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bigkesh:
I love Morata jare.. .............




As a back up

back up to who?

At last, hazard was able to give him a yellow card and won the free kick that brought the second goal. If he didn't give Gana a yellow today, i would have said that he succeeded.

And Klopp said, "ask pep, he will say the same thing

Despite this, Morata has outscored
Benzema. The ex-Juventus star has 18
strikes in total and the best goals-to-minute
ratio in the Madrid squad. His goals have
also given Real more points than any other
player.

www.m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/4055/main/2017/04/29/35061892/benzema-must-be-sold-this-summer-as-real-madrid-get-out-of

Upon say ororo don score 32.

Chelseafan1:
Looool, wetin u be, hundrednaire.??

i no know.

airmark:
You dont need to be a football expert to know this. People with brains will easily notice, but trust apari raumdeuter and 'up barka' fans, even if Christ tells them the truth about epl, they wont agree.

The part that interested me most is the part where he said they should ask pep and he will say the same thing.

BARCELONA AND REAL MADRID
WOULD FIND PREMIER LEAGUE
TOUGH, SAYS KLOPP
Joe Wright
England's top flight would be far from a
walkover for Spain's top two clubs,
according to the Liverpool manager
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp believes
Barcelona and Real Madrid would find it
difficult to cope with the intensity of the
Premier League.
Conte hints at Serie A return
The 49-year-old has the Reds, third in the
table with four games remaining, on track
for Champions League qualification in his
first full season in England's top flight.
Liverpool had looked set to mount a title
challenge when they won 13 of their first 19
matches, but a run of one victory in seven
at the start of 2017 brought those hopes to
an end.
Klopp, who lifted successive Bundesliga
titles with Borussia Dortmund, claims the
difficulty of England's top flight would even
be felt by Spain's powerhouse clubs.
"Even for the great Spanish teams, it would
be difficult to win the Premier League," he
told Marca . "Of course, Madrid and Barca
would be fighting for everything, but it
would be very difficult.
'Lukaku better than Costa'
"In the Premier League, nothing is certain.
The intensity is very high and many things
can happen in matches. There's not a single
game where you can win 4-0 comfortably
and rest your first XI. It doesn't exist in
the Premier League. It's not possible in the
Bundesliga, either, unless you're Bayern
[Munich].
"Chelsea are having a great season but there
are many games where they have won 1-0
and had to defend until the end. I've
experienced two leagues and I can say that
this one is really tough. Ask Pep [Guardiola
of Manchester City], he'll say the same!
"We're up there, fighting for the Champions
League positions, but I can say: five more
points, and everything would look different.
There are a few games left and we'll fight
to the utmost."
Klopp remains confident Liverpool can win
their first title since 1990 under his
guidance, however.
Is Wilshere permanently broken?
PLAY
"Of course. It's always possible. Is it
likely? I don't know, but it's possible and
that's enough for me," he said. "There are
several teams that fight for the title each
season and maybe, at this moment, some
have more chances than us, but I'm not
interested in that.
"That's the key to this job: to find the right
solutions for the problems that are
presented to you. The goal is to win a
competition but the fight is already
exciting."
Klopp went on to reveal that he feels a
positive atmosphere among his players is
key and highlighted Madrid star Cristiano
Ronaldo as an example of why talent is not
always enough to succeed.
"I don't try to be nice every minute of the
day," he said. "I tell them things when it's
necessary. I like to be their friend, but not
their best friend. A friend tells you things
clearly at the right time.
"I always tell a footballer that 50 per cent
of their success is my responsibility and 50
per cent is theirs. I always say that I don't
know if he's a great player until I know if
he's a good or bad type. He can be a genius
but if he only helps me three times a year
and in the rest of the games, creates
problems for me...
"I use the example of Cristiano and [Lionel]
Messi. Cristiano fascinates everyone, but
I'm sure he works harder than anyone else."

www.m.goal.com/s/en/news/1862/premier-league/2017/04/28/35020952/barcelona-and-real-madrid-would-find-premier-league-tough?ICID=TP_HN_1

Chelseafan1:
Abeg o, leave doz pple, we no reach dem at all....thousandnaires like us no get mouth for where multi millionaires dey talk....abwg,make we just dey our level dey hope on God.

your own better self say you be thousandnaire.

