Magic Lamps

Somehow, I don't fear Pool at all. Yes, they have played great football and yes they are a force at home, but just like Arsenal you always feel they will bottle it in the end. IMO, if one team can beat them in their own backyard, it's us. They might have the offence, but we have the D and it served us well against City, too. Shame is, even if we win at anfield, you can bet on us being brought down by the ref in Cardiff.

This game has been a disaster for our title hopes. We did not only lose the game, but also, lost two important players, who will be missed in a tough fixture list + our players are now even more tired for the CL and consequently for the Arsenal game. This tie was always to be hard enough, but if we have had a decent referee and striker, we still would have won it. That festival of wrong offside calls alone was bad enough, but the red card for Willian was a joke and killed the game. Villa were always gonna score after that. The thing is now we need City to slip up twice more than us, which IMO is close to impossible. Arse and Pool will never win the title, no matter what. it is ours and City's weakness because of that they are still in the race, but come on.... Gerrard or Mertesacker with a EPL winners medal? How weird ist that? NOt gonna happen... they don't have the nerves nor the defence to win the title. It has always been City's to lose, we were naive to believe they could slip first, just because what we played was not good enough and we have no striker to see us through either. You can underperform in some games, some you win ugly because of luck, which we did, some you will win because of your striker. We were always gonna miss out due to the latter. The title will be decided in the next two weeks if it isn't already. At least, if anyone has always believed we can win the title no matter what, at least the odds have become a little more attractive now.

It is remarkable how a short series of 3 or 4 wins can make us favourites even with City not having dropped a point since. It is still City's to lose, but even though we will probably still be in the CL after a delayed finishing off of Gala, City got the harder programm with 3 more Epl fixtures than us. If we can extend our lead to double figueres in the next two weeks, we will have won it before april even has begun. In the same way we also can lose the title this month, so fuckin concentrate on the league.

what you guys think Villa will play like? Parking the bus in front of their own fans and maybe get something out of this match or try to run at us and be countered out?

Lampard's number should be retired. He is the greatest player in the history of the club, if numbers are retired, his should be. Retiring a number is a tribute to the player and not only to those who have picked a number over 11. You either do retire numbers or not, but only retiring numbers greater than 11 is half-assed.

luckily not, but last night, I dreamed we would win 4-1 at Anfield with Oscar, Hazard, Eto'o and Lampard scoring, sealing the title. I have never dreamed something so lucid. I hope it is a vision. At least I know what to do at the bookmakers.

what a big ugly motherfucker he is. But pepe and ramos are no better. No wonder they are huggin each other in the end. Little bit of cant, but hey they are spaniards.

Torres scoring a goal is the only way of him not being useless. Even though he usually is useless all the time before and after the exact moment of scoring. Additionally he only scores in Europe cos that is where teams actually attack us and leave so much space, even Torres manages to get a goal once in a while. Ba has scored two goals in 20 minutes, what esle should he do to demonstrate his return to form given the lack of playing time? IMO he should start next game and Eto'o the Gala match, cos the latter can only score at home.

No, we need both. We have the money to release Costa, so we should not be tempted to include Lukaku in the deal to make it cheaper for us. We might well lose all of our current strikers in summer. What is the point of letting go of the only one who actually knows the club alread just because some club is coincidentally interested in him. IMO our objective should always first to sign without any unnecessary add-ons and only do swap deals if we have a profit from it, or the situation forces it (e.g. the Cole-Gallas deal or a potential Torres-whoever but please somebody swap). Lukaku has the potential to become at least as good as Costa. swapping him now would be extremely short-sighted.

this. It is a difference for us as fans to be mock spurs and for an active coach to disrespect fair play. Jorge Jesus is a cunt and he will be weeping, whimpering on the ground at the end like at the end of every season.

This game could - like last season - well become the most important game of the year, as soon as City drop points, which is a possibility. They are tired, without Agüero, out of winning rhythm and not playing well since weeks whilst Hull are fresh and confident. In this scenario if we get the 3 points, a subsequent win vs Arsenal would hand us the title. I can't see City recovering a double figuere deficit, even with 3 games in hand, which will come fast and hard, sandwiched between games at Anfield, Emirates and Old Trafford. So go out with the strongest possible team and rather rest players vs Gala. I think we should keep Hazard fresh though and only bring him on if needed. With Schürrle gaining form we can cope. Cech Iva Cahill JT Azpi Rami Matic Willian Oscar Schü Ba

felipe melo must be the refs special friend, it was clearly him who fouled Lampard, very bad refereeing

does felipe melo have the license to kill or why does he get away withe very foul.

fuck mikel, there are bodies in the box

This is so similar to that game vs fenerbahce in 2008

it was cech's ball. Another sign we should replace him with courtois

our wastefulness get punished once again

lol a ginger turk

we ahve to be more clinical

lol what a goal. good job by the ballboys to make it irrelevant

He has played our last x games no wonder he is tired

Yilmaz being outmusled by Azpilicueta. not so strong in the end. thank god we were never in for him

Ref should have booked 2 gala players already

hakan balter looks like the worst defender ever. so lucky to get the decision here. torres was through

Lampard bossing felipe melo