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What happened to our early season form

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I know its unfair to pin everything on one guy but Fabregas was the main source of creativity from Sept to December then he suddenly stopped taking risks it is remarkable. If your creative cog suddenly stops producing then you naturally see a fall in your main goal scorers tally that's why most games since December we have been scoring the odd goal to win, John Terry started scoring then Ivo is scoring now and its no coincidence that our front players are not getting as many clear chances.

1. Fabregas stops creating chances.

2. All of a sudden John Terry starts scoring from set pieces and we win by the odd goal.

3. Ivanovic takes over from John Terry and starts scoring.

4. Hazard gets the odd goal.

If we carry on like this and Fabregas carries on with the simple passes and the switch balls then Man City have a very good chance in catching us, they have players like Silva and Toure that can supply their forward players through out the season !

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I think we are Playing really well all over, I love the way we win the ball back and some of the quick passing is brilliant. . The only thing is that final ball. Over and over again we mess it up. When that's sorted we will be comfortable most games.

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Lack of creativity and I feel many young player was in high pressure about the title than we though

Most of the team that play against us in the league will play hard tackle and waiting for counter at our flank.

I sometime feel our midfield was too fragile especially in EPL,except Matic other seem to have a trouble in tackle and battle for the possession

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stroey

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Don't think there is too much to worry about our form.

Champions always grind out results, playing bad but win all the 3 points. In a run of 38 matches you can't outplay teams in all matches, especially in the EPL. Newcastle, Aston Villa and Everton are examples of these "champions games".

We actually played very well against Burnley, better than the 3 matches mentioned, but FA stopped us from taking the 3 points, it's only the 2nd time we dropped points at home btw. The Burnley game looked more like the Westham game than QPR game at home.

Recently we were playing without our 2 key players: playmaker and topscorer but still we managed to grind results, they will get their form back. Costa needs time and Cesc will be fine, against Burnley he was okay.

In the cup games (bar FA cup) we played typical Mou-style, away at Liverpool and PSG to get a result with the hope to finish it at home. Hopefully we will beat PSG too.

Unfortunately now Cesc and Costa are finally back, we will lose Matic for 3 important games. Hopefully we can cope with this.

The only suprise is that Mourinho let 2 wingers go for 1. Now the squad need some rotation, we don't have that extra option. Cuadrado looks promising but has to settle faster to help us. Remy could also do a job as winger.

My only concern is the FA BS, we always have to beat 12 man while City plays with 12. The frustration Matic showed wasn't for that match only, it's because we're having this campaign all season long.

Let's hope we somehow survive the coming 3 domestic games without Matic. (spurs coc, westham away and soton at home) And get some help from Liverpool too.

Mou needs to find some way to win these games.

This run is very important, after that we'll have everyone back and we will play our best football again.

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CFC888

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Think we have to understand two aspects of our last month and a half.

1. Players getting injured and suspended more than earlier in the season. (Therefore we don't have some of our best players in Cesc, Diego etc.)

2. Because of this, players such as Oscar, Willian, Ramires and Hazard (due to Cesc absence), Azpilicueta and Ivanovic (due to Luis absence) and Matic (due to Mikel absence) have had to play more football than had been expected/scheduled for them and have been extremely fatigued. Jose would know a week or two before each game roughly the team he plans to play, so when someone goes down with an injury you end up having to play a guy who you were planning on giving a rest to and it throws their workload schedule out of whack.

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