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raumdeuter:
Wasiu Ayinde [size=14pt]MARTIAL[/size]

Nihilist hope your jambody striker Lukaku dey learn from Martial how to score on the big stage

raumdeuter:
Penalties favor the kicker overwhelmingly and possibly over 70% of PKs are converted

Its a situation where no defender and you are free to shoot vs the keeper alone who cannot even move from his line

parrotibaba:
De gea saves the day

RuuDie:
Will Rashford make first team in City? Better still in your Chelsea, even as they are fumbling... I am coming correct!

And stop this crap about carrying the team on his back!!!

RuuDie:
Guy. Am not asking who has done better. Neither am I looking at the stats. This has nothing to do with sentiment. Rashford no near Iheanacho level. I can even stick my neck out and say Iheanacho is better than Aguero and Bony... a bolder manager and those two would surely sit out games for Iheanacho!

RuuDie:
Abeg make dem no think am o. Iheanacho sabi ball pass Rashford go far... dat boy (Iheanacho) sabi where e dey come from and where e dey go (focus)!

pickabeau1:
Sweet

2 nil down

AdeLaNa1:
4 games to go. And like play like play, Hazard still doesn't ve a league goal this season.

What a time to be alive

As excellent as Torres was at Liverpool, his personal accolades were not matched by a single trophy. As pitiful as he became at Chelsea, he won a Champions League, a Europa League and an FA Cup in three years. Football is a curious beast.

Cesc Fabregas claims he “forgot how to play football” and had “no confidence” as Chelsea suffered a horrendous run of results at the start of the season.

The champions, under Jose Mourinho, endured a run of shocking results which left them just above the relegation zone with several of their star players, including Fabregas, struggling to find their form.

One of nine league defeats before the turn of the year was against newly-promoted Bournemouth at Stamford Bridge on December 5 and Fabregas has revealed how he didn’t know what to do with the ball.

“One time after a game, after Bournemouth, I was in bed and I spoke to my wife,” he told Goal during a Q&A at a Puma boot launch. “I forgot how to play football, I have the ball and I don’t know what to do with it.

“It was hard, those two or three months from November, when I had no confidence.”

Fabregas was dropped by Mourinho and also left out by new boss Guss Hiddink in a bid for the former Arsenal man to find his form.

Mourinho was sacked just two months after the Bournemouth reverse and veteran Dutch coach Hiddink was appointed until the end of the season and his arrival as manager coincided with Fabregas returning to the form he showed in their title-winning season.

“Everything has changed in the last few months, I’m playing very well,” added Fabregas.

“Most importantly, it isn’t how you get [knocked] down, it’s how you get back up. I can be better now.”

And the Spain midfielder, whose side still have title-chasing Tottenham and Leicester to play at the Bridge, is hoping Leicester can go on to take the crown.

“I want Leicester to win. What they’re doing is remarkable. It takes real passion and guts,” added the 28-year-old, who has said he has no idea what the plans of new coach Antonio Conte will be.

Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo says he does not understand the fuss over Tottenham's youth policy.

Emenalo claims only Harry Kane has made an impression at first-team level and says Spurs have bought most of the other youngsters currently challenging for the Premier League title.

He was responding to criticism of Chelsea's academy policy, which comes despite the fact the club have just retained the UEFA Youth League and have won four of the past six FA Youth Cups.

Chelsea play Manchester City in the first leg of this year's final on Friday, and insists young players are given as much of an opportunity at Stamford Bridge as at Spurs.

Emenalo said: "In reality it is just the one key player, Harry Kane. Dele Alli they bought, Eric Dier they bought, Tom Carroll is a fringe player. So with all the hoopla about Tottenham, it's just the one player.

"So we try to remind them it's not just a Chelsea problem. We want them to be patient because [the parents] want it quicker than the boys want it or the boys are ready to take it."

Two players who have stepped up to the Blues first-team this season have been Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Bertrand Traore, while Todd Kane is expected to make the breakthrough next season following a successful loan with NEC Nijmegen.

Emenalo also has high hopes for Andreas Christensen, Tammy Abraham, Jake Clarke-Salter and Fikayo Tomori becoming first-team regulars at Chelsea.

"Christensen will be a superb player," Emenalo said. "I see on a regular basis that Jake Clarke-Salter and Fikayo Tomori are going to be outstanding players.

"They are young and I don't know if they decide to get fat. There's nothing I can do about that. If they continue the way they are, they will make it because they have great talent, there's no doubt about that.

"There is a coordinated effort from everybody to want to make this happen. Not just because it feels good, and it is nice to have a backbone the fans can relate to and support.

"But with the investment we are making and where we think the game is going and the competition that we have, you can't just buy your way out of trouble all the time.

"We have a philosophy in the academy to teach them to play the right way, the way we think a big team should play. And ultimately the only way they can play that gives them a chance to play for our first-team."