Ibime:
I saw, I saw. But at the same time it was almost the same probability of Southampton going ahead and taking points off us in that first half before Cahill's goal settled the nerves. Our wings were under serious overload that first half.

I will remind you that Juan Mata once made 35 assists in a season and was sold the next season for tactical stability.

I am not claiming Uhuru on 3-5-2 just yet. Let the team work on it and stop those overloads first before I can get comfortable with it.

okay o.

Nemanja Matic and newly-crowned PFA Player of the Year N'Golo Kante didn't make a tackle between them, and the Blues haven't kept a clean sheet now for 11 Premier League games. That record puts the pressure on Chelsea's forwards to keep on delivering.
Hmm.

Ibime:
I thought we struggled badly with the 3-5-2 in the first half.

It was only Cahill's goal that calmed us down.

I am not claiming Uhuru on the 3-5-2 at all just yet.

but, we can't just keep Fabregas out of the line up. We can't have to do without that his understanding and combination with hazard and Costa coupled with his creativity. Didn't you see his contribution yesterday?

Seriously, conte must have to continue with this 3-5-2. Fabregas must have to be brought into this team. We can't be wasting his creativity on the bench.

Ibime:
I'm sure you watched Belgium Vs Wales

yes. Tell me how bale outplayed hazard that day.

weedtaker:
pedro is better than hazard.

lol. That was funny.

Ibime:
Costa was not Griezmanns boss in 2014. Costa just played for the winning team. If I ask you to name the last winger outside Barca or Madrid to score 20 goals in a season, you may be going back a decade or more to find more than one. Griezmanns feat in 2014 is historic.

How that connects with the fact that a lower placed Spurs player sonned Hazard in 2013 is the missing piece of logic. If Bales (double PFA winner) attempt to battle with the big boys is not a harbinger of things to come from Hazard then logic is lost on you. It's not like Bale wasn't seen sonning Hazard last summer at the Euros.

If you want more empirical evidence go and check the record of ex-Barca flop like Sanchez Vs Hazard. 60% more goals than Hazard since coming to England.

Even 2nd degree Barca flop like Pedro has more goals and more assists since coming to England.

All this evidence suggests Hazard is not equipped to compete with Messi, Ororo or even Neymar since their castoffs are even outproducing him.

Believe you me, Hazard is not going to go to Barca or Madrid and wow them with dribbles. If you are in their front three, they need to see goals and assists on the table.

In short, the only logic you have espoused here is that Wilfred Ndidi can hope to work harder and become a great player in future to maybe compete with Messi and Ororo, mbok.

In the things that matter in Barca or Madrid front 3 (goals and assists), he has shown little or no improvement. He is still posting roughly the same stats as when he arrived in England. He is kuku better off converting to midfield and claiming he is not about goals and assists like Iniesta. He is already talking about it.

Are you talking about the same euros that we all watched? The one that hazard got 4 assists, 1 goal and 2 MOTM awards. How did bale even play better than hazard in the Belgium vs Wales match?

And, hazard scored 20 goals for lille just few years back.

dopeJemi:
I think that shi.t started recently, it wasn't like that in the beginning and last season

that is not true. In fact, in his first season, he won the award of the most dispossessed player in the league.

