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Willian has more stamina than Schürrle. That is why he is a better defender. Both are not exactly elite tacklers. But in some games we can afford to lose Willian's stamina but get Schü's directness. Neither are complete wingers but both have a place in our team - which is the bench. Long term we should look for a higher calibre but for now we should utlize them whenever the respective type of winger is needed. Which means we should use Schürrle increasingly IMO. But I got no complaints about how Mourinho handled the situation so far. Schürrle had Epstein-Barr and is rephased in slowly

Tough game once again. They'll probably have the game of their lives, whilst Woolwich United or whoever will roll over vs City....getting boring. But where does this accumulation of hard fixtures for us and easy ones for City even come from? We did win a hard away win at Stoke, so we should do ok in this one just because even though we had two days less rest. I hope we see some rotation which IMO is inevitable in the festive period where the fixtures come fast and hard. But I am pretty sure we won't see any bar Oscar replacing Mikel.

Sums it up perfectly. I hate those individual awards. Lampard, Henry, maybe even Drogba should have won it and would have if it wasn't for the anti-English bias Also individual awards paper over the fact that football is a team game and players being measured by scoring more of the 5th or 6th goals of a game in a team producing dozens of chances per game neglecting those who put in the work to create those chances. Also why not cut the pretence and simply call it award for the player who scored the most goals (in a cup winning team). Why is there never a defender or even a midfielder winning it?

I just saw the draw. Schalke vs Real? Us vs Paris again? and City vs BArca again? wtf. Probably Uefa has already determined the CL winner, too. Why bother even making a draw? They don't even try to hide their manipulation. Fucking disgrace.

If we spread our ressources over all competitions we could very well end up with nothing like last season with such a thin squad unless Jose trust the youngsters at some point. If those youngsters have to include RLC I have not seen enough him to judge yet. The first team may be a level above them, but Derby County certainly is not.

that sounds like a plan - on fifa. Honestly I agree those would be some great moves, but I don't think we will sign anyone, cos neither club has the need to sell which would make the bargaining take ages and those three will easily cost 100m+ We simply can't afford this shit. Also I don't think we should all offload those fringe players yet. Most of them will still improve and we will make more money on them when we sell them on better form.

Me too. And they are BAYER leverkusen like the pharmaceutical company Bayer not Bayern like the federal country of Bavaria

we can't draw them

I want Leverkusen. And I want to give them the thrashing thise joke of a retort club deserves.

People really have to respect us to honour the spirit of the sport today by playing such a strong team and such a complete game. Ironically Schalke, who never honour the spirit of the sport are the one profitting. They surely do not deserve to be in the 2nd round of the CL

what a welcome RLC gets.

I actually did expect more of a fight by sporting

Zouma has been a wall. It looks like he is more accomplished than we thought.

curse of the commentator really

City are so pathetic. all they need is one goal and they don't even try.

this goal had like 3 scorers, the sporting defender, mikel and matic

salah is rather one-footed.

what are the odds on Lampard scoring the winner for City? Actually that would do us a favour. Keep them busy in the CL to increase our title chances.

now the game is won please get FAbregas and Matic off the pitch.

It is amazing how confident salah is despite his lack of game time. We should not lose faith in him yet, I feel.

Slimani must be the worst striker ever. He combines the disadvantages of a cliché big player (bad balance, clumsy, no technique, immobile, slow, inaccurate) with those of a cliche small player (weak, no physical presence, easily dispossessd, useless in the air)

Our defense is much more shaky without willian tracking back.

If Mikel had played like that on Saturday we would have won

i wonder why we play Costa when he is completely out of form. I don't understand why Jose never trust REmy. He has delivered whenever called upon and surely is a bit more tidy techncially than Costa.

has costa ever in his life won a header?