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Wtf is wrong with our workrate today ? No one is making any runs, no one is passing well, or controlling the ball well. No desire or energy at all.... Without hazard at his dribbling best, we can be poor at times

Hazard not dribbling one person today has exposed the lack of quality on the ball from everyone else

Arsenal with another couple of lucky decisions yet again. Sanchez scores with his hand and Gibbs should have seen red for taking out markovic while he was through on goal. Incredible luck this season really

Why is he trying to somehow diminish our accomplishments so far and make it seem like we're a defensive team when we've scored 50goals this season and only Liverpool has scored more by one goal (51). Hazard said it himself, this season we go for the second and third goals in every match compared to under him where after we score a goal, he brought on mikel to shut up shop (he's done it with fellaini this season)

Mourinho spoke after the weekend match. "My team is playing very well but for many, many years in my career, especially in this country, when my teams were ruthless and when they were phenomenal defensively and very good in the counter-attack, I listened week after week... it was not enough, in spite of winning the title three times. "It looks like this season, to be phenomenal defensively and be good at counter attack is art, so it's a big change in England. Seems like he is angry at the media for not admiring his style of play when he was with us but we are praised for playing similar or I'm I reading too much into this??

What he's doing with our team is nothing short of a miracle. We have 59 points after 23 games, incredible. The fact that Moses (failed loan player) and Alonso(Sunderland reject) have very obvious weaknesses and are still working so well for us is magnificent. Just imagine if we have a creative and mobile midfielder like Verratti, energetic and mobile long range shooter nainggolan, a fast defensively sound leftback. We would immensely improve our quality on the ball and holding ball in midfield under pressure and the tactical counterattacks we had yesterday would be punished by accurate passing from the whole team.

Completed 10 dribbles against arsenal. Incredible talent. That's why we played so well, hazard was in the mood to dribble and show who's boss. The goal he scored, even when coqulain was trying to pull him down, he showed his strength and kept on dribbling into the box. This is what he has to do with his incredible talent consistently to become world best after messi and ronaldo. It's annoying when people mention Griezmann, Neymar and Suarez ahead of Hazard when hazards individual quality and potential should be beating these guys easily with that type of desire against arsenal.

Sadly Liverpool with their high intensity pressing style are far better against the big teams than against hull, Burnley, bournemoth, Sunderland where pressing is not as important because they can sit deep and counter. But they have no depth with their squad to cope with fatigue late in the season and can't keep up the intensity.

Been dribbling like to madman all game and has scored a goal a player of his rare talent deserves.

This is how well we play when Hazard is dribbling at will. Costa and his lack of looking

Hazard is in dribbling mode today, this could be a good game for us

He has been our best attacking player in 2017. He's the only one that looks a genuine goal threat from the wings right now with his speedy runs in behind the defence and likeliness to shoot. While others always like to come to the ball, he offers that and runs behind which is a key factor in opening up defences. Should be a constant starter.

He would be a good buy, because of his one on one tackling, speed, height and passing. But if he's too hard to get, we should keep an eye out for Maguire of hull city. We all saw good he was in a back 3, carrying the ball out from the back against us and has long range shooting. He was impressive too against manutd twice in a week and is only 23. He could be a homegrown bargain

Manutd have scored 33 goals from 23 premier league games Ibrahimovic has 14 of them alone. They've scored 12 goals less than any of the top 5, crystal Palace and Everton have scored more than them, and they've scored only 2 more than Tony Pulis' westbrom

I had a feeling. His avoiding of challenges and less dribbling was a direct result of carrying an injury last season and if this report is true, it's happening again since January.

He is sometimes, but its only in the season he won player of the year where he was so consistent throughout the whole season and showed the desire to carry the team on his back to the title. Maybe that burnt him out because Since then, he's been world-class in one month, okay in the next month. And I think the main reason is before, when the premier League opponents kick him, he still dribbled(at least 6 dribbles per match) and made things happen no matter what. But since his injury last season, he doesn't ride challenges anymore and can easily be stopped in his tracks with a foul. I don't blame him for trying to protect himself but he can never be as creative as KDB or fabregas except through his dribbling which he isn’t motivated to do as consistently as his prime. He isn’t helped by the terrible passing percentage the whole team had against liverpool but since he's not as strong on the ball consistently like before, even when he gets it I'm not sure if he can dribble past two players marking him like he used to do in every match in past seasons.

He had only one dribble completed against liverpool. As I said before, any match he's playing average, it means he wasn't on his dribbling best. I think we're too harsh on him. We're expecting him to play well even when the rest of the team isn’t. Hazard isn't the type of player to do it by himself, he isn’t messi, Ronaldo or Suarez. Or he also isn't like bale who can have a poor game and and score a goal to win the game. He needs the whole midfield and attack performing to help him play well. He doesn't have high energy like Sanchez to try and make things happen every single time he touches the ball, and he's not strong enough to shrug off tackles and still dribble through. This is making it difficult for him. Hopefully we get a midfielder who can create, can spot runs and still defend so that Hazard can have someone better than Matic behind him.

Incredible stamina, vidal levels

We have to play a hybrid 3-5-2 against liverpool. Against hull and Brentford, we were dominated by pressing for a good 20mins of the second half. We don't have the players who can cope under pressure in midfield, so we need more numbers there in midfield when we are pressed and we need to cover that space behind Hazard where teams attack us from. If we don't do this we will be pinned back against liverpool just like Hull and Brentford did against us in the second half. And Liverpool can do it for a lot longer than 20mins. Hopefully hazard is on dribbling form to give us a chance and I'll play Willian instead of Pedro because he can carry the ball from deep into the attack with his dribbling during counterattacks and we need that ball holding ability.

Matic just behind in black cleaning up after hazard

Klopp after 81 Liverpool games Win: 41 Win Ratio: 50.6% LvG after 81 Man Utd games Win: 41 Win Ratio: 50.6%

There was a time this season that I was beginning to think that he's become that type of player. In October and November was one of the best performances from any winger in the world. Actually hazard was playing like a top 5 world player. But since the Everton match his shot ratio has reduced and while he's had fantastic performances against mancity, bournemoth and some other team, it's not as consistently daring like before(dribbles and shots have gone way down) and he's not fabregas, so I'm not expecting him to suddenly start giving defence splitting passes and getting assists but I miss his October and November form. Pedro started playing this season in October rotating with Willian, he has that goalscoring quality (has scored 7 goals, 2 behind Hazard who has 9 in all competitions) but Pedro has poor matches where his first touch let's him down a lot, which harms the team’s gameplay and Willian doesn't score more than 10 open play goals a season in his life so we need a daring, consistent goalscorer to take the pressure off hazard and take us to the next level when we enter the Champions League. Basically combine willian's ball control under pressure with pedros runs off the ball and goalscoring and we have a perfect right winger to complement hazard.

He was okay against hull. Good in the first half and out-muscled in the 2nd half. He hasn’t had a great performance for 4 straight matches now but we've coped well. But without hazard on peak performance we will stand no chance against liverpool and their high intensity style. If hazard has a great performance like against mancity or Everton, we will win. But Conte should start using 3-5-2 against big teams and let hazard be upfront pressing with costa. Because even smaller teams like Hull are targeting that space Hazard leaves between Matic and Alonso and maguire managed to get some good chances to score by attacking when Hazard doesn't cover back like Pedro. Liverpool will attack that space again and if hazard isn't compensating his lower workrate (than Pedro/willian) by scoring in attack, we may not win against liverpool