A40:
I dey watch MMA pass boxing these days. Overeem vs Lesnar about 5 years back na him hook me

raumdeuter:
Set pieces obscure the main reason for checking stats.

An example is the Gerrard example I gave. He scored 13 goals in a season More than Van persie and Benteke did that season. Looking at the stats on goal scored you would say Gerrard was a better goal scorer than the two without checking the way the goals were scored

Same with Chilavert and Rogerio Ceni who made tonnes of goals from set pieces

At a time Fernando Hierro was Spain top scorer as a central defender because he was good from Set pieces

Yesterday Mark Noble scored 2 goals from penalties

the purpose of goal stats is to know which player is the sharpest in front of goal and in those cases the penalties have misrepresented the facts because its not a usual /regular play

Its like using wealth stats(goals) to measure hardwork(sharpness) and we shouldnt discount people who won the lottery or get inheritance(penalties)

raumdeuter:
You guys should just arrange a room and bunk together this weekend


This Chelsea poor form don turn all their fans into PMSing whores

Ibime:
You done finish?

Like I said: "Nihilist dey always find me".

Na Diggz wey alert me say you dey find me.

I discriminate who I discuss footie with so I quickly asked you to put your money where your mouth is to end your matter, whilst I discussed with Dadehmola and afrodoc about events we both witnessed. Ain't got time to discuss with google ninjas who no carry their see wetin we dey yarn.

All this time you dey shout for background. Same with Raumdeuter, you still dey shout for background.

Oya carry go now. In the first place, did you think I don't know that most niggas would disagree with my view on Iniesta? It no concern me jor, I am here to yarn how I feel about the game so "showing me up" means jackshyt.

I advise you to get over your obsession cos I no send you at all. I discriminate who I discuss footie with my gee.

Ibime:
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I'm a dimwit, yet you continue to put my name in your mouth everyday.

You are obsessed with me nigga.

If you noticed, since this debate, I was speaking with Dadehmola, Afrodoc and Raumdeuter, while you keep jumping into my case in an attempt to "show me up".

Even back to the inception of this, you saw something on SkySports and couldn't wait to run here to make reference to me.

I have told you ninja, I'm not concerned with you, yet you keep bringing me up.

I have a First-Class Maths Degree, a Masters degree and an Accounting qualification that says I'm intelligent. Please allow boys discuss footy jejely without trying "show us up as a dimwit" all the time. We know who the real dimwits are[/s].

diggz:
Ibime ....! Nihilist dey find you o....!

Meanwhile @ Nihilist why you wan compare both players in terms of productivity when dem obviously no dey play same position?

Just asking bruv

Nihilist:
Barry and Scholes are both central midfielders

I no mention anybody name, I just dey report wetin I see for BBC sport

Ibime:
Nihilist dey always find me.

Paul Scholes has scored double the no of goals of Gareth Barry, while Gareth Barry has played a hundred games more than Scholes so Scholes is way more productive than Barry.

Productivity = goals + assists. . . . .except your name is Hiddeniesta.

Ibime:
I'm responsible for what I type, not what you comprehend. Get lost.

I am having a key debate with Raumdeuter on the role of the wide-forwards in the 4-3-3 and why Insigne/Pedro should be classed differently from Anelka and Kuyt.

We have already excluded the effect of 4-2-3-1 by removing Muller, Ozil, DeBruyne and co from this debate and focusing solely on Lampard, Gerrard, Matuidi and Hamsik, plus Toure (on occassion).

So I don't know why a dimwitted punk is bleating nonsense from the sideline about the 4-2-3-1. It is inconsequential to this debate and has been from the start.

raumdeuter:
The question is as clear as day.
You took the pain to list out PSG and Napoli which no one asked but couldnt use that same time to list out the 3 strikers for City and Liverpool
Could it be that you were lying and know you are about to get caught?
So another try: Name the 3 strikers for Liverpool(The team that wears red in Merseyside currently coached by Klopp) and City (the team in Manchester that wears blue and currently coached by pellegrini)
I am taking this pain so you wont regale me with the players from PSG in France and Napoli in Italy

raumdeuter:
There is a marked difference between a 4-3-3 and a 4-2-3-1. Which is the man in the hole. The Mesut Ozil. lets postpone the argument

Ibime na my guy, I would out of respect for that pull out of this argument for now until I catch him one on one another time

Ibime:
I don't want to get distracted from a key debate I'm having with Raumdeuter which is to define the boundaries of the wing-forwards in a 4-3-3.

I don't want to get distracted by minor nuances between a 4-3-3 and a 4-2-3-1 (Lampard for Oscar). It is inconsequential to this debate so I don't know why you are screaming like a pig on the sideline in a childish manner.

I want Raumdeuter to tell us why he considers Pedro and Isaac Cuenca to be strikers whilst Dirk Kuyt, Albert Riera, Babel, Anelka and Kalou are pure wingers.