Magic Lamps

Yup. he is fine, but he committed 2 dangerous and unncecessary turnovers, which proves his passing and vision is actually not that prefect. Whereas he is great to calm the play and regain posession he is always a little to leisure in these situations. It is natural team mates laud each other but i would not derive my view of of a player on accoutn of that. I think Modric&Mikel would be a nearly perfect double pivot for example, but most double pivot cominations including either Mikel or Ramires lack dribbling and passing prowess .

RDM you could tell always had a plan, Rafa is just a blind chicken that surprisingly has got sth right. I bet everyone would have either started Hazard or sent him in in the 2nd half, so no genius about that.

Things I have learned today. a)I agree the Mikel-Ramires is our best pivot for these kind of big games against teams that play fast, direct football like City & Utd. Nonetheless, the Rami-Mikel pivot can only be a stopgap with the limitations Mikel got in running and passing and rambo got in skill and passing, we have to replace them. .Awful from Cech at the first goal, some alarming signs from him this season, maybe it is not too early to call back Courtois.... c)2nd goal can always happen, Luiz minorly at fault, cos he either has o leave it or clear it, both he could have done without that detrimental consequences. Luiz+Cahill simply both are too error prone, but Ivanovic is not innocent either + Terry is declining (still he has to play these games). I feel we need to BUY another CB s.o. really reliable here. d).We probably the best team in the league technically but there are some players who simply have to work on their basic skills. Ramires and Moses are only in their team because of their physical attributes but it is never too late to work on its weaknesses. It's not they are too bad technically completely, as they boht have their moments, but both have to work on their technical relaiblility. e).Dave (yet) and Demba Ba are actually not that good. f) Lamps as a sub would be far more valuable in this match than from the beginning. Imagine we started Mikel and would have thrown in Lamps instead of Torres, we would have had a much bigger chance of getting that winning goal. He should start big matches against teams like Bayern, Barca or Arsenal where his experience, organisation and distribution from deep is more valuable than cover from Mikel or running from Ramires (in the pivot) g) Hazard, Mata are so classy when the team is defending like Utd today, the world will be stunned next year when we can unleash them in even better form under a better manager, hopefully in the CL

what a goal by hazard, suddenly we can do this

need a goal: bring on a defensive for an goalscoring midfielder

our finishing is completely off

Utd look set to make a new record of turnovers, but mena re not committing forward at all

Utd give the ball away every couple of minutes, but we are not clever enough to capitalize on that

German commentator letting the rip over SAFs ref hypocrisy, rightly so, so.o. speaks about that in the public for once

shit simulant Hernandez

too wasteful from us, even though Utd are vulnerable at the backa s much as we are

fuck hernandez again. sas sson as carricks ball floated in i knew this was gonna go in. wtf does cech there?

2 of these were scored from blatant offside positions.

it was meant ironicially

yeah, Rooney in the double pivot.

lol. I guarantee u, u will be the one to fuck off.

But you are quite convincing in you role as angry, retarded, Romanian farmer.And no it makes no difference. Zenden is a Romanian fool is the same as Zenden is a foolish Romanian. Just says that u are Romanian and a fool. + I did not really hear anything of your "atmosphere". Maybe it was not loud enough for the microphones. When u go to Stamford Bridge u still have a better atmosphere. When you don't care what 5 people u do not know think of you, why are you trying to point sth out to them? We do not care about your team no one has ever heard of, we do not care about this game, we do not care about the competition, and we do not care about you calling us stereotyping and insulting. And if u want I can also call u all retarded Romanian farmers +any adjectives u wish is that enough for u to stop spaming the forum?

yeah, he will fly passed him. We probably needed a coproduction of the Sun and that clown to construct such an abject sentence. wonder what fly passed him. Actually it happens many flies pass me every day. That is just because flies are so damn small and fast and i do not care about them passing me. But if Bucharest fielded flys they surely had an advantage cos they do not get stuck in the swamp they call pitch. Coincidentially it is also their natural habitat so of course they had an advantage. This result has nothing to do with Chelsea or with Lamps being to slow or with a player no one has ever heard of. our player simply did not care about this match. If they wanted to win this joke of a competition, they would smash this shit site with Lamps scoring a hattrick, but it is simply not worth the effort. This clown should shut up or he provides us with a reason to actually put in a bit of effort and drive them back into the caves they have come from.

What did I start? Did I offend u personally. Did I say you are a retarded farmer? U might make one of yourself by bitching around here but if you would call a stadium full of Germans retarded German farmers I would not give a fuck. And as I stated before, i did no intend to offend you or Romanians in general, but if you feel offended by that, I do not care, because in that case it is you problem being a hypersensitive pussy, nothing more.

Never going to happen. Rooney is a classy player, but i would not want us to go for him. Rooney means trouble and it is improbable our next manager would be as patient with him as Ferguson. Chelsea is a middle-class club and that is not only history. Most of our players have their A-levels or equivalent, are predominantly good-looking, groomed and cultivated individuals. Now look at Rooney. He has always come across as brutish, scruffy, repellent chav, probably the ugliest man in English football next to Tevez and Ferdinand. So he is a perfect fit for the Liverpool/Manchester sinkhole and their proletarian clubs and clientel. He will never come here, i am quite sure he will go to spain if he leaves Utd.

Yeah, sorry, u are so civilized and advanced you come to a forum and the first thing you do is to try to insult its members, that is just so mature and mannerly.

What was a bigger blunder by Roman. Buying Torres or hiring Benitez? On the one hand Torres has been doing his damage since 2 years and cost 50m, still we won the CL in his time. Rafa has cost us 2 titles in 2 months, relegated us from 2nd to 4th but has cost not that much. (OMG it feels so sick that we even have to pay our scourges)

when will you realize than "u can ask anyone" statements are no arguements. Even extremely successfull coaches like Guardiola and great players like xavi have talked shit and only because they have a subjective oppinion it does not mean it can't be wrong. Ferguson and Trappatoni are also is great coaches, still 80% of what they say is bullshit. When you see these individual awards there are many succesfull players and coaches who give their opinion so it is not subjective any more but intersubjective which is far more valuable from an epistemological point of view. When I see Lamps has won 39 of major and minor awards and Scholes only 7 minor awards, this is quite a statement. other than "u can ask bla bla bla", "neutral would pck", "if u ask all the other great midfielders bla bla" , which are only your wishi washi impressions.

Well maybe it is because I have only been in football since 2004 and Scholes has been a marginal note in the 9 years since then but I have never seen him as anything even close to Lamps and analyzing his achievements, statistics and highlight reels i still do not see anything he is better at. watch this One of Lamps's strenghts has been his long range passing, I do not see anyone who is better at it. He still plays 70 yard pinpoint passes every game.

nope. my post is somehow not complete. I meant i had to dig really deep to actually find soem awards scholes has won. he has been voted into the team of the decade of 1993-2002, Lamps has been player of the decade 2000-2009. Lamps has also won 39 individual awards to Scholes 7. Lamps also won 4 times player of the month, 3 times pfa team of the year to scholes's 2, Lamps has won silver award in european and world player of the year, world xi and countless other awards scholes can only dream of. That is why all in all Lamps beats scholes and gerrard in terms of all relevant statistics and individual awards. Lampard has been massively underrated in terms of individual awards throughout the years and still has collected almost 6 times as much as scholes has.