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Godstraight:
so far is just 3 matchday,last season Chelsea won 30 out 38 games in the league, arecord in epl,their first 6 games were 3 wins,1 draw, 2 loses.

I don't think you understood my original post.

Godstraight:
and what if other teams in the top 6 do the same

Well, liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham and arsenal have not so far. So....

Excellent so far. Key for this season is beating the teams outside the top 7 teams home and away. If we do that consistently we'll win the league. If not we have no chance.

dopeJemi:
the winning line up had Martial in it not Rashford

Starting lineup. You could argue Martial came on against tired legs. I love martial and i want him to succeed but if he doesn't have a good game I can see Jose been harder on him because he doesn't work as hard as Rashford defensively.

Nihilist:
Rashford deserves a bench seat. Martial deserves the start

Not necessarily. Rashford has been very good in the first 2 games. Just hasn't had the finish. Martial I'm very happy with but i would have been ok with Rashford starting again. No need to change a winning lineup in my opinion. I'm happy with both of them playing rotating one position though so let's see how it goes.

Thats a great group for us but we've flopped out of worse groups so hopefully we put our best form forward.

That Spurs group serious.

I want Real Madrid in the group stages of the CL.

I'm happy with his resigning. He won't play instead of Lukaku but it'll be either with Lukaku or or the Bench and I think we'll still be strong for it.



Just hope he isnt drug tested before the end of the season.

Zlatan is back.

https://twitter.com/Ibra_official/status/900706809027100677

CapitalCee:
This is a newspaper publication in 1987

For those pessimistic folks that keep bashing Mourinho after the loss to Madrid. Look at Fergie, if the united board had listened to the "''Einsteins''
We may still have like 7 league titles now. Let's quit joining the jealous shekpe scummies to criticize our players and managers let's support out team that's what true fans do.

Within reason of course...

Lana1:
Agreed.

Martial------Ukaku------Rashford

------Pogba-----------Mkhi-------

--------------Matic----------------

-------------Back 4----------------


So much pace and flair in this line up. The only odd one out might be Pogba as he tends to disappear in big games. But lets hope that wont be the case this season. We need everyone on 100% if we're to win those big games

Jose will never lineup like this against a team in the top 7. Never ever.

Such a great win and result yesterday. Only saw highlights but I wish i was able to see the whole game to properly see how far we have improved. Tougher tests in our next 3 matches as this will be better indicators but I think last season's team would have definitely drawn one of the first 2 games.

sinizia:
Very solid buy. By now I'd have been wailing for us missing out on him, but Matic's electric performances for us had me believing he might be the better option than Matuidi.

Plus he's older than Matic.

lekkie073:
d only advantage draxler has over perisic is age. he is younger. aside that, perisic is by far better. or perhaps u r being deceived by his recent exploits in d German team

5 years younger with similar goal record. Could maybe improve fitness record. But he looks like he's still improving. Cannot say the same for Perisic.

Rumours Draxler might be available. Would definitely be better than Perisic in my opinion.

afrodoc2:
I do not think i was for or against Paulinho however you have to remember that when it comes to buying players especially non-superstars Barca has a history of gbaing penalty lo si throw in.So let us see how he does at Barca first before judging.

They bought Andre Gomes, Hleb, Santi Ezquerro, Chygrynski, Paco Alcacer, Mathieu, Alex Vidal, Thomas Vermaelen, Keirrision, Gerard Lopez, Milito, Cristanval, Geovanni et al so they are not infallible.

Barca are suffering against Madrid due to their bad signings and it doesn't look like they've learnt. Those you listed are players that have coat them a shed load of money but they've relied on msn to bail them out time and time again.

Digriz:
You are right since we hv many matches to play this season but Mou has the habit of playing any player he acquired consistently even if the player under performs.
Marital is a good player that I love but I don't know why Mou wl prefer lingard to him,may be bcus he doesn't track back to help the defence,I may be wrong though, but my thought.
Perisic,may find it hard to adapt this season and Mourinho will never drop him for Martial which will cost us to drop some points if he gets him.
Look at Jones performance on Sunday,the guy is good just that he plays with his heart and not with his head there by getting unnecessary injuries. Lindholf is never a match to Jones bt don't be surprise to see him benching Jones.

Not really. He hardly played Miki in the first half of last season and he's already dropped Lindelof to ease him in so atleast for us, he wont force his own signing if the player is not ready.

Will be interesting to see if Jones and Bailly is the first choice defence now. At least until Jones injures both of them getting on the coach.

Danhumprey:
Where are those that were against the purchase of Matic? please, come out, come out. don't be ashamed. raise your hand up.

Right here. Where is that humble pie make I chop?

Really hope Martial has put credit on Jose's credit card so he doesn't get sold or ignored.

LoRdCaT:
Is this the destruction you wanted?

Yup. Its been a while. I had forgotten what it looked like.

Well that was great. Finally we put someone to the sword. We need goals from other players because Lukaku will score goals. But we need goals from others like Rashford,Pogba, Martial,Miki and Mata who all have to give us 10+ goals each if we're to have a chance with this title fight. Nice one.

On to Swansea away next.

LoRdCaT:
Leicester?

My point exactly.

Predictions of smashing teams by our team always perplexes me. I don't remember the last time we smashed anyone. I just want a win tomorrow even a 1-0 win will be greeted with joy from me.

Oh defenders, where art thou?

The Liverpool defending for Watford's 1st goal might be the worst set piece defending I have ever seen. Absolute disgrace.

SIRcumalot:
dablord will give us double figures goals this season,Mata will find away to contribute somehow too.
would you rather we win another domestic trophy say,fa or carling instead of a 2nd place finish and no trophy with an encouraging UCL run ?.

city scares me too but they scared me last year.so if it just be hype.

Its pretty tough to say. The expectations are high and they should be. Nearly 300m has been spent by Jose in 2 summers so delivering better than the odd no trophy and encouraging ucl run and 2nd place. To me that's not really good enough. We needs to keep trophies on the board and they have 2 to be big trophies. Minimum fa cup + 2nd in the league and semi of ucl. Is a good season in my opinion.

Big if but if they sort their defence my prediction is City win the league. I'm unsure about Chelsea this season as they seem to be imploding. Conte is very unhappy at certain things and it wouldn't surprise me if he leaves before the end of the season.
We can finish anywhere in the top 4. Hard to say right now. I don't feel we've improved our goal scoring yet as Lukaku will pretty much score the same as Zlatan but we need one or 2 more to step up with double figures in league goals this season.

We need a trophy this season though.

Just confirmed that playing in the Super Cup doesn't Cup tie Bale.

Oasis007:
^^^^^

Will Madrid sell him to United if eventually he's available?!

Its a problem we have. Our relationship with Real is poor and they could bring up DDG which will not end well.

I didn't realise playing in the super Cup will cuptie you for Europe. That definitely makes things interesting for tomorrow if he plays. He's staying for the season but if he doesn't play we will look to sign him.

PietroRico:
and at least get to hold a position down. I still don't know his best position, Jose probably doesn't know too.

I doubt he knows himself

I'm guessing rb but it's a very good point.