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What rubbish. Had to resort to long range shots throughout the game against the worst team in the league. Difficult to pick out players in such a rubbish performance but Remy and Gouffran need a kick up the backside in particular. Its funny because Gouffran usually puts himself about, didnt give the slightest amount of shite today. Not that Cisse was much better after coming on. And Tiote(who I thought was our best player up till the last 20 minutes), handing out fucking cheap freekicks. Got away with the one Fletcher took but not the second one. Cracking strike and all but the amount of times Tiote has given away needless set pieces that have cost us is hard to remember. Fucking liability. Good way to atone for the performance in the last derby lads, well done!

I think of lack of quality rather than effort is the issue here.

Thats kind of what 'cant do anything with the ball as usual' implies.

Think we've put a few decent balls into the box but noone's been there to attack them. Even after the formation change Remy has hardly been where a centre forward should be in such situations.

Scandalous we arent up for this considering what happened last time, must get better in the second half.

Only Ben Arfa and Tiote seem to be aware of what's at stake here. Sissoko is trying but he cant seem to be able to do anything with the ball as usual.Remy and Gouffran completely non existent. I'd put Cisse/Shola on for either of Remy/Gouffran.

I think if we can get past the first 20 minutes without incident we'll be okay. Need to stop anything stupid happening till then. I hope Tiote/Cabaye in particular understand that.

I was last time, so trying to be as nervous as possible for this. But yeah its hard

Sign all the Neymars and Bales you want, I dont think there's a player I enjoy watching more than Iniesta. Not at his best today but

Real a bit unlucky in the second half there. Bale was absolutely nowhere to be seen.

To be fair I think Busquets is underrated if anything, the diving part of his game doesnt help. Its funny how often that 'he's got great players around him' argument gets thrown around for Barca players, and for how many of them. Circular reference and all.

Also good to know those sort of promises to the young ones are being kept by the club.

Yup they just need some consistency. I believe Mbiwa can come good to eventually.

Missed the game. Seems like everyone put in a great shit and its a point I would have gladly taken before the match, let alone with 10 men.

Aye. You cant have 8 top players injured and expect the same quality on the bench.

I can see Pards aiming for about 4 points from that run in, maybe 5. Heck I'd take 4 to be honest

Confirmed- he's not playing. Not great news that.

Brilliant effort from Bosnia. This is what makes football special

Rumours about Colo being unfit for this one. Hope thats not true, we're likely to ship another 3-5 goals if it is.

We're already playing with 3 central midfielders.......

Suarez and Sturridge will make him go around in so many circles there'll be a freakin tornado on the pitch. Yeah he did alright at Cardiff apart from that gaffe, but thats just it, he's quite likely to do something similar again.

Perch?

Wasnt that funny when it happened though

Aye, I was just thinking there'd be a riot here if West Ham did that to us. Not trying to defend some of our performances, but its a crazy crazy league these days.