NO BOTTLE, NO TROPHY -
GUARDIOLA HAS FAILED TO LIVE
UP TO THE HYPE IN FIRST MAN
CITY SEASON
Sam Lee
The Catalan is by no means the root of the
club's problems but there will no be doubts
- externally at least - that he can put them
right
COMMENT
Pep Guardiola will continue to try to do
what he was brought to Manchester City to
do, but his job will not have been made any
easier after another big game went begging.
Alexis sends Arsenal into FA Cup final
The Catalan insisted in the build-up to this
FA Cup semi-final clash with Arsenal that
he would leave it for the journalists to
decide if he has failed in his first season at
the Etihad Stadium. There will be many, in
the media and in the stands, who will have
made up their minds after this defeat,
coming as it did against Arsene Wenger's
brittle outfit.
Indeed, the first trophy-less season of
Guardiola's managerial career would suggest
he has struggled to adapt to the English
game, or that his possession-based game
will never work here.
The reality, here at Wembley and across
many other major games this season, is not
quite so straightforward.
City yet again had enough chances to put
the game out of sight before their
opponents managed to drag themselves up
off the canvas and land a sucker-punch.
Guardiola was so angry with his side's
performance against the Gunners in the
league earlier this month that he has let his
feelings become known in public, which is
rare.
On several occasions since he has bemoaned
the performance, saying he "never wants to
see my team play like that again" and, in
the Wembley programme, spelled out again
that his team "forgot to play".
His message in private, immediately before
this game and the days leading up to it,
would have simply been: "Do not do that
again".
Yet they did. Not for long, but long
enough. Sergio Aguero scored an excellent
breakaway goal but City allowed the
Gunners a foothold in the game again and
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's delightful cross
was converted by Nacho Monreal, who had
been doubling up alongside Alexis Sanchez
on Jesus Navas.
Still want to join City, Alexis?!
Navas, at least, has put in some spirited
performances despite not being good
enough. He has too many team-mates who
are also struggling, or faring even worse.
If it is ultimately decided that Guardiola
has failed this season, a large share of the
blame must be taken by those responsible
for leaving the squad so short thanks to
years of questionable purchases.
City need a raft of new players and that has
been evident for months. Quality, young and
versatile recruits are needed to drastically
upgrade the defence and, as was made plain
at Wembley, add much-needed depth to the
squad in attacking areas.
City also need battle-hardened winners, and
how inevitable it was when Alexis, the man
they hope to sign this summer, stabbed in
an extra-time winner just seconds after a
tiring Aguero was taken off and replaced by
Fabian Delph, who was later put through on
goal but could not convert when it
mattered.
That has been the story of the season.
Guardiola, while bemoaning his side's
fragility when in leading positions, says his
side are better after a setback. That was
again evidenced when Yaya Toure and
Fernandinho hit the frame of the goal at
1-1, and when Kevin De Bruyne flashed one
just wide of the post after Delph's miss.
In the end, though, Wenger's men did more
than enough to be declared deserved
winners. That those players have too often
been accused of going missing, or even not
playing for their manager, it does not say a
great deal about the mentality of their City
counterparts.
Indeed, if it were not for the sheer amount
of new players needed this summer, the
task of instilling a winning mentality in this
team would be Guardiola's most demanding.
It seemed like a change of tack when he
said ahead of the match that, "Winning or
not winning isn't going to change too many
things about the perspective of our future,
what we are going to do." After all, he has
talked so often about changing the club's
mentality by playing in the biggest games,
and winning them.
Guardiola, while millions debate whether he
has failed or not, will remain fully
committed to what he wants to do and,
most importantly, how he wants to do it.
But the look of despair on his players' faces
at full-time suggests he will have a
formidable job on his hands to convince
them to go again. He thought he had done
it after losing at Monaco, but despite a
full-spirited display just three days later a
draw was the best City could muster and, in
all, they have failed to beat Liverpool,
Chelsea and Arsenal twice since their
European elimination.
Guardiola did quickly seem to go back on
what he had earlier said to acknowledge the
role winning a trophy would have as he bids
to convince his players to follow his lead:
"It would put in the hearts and heads of my
players how good they are. I said many
times with them, but they still don't believe
how good they are. Winning titles helps you
a lot."
Clearly, they will not get that help this
season.
Yet, while those around City seem to have
had at least one eye on the summer and
beyond, there is the increasingly difficult
prospect of a Manchester derby up next, on
Thursday night.
Guardiola needs to make his players believe
they are good enough to play his way, a
way that has, let it not be forgotten,
brought both unprecedented success to
Barcelona and joy to millions around the
world, and a playing style that established
Bayern as a force in world football.
City make history with fourth sub
New players will help in that regard but
once again the Catalan will need to make do
with what he has got. The derby is next but,
since beating United at Old Trafford in
September, City have played well in their
big matches but taken one point off
Tottenham, none from Chelsea, one from
Liverpool and three from Arsenal - thanks
to their only win against a top side - as
well as losing to the Gunners here in the
cup. Not to mention a failure to win a
Champions League away game, and a
collective lack of bottle when it mattered in
the south of France.
Given the shortcomings of the squad it
would be harsh to write this season off as a
failure, or at least to say their manager has
failed. More time is required, and that has
been obvious for months.
PLAY
But City have consistently failed to win
their games against the best teams, which
is why they are in this situation. Surely
now it cannot be disputed that Guardiola's
debut campaign has at least been a major
disappointment.
A place in the top four is now the best
possible outcome. Beating United on
Thursday would surely see to that, but
there are no guarantees they will.
Whatever happens this week and in the
weeks to come, there will be a lingering
sense of doubt among many pundits and
fans that Guardiola is able do the job he
was brought here to do.
But it is the players Guardiola must
convince, and as soon as possible.

