Chelsea are the slowest top team when in possesion. How do we expect to create chances when we are so freaking slow in our buildups. The first half was like mancity were young men and we were old ladies, so freaking slow. We are a better team than manutd so why do the keep on beating teams since all they do is cross the ball?? Answer - because they play FAST. They don't play like they are retired, speeding up the game confuses defenders.... when will we learn this??? Magic Lamps said something someone quoted above and I agree. I don't like how mata's weakness on the ball gets the better of him in big matches, especially against top possesion teams (bayern, juve, mancity, barca) he plays horrible because he can't hold the ball under slight pressure. Against big teams like those, I think he should be playing in the wings to accomodate an AM to put in a proper defensive shift. If he was the one marking pirlo at the bridge instead of oscar, we would have been raped there. A perfect example is how bayern use kroos as the AM against big teams to put in a defensive shift and not just stay up there and be bullied off the ball. Gone are those days when we bully teams on our way to victory, now we have pple like mikel who never put in a slide challenge to win the ball at all. I miss those days when arsenal complain how we bully them and now we've turned to them rather. Oscar can't play in the wings, especially now he is fatigued. Playing there is worse off now, anywhere in the center is good for oscar than wings. Sorry but he put in the most tackles for us(8) and had an 85% pass completion. He was our highest rated player in whoscored.com(7.7/10) especially in the 2nd half. City deserved to win, yaya reminded me of essien. Power and speed.