CA shud rest him against wigan.

he can rehat drogba, so shud be no problem for lampard too..

cmon lamps.

btw josh injured ke?

finally this thread sudah slow balik as usual..lol!

4-3-3 pls...

try Yossi...

should have used the 50mil for aguero sanchez or hazard.haih roman roman.

It seems the regular posters who got evicted by mods from the man city thread, have landed over here. Lol. Didn’t expect to see so many though...obviously still annoyed or shall I say ‘butthurted’ at luiz not being sent off at the bridge the other day.  Hoho. Play nice fellas..at least don’t make it seem so obvious. i welcome those who are here to discuss though.

Hmm problems remain the same. Our midfield apart from ramires is in total meltdown. Gave the ball away countless times, and we couldn’t even string 3 simple passes to launch a counter-attack. We’ve been plagued by the same problem for some time now, i.e, a lack of creativity and craft. unfortunately i foresee this problem continuing until the end of the season.

Is it me or does it look like didier always seems more interested to link up with nico, rather than torres? Anyway our Spaniard didn’t have a particularly good game this time, and I think he did go down intentionally for the first incident, but there was contact for the second one. The ref dished out a card which was supposed to be given earlier. But if we’re talking about Oscars then besides torres, rooney and evra deserve one each as well for their fantastic rolling around on the ground after barely being touched by our players.

Guys I know its hard to ignore the penalty incident, and I understand the frustration. However I just don’t think we did enough to merit a win. Its only natural the incident gets mentioned and don’t mind the trolls coming here having a go. The fact of the matter is, it won’t take long until something goes against them (such as the Rafael sending off last season against Bayern) and they’ll have pages upon pages upon pages of complaints blaming the officials. They’re trying to make it seem as if we’re exactly the same but I know for a fact most regular posters here are a lot more reasonable than that. Don’t take the bait.

still another 90 mins to play in the second leg!      
 
p. s : epic fail of the day : trolling and ridiculing others for bringing up refereeing decisions, then 'accidentally' exposing themselves for still being bitter about decisions that went against them recently/years ago 

I will watch MU match all over again tomorrow and I will give my reviews.

Regarding Wigan match, I think Carlo is trying to stick with 442. Play Anelka and Kalou forward, rest lampard.

Anelka-Kalou
Malouda-Essien-Ramires-Benayoun
Cole-Terry-Luiz-Iva
Cech

Hopefully benayoun can start and Ramires take over the attacking midfield post.
If we can bring in a wing, I would like to see we play 4231 in the future.
-------------------Torres------------
Zhirkov/Malouda-Ramires-Benayoun
-------------Essien-Lampard/Josh------
Cole-Terry-Luiz-Iva
Cech

If Zhirkov,Malouda and Benayoun do not perform, we have to buy wings at the both flanks. Aww, I miss Mourinho Robben and Duff era.
IMO,4231 fit us quite well. Drogba can play behind torres then move Ramires to the right.
If Anelka can play well, then he can replace zhirkov/malouda place.

relax guys.. we still got second match..
Keep ur head up.. go go chelsea..

Yes it looks like the illegal squatters were evicted by City 'DBKL'. Now its noisy here?
You are right Chelsea didn't deserve to win, but on the other hand  should go to OT with a draw.


Its definitely a  penalty when you see the deliberate action of Evra’s right foot above Ramires knees. I would let it go but what convince me  is the finishing torque action (inward heel above Ramires left knee)  completing a ‘scissors’ action inside the box. Evra definitely did not get the ball & Ramires did not dive. See rest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvi5hnoKMBE

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Added on April 8, 2011, 2:10 amBottom line is the Spanish Ref did a 'Webb' job and I suppose he got it right except for the Ramires Penalty and by right Evra should be send off. No? Remember this referee was the one that denied a Drogba goal when Buffon scooped his shot behind the goal line. The official, behind the goal, was not called to action. But will we now get another just to watch for penalty infringement?
To be fair and objective,  Alberto Malenco’s view  was obstructed by the pair tussle.

the main issue is midfield. If there's no supply how can striker score?

Look at those goals scored by Chicarito n Rooney. All product of great piece of work by midfield to the winger n cross to the striker.

Since departure of Ballack & Deco, i noticed that Chelsea midfield became less in creativity. I dare to say, even the likes of West Brom n Sunderland play much better football than us..