www.m.goal.com/s/en/news/8/main/2017/04/23/34863732/no-bottle-no-trophy-guardiola-has-failed-to-live-up-to-the?ICID=HP_HN_4

Ibime:
The Messis and CR7s, Neymar, Suarez and Bales are there based on stats, don't let that fool you. If CR7 or Messi score only 15 goals next season, they will lose their crown, it's that simple. That's who Hazard is competing with. What you call "stats" are actually game-winning goals and assists. Eunuch is the only special case whose case is different. He is blessed and highly favoured.

Hazard must improve his runs. Hardly will you see Hazard scoring tapins, or goals where he only needs one touch. Most of his goals involve dribbling a man or two before finishing. Until he starts making those runs he should forget comparison with the top dogs. Pedro is about to outscore him two seasons in a row without penalties.

yet Pedro is not being compared to him.

WHY DOES GUARDIOLA GET THE
LEEWAY THAT'S DENIED TO
WENGER?
Peter Staunton
The worse that Arsenal do the more
attention their fans receive, while the man
he outclassed on Sunday still gets a
relatively free ride
COMMENT
Andy Warhol said that in the future
everyone would be famous for 15 minutes
and that’s quite enough now from Arsenal
Fan TV and the hostility they’ve wrought.
Pep has failed to live up to City hype
These self-promoters are performing on
demand — distorting all perspective on the
single most important individual in
Arsenal’s history. And it’s catching; it’s
become a meme in itself.
Turn on the television and tune it to
WrestleMania, the London Marathon, an
Antarctic exploration mission and there will
be some try-hard with a pitiful #WengerOut
banner late to the joke.
The disrespect that flows towards Arsene
Wenger — from the stands, from the
streets, from airplanes over stadiums —
stems directly from that fan channel.
Opinions on there are not only endured but
actively sought.
It makes for compelling viewing. Fans of all
clubs now tune in as a matter of course
after a bad result to watch Arsenal’s fans
run their own team’s noses in it.
The louder and more hysterical the
response, the more people will be tempted
to watch. The more eyes that are on the
channel, the better it is for the owners. And
what the hordes hear on there, they repeat
verbatim. There is only one opinion worth
shouting round here: #WengerOut.
Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final victory was a
timely rebuke then to Wenger’s detractors.
PLAY
“It was a big test for us today,” Wenger
said. “A mental test because many people
questioned if we can turn up in an occasion
like that. That’s why I’m very proud for the
players.
“We have gone through a very difficult
period and we faced some adversity that
made the situation more difficult, from
inside as well. We have shown a united
response, not a divided response. Mentally
we were in a fragile position.”
Arsenal and the Manchester City they beat
had experienced pretty similar seasons up to
Sunday afternoon, but a stupefying lack of
perspective obscures an accurate
comparison. Both were knocked out of the
Champions League at the round of 16 stage,
for example, and are under-performing in
terms of a sustained Premier League title
run.
City would rather sink the players, the
staff, the fans, the stadium and anything
else you’d care to mention and leave only
Guardiola intact if it came to starting
again. The opposite is true at Arsenal,
where the loudmouths blame Wenger for
anything and everything.
The general sentiment appears to be that
Guardiola is new to the league — he’s
going to need some time to adapt, but
Wenger’s been here 20 years and he should
know better.
Wenger continues future mind games
Pep has indeed had to get used to things
pretty quickly. He has been taken aback by
the intensity in the English game and that
has meant compromising on his ideals of
football perfection. For the first time in his
managerial life he’ll end the season without
a trophy, and yesterday’s man Wenger did a
