kellzfresh

Isco has a potential to be like zidane. He has that eye for pass, close ball control, occasional elegance, strength on the ball, shot power, two footed, skills and is still very young. He will shine more than people expect him to, I just know it. If we didn't have so much attacking midfielders, at the begining of last season I wanted us to snatch him for his earlier release clause of 15mil euros..

He really needs to be faster in releasing the ball. He ruined a great counter attack chance in the 81st minute, after the period of pressure from milan by holding on to the ball for too long

We played acmilans best team in the first half and their 2nd team in the 2nd half. So the peformance in the first will carry more weight for me. Mou please place KDB and mata together next.

Drogba makes all our strikers look like babies... That first touch for the second goal was just Wow! please lukaku u gotta practice on your first touc. before the season starts

He has a great first touch, ball control and shot. And he's very calm and composed on the ball. But its just preseason so let's not put much pressure on him

True, at least we won't be hearing from the worst of the lot for a while (Qphahaha)

nice fans there

Very good post defending mikel, think the best for a few pages now. But what you stated above is directly placing the blame on mata for not being mobile enough to cover the space in the midfield? Which is why we had to play long balls since mikel had no one to pass to except the CenterBacks?

Who scored for monaco? Watching didier dominate porto just shows how much difference in class he has compared to our current strikers

He shows signs of that legend on your profile picture

oh god, the torres curse

Glad to see you admitting he's a good player, I thought you were being suprisingly harsh on him before...

I hope he has a better season, I still think he is a natural CM and not a DM. He might thrive next to essien if essien stays back as the main DM.

I'm not comparing mata's vision to oscar. Mata is a master in that area. What I'm saying is that if you play football, you will understand that putting your energy doing defensive work can make your attacking capabilities reduce. And now in football even attackers are required to put in some defensive work, manzuckic replacing gomez because of this was a perfect example. Brazil won't be able to defeat spain if BOTH the striker and AM decide to forget defensive duties and relax when their not in possesion. I remember a lot of people complaining how mancity bullied us through th middle and it was looking like a 3 vs 2 midfield. Well most times against bigger teams with good midfield,( juve, mancity) a very hard working person in the center might prevent us from conceding more goals.

lol people criticizing oscar. Oscar is an attacking midfielder with one of the highest work rate in world football. It will be easy for him to get more assists if he just decides to forget about the team defending and stay up front and reserve his energy wasted from marking players. Thats the true reason why cronaldo and messi succeed so well, they have 0 defensive contribution and all their stamina is used in attacking, if oscar decides to use more of his attacking energy to put in more defensive effort for the team, it doesnt mean he's not good enough

MVG = Ballack

Marko van ginkel was very good as usual, moses was magnificent. Great goal from oscar. His energy and MVG's energy were missed in the 2nd half. Hazard doesnt like friendlies Ba and Lukaku's link up play MVG-Ramires pivot looked great, but Ramires on the wing is still = -1

Van-ginkel or ramires is a must in cm. We cant afford to be too slow now..

wonderful

Bitee?

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Mourinho caught hazard peeping at Eva's ass?

All i want is KDB + Mata in a team and then KDB + Oscar in a team, the link up play would be massive

Great to know mourinho is desperate to get what i want out of hazard, MORE GOALS!!!

Gundogan is a beast. Reus is a fantastic dribbler, very underestimated. Guardiola played without a DM and was ran ragged by dortmunds high pressing style.