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Looking at that Salah goal again, mehn he needs more respect especially from Chelsea fans.

Havertz tried to be selfish there. Should have looked to square.

Man City on a canter to another league title. 11 wins in a row.

Happy New everyone. May we see more of it in the land of the living in joy and prosperity.

Happy birthday Nihilistjnr and odunharry.

Leyqute:
Dennis had always wanted to focus on his career in England and create a name for himself

There was no way he’d honor a call to the SE at this moment.

Can't say I blame him. He is in good form now. He might go for AFCON and find himself on the bench like that and the momentum will slow down, he might come back to find out Watford have moved on without him.

Theuniverse:
nonsense, so if we change to attacking formation, must alonso play, cant our coach think,and find solution to the problem. example mancity vs leeds this season. mancity had left back cancelo injured. stones played right back. how many times leeds exposed stones and score, mancity destroyed leeds 7:0. cant tuchel do the same at chelsea, rudiger or chalobah can do a very good job at left back and right back. for the dm position must jorginho play dm, azpilicueta,even silva not forgetting kante, can play there, untill our injuries problem is over, then the normal players take over their positions back. this season, look a mancity, debruyne injury, still winning, fernandinho out still winning, isnt tuchel versatile again, guardiola is levels above him, in tactics and versatility, and that wins epl not this stupid one dimension, always complaining of injured players, mentality. tuchel deserves every inch of pressure he gets, very stupid man, who told him to loan livramento, gilmour and gallagher arent this the players that would have helped him to, balance and cover this injury crises, so how is guardiola succeding keeping all his superstars Happy, and benching them time to time, and still getting best out of them. abeg tuchel should learn from giardiola, cus chelsea will not even smell epl with his cowardice and safety first and approach.

Rudiger at which lb I hope you aren't forgetting this guy is right footed, Azpi in his prime at lb was ultra defensive with no attacking output so rule him out. Alonso can't play lb without being further exploited by opposition wingers.

As for your so called dms Kante is always injured and we all know that isn't his best position though he can play there, Silva at DM a position he hasn't played in his senior career? At age 37 or so in the EPL? Lol na your type be like Gary Neville wey sabi talk but when job reach na popo them use send am comot.

Gilmour chose to go on loan to get more game time, livramento was sold plus he wasn't interested in signing a new contract.

Tuchel has delivered what guardiola couldn't do despite a gargantuan amount spent by the latter. Abeg talk better thing abeg. If e easy go do am.

All these talks of formation change is funny to me. Which formation are we changing to that either be the same or even worse. We don't hadh enough miffiskdees for 4-3-3. A 4-2-3-1 means lesser protection for our slow left back Alonso, more work for our slow DM Jorginho, perhaps we create more quality chances but that doesn't mean we would finish them.
James don get injury now, only Jah knows when he will return. Na Azpilicueta go dey play fullback?

Ibime:
Has he completed even one match since he came back.. If memory serves, he's only played like 30 mins since his return

And created one big chance.

airmark:
Odoi denied Kovacic of an assist today but thecassanova didn't see it.

don't mind Casanova jare. Very good display from kovacic today.

It seems kante is injured again o.
We have concerns for injured players. We let Callum Hudson-Odoi play 90 minutes after Covid. Thiago Silva got injured. N'Golo Kante is injured. Mateo Kovacic is playing after injury and Covid without any preparation and training. We’re just filling holes where we can fill them. We play teams without international duties. Five changes were invented because of Covid. Now we're in the middle of Covid and some teams are having games postponed and others aren't. Three changes is a big disadvantage.

Lukaku likes Aston villa. Scored in 7 consecutive games against them.

Bigman Lukaku

BlueMann:
I think James has been targeting Alonso, the biggest man joining the attack. That's why a lot of his deliveries have sailed to the back post. It'll be hard to get a good low delivery into the box tbh.

But James had been off it, admittedly.

Yh noticed it too. A big man helps too sha.

BikeMan:
Jorginho misplaced a pass and stopped running after the person he gave the ball. Nawa!

He can't run. That is his 2nd greatest weakness after his love for errors that lead to goals/big chances.

Too many loose touches and passes. Villa allowing our wingbacks so much space despite this James has been terrible. Just try a low cross or cutback instead poor deliveries.

Roland17:
Thank you for everything you did for Africa

You were a great man and will forever be honored!

#RIPDesmondTutu

RIP to him. Died at the Ripe age of 90.

pkasso:
He has done it again! I've been waiting all day for this I was thinking maybe he had bowed to pressure this year. The comments section is crazy as always.

