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if when they play better they lose 3-0, I can't wait for them to play worse. WHL here we go!

I don't ever fear matches against Arsenal or Spurs at home. And I'm always hopeful to scrap wins away at their turfs. Easy, under control, good match by us. I have some negatives, but I won't even bother with them. Zouma should receive more chances - and I hope he does. He still has some polishing in his game to be done (today he was perf though) and that comes with playing. Willian is the most infuriating player ever. He works so hard, he gives his everything, but his end product is so poor. I really hope he gets any less frustrating, but it wasn't a bad match by him, just that, frustrating. Oscar has been sprinkling some fancy passes here and there this season, I love it. His vision also improved a lot. It wasn't only the assist, he had a few other chances created or good passes to put his teammates in good positions. Cesc was brilliant defensively and I think he sparkled in the attack too, he just didn't get the assist today, but it'll come Saturday when we need it the most. Azpili - what an assist for Remy. Yeah, Loic still had a lot of work to do, but that was a nice picked pass nonetheless by Dave. DD - simply unbelievable. I bubbled a lot at the beginning of the season that he was done. Then the UCL match against Sporting - I guess, lol, memory fails - and then Arsenal (I guess) and then COC (I also guess that's the order, lol, I know nothing, I'm Jon Snow) shut me up (the first match). He isn't a boy anymore and he has his limitations, of course he does, but his heart makes up for his legs and lungs. He's been amazing for us after a bad start (he was also coming off of an injury then). F*ck me, but we didn't miss Diego today - and that's great because it shows how much more fire power we have. The thing with missing Matic now isn't even how much we'll miss him against Newcastle (and we will) is that now we definitely won't see Mourinho rotating anyone... which sucks. I wouldn't if I were him either. Unless Cahill doesn't play for precaution reasons. Hazard - I love you. My MOTM.

still has made a better 45 minutes than the latest 90 minutes Cahill has been playing for weeks. Amazing performance so far edit: and few teams have been attacking us so consistently... still they haven't been able to do nothing with it. He's handling it everything amazingly.

btw, amazing assist by Azpili for Remy's goal, as no one talked about it

maybe it's a stretch, but Zouma >>> Cahill based on his latest presentations

REMY!!!!

tired

Cahill has an injury, he's a CB, Zouma is a CB, Luis is LB - and not a big one. Sorry, your comment makes no sense. Why play Iva as a CB - something he hasn't been doing just to afford Luís? You seem to complain so much these days... which is okay, but also odd.

We're missing a Cesc assist. It's been too long

Willian has been frustrating me throughout the whole match... I know he does some nice stuff, but he's been absolutely frustrating today

Oscar has been making those fancy passes quite often lately. Loving it. Finally his close friendship with Eden is paying off

he shut me up in the UCL game, then he scored three times in a row in three different comps. Ever since I refrain to make the same mistake again (writing him off). I would have started Remy - but I'm more than okay with him starting - no hindsight... didn't say one bad word about it then

Well, I'd make a case for one out of the three not to come back for the second half: Cesc, Eden, Oscar. I missed the first 10 minutes - so I have no idea why people were cursing in the thread (not saying they shouldn't), but ever since I've been watching this has been way too easy - as usual against Spurs.

that should have been a yellow for Kane... he stopped our attack with lack of fair play. Come on, Dean you cunt, it aint that hard to call it right ugh, Willian, come on!!!!!!!!!! Just work on that finishing already

Cesc and Hazard - orgasmic stuff there...

the atmosphere has been amazing. Great job

I would have rotated Oscar or Cesc - one of the two shouldn't start imo. He must rest Oscar against Newcastle - as I think Cesc will be more useful.Then next week rest Eden on UCL But that's my main point about resting players. One player here, other there. It's crazy that people expect him to rotate everyone and their mother. Azpilicueta should be dropped against Newcastle away - instead of rested, but I know it won't happen.

it's not working that bad you know, a goal, an assist

Drogba!!!!! Oscar!!!! Uhu!!!

hahahaha bought Hazard on fantasy this week - decided to make him my captain not bad at all

But still he was our most lively player against Sunderland by some distance...

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The overreaction is unbelievable. People writing for DM and in this thread are fully aware that were leading City six points until a couple of weeks ago before they drew? So back then it was a great lead and we were on fire. Now we played a game tired, we drew against a great parked bus and I have to read some idiot predict Chelsea to draw three matches this month, while City beat everyone and their mother by a lead. I honestly don't believe Sunderland will be able to make them drop points tomorrow because they didn't have the recovery time they're used to. They've played us three days ago, they played their lives and souls, they'll be tired tomorrow and they'll lose. But some other places, City will drop points... they haven't been playing that well. They'll play their lives in their UCL match (hopefully they'll lose), it will come, no need to overreact. This lead could stretch or shrink during December, fact remains we have a run of more than doable matches starting on February that has the most difficult match being Arsenal away... in FOUR months. When your most difficult, tricky, or whatever match is Arsenal away... it means you left all the hard patch behind you. You can still drop points, but let's not start fixture conspiracy theories, as if we poor Chelsea, everybody hates us. We receive no favors from anyone, not media, not FA, not UEFA and we go there and win things. That's how we do it. Not everyone needs to have faith and have their middle name be Optimism, but there's even less reason to start conspiracy talks and be afraid of a team most of you were mocking until a couple of weeks ago. At least make up your mind. I can't believe we went from the team walking the league, to now the team that fears City building out moment and whats not or they were shitty and now they're the guys to beat. That's fickle, even for a forum.

Mourinho 10 days ago said he isn't the kind of player that can play 10 matches a month - then he plays him thrice a week. Go figure. and he wasn't anywhere near as bad as some of you are making. The same people that were MIA in this thread in the 2-3 weeks before. Figures.