stay compact and discipline and wait for the precise moment to pounce.

I don't think we parked the bus against City at all. We tried to defend and play on the counter, like we always do in these big away matches but the problem was, whenever we did get forward, we had players misplacing easy passes and making wrong decisions. As a result of that, City kept coming back at us and made us looked as if we were just putting 10 men behind the ball. What we did last Sunday was not much of a difference to our performance in the corresponding fixture last season. On both occasions, we usually only had like 5 players getting forward break and we had more success then because of the large amount of space available to be exploited in that City setup. A clear example of park of the bus would be what West Ham did to us last season at the Bridge; put 10 or 11 men behind the ball with no intention whatsoever of getting a goal or just to attack. Or in another case, Mourinho's Inter versus Barcelona at the Nou Camp in the 2009/10 UCL semi-final second leg. Yes, they were down to 10 men then but had no intention of going forward and were concentrating remaining tight and compact defensively, covering every single space, gap to make sure the opponent doesn't have a chance to exploit it.

Someone has taken the mantle from Torres for the miss of the century. Step forward Philipp Hofmann from Kaiserslautern...

I second that. After all, Kagawa ended up back at the club where he was before he joined United.

Was perhaps trying too hard to impress Mourinho after he was (unfairly) solely blamed for the goal conceded against City. But hey, at least, not all of his shots were completely wayward. On another day, he could have had easily scored 2-3 goals if it weren't for the keeper and some last ditched blocks.

Chelsea vs Aston Villa PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT 2014/15 Premier League Match 6 27th September, Saturday, 2014 Stamford Bridge 15:00 Kick Off (UK time)

My word. We really did make life difficult for ourselves with all those missed chances, didn't we? Relieved to see us win in the end. I was also pleased to see us having proper full backs playing in the correct position. Refreshing to see how much threat we had going forward from both sides with Luis and Azpi playing. On the other hand, 1 clean sheet from 7 matches this season is a major concern and frustrating as many of those goals are easily preventable!

Apologies for the delay. Man of the Match poll now inserted.

Selective information. People choose to believe what they want to believe to suit their argument. Can't be helped I guess.

Utter madness of a penalty shootout but there were really some excellent penalties in there. Refreshing to see in some ways after that Man United v Sunderland debacle last season.

Thank god he managed to score that 2nd penalty in the shootout. Would have been cruel otherwise after missing the first one.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x26hg9y_press-conference-holland-on-bolton-h-lcup-14-15_sport

Looks almost identical to the one he scored against Villa in that 8-0 win.

Can't be helped when someone doesn't think.

That 'Chances created' stat includes things like player A passing to player B and player B taking a shot from distance. That's not really chance created, is it? A better reflection of our playing style would be finding the stat on clear cut chances created. And you expect one to believe QPR or even Newcastle, who have been hopeless this season, have actually created 50/49 chances from open play already?!

Are really people still going with that nonsense? Have they not seen that Mourinho and the board are now working together in tandem, in one direction?