I said in my mind I would check yesterday but I forgot. My respect for Salah just moved up a notch. Very strong mentality.

Merry Christmas and happy New in advance to everyone on this thread and section. Some peeps go don already chop chicken laps.

Ibime:
Jamal from SBE was the one who brought it to Eds attention and was disturbing Ed to remix Peru. I wonder what stake he has in the project.

I saw somewhere this Jamal helped to launch Ed Sheeran's career. Is that true?

Officially Leicester are the new bottling team. That tag don comot for spurs neck.

donstan18:
They’ll beat Leicester

Let us wait and see then. Klopp has brought in jota and keita.

Another carabao loss for Liverpool loading.

Segedinho congrats bro. The child would always be a source of Joy.

donjazet:
Does anybody agree with this?? Current premier league best 11? Henderson over kante and jorginho? Laporte over VVD? Funny how none of the top 4 teams have a performing striker.

Rudiger over Laporte no doubt. I would take VVD over Laporte too. As for midfield I don't think Kante makes it because of his incessant injury, kovacic comes before him if you ask me.
Jorginho over Henderson would be a matter of personal opinion neither of them beats the other hands down.

Emaprince:
players that hauls week in week out are cancelo Arnold, jota and salah.

Yeah. Bernardo was once a part of this list but the last two games and the return of KDB impacted him negatively.

I need to get in cancelo mehn. I had no time on Sat if not I would have had him in and as captain.

I need to get in cancelo mehn. I had no time on Sat if not I would have had him.

donjazet:
Why though??
I bet your answer is going to be more sentimental rather than practical.

of course it is sentimental. It part of what makes us humans. Language is the most important identity of a people after religion if you ask me. I am not saying one shouldn't master English language o but it good to learn one's modern tongue as well.

Culture will always evolve sha even language. But it should not be allowed to die out.

Astrid4:
No apologetic feelings
But I think your IQ is too low
The fact Northerners speaks the same language does that translate into unity...many language speaks the same language, have same cultural background, have same religion, have same historical background yet they're war zones Somalia Iraq a perfect.
Now lets me stay local not go international
I'm a Yoruba boy
Yoruba is an homogeneous society translating to the fact they have the same historical breakground, cultural background, and same language (Yoruba) with a particular geographical location(South west Nigeria) despite this they're still divided ( yea very shocking)
We have the Oyos Ijexa (Ijesha), Lucumi, Ota (Aworis), Ketus, Ekitis, Jebus (Ijebu), Egba, Lucumi Ecumacho (Ogbomosho), and Anagos though they're have same history but divided by mere intonations and tones.
Imagine a group of people living in the geographical location, same belief, history, language, culture and language been divided by just mere intonations and tones...one of my professors particularly told there is no perfect homogeneous society we just have LEAST DIVERSE SOCIETY. The whole United world is myth cos the basic of the society FAMILY are divided across of alot of beliefs, ideology, and even politics, you can't take away preferences/choice from people as far people have choices to make then there will be differences. A state of utopia is a myth, a pure fantasy. France tried it in Africa by the policy of assimilation despite the fact forced labor and indignant policies were enforced on the natives there were some African that loves their traditions and cultures. I can go on and on but let me stop here

I don't know about Somalia but Iraq is far from being homegenous culturally, historically and even in terms of religion. Kurds, Chaldeans, Assyrians, sunni Muslims, shitte Muslims etc. They are still together is due to the ruthless work of Saddam Hussein.
I agree with your points though. I sincerely doubt the world can be united or become an Utopia in our lifetime or even during our grandchildrens.

AnfieldFan:
�Paul Merson:

"I think Chelsea are missing a Neves, I think they're missing a player who can spray the ball round the pitch. Kovacic likes taking players on, Jorginho won't kick the ball further than 10 yards, just keeps it going, Kante's an all-around-the-pitch kind of player."

� @TheChelseaFC


Thoughts??

I haven't really watched neves. But we really need a KDB kinda player. Especially for Lukaku to work here. Or we get wingers who thrive on running in behind opp defenders, taking on players at top speed and looking to cut in or square play. The likes of Sterling, Vinicius, Gnabry, Coman, Mbappe.

timay:
Meanwhile, Chelsea women's team getting gang banged as well

Oh, and they are out of the champions league

I had to go and confirm this. Unbelievable all they need was to just avoid defeat. Or at least don't concede 2 I think.