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Mata will still drift inside though.

88.8% in all competitions(90.2 in EPL,89.2 in UCL,84.7 in Europa League). Not bad IMO. Mikel's a good squad player and is a good player when u need to grind out results. I agree he's not World-Class but no point in selling him. What does Mikel have to do with calling De Bruyune back? Also De Bruyune's an attacking midfielder. Ramires will keep improving IMO. (I copy/pasted the stat from WhoScored.com so it's in bold)

So I guess it's up to u to improve the shit football broadcasting we see on TV! Make us proud BluesMaster. When's the exam?

What ru studying for? Are university exams now?

The only good thing about this weekend is the match 2morrow. The rest of it is just studying.......

Sell Ramires? Mikel's our only holding midfielder. Regarding Mr Spiegel's post I'm not so sure about the Ivanovic thing since I think he takes a very low salary so why would u want to sell him? I think he has 1 more year in him and after that I think we will still be able to sell him for a good price since Madrid rate him highly. I don't think he even has a big role currently. Lampard has loyalty to the club he will stay even if his wage is lowered. He can even play a huge role in helping youngsters too.

Many of you don't remember that it was us last season who gave City their first defeat!

Oscar and Hazard will have to come and help in the midfield since City don't really have any genuine 'wingers'/

Yes but since City unlike UTD will have attack and have more possession we'll need Ramires' pace for the counter attacks. It didn't work at the Bridge since UTD were happy to give us possession but didn't want the ball to go to Mata,Hazard,Oscar because of their ability on the ball. That's why our only goal came when Mata dropped deep. We need Ramires, Mikel pivot IMO with Ivanovic-Luiz partnership. Unfortunately Cahill will have to sit this one out despite his performance in the previous tie at the Ethiad. I have a question though would a Ramires-Luiz pivot be good? With Cahill and Ivanovic at CB?

Good article again. Rafa's job is to just get the cup and get us 3rd place. Our players just need to keep improving so we can mount a title challenge next season. Lots of poor decision making by the board has severely delayed our transition. This shouldn't happen again! In any good club the transition doesn't cause as many problems as it has here.

ITV

as soon as I saw @Rupert, on the new reply list. I grabbed some popcorn

That ref's useless! But more importantly it's the fact that we can't just kill off games! We used to be gr8 at that!

That ref's useless! But more importantly it's the fact that we can't just kill off games! We used to be gr8 at that!

ANOTHER FREE HEADER! WHT IS THIS DEFENDING! ​ Appalling play!

WHT KIND OF DEFENDING IS THIS! 2 balls in the box and we concede both!

Lamps is at 599 Chelsea games right now! 1 more to reach 600 for Super Frank.

Lamps is at 599 Chelsea games right now! 1 more to reach 600 for Super Frank.

GJ MOSES! Beautiful 1-2! Brilliant play over all.

*facepalm* First Terry gets out muscled and now we concede! #CFC

I agree with u there 100% statistically Xavi and Iniesta have few assists yet they are the one of the best Playmakers in the world now. Iniesta only had a single assist throughout the Euros yet won the player of the tournament award.

Doing the right thing so far.

Exactly deja vu of when he scored against Sunderland (A)

Play the rest of this game at 3/4 pace. Game against City is important

4-1! AGGREGATE!