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If Costa does get suspended, surely this game would be the perfect opportunity for his replacement to find some form and shake off the rustiness? Injuries and red cards will happen, it's part of the game..

Depends on the player though, if they are highly-rated and the coach believes they are ready, they'll get a chance....just look at Joe Gomez, signed from the Championship, only 18 and he's already played 5 PL games this season for Liverpool I agree about Mason and Pritchard, but Alli looks a class above those guys as he appears to have more composure on/off the ball

I thought he went missing in the second half and as the commentators on the stream we're saying, 'Pedro left his shooting boots at home today'

Hopefully Baba, Loftus-Cheek and Kenedy/Traore get some playing time

we need another goal, get the feeling Sanchez will score today

Just checking the coefficients: http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/crank2015.html We would lose that 4th spot if all EPL teams stuff up like last season and Italy copies what they did last season with 1 team in UCL final, 2 teams in Europa Semis...

Only 1 Italian club lost their game though...compared to England where 3 clubs lost their first game

Can't complain, hopefully Ramires does a good job at RB

Brilliant player, wish he was less passive though

When you can't develop your own players, the only option you have, is to spend!

The two biggest differences between this season and last season are: 1) Lack of teamwork/laziness of the ball and 2) Opponents figuring out our weaknesses and exploiting them We don't have a Plan B...and neither of our creative players have been able to bail us out this season with a goal/assist

What happened to Remy? Did he fight with Mourinho or something? He's been on the bench for all 5 games this season and he hasn't played a single minute

If Mourinho stops playing favourites with certain players, we might start winning games

We'd have to sell most of our first team squad if Pep was to come as they wouldn't fit his philosophy

The whole mess started with Mourinho and Eva...since that game, every player has looked disinterested and lacking motivation...

Suarez - just a freak Aguero - proven goalscorer, all round ability Benzema - good all round ability Lewandowski - clinical finisher Costa isn't better than any of the strikers I've mentioned..

yeah because every single player will perform as well as they did last season and Willian's tracking back will once again cover Ivanovic's defensive issues

Win the league with a few games to spare? As long as Ivanovic is our starting RB, we won't be winning anything this season

There's no buy back option for Romeu.

You can't create a lineup without Branislav Ivanovic, he's undroppable regardless of how many times he gets caught out of position by the opposition

Not sure if it's fatigue but the players aren't as determined/ "hungry" as they were last season. I saw a number of occasions against Crystal Palace, where certain players looked content to pass it around, rather than force the issue and test the away team's defense.

Willian runs hard for the team, but his end product and finishing ability for a CAM/RAM is well below average. I'm not suggesting that we start using Kenedy...but I would love to see Mourinho change things up and try playing Remy & Costa together, or Falcao & Costa together...it's just frustrating to see the same attack fail to create chances game after game...

Berbatov move to Villa is indeed possible (Guardian)

Without Harry Redknapp sticking his head out of a car window, deadline day is so boring

Regardless of the new contract, his value will remain around the 6-8 million range* (unless he surprises everyone at West Ham) *if i remember correctly, Stoke were keen on signing him for around 6 million