Magic Lamps

Sure. Rakitic would be an immense signing my favourite for the pivot after Kovascic.Ivan Rakitic is a complete box-to-box midfielder, a mixture of Lampard and Schweinsteiger, maybe not as talented but a tad faster. He has amazing set pieces, can cross, decent passing over all ranges, is able to keep and distribute the ball with pace and in tight spaces. He would be perfect as the more offensive player next to Matic, cos he, even though never neglecting his defensive responsibilites has the ability to arrive in the box just at the right time hence he uses to score regularly. His weaknesses are that he sometimes lacks accuracy when under pressure and he does not break through the opposition's midfield with passes and dribblings as much as he should (see Kovascic who does just that with ease). He also is already 26 so I have no clue if he will still develop. Though a bonus is, Rakitic is a big game player. btw speaking of kovascic/Rakitic + matic anyone got an idea whether there is still bad blood between Serbia and Croatia and would that affect a DP partnership?

If this was like 2 years ago with Drogs still there and Lamps with something left in the tank, I'd be convinced we would wipe the floor with PSG. But I today I am hugely suspicious that a midfield with any of Lamps, Mikel (? injured ?) and Luiz can prevent PSG from running at our defence. We need Oscar to track back all the time, which is why I am convinced he will play. The problem is balance. We either have to commit numbers forward hence exposing the backline or be more conservative resulting in hoping for individual brilliance by Hazard or maybe Willian for the goals. Torres is by far our worst striker, but Demba Ba has not played for weeks (for whatever reason), whilst Eto'o is not fit. That makes us massive underdogs.

glad you ask. Even though the volume is not very high it is harder than i thought. Especially dips and chin ups for 15 reps give u sour muscles even if it is only 2 sets. Which is why i decided to only train twice per week in the first cycle but add some intevall sprinting to enhance recovery. The real challenge is to eat those 3500 cals per day and stay away from unnecessary sugar.

Who the fuck is the dutch FA? Roman Abramovich has been laundering money since the Berlin wall broke down. he surely won't be worried by some bureaucrats. as long as Roman's friend with the funny name stands firm, we got no problem.

matuidi is not as fast as Ramires. Maybe slightly better at anything else including football brain, but Matuidi is not the level one should aim for either. The thing is who will we play at the bridge with Ramires out? We only got Lamps, Luiz and Mikel. Any combination bears huge risks.

This is Real madrid's CL title. They got the strongest squad, the best player and they are deadly. Bayern are no match for them. The all German final last year created an illusion, this season will show how strong the German teams really are.

He is a really decent counter striker but it was right not to pay that 63 or 70m for him. He might be more talented than Costa but Costa is the in form striker and 32m+ for him would be far better invested than some outrageous money PSG will demand for him.

No manager is perfect and Mou surely has to take some of the blame that our form has depreciated in this final part of the season, with onyl 1 out of 7 away wins. That problem to motivate his players in the very crucial moment was also evident last year in Madrid. Let's hope he has not lost his touch and bounces back.

It is always funny how as a result of one match or even one goal see our squad either as "one top class striker shy of the very top" to "thin and massively overrated". At the start of the season, we knew we lacked quality in midfield and forward department, since then we made a huge profit in the transfer window selling players, which has not helped our squad depth. Still we managed beating ManCity twice and hold Bayern over 120 minutes. That is where the team is going. Ending up 3rd in the league and quarter final exit in the EPL would be a very meagre season with the positons we got ourselves into, but in truth, one title more or less, we are one wisely spent transfer window away from being in Europe's top 5 clubs again. We got some of the most exciting talent in world football, some experienced veterans that will still be there next year an army of loaned players, some of them probably will turn out good and almost all deadwood can be easily replaced. the future is bright no matter the result today. IMO our recent form problem is exactly that: a form problem. The future is bright no matter what.

He usually only came on as a subsitute striker at mainz and even then he usually was not the lone man up front. It is a big difference playing striker in bundesliga and playing striker against top class CB in the epl and PL, wich the bundesliga barely got any of outside the top teams. When he went off today, everyhting went downhill. Even though he had nothing to do with the goal, if he is keeping Torres out of the team, he has already contributed.

Besides our evident need of decency in the strikeforce, the psg game impressively showed that Matic is pretty much the only CM that has the quality to be a starter. Ramires, Luiz, Mikel, Lamps all lack consistency and in some cases class to be there. We need someone to create space and still can defend like Kovacic and probably another one for cover. We are getting bossed in midfield when Matic is not playing.

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this. Courtois has kept Atletico alive single-handedly vs AC milan 1st tie and barca now. It is not the first time Cech has messed up a game with some pretty bad saves but the very first time this happned in a game as big as this. The writing is on the wall. If we replace Cech now, it will be smooth and we will have the chance to build an entire new spine.

If we had Matic and Etoo available for the 2nd match, i'd be confident we would walk over Paris, cos they were shit today and only are up because of some fuckin gk and defensive individual errors. Matic is cuptied and etoo is a doubt, so i am not that confident. we can make it, but fuckin have to get our shit together. we were absolutely pathetic today and were lucky to score at all. Paris were dire, but they managed a good number of clear cut chances themselves. we should have killed them after the equalizer but we did not have the guts.

that's the tie, and that also should end Lamps's and Cech's Chelsea career.

cech must keep that

cech should not get beaten there. and dafuq where lamps and azpi doing there on the flank?

oh holy crap

fuck the refs.

We never looked like scoring from open play, honestly.

classic torres ramires cooproduction

lol verrati got himself injured trying to foul willian

good thing about psg is their pussy players take themselves out and get injured without contact.

100 cl game for Lampard. What a record

lucas for ibra. they got a true 4-3-3 now. watch out for cavani