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Even if we park the bus. Some of those players will be able to pass the ball out and hold ball under pressure. We can't do it, except hazard who knows how to win fouls for us, Willian can hold the ball but ends up passing it to the wrong person. Hazard and Matic are the only players in our team with this attribute of holding balls under pressure, winning fouls to stop pressure, dribbling out of pressure and passing accurately. We used to have essien, ballack, Drogba deco and anelka when we won the league under Ancelloti. That's 5 midfielders/attackers you have to foul to collect the ball off. We have just 2 now.

He'll replace oscar in the starting line-up. He's quality. I don't know why you keep missing that part of my statement

Moutinho would be a perfect fabregas replacement sub and could even take Oscar's place in the starting line. Had to edit since people can't read a complete sentence

Their matches are boring when they are supposed to hold the ball against lesser teams. Against bigger teams their style is good.

See how well Monaco were passing the ball under pressure. I don't know how we can't. If its not hazard, Matic or Willian the rest kick the ball away or lose it when a player chases them.

Europe has moved from having walcotts and Sterling, to having people with the combination of ball control, passing, dribbling and vision. If you don't have 4 players in your starting line-up with this quality, you can only park the bus to win the Champions League.

Europe has moved from having walcotts and Sterling, to having people with the combination of ball control, passing, dribbling and vision. If you don't have 4 players in your starting line-up with this quality, you can only park the bus to win the Champions League.

We too are not as good as everyone thinks. Once you have players in your first eleven that can't pass the ball well or control the ball with a perfect first touch, you are not on barca, Madrid, and bayern level. If we aspire to reach that level, we won't accept the level of our first team quality now. This season we should just concentrate on the league and carling cup, next season get pogba and reus so that we won't have people who can't give 5 yard passes consistently in our line-up.

I think its just in the league

Lmao

I think we should play Ake in midfield. Thats the only person that is natural in defensive midfield role. We need one in this match, even Bradford destroyed us without one

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But USA are looking for world domination. The good thing is that they are not using the Hitler means to expand. What is being used is to strengthen economic ties, get partners in high positions, occupy high positions in all organizations (UN, WHO, G16, IMF, world Bank) etc. So adding this with huge media propaganda, they bend every decision to their favor. Like Israel can kill everyone in Gaza and still look innocent than Russia due to close USA friendship. USA can get away with anything but other countries will be punished for it. For example, Usa can invade Syria and Libya and say they are providing humanitarian aid to displaced people in a war they started in the first place by hiring crowds to start propaganda against the leaders(same tactics that was used in Ukraine) but Russia can't invade Crimea to provide aid to 95% Russians. Another example, USA can hack into citizens of Europe phones, including the German chancellor Merkel and eavesdrop on anything they say like Snowden said but we get to sweep it under the rug because no one wants to get on USA bad side. But the day northkorea hacked Sony, with no real proof tbh, USA turned off Internet in their country for 12hours and put sanctions on them. Even Choulo19' post in the first post of this page on how USA recently hacked simcard making company in Netherlands but we're sweeping it under the rug too. This is even worse than what they said north Korea did but I'm not seeing any sanctions. USA can put drones above every country including Pakistan, Iran, Libya through Nato whom they control, but no other countries (who don't belong to Nato) are permitted to fly over with their fighter gets. Again another example of not playing by the same rules. It's all propaganda, getting into the people's minds by constant media pressure. It works I have to admit, just like when you hear a music you don't like but begin to like it because you see it on TV everytime and everybody's singing it. I don't hate USA but I'm not naive, I know the new forms of domination and they are fantastic at it.

I can't remember the last time I begged for mikel play a match this much. No combination in the pivot without Matic or mikel makes me safe. Tottenham press as we used to do last season, fabregas will suffer in the pivot. Mourinho has to train costa to jump for aerial balls and win balls for us high up the pitch so that we can build from there when being pressured by tottenham pressing.

Has Matic, fabregas, hazard, Oscar, Willian and Costa played 2-3 games in a row this year??? We're also lacking chemistry. Beginning of the season we never rotated.

Outrageous the number of decisions that have gone against us.But we'll still win the league, I have no doubt. 87points is all we need

None of them are innocent. USA want more world influence and will propaganda their way to get anything they want. For example what the USA did in Iraq and Afghanistan is 10 times worse than anything Russia has done in Ukraine and Jordan. But Russia is seen as more of the bad guys by the world because of very good media propaganda by USA. Even Israel killed 20 times more in Gaza, but because they are friends of USA, we won't hear in the media the number of people including UN workers they killed. They all want world domination, people are being naive in thinking there's a holy side. It won't surprise me if USA are the ones who supplied ISIS (calling them "opposition" when it suited their propaganda) to remove Assad from Syria and gaddafi from Libya. Even destroying the leadership in Iraq and Libya so the weapons supplied to the army now are in the hands of ISIS. Now ISIS have all the weapons to cause terror.

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I hope he picks up form. Since his assisting rate has reduced, we haven't played as well this year. He is so important to our gameplay and this bad patch hopefully will stop sooner rather than later.

Only check back red card decisions and penalties. That's all

If we get him back, it should be to replace oscar during the second half of every season.

2 stonewall penalties for Southampton in this match. Incredible

At the beginning of the season we broke the record for number of points and goals after 12 games. You clutching onto straws saying we didn't play well sounds silly.

We didn't care about defending imo. We attacked far more than we are doing now. It was risky because courtois had to pull out more saves even against small teams but after playing manutd and drawing with Maribor we changed. We're no longer averaging 3 goals a game and even city has caught up with us on goals scored. The positive is we can concentrate on defense and probably do better in champions League than I thought, but fabregas is no longer having the freedom he used to, he's more tactical in his positioning like many of us wanted but it has cost us attacking wise.

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