Magic Lamps

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?

what a difference fresh players can make....

Costa really looks off the pace now he is playing without an injury. yeah great goal schü

why play Matic? kinda unneccessary given he played every match except one the full 90 minutes. Also costa and fabregas I can't understand. why he risky injuries to our 3 most important players.

WE'll win against them when it matter as we did in 2013 EL quarterfinals

I wonder how easily people link him with barca. Aren't they Banned vor what ?

If we don't rotate here, I am never going to watch a Chelsea match again until we do. On saturday I knew we were going to lose as soon as I saw the lineup. That was a surreal experience.

That was always their thing. In 2009, 2011 as well as 2013 they have always played the poorest kind of football that has ever seen the light. They have been inferior in at least a third of all their matches in the last 5+ years and still somehow managed to win the league more often than not. The only thing they do is hitting the ball up high in the air and then moving quickly for the rebound. I'd also love to hammer teams. But that is the problem. They fear us already that even in away games the home teams parks the bus. They sit there and wait for their counter opportunities. But I am pretty sure we would be able to deal with that like we do at Stamford Bridge if Jose would not overplay the team all the time. Also it would help to have a more mobile defense to play a higher line and not being getting caught on the break.

Whilst one could easily see how much he cared about the club he was maybe the most awkward of the whole Chelsea TV staff. And they have a lot of awkward guys. Maybe its because they always have to be so cheerful but the foreign players often don't understand a word. But why the heck are there even post-match interviews? Anyway, I think he really is a nice bloke, he just has the wrong job. Not only his announcements but his pronounciation in general is so annoying. He always changes the pitch and volume of his voice in the middle of the sentence when there is no need to do so whatsoever. First time I wondered whether he has tourette or something.

Taking Sporting lightly is exactly what we have to do in this match. We don't need to win this match, our only task after the disaster of overplaying our best players with 4 games in 15 days, is to rest players. We should not give a fuck about this game and do not play anyone that has to start against Hull on Saturday, which is waaaay more important. Our momentum is shit anyway. But the game vs Hull is the game we can lose our season in. If we fall behind City this winter, we will never see first spot again with how easy their schedule is. Our players should be fresh and for one of the season defining matches instead of wearing our best players down in this void Sporting Lissabon horseshit match.

Reus is the perfect player to help us break down parked buses. He is fast, direct, able to move on rapid speed within tight spaces and can score from everywhere. He might not offer the industry of willian tracking back, but his superior effectiveness in the final third more than compensates that. The reason why we concede so much from crosses from the right is Ivanovic. Azpi--Cahill--JT--Luis ----Matic-Fab--------- Reus--Oscar---Hazard is much more balanced than what we got now and still offers a hell lot more in Offense.

IMO it's the EPL's marketing strategy to have the title race as open as possible. (as long as the FA's beloved ManUtd can't win it) A more open EPL title race generates more worldwide media interest and hence increases the leverage of the EPL to get bigger TV deals. Hence they influence matches and instruct the refs to make the league more attractive. Smaller clubs are only happy to agree to play along and alter the level of their perfromances as the FA commands so they get access to those huge TV money pots this way. The Bundesliga and La Liga are usually less open. All their ressources are concentrated towards BAyern, BArca, real, who are guaranteed the league title and can focus on the CL. The CL success makes their TV rights attractive as well. Too different strategies. The Spanish or German strategy yields more success in terms of CL titles whilst the English one yields more money. I think in the end we will be Champions. The FA will influence games our way at some point as another City title would be rather boring. But in the end we will have no chance of winning the CL with our squad tiring in domestic competitions against the fresh teams of Real, Bayern, Barca.

Watching City games is like watching 11 men playing around 11 cones with a ref awarding foul, when one of the guys or the ball touches a cone.

But let's not get our hopes too high. Everton will probably manage to invite tap ins and score own-goals without Agüero being on the pitch.