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Silva losing battle to be fit for Man City's FA Cup semi-final clash with Chelsea

Great. Spurs now out of the EL and have less fixtures to concern with. And just like Arsenal, they can focus on Top 4 finish. Disaster!

Chelsea vs Manchester City PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT FA Cup Semi Final 14th April, Sunday 2013 Wembley Stadium 16:00 Kick Off (UK time)

Chelsea vs Manchester City POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS FA Cup Semi Final 14th April, Sunday 2013 Wembley Stadium 16:00 Kick Off (UK time)

Mikel did say that he doesn't like the Europa League, didn't he? It was probably reflected in his performance earlier.

We were cruising nicely in the game and it suddenly got all ugly in the 2nd half. Defending went AWOL and gave away such cheap goals it was ridiculous! Every time a cross came in, a Rubin Kazan player got at the end of it. Don't care the position we were in then but all those situations were basic defending that Terry, Luiz, Mikel etc should all be doing better! And one important stat to note... Chelsea have only won 2 of their last 11 away matches in all competitions - W2 D4 L5. Wins came against Sparta Prague & Middlesbrough. Worrying.

Merged with the old thread.

Ba picked up an injury on Sunday but said he is fine and Benitez expects him to be back available for this Sunday's game.

Think we all know that. The only question is, 'who will he join?'.

Easy to say that now on hindsight. IIRC, when we played them back in August, we were a tad cautious knowing full well the threat they can pose because of their success last season when discussing about the game etc.

I'm sorry but Jordi Alba is just a bitch. Despise him!

Meh. Nobody saw the funny side of the GIF. What a disappointment...

Take a guess on what Messi is doing with his right hand here...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/20130410/real-madrid-fan-jose-mourinho/ A bloody brilliant story of Mourinho and a Mexican-American.

Mind giving the link? It needs some publicity of sorts..

Silva hoping to make Chelsea return

http://www.aljazeera.com/sport/football/2013/04/2013410134118225547.html Bruce Buck's interview with Al Jazeera. Spoke about our managerial policy and not ruling out the return of Mourinho.

That's so not funny anymore.

Slightly disagree with that. I agree that his finishing can still improve but he's definitely not as wasteful as you're making him out to be. He has scored 28 goals in 39 appearances in all competitions for Dortmund this season and 21 of those have been in the Bundesliga, where he is the current leading goalscorer. Furthermore, he has netted 67 goals in 126 appearances for Dortmund and here's the breakdown: 2010/11 Bundesliga: 33 apps(8 as subs) - 8 goals German Cup: 2 apps(1 as sub) - 0 goal Europa League: 6 apps(5 as subs) - 1 goal 2011/12 Bundesliga: 34 apps - 22 goals German Cup: 6 apps - 7 goals Champions League: 6 apps - 1 goal 2012/13 Bundesliga: 25 apps - 21 goals German Cup: 4 apps - 1 goal Champions League: 10 apps (1 as sub) - 6 goals Should note that he wasn't first the choice ST for Dortmund in 2010/11 because Lucas Barrios was still there then and he primarily had to play behind ST, which Lewandowski admitted it helped him to improve the link up play and all that. So, if you take only this current ongoing season and last season, Lewandowski has scored 58 goals in 85 appearances for Dortmund. The amount of could be higher but as it is, the tally is already impressive when one look at it.

No he didn't.

Pfffttt! I blame him for our fixture pile up for that goal he scored against Steaua especially..

His finish...the calmness to just chip the ball over Caballero and then showing the composure to just coolly slot it home...beautiful. Quality.

He's only 19 and there won't be anything wrong in this case to send him out loan to gain experience elsewhere first, considering he's not playing in the best of leagues right now.

Wouldn't complain about it. Azpi needs a rest anyway after having played 4 games in 9 days before this. Looked a tad jaded on Sunday.