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dafuq is drogba playing once again? I would have Remy over him every time

I guess Tottenham will lineup along the lines of -----------------llrois---------- Naughton--Fazio--Verton--Davies --------Mason----Bentaleb--------- Lamela-----Kane----------Eriksen --------------soldado---------------- That team looks really shit on paper but has been on decent form. Esp their no-name double pivot has carried them, but I'd be really disappointed if those two muppets would stop fabregas and Oscar. There is no chance that they will park the bus with that team, considering lamela and eriksen have never in their lives made a tackle inentionally. They will try to take the game to us and that will play into our cards esp with a counter attack striker like Remy. In the case that their pressing pays off like it did against everton we should be able to bring in Drogba as a second striker and simply beat them by power, pumping long balls into their box. They might be on form, but their entire back 6 is error prone as fuck and will fail when we put them under enough pressure.

But that only works because Neuer this year had incredible luck. Usually he has 2 or 3 mega blunders that cost a goal per season because of his advantageous style of play. Being a regular observer of both IMO there are only a few major differences in quality between our own Tibo and Neuer. First obviously Neuer is more prepared to storm out of his goal for long balls and as a consequence often is found further up. But if that is a necessary advantage I don't know because not everytime he comes out of his goal is really necessary + I don't remember Tibo conceding once only because he did not chase a long ball.... Secondly Neuer usually parries over the bar or around the post instead of letting it bounce just in front of him. He concedes more corners but is not forced to further saves. In terms of reflexes and box control, Tibo is even a tad better than Neuer. Though Neuer's kicking and ability on the ballin general is better. The season he has had would make him deserve that Ballon D'or. We all know it will be Ronaldo. But what is that award still worth, when the player who actually had the best season of all is not even nominated.

As a Chelsea fan i have grown to hate ManCity. So it saddens me to see that Lampard can so easily integrate himself into that pathetic plastic club. I have always looked up to him due to his professionalism, performances and also his loyalty, but now you can't really uphold the last claim. Nonetheless he remains a legend because of the goals he scored and the titles he's won. But for him, personal success is obviously more important than Chelsea's. At 36 he has the best goals per minute ratio in English football and is still miles ahead of little Steve G. Shame this is all worth nothing just because he switched to the wrong shade of blue just for a 100k extra. Some call him traior or Judas, but in short he turned out a disappointment. Not as a player, but as a person. If that impedes his legend status I don't know. How do you evaluate a character and turn this into a legend's ranking without knowing wha thas actually been there behind the scenes. When we win the title, and I am sure we will, no matter what non-stories daily mail will publish, the 211 goal, leading us to the CL, EL and league titles will remain, nothing more.

After the media labelling us as an all-conquering machine, now they all go about how we have been found out, City going to catch us because of their easy December schedule. After a couple of days of reflection, one positive we can take from this match is that our defence has stabilized after some erratic performances at beginning of the season. I still got no clue why Jose played the same team 3times in a row. One would not even do this in Fifa. At least could have mixed up the offense. But if we keep up working on us, there will be no "found out" at all. We have an ensemble of creative players, who will at their day, make enough chances for any striker to score esp one of the calibre of Diego Costa. Secondly, we still have the good direct long ball football in us + danger from set pieces. Would have hoped for a bit more of that on Saturday, but I am pretty sure, if this would have been a game at St.Marys, Swansea or white Hart Lane we would have.

Why the actual fuck are Southampton 3rd? They played like shit today in front of their own fucking crowd. I bet they wil have the game of their lives against us. Mangala really is the only liability for City so far. Without Lampard he would probably have cost them the game. Lamps shows again what a brilliant super-sub he would have been for us. If he had stayed here, we would would probably have 8 points more on City. Sure, he was off once he was offered 190k per week by City, but we could have at least signed a replacement with similar goalscoring ability.

this would effectively postpone if not end the title race. Actually I don't care about any other rival team than City who are our only real competitor. I am pretty sure they will win against Southampton, who have been poor since a while now but until the Villa game got away with it. City will play as shit as usually but Agüero will keep up their alibi title bid. We will have 8 games within 34 days all against thoroughly beatable opposition. The toughest probably will be the trips to St.Marys and to 3point lane. If we win those or win 7 draw 1, we will be champions simple as December will be the first tough period in the season. It will be the same cold and wet winter as usual in England, the fixtures come hard and fast, alone those 3 matches between boxing day and new year's eve I imagine to be gruelling. We might pick up some injuries, and some of our key players get tired. This will show how deep our squad really is and more interestingly show how ready Ake, Zouma and Salah really are.

