Rafa in or Rafa out

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I hate the saying "Form goes out the window in derbies", it's a complete myth. More often than not the form team in a derby wins. The results in Englands major derbies prove that.

Spurs v Chelsea
City v United
Arsenal v Spurs

Villa v WBA, Everton v Liverpool and Sunderland v Newcastle ended in draws and you could argue the home teams in all 3 were lucky. There have been no major upsets in derbies this season.
 
District. Then how did QPR win? They're hardly the form team now are they? I would call that result a rather large upset thus rendering the original statement about form and derbies true.
 
Super_Chelsea_Blue_Boys said:
District. Then how did QPR win? They're hardly the form team now are they? I would call that result a rather large upset thus rendering the original statement about form and derbies true.
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Think he was speaking while ignoring the Chelsea match.
 
Varier. You can't ignore the Chelsea match. It IS a derby therefore entirely part of the statistics. You might as well say that the Everton Chelsea was an indicator of how form doesn't matter.
 
It happened with Arsenal too, they had four wins on the bounce including 7 past Newcastle and 5 past Reading along with wins over Wigan and West Brom, but their draw with Southampton was achieved with their full strength team despite a rest day. I said it before, if we lost with the first eleven out then nobody would complain but Rafa let us down
 
gent said:
Yep, he can't do nearly enough damage from the middle <laugh>.


Shambolic CB IMO. Looked OK as a DM, if he has any future in a top club (once his hype dies off) it will be nowhere near a CB position.
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And fortunately, you won't be picking our team or Brazils, so think Luiz won't lose much sleep over your opinion.
 
Can we not just offer money and Torres for Falcao, I doubt the Europa League is as important to us, I also doubt that Atletico Madrid are going to lose their spot in the top four over in Spain, whilst I think the Atletico fans would allow Falcao to go in return for Torres (he is one of their own so they can overlook his problems, and it might just be Torres is no longer suited to the Prem, look at Diego Forlan haha)

Falcao is more mobile, and more importantly hungry, the guy has hardly any of he big prizes (discarding the Europa League and European Super Cup) whilst Torres has won everything and this is why I believe he has no feel to win

And Falcao scores goals, and I believe if we played the Super Cup a week earlier, Falcao would be our player
 
Super_Chelsea_Blue_Boys said:
Varier. You can't ignore the Chelsea match. It IS a derby therefore entirely part of the statistics. You might as well say that the Everton Chelsea was an indicator of how form doesn't matter.
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I haven't got into this debate tbh. Just saying what I thought District meant.
 
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