The Mak

A bit harsh to take him off. If only we were as ruthless with Ivanovic's MULTIPLE brain farts at RB this season, we might not be so far down the table...

UP YOURS SOUTHAMPTON

Why does Steven Davis turn into a midfield God everytime we play Southampton? If he's not scoring, he's blocking shots. Christ.

Ah, difficult enough for Diego in fairness.

Hazard need to move to LW or something. Doesn't look comfortable at RW.

I remember trying to buy Kenedy in FM 2 years ago and Fluminense kept on quoting me £32m!

I hope you're not just referring to 2012...it was 4 years ago, with a completely different team (with multiple leaders) and different system (10 other men behind the ball). Mikel has done nothing of note since. Oh wait, there was that one game a few weeks ago...and he scored a goal last week to make up for his initial fuck up. Yeah, I take it back, forget what I said.

I thought as much. Just threw me off when he said he played against Matic.

Who is the second commentator on BBC Sport?

Traore > Oscar

Oh give over Oscar. If you call seniority over a PK and do that... Should've let Traore take it. A young player gaining confidence is better than Oscar wanting to inflate his ego. Twat.

Get Ruben on already.

I'd take him in a heartbeat. His job is not to score or assist, he is a defensive midfielder. His job is to make his presence felt, to disrupt play - getting yellow cards are mandatory. And he is far more composed on the ball than Ramires. Getting players like him in a step in the right direction. Our midfield right now is completely toothless. We just let teams with any decent midfield run the show. Or do you want to continue with passengers like Mikel and Fabregas who do fuck all in big games?

I don't think it was our defending that let us down today; more like our midfield with anonymous players like Mikel and Fabregas letting PSG absolutely boss the park and create as many chances as they needed to win the game. Christ, I miss players like of Ballack, Essien and Mak. I would say we should go for Verratti in the summer, but why the fuck would he come here? If I was told 2-1 before the game I would've taken it though. Baba = boss.

The pass masters from Barcelona, Pedro and Fabregas, giving the ball the ball away. Poor from Courtois as well, poor from any keeper to get beaten at your near post.

Inexperienced is a better word then. Baba has played in the Bundesliga and was in the team of the season over there. Ruben has not even played for 90mins in TOTAL for this season.

What can we do though? The only thing we could do is sure up the midfield but Matic is not on the bench, RLC is a bit young for this type of game and Ramires is in China...

RLC as 10 or alongside Mikel? I actually thought Ruben was rather shit as a 10, got crowded out far too easily...I think he's far better running with the ball from deep.

Sad that it's actually taken an injury to JT and Zouma for us to put BOTH Ivanovic and Dave in their natural positions. Nevermind playing a proper LB as well. By the way, why does RLC deserve all the time in the world to develop and Baba doesn't? They're the same fucking age practically. Kids learning their trade. What? Just because Baba was bought for 15m?!? It doesn't work like that, this isn't football manager. Have some really learned nothing from KDB?? Baba is doing rather well for PSG away I would say.

All out of the cave I see! Embarrassing is that you only post now when Mikel does something of worth!

Mikel fanboys gone back into their caves as usual. Maybe they'll come back out in another 2 years for his next good performance.

Fuck off Mikel you useless sack of shite

At the moment, I would take £80m for him only IF we had someone like Griezmann/Reus lined up to replace him...

Excellent from Dave. See what happens when you put him on his natural foot? I remember having a heated debate about 2 years ago on who was the better RB, Dave or Ivanovic...that was a discussion that actually happened and there were staunch Brana supporters. Even though Brana was nowhere near as bad as he is now, I think it was always non-debatable about who the better RB was.

Glad we didn't lose but the Mikel-Matic combo needs to fuck right off. It was fun for all of one game, but it has been shown for what it is in the last few games: slow, insipid shite. We are basically fucked in the league now with these last few draws at home, so RLC has to play. We need to buy someone who can take a decent set-piece. Oscar needs to go to China. Love Costa's passion. I really hope Zouma is alright.