Magic Lamps

Its pretty clear, Hazard will be Poty with Kane as ypoty.

Italian? no way that would help. Actually being quality, english, homegrown and not on a high salary should suffice to have him at cfc given our paper thin squad and homegrown quota. But given our fable for average Brazilian players, Bamfordinho could be an option.

Like last season? They had almost the same preconditions and still failed dismally. They are just a pathetic bunch of chokers. No way in hell they are gonna outscore Barca at the Camp Nou. It is gonna be Messi/Sauarez/Neymar vs Martin Demichelis and co. Their task is not to get embarrassed.

My brother who is a big Dortmund fan is confident BVB will turn it around today. Juve are usually shit on German soil and the Signa Iduna Park with it's amazingly loud 80k crowd, the Yellow Wall has really pushed them at big occassions against vastly superior teams often enough. I am a bit sceptical though. Dortmund have an error-prone defense, so I don't see them winning it 1-0. But I don't see them winning it by 2 goals either.

I hope he extends his contract beyond 2017 and goes on prem loan in summer, so we can sell him for a good price. It is sad tho that this guy has no future here. He is born to score goals and also seems to be an ambittious yet down-to-earth lad.

I rewatched Matic's tackle on mane about 20 times in super slow-mo and I have come to the conclusion that there is no fucking way this is a penalty. Would not even be one in Germany. Mane does not even have the ball or touch it in the whole incident. Matic is nearer to it and goes to the ground for a sliding challenge to clear it, which he successfully does. Mane falls down as soon as Matic brushes him just before Matic gets to the ball. But that is a dive. a good one tbf, not those über-theatrical, raised arms dives Iva does. But not a perfect one. If Matic's hand would have put him off contact (which should not be the case since he only brushes his hip slightly), he should have gone down to his right to balance the impetus, but not straight to the ground like he did. Also their knees touched but matic was clearly first to the ball so that is within the law. Really disappointed with that decision. It was an excellent tackle. On first thought I also saw it as a penalty, as did the ref and I don't blame him, just as one can't blame him for not seeing that stamp on Ivanovic's heel (esp given Iva's diving record). But that is exactly the problem. refs can only see it once and often are not well enough positioned or simply have no sense of judgement. About 1 of 3 major decisions (red cards, pens) is wrong these days.We need video technology to remedy that human error. If we had had that one on Sunday, we would not be talking about how shit our performance was but that the exact same game had got the result it deserved.

For the neutral it must be comical how we choke ourselves towards the title. 86 points is what you always need to win the title. And even if any of our rival teams pick up maximum points they will not get that 86 points. It would take a massive collapse from us not to even pick up those. And that is given City pick up maximum points which they fucking won't. At best they will finish with 82,83, 84 at a stretch. But we also staged an amazing collapse vs PSG at 1-0 vs 10 men.,

let me help you. Koke has 8 assits in the leauge, 14 overall . Oscar has 7 in the league, 8 overall. Also Koke is way better defensively than Oscar. More of a Modric type of player . btw he played brilliantly today. 80% passing completion, 18(!) ball recoveries.

This away goals rule is utter Bullshit. Going out of a competition without losing a match is unfair. Two draws should warrant extra time and penalties. Or simply fuck this replay BS and have every round one match on a neutral venue.

No he is not. He has got 7 yellow cards. 6 in epl and 1 in COC. At this stage it would take 10 to get a 2 match suspension.

Maybe we should just stop playing him in the 2nd part of the season and in big games. Did not need him in the latter last season. Though as for the former, if we drop him, Ramires will take his place and i am not quite sure he would do any better.... Also as for the choker argument. Fabregas might suck major balls in most big games, but I remember him having some amazing performances in the very big moments in wc 2010 and ec 2012 e.g. the assists for the world cup winning goal

Also loved the way we played under Ancelotti in the double winning season. That team had no pace or natural talent like our current one but it still beat every opposition by sheer quality, power, determination and character. Drogba, Lampard well above 30 y.o. and still banging in goals for fun was a joy to watch. That team had three aspects we are direly missing these days: accuracy ,hunger and focus. We scored some team goals that season Barcelona in their pomp would have been proud of. That interplay esp between the Drog-Lamps axis was a joy to watch. It was no tiki-taka which is by the way not what I understand as "good performances". Beautiful football does not come from "philosophy", it derives from quality that is channelled by complementary tactics and teamwork. Which is exactly what we should learn from the double season. We did not need a Hazard to dribble past 4 players. It came down to the approach. Get your determination and spirit high and play as good as you can, always give it your best effort, play to your strengths, never lose confidence or concentration. The way you play should be functional. When you play functionally and with the qualities listed it will look easy on the eye automatically without having to give it that artificial "tiki taka2 pimping. What was also remarkable about the football played under Ancelotti was its honesty. We were not nice like arsenal but bravely standin gup for ourselves, never giving in, ruthlessly finishing off our chances to get the result the game deserved. We were clinical but at the same time fair. No gamesmanship. We won because our approach was pure. Teamwork, confidence, focus, accuracy, effort, determination - for me those attributes represent, define football. We should go back to the roots and concentrate on that. Within all those "clear campaign" mini-battles, the constant reshuffling of the team, the fatigue, the siege-mentality, I sometimes feel the players have lost clear sight on what football really is about. Recover that and we should be fine, cos we got it in us what it takes to win titles.

