Magic Lamps

schürrles crosses are so shit

The media say Jose has lost it and shit. He does not care and keeps on winning. That's why he is a champion.

Well, they consistently finished in the upper half of the table, I am convinced he can also do this with ManU and even ensure international football^^

But even Lamps has to decide whether to score or defend. He is not so good at the latter, so we should balance this with the opponents threat in midfield.

Kev Kev is bitching around. But Mou will handle this.

New season, hectic schedule, strong opponents and Mou has relied on Lamps's experience to launch our campaigns, rightly so. With the quality of opposition to diminish and Lampard being rested more often I think he can keep up physically when called upon.

The best of our six loanees at Vitesse. Love it how Chelsea II has emerged to one of the top sides in dutch football. Also funny how we top clubs like us abuse the loan-system, having a 75 mans squad, more than 20 players out on loan just for them to increase their value and be sold for profit.

Lars is slightly better and probably easier to get. But still the Benders are extremely overrated here. They are ok player but nothing more. Not really a step up from Mikel and worse than Ramires.

Apart from the first 25 minutes, Our pivot absolutely dominated Spurs midfield. "getting annhilated" lol. Could not be further away from the truth.

Mata is the better creator and the better attacker, Oscar is the better midfielder. Both can be useful. Against teams like Bayern or Barcelona where we will be in our own half most times, Oscar is much more useful. But against smaller teams that we dominate, Mata should be our no.10.

This leaves us a little thin, but I am sure we can cope. no idea why we did not take Ess in the Squad in the first place. Surely he can cope with the likes of Steaua. Luiz-Rami pivot could be a good thing vs Steaua, too. Against those weaker oppositions where we will see much of the ball, his aggressiveness could help our ball retention. I think in the end it is not too important who we field.. it is more important to get motivation&concentration right. Probably every player in our squad is superior to his Romanian counterpart.

Can't he be nominated because of MvG injury?

Sturridge always had the talent and the body to become a very good striker. He is lightning fast, robust, rarely injured, his left foot is venom and his dribbling skills are superior to almost all our players. Still he would never had a chance here to develop like he did at Pool. He would have been an awesome winger in the ink of Schürrle just much better. If he had been okay to be that winger/inside forward, he could have been awesome here. Now we are stuck with Willian, Schürrle and Moses who are not remotedly as talented as him.

No league goals from open play from them since the opening day of the season. They are nothing but the weekly Rooney freekick-goal without RvP. Imagine we had got Rooney. They would not have scored a single goal.

who else should one blame if a player is unrightfully sent off? edit: my fault. That comedy was a ref-Vertongen co-production. Vertongen's dving and simulation had Torres booked twice.

This. Ramsey won't carry on scoring forever. Also Arsenal don't have a proper defensive midfielder. Their offensive line with Özil, Hazard, Cazorla, Giroud is a very good one, but the defensive half of the team is not worthy of a title contender. When they lose their permanent goal threat which is only a matter of time, they need their defense to stand firm and I can't see Mertesacker, Gibbs, Szesny playing a whole season on a constantly high level. You need depth and quality all over the pitch to maintain a winning streak against better oppositions. This season can be great for English football btw. Liverpool, Tottenham, Arsenal have bridged the gap to us and the Manchester teams, esp as the latter have new managers, whilst they only had to tune their squads. With 6 improving teams of young squads the EPL can rule Europe again. You just don't have that anywhere else.

76 points will hardly be enough to win the league. Winning streaks and goals are the recipe of success. So far we have achieved neither. The days where parking the bus brings you leagues are over. The offense wins titles now. In the past few years, almost all champions in the top leagues. ManU, City, Dortmund, Bayern, Barca have leaked goals but usually found a way to outscore the opposition. Also I reckon keeping the opponent in his own half and pressing him with all of your squad is better defence than sitting back.

Arsenal remains Arsenal. If there is one side, that I am cool with to run away with a lead in the league, it is them. I have never seen such a collection of flashy fair-weather players who suck in crunch time except the national teams of Argentina and Germany maybe.

Last season this fixture was a mess. Unworthy pitch and a ridiculous penalty made us lose. This time it will be different apart from one thing: We completely dominated them in midfield and we will again. I think even a Essien-Lampard pivot could handle those lousy Romanians. Hence we should go out ---------Cech Azpi-Luiz-Terry-Cole ------Rami-Lamps--- Oscar---Mata--Willian ----------Torres-------- and just put them to sleep. . I know we don't like Oscar on the wing, but they will rotate so much, it won't matter. Just press them high up the pitch and bang in the shots. They don't have the pace to hurt us on the counter. It would need much much more than a bad pitch and an even worse ref for them to beat us this time.

Makes me ponder. If we had gone out to beat ManU, instead of parking the bus with a 4-6-0 we would have had a great chance to beat them. Anyway. At least Jose's approach makes it unlikely that we give away easy defeats like those.

this is getting interesting

This game proved that Mourinho still got it. 1) He got Torres fired up again. Since he joined us Torres was bad, not only because he lost a bit of pace and confidence but more important his attitude. Mou has recognized with Torres it is use him or lose him. His finishing is still mediocre but he still has much more pace than most defenders and today he impressively demonstrated that. More importantly he finished good work, which he often contributes. His cross to Oscar would have been asssist if oscar had anticipated it better. Also he won many important freekicks. The sending off wasn't his fault. I don't believe he is back yet, but imagine he is. With an in form Torres we can win it all. 2) At some rare occasions, Mou really mobbed players out of the club. But not Mata. He motivated him and threw him in when he was most needed. So he produced. 3) He has steadied the defense. Apart from some individual errors we have not really conceded goals where we were naive tactically. 4) He got the communication in midfield sorted out. Lamps and Ramy both strive going forward, but the two of them only made 4 runs combined today, which were covered respectively. What remains to be seen is How will his signings Schürrle, Willian, Eto'o turn out? The former two have been purchased for way more money than they are actually worth. Would not be his first expensive transfer flops. Also we still lack goals and should be scoring more from the chances we got.

It was Mikel's man. The Lamps-Mikel pivot does not work we all know that. But we dominated Spurs for 70 minutes. You don't do that with a shit pivot.

Probably it is just another false dawn of Torres Mazacar is as many said still our best offensive lineup. But that Ramires-Lampard pivot which was unrightfully slashed so much has actually been pretty good. They absolutely had Paulinho, Dembele in their pocket.