Why? Stoke had lost once all season at home before today, then we smash 5 past them. Suarez with 2 goals and Sturridge with one goal (only on for 20 mins or so) and both assisted a goal for each other
Didn't you give 22mil and Matic for Luiz and now you want him back?... making Luiz cost over £40mil Good business
If it helps us win the title, who cares? Anyways, quite a few top clubs do it as well, Barcelona with cesc, dortmund with reus, real madrid.. etc.
Did you watch the game? Stoke have a very good defence normally but today without Huth they were shocking and i can`t remember Shawcross having such a bad game ever (not down to your lads either). Fantasy football League have not awarded Suarez an assist either for some reason
But it won`t, you will probably get third (second if Arsenal implode). Most other teams sell youth team players and only buy them back many years later if they have proved themselves consistantly.
You state nothing i don`t already know and if things don`t change quickly i think most on here woud agree with you
I did watch the game, and yeah it was a crazy ass game. But either way scoring 5 at the Britannia is not easy. Yeah the first was a freak goal and we won a soft penalty, but that's football. You make your own luck (unless you're City or Chelsea ) People saying that our second was gimme need to wake up, Suarez made that goal from being such a nuisance, the way he watched the ball, knew exactly what was going on and made the keeper and 2 defenders look like amateurs. Like I said SAS are back and teams will be punished "We Score When We Want"
Ref is Dowd, at least it isnt Clattenburg to keep 11 men on the pitch for them to help rescue a 2 goal deficit.
we need a win am afraid.. 1 point mean nothing now, chelsea is not our rival now for top4 , so see them dropping 2 points mean nothing, let us hope we catch them at the break and win it .. a draw will make the gap even bigger with loserpool
I think a lot of our problems this season have been down to motivation, after all how many titles have these players won between them? Our CL form proves that our team can still raise there game for the bigger matches, so I'm hopeful we can get something from this game. This is a crucial time in Chelsea's bid for the title, as they play City away a couple of games later, so I can see Maureen being desperate for the 3 points against us, which could play into our hands. 1 point is no good to Chelsea, as there bound to lose at the Etihad so I think if we set up to counter attack we could potentially nick all 3 points. Hopefully Rooney will be back, as he more than anyone will be really up for de railing Chelsea's title challenge at the bridge, just as we did last season. The left back position at Chelsea is a real problem area for them, Elmohamady gave an ageing Cole the run around on Saturday for Hull. Valencia has always had Coles measure in the past, even when Cole was in his prime, so I see that as the key area we must exploit if we're gonna win the game. If we just keep feeding Valencia sooner or later something will open up for us
Thing is with Evra is he plays like a Brazilian full back, which is fine against the smaller teams. His gung-ho approach does cost us from time to time, like against Tottenham the other week. I do hope Moyes drums it into him not to ignore his defensive duties, as he is a very good defender when he's actually back to defend
From what i have seen of you this season it will be Ivan against Evra, Hazard will be floating around the middle or the left.
Iva has been injured for a while and won't play this month. Hazard has played left and right this season but will probably start on the left but move during the game
He always looks more effective on the left to me but links well with Oscar when going into thr middle.
