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For a player of his qualities, don't think that's really good enough and especially when you consider that Hazard has always seem to be rather quiet in most of the big games he has played in for us till now..

Decent as in how? Expand please...

Fair play to Torres today. Missed that chance but never let it affected his confidence. In the past, he would have gone into hiding. Instead, he kept his head up and was a constant menace all day long against City. Also, his play lately seems to have improved. He now looks more positive, direct and aggressive with his play and attempting to do so with intelligence, unlike previously. Won't go and shot he's back and all that but for our sake, hope he keeps this up!

Best thing he did all game...

Well, Mourinho has said as much he plays players based on their performance in the last game though he has contradicted himself that at times..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_Il2aoJy4

One of us!

By the way, the game is in 1 hour and 46 minutes time, not 46 minutes as stated in forum's home page. Clock has gone back an hour in UK..

One basically stops reading a news when coming across "A source said"..

And Daily Mail also said Mata will miss today's game due to an ankle injury..

Nope. And only Cole was there. Bertrand couldn't make it due to personal reasons according to Gigi Salmon on her Twitter two days ago.

What on earth is with this random bump in an old thread again?! Locking..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbO1W8b3jdw

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2477625/David-Silva-baffled-Jose-Mourinhos-treatment-Juan-Mata-Chelsea.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed Daily Fail at its best again. Claimed Mata isn't a team player. Utterly idiotic and embarrassing journalism!

Chelsea stars 'uneasy' as Jose Mourinho chops and changes his team

Frank Lampard relieved he chose Chelsea and England's World Cup glory over MLS

What a random bump to an old thread! Locking...

For a player of his quality and ability...yeah. Flatters to deceive defensively. And of course nobody will look rubbish at tracking back and help to defend if they bother but like I said, Toure can never seem to bother himself with that.

He's just being diplomatic. Wouldn't expect him to say otherwise would you? Offensively, think we all know the abilities of Toure but defensively, he's rubbish and lazy. If you get past him, he will usually just clumsily foul you or sometimes don't even bother doing that. He doesn't really track back much and help his team to defend really.

Lack of quality as you can put it. And saw those 2 crazy shots. Somewhat unlucky for Palace there it has to be said. Otherwise, meh. Wasn't expecting them to get anything from the game to begin with anyway.

How many of it were clear cut chances though?

They are just a side desperately lacking in quality. Beyond pathetic from what I saw in that last 15 minutes.

Only saw the last 15 minutes of the game and bloody hell, Palace looked rubbish. Even against 10-man, they just seem to lack that belief, desire and confidence to get back into the game. Their play was just so laboured and lack any sort of urgency to get the equalizer.

Oh please...enlighten me.. Maybe in terms of achievement, then the answer is yeah now. But in terms of overall ability as a player, maybe not. Then again, let's see what happens with this in maybe 5-10 years time.. I wasn't just referring to that post alone but the posts you have made in recent times including in other threads. And it's not just an opinion but also a fact too. Almost every one of your posts have small little attacks on Mata these days. It's getting obvious and pathetic.