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They aren't peforming consistently, your right. But I was just pointing out that the attacking 3 behind dortmund are better finishers than any of our six attacking midfielders. But our attackers are underpeforming though, no denying that.

He should let him come from the bench more often but anyways there r more matches in the next two weeks. Surely he'll even start some matches now

@bold, its like he's in my mind

Just prevent a few words from being posted. For example Cunt Faggot Idiot Stupid Fool Foolish Mad Crazy And so on(you guys will find more to ban as you see them). We'll probably not enjoy going at other opposition players/teams but it'll be worth it.

Mou plays fast counter attacking football that is ideal for strikers/wingers. So he will fix this. Our game has been too slow for years, so just like spain is so slow, our strikers will suffer like spain strikers. Benitez actually evolves his game around the attacking midfielder, (gerrad, mata, now hamsik) So its actually mourinho(especially in his 2nd seasons) and klopp and scolari (brazil) that play fast(intercept and counter) game that is perfect for strikers.

It would have solved chelsea and manutds problems in one sweep. Manutd are not creating anything this season and chelsea are misfiring in goal. It would have bettered both teams. But my love for mata can't imagine him behind vanpersie, I would have an instant stomach bug seeing him play for them.

Shelvey has one goal, one assist for both teams and a key pass for liverpool #involved

Its not feeling funny again, every single attacker that leaves chelsea looks class in their next team. Torres will probably be world class if he leaves. Maybe our team, built for only midfielders is causing this.

Have we given liverpool a strong challenge for the title by letting them have moses and sturridge??

Sturridge, marin, now moses argh All our average attackers looking fantastic elsewhere. Frustrating. At least we got mata

Please jose gotta play him against basel, he'll suit his style perfectly. speeding up our transitions with his quick pass thinking is key. Our tempo increased against everton and MVG is that sort of player. I think he should play beside mikel. But I know lampard will start against basel since he didn't against everton.

It must be the injury that's disturbing his peformance Last season, he had 5 - 6 dribbles a match and was fouled more times per match. This season, his dribbles have drastically reduced to 2 dribbles a match. For playing 90mins everytime, that's not good enough. I just pray mourinho rests him, so that he recovers fully from the injury Ashely coles poor attacking peformance might also be a direct factor in this apart from the minor injury problem

for the bolded part. I've said it before, mourinho just got our team, so he starts by sorting out our defence so we dont concede goals silly, and then he is now focusing on the attack which happened against everton. Only finishing stopped us from scoring 3 or more in that match, patience guys patience.

Its pissing me off that mourinho doesnt want to give MVG a chance. We had good cohesion in the preseason games when he played. Maybe because it was preseason, we may have underestimated his impact and those tackles he puts in for the team. He should play this match, we'll control the midfield(both defensively and offensively) better with him because of his quick thinking and passing.

Aubameyang and mkhitaryan finishing is light years better than any of our attacking midfielders. Light years, they score most of their chances. So thats an unfair comparison, because klopp's tactics focuses mostly in the attack and all attackers who play for dortmund fluorish

He never really established himself, he was just a good cover but failed to form any good CB partnership with anyone. Sokratis replaced him and sokratis was one of the best defenders in the bundesliga last season so he is a massive improvement on santana.

Very true, just look at dortmunds stadium behind the post. The atmosphere is so scary that its practically cheating opposition players

Is that lucozade what gives ramires all that energy?? Will have to get some

I think we should do this more often, it clears things up. We would win 9 out of 10 matches like that everytime.

shoot on the ground shoot on the ground shoot on the ground "yes mourinho"

Exactly, we created more chances than any other match we played this season. Its annoying that we didnt score but some of us are just overreacting because we didnt score. If we scored some of our chances and we ended up losing 2-1 or 3-2 people wont complain this much

Exactly, we created more chances than any other match we played this season. Its annoying that we didnt score but some of us are just overreacting because we didnt score. If we scored some of our chances and we ended up losing 2-1 or 3-2 people wont complain this much

Where have i been when there is a thread like this? Dont kill me

Exactly. Look at dortmund and mourinho's 2011/2012 laliga winning madrid Those are the perfect teams i love. no passing around till i sleep bullshit but quick tempo and high rate counter attacking football. I have fallen in love with dortmunds style of play, theyre fantastic. Their possession overalll average is not more than 59% but they are so entertaining with their counter attacking football and wingers who can score and pass too.

Exactly. Very good observation on the match. i noticed it too, thats why i went on a rant about hazard on his thread. How eto and ramires created more chances than our "creative" midfielders was baffling.