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Getting to the point where we need Ramires fit, or to use Remy on the wing, such is the contribution of Willian as well as Oscar, Schrulle and Salah. It's down to Hazard and Fabregas to create everything

Why is Azpilicueta at lb, he cant attack and is struggling defensively; Ivanovic is looking as awkward at rb. Cahill's been poor for a while, and there's too little pace with him Terry+Matic

Way things are going we aren't even going to be in contention for the league soon

Could have had a couple more

cunt

Pretty shit for Remy not to even be on the bench, but I doubt he's too fussed about playing against Derby. We could easily win this cup and I think Jose is targeting it to get some silverware earlier on.

I wish we were the best team in Europe

Real, Bayern, Atletico through easily. I think we'll go through much more easily then we did last year. Everyone will be hoping for the winner of Basel-Porto and Arsenal-Monaco next round; can't see any upsets elsewhere

yellow card for not being a pussy

Might as well shut down the academy so we have more £ to spend on players

Why mention that RLC will feature and bring him to the press conference if you aren't going to give him a decent amount of minutes

One loss isn't a problem but losing these kinds of games became a pattern last season. It's very difficult to beat a team who sits back, has pace and looks to counter; we've had a lot of success doing such. One option would be to sit back more, but we'd probably have too many draws. Ideally we'd have a striker like Aguero who can create a goal out of nothing and in tight spaces. I think we need to play with more width, Azpilicueta isn't an attacking fullback and often looks uncomfortable coming forward and has to cut back onto his right; it's time for Luis who was arguably the best all round left back in Europe to start. A natural winger who stays wide like Navas would be massively useful in these games, we've bought a few pacey wingers over the past few seasons but they all like to cut/drift inside, which is fine if you're as good as Robben and actually produce some goals from it, if you're not scoring goals you're just further congesting the midfield. Finally we could work on how to be more of a threat from set pieces and crosses, when he came on Drogba was winning almost every header, we have a big team. Much of Atletico's success last season in turning draws into wins was due to how many goals they scored from set pieces.

Some frustrating refereeing and bad luck, but we need to find a way to beat these sides. There's no width in the team and it makes sense to start playing more direct. Glad the unbeaten nonsense will stop, not glad City will be 3 points behind us after Everton bend over for them. We could've done with Ramires running and power in the side, perhaps a 442 with him on the right next match.

Sanchez rescues Arsenal again, they rely so much on him as City do Aguero

can relax now, so good having three strikers scoring goals

I think Luis would be useful to bring on, give us more width and crossing ability from the left; also very good at nicking the ball high up the pitch

Fabregas been hitting those passes all night 5-0! what a leap!

3-0 fair score. city losing now

Should be our no.1 target if the buyout is true, midfield trio of him, Fabregas and Matic would dominate; plus Costa would benefit. Let one of Schrulle/Salah go, then we have some competition for the attacking midfield roles.We'd also finally have someone good at set pieces.

The same. Bale was winning games for Tottenham single-handedly with his long-shots out of nothing and freekicks, he might be somewhat one-dimensional but it's probably a dimension our current attacking midfielders don't have. Wouldn't like to see us pay much over £50m though

Still disappointed we didnt get Aguero, we were linked with him for ages. He's scary good and if we don't win the league I think he'll be a big reason why

Zouma wtf

only 2 minutes added on...fuck off

Their goalkeeper looks so comfortable with everything

Hazard doing his best not to put the ball in the net, this isnt our night