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And people thought mourinho was stupid to make mata improve his defensive side. Mourinho is not naïve like pelegrini and would never allow a 3 vs 2 midfield, never. That's what puts him above benitez, pellegrini and many other good managers

He has flaws but, I'll take this ramires over any box to box midfielder in europe now

That's the key sentence. It felt like hazard was slowing down the tempo instead of speeding it up by attempting to dribble the fullback

Serious joke. He left out his best defender zabaleta and made his substitutions too late. I don't know whether he thought going all out attack will be enough to score goals but at the end they didn't create anything at all only 3 shots on target. We were far better attacking with only one striker

They are all naïve. Pellegrini was so naïve too to use 2 strikers against bayern, which means 2 people that don't defend against guardiola who dominates the middle, is a horrible and naïve decision.

I don't know why, he is just like aguero and he's very good at jumping in the air for crosses I wanted us to buy him 2 seasons ago but its too late now though

Chelsea were far better against bayern. Poor from city. You can't play two strikers against bayerns midfield, they'll murder you

Bayern munich vs Mancity Mancity's home form won't help them here because they won't hold the ball at all

Thank heavens that we don't have to depend on extra minutes in extra time to win matches.

He created most chances after mata last season compared to our whole team. And he can dribble, very skillful with good work-rate. His ball control is as good as hazard and he is stronger than all our AM's I just wish his fitness levels come back and we'll all see his true form

We'll be so creative with him, he doesn't even need to adapt much. Mourinho and klopp both play counter attacking so it'll be easy for him to fit.

Its strong, but no one can deny that arsenal are looking more dangerous than the past 8 years. So people will try to find a reason for that much change and they can only come up with ozil signing.

The thing is mikel and lampard are completely different players, so it could be a bigger change than we think. I'm not sure because last season mikel-ramires was the best, but we've played so well against a strong team and a smaller team so mourinho might be reluctant to change it and will try to get some proper chemistry between the players

I have this fear deep inside me. But his technique for passes is too good to just see gone. So I'll rather we loan him out in january to a top 10 team in the league, so that he can get proper game time for the worldcup. And I want a team where he's not the best player so that he can get used to a team that doesn't pass to him everytime as the only creative player of the team.

Double post

Yes ramires needs to improve his first touch especially, but I'll take him in his form now over any box to box in the world right now. The problem with lampard is that although we know that mikel-ramires is usually our best pivot, but right now we have played fantastic with the same group of players since tottenham 2nd half so it'll be hard for mourinho to change a winning formula

He got tired towards the end of the first half, so he started giving some strange passes and after resting at half time he got far better till the 70th minute when he was completely exhausted

I said it before that he has figured out most of his starting line up, people like mikel and cahill are in big trouble now

I think it was to azpi. His technique and first touch is definitely world class.

The guy was very good at long passes, spreading the play. But he did well for a place that is not his true position

First assist. Needs more game time to get fit faster

Who was his partner in the pivot for zenith?? Number 20?

Covered the most distance on the pitch in the first half. Fantastic attitude

It was fantastic from juan. A definite improvement and its making our pivot look better than ever since spurs 2nd half.

Schurrle showed him how to attack a right back.