Title Run In

[bushman 2,043]

Its not over yet ,,, European Court of Justice meeting now to consider F A s request that the title be given ti Liverpool .

The Sunday´s Sun, I assume?

[kellzfresh 7,229]

The 5 points we dropped in the home games against Sunderland and Norwich would have been enough to secure us the title. How depressing is that?

I said so many times in this thread that 87 points will get us the title. So frustrating knowing I was right now

[bushman 2,043]

I don't think it's fair to just assume that he can't do it just by looking at one match against a particular team. I'm sure there were other factors to take in regarding his decisions, and even if that's true, I don't really think it mattered that much anyway. Why go in for the kill when you don't have to? He probably saw that Man U wouldn't be our rivals this season anyway. But you also can't forget that they have really good strikers who get goals. I agree that we should always try to play for the win...but do we really have to when we know that it's not worth it pulling out our neck like that?

And besides, with how he played against City in our 1-0 victory, I don't get how you can say that we don't do well under him offensively. Those are the matches where the motivation is high and players are eager to play. That's our plan 'A'. It's just unfortunate that the players don't look like they want to put that same effort in day in day out.

The question is not what´s fair what´s not.

Jose likes to play defensively. Therefore, I need to see if he adapts next season to bring Chelsea into more offensive football.

Roman did not hire him to park the bus.

[LAM09 7,043]

The question is not what´s fair what´s not.

Jose likes to play defensively. Therefore, I need to see if he adapts next season to bring Chelsea into more offensive football.

Roman did not hire him to park the bus.

Your right, but he employed him to win things. If we win the quad by playing defensive football next season, do you think Roman will complain?

I highly doubt it.

[zolayes 14,489]

That's what I'm trying to tell you, just because we're defensively good doesn't mean that we always aim to play defensively. Our defense outshines our attack, yes. But that's because our attack is outright dreadful at times! And that's why it seems like we're defensive-minded. Have you already forgotten that many of the matches we've played in, we've had most of the possession? There were a few special cases, but how can you expect us to play 'offensive' football when the attack is in shambles?

Again, that term. I've already told you, being defensive when you need to be is an advantage. Not realizing that is not appreciating half of football.

SHOTS on goal VERY high ,,, conversion rate terrible ,,, thats not being defensive it is wasteful in attacking

[bushman 2,043]

Your right, but he employed him to win things. If we win the quad by playing defensive football next season, do you think Roman will complain?

I highly doubt it.

Roman doesn´t want to see his team playing defensive football just to win. Mateo won, but was fired.

Was Roman then? No, he was not.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

203 was the magic number last season, 103 this season

[Milan 17,955]

[LAM09 7,043]

Roman doesn´t want to see his team playing defensive football just to win. Mateo won, but was fired.

Was Roman then? No, he was not.

Matteo was sacked because of an early CL exit & Super Cup humiliation. I bet if we had beaten Juve, he would have in the job for a lot longer.

[bushman 2,043]

Lam,

How much longer, maybe two weeks?

Mateo was fired for playing shitty football too.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Not a bad season when Liverpool fans come so close....yet so far.

And Stevie G you cost them the league.

[Milan 17,955]

[cosmicway 1,333]

We parked the bus against MU (the 0-0), Arsenal a little (the 0-0), Atletico (0-0 again) and the strange Enfield match (2-0).

That's 4 out of of 50.

Would someone be happier if we had gone down 2-0 at Vicente Kalderon ? The Atletico fans ?

In the other matches there were some terrible performences (Basel-Palace-Sunderland-Norwich) and even in some matches that were won we did n't play well. But the reasons were other.

If you go to Atletico and don't play park the bus and still have a chance to stay alive you must have a team like Ajax 1972 ++ (*).
Those who criticise Mourinho on such grounds are therefore either football illiterate or trolls.

(*) one of the world's wonder teams made up from just local talent as well, plus a Jugoslav defender they had

[Special Juan 28,098]

Probably his first ever City match.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

The title was in our own hands and we simply just bottled it. There is no point giving excuses, we just have to deal with it and move on.

The positive side for next season is that we will have a better side than this season and so the chances of us coming close to winning a major trophy will be higher.