Magic Lamps

when has szesny become such a beast? i just remember him as the butt of jokes of the calamitous arsenal trio szesny, fabianski, almunia

you can see juve are not used to bein gpressed. they take loads of time on the ball omg what a save again. great shot ban der beek

what a save by szesny. great play ajax

van der Beek is a machine in CL lol

nice equalizer

well that was not the topic. everyone can score when opposition defenders push themselves out of the way

dafuq what does de Ligt do there. pushes his own man... horrible defending

Looking at the table, I think top 4 is gone. Best way to qualify is to win EL. If we win our remaining 4 games there, we are in the CL for sure. In the leaguew e would need 2 rivals to at least slip up twice which with 5 games left is improbable imo Arsenal and ManU are riding their luck and winning ugly. Both teams have the advantage that they got a decent strikeforce other than us. Even though ManU and Arsenal do have a few tricky games coming up, i think we will not win all remaining games either, esp not at OT.

Bullshit. We rode our luck with Alonso in his first season thx to the new system. But last year Alonso was already found out and targeted which is why Conte wanted Sandro in before. Alonso has always profitted from purple patches and occasions where he ends up at the end of a rare accurate cross in a position he takes up in place of our marginalized striker

sure. all strikers in Italy are crap and can't score anywhere else. Serie a is so striker-friendly everyone can score dozens there but could not do so in way more defensive leagues such as La liga or EPL. Take that C.Ronaldo chap for example. Scores for fun in Serie A and has done fuck all in other leagues, such a bottler. Other prominent examples would be Ibrahimovic, Jürgen Klinsmann, Christian Vieri... just poor poor strikers outside Serie A...lol

Piatek has 10 in 14 for the milan team no one could supposedly score for. That is why half the forum was screaming for him not higs and once again us random football fans are right and our board who get paid to form an educated opinion on football are wrong as always.

Rlcs minutes to goals ratio is excellent. If only he had the same fitness level as Lamps or just Kovacic he would surely be scoring 15+ goals per season. Further i agree with the above Kovacic must not be signed permanently.

I honstley did bot know him before we bought him. I liked how he made us click in the first few games but one he got figured he did not jave a solution. The problem with specialist players as you say is thag they are so Limited. Sacrificing a whole starting spot just for someone to control the tempo is a bad deal imo..Kroos at least can shoot and has more accurate long range passing than Joriginho. Ballack could also control the tempo from deep and was a thread from range and a force in the air. Lamparf obviously was a complete playmaker and scored 300 goals on top, Nusquets can defend and read the game like no other. Jorginho can just play short passes at a deliberate pace and mediocre mid range passes and interception ability thats it. Not that he is a bad player. He has put in a lot of hard work in the last few weeks and i can not blame his attitude he seems like a decent bloke but for 65m we could have gotten a true worldclass midfielder, an Allrounder who has passes, tackles, runs and goals in him.

Pretty decent lineup. i think it will be the draw..liverpool need the win even more than we do so they will be attacking strongly. We need to use the break opps we will get and we will be fine. I am sure Sarri will start kovacic for his defensive work rate tho. Barkley better not play one minute with his kamikaze clearances in front of our box usually being more reliable passes to opposition strikers than their own

He ia so old that when he was 18 to 21 Israel was still British mandate so he should classify as homegrown

cant nail down what is special about this kid apart from his awareness for space and positioning. He is neither fast nor world class technique nor particularly agile. HIs passing and finishing seems good but nothing out of this world. we will but i somehow do not see him as future superstar.

I think it is becasue Emerson started the last 2 league games and was absolutely comfortable. You think this means something but with Sarri you never nkow.

This joao felix guy somehow has telepathic ability or future sight to determine were the ball ends up. amazing. tie not over tho albeit i would rather face benfica than frankfurt somehow, even though it would be great to see chelsea here in the Commerzbank arena again. On a different note how shit is Kaliou Koulibaly?

nervy win but maximum we could have done. Shame we did not push fo rthe decider in the end cos their defence was really open late on. Anyway a win is a win even though most of our players were absolute gobshite. Pedro, kovacic and Barkley were absolutely poor. Azpi and Alonso shaky. But for the goal i was already resigned to Willian completely losing the tmepo but his cross for alonso was absolutely brilliant as was Alonsos header so those two got a pass. Shame we had to bring on the little geniuses but i think those 25 mins will not burn them out.

Lol the club is run by amateurs but whatevs slavia or sparta we will wipe the floor with them and get on with it

charged with drink driving.... a sackable offence?

Higuain for sure but Giroud? not really. there are players who had 100 games more at his age. It is modern football. 10,15 years ago some players could maintain a world class level until ther mid 30ies. Today only very vew players can.

if hazard gives us the the cl finish as a good bye gift i will be a bit appeased.

giroud is even slower than higuain goddamn

yup. he even wo a header vs arnautovic O.O