job on him to keep Arsenal within a shout
of one.
City have been gearing up for Pep’s arrival
ever since Ferran Soriano and Txiki
Begiristain first pitched up at the Etihad
around five years ago. It’s not like Pep was
parachuted into the job mid-season and told
to fight fires like Hull City's Marco Silva
— who pound-for-pound has done a better
job than him. He gave six months’ notice.
And here he is, involved in the same old
top-four dog fight that occupied Manuel
Pellegrini last season. He has overseen a
regression of City’s Champions League
form, too.
There have been high-profile disputes with
bona fide City legends like Joe Hart and
Yaya Toure. He’s even taken the step to
drop Sergio Aguero — surely the best
centre-forward the club has ever had and,
like Hart and Toure, a veteran of two
league title wins. In all those disputes the
fans — for the most part — took
Guardiola’s side.
Contrast those reactions to what happened
at Arsenal when Wenger dared to drop
Alexis Sanchez at Liverpool. The Chile
striker downed tools in training and openly
disrespected his team-mates on the field,
and yet Wenger was made out to be the one
at fault.
Guardiola was the one who began
introducing tactical concepts that his
players couldn’t or wouldn’t deal with.
Nonetheless, he gets the credit for trying
— the players blamed for their lack of
adaptability, their technical ability or lack
of intelligence. They are not where they
should be at this stage of the season and
Guardiola has plenty to answer for.
Meanwhile, it’s Wenger who carries the can
when Sanchez strops, when Mesut Ozil goes
missing or when Theo Walcott lets him
down again.
And yet somehow Arsenal can move within
four points of City by winning their game
in hand. City have to play the Manchester
derby against a strong and improving
United this week, meaning very soon we
could be looking at a one-point gap between
these two sides.
This is the conclusion of a decent year’s
work for a man who has been working
against so many forces trying to undermine
him.
Three FA Cup finals in four seasons, 19
years of unbroken Champions League
qualification, the new stadium, the titles
and the good times, and now this
wholesome victory against the hottest
manager in the world.
Don’t expect too much praise on the fan
channel. They are Arsenal fans but need a
crisis to attract attention. The more Wenger
wins, the less they’ll have to say.

www.m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/4071/premier-league/2017/04/24/34882242/why-does-guardiola-get-the-leeway-thats-denied-to-wenger

Ibime:
Hazard doesn't make the runs to score 25 goals a season, much less 40 needed to start comparing yourself to such names.

Secondly if he is passing instead of shooting, his assist should be close to 40 if Fabregas argument is that he assists instead of scoring.

The above quote is pie in the sky. He is far far away, even if he became selfish and converted all his assists to goals, he wouldn't have much to compare himself with Messi and CR7.

I'm sorry, that's just the truth. Hardly will you see Hazard making the kind of run that Messi made for the winning goal yesterday, or that Alli made for the equaliser on Saturday. That's what gets you to 30 goals, not super stories that you should convert your paltry 10 assists into goals.

Hazard got a lot of improving to do on timing his runs and anticipation if he wants to hang with the big dogs.

To be honest, I am yet to understand how hazard creates one of the highest number of chances in Europe and still have less number of assists.
This your ranking of players based on only stats alone has been found wanting a lot of times and the case of Iniesta is still one of them.

dopeJemi:
no, on the ball I think neymar is better, he was all tricks and flicks until Barcelona told him to be more direct, not disputing hazard's ability on the ball though

worthy mention
Sanchez

do you mean the Sanchez that is most dispossessed player in the league?