I'll probably get crucified for this but I do not really see why Koke is worth that inflated buy out clause. Yes he is a decent playmaker who puts in a defensive shift. He can pass and has nice vision and understanding of the game at only 22. But he is no better than Pep and imo can't play any other position in our system than CM or CAM due to his lack of pace.

good i hope he will score many more. But he probably will never recoup his transfer fee.

It would be Deutschland unter allem Anyway. Even GErman newspapers titled England 3 GErmany 0.This matchday. But Bundesliga is not Germany. Anyway let's not fool ourselves, sadly 3 German teams are already or almost qualified as 1st of the group.

probably. But City have Agüero. When City play anything close to their potential, they will go through. But I'm pretty sure they will be eliminated from every team they can face in the round of 16 bar Leverkusen.

I want City to go through, that would be the best for English football + for our chances winning the league. Of course it would also be sweet for them only play Europa League and their "historic" win counting for nothing. I am pretty sure ZSKA will not win in Munich, but I can't see City winning in Rome either. So it is more probable that they will either be 2nd or 4th than 3rd.

Awesome performance. People say Schalke made it easy for us, and for sure that is right, how three schalke players rise for their own goal with no cfc player near was comicaalso Fährman did not really perform well. but tbf Santana tackled like his life depended on it, also Uchida and KPB ran their lungs out. They simply are not any better. Nor were they at their draw at the bridge. They did their usual stuff, playing diagonals to their fullbacks, pump crosses into the box and hope someone is in the right place. That is enough for most Bundesliga teams. But today we raised our level and got the result the performance deserved. If Costa had had his scoring boots on today this would have been at least 8-0, which IMO it should in order to put German football in to place. We have to work on our finishing. We will not get those 15,20 chances against Real or Bayern. all Players had a decent game, but Azpilicueta had one or two bad moments. Willian and FAbregas stood out, Oscar and Hazard were tireless. Drogba and Ramires were a breeze of fresh air when they came on.

schalke 05 should have been double figueres today if we weren't so crappy finishers.

only negative about our performance is once again our extremely wasteful finishing.

I didn't realize Schalke were such a tall team until Jose said so. They got 5 players above 1,90m and apart from Uchida there shortest player is 1,86m. but they have to make the game today and that is not their strength, whilst we are capable of a nice counter attack once in a while.

lol. tbf those tight bibs can be a mess to get yourself into when you have long arms. btw would really like Salah to play today. Schalke struggle when attacked by pacy players

Once again had a rather decent game. Would love to see him back here as a squad member. For sure some 15+ games some of them in the CL should be enough. Also the way he plays for Southhampton would surely be good enough to challenge Luis + the most rightfooted leftback ever for the LB squad.

Unfortunately the tore of the outer ligament has been confirmed.Presumably, Marco Rues will rejoin team training at the beginning of January. Get weel soon, Marco! No one can have so much bad luck! You will do it once again, the whole BVB family stands behind you!

Like most posters already pointed out there is no need buying another winger below the quality oft reus, we got so much depth in that position every type of player we are linked with already got in the squad. Quadrado is a slightly Mord productive willian, shaqiri a tad more technical Moses.

You are right. He even completed 101.3% of his passes, cos one of those was so much backwards it disturbed the space-time-continuum and arrived at the teammate twice.

I live in Germany and I am not a Dortmund fan, but they were clearly robbed by that annoying Paderborn team who have nothign to do in the bundesliga and played like shit today. Dortmund were average but still better than scp and deserved a win. But refs are a major factor in the modern game. Taht goal was not even close to being offside. perfectly legit. Anyway. Back to reus. Shame he got injured again. Usually BVB players get injured because they are rushed back by their shitty doctors, but that tackle would have damaged anyone's ankle. But for 25m reus is worth it even if we only get 30 games per season out of him.

excellent game. only chance conversion lacking once again.

exactly. Where is Kalas when you need him? Cahill is still pretty agile for his size, he and JT should be experienced enough to deal with little Berahino. Anyway. Maybe this game is also a chance to shuffle the pack a bit and play Zouma and/or Ake to rest some players for Schalke where we have to win in order to secure 1st spot.

Khedira is not the quality, Bayern or us should be looking for to replace anyone. If anything he could give us further depth in a department we lack it. But it would be a short time solution given the emergence of Chalobah, van Ginkel etc. Also BAyern might have injury problems with most of their midfielders, but they got hojberg and rhode as covers who already are close to khedira level. Actually i can only see him staying at real or joining arsenal.