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The truth is Torres was better than him but that is the past now. While most people want to see Sturridge starting the real truth is that we don't have a "prolific striker" at the club. Even towards the end of last season Sturridge dipped off form, bar the QPR game but in all fairness to him he has not been given enough time to prove he should be the no.1 striker here. It is good that we are getting goals from all around the team, the defenders being there to show the attackers how to do it but there is no evidence that Sturridge will be prolific if given the chance, even though I have high hopes for him. This is what worries me about United game, Rooney/RVP can play poor anytime but know how to hit the net and that could be the diffference in the game or perhaps at the table at the end of the season. I pray we get Falcao so we are taken to the next level. Whether that makes Torres feel pushed out, who cares tbh. Man City have 4 quality strikers and won the league last season, Real Madrid have 2 quality strikers and won the league last season and United have 4 out and out quality strikers. There is no reason why we shouldnt do the same so when people say Falcao to trade for Torres I think, Torres can be back up and come in rotation, that way he knows he can't get in the starting 11 even when he has a bad performance.

Fair point but I don't think that would be a reason for RDM to start him. I think it comes down due to the fact that he believes Torres works well with the team and although Torres has his off games we are managing to win our league games even if it means him not getting on the scoresheet whereas Sturridge is not a proven out and out striker, even though I believe he has what ti takes to get bags of goals in the CF position

LOL, Torres will not start ahead of Sturridge due to "his height". That is ridiculous. Regarding Lamps, shame he is injured but I am quite positive that even if he was fit he would of been a sub for this game.

Erm, maybe because you made over 4000 posts more than him, muppet

WTF? I am sure that quote was from Kojo but somehow you made it look this quote was me I am a big fan of Mikel

We drew both games after the Atletico game then just about managed victory against Stoke.....

We said the same against Arsenal and Spurs and the trio worked. United have tons of defensive problems and I reckon we will cause them havoc with Oscar, Mata and Hazard all playing

Cech was captain against Spurs so I assume he will regain the captaincy against United definitely

You don't appreciate what he does for the team. He makes the odd error here and there and sometimes is made the scapegoat but he is on average a very consistent performer. He does his role for the team, as simplay as that. BTW, I am sure people highly rate Ramires, everyone appreciates how much he has improved on us but don't make it look like Mikel only looks good when Ramires play, it takes a joint performance. When we kept Cazorla and co quiet for most of the game, Ramires greatly contributed as did Mikel, they could not get past him and Mikel never lost the ball. You seem 2 pick out where he makes mistakes but yet you have not picked out anything good he does. Despite conceding 2 goals to Spurs I thought he had an overall solid game. He kept very composed in games against Wigan and Newcastle this season and again displayed his strides of improvement he has made at us. Also our Champions League win? How many injuries/suspensions we had for that final against Bayern. We got dominated that match but IMO along with Cech and the rest of our defence he was as good as anyone with his role. We are top of the league atm and deserved and you seem to have this outgoing criticism of Mikel. RDM clearly sees the true value of him and how he has performing and I am sure there is a reason we are top of the league, As good as our attack has been, it helps when you have you're hard working/ anchor man players doing their roles properly like Makelele done for us.

Support your team through to the end mate, regardless of performance

We looked destined to lose even when Lampard was on. We were getting outplayed.

You criticized Hazard because he didnt shoot properly but daid Torres was decent. What did he do, he is the striker and the one who should be "SHOOTING" in our goals but once again looks like a scared little boy. Hazard was our most prominent threat going forward and to say he was awful is far extreme, he impressed me, just wished he put his chances away but at the end of the day no one else apart from Oscar late on looked like scoring. Hazard caused their defence numerous amounts of problems

Whether he was at fault for the second goal or not, going forward he was our best player. Glided through the defence with ease at times and is something I wanted to see more off, because he seemed to have lacked that thrive to take on players like he did at the start of the season. He is only 21 though, got best years ahead with us. Sure he will cause United all kind of problems on Sunday

That is some joke. I hope I find out that Moses was injured because if he was left out, quite a joke. RDM must know that Shakhtar are a very attacking team and Moses would have been useful for the counter attack. Well it is no shame losing, was always going to be a hard game, Arsenal lost there too, just annoyed that we didnt really show up today. Hopefully at the Bridge we give them a battering. BTW thanks god Juventus drew

To go the next level and actually think we can win the Champions League for a second time in a row, a new striker (Falcao) is needed asap. At this rate it is 50/50 that we even make it through our group and when we play the likes of Juventus we need a striker who is going to really give there defence a torrid time, something which I am sure Torres will not do considering our home game against Juventus. Think RDM should have brought on Moses in the latter stages though, rather confused why he didnt tbh. Quite annoyed how lacklusture we looked in attack tonight, consider our trouncing of Spurs. Must say was really impressed with Hazard when he came on though, that is how he started the season want to more of that where he tries to control the game by himself, showed some glimpses of quality tonight

Already been mentioned

Yes Feruz seems to have attitude problems and be arrogant from twitter evidences but he still looks a very promising player. Scored against Arsenal U21 which virtually was most of their first team squad and scored a hattrick for the Scotland Under 19, 2 years above his actual age group and has already featured for the Scotland U21 at the age of 16. Hopefully the talent keeps to grow

A loss would be a blow but it is not the end of the world. We still have them to play at home and there is no reason to suggest we won't gain points away to Juventus. All to play for regardless of the result IMO, ideally a win would be brilliant but I would take a draw

Nice one, like that

Such a terrific talent but shame his injuries is blighting him. A few years ago at Bremen, he was destined for stardom but injuiries have hampered him. Like Pato, if it wasnt for injuiries we would see 2 outstanding players on a weekly basis

Haha, this gets funnier, I am sure you are the same same person under another account who made those racist comments the other day and got banned. What a fool.

Maybe if you didnt post stupid crap, people would take you more seriously. Then calling him monkey, I don't know what conext you mean that in but be careful of the language you use on these forums as comments like that can get you banned

Who remembers when we beat Scarborough by only 1-0 in 2004? We were saved embarresment through the ref tbh. Terry was marginally offside for his goal and Gallas made a clear handball in the area. Chelsea fans who have been supporting us for over 6 years should remember this. Just shows that anything is possible in this game. Sad thing is now I don't even think Scarborough exist anymore

It doesnt weaken us IMO but do we need to make over 3 changes to a winning team in a game like this. Also I am not saying that the players who would come in are awful or wilweaken us but I know for a fact RDM will start Torres over Sturridge again IMO and can't see Ivanovic being dropped for this game

We should play our best team available and not worry about the Manu game. It is 5 days after the Shakhtar game, enough rest off period for the players. Ivanovic will and should start. We have to go in the intention of ignoring the Manu game because for now this is our most important one. Get this game out the way then we worry about Manu but this isnt an easy game so I am sure RDM will play his team who he feels is best suited for the game. The only change I many expect is Terry in for Cahill/Luiz and the rest of the team to be the smae as the one who beat Spurs