If costa no go China make i know wetin cause am.

www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10844402/tianjin-quanjian-working-to-sign-diego-costa-from-chelsea-sky-sources

Ibime:
Which one be Premier League awards?

There are only 3 major awards - PFA players award, PFA fans award, and Football Writers Award. . . . . . of which PFA Players Award is the Daddy.

Which one is Premier League Awards - Is that given out by Goal.com? We have never heard of that one here in Somalia.

The Barclays player of the Season. Hazard won it in 2015.

bigkesh:
Fabregas, Conte, Drogba, Lampard and Terry should call Hazard's wife, dad and mum for a meeting, to talk sense into that Mumu boy



Be selfish! !!!!!!

Fabregas is right, on the ball Only Messi is better.. ..Guys like Neymar and Grizzy are scoring more

lol

Chelsea's Eden Hazard can become
"unstoppable" and is second only to Lionel
Messi in ability, according to team-mate Cesc
Fabregas.
The Belgian has rediscovered the scintillating
form of Chelsea's last title-winning season, in
2014/15, to fire the Blues to the top of the
Premier League and towards a possible double
after coming off the bench to help his side
beat Tottenham 4-2 in the FA Cup semi-final
at Wembley on Saturday.
Chelsea vs So'ton
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The 26-year-old scored Chelsea's third against
Spurs for his 15th goal of the season, and
Fabregas, who was a team-mate of Messi's at
Barcelona, says Hazard can get even better if he
becomes more selfish in front of goal.
Hazard is second only in ability to Lionel
Messi, says Fabregas
"Eden can be whatever he wants to be,"
Fabregas said. "Ability wise, there is only one
player above him and we all know who he is:
Messi.
"Sometimes when we have a counter attack and
it's two against two and he passes the ball, I
tell him, 'You have the capability to score by
yourself. Do it'.
Hazard scored for Chelsea against Tottenham
"He has to do it more often. I've told him
many, many times, he needs to be selfish
sometimes and have that killer instinct to score
more goals. I hope - and I'm sure - he will
improve in the future. And then he will be
unstoppable."
Chelsea are four points clear of Tottenham and,
should they hold on and clinch the title, they
can achieve the double for the first time since
2009/10 under Carlo Ancelotti, and in Antonio
Conte's first season, with FA Cup final victory
over Arsenal on May 27.
Fabregas is eyeing the double with Chelsea
"It's something special and it's something very
difficult to do," Fabregas said. "Nowadays,
especially here in England. Because in Spain
you can do it. In Germany you can do it. In
Italy. Doing it here would be something
special, something to be very proud of. But to
be able to do that, first of all we have to work
very hard.
"Secondly, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
Definitely we need to be very, very consistent
until the end of the season.
It's a heavyweight week of action live only on
Sky Sports.
Fabregas also came off the bench against
Spurs, but he says, whether starting or not,
the Chelsea squad is united.
"What I like is that we scored the first goal
and everyone on the bench was together and
celebrating," he added. "[But] coming on to
make a difference, to show character, to show
hunger to win... we're full of winners and I'm
proud to be here."
www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10848821/chelseas-eden-hazard-is-second-only-to-lionel-messi-in-ability-says-cesc-fabregas

raumdeuter:
Truth that what? Is the table not the truth again

mtcheeeew. I don't have time for this

raumdeuter:
Check the table

You are a hypocrite. What would it take take you to just accept the truth.

Igerizee:
t true sha buh he did quite well yesterday

yes

raumdeuter:
The 2 most useless cups in the season. League Mourinho was out of it by November

e get clause for pep contract wey say make him no win those cups?

raumdeuter:
Better than Mourinho

How

raumdeuter:
Better than Mourinho

How

johnstar:
i swear, hight matters alot o, bt d guy is vry good i swear, e tried oo

for sure

Igerizee:
marcelo no qet height na

not like Ake. Moreover, Ake will be playing as a left centre back and not left back