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Not true, rooney can play behind lukaku perfectly. Both will play a lot of games

Taking things too serious again. This forum can be a bore sometimes

Perfect understanding of the situation. We are playing a lot of games this period. No need to get burned out attacking and running at all cost. We were conceding too many goals from corners so we limit the opponent to one corner all night. Doctors orders...

I guess so, but they lost some 25-30mil by not qualifying to the next stage. That's some money we can provide for them

Juve didnt qualify for champs league knock out. They lost money for that. A cool 20mil bid for pogba in January??

No, i want Arsenal to lose. Its high time they drop from the top and this is the last chance before the new year. Being top in the new year is a good omen in the league. It shows who are the true title contenders

The bayern vs mancity game just reminded me of us against stoke city. Bayern dominated the first half, city score one and get into the game and bayern miss chances to kill it off. 2nd half city get a cheap penalty (like petr cech mistake) and they are level. Bayern push forward more and concede a third on the counter. Ribery playing like hazard sometimes, so many dribbles but no shots. Reminding them why robben is so important. Glad bayern lost, they were getting too arrogant. Mancity rested their players for arsenal so a win-win for us. Let's hope we turn up today and top our group. Finishing the game off early would be nice so that KDB can get some game time.

Maybe because we know now that everton are a possession team, and lukaku's first experience in a good one. By next season, we dont have any excuse not to play him after he has proved himself in two different styles.

His close ball control under pressure was hazard like. But you could see that the defenders never had time to stop that because they were occupied by lukaku through out

Thats the disadvantage of a possession team like everton. Sometimes they just linkup play and it isolates the striker. But because lukaku has presence than our strikers, he occupies the two centerbacks at all times and leaves the AM more space. Thats why Barkley had a great game.

Priority no 1. A DM, that can pass, shoot, 6ft tall, and can tackle

Thats what is even more frustrating

I know it we've been bad at set pieces but, oscar doesnt play two matches and we concede 6 goals. Statistics can be a bitch sometimes

The fact we cant finish off games early has made KDB not even get a chance to come in 60mins or earlier into matches. He would have had enough time to stake his claim. Sad for him, if he cant play on wednesday, any hope he has that he will play is over

Needs to shoot more. You cant have 13 dribbles and shoot few times like that. But i guess he was a little tired

Lukaku made a lot of runs against arsenal. Unfortunately the midfielders especially mirallas didnt look up a lot of times to spot those runs. The last chance he created for himself was great, out muscled arteta and got a chance but he shot over though. I like how he makes a lot of runs behind the defenders, it keeps the defenders so occupied and the midfielders play better. His situation is just like mata, mata has some disadvantages, but at the end of the day we create far more with him playing. Lukaku has a lot of disadvantages but he can assure you 20 EPL goals if he plays here, which means we will win more with him than what we have now. He's proved himself in westbrom, a counter attack team and now is doing so in everton a possession team. He's in perfect condition to come back to us and do some damage.

Everton were holding the ball well without troubling schezny and arsenal get time and almost score 3 times If arsenal score first AGAIN, game over. Everton need to score first

Yea those are shit

Arsenal have the best defense in england. They rarely have LONG spells of opposition dominating them compared to the rest of us. They'll win everton in my opinion, only us and mancity can hold them down.

Its not as if he is so pathetic, its just that he has three bad weaknesses. He cant pass and he is too small in size for a box to box CM, and he cant score unless its a 1 on 1 with the keeper. He makes up for it with i think the best tackling in the league though, but......

Thats another problem, because of ramires small size, mourinho will never buy a small CM like pirlo. It becomes too weak aerially, but if ramires had vidal's size or ballacks size, it will be easy.

I noticed this too about ramires. He has great tackling, insane stamina, speed and 1 on 1 finishing. He is our best cm. But his disadvantages makes him a far cry from people's best CM. He cant pass, too inconsistent at it, and he is too tiny to help us aerially. Because he is our best CM, we cant even go out and buy small playmakers like verrati, modric or cabaye or pirlo to play beside him because it will render our pivot too physically weak. But he is still our best CM because of his tackling rate.

Eto lost the ball that lead to that last goal, he kept on attempting stupid passes and flicks that never came off. I lost count how many times he lost the ball when he came on azpi fell down for the second goal, and more importantly made walters look like gareth fukin bale. He was owned by walters cech gave them an xmas present for the first goal. In fact southampton, sunderland and stoke have had 7 shots on target combined and we've conceded 7. Saying it has been a disaster is an understatement.

Eto for Schurrle was the moment i knew we wont win anymore. Schurrle was injured but we lost the midfield after that. Cant blame mourinho, how could he expect cahill, azpi, cech and especially eto to be complete shit

Eto for Schurrle was the moment i knew we wont win anymore. Schurrle was injured but we lost the midfield after that. Cant blame mourinho, how could he expect cahill, azpi, cech and especially eto to be complete shit