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Premier League Gameweek 33 + FAC semis

NoPace

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You have to feel for Chelsea, they have a striker crisis at a time where there are no quality strikers.
They shoulda just stuck with Morata. He misses chances, but so do lots of good strikers. At least he can run, is an aerial threat and has link-up ability.
 

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You have to feel for Chelsea, they have a striker crisis at a time where there are no quality strikers.
We should start the bidding at 150 in the summer. If Madrid do get him they should at least pay top dollar.
Yeah, poor little Chelsea. I hope they get 200mil for Hazard so they can buy few good players and a proper striker which will hopefully take them back to the top where they belong.
 

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Look like Chelsea can end this season strong. Going to be a tight race. Right now I feel that Arsenal and us might miss out. Although it can change very fast.

We need to beat Chelsea and City I think. Hard, but we can do it.
Chelsea is still shite, why would they end the season strongly? Because they beat Cardiff and Brighton before a home game against an out of form west ham (and theyve massively struggled in 2 of these 3).

4 of their last 5 games are away to Liverpool, away to United, home to Watford and then ending the season away to Leicester. Their other game is home to Burnley which is easy, but of those 4 other games I cant see them picking up more then 4-5 points tbh. And that's being generous.
 

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How Chelsea are third is beyond me. With the situation it is going on at their club, they should be in disarray :lol:
 

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They shoulda just stuck with Morata. He misses chances, but so do lots of good strikers. At least he can run, is an aerial threat and has link-up ability.
And he moved. Higuain doesn't even fecking do anything but lumber about looking like he's ran a marathon.

Chelsea fans trying to pretend he's been any better than Morata just so they can convince themselves they've improved their situation is really funny. He's terrible in new hilarious ways.
 

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fecking cnut of linesman has gifted Chelsea a Champions League place and deprived Cardiff of a Premier League spot.
 

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How Chelsea are third is beyond me. With the situation it is going on at their club, they should be in disarray :lol:
It's all because of their first 3 months of the season. They were keeping pace with City and Liverpool at the start of the season and then fell off and theyve been mediocre since.

Kinda like how United are in 6th because Mourinho only got 26 points from 17 games, they got 27 points from 11 games (and then 39 points from the next 22 games).
 

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Our goal difference is a lot worse than our top 4 rivals. We need to start pumping some teams.
 

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Oh man I love hyperbole.

He's not 'easily' the best player in the league. He's up there in the discussion for sure but he's not easily better than some of the other top players.
He has more moments of individual brilliance than anyone else.

That doesn’t necessarily make him the best player in the league.
 

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Let’s not get annoyed with Hazard and Chelsea for winning. We’d love a match winner to carry us, so would Arsenal.

There are two extremely good teams in the league and we all know who they are.

Under that, it’s anyone’s really. Third to Sixth are inconsistent teams with various issues, Utd obviously included.

We’re all a bit shite really, apart from Liverpool and City.
 

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He has more moments of individual brilliance than anyone else.

That doesn’t necessarily make him the best player in the league.
Yeah, I'd go with that. He scores some fantastic solo goals.

There are plenty of players in the league I'd consider in and around his level though. If he was 'easily' better than all of them then he'd be not far off Messi/Ronaldo levels, which he obviously isn't.
 

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The last time we pumped a team was away to Cardiff and that was ages ago
Big difference ever since the Liverpool game is pogba who made defining impact immediately after Jose was sacked has not been the same. You can say that with matic too. Herrera was injured .
 
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Big difference ever since the Liverpool game is pogba who made defining impact immediately after Jose was sacked has not been the same. You can say that with matic too. Herrera was injured .
Yeah I feel like all those injuries killed our momentum- we haven't really got going since then.
Hopefully we can start clicking soon.
 

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Finally starting to see some resemblance of Sarri ball. Hazard is out of this world for sure but let’s not sleep on Ruben. He has some Yaya Toure in him.
 

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And he moved. Higuain doesn't even fecking do anything but lumber about looking like he's ran a marathon.

Chelsea fans trying to pretend he's been any better than Morata just so they can convince themselves they've improved their situation is really funny. He's terrible in new hilarious ways.
He got old, it's not rocket science. This will be the 3rd year in a row his goals per minute declines again, and he's 31.

9 strong goalscoring seasons in a row from age 21-29, similar to Sanchez (obviously they're wildly different players) actually who was in the middle of an 8th straight strong goalscoring season before moving to us and immediately dropping off a cliff.

There will be exceptions (like sure, sign Messi to a precontract for 2021) but 8 or 9 seems like the most you should really expect from a mortal. Lewandowski is starting to drop off in season 8 and if next year was his last scoring more than 1 in 2 I wouldn't be surprised at all.