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Hahahaha... Hazard needs to keep shooting more, in the first half he almost found the corner with a curler and then he refused to shoot with his left after dribbling bravo, l wanted to pull my hair out loool. Fantastic finish in the end, he and Willian made kolarov look as slow as my grandma.

Apparently he also went first to the press before Conte, which made Conte leave without doing a proper press conference as he would've missed his train had he waited for Pep to finish. Usually the home manager lets the away manager speak to the press first exactly to avoid stuff like this, but Pep didn't care. (source: http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2016/12/3/13829362/manchester-city-chelsea-conte-manager-post-match-reaction) It's exactly like everything else he does, he tries to make people believe that he is a great person, but that deep down that is all fake. He is often disrespectful, but manages to keep it down to stuff people won't notice or talk about, like refusing to shake Fabregas' hand or going first to the press.

My betting jinx worked again.... The winning goes on

Red for aguero!!! Hahahahahaha

Yeeeesssssss!!!!!!!!!!

He hasn't been dribbling anymore since after the international break. We've been giving excuses for him but it's fairly obvious he isn't dribbling as usual. Hazard why didn't you shoot, damn

Hopefully fabregas picks passes that unlocks the defence, and makes us more deadly on the counter.

My hope is Guardiola didn't anticipate this fabregas change and won't have a plan to attack him specifically. We know how poor he is defensively, especially as he might be playing beside Alonso and cahill who are the weaker side of our defenders, I'm hoping fabregas compensates in attack.

And we're not even playing with a 3-5-2 to protect fabregas defensive weakness. Not good, Pedro and hazard will have to work their socks off today.

I hope Matic isn't injured, there’s no way fabregas can play against mancity in a 3-4-3. So a Matic injury could force a formation switch to 3-5-2. A more defensive formation, but it will hurt our counters and depend on fabregas vision in finding that pass to costa that could change the match.

Well, we have won every single game since I started betting against Chelsea to win and adding wins for our other top four rivals.

I found some quotes on Courtois talking tactics with skysports. He likes tactics a lot from what I can tell.

Fantastic training video. We're training on first time passes against high pressing and training on how to stop quick passing at the same time, brilliant. Conte is counting the number of touches before each interception. I never knew that this channel exists, I'm subscribing now....

Pedro already has more open play goals and assists than Willian had the whole of last season.

I'm more worried about the fact that he has a full week to prepare for us. Especially how tottenham showed some of our weaknesses in the first half, Guardiola will be looking to exploit that. But hopefully we play with intensity and hazard has a great game so that we win.

First 3 games: 14 shots (2 goals); Next 4 games: 5 shots (0 goals); Next 4 games: 15 shots (5 goals); Last 2 games: 2 shots (0 goals) Inconsistent in shooting. We've still been dangerous in attack because of the fantastic consistency of Costa and Moses but we can never reach our attacking potential without hazard shooting more, being hungry for goals.

This is the type of quality signing we need. I don't want us to buy quick fixes that cannot immediately get into our starting lineup, Tottenham went and paid 25mil for Jansen and 30mil for sissoko to help the squad and both have been flops, winks(their Academy player) has performed better than sissoko. Our bench is already stronger than Liverpool, Manutd and tottenham so I don't want any cuadrados, no salah's, no baba's, no djilaboji, instead let's be patient and get guaranteed quality like (kurzawa, dybala, Griezmann, Verratti, etc) With Verratti, we can play 3 midfielders against the big teams so that we don't get outnumbered in the midfield or sacrifice our attacking quality due to Verratti's vision/passing. But to be fair, every team suffers against intense pressing, Barcelona should have lost against a magnificent real socieldad yesterday after being thoroughly outplayed and pressured.

Remember when we used to complain whether he practices training sessions with us?? How our players looked confused everytime?? Good times

1 Chelsea 13 10 1 2 29 10 19 31 2 Liverpool 13 9 3 1 32 14 18 30 3 Manchester City 13 9 3 1 29 12 17 30 4 Arsenal 13 8 4 1 28 13 15 28 5 Tottenham 13 6 6 1 19 10 9 24 6 Manchester Utd 13 5 5 3 18 15 3 20

14 - Diego Costa has been involved in more goals than any other PL player this season (10 goals, 4 assists). Force. What a performance from costa. Hazard hasn't been on his dribbling best in the last two matches so costa has been creating a lot of chances for us. Costa should have had 3 assists in the last 2 matches alone!!!!

I'm willing to give Kenedy a chance, he's played leftback for us a couple of times before, so the wing-back position should be easier for him. He has recovery speed too. The reason I am cautious during the January transfer window, it's hard to find quality buys. I don't want us to buy average Joes, unless suddenly a quality leftback becomes available we should plan for the summer instead.

Moses is not going for African cup of nations, Nigeria didn't qualify. But we have even Willian who is defensive enough to play that role. I hear we are recalling Kenedy from his Watford loan. So he can easily slot into that wing-back role as a sub for Alonso. The Kenedy recall is the only reason why I realized we don't need to delve into the market in january.

It will be fantastic to get a right winger who makes off the ball runs in behind the defence like Pedro but is a better finisher. But without Champions League football it will be hard to get the right quality we need to improve that position so I'm hoping we get the Champions League spot at the end of the season, then we go all out for absolute quality in Griezmann, dybala or even mahrez (last season player of the year) so that Hazard being double marked is taken completely out of the equation. If it's possible a quicker leftback who can defend and cross like Alonso will really settle fears on Alonso's lack of pace. But so far, we can cope without anyone in january

True. That time I criticized Conte for our lack of pressing when we were using that 4-2-3-1, because sitting back will require hazard and Willian to follow the fullbacks everytime which isn't good especially with only 2 centerbacks to cover for the eventual crosses. But now with this 3-4-3, if we sit back Alonso and Moses mark those on the wings, while the runs in behind can be easily tracked by dedicated defenders in Azpilicueta and cahill who are used to defending instead of Hazard. That closes the space on the flanks, and because we are more compact,(5 at the back with Moses and Alonso tucked close to the centerbacks) we always have 3 defenders to deal with the incoming crosses which is better than the 4-1-4-1 before with only 2. The only real weakness is when a long ball is switched quickly from one end of the pitch to the other flank (Middlesbrough did this in the beginning of the last match to put ramirez through) But this will require an inch perfect long range pass with speed on the pass combined with a perfect first touch to put us in real danger. Any tactics that forces the opponent to have to play long balls is a good one. Our defense is far more solid and compact than it ever was in the beginning.