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No matter how we change players, for mourinho not to have a starting lineup is just bad. Every coach in world football has a starting line up now with the exception of 1 or 2 players, but we changed to 4-3-3 recently, thats like starting preseason all over again

The only thing i can criticize mourinho about is the fact we are soon in december and we dont have a starting lineup. I've never seen this from him before.

ramires needs a rest

Just stop it

JESUS THIS IS HORRIBLE FROM US

And get rid of our ivanovic tinted glasses were wearing now

Did ivanovic put in a good cross or im i blind??

Yeah unfortunately. True, him or pogba. One of the expensive options though

Trust me, mourinho is our manager. I know him well, he wont risk two small people in the pivot. The only reason he plays ivanovic is his height, mourinho will pick a big player beside a small one in the pivot. We can buy the small guys, but it means they play beside mikel... thats the dilema of our pivot issues

Blunder from courtois, zenith score 1-1

Maybe the injuries but i dont think its that serious. But he definately has derossi vision. The problem with options available to fix our pivot is that we are buying who will play beside ramires. Because ramires is small, we cant afford to buy another small person beside him, it will be too weak a pivot. Once we buy a small player, it means it wont be good for us to play ramires because teams will just hoof the ball in the air and our midfield will win zero aerial battles. IMO, The only way to fix this pivot is to buy a deep player who is big and strong in tackles and can send very long passes. There are only few available players like this off the top of my head (witsel, pogba, derossi, thiago motta, xabi alonso, javi martinez) Some are too expensive while some are not available The rest (modric, cabaye, moutinho, gundogan) are too small to play beside ramires unless we play mikel beside them and leave ramires on the bench, then its possible. Then there are some (schneiderlen, matuidi, koke, bender, gustavo) are very strong tacklers but are not known for long passes, we might as well play MVG since he is good at tackling and energy alone As you can see, a genuine option to massively improve our pivot iand fit in our system is very rare. Thats the problem we face

Maybe the injuries but i dont think its that serious. But he definately has derossi vision. The problem with options available to fix our pivot is that we are buying who will play beside ramires. Because ramires is small, we cant afford to buy another small person beside him, it will be too weak a pivot. Once we buy a small player, it means it wont be good for us to play ramires because teams will just hoof the ball in the air and our midfield will win zero aerial battles. IMO, The only way to fix this pivot is to buy a deep player who is big and strong in tackles and can send very long passes. There are only few available players like this off the top of my head (witsel, pogba, derossi, thiago motta, xabi alonso, javi martinez) Some are too expensive while some are not available The rest (modric, cabaye, moutinho, gundogan) are too small to play beside ramires unless we play mikel beside them and leave ramires on the bench, then its possible. Then there are some (schneiderlen, matuidi, koke, bender, gustavo) are very strong tacklers but are not known for long passes, we might as well play MVG since he is good at tackling and energy alone As you can see, a genuine option to massively improve our pivot iand fit in our system is very rare. Thats the problem we face

What do you guys think about thiago motta? http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=z4pxBSmgecs I know he isnt the youngest but he has the vision for passes, height, strength and energy for our pivot. And he would be cheap, and worked with mourinho before.

Not a chance. Many of them left by then

^^^ :doh: :doh:

Yea he didn't do well with luiz. Luiz was the person that gave his all for us, it was a breath of fresh air. I really loved our style of football in the first season, it was glorious. But I think that second season definitely was more than just scape goating luiz and selling deco and ballack. It was just too huge of a difference in our football play like what happened with madrid last season.

Not surprised, the difference between our first season with him and the second season was too large to be normal. It just looked like how mourinho won with madrid 100 points record and the next season quarelled with casilas and it became a freak show

Scored another two last weekend. Improving so rapidly its crazy

We have the best away support in the league IMO

Even with lampard's second goal, hazard made a superb off the ball movement to run for the cross but the defender blocked his shot and lampard scored the rebound. If hazard doesnt make that darting run into the box, we dont score. Thats what i want from him, Ronaldo scores so many goals because of his movement, always runs behind the defender for a cross or pass. If hazard gets this movement, he'll be twice the player he is now.

Trying to predict the daily fail headline

Mata is better with mikel and ramires behind him, but i think lampard made a lot of tackles too. He wasnt as free as your suggesting, hazard was.

dp

Fegurson said it in his autobiography: "When you see the two managers in the dugout, you just know who'll win"

Some off the ball work rate giving mancity the lead