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I am not even sure if heis a CF. now way he would lead our line, cos we often play so deep that costa has to carry out the attack out of our own half and hold up the ball all the time. not sure martial is suited to this. it wokrs at utd cos they usually play with fellaini or rooney to do that next to martial. but here he would just be one of many many ams. mata and kdb could not make it inot mourinho's team as he would not afford the time and patience for them to adaptand they are at least as gifted as martial...

i think it is -5. city lost twice. and we still play them at home...

but will they win the title? only if other teams let them. us and city have let them so far for sure. anyway. we still have to play ManUtd twice. we have the potential to beat them on both occasions. I still don't think we will win the title with the squad we have but with one or two clever signings in winter we are in for a chance. IMO just as one should not jump on the bandwagon after three games you should not do so after 7. City still are favourites me thinks

spurs are SLAUGHTERING City here

I agree. the matches there are always really intense and full of struggles. in 2011, sturridge raped newcastles leftback time and time again, the older members will remember that sturridge got absolute lightning pace before he injured himself when at liverpool (still very fast though) just too shoot wide or force a wonder save of tim krul but drogba opened the scoring shortly after the break. up until the 89th minute they pressed for the equalizer but then there was some defelected shot in their box which fell right onto kalou's foot. krul was out of the goal and newcastle had 2 defenders on the line so it was really difficult to score there. kalou however shot just into kruls right forearm so the ball deflected behind him and out of the reach of the defenders. typical kalou finish, unclean but lucky. sturridge then crowned his excellent performance with a beautiful solo goal. the year after was when mata and lampard scored epic goals to give us the lead but we still lost to a moussa sissoko extraclass.

i think it 4-3-3 -------------Bego----------- Iva----Cahill--JT----Baba ----------Mikel------------- -----Ramy-----RLC------- Remy---Falcao---Kenedy don't like the lineup tbh. no creative player in there and only 2 youth players. under carlo we usually played the whole academy in the first round of the coc. mou takes this competiiton far too seriously.

classic mourinho playing our 2 remaining strikers when the other one is suspended. also sadly no papy or traore

Well, they already will have won 2 leagues in 3 years in summer. obviously pellegrini at city is enough of a chellenge for jose. however, i doubt they will sack him next year after he will have won at least 1 title. also who knows if pep really makes it in the prem and if his tactics will work here. mancity is not as untouchable as barca and the bauern cunts in their respective leagues

We surrendered the league title to City with our lack transfer activity anyway. One de Bruyne more or less, City will be Champions either way, unfortunately. At least we can laugh at them embarrassing themselves in europe year in year out.

Emphasises once again what a laughing stock the Bundesliga is.

He most definitely is. Linda Hauard is only a mediocre novelist after all

off to Real madrid lol. a shame that this ridiculous work permit issues prevent the EPL from competing for players out of the top footballing nations. gives us a huge disadvantagein commerically accessing the emerging markets of china, india

i guess there won't even be a stream actually. has always been like that in the first round of our games vs lower league opposition

Doesn't really matter which team we pick. does not even matter if we go out actually. better go out in the first round of the coc than lose the final anyway bego Aina(?) Papy JT Baba RLC Ramy Oscar Traore Remy Kenedy To my shame i don't know shit about aina, but the midfield should be defensive enough to contain any danger for our improvised defense. the offense is a bit improvised, too but has plenty of pace and trickery and finishing prowess so it should suffice for league 1 level

Well, Arsenal did set up to exploit Ivanovic's weaknesses but he just refused to blink. the weeks rest did him a whole of good. Despite of arsenal's attacks 54% came on his side, of all our players, he won most tackles and aerial duells, completed the most clearances and interceptions. If only we would rest him more so he can be fresh for challenges like this one.

It is Diego fucking Costa. He doesn't get sent off. Have you ever seen him red carded? I haven't. No one in the last 3 and a half years has. Arsenal only had a few poor shots on target and only once proper chance by accident. we were in control of the game all the time, we would have been even if they had 12 players. We might not have turned the corner yet, but what is most important in football is confidence and luck and it looks like we got both back. MOurinho masterminded the rest and credit where it is due, it was a sublime tactical display. Most other teams play a low block vs arsenal and park the bus. we did the opposite and played a high line, made the midfield tight and they did not get hold of the ball at all. yes we are far from perfect, but we again showed the intensity you need at this level after it had been missing for weeks if not months. I am not a fan of Fabregas either, but as long as he does what he does best, i am satisfied. he is not a world class midfielder but can deliver world class assists.

He got a player sent off without even committing a single foul the whole game. He looks like a hothead, a thug, but he is extremely clever in that. he winds up the opposition but escapes punishments. That makes the opponents angry and angry men make mistakes.He played shit but still arguably won us the game with that sending off. can't complain. He has not been sent off since 122 games in which he only recorded 36 yellow cards btw, completely in control of wha the does. when he slapped koscielny, he knew no ref watched him. when he stood up, chest bumping kos, he had his hands close to his body, he would never get sent off for that either. That's just what he does. And everyone at the club knew what he was like. a warrior. some might think this is just what we need.

Walsall and and a horrible Newcastle will be just the right opponents at just the right time. Hopefully we can crush Porto afterwards and we are in a decent position to recover some of the 8 points to City in fall

So all in all, improved display today. best we have been all season on both ends. still far from what we are capable of but a nice step in the right direction. Ivanovic was back to his old self which means. no perfection but a combative display. he even delivered 2 good crosse. i was dumbstruck. Azpilicueta was an absolute beast tho. anyway, our defensive shift was improved. arsenal even with 11 men had close to zero chances, i only remember the sanchez one and a couple of half chances like that walcott shotlet. our high line dominated them all game, no wonder we had all the posession. Fabregas whipped in a delightful freekick for zouma to crown his motm display with a brilliant header. midfield and attack were decent in passing but still lack decisivness in the final third. esp, the front 3 were misfiring. with that and our midfield improving, i can see us becoming one of the better teams in europe again. also matic played a brilliant 2nd half.

and de bruyne scores on his debut....fuck it

incredible what west ham have done so far.on the other hand city don't looklike clicking with kdb at the 10 and otamendi-mangala in defense.

well, this contriubtion might make him more useful there than here.

finally hazard scores. so deserved

wut? arsenal got a 2nd red. again my stream was down in that exact moment. what happened?