Jase

He will. Must be the reason why he was rested today. And it's not just our FBs but the entire defence. Azpi is probably the only one you can count on in that back 4 on their own. The rest are just too passive when left exposed.

Paris St. Germain vs Chelsea PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT UEFA Champions League Quarter Finals 1st Leg 2nd April, Wednesday, 2014 Parc des Princes 19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

Paris St. Germain 3-1 Chelsea POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS UEFA Champions League Quarter Finals 1st Leg 2nd April, Wednesday, 2014 Parc des Princes 19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

Find it cringeworthy when people are trying to give Torres credit for us winning the Champions League..

Yeah but the last one was in 2010! That cross in the second half where he had acres of space and time to put in a good cross but went out for a throw-in (IIRC) sums up his crossing ability. Just shocking!

Matic's worst performance for the club. Horrendous passing, taking aimless pot shots and then at times just look to be labouring around the pitch.

Is it even worth the time complaining about Torres anymore? Apart from his shitness today (as usual), it also highlights the problem playing him upfront against defences that sit deep. Completely went AWOL when Palace did that after going 1-0 up and became even more garbage after that!

Anyone can easily just say that especially when it's so obvious!

People have said that before. Win our last 7 games and see what happens. Then, we only need City to drop (at least 4) points. Now, we need Liverpool to drop points as well (at least 3) and City to drop 7 points!

An utterly dismal performance all around from the team and yet another game where we struggled against teams like Crystal Palace. Failure to beat the lesser sides - West Brom, Stoke, Villa, Crystal Palace, West Ham etc - is the reason why we won't win the league this season. No point having a great record and beating the top teams/title rivals if we don't get the job done against teams near the bottom.

Struggling against the lesser sides again. What's new? *sigh*

What is there to wank about..?

OI JUAN, YOU SHOULD BE SCORING AGAINST CITY, LIVERPOOL AND NOT VILLA!!

Thibaut Courtois says his future lies at Atletico Madrid or Chelsea, with links to any other clubs merely speculation

No, he did not. Benitez only had a go at the reporters/journalists because they kept on asking him the same questions in the press conference after that game. Otherwise, he said this then.. TBF, he did try to draw a line on the incident after the game (OR he was just trying to take himself out of the firing line) but subesequently, when you see some other managers, journalists and/or pundits condemning the ball boy and defend Hazard, you do wonder what was Benitez doing and this is not even taking into account of his Wenger impersonation "I didn't see it". The only defending, if you like or can call it that, was that he said he will appeal against the FA charges if they ban Hazard for more than 3 games and even then it was because he is a key player for us and didn't want to lose him.

But like Mourinho said though, stats don't win/lose games..

He probably didn't care much given he was only on an interim basis anyway but he really didn't help himself with the fans at all. He kept on complaining about the fans treatment to him since the start (however right or wrong) but yet did nothing to defend the players, defend the club and fight for it. He could have had a decent relationship with the fans, at least a little (just a little) if he did that but always take himself out of the firing line and left the players/club open to criticisms. This case is even more ironic when Benitez defended his criticisms of us fans when he was at Liverpool in his first press conference, saying he did so because he was managing a rival and the fans want to see their manager defend and fight for them. That was something that didn't even happen here and not to mention, (IIRC) he said he was being professional and help the club to achieve our objectives but then turned a blind eye on the Ivanovic-Suarez biting incident because he didn't want to condemn a player from a club he loves. Quite 'professional', isn't it? If we had Mourinho or even Fergie managing us then, they would have gone on a rampage over the two incidents mentioned (for example) and especially when others in the game condemn the ball boy, Suarez etc. Benitez? "I didn't see anything, I was concentrating on the game. I didn't see any incident."...

You should be banned for not responding capital letters!

OH GAWD!

At the end of the day, it's still a win.

Thiago Silva is back for PSG. Played 90 minutes against Nice tonight where PSG won 1-0 through Cavani.

Mikel would probably leave anyway whether it is to Inter not. However, I (or everyone) will be very glad if Inter take Torres instead from us. If they do that, we should have a statue of Thohir and Mazzarri outside Stamford Bridge..