Magic Lamps

Why ramires? I'd rather have lampard on here.

I have no sympathy for Mata at all in this case. I like him, he is an amazing player and should defnitely feature more. He might have been player of the season twice but in fairly average squads. Mata prospers when the team plays for him. But in big matches, we can't do this, because he is not good enough. Drogba and Lampard used to win us the big matches when they were our best players. Mata can't do this. Ok he won us games vs Spuds and Utd. But come on. those were not vintage sides either. When Drogs&Lamps where in charge we were up there with the best, we could dominate the best ManU of all times, we beat Barcelona on various occasions, we slaughtered Bayern Munich. All other teams where way below us. With Mata in charge as our star player we did not really win those 3 titles courtesy of him. We defended, had Drogs&the old core + some decent share of luck. Still Mata assisted in all three finals. And here is my point. Playing for Mata sets a ceiling for the team. We will win against most teams in the league but we are still way below those teams who got similar players to Mata just much much better. but we can play with Mata as one of our best players when he adapts. Mourinho wants him to do so. It is not some ludicrous conspiracy aka "Mou hates Spaniards" . Mata is only a bit part player for Spain. Xavi, Iniesta are better. Mata is a better attacker than both. a big part of the two barca player's game is that when they can not only hold the ball extremely well with their agility but they also can get it back immediately. When tehy lose the ball the close down the defender . mata never does this. Even Silva play over Mata for Spain. Just because he is that bit more physical and energetic to defend with the team. No Spain AM is a particularly good tackler. But they are good defensively cos their intelligent defensive movement always pressurizes the opponent. Mata can be offensively brilliant and defensively leisure at good teams like Valencia and the Chelsea of the last two years. But in Mou's title aspiring Chelsea he can't.

I think most people with some knowledge of the game were aware that Rooney still is a special player. That is why Utd did not let him go. All those decline comments only motivated him even more. Wonder whether his phantom injuries in preseason were real though.

Maybe but our B-Team is 100x better today than it was back then. We will have players like Willian, Lampard, Mata fresh and rested. I appreciate all those words of caution, but I'd have my money on a demolition. We have to start scoring at some point with the players we got ann an opponent like this is exactly what we need.

City put Utd to the sword. Because they can. Because they are the only ones who can do this. Utd are nothing without RvP. We can only win the league vs the small teams cos we do not stand a chance vs a motivated City side.

Just went to election. To get and throw in you ballot you did not even need to show you ID. The ballot was ticked with a pencil. I do not think anyone of the politicians wants to fake that election but it would be easy for random people to just erase the cross and make a new one. Now i am tired. Enough participation for 4 years^^ Btw some dinosaur asked me: "you are first-time voter, right?" -"Yeah, so you must be last-time voter" true. most of their fans are just opportunist. Their stadium is even more silent than ours most times. You only hear the away fans.

On his day Mata is one of the best no.10 in the world. But it is true. Real has Isco, Modric. Barca does not even feature a no.10 int heir system, Bayern have an army of no.10s just like us, City has Silva, even Arsenal got Özil and Tottenham have bought every half-decent player. The only place where he would be more than needed is ManU, but we won't sell him to them, cos they did not give us Rooney. So literally there is only PSG who could use AND afford him. that is why i can see him stay here beyond January. We will have enough games for him to feature in. Thing is i do not see him succed as RW. He is a no10 and nothing else. But with Mourinho who always wants his CAM to help out defensively I can even see KDB starting over him in that position. Out of all our six AMs he is probably the worst winger but the best no.10. No idea how Mou can overlook that. With all three maestros playing, which is IMO still our best offensive lineup, the rotation would eradicate the problem of who is no.10 cos all of them would switch positions. Anyopposition can deal with only the flanks switching, but three players of this technical calibre rotating will drive any D to madness. Rami-Mike should offer enough defensive protection to unleash mazacar again.

I am positive we will see a lineup along these lines: -----Schwarzer---- Azpi-Kalas-Luiz-Bert ---MvG---Lamps---- KDB--Mata--Willian -------Ba------------- which should be enough to ensure a high-scoring victory. Random fact: Swinden are one of only three clubs to ever win the the world's heaviest trophy, the Dubonnet Cup weighing in at more than 50kg.

I think Ivanovic and Cahill were class today. Cole offers almost nothing going forward these days, really should give Bertrand a shot, he is a tleast a bit quicker than Ash. Our wings let us down today. Neither Schürrle nor Hazard really did anything dangerous. Eto'o again was a good worker but did not really get a tthe end of too many crosses, maybe not the right striker for our type of game.

I think Ivanovic and Cahill were class today. Cole offers almost nothing going forward these days, really should give Bertrand a shot, he is a tleast a bit quicker than Ash. Our wings let us down today. Neither Schürrle nor Hazard really did anything dangerous. Eto'o again was a good worker but did not really get a tthe end of too many crosses, maybe not the right striker for our type of game.

I think Ivanovic and Cahill were class today. Cole offers almost nothing going forward these days, really should give Bertrand a shot, he is a tleast a bit quicker than Ash. Our wings let us down today. Neither Schürrle nor Hazard really did anything dangerous. Eto'o again was a good worker but did not really get a tthe end of too many crosses, maybe not the right striker for our type of game.

I think Ivanovic and Cahill were class today. Cole offers almost nothing going forward these days, really should give Bertrand a shot, he is a tleast a bit quicker than Ash. Our wings let us down today. Neither Schürrle nor Hazard really did anything dangerous. Eto'o again was a good worker but did not really get a tthe end of too many crosses, maybe not the right striker for our type of game.

I think Ivanovic and Cahill were class today. Cole offers almost nothing going forward these days, really should give Bertrand a shot, he is a tleast a bit quicker than Ash. Our wings let us down today. Neither Schürrle nor Hazard really did anything dangerous. Eto'o again was a good worker but did not really get a tthe end of too many crosses, maybe not the right striker for our type of game.

I think Ivanovic and Cahill were class today. Cole offers almost nothing going forward these days, really should give Bertrand a shot, he is a tleast a bit quicker than Ash. Our wings let us down today. Neither Schürrle nor Hazard really did anything dangerous. Eto'o again was a good worker but did not really get a tthe end of too many crosses, maybe not the right striker for our type of game.

I think Ivanovic and Cahill were class today. Cole offers almost nothing going forward these days, really should give Bertrand a shot, he is a tleast a bit quicker than Ash. Our wings let us down today. Neither Schürrle nor Hazard really did anything dangerous. Eto'o again was a good worker but did not really get a tthe end of too many crosses, maybe not the right striker for our type of game.

shortest crisis ever. Decent win. We don't really gel already but at least we were able to break open a team that parked the bus.

john obi mikel has scored. i cant believe what i have just seen. lets print the t-shirts

what a stop from stockdale

our players really need to learn to dive better

Fulham always make it tough for us. that was a penalty. that was stonewall

why o why Torres?

we lack a decent free kick taker without lamps and mata

This side is much more defensive than what we really should play against Fulham. We can counter anyone to death with that one but it is almost identical to the one that could not break open Everton. Against any team that parks the bus, we should rather play Mata, lamps, KDB and Azpilicueta.

Bucharest are far worse than Basel. Anyway, Mourinho was outfoxed tactically my Murat Yakin, we allowed them far too much space for the 1-1 and the 1-2 was a series of individual mistakes.

I can't believe this. how fuckin useless hazard and mata have been.