Magic Lamps

thanks for your assessment . I like your optimism regarding transfers. Also I agree that Koke would be a nice option given he has the same if not higher workrate as Osar whilst at the same time being much more of a threat with his set pieces, creativity and superior technique. As a connoisseur of Spanish football, how much do you reckon Koke would cost us?

Diego Costa has not been sent off for 6 years. He is much more clever in his aggressiveness than people give him credit for. When he pushed marquinhos to the ground he did so knowing the ref had already turned his back. I worry much more about his goals record than his aggression. He always seems to be out of control, but he seldom commits violent conduct or dangerous fouls. Those actions just get more attention when committed by him because he is a dirty thug, but being a thug is not against the rules.

Thinking the same. I got no problems with a bit of bus parking and counter attacking. But if we want to do so why not set up for this. Play a compact, counter-oriented system like last season vs Mancity away in the league. apart from the dismal finishing, that was a blueprint of modern football. pace, power and lightning transition. After the arrivals of Remy and Cuadrado we are even better equipped for that. My theory is that mourinho does not even want us to look like parking the bus all the fuckin time, but it is more of a necessity. OUr defense is rather slow and immobile hence playing deep hence our midfielders keep tracking back all the way hence our attacks start from too deep with too knackered players and the opposition have time to defend. When was the last time we actually scored from a counter attack? we have a defender who can't defend (ivanovic) but is ok at attacking who needs to be covered by an attacker who can't attack.This alone would be kafkaesque enough. But it goes further. Our so called no.10 is more of a disguised DM who has to cover for the real no10 playing at DM because he needs spaceor the game in front of him or whatever. That leaves our only two players with the license and ability to actually score, Costa and Hazard. My take is that we should simply get some Chelsea quality defenders in so our attackers can actually attack instead of spending the whole match defending around the corner flag to cover up for some defensively inept full- and centrebacks.

Yup. was shit today once again. and yes, still a great player. If he is a big game choker or simply not fitted to the approach - I leave that to you. But I don't care. He has done his job of flat-track bullying us towards the league title which is exactly what he was bought for. We are shit at parking the bus anyway with Fabregas or without him.The way we defend leaving holes everyhwere, defenders running into each others at corners... we could as well have a backline of mata, giovinco and mauri. FAbregas is surely not to blame.The very great players though don't need such excuses. They perform even when the game is not made for them, they make them game theirs.

All this "credit to PSG" and "can focus on the league" stuff is fair enough. But come on. This is not a one off. We have been shit for the whole of 2015. Mostly we have been getting results against bad teams but against the better ones we have had more luck than competence. PSG were shit today. But we were worse. But at least they fought for it, we never did so. We had luck, the ref on our side against a 10 man psg. We had one week and a fully rested squad. We had 3 match points. still we blew it all. The players were walking not even trying. Sure there have been bad performances by the players. Some have been consistenyl poor (Oscar, Cahill), average (Willian) or inconsistent (Ramires, Costa, most of the bunch actually),even Terry has once again made some epic blunders in big matches (CAvani and Silva's goals). But Mou has to take some of the blame too. Why try to park the bus when we are obviously shit at it? The players looked completely umotivated, it is Mou's job to pump them up. Also is waiting for Hazard to create something out of nothing or wait for a set piece really the way to go? where are the runs, the movements which create space for the magic of fab&hazard to combine into? Sure no player seems to have resumed their early season form, but the tactics should enable them to do so. At least Hazard is still trying. The very sad thing is, today, fixing only one of these obvious problems would have sufficed for us to progress.

Mourinho himself said though. But I doubt it. From 2007 to 2009 there were 3 english teams in the champions league semifinal every year. The league was just as competitive as it is today. ONly twice have teams from uncompetitive leagues won the cl

over and out. we did not have the class nor the nerve and the killer instinct today.

we have been poor attacking all game, but our defense has let an awful PSG side trouble them. When the opposition score per set piece you have done something wrong.

a man of courtois's height should saved that. all he needs to do is jump. the goal is only fuckin 2,40m tall.

bye bye quarterfinal. what the fuck were our players marking?

must not let it go now. score another.

Drogba's moustache is the first thing worth watching in this game.

what does Mourinho do? Drogba???

Fuckin hate this. why can't we one fuckin time not concede when ahead in a big game. Surely PSG will be fired up now when all they need to progress is a goal. HOpe we can stretch them and make them tired for the reamining 30 mins. they are only 10 men FFS. They have been utter shite but we have been even worse.

Also Schalke were without 6(!) first XI members. Pretty sure if Nastasic had tracked Ronaldo's run for the 2nd goal, Schalke would have gone through. On a site note amazing to see what a decline Iker Casillas has endured. Pathetic goalkeeper. Can't believe that guy is still in goal at one of the biggest clubs in the world.

the ref gets real through - just

over and out but what a fight from schalke. deserved to kick real out. bar some bad defending that is how you have to play Real at Bernabeu

Real madrid are playing even worse than us at PSG. No wonder they have an even thinner squad and less rest than us.

Schalke completely dismantling Real today. still expect the guys in white to somehow nick it due to some friendly help by the refs but there is nothing to fear about Madrid.

I dreamed that we lead 6-0 at half time and during the second half Mourinho runs on the pitch and whispers in every player's ear that they are all invited to a Chinese dinner at his home. Well, I would take that scenario.

Goals should not be your argument, Kane has scored loads more than Costa in all competitions. Still I'd take Costa every time. In the very big moments, when the stakes are highest everyone will see why. Tho Costa should start scoring again.

Can we recall him or have we no veto in the extended loan and buy clauses?

unnecessary tight, but deserved. should have won at least 3-0 with the chances we had, but we kept our 5 point lead that is the most important thing. Big big away win. The next game we will have a well rested Nemanja matic back and won't have that many problems in midfield.

willian fffs

looking forward to an hour of stoppage time and a late equlizer, like always.