Who will stop us?

[didierforever 7,349]

If you compare the teams with ratings out of 10 (in my opinion):

City: Hart (8), Zabaleta (8.5), Kompany (8.5), Demichelis (6.5), Clichy (6.5), Fernandinho (7.5), Yaya Toure (8.5), Nasri (7.5), Silva (9), Navas (8), Aguero (9.5)

Caballero (5.5), Kolarov (6), Mangala (6), Fernando (6.5), Milner (6.5), Dzeko (7), Jovetic (8).

Overall: 78/110 on the pitch and 123.5/180 squad.

Chelsea: Courtois (9), Ivanovic (8), JT (8.5), Cahill (7.5), Azpilicueta (7.5), Matic (8.5), Fabregas (9), Hazard (9), Oscar (8), Willian (7.5), Costa (9)

Cech (8.5), Luis (7), Zouma (5.5), Ake (5), Ramires (6.5), Schurrle (6.5), Remy (8).

Overall: 81.5/110 on the pitch and 128.5/180 squad.

Think they're pretty fair ratings and essentially it shows we have a stronger squad and stronger starting 11.

Then if you include the most important part of our teams (managers): Mourinho (10), Pellegrini (7) <---- That's the key part here.

first thing first, calculation mistake. city have a 88/100 on their first team if i am not wrong and a 133.5 on their squad.

also, i feel u have massively under-rated city's bench.

Dzeko is atleast an 8. Milner is atleast a 7.5 and nasri 8. Also remy can't possibly be better than dzeko and equal to jovetic.

Also caballero is a very decent gk. Fernando deserves a higher rating too.

i would say something like this

City: Hart (8), Zabaleta (8.5), Kompany (9), Demichelis (6.5), Clichy (6), Fernandinho (7), Yaya Toure (9), Nasri (8), Silva (9), Navas (8), Aguero (9.5)

Caballero (7), Kolarov (7), Mangala (6), Fernando (7.5), Milner (7.5), Dzeko (8), Jovetic (8).

Overall: 88.5/110 on the pitch and 139.5/180 squad.

Chelsea: Courtois (9), Ivanovic (8), JT (8), Cahill (8), Azpilicueta (8), Matic (9), Fabregas (9), Hazard (9), Oscar (8), Willian (7), Costa (9)

Cech (8.5), Luis (7), Zouma (5.5), DD (6), Ramires (7.5), Schurrle (7), Remy (7).

overall : 140.5/180 for squad and 92/110 on the pitch

but agree with what u said overall. the squads are equally good but our manager makes us 10 times better.

[Special Juan 28,188]

Freak results can happen and will, but I stand by what I say, we will take some beating this season if injuries don't come to cripple us.

Cesc and Matic are like rocks in the centre and Costa looks dangerous as fuck up top. Our defence whilst looking shaky at times will get better.

Bring on anyone.

[edetarod 2,155]

Newcastle away probably

[cosmicway 1,333]

City are a joke.

Out of Europe unceremoniously (L-D-D-L).

When you say "who will stop us" you mean where the single defeat will come from ?

I vote Sunderland.

[nyikolajevics 2,710]

When you say "who will stop us" you mean where the single defeat will come from ?

I vote Sunderland.

Yes that's what I meant.

[calculatingInfinity 1,478]

Injuries can very possibly. While the main starting 11 is great and a good bunch of the bench is too, it doesn't take many injuries for the current Chelsea team to look fairly thin. Meanwhile a team like City got pretty much a competent replacement for each and every starting 11 and will probably not have as many matches to play, when they crash out of Europe.

If you meant a single team... Ehm, probably some shit like Sunderland yeah.

[Ze Mario 638]

Newcastle away probably

this. At least we help Newcastle fans prolong their suffering with Padrew still on the seat

[Viper22 2,418]

first thing first, calculation mistake. city have a 88/100 on their first team if i am not wrong and a 133.5 on their squad.

also, i feel u have massively under-rated city's bench.

Dzeko is atleast an 8. Milner is atleast a 7.5 and nasri 8. Also remy can't possibly be better than dzeko and equal to jovetic.

Also caballero is a very decent gk. Fernando deserves a higher rating too.

i would say something like this

City: Hart (8), Zabaleta (8.5), Kompany (9), Demichelis (6.5), Clichy (6), Fernandinho (7), Yaya Toure (9), Nasri (8), Silva (9), Navas (8), Aguero (9.5)

Caballero (7), Kolarov (7), Mangala (6), Fernando (7.5), Milner (7.5), Dzeko (8), Jovetic (8).

Overall: 88.5/110 on the pitch and 139.5/180 squad.

Chelsea: Courtois (9), Ivanovic (8), JT (8), Cahill (8), Azpilicueta (8), Matic (9), Fabregas (9), Hazard (9), Oscar (8), Willian (7), Costa (9)

Cech (8.5), Luis (7), Zouma (5.5), DD (6), Ramires (7.5), Schurrle (7), Remy (7).

overall : 140.5/180 for squad and 92/110 on the pitch

but agree with what u said overall. the squads are equally good but our manager makes us 10 times better.

Yeah you're right about the calculation mistake, but like you said my statement still stands. Tbh i'd rather have Remy on my bench over Dzeko. He's better to my mind. Maybe not as good as Jovetic though. It's all opinion though, I persoanlly don't think there is any way that Milner is better than Willian, and no way Nasri is a whole point better than him either. Or that Kolarov is as good as Felipe Luis.

At least you got my general meaning behind the whole thing though.

[The Rising Sun 711]

southampton away