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Not sure if Hazard is gonna start. He didn't start our first two away fixtures against Nordsjaelland and Shakhtar and instead came of the bench in both matches.

No official confirmation yet but stories circling on Twitter that Mark Hughes has been sacked after a two-hour meeting with the club today!

Guys, can we please stick to discussing about the game and not turn this into a goalkeeper discussion thread? Thank you.

Shakhtar lost their 1st league game of the season this past weekend, losing 2-0 away to Arsenal Kyiv. They've lost 2 in last 3 games now. Hope that will work in our favor tomorrow in their away game against Nordsjaelland.

Turnbull > Torres at ST.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X71UWj3EXgY&feature=plcp

Given that Cahill spoke to the media alongside RDM in the PC, guess that means he will be starting tomorrow??

at the randomness of Cahill in the second picture.

Don't think so. Think if that is gonna happen, only 1 will play out wide which is likely to be Bertrand. We need Ramires in the double pivot.

TBF to Torres, he was at least still contributing to the team in some ways earlier this season and after RDM took charge last season but he certainly have not been in the last few games! You could say so but Sturridge has almost been back for nearly a month. How long more is RDM gonna stick him on the bench and persist with Torres? If anything, RDM just probably doesn't favor Sturridge. That has been evident since he took over but right now, I'm not sure if he's got much choice really between the two. Sturridge looks the better of the two at the moment.

Yup. First time he's gonna take charge of a game involving us since that QPR debacle. Incidentally, he was the referee in the same fixture when we beat City 2-0 at home in the 2010/11 season under Ancelotti.

If he really believe it was the right thing to do, he would have dropped Torres 2-3 matches ago...

Maybe Kakuta has found his level in the Dutch league.

The referee for this game will be Cuneyt Cakir. Remember him? We have won P2 W1 D1 with him in charge of our games in the Champions League.

By the way after Stoke today, West Ham's fixtures looks fun: Spurs(A) Man Utd(A) Chelsea(H) Liverpool(H) West Brom(A) Everton(H) Arsenal(A).

Speaking of AVB...

Wonder people would take Giroud over Torres now after all the jokes about the former previously...

As much as Falcao is a goal machine or whatever you want to call it, I would rather see us bring in someone less expensive personally. There are other good options around and after all the nightmares we have had with buying an expensive strikers in recent years, we could do with someone without a heavy price tag on him.

@manpe, Yup and I believe his header was actually on target but it would have been a comfortable save for Myhill had it not taken the deflection of Jones.

Has he actually even cared to begin with? I mean in his 2 years(almost 2) here, he often tends to sulk on the pitch whenever he's on and his body language has always projected negativity. All his talk about repaying the fans' support is just empty words. A complete utter BS and disgrace at a club like this and for the wages he's earning per week!

3 league games without scoring. Hmmm...

Anyone remember this?

Hangeland sent off and think Ruiz picked up a hamstring injury. Went off injured. Don't wish anything bad on him but I hope he will miss the upcoming match against us.