Indeed a shame. I would not be half as mad if the players we actually play over our promising, passionate youngsters weren't some vastly overpriced average players who always did and always will blow their chances with their half-assed effort. Instead of waiting for some genuine world-class players becoming available we cast our hard earned money at those half-decent fair-weather players. Once we were hailed for our character. Players like Lampard, Ballack, Essien, Maka, Drogba who would always stand up to their task and raise their effort and their output for the occasion. Now we are left with a bunch of pussies who are unable to string two passes together all the time between January and June. The thing is you can't buy character. Unless we realize that every season will go like this one.

I'm not saying that we won't win the title. Just stating that City have the easiest fixture list. Though they are bottlers, surely they will not even win all of their remaining fixtures so we probably would even be champions with just over 80 points. But I am pretty sure we will end up with 88 points.

Obviously most of our remaining problems won't get solved by throwing money at them. We have tried that. We still got a massive quality and creativity deficit in AM/RW despite having bought players for a good 150m for those positions. Most of those have struggling covering their offensive and defensive duties at the same time despite their hety pricetags. So why not simply recall some loansters and let them have a try. Especially Bertrand Traore. He appears to be a promising player and can still be formed. Honestly can't do worse than Willian.

just as we have them, united and pool. City now have the easiest reamaining fixtures left. Only a trip to old trafford. Except Tottenham, who are shit they play Southtampton at home on the penultimate day.

Why does every pundit predict Utd to finsih outside the top 4???? Everytime i read sth at europsrt or skysports they all state how shit Utd are and how they are gonan finsih 5th, 6th. WTF? When has playing shit prevented Utd from moving up the table? Utd have ALWAYS played like shit, even when they won 3 titles in a row they have been playing like Stoke City hoofing the ball up the pitch or crossing as if their lives depended on it hoping Ronaldo/Berbatov/Rooney/RVP finishing the rebounds. Did anyone really expect Utd not to win vs fucking spurs?

TBF Cahill was much better than JT today, so he should retain his place. I just wonder who should be captain then I'd like to see: ---------Courtois-------- Azpi--Zouma-Cahill--Luis ----------Matic------------ ---Willian----Fabregas--- Remy---Costa---Hazard But of course we will see ----------Courtois---------- Iva---GC/Zouma--JT--Azpi ------Matic----Fabregas--- Willian---Oscar-----Hazard -----------Costa-----------------

the problem today was not fatigue due to lack of rotation. Actually there only were a few instances were some players individually looked tired, but never the whole team despite our small squad. I agree we have too many average players like Willian and Oscar playing all the time. But who are we gonna replace them with? Fucking Cuadrado?

The same procedure as every week. Score first, stop playing, defend like shit, concede, play some tired, pathetic attacks, waste a lot of chances and maybe get a lucky winner over the line. I expect us to scramble to a win here. Somehow. 2-1 or 1-0. We got a full week rest. Not the end of the world if we won't though. City and Arsenal will slip up at some point and we'll probably. Nevertheless we should really win here cos we are still playing arsenal, manUtd and liverpool all three are still playing for the Cl places. Jose will park the bus in those games and we all know how that ends. Leading the league has never been so frustrating. I know I am spoiled but we have been playing shit for the whole of 2015 and only are top because the other teams are even worse bottlers. This would be totally ok if did not have the potential to be great inside us. We have Hazard, Costa, Fabregas, Courtois, Matic, Fllipe Luis who for whatever reason is just rotting on the bench, but the likes of Oscar, Willian just hide in their shadow. What we are missing from them is character. I hope Mourinho instills some hunger into our players again. If not I can see the next two months becoming a pain in the ass to watch.Every week we play like shit or don't get the result enhances the possibility of us staging the most catastrophic collapse in the history of football.

WE were always gonna limp towards the finish line. No need to be upset. We tried but we simply are no better than a draw vs Southamtpon. This was one of 5 draws we can allow ourselves and still win the title. I just don't get why we keep playing Oscar and Fabregas who are both shit in the 2nd half of the season. We pay the price for our lack of depth and genuine quality in the squad. Willian Oscar are no better than Mane or Tadic just more expensive. Until we start playing some tactically astute football and our fringe players growing some balls this limping towards the finish line will continue

We will win this league. but not on merit. On City being even worse bottlers than us.

Cuadrado another dead end to our play. will finish 1-1

with mancity losing a poiint is not that bad a result.

we have just too many dead ends to our play: oscar, willian, fabregas.